Science Fiction Stories

Richard Arnold, a young man in England at the beginning of the 20th century who devotes his life to creating the world's first fully functional airship. After years of effort, he finally succeeds, but at the expense of everything else in his life, to the point that he finds himself broke and about to be thrown out of his home.

You can see it--you can watch it--but mustn't touch!" And what could possibly be more frustrating. when you need, most violently, to get your hands on it for just one second....

Fallout is, of course, always disastrous-- one way or another

As pretty as a picture? Yes, because that was all she was. or would become some day!

I thought of every way to save Hal from the Lydna Project and failed. but the women didn't!

Ellaby's society was a perfect democracy, where all men were equal. But some still wanted more personal attention, and they got it, like--

very planet is badly in need of family men, naturally--but the same one on all of them?

It was, Kirk thought, like standing in a gully, watching a boulder teeter precariously above you. It might fall at any minute, crushing your life out instantly beneath its weight. Your only possible defenses are your brain and voice--but how do you argue with a boulder which neither sees nor hears?

First published in "The Counterfeit Man: More Science Fiction Stories published in 1963.

Droozle was probably the greatest writer in the world--any world!