Science Fiction Stories

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....

Jules is a young man barely a century old. He's lived long enough to see the cure for death and the end of scarcity, to learn ten languages and compose three symphonies...and to realize his boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World.Now in the keeping of a network of "ad-hocs" who keep the classic attractions running as they always have,Now, they are under attack. A new group has taken over the Hall of the Presidents, and is replacing it with...

In her deep-buried kingdom of Theros, Phaestra reveals the amazing secret of the Silver Dome.

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

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

There is a way around every tabu, knock on wood--but just watch out that the wood doesn't knock back!

The shortest distance between two points may be the long way around--and a path of dishonor may well turn into the high road to virtue.