Science Fiction Stories

Interstellar trouble-shooting is the easiest work there is. All you need is brains, energy--and a steno with nice legs!

Earth's espionage ring was a headache, so the Martian Security Chief offered ten thousand credits for a key agent. But even for a price--

Renner had a purpose in life. And the Purpose in Life had Renner.

He was lost--anyone could see that--but she had no idea how entirely lost he was nor why!

A gem of short story in the form of correspondence between the leaders of two opposing Political Blocs whose escalation of hostilities is rapidly suppressed from a surprise third party.

He knew his wife was dead, because he'd seen her buried. But it was only one possibility out of infinitely many!

Consider the poor mailman of the future. To "sleet and snow and dead of night"--things that must not keep him from his appointed rounds--will be added, sub-zero void, meteors, and planets that won't stay put. Maybe he'll decide that for six cents an ounce it just ain't worth it.

Wilbur Murphy sought romance, excitement, and an impossible Horseman of Space. With polite smiles, the planet frustrated him at every turn--until he found them all the hard way!

Science said it could not be, but there it was. And whoosh--look out--here it is again!

Lost in the vast Scorpion Desert of Venus, he needed all the courage a man could own--and every bit of credit he could raise!