Armchair fiction presents large deluxe paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  Jack Williamson and Miles Breuer’s “The Birth of a New Republic” is a grand adventure of interplanetary pioneering.   The moon was an inhospitable place. It had virulently hot days and the nights saw the temperature fall well below zero.  There were also strange, often-dangerous creatures found on the...

Armchair fiction presents large deluxe paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “Thus Far” is a terrific sci-fi murder mystery.   Had he gone too far for the sake of science?  Once a heralded name among the top scientists of the world, Graham Delaforce was now ridiculed for his enigmatic and strange ideas.  But his self-imposed exile never stopped his...

Armchair fiction presents Frank Aubrey's "The Devil-Tree of El Dorado, Illustrated Edition," our 30th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  HORROR SAT HIGH ATOP MT. RORAIMA!  Who is the mysterious person known only as “Monella?”  Who is he and what is the secret of his shrouded past?  Like all good Lost Race-Lost World novels, “The Devil-Tree of El Dorado” deals with an expedition to a remote corner of the Earth...  

Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic Mystery-Crime novels. Heralded whodunit author Max Murray lays down a gripping tale of murder and suspense with, “Good Luck to the Corpse.”   Red was his lucky color!  The little man scuttled up to the roulette table.  He looked shrunken and sick. He placed twenty thousand on red.  The croupier spun the wheel, then dropped the little white ball.  It raced around the wheel, slowed, and dropped—red...

Armchair fiction presents Eden Phillpotts' "The Golden Fetich," the 28th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. Imagine being the son of a respected, seemingly well to do English lord, only to discover upon your father’s death that you had been left virtually penniless.  That’s what happened to Roy Meldrum, son of Lord Meldrum, whose philanthropy had left Roy’s inheritance nearly exhausted.  So with no money to his name...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “Vampires of the Andes” by Henry Carew is the 31st installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  “Silence and beware!  The vampires will soon awaken!”  The day Don Carlos della Priégo and Josetta Hernandez were wed, they recived a startling gift that would change the rest of their lives.  As they were about to set off into...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. Frank R. Stockton's "The Great Stone of Sardis" is the 26th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. Written in 1898 but set in 1947, this science fiction thriller has two essential themes—to make the first successful journey to the North Pole, and to further discover just what kind of hidden secrets lay deep under the Earth’s crust...

Armchair fiction presents Roy Norton's "The Land of the Lost," our 25th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.   Alone in his hut, a man watched a needle begin its violent course across a moving cylinder. The instrument was a Seismograph and its vigilant attendant, Dr. Martinez, watched in horror. Martinez knew what the cryptic messagemeant—a massive undersea earthquake with monstrous tidal waves just hours away...

Armchair fiction presents large deluxe paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels, complete with original illustrations.  “Time Quarry” aka "First He Died" is one of the great science fiction novels of the 20^th Century.   Published in Galaxy Magazine in 1950, it put author Clifford D. Simak’s name clearly in the science fiction spotlight...

Armchair fiction presents large deluxe paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels, complete with original illustrations.  “Reclaimers of the Ice” is an exciting tale by one of the early masters of 20^th Century science fiction, Stanton A. Coblentz.  They were stranded at the top of the world!  It was a fool’s dream to think that any man could do the impossible and conquer the world’s most desolate Arctic wasteland without consequence...

Armchair fiction presents large deluxe paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels with original illustrations.  Here’s a great space opera classic, “Venus Liberated” by one of the early masters of sci-fi, Harl Vincent.  Join heroes Ralph Prescott and Teddy Crowley as they venture to Venus in a new, cutting-edge spaceship, only to find themselves thrown into the middle of an interplanetary war...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  “The Crooked City” is a taut, nail-biting novel of corruption and greed by Robert Kyle.  “MacBAIN CAUGHT, JAILED IN QUINN MURDER—Professional Cop’s Wife in Love Triangle”  That was what the headlines read. It was a tough spot for a not-so-tough man—James MacBain. MacBain lived in an asphalt tabernacle for prostitutes, dope pushers, and murderers...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “Space Tug” by sci-fi master Murray Leinster is another space opera adventure, the exciting sequel to "Space Platform"...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  Sterling Noel’s “Empire of Evil” is one of the best mystery-crime thrillers dealing with the Mafia that you’ll ever come across.  It was the bloody path to murder.  This is the story of Daniel Andradi, a young executive in America’s most terrible industry—crime. This is the rise of a Mafioso, don of the Brotherhood of Evil, wielder of power beyond belief...

Armchair fiction presents Roy Norton's "The Glyphs," our 29th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. Hoping to find the truth about a hidden metropolis with rare glyphs (records carved on stone by a lost people), a band of daring adventurers, comprised of a scientific thief, a chiseled big game hunter, and a well-off “out-of-doors” man, travel halfway round the world to a savage jungle within the heart of South America...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “A Queen of Atlantis” by Frank Aubrey is the 40th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Aubrey, the author of “The Devil Tree of Eldorado,” (Armchair B-79) has ventured again to write a wild and romantic tale of adventure.  The gallant little ship Saucy Fan started from Liverpool for Rio de Janeiro, with a party of four lively young people...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “When the Earth Swung Over” by Alfred Colbeck is the 47^th installment of our “Lost World-Lost Race Classics” series.  It was a danger-filled rescue mission!  After Billy Wedge’s arrival at Thorswick Manor, he recounted how he and his shipwrecked companions had been captured by a lost South American race of...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  Written by famed British India author Ganpat, “Snow Rubies” is the 46^th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  The story concerns a mysterious valley in a distant part of the world.  A passage lost to time lay undiscovered until Commander Frank Weston unwittingly happened upon a...