Science Fiction Stories

What is a "phony"? Someone who believes he can do X, when he can't, however sincerely he believes it? Or someone who can do X, believes he can't, and believes he is pretending he can?

Something of the wonder that must have come to men seeking magic in the sky in days long vanished.

In this epic, Conan fights to recover the throne of Aquilonia from Nemedian invaders aided by the Acheronian wizard Xaltoltun. This collection also includes 'The Hyborian Age,' a description of the times and lands that Conan was familiar with.

Dueling as a means of settling disputes has been revived by the invention of the dueling machine, which allows two adversaries to have at each other in the imaginary world of their choosing, with no danger to either other than humiliation and the loss of the point in dispute, until the Kerak Worlds found a way to kill with the machine. Unless a young Star Watchman can solve the mystery, the warlike Kerak Worlds will gobble up the planets.

One after another the invisible robots escape Shelton's control--and their trail leads straight to the gangster chief Cadorna.

Layroh's hiring of husky down-and-outers for his expedition is part of a plan made ages past.

Here's the behind-the-scenes lowdown on Luna City life and a promoter of Martian dancing girls, vaudeville, and--other things. But remember: stop us if you've heard this one!

Old Mr. Wiley and the dog came over every night. but were they real?

Meeting someone who's been dead for twenty years is shocking enough for anyone with a belief in ghosts--worse for one with none!

Murt's Virus was catastrophically lethal, but it killed in a way no disease had ever thought of--it loved its victims to death!