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...And It Comes Out Here

...And It Comes Out Here

...And It Comes Out Here by Lester Del Ray - There is one fact no sane man can quarrel with ... everything has a beginning and an end. But some men aren't sane; thus it isn't always so!No, you're wrong. I'm not your father's ghost, even if I do look a...

$1,000 A Plate by Jack McKenty - When Marsy Gras shot off its skyrockets, Mars Observatory gave it the works—fireworks!Sunset on Mars is a pale, washed out, watery sort of procedure that is hardly worth looking at. The shadows of the cactus lengthen,...

A Hitch in Time

A Hitch in Time

A Hitch in Time by Frederik Pohl - Young Thom Ra travels back to the hideous Venus-Earth war, and ventures peril to win lovely Elren Dri for his mate!Obviously the man was dying, and there was no chance that he ever would be discovered.I blessed the...

A Little Journey

A Little Journey

A Little Journey by Ray Bradbury - She'd paid good money to see the inevitable... and then had to work to make it happen!There were two important things—one, that she was very old; two, that Mr. Thirkell was taking her to God. For hadn't he patted her...

A Matter of Ethics

A Matter of Ethics

A Matter of Ethics written by Russ Winterbotham - Homer was a shy Faderfield bachelor; his visitor was a beautiful Pleiades girl. At any rate she was a girl, and Homer had a problem—A Matter of EthicsThe fly rod, the letter and the small jar of paint...

A Message From Our Sponsor

A Message From Our Sponsor

A Message From Our Sponsor by Henry Slesar - The foot-in-the-door technique would work perfectly for any salesman—if he had an invisible foot!"And that was Smoky Donahue's Western Swingsters, playing Red Dust for all you Martian fans out there. Now...

A Pail of Air by Fritz Leiber - The dark star passed, bringing with it eternal night and turning history into incredible myth in a single generation!Pa had sent me out to get an extra pail of air. I'd just about scooped it full and most of the warmth...

A Practical Man's Guide

A Practical Man's Guide

A Practical Man's Guide by Jack Vance - Ralph Banks, editor of Popular Crafts Monthly, was a short stocky man with a round pink face, a crisp crew-cut, an intensely energetic manner.He wore gabardine suits and bow-ties; he lived in Westchester with a...

A Traveler in Time

A Traveler in Time

A Traveler in Time by August Derleth - You can't always escape evils by running away from them... but it may help!"Tell me what time is," said Harrigan one late summer afternoon in a Madison Street bar. "I'd like to know.""A dimension," I answered....

A Walk in the Dark

A Walk in the Dark

A Walk in the Dark by Arthur C. Clarke - Fear and misfortune stalk the strange byways of a lonely planetRobert Armstrong had walked just over two miles, as far as he could judge, when his torch failed. He stood still for a moment, unable to believe...

A Zloor For Your Trouble!

A Zloor For Your Trouble!

A Zloor For Your Trouble written by Mack ReynoldsPrescott stood to make a young fortune if he could capture a martian zloor—dead or alive! Was there a catch to it? Only for the hunter!"Keep my size out of it," I snapped. I indicated with a thumb a...

Accept No Substitutes

Accept No Substitutes

Accept No Substitutes by Robert Sheckley - The Sexual Morality Act was fierce to buck, but the Algolian sex surrogate was ... er ... even fiercer!Ralph Garvey's private space yacht was in the sling at Boston Spaceport, ready for takeoff. He was on...

Adjustment Team

Adjustment Team

Adjustment Team by Philip K. Dick - Something went wrong... and Ed Fletcher got mixed up in the biggest thing in his lifeIt was bright morning. The sun shone down on the damp lawns and sidewalks, reflecting off the sparkling parked cars.The clerk came...

Alien Equivalent

Alien Equivalent

Alien Equivalent by Richard R. Smith - Martians were weak, sensitive, a dying race, frail and impotent before the superiority of master Earthmen. Only in the sly and mentally skillful game of Duchal might sons of the red planet emerge gloriously from...

All Cats Are Gray

All Cats Are Gray

All Cats Are Gray by Andre Norton - An odd story, made up of oddly assorted elements that include a man, a woman, a gray cat, a treasure—and an invisible being that had to be seen to be believed.Steena of the spaceways—that sounds just like a corny...

And All The Girls Were Nude

And All The Girls Were Nude

And All The Girls Were Nude by Richard Magruder - Nathanial Evergood was an eccentric old man with a photographic passion for pretty girls. So he invented a camera lens for special effects — And All The Girls Were Nude!Appearances oftentimes can be...

And the Gods Laughed

And the Gods Laughed

And the Gods Laughed by Fredric Brown - Hank was spinning quite a space lie—something about earrings wearing their owners. The crew got a boot out of the yarn—until they got to thinking.You know how it is when you're with a work crew on one of the...

Arm of the Law by Harry Harrison - At one time—this was before the Robot Restriction Laws—they'd even allowed them to make their own decisions....It was a big, coffin-shaped plywood box that looked like it weighed a ton. This brawny type just dumped...

Asleep in Armageddon

Asleep in Armageddon

Asleep in Armageddon by Ray Bradbury - Avoid Planetoid 787. Lush and sunny, with fine air and no dangerous beasts, it'll tempt you to curve in for some nice solid-ground sleep. DON'T!You don't want death and you don't expect death. Something goes...

Asteroid of the Damned

Asteroid of the Damned

Asteroid of the Damned by Frederik Pohl - Somewhere on that asteroid of sin lurked the crime king of the Universe."Sorry, son," MacCauley said with the barrel-scrapings of his patience. "I said no and I meant it. I haven't got anything to give you....

Atomic Station by Frank Belknap Long - When the energy of Earth’s experimental station in space runs amuck, scientist Roger Sheldon puts up a big battle!It was incredible and a little frightening. The rocket ship was within a half million miles of the...

Before Eden by Arthur C. Clarke - Venus wasn't the virgin planet Mankind had always assumed. It was simply that we got there too soon."I guess," said Jerry Garfield, cutting the engines, "that this is the end of the line." With a gentle sigh, the...

Beside Still Waters

Beside Still Waters

Beside Still Waters by Robert Sheckley - When people talk about getting away from it all, they are usually thinking about our great open spaces out west. But to science fiction writers, that would be practically in the heart of Times Square. When a...

Beyond Lies The Wub

Beyond Lies The Wub

Beyond Lies The Wub by Philip K. Dick - The slovenly wub might well have said: Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools.They had almost finished with the loading. Outside stood the Optus, his arms folded, his face sunk in gloom. Captain...

Beyond The Door

Beyond The Door

Beyond The Door by Philip K. Dick - Larry Thomas bought a cuckoo clock for his wife—without knowing the price he would have to pay.That night at the dinner table he brought it out and set it down beside her plate. Doris stared at it, her hand to her...