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…

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.

Retief, The Consul for the Terrestrial States finds himself newly appointed to Groac. His determination to get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding the formation of the new Graocan government gets him into trouble. Will he find out what happened to the Terran prisoners. What happened to the missing spaceship? His ways are unorthodox.Will it be enough to help him get the answers?

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...

Richardson was the astronaut chosen for the test. He had passed every one of the grueling preliminary tests with flying colors, mental and physical, and as far as could be judged by science, he had seemed to be the perfect specimen, mentally and physically, for the job.The job was to be the first man to be sent to space and return safely to Earth. The test was going well until Richarson started talking in a strange language. What was happening? What did it mean?

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.

"Rig ship for the snowbank orbit! Snowbank orbit with stinger! Mr. Grunfeld, raise the fleet."Grunfiled saw two viridian flares flashing with a bright green ring like a mist halo. "Ambush," he said. "At least two cruisers."They were approaching Uranus with the faint hope there were survivors from the First Uranus Expedition. What will they find if they can get past the Enemy?

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...

"Rig ship for the snowbank orbit! Snowbank orbit with stinger! Mr. Grunfeld, raise the fleet."Grunfiled saw two viridian flares flashing with a bright green ring like a mist halo. "Ambush," he said. "At least two cruisers."They were approaching Uranus with the faint hope there were survivors from the First Uranus Expedition. What will they find if they can get past the Enemy?

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.

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.