Novel-Classic Stories

Have you ever written science fiction? Have your stories been rejected? Herein may lie the reason.

Many men have dreamed of world peace, but none have been able to achieve it. If one man did have that power, could mankind afford to pay the price?

Women may be against progress because it means new pseudo-widowhoods. Space-widowhood, for instance....

A Konv cylinder was the key to space--but there was one power it could not match!

An old woman comes to Mars because a fraudulent travel agent offers a "trip to heaven". She and other members of her traveling group find an extremely battered and derelict rocket which was supposed to be used for the last part of the trip. And it is used for that trip, in a pretty literal sense.

One man's retreat is another's prison. and it takes a heap of flying to make a hulk a home!

Nobody knew very much about the Sargasso area of the void; only one thing was certain: if a ship was caught there it was doomed in

Lincoln said it eons ago.... It took a speck of one-celled plant life on a world parsecs away to prove it for all the galaxy.

When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that they build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to the moon. But when Barbicane's adversary places a huge wager that the project will fail and a daring volunteer elevates the mission to a "manned" flight, one man's dream turns into an international space race.

Every lonely man tries to make friends. Manet just didn't know when to stop!