Science Fiction Stories

Commander John Hanson relates an interplanetary adventure illustrating the splendid Service spirit of the men of the Special Patrol.

The slingshot was, I believe, one of the few weapons of history that wasn't used in the last war. That doesn't mean it won't be used in the next!

They arrived from deep space and ignored us. When they left, they left scars all over the planet and especially on our souls. We didn't know who they were or why they came, but when they left, we knew what they had done.

There are some people that it is extremely unwise to cross. and the fireworks start when two such people cross each other!

The punishment had to fit more than just the crime--it had to suit every world in the Galaxy!

Very admirable rule: Never do tomorrow what you can put off until after the age of forty!

Holloway was used to big game hunters and their expeditions to other worlds. But this trip was sheer madness--a space ship stalking among....

There is foul play on Mercury--until Denny Olear of the Interplanetary Flying Police gets after his man.

Everything was aimed at satisfying the whims of women. The popular cliches, the pretty romances, the catchwords of advertising became realities; and the compound kept the men enslaved. George knew what he had to do....

An intrepid interplanetary explorer named Kaiser suddenly comes to his senses after a scouting mission has gone horribly awry -- only to discover that his messages back to the mother ship have become garbled and incoherent, as if someone else was sending them. Who is this mysterious interloper?