Science Fiction Stories

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.

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.

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