Front matter
Reading edition
DONALD A. WOLLHEIM
The World Publishing Company CLEVELAND AND NEW YORK
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 56-9261
FIRST EDITION
HC856
Copyright 1956 by Donald A. Wollheim. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher, except for brief passages included in a review appearing in a newspaper or magazine. Manufactured in the United States of America.
[Transcriber's Note: Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
To WILLIAM BALTER A fixed star in a fickle sky
DONALD A. WOLLHEIM
HAS WRITTEN The Secret of Saturn's Rings The Secret of the Martian Moons
HAS EDITED Terror in the Modern Vein Every Boy's Book of Science-Fiction The Portable Novels of Science Flight into Space Adventures on Other Planets The Pocket Book of Science-Fiction
Contents
1. To Dream of Stars13
2. White Sands or Red?23
3. Up the Space Ladder33
4. Riding the Atoms51
5. Fall Without End61
6. Target: Luna71
7. The Honeycomb Place81
8. Robinson Crusoe Carew92
9. From Stone Age to Iron Age102
10. The Incredible Footprints111
11. The Glass Man121
12. The Long Trek131
13. The Sun and the Trap147
14. The Man From Lake Baikal157
15. Getaway Bomb165
16. On the Crater Floor175
17. Moon Calling Earth187
18. Madman's Battle198
19. Riding the Tornado208