Science Fiction Stories

Warning: never let anyone point any weapon at you; even something as harmless-looking as a water pistol--it may be a Cooling gun!

Err. maybe it had to do with this being a non-Parity universe, perhaps? Some things can't be simply inverted, after all....

Sunlight filtered through the windows into the sleep-compartment. Tony Rossi yawned, then opened his black eyes and sat up quickly. He tossed the covers back and slid to the warm metal floor. It looked like a nice day. The landscape outside was motionless.In the dining compartment his mother and father had finished breakfast. Their voices drifted to him as he clattered down the ramp. A disturbed murmur; he paused to listen. What were they talking about? Had he done something wrong, again?

Three kidnapped Earthlings show Xantra of the Tillas how "docile" Earth slaves can be.

One of the spectacular exploits of Hawk Carse, greatest of space adventurers.

The very men who claimed mental superiority because they were free from superstitions and divine disillusionment were themselves victims of their own sophism, and while they thought themselves crowned with enlightenment, it was naught but the Phrygian caps of their prejudices toward the material state.

Magic--there's no such thing. But the crops were beginning to grow backwards....

For generations they ran from the Hunters, but the Hunters had found them again. All prepared to flee except...

Given valid data, you can reach completely wrong conclusions. But given a wrong conclusion, you can still get a right answer!

In a colony on the island of Titan, very close to the Kraken Sea, Ethan and Jessica work on a project. Going through unhappy marriages, they find solace in each other as they work to launch a power generating station from Titan's cryovolcanic activity.