"Afternoon, Mr. Correy. Anything of interest to report?" "Not a thing, sir!" growled my fire-eating first officer. "I'm about ready to quit the Service and get a job on one of the passenger liners, just on the off chance that something exciting might eventually happen." "You were born a few centuries too late," I chuckled. Correy loved a fight more than any man I ever knew. "The Universe has become pretty well quieted down."...
Three people on board a space cargo ship. Their cargo is the supercomputer ordered by the Martian colony. And then the accident ... And now their ship at great speed flies away from the solar system. And if the human brain is not able to solve the problem of returning home, what way out of the situation do they have left? .....
Sime Hemingway slept badly on her first night on Mars. There was no real reason why he should not. His bed was soft. He dined excellently, because the cuisine of this hotel offered not only Martian delicacies, but also painted on Earth and on Venus. However, Sime did not sleep well....
The earth was so far away that it was not visible. Even the sun was just a flicker. But this vast distance did not mean that isolation could last forever. Instruments inside the ship intercepted radio broadcasts and, within an hour, early television signals. Machines compiled dictionaries and grammars and began to translate the main languages. The history of the planet has been tabulated as facts become available....
Mutineer appeared in the July 1959 issue of If Worlds. For every weapon there was a defense, but not against the deadliest weapon - the man himself!...
Today, more than on other days, Raul Beardsley felt a burden pulling a sense of inevitability. He frowned; he looked at his watch; he leaned forward to speak with the helicopter pilot, and then changed his mind. He leaned back in his chair and lounged out of habit, adjusting the scope of his chair in the usual wide area of Washington just below....
Robert Bloch has been a prolific writer in many genres. In his youth, he was inspired by his mentor N.P. Lovecraft was a close friend of Stanley G. Weinbaum. In addition to hundreds of short stories and novels, he wrote several scripts for television and films, including several scripts for the original movie Star Trek. In 1959, Bloch wrote the novel Psycho, which Alfred Hitchcock adapted to the film a year later. He received the Hugo Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award and the former president of America's Secret Writers. This populous Earth, published in "Amazing Stories"...
The evening began to fall. In the cities, the noise in the streets was softened, and in the kitchen the women made small, rattling sounds. In the countryside, cicadas began to sing, and a cool smell began to rise from the ground. But everywhere, in cities and in the country, children were late from school. There were several calls, but robotic telephone devices in schools gave the standard answer: “Schools are closed for a day. If you leave a message, it will be recorded for tomorrow. ”...
Graham could not fall asleep for several days, he tried all means, but all in vain. When he finally managed to fall asleep, it turned out that his dream lasted two hundred years. A lot has happened in the world during this time, even the invasion of the Martians, but the main thing was that over the past time, his capital, thanks to the skillful policies of his guardians, has reached fabulous proportions. Graham was practically the ruler of the world. That's just his awakening prevented the White Council, the body that ruled his condition, and therefore the world. And now the Sleeping One has...
In the near future, there is technology for the cheap manufacture of anything - medicines, clothes, furniture. Its personal use by the state was declared an economic crime....
Grant Pemberton suddenly sat in his place, all his feelings tense and alert. What awakened him in the deathly silence of a space pilot? His right hand slipped under the pillow and squeezed the handle of the gun. His firm coolness was a comforting reality. There it was again. Tiny scratches on the door, as if someone was fumbling for a slide switch. Very quietly he sat waiting, putting his finger on the trigger. Suddenly, the scratches stopped and the panel slowly opened. A thin oblong spot flickered in corridor light outside. Grant tensed darkly....
Professor John Hamish MacLeod, Ph.D., Ph.D., traveled half the galaxy to see the terrestrial wildlife zoo that the aliens bought from us. And when he came home, life went to hell. Literally! He wrote a book describing the experience. He had to be! The government confiscated that he was paid Alein. The book, of course, became a bestseller at home. But the aliens thought it was funny! And then the sales really began to bear fruit - and they paid very well. But the government felt that it was all money, of course....
