Two youth have caged two strange creatures in the barn. While they scheme about joining the circus with their new “animals”, their fathers are waiting for two otherworldly travelers with whom they plan a trade deal for precious elements. The alien merchants are late and when the fathers learn the youth have been feeding some animals in the barn, they put two and tow together. They run towards the barn…

In the near-future the Earth is a well-controlled Utopia. Edward Wehling was a young 56 years in a time when the average age was one hundred and twenty-nine. Now he is waiting for his wife to give birth to triplets. The catch is that for everyone that is born, someone must volunteer to die.

Two youth have caged two strange creatures in the barn. While they scheme about joining the circus with their new “animals”, their fathers are waiting for two otherworldly travelers with whom they plan a trade deal for precious elements. The alien merchants are late and when the fathers learn the youth have been feeding some animals in the barn, they put two and tow together. They run towards the barn…

One minute Herrell McCray was on the spaceship circling Betelgeuse Nine and the next he was in darkness and utter silence. McCray had no idea where he was to how he got there. To Hatcher, he was a specimen from Earth.

This Science Fiction anthology contains 15 sci-fi classics from American author Bryce Walton. Included science fiction classics in this collection: By Earthlight • Dark Windows • Dreamer's World • Freeway • Has Anyone Here Seen Kelly?• Security • Strange Alliance • The Chasm • The Happy Herd • The Highest Mountain • The Recruit • The Victor • Thy Name Is Woman • To Each His Star • War Game

They called it “the basketball” because of it’s shape. It was a sort of mechanical embryo and men entered to test their limits.Normal human beings can take a couple of hours of it usually. They like it. Every human being to some extent likes to return to the womb. But after a couple of hours most human beings start going to pieces, short-circuiting. Except Barton...

Yan left. Everything changed and with no money, no status and severed from her family, Marigold was at the mercy of the state. She filled out a form for protection and one for availability. She felt like a slave posting for an auction. She was Abandoned.

Science fiction classic character Retief is back in this sci fi short story by Keith Laumer. Retief is caught in the middle of competing mining claims on the planet 95739-A. He wants to side with the underdog.

industrialist David Greaves invested his personal fortune toward building the Defiance. Now he was battered and tossed inside the the crazy, tumbling spaceship. There in the misty shroud of Venus, he self-administered a sleep inducing anesthetic. He awoke to the kiss of a beautiful woman in the shadow of hideous gargoyles and was hailed as a god.

The Kali and Grimnal had been fighting on Aqua for years. Captain John Ward, God Helper, is tasked with helping the Kali fight, but they are tired of his orders to wait. They want to fight and question why he is holding them back.

Ten year old Bob Taylor was miserable. School was boring. He was tired of chores at home. He fell asleep feeling grumpy and irritable. Hearing his name called, he awoke to find a green goblin in his room. Fitz Mee invited him to visit Goblinland. Off he went to the land where you do as you please.

The Kali and Grimnal had been fighting on Aqua for years. Captain John Ward, God Helper, is tasked with helping the Kali fight, but they are tired of his orders to wait. They want to fight and question why he is holding them back.