Science Fiction Stories

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!

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

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.

It was a race between the tortoise and the hare. But this hare was using some dirty tricks to make sure the ending would be different....

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?

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?

Stories of the old West were filled with bad men who lived by the speed of their gun hand. Well, meet Buck Tarrant, who could outdraw them all. His secret: he didn't even have to reach for his weapon....