Stories Starting with P

They move like dancers and hunt like predators, and only a rusted catwalk above an abandoned theater stage offers any escape.

The next worst thing to hell is being shanghaied into the Paradise of an alien planet!

Red Sensua's knife came up dripping--and the two adventurers knew that chaos and bloody revolution had been unleashed in that shadowy kingdom of the fourth dimension.

A brilliant scientist and his former student (and financial benefactor) build a rocket and travel to Mars, where they find a civilization identical to that of Biblical-era Egypt.

As pretty as a picture? Yes, because that was all she was. or would become some day!

... Pictures, that is, that one can test and measure. And these pictures positively, absolutely could not lie!

Because this is a masculine world, the author of this fairytale is usually identified as the wife of Poul Anderson. But a few more incisive cameos of fantasy such as this, and Mr. Anderson may come to be identified as Karen's husband.

Technological upheavals caused by inventions of our own are bad enough, but this was the ultimate depression, caused by the ultimate alien invention--which no Earthman ever saw!

There's a song that says "it's later than you think" and it is perhaps lamentable that someone didn't sing it for Henry that beautiful morning....

Even in space there is pipers and musicians...