Science Fiction Stories

It was a big joke on all concerned. When you look back, the whole thing really began because his father had a sense of humor. Oh, the name fit all right, but can you imagine naming your son....

Any war is made up of a horde of personal tragedies--but the greater picture is the tragedy of the death of a way of life. For a way of life--good, bad, or indifferent--exists because it is dearly loved....

It has happened a hundred times in the long history of Earth--and, sooner or later, will happen again!

The plot of The Gun centers around a group of space explorers who investigate a planet which appears deserted. However, they are shot down and crash land on the planet. While repairing their ship, a team of explorers sets to survey the surrounding area, where they discover the ruins of an ancient city. The Captain peered into the eyepiece of the telescope.

From the depths of the Sargasso Sea of Space came the thought-warning, "Turn back!" But Carr and his Martian friend found it was too late!

A man on a dig in India discovers more than he thought he would

All he wanted to do was go ROUND-AND-ROUND TRIP from here to there--but somehow the entire Milky Way had been converted into a squirrel cage.

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.

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!