Science Fiction Stories

There are devices a high-level culture could produce that simply don't belong in the hands of incompetents of lower cultural evolution. The finest, and most civilized of tools can be made a menace.

In search of fantastic unknown creatures and monsters

Mysterious, dark, out of the unknown deep comes a new satellite to lure three courageous Earthlings on to strange adventures.

Channing wanted a planet. Had they sold him a pup?

He stole a ride to the Moon in search of glory, but found a far different destiny.

Poor Butcher suffered more than any dictator in history: everybody gave in to him because he was so puny and they were so impregnable!

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.

A Black Caesar had arisen on Eros--and all Earth trembled at his distant menace.

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.