In less than a century, 50 percent of the human race fled the aged and autocratic Terra, settling wherever they could establish a world of their own choosing. The following centuries result in hundreds of independent new civilizations--too independent for an ambitious Terran government out to conquer an empire.

This volume includes all 112 (from 112 up to 123 depending on how one wants to count revisions and expansions) Science Fiction and Fantasy stories written and published by Eric Frank Russell during his career. The primary source of the bibliography is the information provided fromwww.isfdb.com. With one bonus crime short story "Poor Dead Fool". All stories are proofed where possible to the original published version, most commonly scans from the pulp magazines. Later major revisions are also included. 

Reprint of the classic Ace Double D-315, with different covers.AN EARTHMAN'S TONGUE IS HIS DEADLIEST WEAPON There was a common understanding in the Space Navy that scout-pilots were a breed apart—cocksure, reckless, and slightly nuts. But it was also understood that when a really dangerous job had to be done, a scout-pilot was the man to do it. So for John Leeming, a couple of months of dodging death  in a one-man ship, zipping in and out of the enemy Combine's rearguard, was just another one of those jobs. And there was no man in the Universe more surprised than Leeming when his heretofore indestructible ship just gave up the ghost smack in the middle of a Combine-held prison planet! It was then that the spirit of the Scout Corps had its chance to shine. With self-confidence as his only weapon, Leeming had only two choices: give in to the enemy and be captured ... or quick-talk them into a real case of THE SPACE WILLIES!

The exploring crew had run Into some nasty jams with robots—but this machineless world seemed tame and safe enough for men armed as they were—‘till they learned about the possibilities of symbiosis!

No one - and I mean No One! - handled the "aliens-among-humans" theme better than Eric Frank Russell; and, as a bonus, he did it with humor and wit. SENTINELS OF SPACE describes a future spacefaring society which has colonized Mars and Venus, and is looking at the next step outward. The colonial populations are entertaining rumblings of discontent, a desire to be free from the "tyranny" of Mother Earth. As an ancillary issue, the radiations encountered during space travel have created a number of mutations, most of them involving extra-sensory powers. 

The Brainstealers. Richard Bransome worked in the government's most vital scientific laboratory, under the ultimate security. Nothing - living of inanimate - could crack the security barriers that guarded Bransome and his fellow workers. Nothing known to man...But something was making key scientists give up their lives' careers, sometimes just to drift away, other times to die. Then Bransome began to remember a past in which he had been a cold-blooded murderer! To discover the truth about himself, he set out on a solitary mission that would lead him against the most incredible enemy ever known to the people of Earth! --- from book's back cover

SOMEWHEREA VOICE A band of shipwrecked spacemen making their way across a world so fierce that all Earth's jungles tame by comparison ... A future euthanasia agency with a double-barreled scientific secret ... The unexpected problem of a lone astronaut with an entire ocean world to himself ... These are some of the science-fiction premises that Eric Frank Russell has cooked up in his new collection of novelettes and stories. SOMEWHERE A VOICE is a book worthy of the brilliant talents of the author of THE SPACE WILLIES and SENTINELS FROM SPACE.

The "Marathon," an interstellar spaceship, and her crew encounter numerous adventures as they visit planets throughout the universe

The war had been going for nearly a year. Earth had the better weapons, but the Sirian Empire had the advantage in personnel and equipment. Earth needed an edge, which was where James Mowry came in. Intensively trained and his appearance surgically altered, James is to be an irritant to the enemy. British spelling.

This is the story of a lone telepath who has to stop an invasion of an intelligent virus from Venus which takes control of people's bodies.