Science Fiction Stories

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

The Ghost Pirates... is a powerful account of a doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage, and of the terrible sea-devils (of quasi-human aspect, and perhaps the spirits of bygone buccaneers) that besiege it and finally drag it down to an unknown fate. With its command of maritime knowledge, and its clever selection of hints and incidents suggestive of latent horrors in nature, this book at times reaches enviable peaks of power.

Everyone knows the Moon is dead. Everyone is quite correct--now!

A giant amber block at last gives up its living, ravenous prey.

Little did Prof. Reubens suspect what his atom-tampering would set loose upon the world.

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.

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

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.