Allen Kim Lang: Stories

Successful colonies among the stars require interstellar ships--but they require, also, a very special kind of man. A kind you might not think to look for....

This was the endless problem of all spaceship cooks: He had to feed the men tomorrow on what they had eaten today!

Oh, leave it to the bureaucrats and they'll figure out new ways to make you buy more and more.... But there was only one way the poor consumer could rise up in his wrath.

Star-crossed? Worse than that! Even Earth itself was hopelessly out of reach for these landlocked space-travelers who lived in a--