Science Fiction Stories

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.

A story in the Warhammer 40K Universe
Airborne troop movements don't always go to plan...

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!

We call them trouble-shooters. They called 'em Gypsies. Either way, they were hep to that whole bit about.... A futuristic tale of man and technology. A warning about losing your past.

There will, sooner or later, be problems of "space junk," and the right to dump in space. But not like this...

Elvin wasn't sure how it had started--maybe it was the Schermerhorn twins--or the mysterious "meteorite"--or else the world had gone crazy....

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

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.