Science Fiction Stories

A story of artificial intelligence operating within—and sometimes beyond—the systems humanity built.
In a future where knowledge is uploaded while children sleep, Robert James has never known life without Wren, the AI inside his mind. For twenty-six years, Wren has guided his education, guarded his memories, and helped shape his future. Then Robert’s hand stops obeying him—and a second voice whispers from somewhere inside his own head.

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

You can't blame an alien for a little inconvenience--as long as he makes up for it!

"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!

Two miles of American front had gone dead. And on two lone infantrymen, lost in the menace of the fog-gas and the tanks, depended the outcome of the war of 1932.

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

The story of the "Torpedo Plan" and of Capt. Lance's heroic part in America's last mighty battle with the United Slavs.

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

Bringing proofs which will satisfy the most skeptical Dr. William G. Kinney G. Van Emmon E. Williams Jackson and John W. Smith who left the earth on December 9 in a powerful sky-car of the doctor's design returned on the 23rd after having explored the two planets which lie between the earth and the sun.