Science Fiction Stories

Dr. Bird, scientific sleuth extraordinary, goes after a sinister stealer of brains.

It has been 60 years since the great Red Death wiped out mankind, and the handful of survivors from all walks of life have established their own civilization and their own hierarchy in a savage world. Art, science, and all learning has been lost, and the young descendants of the healthy know nothing of the world that was-nothing but myths and make-believe. The old man is the only one who can convey the wonders of that bygone age, and the horrors of the plague that brought about its end.

An alien soldier tries to get a guide to take him to his rescue point, but he has managed to pick a con-man. The guide repeatedly tries to steal the alien's pack of goodies, which he recognizes as the titular survival kit, in the hopes of selling it off as advanced tech.

The sixty stories of the perfectly constructed Colossus building had mysteriously crashed! What was the connection between this catastrophe and the weird strains of the Mad Musician's violin?

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

The tragic misadventure of a man to whom the sky became an appalling abyss, drawing him ever upward.

The sand-thing was powerful, lonely and strange. No doubt it was a god--but who wasn't?

Fyfe's quite right. there's nothing like a satellite system for a cold storage arrangement. Keeps things handy, but out of the way....

Sometimes the very best thing you can do is to lose. The cholera germ, for instance, asks nothing better than that it be swallowed alive....

The history of man becomes fearfully and wonderfully confusing with the advent of interstellar travel. Of special interest to the legally inclined student is the famous Skrrgck Affair, which began before the Galactic Tribunal with the case of _Citizens vs. Skrrgck_.