This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty short stories by more than forty masters of science fiction. Many of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by Ben Bova, Cordwainer Smith, Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Paul Ernst, Kurt Vonnegut, Harry Harrison, Jack Williamson, Lester Del Rey, Fredric Brown, Murray Leinster, C.M. Kornbluth, Walter M. Miller, Jr., Andre Norton, H. Beam Piper, and many others. This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. Contents: A Question of Courage, J.F. Bone The Duelling Maching, Ben Bova Keep Out, Frederic Brown Indirection, Everett B. Cole The Game of Rat and Dragon, Cordwainer Smith The World Beyond, Raymond Cummings Victory, Lester Del Rey The Defenders, Phillip K. Dick The Hammer of Thor, Charles Willard Diffin The Planetoid of Peril, Paul Ernst The Jupiter Weapon, Charles L. Fontenay This World Must Die, H.B. Fyfe Psichopath, Randall Garrett The Man Who Hated Mars, Randall Garrett Hawk Carse, Anthony Gilmore The Helpful Hand of God, Tom Godwin A Scientist Rises, D.W. Hall Monsters of Mars, Edmond Hamilton The Sargasso of Space, Edmond Hamilton The K-Factor, Harry Harrison The Misplaced Battleship, Harry Harrison Walls of Acid, Henry Hasse Old Rambling House, Frank Herbert Made in Tanganyika, Carl Jacobi Sight Gag, Lawrence Janifer Get Out of Our Skies, E. K. Jarvis Cubs of the Wolf, Raymond F. Jones The Cosmic Expense Account, C.M. Kornbluth We Didn’t Do Anything Wrong, Hardly, Roger Kuykendall The Great Potlatch Riots, Allen Kim Lang Gambler’s World, Keith Laumer No Great Magic, Fritz Leiber The Ambulance Made Two Trips, Murray Leinster The Leader, Murray Leinster The Mississippi Saucer, Frank Belknap Long Summer Snow Storm, Stephen Marlowe The Attack From Space, S.P. Meek The Great Drought, S.P. Meek Death of Spaceman, Walter M. Miller, Jr. The People of the Crater, Andre Norton An Ounce of Cure, Alan Nourse Image of the Gods, Alan Nourse A Slave is a Slave, H. Beam Piper Day of the Moron, H. Beam Piper Pythias, Frederick Pohl The Hunters, Joseph Samachson The Judas Valley, Robert Silverberg Project Mastodon, Clifford D. Simak 2BR02B, Kurt Vonnegut The Pygmy Planet, Jack Williamson

First came the comet. Then came the fires. Now we fight to save what's left. Baptiste, stranded 500 miles from his wife and daughter, at the northern edge of civilization, has made a vow to protect a teenage girl from the chaos that surrounds them. But as food and fuel runs out, and even friends prove they can't be trusted, Baptiste realizes that this promise won't be easy to keep.

London Underground worker Mal Thomas is staying in Porthkennack to recover from a traumatic experience. Getting more bad news from home is the last straw — until big, blond museum curator Jory Roscarrock steps up to offer some comfort.As a doctor of English literature, Jory should be in a prestigious post at a top university. But a youthful indiscretion led him to abandon academia to come back to his hometown, Porthkennack, and the controlling family he's never really felt a part of. He's delighted to find a kindred spirit in Mal.But Jory's family hurt Mal's best friend deeply, and while Jory is desperate to repair the damage, his own mistakes threaten to keep him and Mal apart. Meanwhile, Mal is torn between his feelings for Jory and his duty to his friend — and his fears that a failed relationship could be more than his shattered confidence can take. Jory must convince Mal it's worth risking everything for their love.

It's true. I'm not what most people would call "pretty" and, well, high school was rough. Fast forward ten years and life is good... Until a bunch of jerks think it's hilarious to put the "butterface" (AKA me) on a wedding Kiss Cam with the hottest guy ever—and that old humiliation hits hard. I recognize him immediately. The hottest cop in Waterbury and totally out of my league. But then he kisses me. And we totally forget the room, the crowd, everything. Then he tells everyone we've been dating for months. Soon everything starts to feel too real, from adorable fights over "necessary" tools to fix my broken porch to surviving a free-for-all dinner with his six siblings to picking up where our last kiss left off. But there's something he's not telling me about why he's really hanging around, and I'm pretty sure it has to do with my mob-connected brothers. Because this is not a make-over story, and Cinderella is only a...

Granted immortality by Catch, a lovable demon, a young man named Travis O'Hearn struggles to rid himself of this man-eating gremlin, who promises to make eternity hellish for him, in a supernatural comic romp through a California tourist town.

In his second book, Adam Carolla--author of New York Times bestseller In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks and chart-topping podcaster--reveals all the stories behind how he came to be the angry middle-aged man he is today.Funnyman Adam Carolla is known for two things: hilarious rants about things that drive him crazy and personal stories about everything from his hardscrabble childhood to his slacker friends to the hypocrisy of Hollywood. He tackled rants in his first book, and now he tells his best stories and debuts some never-before-heard tales as well. Organized by the myriad "dumps" Carolla called home--through the flophouse apartments he rented in his twenties, up to the homes he personally renovated after achieving success in Hollywood--the anecdotes here follow Adam's journey and the hilarious pitfalls along the way.Adam Carolla started broke and blue collar and has now been on the Hollywood scene for over fifteen years, yet he never...