ROAD TO THE STARS (1957) Georgi Solovyov, directed by Pavel Klushantsev.  A landmark man-into-space film from the man who gave us Planet of Storms.  The first half of this short 50-minute feature is mainly about the soviet space program, focusing on scientific contributions of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and other famous soviet scientists.  However, in the second half, the film turns into a science fiction film, with many great outer space scenes...

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is by veteran science fiction author Paul Ernst, “Rulers of the Future.”  They spiraled through time and across the Universe.  The second novel is “Pursuit,” written by all-time sci-fi great, Lester del Rey.  He was relentlessly chased…but by what...?

(1959, aka The Day the Earth Froze) Urho Somersalmi, Anna Orochko, Ivan Voronov, Andris Osins, Ada Voytsik. A superb Finnish fantasy epic about an evil witch who steals the sun and causes just about everything on the Earth to freeze. Also featured are magic harps, fields of snakes, a wizard, and a...

(1964, Upgraded 11/23/22) John Call, Pia Zadora, Leonard Hicks, Vincent Beck, Bill McCutcheon, Victor Stiles. So bad it's great.  Martians travel into the void of outer space on a secret mission to Earth.  Their mad scheme?  Kidnap Santa Claus and bring him back to Mars!  For what purpose?  To engage his services for...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic science fiction short stories.  Escape from the mundane and blast off into adventure!  Let our newest Science Fiction Collection be your guide to interplanetary adventure.  Explore the lush and strange life of a foreign planet in “Riddle of the Deadly Paradise.”  Or take a ride abroad a spaceship bound for galactic adventure in “Space Rays” or...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic science fiction short stories.  Enjoy our fifteenth collection of Science Fiction Gems, which features some great fiction by brilliant writers.  These stories are a pretty brilliant group—a real nice batch to cozy up to...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic science fiction short stories.  Blast off with this, our seventeenth great collection of Science Fiction Gems, which features a terrific batch of tales by many of the top writers from science fiction’s past: Raymond Z. Gallun, Roger Dee, David H. Keller, Randall Garrett, Wallace West, & others.  

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic science fiction short stories.  It’s time for our sixteenth collection of vintage Science Fiction Gems, filled to the brim with great tales by top authors:  L. Sprague de Camp, Milton Lesser, Chad Oliver, Carl Jacobi, Rog Phillips, Stanley Mullen and more...  

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The Sea Girl” by Ray Cummings is the 32nd installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Earth’s lifeblood was disappearing—fast!  Dr. Plantet was one of those genius scientists who was always creating and discovering new fantastical things. Mankind depended on him when things went...

Armchair fiction presents extra large editions of the best in classic science fiction novels with original illustrations.  Here’s a very special edition of an early science fiction classic, “The Second Deluge, The Ultimate Illustrated Edtion” by Garrett P. Serviss.  What makes this edition so special is that it features original illustrations by four of the top science fiction illustrators of that era:  Frank R. Paul, Leo Morey, Lawrence Stevens (known simply as “Lawrence”), and George Varian....

(1963) Gerald Flood, Peter Williams, Stewart Guidotti, Denis Goacher, Richard Coleman, Delena Kidd.  A sequel to the earlier sci-fi mini-series “City Beneath the Sea,” again taking place in the undersea city of Aegira.  A journalist goes to the ocean floor to look for a rare metal known as “Phenicium,” which—as it turns out—is pretty vital for outer space research...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  Charles Willing Beale's "The Secret of the Earth" is the twenty-second installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  A lost world at the Polar Ice Cap.  Was it a hair-brained scheme, or would it be the most stupendous scientific journey ever undertaken by man...?

(1969) Uldis Pucitis, Jüri Järvet, Lembit Peterson, Mikk Mikiver, Karlis Sebris.  It’s a post-apocalyptic world in which mankind has been decimated by an unknown plague.  Cities are on fire; millions have died.  A young couple is detained by the government and sequestered into a beach house to conceive a child in an effort to save mankind. They are soon visited by strange riders and a massive whale dies on their beach...

Armchair fiction presents large deluxe paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels, complete with original illustrations.  He’s back again!  Yes…welcome back to Richard S. Shaver’s weird worlds with “The Shaver Mystery, Book Eight.”  Dive into the catacombs of Richard Shaver’s mind with this batch of Shaver stories.  Here you'll discover some truly wild tales that feature a number of his most wonderful—and weirdest—women...