Science Fiction Stories

Dr. Bird and his friend Carnes unravel another criminal web of scientific mystery.

"My uncle," said the man with the glass eye, "was what you might call a hemi-semi-demi millionaire. He was worth about a hundred and twenty thousand. Quite. And he left me all his money." I glanced at the shiny sleeve of his coat, and my eye travelled up to the frayed collar. "Every penny," said the man with the glass eye, and I caught the active pupil looking at me with a touch of offence.

The biggest job in history and it had to be done with complete secrecy. It was--which was just the trouble!

Omega, the last human alive, starts out with his wife Thalma and briefly acquires a son-Alpha on a dying Earth.

Would this be the last poker game--with all life at stake and every card a mere deuce?

Sealed and vigilantly guarded was "Drayle's Invention, 1932"----for it was a scientific achievement beyond which man dared not go.

Out of the flow of time there appears to Commander John Hanson a man of mystery from the forgotten past.

It's undoubtedly difficult to live with someone who is Different. He must, because he is Different, live by other ways. But what makes it so difficult is that, for some reason he thinks you are Different!

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.

He did not have the qualifications to go into space--so he had them manufactured!