Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels. The first novel is ¿Seven from the Stars¿ by Marion Zimmer Bradley. The starship Northwind, carrying colonists to a sun in the Spiral Arm, had imploded. The Master Panel, which carries sensitive studs corresponding to the self-destroying implosion units installed, for obvious reasons, in all spacecraft, confirmed today that the implosion device of the Northwind had gone dead. Cause of the disaster: unknown. The Northwind may have deviated from her course and strayed into the Closed Planets. It is surmised that the ship may have been threatened with capture by Rhu¿inn-dominated ships, and that the crew may have destroyed the Northwind to prevent passengers from falling into Rhu¿inn hands. Survivors are unlikely. Lifeships are not released prior to implosion unless a planet is detected within lifeship range¿the swift death of implosion being more merciful for survivors than a lingering death drifting in space. There are few stars in that section of the Spiral Arm, and of these, only a fraction are possessed of habitable planets. The probability that the Northwind may have released lifeships in the vicinity of any of these planets is small. The crew and passengers of the Northwind must for all practical purposes be considered dead. But there were seven survivors¿ The second novel is ¿The Girl Who Read Minds¿ by Robert Moore Williams. It¿s nice to have a girl friend, but is it so nice when you discover she has the power to read minds? That could prove to be dangerous¿especially when she exposes the darkest secrets of those around her. That¿s what happened to Ken Hayden and Nardia Barclay. What was supposed to be a mind-reading ¿hoax¿ at a party, turned out to be a demonstration of the uncharted science of mental telepathy. And soon with thunder crashing outside, Nardia Barclay¿s powers turned an estate filled with the wealthy into a mansion of horror, brimming with dread and murder; a situation complicated by the fact that Nardia¿s mind had come into contact with the killer himself.