Phil Chenevert
A Martian Odyssey & A Valley of Dreams
The first of these stories was originally published in the July 1934 issue of Wonder Stories. It was followed four months later by a sequel,…
The Flame Breathers
Did the planet Vulcan exist? It supposedly orbited our sun on the opposite side from the Earth but it was only theoretical speculation. On…
Inside Earth
This story takes place in the not so distant future. Earth has been conquered and is a subjugated planet, the much too humanoid new rulers …
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
Sherlock Holmes is involved in a simple case of finding the owner of a battered hat and a dead goose. Or so he thinks. All too soon this hat…
Lysistrata (version 3)
The women of Athens are sick of the Peloponnesian war that has dragged on for year after year after year, causing great hardship to everyo…
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Version 5)
This story deals with the obvious fact that we humans are split, dual. We have urges to do the 'right' thing, to be honorable and wise, but…
The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton
"“Who is he?” I asked.“The worst man in London,” Holmes answered, as he sat down and stretched his legs before the fire." And so…
3 Science Fiction Stories by Gerald Vance
Three Science Fiction stories by the great Gerald Vance: Monsoons of Death is a very nice blend of horror story and a study of true bravery …
Queen Zixi of Ix or The Story of the Magic Cloak
L.Frank Baum, or the Wizard of Oz fame, wrote this delightful book and considered it his best of all that he wrote. it tells the story of f…
The Dragon Queen of Jupiter
The French Foreign legion has been exported to Space as the Space foreign legion. They are fighting now on Jupiter and the natives, led by …
Four Science Fiction Stories by G.L.Vandenburg
G.L.Vandenburg wrote quirky and funny Science Fiction stories for Amazing Science Fiction Stories, and similar magazines in the 1950's. The…
The Children's Life of the Bee
Buzz, buzz, buzz. A fascinating and beautifully written explanation of the life of the honey bee. Maeterlinck, who won the Noble Prize for L…
The Ultimate Weapon (Version 2)
A rip-roaring space adventure from the 1930's by the legendary John Cambpell. A race in another solar system many light years away from Ear…
The Magical Mimics in Oz
The land of OZ is the happiest fairyland anywhere, but there are evil creatures whose only ambition is to destroy that happiness. Lurking i…
If You Was a Moklin
Moklins are the friendliest aliens humans ever encountered. They LOVE humans, and want to imitate them in every way they can. And evolution…
A Scandal in Bohemia
This story, found in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, is one of the best in my opinion. Is it possible for the machine like brain of this…
The Vortex Blaster Makes War
It's the Vortex Blaster, Doc Smith's science fiction hero that has already saved the world from atomic vortices with his prodigious computin…
Project Mastodon
Clifford Simak deals with the implications of time travel in his own unique way in this story. What if a group of guys did it on their own,…
Anchorite
Randall Garrett sticks a sharp needle into our government and society in this wonderful story. He projects the current trends towards patern…
The Time Machine (version 5)
Our dystopian future is revealed by H.G.Wells. In this famous story, an unnamed scientist of the 1800s invents a machine to travel through …