Science Fiction Short Stories
epub |eng | | Author:Baker, Kage

Standing In His Light by Kage Baker The country was so flat its inhabitants had four different words for horizon. Its sunlight was watery, full of tumbling clouds. Canals cut ...
( Category: Short Stories July 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 1999-03-31 | Author:Lucius Shepard

When at last we reached the surface and took shelter among the rocks, we discovered that only about a hundred and thirty of us had survived the Garden. Brad and ...
( Category: Short Stories July 17,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Anderson, Poul

You could feel how distant your neighbors were, Sherrinford thought. And nonetheless they were the people whom you saw oftenest, did daily business with by visiphone (when a solar storm ...
( Category: Short Stories July 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 1976-01-01 | Author:Isaac Asimov [Asimov, Isaac]

6 Afterword “No Smoking” appeared in the December 1974 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine under the title of “Confessions of an American Cigarette Smoker.” I'm growing ever more fanatical ...
( Category: Short Stories June 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-03 | Author:Mike Ashley [Mike Ashley]

Flight My guide led me into a thicket and we followed a narrow path through the scarlet growth until we came to a clearing. There before us stood an aircraft ...
( Category: Short Stories June 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 1988-02-17 | Author:Isaac Asimov [Asimov, Isaac]

EIGHT For a while, the passengers and the one-man crew seemed to be on their best behavior. The Chaladoor, however, was not. There were several abrupt alerts, and one hard ...
( Category: History & Criticism June 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-25 | Author:Mike Ashley & Eric Brown [Ashley, Mike & Brown, Eric]

5 All returned to normal In which the risen come, blinking, into the sunlight All returned to normal in Sunny Meadows. The altercation at Dr Bull’s little demonstration was soon ...
( Category: Supernatural June 4,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1959-03-14 | Author:Isaac Asimov

THE GENTLE VULTURES For fifteen years now, the Hurrians had maintained their base on the other side of the Moon. It was unprecedented; unheard of. No Hurrian had dreamed it ...
( Category: Science Fiction Short Stories June 4,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2020-12-30 | Author:Tanith Lee

BITE ME NOT OR FLEUR DE FUR Again, apparently, vampires lure me. This is a fairy-tale invented by me, in the mythic tradition of True (sexual) Love, for which all ...
( Category: Canadian April 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-08 | Author:Ray Bradbury [Bradbury, Ray]

Hail and Farewell But of course he was going away, there was nothing else to do, the time was up, the clock had run out, and he was going very ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2020-02-17 | Author:Anna Kavan

VII Our city is full of the troops of a foreign army. When I first arrived here from the other side of the world I couldn’t tell whether these soldiers ...
( Category: Short Stories March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-02 | Author:Sean Wallace [Wallace, Sean]

Black Sunday Kim Lakin-Smith Friday April 12, 1935 Wesley Sanders edged the drink onto the table. “There ya’rl, Miss Nightingale. Iced lemonade, or as Momma’s prone to call it, sunlight ...
( Category: Steampunk March 16,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2017-08-22 | Author:Joe Haldeman

( Category: Animals February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Binns [Binns, John]

Culture War Kate Orman Mathilde at the age of five, riding her tricycle into the farmhouse's sitting room. Her insulin pump is a great chunk of plastic awkwardly strapped to ...
( Category: Short Stories February 19,2020 )