Science Fiction Stories

Very admirable rule: Never do tomorrow what you can put off until after the age of forty!

Of course using live bait is the best way to lure dangerous alien animals. unless it turns out that you are the bait!

Holloway was used to big game hunters and their expeditions to other worlds. But this trip was sheer madness--a space ship stalking among....

A fearsome thing is a thing you're afraid of--and it has nothing whatever to do with whether others are afraid, nor with whether it is in fact dangerous. It's your view of the matter that counts!

Star-crossed? Worse than that! Even Earth itself was hopelessly out of reach for these landlocked space-travelers who lived in a--

How does the world end? Not with a bang or a whimper but with an oops.

In exchange for the promise of an almost limitless fuel, earth agrees to allow the alien Grdnzth people to gather on earth for transit to a planet as their is going to be destroyed. The Grdnzth are ugly, looking rather like reptiles. They also pop in anywhere, anytime unannounced. It's the job of PR men Pete Greenwood and Tommy Heinz to get the public to accept the Grdnzth and the inconvenience...

A story of artificial intelligence operating within—and sometimes beyond—the systems humanity built.
Robert Johnson investigates a water directive quietly altered in Cusco—records clean, reservoirs running wrong. A twenty-year veteran of impossible audits, he must find the seam before the lockdown lifts. A slow-burn procedural about accountability, evidence, and the systems we trust.

Garth Howard, prey to half the animals of the forest, fights valiantly to regain his lost five feet of size.

Mr. Emmett did his duty by the visitor from another world--never doubting the right of it.