Science Fiction Stories

Now was the captain's chance to prove he knew less than the crew--all their lives hung upon it!

The long-suffering public went along with billboards and singing commercials; they tolerated half a dozen sales pitches in a half-hour radio or TV show; they suffered stoically through the "hard-sell" and the "soft-sell." But when the hucksters turned the wild blue yonder into a vast television screen, they howled.

Old Thaddeus McIlvaine discovered a dark star and took it for his own. Thus he inherited a dark destiny--or did he?

Lee Richardson and Alexis Pitov, two nuclear scientists, are participating in a thermonuclear test involving a rocket and negamatter. The test is decidedly not a test to develop into weapons-grade materials. However, Pitov and Richardson cannot help but consider the fate of Auburn, NY fifteen years ago when the nuclear event shocked the world. It had to be the Soviets. But the Soviets thought it was the Americans. Maybe it was the Australians? This new experimental test provides the answer.

Anybody who shunned a Cure needed his head examined--assuming he had one left!

Ella Anderson is a teen who is being stalked by a stranger and starts experiencing blackouts, hallucinations, any time extreme emotions or trouble occurs. She comes to learn that something strange happened to her at Mortimer Forest and she wants to find out what she'll find there.

You're down in the jungle with death staring you in the face. There is nothing left but prayer. So you ask for your life. But wait! Are you sure that's really what you want above all else?

Odd planet! The bipeds talked from their heads and saw only what lay before them. In short, they were pathetic--and deadly!

What will cosmic rays do to a living organism? Will they destroy life, or produce immortality? The eminent Dr. Blair Gaddon thought he knew.

The women had made up their minds, and nothing--repeat, nothing--could change them. But something had to give....