Language: English

Published: 1958

A short story transcribed from If Worlds of Science Fiction February 1958

Language: English

Published: 1921

This is about the experimental recordings of psycho-phonic messages at the beginning of the last century. Grierson claims to have recorded messages from prominent dead people as Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Disraeli.

Language: English

It was a touchable touching an untouchable. Both scientist and general were doing their own version of right....

A short story based on the space trading game Oolite

Author: Drew Wagar

Language: English

Published: 2010

Lumbering through the depths of space are the Generation Ships; huge self contained transports driving between the stars at sublight speeds in the midst of thousand year journeys to populate new planets. After 30 generations, a staggering and devastating truth is revealed to the occupants of one such ship

Author: Elissa Malcohn

Language: English

Published: 2010

Fifteen years have passed since Rudder annexed Promontory. Seventeen years have passed since the Covenant's destruction. Born in-between those two events, TelZodo is coming of age in Crossroads. And he is in trouble.

He should have been a scientist like his parents, Ghost and Piri, but the lab and its corpses terrify him. His freedom from Yata dependence made him a celebrated hybrid child, but he is sterile. Living as a whore and driven to the brink of madness, TelZodo's only salvation is to return to his birthplace, Promontory, a city that once wanted him dead.

Living in Promontory and hobbled by poor health, TripStone's life is equally bleak. The region's austerity has made her hard, and the last thing she wants is a visit from Ghost's "crazy" son.

TelZodo's arrival plunges them into a battle of wills that strips them down to their emotional cores, leaving them no choice but to face their personal demons together -- if they don't kill each other first.

Author: Algirdas Jonas Budrys

Language: English

Published: 1953

Now, if the animal we know as a cow were to evolve into a creature with near-human intelligence, so that she thought of herself as a "person" ...

Author: E. R. Mason

Language: English

Published: 1993

Cassiopia Cassell's high IQ had always been too much for the men she'd dated. But now her beloved father was missing, and the only way to rescue him required she retain the services of a man with special abilities, a man she did not care for, and one she would have to convince to accompany her through an unexplained portal that led to dangers beyond imagination.

Language: English

Published: 1903

Language: English

Published: 1944

Language: English

Published: 1939

Author: G. Wells Taylor

Language: English

Published: 2010

Variant Squad Captain Joe Borland returns in PAINKILLER, a gut-wrenching novella of grisly horror. Dreams and reality collide in the shadow of the Variant Effect.

A short story based on the space trading game Oolite.

Author: Drew Wagar

Language: English

Published: 2009

Things aren't always what they seem...

Author: Drew Wagar

Language: English

Published: 2010

The story of an attempt to reach the 'ninth' chart. As players familiar with Elite and Oolite will doubtless know, there are only eight charts reachable by Galactic Hyperspace. Does the ninth chart exist? Can it be reached? If so, what's there? This is a slightly chilling tale of the 'Ooniverse.'

Author: John Michael Sharkey

Language: English

Published: 1960

Are you one of those people who save the best things for the last ... who eat all the chocolate sundae away from under the maraschino cherry? If so, you are very like the Peter W. Merrill Moonplant.

Author: Noel Miller Loomis

Language: English

Published: 1953

The idea of sending a man back in time to re-do a job he's botched, so that a deadline can still be met—added to the thought of duplicating a man so there'll be two doing the same work at the same time—adds up to a production-manager's dream. But any dream can suddenly shift into a nightmare....

Author: Watson Parker

Language: English

Published: 1960

Her voice was his only link with sanity. It was a beautiful voice. He never really thought what she might be.

Author: Robert Sheckley

Language: English

Published: 1953

It's well established now that the way you put a question often determines not only the answer you'll get, but the type of answer possible. So ... a mechanical answerer, geared to produce the ultimate revelations in reference to anything you want to know, might have unsuspected limitations.

Author: Kris Ottman Neville

Language: English

Published: 1953

Mary might have learned a more ladylike trade, but one thing is certain: she had a shining faith in that space guy from Earth. Now, about that cake she baked ...

Author: Jerome Bixby

Language: English

Published: 1953

The main trouble is that you'd never suspect anything was wrong; you'd enjoy associating with slizzers, so long as you didn't know....

Author: Bryce Walton

Language: English

Published: 1953

We all have to die sometime, but it's more the manner of our going, and the reason why we must die when we do that's the rub.

Author: Katherine MacLean

Language: English

Published: 1953

Sometimes worlds can meet without the inhabitants of either realizing....

Author: Roger D. Aycock

Language: English

Published: 1953

Sometimes you can solve your problem by running out on it!

Author: Drew Wagar

Language: English

Published: 2010

A tale of what might happen when an example of sophisticated technology is suddenly thrust upon a backward culture stepped in religion.

Author: Dave Dryfoos

Language: English

Published: 1953

Very admirable rule: Never do tomorrow what you can put off until after the age of forty!

Author: Charles V. De Vet

Language: English

Published: 1953

This planet gave him the perfect chance tocommit the perfect crime—only he couldn'tremember just what it was he had committed.

Author: Albert Berg

Language: English

Published: 2010

In the dark heart of space, a derelict freighter drifts empty and lifeless. And in the shadows...something waits.

A novella based on the space trading game Oolite

Author: Drew Wagar

Language: English

Published: 2008

When a series of linked murders forces GalCop to outlaw the shadow organisation known as 'The Dark Wheel', a mysterious top secret document must be found in order to stave off a galactic conflict. The document contains a devastating secret; the key to domination, power and control. A secret as old as space itself, the location of the legendary planet 'Raxxla.'

A novella based on the space trading game Oolite

Author: Drew Wagar

Language: English

Published: 2006

A brilliant scientist uncovers a terrifying plot to begin a galactic war. Aided by a talented, but reluctant and embittered combateer, he must stop the deployment of a super weapon he invented. A weapon so powerful it threatens to destroy entire worlds.

A Science Fiction Novel

Author: Raymond F. Jones

Language: English

Published: 1958

The copper-yellow glow of the comet seemed to have brought the whole world to a grinding halt. Airplanes, trains, generators and heavy machinery were immobilized. Finally man was left with only a few primitive tools. In the resulting chaos parts of Mayfield were burned and looted by hunger-crazed mobs that stole and killed as they advanced.

Here is science fiction at its thrilling best. A startling and thought-provoking book that shows how human nature might react to catastrophe.

Author: Berkeley Livingston

Language: English

Published: 1948