Science Fiction Stories

A quiet desert priest witnesses a strange ship land in his pasture. Inside is a hungry alien mother whose food machine has failed—and whose newborns cannot survive on anything Earth offers. Gentle, eerie, and morally sharp, Zenna Henderson’s classic first-contact tale asks what mercy costs.

They move like dancers and hunt like predators, and only a rusted catwalk above an abandoned theater stage offers any escape.

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

Take an unforgettable trip to another plane of existence in The Mummy and Miss Nitocriss: A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension, a wild, rollicking sci-fi novel from author George Chetwynd Griffith. This tale blends a remarkable melange of zany characters and impossible-to-predict plot twists into one seamless -- and eminently entertaining -- package.

Stark disaster to a brave lad in space may--to the mind that loves--be a tragedy pridefully concealed.

Smart man, Bruckner--he knew how to handle natives. but they knew even better how to deal with smart terrestrials!

The main trouble is that you'd never suspect anything was wrong; you'd enjoy associating with _slizzers_, so long as you didn't know....

If he took the high road--and also the low road--he'd be in the same place afore himself!

For eighty vertical miles Carpenter and Bond blasted their way--only to be trapped by the extraordinary monsters of the heaviside layer.

In the frozen wastes at the bottom of the world two explorers find a strange pool of white fire--and have a strange adventure.