Science Fiction Stories

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

When you have an engine with no fuel, and fuel without an engine, and a life-and-death deadline to meet, you have a problem indeed. Unless you are a stubborn Dutchman--and Jan Van Artevelde was the stubbornest Dutchman on Venus.

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.

Herbert was truly a gentleman robot. The ladies' slightest wish was his command....

The trials of a patent lawyer are usually highly technical tribulations--and among the greatest is the fact that Inventors are only slightly less predictable than their Inventions!

A tale of the prospectors of the starways--of dangers--

With one suitcase as his domain, Arthur was desperately in need of armed henchmen. for his keys to a kingdom were typewriter keys!

The captain had learned to hate. It was his profession--and his personal reason for going on. But even hatred has to be channeled for its maximum use, and no truths exist forever.

In a space war, the ultimate test can be facing a foe knowing you simply cannot win, yet never flinching from your duty.

Collisions in space have consequences. This is a tale of such an event in another solar system, and what happened to a planet-bound race as a result.