Stories Starting with S

Interstellar trouble-shooting is the easiest work there is. All you need is brains, energy--and a steno with nice legs!

Twenty years is a long time to live in anticipation. At least, Professor Pettibone thought so--until the twenty years were up.

It has been 60 years since the great Red Death wiped out mankind, and the handful of survivors from all walks of life have established their own civilization and their own hierarchy in a savage world. Art, science, and all learning has been lost, and the young descendants of the healthy know nothing of the world that was-nothing but myths and make-believe. The old man is the only one who can convey the wonders of that bygone age, and the horrors of the plague that brought about its end.

"The face of the giant was indeed that of a god...."

Rootless and footloose, a man in space can't help but dream of coming home. But something nobody should do is bet on the validity of a homesick dream!

Until the extraordinary affair at Sidmouth, the peculiar species Haploteuthis ferox was known to science only generically, on the strength of a half-digested tentacle obtained near the Azores, and a decaying body pecked by birds and nibbled by fish, found early in 1896 by Mr. Jennings, near Land's End.

The mysterious loss of the Arethusa is investigated by Dr. Bird and Carnes.

Something Was Very Wrong, Out There Among The Stars...The interstellar transport had touched down on six other colony worlds - and all six had been devoid of human life. Where was everybody? It was almost as if humankind, when separated by cosmic distances from Mother Earth, could not survive.

Achieving immortality is only half of the problem. The other half is knowing how to live with it once it's been made possible--and inescapable!

Earth-men war on frog-vampires for the emancipation of the human cows of Earth's second satellite.