Science Fiction Stories

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

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!

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.

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....

You can measure everything these days--heat, light, gravity, reflexes, force-fields, star-drives. And now I know there even is a.

Heroism is merely daring and ingenuity--at the age of ten--experience can come later!

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!

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....

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