Classic science fiction

"e;I, the Mind Spider as you name me-the deathless one, the eternally exiled, the eternally imprisoned-or so his overconfident enemies suppose-coming in.

It all started with the green kitten.

The fog-finger touched the taut arm.

"e;You forget, baroness, the runic rhymes of the Prussian Nostradamus,"e; said Dr.

Jamie Bingham Walsh should have been known as Schizo Jimmie.

Once upon a time in Lankhmar, City of the Black Toga, in the world of Nehwon, two years after the Year of the Feathered Death, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser parted their ways.

An archaeologist discovers the remains of an intelligent species, here on Earth.

In the Plaza of Dark Delights, which lies seven blocks south of the Marsh Gate and extends from the Fountain of Dark Abundance to the Shrine of the Black Virgin, the shop-lights glinted upward no more brightly than the stars glinted down.

Fritz Leiber was a giant in the genre field.

Time traveling, which is not quite the good clean boyish fun it's cracked up to be, started for me when this woman with the sigil on her forehead looked in on me from the open doorway of the hotel bedroom where I'd hidden myself and the bottles and asked me, "e;Look, Buster, do you want to live?

After rescue, revenge was uppermost in Chet Barfield's mind; the hideous, bestial Agvars had to be taught a lesson they'd never forget.

Gourmets all agree that nothing can beat oysters on the half-shell-not even the armed might of the Terran Confederation!

There wasn't a woman left on earth.

The creatures on the little planet were real bafflers.

The Arrow lanced down out of the night like a spear of flame, vengeful and deadly.

They came home from a strange journey.

What is more frightening than the fear of the unknown?

Progress is relative; Senator O'Noonan's idea of it was not particularly scientific.

Shure and begorra, it was a great day for the Earth!

It was, Kirk thought, like standing in a gully, watching a boulder teeter precariously above you.

Old Thaddeus McIlvaine discovered a dark star and took it for his own.

The world of the new race was peaceful, comfortable, lovely-and completely static.

It was getting so a person couldn't sleep nights anymore.

Sextus Rollo Forsyte had his trouble with the bottle, but nothing out of a bottle ever produced such a hotel as the Mahoney-Plaza: only 260 rooms .

A young man and a young woman alone on the first over-the-moon ship.

Once upon a time life was perfection.

The barn turned out to be a spaceship in disguise, and that was only the beginning.

The little house pet from Venus didn't like New York, so New York had to change.

It was a race between the tortoise and the hare.

Worlds of If was a three time winner of the Hugo Award for best science fiction magazine.

Strumming a harp while floating on a white cloud might be Paradise for some people, but it would bore others stiff.

Benson did his best to keep his colony from going native, but what can you do when the Natives have a rare human intelligence and know all about the facts of life?

For all his perfection and magnificence he was but a baby with a new found freedom in a strange and baffling world .

This was a world where minding your manners was more than just a full-time job-it was murder!

The creatures on the little planet were real bafflers.

"e;It is rather unusual,"e; Magnan said, "e;to assign an officer of your rank to courier duty, but this is an unusual mission.

History was repeating itself; there were moats and nobles in Pennsylvania and vassals in Manhattan and the barbarian hordes were overrunning the land.

All Earth needed was a good stiff dose of common sense, but its rulers preferred to depend on the highly fallible computers instead.

Blue Boy's rating was high and his fans were loyal to the death-anyone's death!

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

What would you do if your best robots-children of your own brain-walked up and said "e;We want union scale"e;?

Poor Henry was an unhappy husband whose wife had a habit of using bad cliches.

The fleet came in at four o'clock.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you .

For the most part, Godwin's stories-however grim the situation-are really about triumph in the face of adversity.

The little house pet from Venus didn't like New York, so New York had to change.

Who, but the imaginative young, shall inherit the stars?

Worlds of If' was a three-time winner of the Hugo Award for best science fiction magazine.

The man is rare who will give his life for what is merely the lesser of two evils.

The weird, invisible insect depopulated an entire planet.