Wollheim, Donald A. (ed.) - More Adventures on Other Planets / Уоллхейм, Дональд (ред.) - Еще приключения на других планетах [1963, EPUB, ENG]

Child of the Sun novelette by Leigh Brackett Sunrise on Mercury / Восход на Меркурии short story by Robert Silverberg By the Name of Man novelette by John Brunner The Red Death of Mars / Красная смерть Марса novelette by Robert Moore Williams The Planet of Doubt / Планета сомнений novelette by Stanley G. Weinbaum Tiger by the Tail / К тигру в клетку novelette by Poul Anderson

ERIC FALKEN stood utterly still, staring down at his leashed and. helpless hands on the controls of the spaceship Falcon. The red lights on his indicator panel showed Hiltonist ships in a three-dimentional half-moon, above, behind, and below him. Pincer jaws, closing fast. The animal instinct of escape prodded him, but he couldn’t obey. He had fuel enough for one last burst of speed. But there was no way through that ring of ships. Tractor-beams, criss-crossing between them, would net the Falcon like a fish. There was no way out ahead, either. Mercury was there, harsh and bitter in the naked blaze of the sun. The ships of Gantry Hilton, President of the Federation of Worlds, inventor of the Psycho-Adjuster, and ruler of men’s souls, were herding him down to a landing at the lonely Spaceguard outpost. A landing he couldn’t dodge. And then … . . .