Science Fiction: Aliens and UFOs

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.

If this story has a moral, it is: "e;Leave well enough alone.

The Emperor must be getting old, they thought, to deal so mercifully with the upstart Jursan Rebels-which was quite true.

In order to make Izaak Walton's sport complete, there must be an angler, a fish, and some bait.

The Masters had ruled all space with an unconquerable iron fist.

"e;What kind of university do they have on D'Land?

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The remarkable thing about Atummyc Afterbath Dusting Powder was that it gave you that lovely, radiant, atomic look-just the way the advertisements said it would.

The aliens wooed Earth with gifts, love, patience and peace.

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

The man running through the forest gloom breathed in hot, panting gusts, pain tearing at his chest.

All the intricate, electronic witchery of the 21st century could not pin guilt on fabulous Lonnie Raichi, the irreproachable philanthropist.

"e;And that is why you will take us to Earth, Lieutenant,"e; barked the Ihelian warrior.

Though he carried with him the loot of the ages, who in The Pass-that legalized city of vice and corruption-would dare risk his neck to help Russell, the Hard Luck Man of the Swamps?

Dakta death, horrible beyond the weirdest fever-dreams of Earth-men, faced Space Ship Commander Gerry Norton.

"e;But-why us?

Even after dark it was hot here.

Totem poles are a dime a dozen north of 63(deg) .

Darkness and the chill glitter of stars.

Once he had been a tall, straight spaceman, free as the galaxies.

Those crazy, sloppy, frog-like Narakans .

Idiotic pets rate idiotic masters.

He got the lock open as they retreated for another charge.

"e;Why don't you find yourself some nice little American girl,"e; his father had often repeated.

When Peer and Channok grappled the derelict Ra-Twelve, they hooked a death-prize-haunted by the Yomm, stalked by the Mysterious Nine!

The outcasts; the hunted of all the brighter worlds, crowded onto Yaroto.

Grimly Eric John Stark slogged toward that ancient Martian city-with every step he cursed the talisman of Ban Cruach that flamed in his blood-stained belt.

Child, it was, of the now ancient H-bomb.

Among the metal-persons of Phobos, robot B-12 held a special niche.

All space was electrified as that harsh challenge rang out .

Planet Stories was an American pulp science fiction magazine, published between 1939 and 1955.

Invading Earth was going to be a cinch, the Triomed scout decided.

Anders was pretty sure he was going to die.

Spud, world-famous dummy, talks to Mars with surprising results.

What would it be like to live in a world which has conquered the near planets but abolished all literature?

No mortal had ever seen the Martians, but they had heard their whisperings-without knowing the terrible secret they kept hidden.