David Wright O’Brien’s “Trapped on Titan” first appeared the June 1940 issue of Amazing Stories magazine. This action-adventure tale takes place on the largest moon in the Saturn planetary system, Titan, deserted by Earthmen for the past five centuries and declared off-limits. Yet two pilots are forced to land there in their crippled spaceship and encounter a lovely woman, both fascinating and terrifying. Where did she come from? How has she survived the extremely hostile natives? <P>Also...
As consciousness returned to him, Thane fought to push aside the thick curtain of nausea and pain which blanketed his mind. Somewhere in the distance a telephone was ringing with evenly spaced insistence, and Thane tried to struggle to his feet to answer it.<P> “A minute…jus’ minute,” Thane mumbled thickly.<P> He managed somehow to push himself upward on his elbows. Pain lanced molten shafts of agony into his temples and he groaned, clutching tightly to the cool, hard object in his...
As consciousness returned to him, Thane fought to push aside the thick curtain of nausea and pain which blanketed his mind. Somewhere in the distance a telephone was ringing with evenly spaced insistence, and Thane tried to struggle to his feet to answer it.<P> “A minute…jus’ minute,” Thane mumbled thickly.<P> He managed somehow to push himself upward on his elbows. Pain lanced molten shafts of agony into his temples and he groaned, clutching tightly to the cool, hard object in his...
