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.

The Boyars have spent the past sixty years terraforming the planet Flamme, clearing jungle, descumming the seas, irrigating deserts and establishing forests. Now the Aga Kaga have decided to move in and claim it as their own. The Under-secretary of the CDT refuses to support the Boyars with anything more than a diplomatic note.It’s up to Retief to deliver it and convince the Aga Kaga to abandon their claim. "Don't worry. I'll keep the peace, if I have to start a war to do it."

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.

Sherwood was a man who did not want to be found. He secretly left the last space station. Now he was marooned on a remote planet with a spaceship that was going nowhere and surrounded by diamonds. Half of him wanted to remain safely castaway until he died. The other half longed for a miraculous rescue. Could that miracle be the black, unmarked craft that was gliding toward him?The Shipshape Miracle, a Science Fiction Classic, was written by Clifford D. Simak and first appeared in t...

It was a time of regulated sanity and world peace. Brain scanners helped keep it that way by identifying potential deviants, those on the verge of anti-social insanity. I was sitting in my chair in the Arena. It was my turn again. In the middle of what was once a stage sat thirty people scraped tightly to their chairs. And then they brought her in and I remembered…I, Executioner, a Science Fiction Classic, was written by Terry Carr and first appeared in the Wor...

In this science fiction classic we meet President Bearwarden, Dr. Cortlandt and Ayrault approaching Jupiter in their spaceship, Callisto. The three explorers travel the galaxy from Jupiter to Mars to Saturn and the wide spaces in between before returning to Mother Earth.This space saga was written by the American businessman John Jacob Astor, a member of the prominent Astor family.

Keller was the only detective in the city who could read minds, and the only A-2. Radcliffe was a man with a mystery to solve—the murder of his wife. Will Keller be able to solve the crime by entering Radcliffe’s mind? And who is ‘The Man Who Flew’?

I was the first man to reach the speed of light. I am also the answer to what happens to energy divided by the speed of light. Now I am an E Being and I’m hungry. I feed on energy—and to my horror, even the energy of humans!

Meet Sol, infamous, intergalactic smuggler. And meet the little pet he is sneaking to Earth through the Philadelphia space station for Florence. When Florence meets the diver she isn’t at all impressed — until she learns what it can do. Will this alien space pet fulfill her wildest dreams or be more trouble than it is worth?

Evon-thia, The Spirit Bands use astral travel to bypass the normal rigors and dangers of an adventure to Mars. Their leader, Carl De L'Ester is the spirit guide to a medium we know only as Madame.Over the course of two years, Madame has several out of body experiences that take her to Ento, that red planet we know as Mars. She is joined by different spirit friends who guide her observations, which she writes about in great detail.This classic science fiction is an epic stor...

Coxe got a great deal on the refrigerator. It chilled his beer perfectly and surprisingly produced a package of delicious fish eggs every day. Coxe didn’t ask too many questions until the visitor came asking about the refrigerator.

As the concept of self-driving cars becomes a reality in our age we can enjoy this thought provoking sci-fi short story about the car that never stopped.This Science Fiction Classic was written by David Mason and first appeared in the Worlds of If Science Fiction magazine in January 1963.