1. Vault of the Beast (1940) - an invading alien who can change form at will is on a mission to find and capture Earth’s most distinguished (and young and rich) mathematician, so as to solve an essential enigma whose resolution could change the fate of the universe.
2. The Great Engine (1943) - a revolutionary new type of engine is discovered half-buried on a hillside by an entrepreneuring engineer in the science-minded post-war America of 1948.
3. The Great Judge (1948) - a leading scientist’s reaction to being condemned to death for having dared to suggest in private conversation that it might be a good thing if the all-powerful absolute ruler were replaced by someone more in touch with the common man.
4. Secret Unattainable (1942) - a German scientist who uses what he calls real as opposed to functional mathematics to wreak revenge on the Nazi regime who had executed his brother.
5. The Harmonizer (1944) - how an ibis plant of extraterrestrial origin first puts an end to the reign of the dinosaurs and then dramatically changes the fate of the Earth many millions of years later.
6. Heir Apparent (1945) - a dying President-scientist who uses his theory of Contradiction Force to ensure the continued freedom of a world menaced by the rise of a seemingly unstoppable military conspiracy.
7. The Second Solution (1942) - how a young but redoubtable and intelligent ezwal survives a shipwreck in the wilds of northern Canada and a fight to the death against his species’s bitterest enemy, man.
8. Film Library (1946) - how documentary films about atomic engines and interplanetary travel appear in the catalog of a lending library in the California of 1946.
9. Asylum (1942) - the struggle of a Galactic Observer to protect an underdeveloped Earth from the menace of invasion by deadly beings with vastly superior IQs.
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Paperback, good condition. Minor shelf wear to cover edges. No creasing on spine. Light discolouration to page edges. Binding is tight.
Published by Panther, 1973 (first published 1952).
ISBN: 0586024379