Science Fiction Stories

Out of solid ice Craig hews three long-frozen Egyptians--and is at once caught up into amazing adventure.

A strange man of metal comes to Earth on a dreadful mission.

Helpless, doomed, into the graveyard of space floats the wrecked freighter Pallas.

It may be that there is a weapon that, from the viewpoint of the one it's used on, is worse than lethal. You might say that death multiplies you by zero; what would multiplication by minus one do?

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.

Because this is a masculine world, the author of this fairytale is usually identified as the wife of Poul Anderson. But a few more incisive cameos of fantasy such as this, and Mr. Anderson may come to be identified as Karen's husband.

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

The ultradrive had just one slight drawback: it set up a shock wave that made suns explode. Which made the problem of getting back home a delicate one indeed...

Unwittingly the traitor of the Earth, Van pits himself against the inexorably tightening web of plant-beasts he has released from the moon.

Through infinite deeps of space Jerry Foster hurtles to the Moon--only to be trapped by a barbaric race and offered as a living sacrifice to Oong, their loathsome, hypnotic god.