Science Fiction Stories

When overwhelming danger is constantly present, of course a man is entitled to have a bodyguard. The annoyance was that he had to do it himself. and his body would not cooperate!

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!

Benson did his best to keep his colony from going native, but what can you do when the Natives have a rare human intelligence and know all about the facts of life?

Problem: How can you arrange marriages with men in one solar system, women in another--and neither willing to leave his own world?

Sometimes you can solve your problem by running out on it!

The customs officer isn't even human, so it feels like just another R&R, another halting conversation carried on in ugly trade-speak, another bewilderment of queues and luggage carousels. Outside: another spaceport, surrounded by the variegated hostels for the variegated tourists, and bipeds are in bare majority. The thing he can't think of it is, is a homecoming.

Nothing in the world could be happier and mere serene than a man who loves his work--but what happens when it loves him back?

Doctor Coffin, in collaboration with other doctors, discovers a cure, but it has a surprisingly strong side effect.