Science Fiction Stories

This is a sci-fi story about a hermit who is being harassed and wants to find out why. The harassment escalates until he finds a note warning him that this is a matter of life and death. He begins this journey going deeper into the woods. Where is he bing led, and what will he find there that is so crucial.

Marvin Purdoch is having a bad day - saving humanity!

He had borne the thousand and one injuries with humility and charity. But the insults! These were more than he could suffer....

An alien occupation. Resistance as a family enterprise. Stan Matheson knows duty, sacrifice, and at the end, surprise. Linked to "Diversions of Angels" 2,700+ words

Crane didn't get the nice man's name--until it was far too late to do anything at all about it.

He appeared in glory and sank without a trace. Why? How? For the first time anywhere, here is the startling inside story.

A stratospheric weather ship flying with an improbably large crew suddenly caught suspended in a force bubble in mid-air.

Minos was such a lovely planet. Not a thing seemed wrong with it. Excepting the food, perhaps. And a disease that wasn't really.

Explores a proof for the nature of life

A grim tale of a future in which everyone is desperate to escape reality, and a hero who wants to have his wine and drink it, too.