Planetary Adventures

Swordplay and derring-do can turn up in the science fiction magazines of an earlier era, and this anthology gathers that kind of action. Its stories do not look back to a remote past or drift into an invented dreamland. Instead, they send readers across the solar system to Earth's Moon, to Mars, and to more distant planets.

The collection brings together five writers who excelled at adventure-driven science fiction. Each contributes one older tale of exploration and danger on a world beyond Earth.

The contents are "The Temple of Earth" by Poul Anderson, "World of the Dark Dwellers" by Edmond Hamilton, "The Eyes of Thar" by Henry Kuttner, "The Empress of Mars" by Ross Rocklynne, and "Man of Two Worlds" by Bryce Walton.