Science Fiction Stories

Marvin Purdoch is having a bad day - saving humanity!

The planet itself was tough enough--barren, desolate, forbidding; enough to stop the most adventurous and dedicated. But they had to run head-on against a mad genius who had a motto: Death to all Terrans!

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.

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

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.

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.

Sick and helpless, he was very lucky to have a faithful native woman to nurse him. Or was he?