Science Fiction Stories

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

The entities were utterly, ambitiously evil; their line of defense, apparently, was absolutely impregnable.

When but a child of seven my uncle placed me in a private school in which one of the so-called redeemed sub-sailors was a teacher of the German language. As I look back now, in the light of my present knowledge, I better comprehend the docile humility and carefully nurtured ignorance of this man.

Destiny reached out a hand to Algernon Weaver--but he was a timid man, at first. But on the strange world of Terranova, there was much to be learned--of destiny, and other things....

Let the dead past bury its dead? Not while I am alive, it won't!

The ideal way to deal with a pest--any menace--is, of course, to make it useful to you....

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

No doubt whatever about it, I had the Indian sign on me. my comfortably untidy world had suddenly turned into a monstrosity of order!

Does your wife call you Pumpkinhead? Well, maybe it's _not_ an insult; it might be a pet name. Ah--but _whose_ pet name?

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.