[Beth and the Twilight Star] 13 [Gib Takes a Space Test] 28 [The Space Mail Run] 39 [All Aboard for Space] 55 [Wheel in the Sky] 69 [Danger on the Ice Canal] 83 [Cargo for Callisto] 95 [The Big Show on Titan] 107 [Adventure on the Sun’s Doorstep] 119 [The Flying Mountain] 132 [Castaways in Space] 144 [The Big Space Ball Game] 158 [Paper Treasure for Mars] 171
ILLUSTRATIONS
[She saw a strange land unfolding before her eyes] 22 [Everyone was told to buckle himself to the rail by a short length of cord] 62 [The tornado bomb was on its way, speeding hundreds of miles a second Earthward] 81 [He saw her flinging her arms and legs about like a drowning swimmer] 128 [Benasco was seated on the floor like a child with a new scrapbook] 187
YOUNG READERS
Science Fiction Stories
BETH AND THE TWILIGHT STAR
Beth Harrison and her father had driven into the desert to look for dead branches of “jumping cactus,” which were used in making lamps for Mr. Harrison’s tourist shop in Tucson. He and Beth had just gotten out of the station wagon and were gazing up a slope of bristly cacti.
“This looks like a good place, Daddy,” Beth said.
Mr. Harrison nodded. “We’ll have to hurry, though. It’s getting late.”