Science fiction: apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic

The gifting of animals with human speech is scarcely an unique idea; the idea of a talking horse goes back at least to the siege of Troy, for certainly there must have been some dialogue amongst the Greek warriors enclosed in the wooden horse's belly.

"e;They"e; worried about the impression she'd make.

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.

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.

More than 25 of the greatest Science Fiction stories ever written-many in eBook form for the very first time.

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.

Crane didn't get the nice man's name-until it was far too late to do anything at all about it.

A space rover has no business with a family.

In a post-apocalyptic experiment scientists have an intriguing plan, in the first installment of H.

Open the C.

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

Granthan's mission was the most vital of the war.

You can't always escape evils by running away from them.

Two honeymooners desperate for shelter find themselves in quite a sticky situation.

It was late in the afternoon, and we were seated on the veranda of my friend's bungalow in the Begum suburb at Hyderabad.

Time is money.

Sandy's eyes needed only jet propulsion to become flying saucers.

A gun is an interesting weapon; it can be hired, of course, and naturally doesn't care who hires it.

Dixon Wells is testing an invention that can tell you how your life would have turned out if you'd made a different choice.

The moon is not only the most prominent object in our heavens, but also an integral part of the Earth.

Interplanetary commerce, if and when it begins, will be fraught with all of the dangers that accompany pioneering expeditions.

Many writers of science fiction, who have not given the matter much thought, assume that a man of intelligence from one planet would meet a cordial and sympathetic welcome on another world.

We know that as soon as interplanetary travel is possible, expeditions from the Earth will be ranging the length and breadth of the solar system searching out the thousands of wonders that are to be discovered.

Dixon Wells discovers that seeing the world from another's perspective doesn't produce the results he may have expected.

The creatures that people this exciting story of Mr.

'Onslaught from Rigel' is Fletcher Pratt's classic tale of interplanetary warfare.

'Wonder Stories' was founded by legendary publisher Hugo Gernsback after he left 'Amazing Stories.

Terra has a problem.

When a slightly mad robot, drunk on AC, wants you to join an experiment in optimum ecology-don't do it!

In this sequel to 'A Martian Odyssey,' Stanley G.

To all who didn't know him, Curt George was a mighty hunter and actor.

Destiny reached out a hand to Algernon Weaver-but he was a timid man, at first.

Wilbur Hawkes is missing the last seven months of his life.

The enlightened days of mental telepathy and ESP should have made the world a better place, but the minute the Rhine Institute opened up, all the crooks decided it was time to go collegiate!

The captain had learned to hate.

For every evil under the sun, there's an answer.

Smith admitted he had made an error involving a few murders-and a few thousand years.

Eighteen men and two women in the closed world of a space ship for five months can only spell tension and trouble-but in this case, the atmosphere was literally poisoned.

Set in a dystopian future where America has become a police state, "e;Security"e; shows us just how important our freedoms and rights are.

"e;Nothing around those other suns but ashes and dried blood,"e; old Dunbar told the space-wrecked, desperate men.

'Space Science Fiction' was launched in may of 1952.

How could a man tell the difference if all the reality of Earth turned out to be a cosmic hoax?

The Dome of Eyes made it almost impossible for Terrans to reach the world of Tepokt.

The Oren were one and their strength was legion.

In the distant future a man from the twentieth century wakes to find himself in an almost incomprehensible world.

The Valgolia rule the Galaxy.

Alan E.

Rejuvenation for the millions-or rejuvenation for the five hundred lucky ones, the select ones, that can be treated each year?

When Roger Strang found that someone was killing his son-killing him horribly and often-he started investigating.

All Flicker wanted was a chance to make the aliens understand.