A sci-fi short story by R.A. Lafferty, originally published in If, September 1960.
“Time is money.
Time heals all wounds.
Given time,
anything is possible.
And now he had all the
time in the world!”
Public Domain
“Queen of Space” by Joseph Slotkin
A sci-fi short story by Joseph Slotkin, originally published in Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy, Aug 1954.
“Helen LaTour had the best hip wriggle in galactic Burleyque. In fact, it was so good she hipped herself smack into another dimension!…”
“Selling Point” by Norman Arkawy
A sci-fi short story by Norman Arkawy, originally published in Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy 1955.
“A new industry blossomed when U.S. Robot Company put their perfected models on the market. Perfected? Nobody had considered the one defect!”
“World of the Mad” by Poul Anderson
A sci-fi short story by Poul Anderson, originally published in Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy 1951.
“Langdon had found immortality on the planet Tanith. Naturally he wanted his wife to share it—if he could prevent her from going insane first….”
“A Spaceship Named McGuire” by Randall Garrett
A sci-fi short story by Randall Garrett, originally published in Analog 1961.
“The basic trouble with McGuire was that, though ‘he’ was a robot spaceship, nevertheless ‘he’ had a definite weakness that a man might understand….”
“The Incredible Aliens” by William Bender
A sci-fi short story by William Bender, Jr, originally published in Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy 1954.
“Narant’s personal problem seemed of more importance than his mission as an interstellar investigator. But they combined when he met—”
“No-Risk Planet” by Milton Lesser
A sci-fi short story by Milton Lesser, originally published in Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy 1955.
“Sam had sold life insurance to every race in the galaxy. But on Halcyon he found a people who not only didn’t want it—but didn’t need it!”
“Mystery at Mesa Flat” by Ivar Jorgensen
A sci-fi short story by Ivar Jorgensen originally published in Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy 1956.
“A small desert town didn’t seem a likely place to encounter murder—especially one that had been planned on a world light years away!”
“From an Unseen Censor” by Rosel George Brown
A sci-fi short story by Rosel George Brown, originally published in Galaxy Magazine 1958.
“You can’t beat my Uncle Isadore—he’s dead but he’s quick—yet that is just what he was daring me to try and do!”
“Hall of Mirrors” by Fredric Brown
A sci-fi short story by Fredric Brown, originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction 1953.
“It is a tough decision to make—whether to give up your life so you can live it over again!”