CONSTELLATION OF THE UNKNOWN

The planets of the Empire had decided on the best possible form of government for themselves: a monarchy, for quick decisions; a monarch chosen from the people, for democracy's sake; a female monarch, tall, blonde and beautiful, for dramatic appeal. Her Imperial Highness, the Empress Irene.

So when Captain Mortimer Jones, a little man lusting for power who had set himself up as absolute dictator on an Empire planet, escaped from royal retribution in the Empress's own royal yacht, the Empress decided to follow him across space herself - for the sake of public appeal.

Only, when her ship ran into a band of hostile space pirates and got blown to the galaxy's rim, a ruined hulk in space, then the publicity stunt had turned into something a little bigger, like the very probable takeover of the Empire by the power crazy Mortimer Jones!

© 1965 by Ace Books, Inc
Cover by Jerome Podwil.

THE WORLDS OF THE DREAMERS

When Mariner IV radioed back the vision of Mars as a planet pocked with craters and unlikely to harbor life of any advanced sort, some newspapers wondered how science-fiction writers would take this. But, characteristic of their limitless imaginations, they always come up with an answer.

A. Bertram Chandler presents a particularly challenging response. If Mars is indeed barren, what are we to say of the wonderfully lifelike Mars worlds of H.G.Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Otis Adelbert Kline, and so many others. They are too real to be lost! They must exist somewhere! And so Chandler sends his space expedition to that barren and lifeless Mars to find THE ALTERNATE MARTIANS.

It's a science-fiction adventure, packed with action, and filled with some unexpected Red Planet surprises!.

© 1965 by Ace Books, Inc
Cover by Jerome Podwil