James H Schmitz

NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED . . .

Captain Pausert thought his luck had finally turned—but he did not yet realize it was a turn for the worse. On second thought, make that a turn for the disastrous

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Unlucky in love, unsuccessful in business, he thought he had finally made good with his battered starship Venture, cruising around the fringes of the Empire and successfully selling off odd-ball cargoes which no one else had been able

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Door in the wall: A man must choose between the rationality of science and the magic of imagination. All cats are gray: A down-on-his-luck spaceman and a mysetrious woman and her cat take off to explore and bring back a derelict ship said to hold great treasure. A martian odyssey: A four-man crew lands on Mars and makes a startling discovery. Victory: A victorious captain returns to h his home planet after an alien war and finds that victory has...

"SPACE PIRATES! Words that conjure up rousing tales of adventure, derring-do, brave heroes battling the scurvy vermin of the galaxy. Those vermin have taken to pillaging cargo ships and, even worse, space liners, relieving the helpless passengers of their valuables, and worse with the comely women passengers, then spacing the lot-unless one or more of the aforementioned brave heroes arrive in the nick of time, and turn the tables, making the spaceways...