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.

After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England, the countryside reverts to nature, and the few survivors to a quasi-medieval way of life. The first part, The Relapse into Barbarism, is the account by some later historian of the fall of civilisation and its consequences, with a loving description of nature reclaiming England. The second part, Wild England, is an adventure set many years later in the wild landscape and society.

Set in the backwoods of the United States during a cold dark night, a stranger has a horrid tale to tell.

An astounding chronicle of two Lunarians' conquest of time and interstellar space.

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.