Science Fiction Stories

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

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....

The house was furnished with all luxuries, including women. If it only had a lease that could be broken

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!

When a slightly mad robot drunk on AC, wants you to join an experiment in optimum ecology--don't do it! After all, who wants to argue like Disraeli or live like Ivan the Terrible?

Don't wait to "Get 'em while they're hot." By then, it is too late to get them of all!

It took a long time for human beings to accept that our little piece of meteoric rubble wasn't the exact and absolute center of the Universe. It does appear that way, doesn't it? It may not take so long for a spaceman to learn.

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.