Short Story Books

Man-Trap

Hal Annas

Ignoring the pneumatic, she crossed to the door, snatched it open, marched into the corridor. Through the open doorway he heard the knob turn on her door. He went to the pneumatic, picked up the sugar..

A Zloor for Your Trouble!

Mack Reynolds

After leaving the dome through one of the airlocks, I headed out onto the surface of Mars, weighted down with my leaded boots, standard equipment for cutting down some of the effect of the one-sixth g..

Leave, Earthmen--Or Die!

John Massie Davis

Behind him Jamison watched the two figures running away. His face froze into granite. Rage and resentment surged within him. Across the plain he saw the man who had stolen, yes, stolen, the championsh..

South Sea Yarns

Basil Thomson

In the great bure of Raiyawa there was a story-telling. The lying-places filled three sides of the house—mats spread upon grass four feet wide,—and between each lying-place was a narrow strip of bare ..

Repeat Performance

Rog Phillips

Sam Golfin gave her a sympathetic glance, then looked grim. "This time," he said, fixing me with a stare, "I'm not going to try to spare your feelings. In—" He studied his watch again. "—exactly one h..

To Sup With the Devil

Myron I. Scholnick

Henry stopped smiling and his face grew a trifle pale. He suddenly had the sickening feeling that George wasn't kidding him any more. "But why me?" George pulled a small revolver from his breast pocke..

X Marks the Asteroid

Ross Rocklynne

The girl whipped open a drawer in the bottom of a boxy chair made of crystal glassteel. "And here's my pet!" She reached in to pull out a long-snouted neutron gun with a triple trigger. Unterzuyder's ..

Raw Material

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Raw Material is a short stories collection by Dorothy Canfield Fisher.Raw MaterialUncle Giles“What Goes Up...”Old Man WarnerThe Ideas of M. BrodardFairfax HunterProfessor Paul Meyer“While All the..