Science Fiction Stories

One can't be too cautious about the people one meets in Tangier. They're all weirdies of one kind or another. Me? Oh, I'm A Stranger Here Myself

Captain Brandon was a pioneer. He explored the far reaches of space and reported back on how things were out there. So it was pretty disquieting to find out that the "far reaches of space" knew more about what went on at home than he did.

Keeping this cargo meant death--to jettison it meant to make flotsam and jetsam of a 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.

Hell may have no fury like a woman scorned, but the fury of a biochemist scorned is just as great --and much more fiendish.

There were but three days in which to decipher the most cryptic message ever delivered to earth.

The People of the Black Circle is a collection of fantasy short stories written by Robert E. Howard featuring his seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. Hill chieftan Conan heads into the Himelian mountains to rescue the Vendhyan queen, as Turanians, Afghulis, and Irakzais are caught in the machinations of demonic sorcerors of the Black Circle.