Science Fiction Stories

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.

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.

He wanted above anything else to go into space. He had been waiting for it--a long time!