Science Fiction Stories

In language translation, you may get a literally accurate word-for-word translation. but miss the meaning entirely. And in space-type translation. the effect may be the same!

These gorgeous fanatics were equally at home with men, murder, or matrimony, and they used all three with amazing success.

How does the world end? Not with a bang or a whimper but with an oops.

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.

This Is, I Think, One of the Most Powerful Comments on the Modern Social Philosophy I Have Seen--a Really Blood-Chilling Little Tale....

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

Star-crossed? Worse than that! Even Earth itself was hopelessly out of reach for these landlocked space-travelers who lived in a--

Of course using live bait is the best way to lure dangerous alien animals. unless it turns out that you are the bait!

Destroying the spirit of the enemy is the goal of war and the aliens had the best way!

In order to make Izaak Walton's sport complete, there must be an angler, a fish, and some bait. All three existed on Arz but there was a question as to which was which.