Science Fiction Stories

By 2000 A.D, airships have replaced aircraft for freight and human travel. Kipling's novella follows the exploits of an intercontinental mail dirigible battling foul weather, while detailing a planet-wide Aerial Board of Control (A.B.C.), which enforces a rigid system of command and control not only in the skies but in world affairs too; they outlaw war in 1967.

Perhaps there have been causes for slaughter just as silly as this was--but try to find one!

The ultimate show demanded the ultimate in showmanship--now if only Mr. Sims could measure up!

Slowly, insidiously, there stole over Allen Parker something uncanny. He could no longer control his hands--even his brain!

If, somehow, you get trapped in a circular time system. how long is the circumference of an infinitely retraced circle?

"I'd give a year off my life to...." Idle talk now, but it was ghastly reality to Kent!

The weatherman was always right: Temperature, 59; humidity, 47%; occasional light showers--but of what?

The people of Par'si'ya forgot their God, and worshipped only murder, and sin. But then the virgin Too-che gave birth to a male child....

There are certain rare individuals in this world who seem bereft of all common sense. These are the people who set their eyes upon an objective and immediately all intelligence, logic, good advice, unsolvable problems, and insurmountable obstacles go completely by the boards. The characters we refer to are obviously are just plain stupid. What they want to do, just can't be done.

When you took pot luck with this kitchen scientist, not even the poor pot was lucky!