Science Fiction Stories

Four destinies rocket through the strange Time-Space of the Fourth Dimension in Tode's marvelous Atom-Smasher.

Naturally an undertaker will get the last word. But shouldn't he wait until his clients are dead?

Oh, leave it to the bureaucrats and they'll figure out new ways to make you buy more and more.... But there was only one way the poor consumer could rise up in his wrath.

Their chances hung literally on a prayer. which they had to answer all by themselves!

The Liverpool to New York undersea tube is basically a large pneumatic tube. Built at the end of the 20th century, it has been up and running for three years when one of the tube's engineers confides to a friend that it is not safe. The friend is leaving for Europe in the tube the next day. When disaster strikes, there is only one survivor to tell the story.

Aunt Matilda needed him desperately, but when he arrived she did not want him and neither did anyone else in his home town.

It is Seattle in the early 2000s and for a small group of people, days repeat with seemingly random durations. Then one of them makes a discovery.

Old Thaddeus McIlvaine discovered a dark star and took it for his own. Thus he inherited a dark destiny--or did he?

Sparing people's feelings is deadly. It leads to--no feelings, no people!

Out of nowhere came these grim, cold, black-clad men, to kidnap three Earth people and carry them to a weird and terrible world where a man could be a giant at will.