Science Fiction Stories

This is a science-fiction story. History is a science; the other part is, as all Americans know, the most fictional field we have today.

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....

From some far reach of leagueless Space came a great pillar of flame to lay waste and terrorize the Earth.

One man's retreat is another's prison. and it takes a heap of flying to make a hulk a home!

Well, it seems that Ivar Jorgensen has hit on the ultimate engine of destruction: a weapon designed to exploit man's greatest weakness. The blueprint can be found in the next few pages; and as the soldier in the story says, our only hope is to keep a sense of humor!

To spread Mankind to the stars carries a high cost in lives--and not all of them are human!

In the near future, humanity decodes an alien signal using Inverse Multifractal Spectroscopy. They are blueprints for a mysterious machine. Led by astrobiologist Layla Norwood, the scientists assemble the device, which allows them to connect to a galactic network called the Network of Silence, where advanced civilizations exchange knowledge in ethical, non-material ways.

Ttime travel in it's infancy. Megalomaniacs love new technologies. Gives their nefarious plans, a temporary edge! Edges, can cut both ways! .

Women may be against progress because it means new pseudo-widowhoods. Space-widowhood, for instance....

Nobody knew very much about the Sargasso area of the void; only one thing was certain: if a ship was caught there it was doomed in