Follow along with Arcot, Morey, and Wade as they discover a revolutionary form of propulsion, visit our neighboring planets, and go up against aliens from a rogue solar system that passes close to our own. These three stories (Piracy Preferred, Solarite, and The Black Star Passes) were originally published (c. 1930) as a serial in Amazing Stories magazine.
"For defense we'll have to depend on armor as heavy as we can make and still remain within the bounds of practical construction. I don't believe we'll...
"...we'll have a bigger store of knowledge before this war is over--if we have anything at all. It's possible that man may lose knowledge, life, his p...
"The invaders may be behind one of those big engines, quite unaware of us. If they're there, and they see us, they'll be ready to fight. Now remember,...
"...I wonder if there might not be some of the crew alive in there? If there are, it seems to me that they'll let us know shortly that they're around....
"It'll be a beam of power that will cause all molecules in its path to move at right angles to it...That means that no matter how big the thing is, we...
"I think I can understand the secret of all that power, and it's not so different from the Solarite. It, too, draws its power from the sun, though in ...
"Dad, these Kaxorians have planes capable of far more than a thousand miles an hour in the air. You must start at once on a fleet of molecular motion ...