Science Fiction Stories

The trail of vanished space ships leads Grant Pemberton to a marvellous lake of fire.

A man vanished--right out of this world. And where he went--

Just missing the tall, gaunt man who dodged down the stairs of the Earth Embassy. A figure loomed in a doorway and he snapped off a quick blaster shot at it--missed. He'd killed one man, wounded others--and was carrying papers stolen from the secret Embassy files. They had to stop him--but they couldn't! And, worlds away, the men of Department 99 watched on their galaxy-spanning view-screen. knowing they were responsible for this disaster--and powerless to do anything about it!

They were such cute synthetic creatures, it was impossible not to love them. Of course, that was precisely why they were dangerous!

If this story has a moral, it is: "Leave well enough alone." Just look what happened to Kenzie "mad-about-ants" MacKenzie, who didn't....

A Playboy is someone with power, too much time on his hands, and too little sense of a goal worth achieving. And if the Playboy happens to belong to a highly advanced culture....

The man I searched for could be anybody at all. If I didn't find him, there'd be nobody at all.

Doctors had given him just one month to live. A month to wonder, what comes afterward? There was one way to find out--ask a dead man!

Anyone mad enough (1) to land on that crazy world (2) in order to rescue that screwball explorer should (3) have his head examined!

A story in the Asteroid Hunters Universe
Space age Lost Dutchman.