Science Fiction
The spaceport bar was filled with a fresh, washed-clean smell, as if all the winds of space had been blowing through it. There was an autumn tang in the air as well, because it was open at both ends, and out beyond was New Chicago, with its parks and tall buildings, and the bi...
What she'd told him was evidence. It would help me to smash Wendel in a legal way, which is always the best way, when backed up as it would have to be by armed, completely lawfu...
11. Part 11The hell of it was--no man ever needed an ally more desperately. I needed a confederate, right at that moment in the room with me, if only because I couldn't hope to cheat death...
5. Part 5It was a christ-awful moment--for her and for me. For her because she had no right to be in the Chart Room, or even on the ship, as far as I knew, and there was a look on the cr...
1. Part 1The spaceport bar was filled with a fresh, washed-clean smell, as if all the winds of space had been blowing through it. There was an autumn tang in the air as well, because it...
13. Part 13He cut me off again. "No fallout--or very little. What there is is gone within four or five minutes. Safe to go in after that, for the residue wouldn't mutate a fruitfly. Coloni...
8. Part 8I rather liked his voice, gruff as it was. He spoke with the air of a man who knew his business, with a kind of restrained sympathy--the "no nonsense" approach. Too much calm se...
6. Part 6Littlefield paused an instant, then went on. "She knew there was plenty of room inside a cybernetic robot that large, between the tiers of memory banks and all the other gadgetr...
2. Part 2All right, the first Earth colony on Mars wasn't that kind of a city. It was rugged and sprawling and rowdy. It was filled with tumult and shouting, its prefabricated metal dwel...
4. Part 4"People have been killed," I said, and could have bitten my tongue out. Why let him even suspect that I was thinking about something that wasn't tied in with his argument at all...
7. Part 7In that astonishingly bright inner vision--why look up and back when I did not doubt its accuracy?--Commander Littlefield was wasting no time in setting a good example. He'd des...
12. Part 12It wasn't even a project anymore--half of it still in the blueprint stage. It was completed and the towering gray walls were firm and solid, and the grills were sending oxygen s...
10. Part 10In the big screen spectacles all of the men seem gigantic, with tremendous, muscular torsos. Even the little guys look like titan figures, fifty or a hundred times as large as t...
9. Part 9"Did you have a tough day, Dad?" Thomas asked, reaching for a knife and fork, and drawing a still steaming serving bowl toward him. His unruly hair was so blond it seemed almost...
3. Part 3"Not quite, Ralph. If it were, one side or the other would have to give in eventually. Endicott seized on the bright idea of selling atomic and liquid fuel directly to the Colon...
15. Part 15He made the mistake of coming at me too fast. It might not have been a mistake if he hadn't been so reckless with the thong, trying to lash me across the chest with it before he...