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.

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

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

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

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

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

In a Post-Apocalyptic yet hyper-advanced world, Alex notices subtle changes in his thoughts—unbidden ideas that feel familiar and foreign. As he delves deeper, he uncovers a chilling link between technology and human autonomy, forcing him to question the boundaries of control and identity.

Strange how often the Millennium has been at hand. The idea is peace on Earth, see, and the way to do it is by figuring out angles.

Mr. Coombes was sick of life. He walked away from his unhappy home, and, sick not only of his own existence but of everybody else's, turned aside down Gaswork Lane to avoid the town, and, crossing the wooden bridge that goes over the canal to Starling's Cottages, was presently alone in the damp pine woods and out of sight and sound of human habitation. He would stand it no longer. He repeated aloud with blasphemies unusual to him that he would stand it no longer...

The exercise is supposed to use blanks. Then a collision cuts drone operator Beth Miller off from command, soldiers report casualties, and a drone fires live rounds despite an acknowledged weapons hold. With civilians trapped and her lieutenant badly injured, Beth must decide what to trust—and how to protect the people in the street when her controls no longer guarantee control.