Science fiction: space opera

Coveting someone's wife and place in the world is an old, old story-except that the woman and the place Philip coveted were his own!

If you ever get to drinking beer in your favorite saloon and meet a scared little guy who wants to buy you the joint, supply you with fur coats and dolls and run you for Congress-listen well!

The gifting of animals with human speech is scarcely an unique idea-see Dal Stivens' THE UNDOING OF CARNEY JIMMY in this issue should you have doubts-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.

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

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

These were shocking things she said-shocking in their strangeness-contradicting everything .

Discovering intelligent life was the last thing Fleet Captain Iversen wanted to happen to his watch.

He began as a hero.

Being expelled from an air lock into deep space was the legal method of execution.

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

Being expelled from an air lock into deep space was the legal method of execution.

It was a Gypsy world, built of space flotsam, peopled with the few free races of the Solar System.

In Brandon Sanderson's riveting "e;Firstborn,"e; a Tor.

Early morning deliveries were part of the Honeychile Bakery Service.

There wasn't a woman left on earth.

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

Idiotic pets rate idiotic masters.

Venus was the most miserable planet in the system, peopled by miserable excuses for human beings.

A world had collapsed around this man-a world that would never shout his praises again.

The starways' Lone Watcher had expected some odd developments in his singular, nerve-fraught job on the asteroid.

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

Trading with the natives was like taking candy from a kid-but which were the natives?

From Peter F.

The Fifth or Zurichthal glaciation of the Pleistocene began on the morning of April 1, 1962, on a Sunday about nine o'clock by eastern time.

Now featured as part of the Love Death + Robots series on NetflixSnow in the Desert is compelling, brutal and lingers long after the final word: the perfect introduction to Neal Asher's Polity universe fiction.

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

He is from a world where the Germans won World War II she lives in an alternate universe in a Russian occupied Berlin.

Cutter demanded more and more and more efficiency-and got it!

A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay combines fantasy, philosophy, and science fiction in an exploration of the nature of good and evil and their relationship with existence.

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

Readers who remember the Hon.

In most ideally conceived Utopias the world as it exists is depicted as a mushrooming horror of maladjustment, cruelty and crime.