This fast-moving tale of the far future deals with the quest of the Hunter brothers for a mysterious bonanza located somewhere in the asteroid belt. The dangers and details of asteroid mining are carefully outline, and the bonanza itself proves to be and open gate to wider future in the stars.Realistic background, good plotting and vivid writing add up to a good adventure.

Bob Benedict is one of the few scientists able to make contact with the invisible, dangerous world of The Thresholders and return - sane! For years he has tried to transport - and receive - matter by transmitting it through the mysterious, parallel Threshold. At first his efforts met only with failure and madness. But now The Thresholders have risen in fury. Somehow Bob Benedict must make one more trip into that land of peril and pacify them before they succeed in hurling his planet - piece by piece - into the oblivion of infinity.

�We have watched your plants for millennia.�The creature that spoke was barely three feet tall, with wrinkled gray skin and monstrous eyes . . .�Yours is a war of children. Only children would slaughter each other out of ignorance and fear. Only children would fail again and again to learn the lessons of their foolishness.�It was true. The underground people of Earth were united in terror and desperation against what they considered a frightful threat from the skies. They had sent a mighty armada into space, rushing in lethal orbit toward Mars. The Spacers - still really Earthmen themselves - were poised for the counter-blow. The great fleet at Asteroid Central had sufficient warheads to reduce earth to a cinder.�But we also know the greatness of your spirit, the precious spark which we cannont allow you to extinguish.�Now Ben Trefon understood that in the Black Belt of Power bequeathed to him by his father rested the final hope of the human...

My conversionStrange...Uncanny...Chilling...9 great stories of imagination and suspense from the world of tomorrow by one of today's top science-fictioneers. Tiger by the Tail An ordinary black pocketbook turns out to be the threshold of an unknown and terrifying dimension... Nightmare Brother One man's torturous sleep was his only chance for survival in the the stars...Letter of the Law On a planet of con-men, an earth born swindler must lie for his life . . . Brightside Crossing On the sunward side of Mercury the temperature was 770 degrees--and a man could die more than once...Plus the following stories...ProblemThe Coffin CureThe Native SoilLove Thy VimpFamily Resemblance

The tenacious Colonel Benedict and his son, Tuck, are sent to Titan, Saturn�s fifth moon, to investigate reports of smuggling. Soon they discover that the less-than-friendly colony is hiding much more than just a smuggler. Together they dig up a scandalous case of interstellar sabotage and what the colonists reverently refer to as �THE BIG SECRET,� which could destroy Earth�s power supply - forever.Can the Colonel and Tuck resolve an age-old dispute between the Titan colonists and Earthly authorities before the clock runs out? Mankinds fate depends on it . . .

Wilderness Patrol fficer Pamela Tate, scouting in the mountains of Washington, sees and touches a ground squirrel in the dusty path, blood trickling from its mouth. Forty-eight hours later she lies dead at her campsite, covered in mysterious welts and bruises.Across the lake, a boisterous camping party falls silent as they watch each other sicken and die in agony.A killer is loose. It has a foreign name. Yersinia Pestis. Plague. An unknowing nation harbors the deadly evil in its midst.While a few embattled survivors race to save the country, perhaps the world, the grim invader hides in a mother�s sigh, a child�s laugh, a lover�s whisper. Nothing can stop the death ride of . . .The Fourth Horseman.

The crew of the starship Ganymede were afraid their chief was losing his mind.Commander Walter Fox had explored and opened up more colony-worlds than any other man alive - yet it was rumored that he still believed there were other intelligent beings in the galaxy.Now as the ship grounded on unfamiliar terrain, the crew realized that the routine flight to Vega had been interrupted - and their worst fears were true . . .They had landed on Wolf IV - the one planet from which no man had ever returned alive.

Billy Gimp was a bladerunner . . . one of the shadowy procurers of illegal medical supplies for the rapidly expanding, nightmare world of the medical black market. Doc was a skilled surgeon at a government-operated hospital by day . . . and an underground physician by night, providing health care for the multitudes who could not - or would not - qualify for legal medical assistance.Trapped by Health Control Police, Billy Gimp knew he had to warn Doc that they were closing in on him.But something even more deadly than the law had already mad its first move . . . a new plague that Health Control could not handle!

WHAT WILL BECOME OF THE HUMAN RACE WHEN, BY MUTATION OR OTHERWISE, TELEPATHY BECOMES A NORMAL CHARACTERISTIC? WHAT WILL IT DO TO HUMAN.RELATIONS, TO PARENTS . . . AND CHILDREN

Health Control Laws, mandatory sterilization regulations, computer directed robot surgeons--the time is early in the twenty-first century, eighteen years after the bloody Health Riots, a time of turmoil, insurrection and revolt. It is also the time of the bladerunner, that shadowy procureer of illegal medical supplies for the rapidly expanding, nightmare world of the medical black market.Became the basis for the William S Burroughs screenplay of the same name.