When you've had your ears pinned back in a bowknot, it's sometimes hard to remember that an intelligent people has no respect for a whipped enemy... but does for a fairly beaten enemy.
The slingshot was, I believe, one of the few weapons of history that wasn't used in the last war. That doesn't mean it won't be used in the next!
There was something odd about the guest attraction, Mr. Fayliss, and something odder still about his songs.
He was afraid--not of the present or the future, but of the past. He was afraid of the thing tagged Reed Kieran, that stiff blind voiceless thing wheeling its slow orbit around the Moon, companion to dead wo...
The young actor was great.... They didn't realize just how great until the night of THE PREMIERE.
A suggestion and a highly intriguing one--on how to settle the problems that involve face-saving among nations!
Little did Prof. Reubens suspect what his atom-tampering would set loose upon the world.
The conversion of light into electricity by spectrum is an interesting possibility. The idea of using foreign proteins on the human system to repel enemies, is also interesting. Do you get it? We didn't eith...
Mechanical brains are all the rage these days, so General Products just had to have one. But the blamed thing almost put them out of business. Why? It had no tact. It insisted upon telling the truth!
They weren't human--weren't even related to humanity through ties of blood--but they were our heirs!
When Tom Corbett and his Polaris unit mates, Roger and Astro, were assigned to the great expedition of one thousand space ships carrying pioneer colonists billions of miles to the satellite Roald, they did n...
He knew the theory of repairing the gizmo all right. He had that nicely taped. But there was the little matter of threading a wire through a too-small hole while under zero-g, and working in a spacesuit!
"You can see it--you can watch it--but mustn't touch!" And what could possibly be more frustrating … when you need, most violently, to get your hands on it for just one second…
You can keep a good man down, if you've got enough headstart, are alert and persistent... so long as he limits himself to acting like a good man....
There are--and very probably will always be--some Terrestrials who can't, and for that matter don't want, to call their souls their own....
