Short Story Books
The Best of Fences
Randall GarrettThe 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 WilsonExactly. 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 WilsonJohn 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 BeaumontRitchie 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 PohlHe 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 CummingsOur 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 ArnoldA 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 StrobridgeMesquite 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..