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David Grinnell


Across Time

David Grinnell

Time traveling UFO's jerk our hero one million years into the future and launch him on a transgalactic venture, brightened by such incidental items as an attractive post homo race of evolved simian...

Destination: Saturn

Lin Carter
David Grinnell

Ajax Calkins was not only the richest young man on Earth, but also the most eccentric. An incurabic romantic, his dream was to find some little world in space of which he could be king--a beloved and benevolent monarch, as in the days of old. It seemed that his dream had come true when, in response to an ad, a man who called himself Anton Smallways came to Ajax on behalf of some asteroid miners, saying that they would like to have a little kingdom of there own and inviting Ajax to be their sovereign.

Calkins' only friend at this time was one of the strange spider-beings of Mars, a creature which called itself the Third Least Wuj. The Waj had disgraced itself by Martian spider standards, and the little creature's only hope was to atone by performing some sort of exemplary service; overwhelmingly grateful to the Earthman for giving it an opportunity, it gladly accepted Ajax's offer of the Prime Ministership of Ajaxa.

All seemed well until Ajax and the Wuj discovered that Anton Smallways and his fellow so-called miners were not human beings, after all. They were amoeba creatures from Saturn, disguised as men, and the planetoid Ajaxia was not a planetoid, either: it was a vast spaceship constructed by the vanished race of an exploded planet which once had its orbit between Mars and Saturn. The fragments of this planet made up what we call the asteroids.

Destiny's Orbit

David Grinnell

Though Ajax Calkins was wealthy enough to buy anything on earth his heart desired, the one thing he wanted most was strictly forbidden. That was a world of his own - a planet, however small, which would be his private kingdom in the sky. The Earth-Mars Space Administration stood in his path. They would tolerate no such 18th Century derring-do in the commercial and workaday planetary channels of the 21st Century. Empire-building was out.

But when an offer from a bearded stranger opened the way to just such an adventure, Ajax leapt at the chance. In his luxury spacecraft Destiny he shot out through the inner planets to the tiny world that waited a king - and, unwittingly to a monster outer-planet empire that waited a detonator for cosmic war.

Edge of Time

David Grinnell

They created a miniature universe, but could they control it?

When Warren Alton went off to a quiet rural district of upper New York State to investigate some strange news reports, he figured it would be just a new type of "flying saucer" scare-only this time people were seeing dinosaurs and flying lizards! But what that star reporter uncovered turned out to be more fantastic than prehistoric monsters and more incredible than UFOs. For he found himself on a newsbeat that covered dozens of hitherto undiscovered planets, millions of miles of interstellar space, and thousands of years of time-and yet never took him outside the bounds of present-day America!

The Martian Missile

David Grinnell

Kermit Langley, a crook hiding out in the desert, rescues the pilot of an extraterrestrial rocket and is turned into an interplanetary unguided missile before the humanoid critter--from Thuban by way of Pluto dies. He's had a message engraved on his armbone, and has four years to get it to Pluto, else he'll begin to vibrate until his bones fall apart. To make the mission not quite impossible, he's given the gift of unnoticeability. People--and things--can look right at him and not realize he's there.

Across Time / Invaders From Earth

Robert Silverberg
David Grinnell

Across Time

Chasing mysterious celestial phenomena was part of Zack's air force duties, so it wasn't strange that he was assigned in his brother's experiment.

Invaders From Earth

Genocide on a small planet

Vital radioactive minerals are found on the tiny planet of Ganymede. It looks like a bonanza for Earth, but massacre for the peaceful, harmless aliens who live there. So there's going to be an advertising campaign on Earth to cover up the systematic harrasment and destruction of this wise and simple people.

Just to dig up a few minerals.

Ted Kennedy's a small wheel in the massive propaganda machine. But he's sick of all the pitiless killing of the vulnerable Gannies. So he's out to stop the genocide that will make Men the space gangsters, the supervandals, the Invaders from Earth.

Edge of Time / The 100th Millennium

John Brunner
David Grinnell

Edge of Time

They created a miniature universe, but could they control it?

The 100th Millennium

They searched the past to escape the future.

Invader on My Back / Destination: Saturn

Philip E. High
David Grinnell
Lin Carter

Invader on My Back

Invader on My Back is set on this world but in a period of time far ahead of the present. A world which has fallen to chaos with the criminal elements controlling the cities and vast police forces ruling the unknown wilderness beyond.

Only one man, unknowingly, holds the key to the state in which society finds itself--a man called craig.

Craig, however, is an outcast, a pariah, feared by organised crime and despised by the police who, despite themselves, are compelled to use him.

This fast moving story tells of his fight, not only against forces unknown, but also of his attempts to reinstate himself into a society which as rejected him.

Destination: Saturn

When identical planet-kings meet, one must be a Saturnian!

The Atlantic Abomination / The Martian Missile

John Brunner
David Grinnell

The Atlantic Abomination

Man, meet your master.

The Martian Missile

Pawn of the space invaders.

Times Without Number / Destiny's Orbit

John Brunner
David Grinnell

Destiny's Orbit

Though Ajax Calkins was wealthy enough to buy anything on earth his heart desired, the one thing he wanted most was strictly forbidden. That was a world of his own - a planet, however small, which would be his private kingdom in the sky. The Earth-Mars Space Administration stood in his path. They would tolerate no such 18th Century derring-do in the commercial and workaday planetary channels of the 21st Century. Empire-building was out.

But when an offer from a bearded stranger opened the way to just such an adventure, Ajax leapt at the chance. In his luxury spacecraft Destiny he shot out through the inner planets to the tiny world that waited a king - and, unwittingly to a monster outer-planet empire that waited a detonator for cosmic war.

Times Without Number

Traveling backwards in time, Don Miguel had to undo the errors and interruptions o f other time-interlopers; he had to preserve the present. Even the most insignificant nudging of the past could entirely alter his world! And he suspected that this had already happened: that a maniacal genius crazed with a desire for nationalist vindication had plotted to alter the victorious outcome of the Spanish Armada of 1588 - thus changing recorded history and perhaps even imperiling the mighty Spanish Empire of 1988!

If Don Miguel did not successfully intercede, when he came back to the present he might find a different world... a different time... a time in which he probably didn't even exist!

To Venus! To Venus! / The Jester at Scar

David Grinnell
E. C. Tubb

To Venus! To Venus!

S.O.S. from an analogue of hell.

The Jester at Scar

Scar: a harsh, inhospitable world with a vicious and shifting population of prospectors, drawn from every corner of the galaxy by rumours of a miraculous golden spore. To this violent planet come two more travellers, ready to try their luck among its lethal jungles: the cruel, mocking Lord of Jest - and Dumarest, driven by destiny on his endless search for Lost Earth...

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