Science Fiction Stories

In the future, we may discover new planets; our ships may rocket to new worlds; robots may be smarter than people. But we'll still have slick characters willing and able to turn a fast buck--even though they have to be smarter than Einstein to do it.

Rootless and footloose, a man in space can't help but dream of coming home. But something nobody should do is bet on the validity of a homesick dream!

A young woman objects to being sedated into placidity, as is the norm in the overcrowded, genetically optimized future.She also refuses to be paired with a somnolent drip of a fellow, who needs medication to act at an even minimal level of energy. Then you've got the young spacer, who believes he has discovered an efficient hyperdrive that could open the stars to humanity. He is told to cool his heels in a dead-end assignment until he discovers the error in his mathematics.

Commander John Hanson records another of his thrilling interplanetary adventures with the Special Patrol Service.

A veteran veterinarian might have vamoosed--but Watts had to help any sick animal....

Natural laws are cliches--"what must be must be," for instance--and what must be in this case was, of all people, Dr. Talbot!

A story in the Asteroid Hunters Universe
In the not to distant future.

Explore a Venus that never was. This is Venus as science fiction imagined it, as it might have been. Explore the hot, humid, muddy planet and meet the aliens that populate it.

There was something odd about the guest attraction, Mr. Fayliss, and something odder still about his songs.

Don't believe in flying saucers? Neither do we, but that doesn't necessarily mean that there can be no other way for Earth to get its last....