Beyond Lies the Wub

Archaeologists on Mars try to read the language of a dead civilization with nothing to translate it from, until they find the one text every intelligent species shares. A 1957 classic about science and discovery.

H. Beam Piper

Slippery Jim diGriz, the Stainless Steel Rat, chases a stolen interstellar battleship before it falls into the wrong hands. A fast, funny 1960 space adventure from Harry Harrison.

Harry Harrison

To beat an alien enemy, engineers wire a living human brain into a warship, and the brain has plans of its own. A 1953 Philip K. Dick story about minds, machines and escape.

Philip K. Dick

The last ship leaving Mars before war breaks out carries three passengers with a secret: an entire Martian city shrunk inside a glass globe. A 1954 Philip K. Dick heist in space.

Philip K. Dick