Science Fiction Stories

By the 23rd century Earth's population had reached seven billion.Mankind was in danger of perishing for lack of elbow room, unless prompt measures were taken. Roy Walton had the power to enforce those measures. But though his job was in the service of humanity, he soon found himself the most hated man in the world.For it was his job to tell parents their children were unfit to live; he had to uproot people from their homes and send them to remote areas of the world.

You can't beat my Uncle Isadore--he's dead but he's quick--yet that is just what he was daring me to try and do!

One of the most intriguing of all science fiction patterns is that of the galactic sweep--the story which takes for granted human travel between stars at speeds far faster than the speed of light. In its most successful form, such a story combines cosmic action with a wholly human plot.

On the Board, they were just little lights that glowed. But out there in the night of the city-jungle, they represented human passions-- virulent emotions-- and deadly crimes-to-be.

Wives always try to cure husbands of bad habits, even on lonely asteroids!

Jeff needed a job and this man had a job to offer--one where giant economy-size trouble had labels like fakemake, bumsy and peekage!

If you found an artifact from the future, what you would bargain for to return it? Gold? Stock tips? A burrito?

Professor Wroxton had disappeared--but in the bottom of the mysterious crystal cage lay the diamond from his ring.

On the fatal seventh of September a certain Secret Service man sat in the President's chair and--looked back into the Eye of Allah.

He went where no Martian ever went before--but would he come out--or had he gone for good?