Science Fiction Stories

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

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!

Before reading this story, prepare yourself for a jolt and a chill in capsule form. O. Henry could have been proud of it. It could well become a minor classic.

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

Born on a long lost outpost of humanity, that only recently was reconnected to the wider galaxy, Leonora is at the end the rope. Her body is slowly succumbing to an incurable disease when she is given a chance at... something. A mysterious Traveler is offering her a future but warns that it comes at a risk. Welcome to Circe, an aboriginal world at outskirts of the known galaxy, where strange mists hide something with the power to upend the fragile balance that preserves the civilization.

Many men have dreamed of world peace, but none have been able to achieve it. If one man did have that power, could mankind afford to pay the price?

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

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

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

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!