Science Fiction Stories

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

No wonder he'd been so interested in the talk of whether our people accepted these theories!

The space ships were miracles of power and precision; the men who manned them, rich in endurance and courage. Every detail had been checked and double checked; every detail except--

Sometimes getting a job is harder than the job after you get it--and sometimes getting out of a job is harder than either!

To upset the stable, mighty stream of time would probably take an enormous concentration of energy. And it's not to be expected that a man would get a second chance at life. But an atomic might accomplish both--

A daring adventure with huge dollops of geographical, technological, and scientific information, touches of humor, and a slow build-up followed by one exciting incident after another.

Working on the theory that you can skin a sucker in space as well as on Earth, the con team of Harding and Sheckly operated furtively but profitably among natives of the outer planets. That is--until there was a question of turnabout being fair play in a world where natives took their skinning literally!

If Saranta wished to qualify as one who loved his fellow man, he should have known that often the most secretive things are the most obvious.

In the not-so-far future, an AI Engine struggles with its own existence, while a famous Law Master finally gets his heart's desire.

This was the endless problem of all spaceship cooks: He had to feed the men tomorrow on what they had eaten today!