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After three solitary years prospecting on Venus, Bill returns to Earth expecting familiar faces, old friends, and perhaps another chance with Gwen. The people are still there, but something is unmistakably wrong. Nearly everyone wears a small red star on the forehead, ordinary robots have...

Somewhere in the vast Pacific Ocean lies an island that appears on no map. Its strange vegetation belongs to another geological age, its sun hangs impossibly high in the sky, and its inhabitants seem trapped in a nightmare they cannot escape. In Clark Ashton Smith’s The Uncharted Isle, Mark...

Gummitch is no ordinary cat. He thinks deeply, studies his surroundings, remembers the grand ambitions of kittenhood, and has reached the uncomfortable realization that he may never become the extraordinary creature he once expected to be. Trapped indoors by two vicious neighborhood cats and...

Sam Weber knows his three-year-old son. He knows his wife, his neighborhood, his morning routine, and the ordinary world waiting outside his front door. But suddenly Henry speaks like an educated adult, demands an allowance, and spends breakfast reading Arnold Toynbee. Stranger still, Martha...

Ted Langer has spent twenty years and nearly everything he owns pursuing an idea respectable scientists dismiss as impossible. His wife Marilyn has stood beside him through pawn tickets, unpaid bills, and a restaurant that barely keeps them fed. She would like one simple thing from her brilliant...

What happens when a machine begins to think for itself? And what happens when it develops a temper? In Ambrose Bierce’s remarkable science fiction horror story Moxon’s Master, an eccentric inventor is convinced that intelligence is not exclusive to human beings. His theories sound outrageous...

Five centuries after humanity lost contact with Kana, a starship arrives to reclaim the descendants of its forgotten colonists. Kenyon expects resistance from people who have slipped from technological civilization into ritual and legend, but nothing about Kana makes sense. The planet that once...

What if the history you learned in school were only one version of events? In Crossroads of Destiny, H. Beam Piper turns an ordinary conversation about alternate history into something increasingly difficult to dismiss. A group of travelers debate how Columbus, political elections, wars, and...

A routine voyage through hyperspace becomes anything but routine when three alien beings awaken aboard the Star Rover. They are remnants of a civilization that vanished a million years ago, and their first encounter with humanity does not go well. To the crew, the skags are hideous monsters. To...

Don Hartley is an ambitious television technician with his sights set on something bigger than his place behind the cameras. Then an accident with a piece of studio equipment produces an impossible result. Don discovers that he can point a camera toward a location and see what is there even when...

An American butterfly collector ventures deep into Brazil searching for an extraordinarily rare specimen. Instead, he encounters José Ribiera, a frightened man carrying several pounds of gold and desperately trying to buy cattle. José refuses to explain why he needs them. He only insists that...

Public Enemy by Kendell Foster Crossen takes the familiar police chase and drops it into a future where law enforcement has changed almost beyond recognition. Brad Raynor is a newly minted Public Police Officer, highly educated and equipped with technology that makes hiding extraordinarily...

Captain Hannah has seen plenty of strange things while hauling cargo between the stars, but the Monahan boys are something else entirely. They can swim through empty space, pass through solid glass, communicate without speaking, and treat impossible feats as casually as skipping school. Hannah...

D. P. From Tomorrow by Mack Reynolds takes the familiar newsroom comedy of wisecracking reporters and drops an impossible visitor into the middle of it. The staff of the Daily Star has an answer for nearly every question anyone can throw at them, so when a stranger claims to have escaped from...

Murderer’s Chain by Wenzell Brown is a wonderfully devious blend of science fiction, crime, and dark humor. Its narrator has a problem: his wealthy mother-in-law Maudie refuses to finance his latest investment scheme. Since his wife will inherit Maudie’s fortune, he begins considering a...

Sidney Davidson has not vanished, and he has not gone mad in any ordinary way. His body remains in England, helpless among friends who can touch him, guide him, and speak to him. But his eyes show him another place entirely: a lonely shore, a ship offshore, penguins moving across the rocks, and...

Far beyond the crowded worlds of Earth, humanity’s scattered colonies survive because someone is always watching. On the lonely edges of explored space, members of the Space Frontier Watcher Service spend months at isolated posts, scanning the darkness for the Rumi raiders who strike without...

Winter Wedderburn longs for something remarkable to happen. His comfortable life offers little excitement, so he pours his attention into orchids and dreams of discovering a specimen unlike anything known to science. Then an unidentified orchid begins to thrive in his greenhouse. Its strange...

Life aboard a Mississippi shantyboat is poor but never dull for Jimmy, his younger sister Pigtail Anne, and their Uncle Al. Uncle Al has little money and holes in his socks, yet he makes sure Jimmy goes to school. Jimmy repays that devotion with fierce loyalty, even when it means refusing to run...

The Diktatura believes Dr. Joseph Euge has given it the ultimate weapon. His mutant virus spreads with terrifying efficiency, yet carefully chosen loyal citizens appear immune while criminals and political enemies die. To the men controlling the country, the explanation seems obvious. The...