Dystopian and utopian fiction

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 .

"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.

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.

Poor Riuku!

"e;Rig ship for the snowbank orbit!

Naturally human work was more creative, more inspiring, more important than robot drudgery.

Bryce Carter could afford a smug smile.

The line between noble dreams and madness is thin, and loneliness can push men past it .

Julith clasped the star-man's arm with one hand, while her other arm gripped his waist.

Naturally an undertaker will get the last word.

Wilbur Murphy sought romance, excitement, and an impossible Horseman of Space.

"e;You wanted out?

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

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!

No conceivable force could penetrate Terri's shield.

For every weapon there was a defense, but not against the deadliest weapon-man himself!

Everything was aimed at satisfying the whims of women.

Temple faced leaving Earth-and the girl he loved-if his country drafted him.

To some passengers a maiden voyage was a pleasure cruise; to others it meant a hope for new life.

What made the mass of this tiny asteroid fluctuate in defiance of all known physical laws?

There was a reason why his scripts were smash hits-they had realism.

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

Nobody knew very much about the Sargasso area of the void; only one thing was certain: if a ship was caught there it was doomed in The Graveyard Of Space.

Ellaby's society was a perfect democracy, where all men were equal.

Holloway was used to big game hunters and their expeditions to other worlds.

Early morning deliveries were part of the Honeychile Bakery Service.

Adam Slade was a man who had nothing to lose by making a break for it.

Greg tried desperately to find an illegal method of joining his family on Mars; for the law said that no healthy man could land on a Cancer World.

Being one of the richest men in the world, it was only natural that many people anticipated the day he would die.

What defense could she raise against mutant science-telepathy, invisibility, teleportation-especially since Earth was not aware of its danger!

Erd Neff wanted as little to do with his fellow men as possible.

Elvin wasn't sure how it had started-maybe it was the Schermerhorn twins-or the mysterious "e;meteorite"e;-or else the world had gone crazy .

Imagination' was one of the most successful science fiction magazines of its time.

The two professors couldn't agree on the fundamentals of child behavior.

Anders was pretty sure he was going to die.

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

Without stressing the technological aspects of the strange powers of the widely-talented ones-the psis, espers, telepaths which have been so painstakingly forecast by Stapledon, van Vogt, Weinbaum, Vance and others-Messieurs Peterson and Staub have whipped fantasy, forecasts and facts into a stirring and mentally titillating story of a too-imaginative mind.

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.

The secret lay hidden at the end of nine landings, and Medusa-dark was one man's search for it-in the strangest journey ever made.

New neighbors are always exciting.

From where had these attacking Indians come?

This was love, and what could be done about it?

Sally watched the molten gold glow in the sky.

Then his hand caught an arm and he exerted his full strength.