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THE MISSING LINK... TO THE FUTURE

A unique combination of man and genetic chameleon, he has the power to heal, to adapt, to create--or to destroy. To some, he was the New Prometheus. To others, a freak of nature capable of unlimited evil. But no one could be certain whether Lance Tolliver was really the next step on the ladder of human evolution, or sire to a race of supermonsters that would lead the human race towards total extinction!

People Minus X

Raymond Z. Gallun

This story set in the future, is about an amazing scientific achievement with a small, fatal flaw.

The achievement is one that many people have passionately wished for: a process that restores life and wholeness to innocent victims of disaster.

The process is based partly on scientific records, partly on memories of those who knew the deceased.

The restored people are exact physical duplicates of their former selves. However, slight changes in personality are noticeable. For example, a wife may remember her husband as being more affectionate then he really was - in which case, of course, the wife is grateful for the change. Wives who remembers their husbands as surly ingrates at last get real cause for complaint. The lack of control over the personality factor is, from the point of view of pure science, a flaw, but not the fatal one.

The serious trouble is that the restores people seem to lack a indefinable human quality - perhaps it is soul or a divine spark. Yet, they are physically and intellectually superior not only to their original incarnations but to their human creators as well.

The artificial people gravitate toward one another, marry, reproduce. Their children are recognizable, in some uncanny way, as part of the human race. As the number of new people increases, the rest of the earths' population draws away from them in fear and hatred.

Against this background, Ray Gallun unfolds a startling, exciting story of individuals on both sides of the conflict - among them the scientist who develops the process and is driven from the human community; the leader of the artificial people, a creature manufactured from folklore, and a young student who, in defense of humanity, sacrifices his own.

Skyclimber

Raymond Z. Gallun

STRANDED ON THE RED PLANET

Plague, famine and radiation have demolished much of the Earth. The world concentrates on restoring itself to a habitable planet, and forgets its obligations to support its first colony on Mars.

The colonists face a slow--but certain--death. Mars-born Timothy Barlow dares a stellar stunt to force Earth to save the settlers from their plight.

Timothy dreams, too, that the stunt will be his ticket to Earth, to "home," away from the narrow confines of the Martian settlement.

But he never dreams that "home" might be as alient as the farthest reaches of the galaxies...

The Eden Cycle

Raymond Z. Gallun

A Gift From the Stars

As you choose in all matters, you have ultimate free choice, as long as you do not seriously interfere with the choices of other roving personalities...

A superior alien intelligence rules over Earth with absolute benevolence and total control. It offers man a future with no seeming limit to time or space--or reality. Any man can have anything he is capable of wanting, forever.

Does man really want absolute free will--and what will he do with it?

Has this noble plan gone sour?

What is the future of mankind--if, indeed, it has a future?

The Planet Strappers

Raymond Z. Gallun

The Planet Strappers started out as The Bunch, a group of student-astronauts in the back room of a store in Jarviston, Minnesota. They wanted off Earth, and they begged, borrowed and built what they needed to make it.

THE PLANET STRAPPERS got what they wanted--a start on the road to the stars--but no one brought up on Earth could have imagined what was waiting for them Out There!

In THE PLANET STRAPPERS, Ray Gallun has written a story of the Day After Tomorrow--a story of what it will be like for the men who cross the space frontier--a story that some of us will be living some day...

Lest We Forget Thee, Earth / People Minus X

Raymond Z. Gallun
Calvin M. Knox

People Minus X

But were they really human...? That was the question everyone was asking. It was an astonishing scientific achievement, one that mankind had passionately wanted for centuries--a process that restored life and wholeness to victims of disaster. This amazing new process was based partly on scientific records, partly on memories of those who knew the deceased.

Unfortunately, this new discovery had a small, fatal flaw. The restored people were the exact physical duplicates of their former selves. However, they seemed to lack an indefinable human quality--perhaps it was a soul or divine spark. Yet, they were physically and intellectually superior not only to their original incarnations but to their human creators as well! As time went by, the artificial people gravitated toward one another--they married, reproduced. Even their children were recognizable in an uncanny way as being apart from "normal" people.

As the number of new people grew, the rest of Earth's population drew away from them, and soon sprang fear and hatred between these two camps of humanity, with an ugly showdown seemingly inevitable...

Lest We Forget Thee, Earth

A hundred thousand years ago, there had been a planet called Earth. It had been a proud world ruling a thousand vassal stars, but its stellar empire had turned upon and annihilated their conquerors, and wiped the name of Earth from the maps of space.

But Earthmen still survived... a strange race of worldless men and women, by tradition advisers to rulers, but never themselves ruling. Wanderers through myriad planets, their origin was a half-forgotten legend.

That was the situation when a strange quirk of fate sent Earthman Hallam Navarre on an interstellar wild goose chase. He had to bring back a strictly mythical treasure to his alien ruler, or die.