Science Fiction Short Stories
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Hal Clement [Clement, Hal]

“You look bothered,” remarked Thomasian, LaVerne’s department head. “Delayed shock from your narrow escape, or what?” “It wasn’t that narrow,” replied the teacher. “I had hours of air still in ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-29 | Author:Les Johnson [Johnson, Les]

Daedalus evolved as a kid brother to Orion. Instead of using the dramatic thermonuclear-pulse drive, it used a somewhat tamer approach—inertial fusion. Small micropellets of fusion fuel were to be ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-08 | Author:Nalo Hopkinson [Hopkinson, Nalo]

“CORRECTING THE BALANCE” NALO HOPKINSON INTERVIEWED BY TERRY BISSON Your work is often described, even by yourself, as “subverting the genre.” Isn’t that against the rules? Or at least rude? ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-06-24 | Author:Bill Fawcett & J. E. Mooney [Fawcett, Bill & Mooney, J. E.]

Michael A. Stackpole is a New York Times bestselling author of more than forty-five novels, best known among them being Rogue Squadron and I, Jedi. He has won awards for ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-15 | Author:George R. R. Martin [Martin, George R. R.]

* * * In the end, some of them were dead. The rest survived. Fast-Friend BRAND woke in darkness, trembling, and called out. His angel came to him. She floated ...
( Category: Anthologies March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 1991-01-02 | Author:Philip K. Dick & John Brunner [Dick, Philip K. & Brunner, John]

They were very near. The David bent down suddenly, dropping its teddy bear. The bear raced across the ground. Automatically, Hendricks’ fingers tightened around the trigger. The bear was gone, ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Paul Di Filippo [Filippo, Paul Di]

FARMEARTH I couldn’t wait until I turned thirteen, so I could play FarmEarth. I kept pestering all three of my parents every day to let me download the FarmEarth app ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Theodore Sturgeon [Sturgeon, Theodore]

The Dark Room THE WORLD ENDED AT THAT DAMN PARTY OF BECK’S. At least if it had fallen into the sun, or if it had collided with a comet, it ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf | | 1999-04-20 | Author:Mercedes Lackey [Lackey, Mercedes ]

This is the very first attempted professional appearance of Diana Tregarde, my occult detective. I've always enjoyed occult detectives, but there is a major problem with them—what are they supposed ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Theodore Sturgeon [Sturgeon, Theodore]

They started by giving me something I didn’t want—but wasn’t that the whole trouble? This time it was a sort of surprise party and testimonial dinner. I guess I was ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

“There’s a little rattle in the back,” I said, “like two cog wheels spinning and just brushing against each other.” Mr. Rhodes blinked at me and brushed back his forelock. ...
( Category: Family Saga March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-04 | Author:Kevin J. Anderson [Anderson, Kevin J.]

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 26,2014 )
epub | | | Author:Mette Jakobsen

( Category: Family Life March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Isaac Asimov [Asimov, Isaac]

watching the back of his head with frightened eyes. “But, of course, you can’t violate the security rules, can you? You can’t tell me anything about it at all. . ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2001-07-09 | Author:Larry Niven [Niven, Larry]

Nearly dawn. The sky was thick with dark clouds, but the heatward horizon was clear, with Argo almost fully risen. The dull red disk would never rise completely, not here. ...
( Category: Anthologies March 26,2014 )