Science Fiction Stories

Harry is one of the growing number of people who can't stand the over-crowded cities. He lives in a cramped bachelor's apartment -- he could upgrade to a larger one if he'd get married, but he'd also have to add an hour to his commute each way, bringing the total to six hours. One day he suffers a mental breakdown and is sent to a bucolic clinic in the country, where he soon enters a relationship with a nurse.

It's amazing how much you can learn about absolute strangers if you just stop to think about the kind of an animal they'll put in a.

The conversion of light into electricity by spectrum is an interesting possibility. The idea of using foreign proteins on the human system to repel enemies, is also interesting. Do you get it? We didn't either until we read the story. Read the yarn and you'll get it too.

Doing something for humanity may be fine--for humanity--but rough on the individual!

Shakespeare wrote it, in the tragedy of King Lear--a phrase to live by: Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither;

Pioneers have always resented their wanderlust, hated their hardships. But the future brings a new grudge--when pioneers stay put and scholars do the exploring!

To disobey the orders of the Council of Four was unthinkable to a Space Admiral of the old school. But the trouble was, the school system had changed. A man, a fighter, an Admiral had to think for himself now, if his people were to live.

He didn't know how he could have stood the four months there alone. She was company and one could talk to her.

There is one fact no sane man can quarrel with. everything has a beginning and an end. But some men aren't sane; thus it isn't always so!

Of all the irksome, frustrating, maddening discoveries--was there no way of keeping it discovered?