A sci-fi short story by Paul W. Fairman, originally published in Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy 1956.
“You meet a lot of screwy people when you do police work. Like the guy who popped up in a murder job. Offered to solve the case with—”
classic science fiction
25+ best sci-fi short stories in the public domain
These days, it can be difficult to get your hands on many of the most famous classic science fiction short stories. Even outside of the famous names like Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein, the majority of stories are still under copyright, and will be for years to come. Some are available as overpriced paperback collections […]
“The World That Couldn’t Be” by Clifford D. Simak
The tracks went up one row and down another, and in those rows the vua plants had been sheared off an inch or two above the ground. The raider had been methodical; it had not wandered about haphazardly, but had done an efficient job of harvesting the first ten rows on the west side of the field.
Reading: The City and The Stars
The City and The Stars by Arthur C. Clarke. Science fiction, 1956. I’m still on a kick to catch up on the mid-century masters of science fiction—stuff that, by choice or by chance, I’ve never been exposed to. When I saw this one in Half Price Books with the awesome cover I had to have […]