Stories Starting with F

Of all the irksome, frustrating, maddening discoveries--was there no way of keeping it discovered?

Sometimes Halloween isn't scary.

The authentic account of why cosmic man damned an outlaw world to be, forever, a leper of Space.

Sextus Rollo Forsyte had his trouble with the bottle, but nothing out of a bottle ever produced such a hotel as the Mahoney-Plaza: only 260 rooms. only two guests to a room. but accommodating 5200 guests--all at the same time!... Floor please?

The creatures were huge, hairy, surly -- and the males were always chasing the females. But what else could you expect of mammals?

Venus was the most miserable planet in the system, peopled by miserable excuses for human beings. And somewhere among this conglomeration of boiling protoplasm there was a being unlike the others, a being who walked and talked like the others but who was different--and afraid the difference would be discovered. You'll remember this short story.

A story in the Warhammer 40K Universe
An idle musing on the actions of the Four Horsemen during a gaming session in a Games Workshop establishment...

Far down into the earth goes a gleaming metal sphere whose passengers are deadly enemies.

Fenris isn't a hell planet, but it's nobody's bargain. With 2,000-hour days and an 8,000-hour year, it alternates blazing heat with killing cold. A planet like that tends to breed a special kind of person: tough enough to stay alive and smart enough to make the best of it. When that kind of person discovers he's being cheated of wealth he's risked his life for, that kind of planet is ripe for revolution.

Ezekiel, they say, "saw de wheel"--but he saw somewhat more than that. And Orton suggests that what he saw made perfectly good sense. to the understanding!