Stories Starting with B

Battle to save Christmas

On Halloween, three forces converge on a town in America, with the fate of the planet at stake. A lightly revised version of my Halloween story.

It was a fine day at the beach for Purnie's game--but his new friends played very rough!

A tale of the prospectors of the starways--of dangers--

Holloway was used to big game hunters and their expeditions to other worlds. But this trip was sheer madness--a space ship stalking among....

Mary was a misfit. She didn't want to be beautiful. And she wasted time doing mad things--like eating and sleeping.

19-year-old Luke Powell is an outstanding soccer player but finds his life's dream to play soccer at the same college where his dad played derailed by a war. Even though he is a soccer player, there is very little soccer in this story. Follow Luke as he seeks to accomplish his life's goals despite the circumstances.

Well, it seems that Ivar Jorgensen has hit on the ultimate engine of destruction: a weapon designed to exploit man's greatest weakness. The blueprint can be found in the next few pages; and as the soldier in the story says, our only hope is to keep a sense of humor!

It is no use. It's too late. The earth--I must dig--alone.

When people talk about getting away from it all, they are usually thinking about our great open spaces out west. But to science fiction writers, that would be practically in the heart of Times Square. When a man of the future wants solitude he picks a slab of rock floating in space four light years east of Andromeda. Here is a gentle little story about a man who sought the solitude of such a location. And who did he take along for company? Charles the Robot.