Science Fiction Stories

The best way to keep a secret is to publish it in a quite unbelievable form--and insist that it is the truth.

You'd love Earthmen to pieces, for they may look pretty bad to themselves, but not to you. You'd even want to be one!

Intelligent birds! They knew a dead-end planet when they visited one!

Despite Mr. Shakespeare, wealth and name are both dross compared with the theft of hope-- and Maxwell had to rob a whole planet of it!

A The Catalyst Story (1)
A young man, suddenly finds women mysteriously attracted during a family trip to New Orleans. He acts as a catalyst, activating strange abilities in them that he doesn't understand. He's not ready for the responsibilities of adulthood, yet he's called upon to lead a string of followers. There are no superheros or world saving here, it's an examination of building a movement from the ground up.

With Dr. Keller's genius for hitting at vital spots every time, he now gives us a brand new idea and an ingenious solution. We hope no racketeers read this story. They might, as a result, cause the police some trouble. Fortunately, however, the racket has a flaw.

Cutter demanded more and more and more efficiency--and got it! But, as in anything, enough is enough, and too much is...

There is no lie so totally convincing as something the other fellow already knows-for-sure is the truth. And no cover-story so convincing....

There are two basic kinds of fools--the ones who know they are fools, and the kind that, because they do not know that, are utterly deadly menaces!