Science Fiction Stories

To all who didn't know him, Curt George was a mighty hunter and actor. But this time he was up against others who could really act, and whose business was the hunting of whole worlds.

Zarlah the Martian is narrated by a young scientist who had hoped to make his fortune creating an unbreakable substitute for glass. By happy accident, he invented a device which allowed him to intercept communications from Mars.

A short tale of relationships: faithful vs fractious, human and automaton, father vs son. A companion story to The Brothers Keeper. ~ 2,900 words.

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

Orson Walters is an Andriod (who prefers the term "mechanical human) is going for his first job and needs to stand out among the other robot applicants. Will his creator Joe's advice help him?

Sadly, sternly, the old professor reveals to his brilliant pupil the greater path to glory.

It's not so much the decisions a man does make that mark him as a Man--but the ones he refrains from making. Like the decision "I've had enough!"

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?

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....