Science Fiction Short Stories
epub |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:Jeff VanderMeer [VanderMeer, Jeff]

An unfortunate participant in an ill-fated conversion With the help of his strange, unhuman assistant, Griff, Begg next discovered that Metropolitan Meat was being used by a corrupt entrepreneur known ...
( Category: Anthologies March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-14 | Author:Christopher Golden & Mike Mignola [Golden, Christopher & Mignola, Mike]

in his rocky grasp, crushing them as easily as he would a balsa-wood airplane. Ignoring the pain in the base of his spine, he then hurled the Cailleach into the ...
( Category: Horror March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:James van Pelt

Martin sat at the worktable, his hands wrapped around the back of his head, his forehead pressed against the scarred work surface. He didn’t look at Jake when he appeared ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2002-04-15 | Author:Spider Robinson

The Answers to Doc Webster’s Riddles: The category is “Male American Politicians,” or any variant thereof. The individual answers are: a) irrigated; laser pistol = runneled; ray gun = Ronald ...
( Category: Spies & Politics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:Kevin J. Anderson

Four levels down, through corridors twisted like the guts of the Sarlacc, greenly phosphorescent with drell slime, swirling with mist, and littered with the calcified, interior-support structures of organics long ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 25,2014 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 1995-12-01 | Author:Kevin J. Anderson

Trapped. Tessek was trapped. The monk's words echoed in Tessek's mind: "he plots your own untimely demise." Surely Jabba suspected Tessek, and those whom Jabba suspected rarely lived long. Indeed, ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-01 | Author:Cordwainer Smith

X The burning of D’joan at Fomalhaut took very little time, but the ages will not forget it. Femtiosex had taken the crudest step of all. By telepathic invasion he ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-23 | Author:Theodore Sturgeon

At noon he was picking his way up a creek, crossing and recrossing and letting one of Conlin’s surefooted mountain ponies find the route. The Green Spring, he had been ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Joe Haldeman

We did go out to see it the next day, and I could have made a case for or against Jain’s suspicions. The Texas truck did have a tank in ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Kurt Vonnegut

• • • Under a great spread net that was laced with rags, an artillery piece squatted in the woods, black and oily, its muzzle thrust at the night sky. ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-01-06 | Author:Arthur C. Clarke

We hauled Mays down about an hour later. He was only twenty kilometers up, and we located him quickly enough by the flashing light on his suit. His radio had ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-23 | Author:Ben Bova [Bova, Ben]

THE WITCHES OF KARRES by James H. Schmitz I It was around the Hub of the evening on the planet of Porlumma that Captain Pausert, commercial traveler from the Republic ...
( Category: Anthologies March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-18 | 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 March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2007-08-15 | Author:Richard Preston [Preston, Richard]

'We just wanted to see you and to say hello,' Austen said. 'Huh uh am.' Here I am. 'How are you feeling today?' Hopkins said. 'Uh guh tuh uh.' Pretty ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |pt | 2010-06-12 | Author:Ray Bradbury

"Ship, ship, break, fall! Ship, ship, burn all! Crack, fake, shake, melt! Mummy dust, cat pelt!" "Time to go," murmured Blackwood. "On to Jupiter, on to Saturn or Pluto." "Run ...
( Category: Short Stories March 25,2014 )