Short Story Books

The Best of Fences

Randall Garrett

The Colonization Program Building filled better than a cubic mile of the city's space, housing every function of the operation that was taking man to the stars, trying to get the race of man there bef..

Course of Empire

Richard Wilson

Exactly. Only of course it was called bêche d'espace. Me two-fellah vimb' kitch-im pjoug by'm by. But even after the language difficulty was solved, we had our troubles. They already had camels on Mar..

The Futile Flight of John Arthur Benn

Richard Wilson

John Arthur Benn blacked out somewhere in the limbo of the pre-Christian era, as he'd been warned he might, and when he came to he found himself lying in a rather uncomfortable heap with his head in a..

Traumerei

Charles Beaumont

Ritchie tried to keep the smile. He remembered, all right. Much too well. The whole story was crazy, normally enough to get the kid off with a life sentence in the criminally insane ward. But it was a..

The Engineer

Frederik Pohl

He had them; they were listening. He said forcefully: "I want a task force consisting of a petrochemist, a vibrations man, a hydrostatics man and a structural engineer. Co-opt mathematicians and compu..

The Marriage of William Durrant

Ray Cummings

Our life during these first years of marriage was very satisfactory. I worked all day at the office, and two or three nights a week played in a game of cards which we held regularly at the club. I did..

The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician

Edwin Lester Arnold

A Briton in British days, the slave-consort of his Druid wife, he passes, by daring but convenient inventiveness, into the person of a Centurion in the household of a noble Roman lady who illustrates ..

The Loom of the Desert

Idah Meacham Strobridge

Mesquite had gathered the reins into his left hand, and was ready for his cat-like spring into place. His left foot was thrust into the stirrup—there was the sweep of a long leg thrown across the sadd..