Science Fiction Stories

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?

Explores a proof for the nature of life

You too can be a Qurono. All you need do is geoplanct. All you need know is when to stop!

A story in the Warhammer 40K Universe
A parade, on a drill square.

Psychopathology has offered possible answers to why, from time to time, people in large quantities "see" strange things in the sky which manage to evade trained scientific observers, or conform to what is known about the behavior of falling or flying bodies. And mass hysteria is by no means a product of the present century. But--what if these human foibles were deliberately being exploited?

They didn't exactly hold a gun at anybody's head; all they offered was help. Of course, they did sort of encourage people to ask for help....