The Crystal Crypt

A spaceship crew buys a fat, pig-like creature on Mars for dinner, then discovers it can talk and think. Philip K. Dick's very first published story, from 1952.

Philip K. Dick

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