Auteur: Eli Jayne

“Misrule” and “A Bad Town for Spacemen” were both first published in Worlds of If Science Fiction magazine in 1962. In this reformatted edition you can read both science fiction short stories. Scienc …

Stepping into the bank to apply for a job as a confidential secretary, government girl-spy, Orison  is on the road to discovery that could make her the Empress of the universe. Cinderella Story …

What is an Amish couple doing riding away from a spaceship in a horse-drawn buggy? In this clash-of-cultures science fiction story we follow Aaron and Martha Stoltzfoos (an Amish couple fro …

Meet Sol, infamous, intergalactic smuggler. And meet the little pet he is sneaking to Earth through the Philadelphia space station for Florence. When Florence meets the diver she isn’t at all impress …

Evon-thia, The Spirit Bands use astral travel to bypass the normal rigors and dangers of an adventure to Mars. Their leader, Carl De L’Ester is the spirit guide to a medium we know only as Madame. Ov …

Stahl is showing his guests his most prized possessions—and they are all fake. The genuine relics of The Old Times are worthless but the collection of counterfeits reflected Stahl’s status. Even the …

Venusport Division Chief Carl Wattles had a problem with the Kentons who wanted to build a new house instead of harvesting pretzins. The Kentons had a problem with the snakes and dragons. Wattles sen …

Coxe got a great deal on the refrigerator. It chilled his beer perfectly and surprisingly produced a package of delicious fish eggs every day. Coxe didn’t ask too many questions until the visitor cam …

Keller was the only detective in the city who could read minds, and the only A-2. Radcliffe was a man with a mystery to solve—the murder of his wife. Will Keller be able to solve the crime by enterin …

Encased in the 700 pound spacesuit, Barlow was rolled into the first rocket to the moon—and he expected to die. He was on a mission to promote peace and his life would be the sacrifice. In bravado he …

With the bipper the Special Police Agency could get anything out of anyone. It burns them out completely in the process, but that is for the good. They are erased and won’t do any meddlesome thinking …

Two youth have caged two strange creatures in the barn. While they scheme about joining the circus with their new “animals”, their fathers are waiting for two otherworldly travelers with whom they pl …

In this science fiction classic we meet President Bearwarden, Dr. Cortlandt and Ayrault approaching Jupiter in their spaceship, Callisto. The three explorers travel the galaxy from Jupiter to Mars to …

The Machine has arrived at the tournament to face world class Grand Chess Masters from around the world. Sandra, a reporter from the Chicago Space Mirror is there to watch the match and see who will …

‘Rig ship for the snowbank orbit! Snowbank orbit with stinger! Mr. Grunfeld, raise the fleet.’ Grunfiled saw two viridian flares flashing with a bright green ring like a mist halo. ‘Ambush, ‘ he said …

The Boyars have spent the past sixty years terraforming the planet Flamme, clearing jungle, descumming the seas, irrigating deserts and establishing forests. Now the Aga Kaga have decided to move in …

Dr. Craig was sent by the United States to this remote place in the Andes Mountains to solve a mystery. There had been a nuclear explosion. Who or what was responsible? And what about those five tunn …

Retief is heading to the technologically backward double planets called Jorgensen’s Worlds with a warning and a plan to thwart the Soetti’s planned invasion. Everyone he meets on the way is determine …

In the near-future the Earth is a well-controlled Utopia. Edward Wehling was a young 56 years in a time when the average age was one hundred and twenty-nine. Now he is waiting for his wife to give bi …

I was the first man to reach the speed of light. I am also the answer to what happens to energy divided by the speed of light. Now I am an E Being and I’m hungry. I feed on energy—and to my …

As the concept of self-driving cars becomes a reality in our age we can enjoy this thought provoking sci-fi short story about the car that never stopped. This Science Fiction Classic was written by D …

Retief,   The Consul for the Terrestrial States finds himself newly appointed to Groac. His determination to get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding the formation of the new Graocan go …

Yan left. Everything changed and with no money, no status and severed from her family, Marigold was at the mercy of the state. She filled out a form for protection and one for availability. She felt …

Science fiction classic character Retief is back in this sci fi short story by Keith Laumer. Retief is caught in the middle of competing mining claims on the planet  95739-A. He wants to side wi …

‘Before this I lived in a star, a puff of expanding gas. Before that in a haunted house … dreadful. And before that in the lopsided blob of protoplasm that was the last of Pyet, the astrologer.” Th …

The delegation landing on the planet Newtane was welcomed by a handsome race of people that were almost as human as they were. Except somethings were backwards. Their expressions were opposite. A fro …

Sherwood was a man who did not want to be found. He secretly left the last space station. Now he was marooned on a remote planet with a spaceship that was going nowhere and surrounded by diamonds. Ha …

There were no children here. But he heard them. They were talking outside the window. Was he losing his mind? This Way To the Egress ,  a Science Fiction Classic, was written by Andrew Fetl …

The whirlybirds were predators. They ate the vicious animals like tigers and bears. But when their prey was exhausted, they turned to people. Today the crowd cheered from their windows to welcome the …

It was a time of regulated sanity and world peace. Brain scanners helped keep it that way by identifying potential deviants, those on the verge of anti-social insanity. I was sitting in my chair in t …

This Science Fiction anthology contains 15 sci-fi classics from American author Bryce Walton. Included science fiction classics in this collection: By Earthlight • Dark Windows • Dream …

Richardson was the astronaut chosen for the test.  He had passed every one of the grueling preliminary tests with flying colors, mental and physical, and as far as could be judged by s …

One minute  Herrell Mc Cray was on the spaceship circling Betelgeuse Nine and the next he was in darkness  and utter silence.  Mc Cray had no idea where he was …

The Kali and Grimnal had been fighting on Aqua for years. Captain John Ward, God Helper, is tasked with helping the Kali fight, but they are tired of his orders to wait. They want to fight and questi …

They called it “the basketball” because of it’s shape. It was a sort of mechanical embryo and men entered to test their limits. Normal human beings can take a couple of hours of it usually. They like …

The Axenite warrior is a germ-free—axenic, gnotobiotic—human being.  He is superior in most ways to ordinary men. But he cannot live in a normal, contaminated world. To him a drop of r …

industrialist David Greaves invested his personal fortune toward building the Defiance. Now he was battered and tossed inside the the crazy, tumbling spaceship. There in the misty shroud of Venus, he …

Ten year old Bob Taylor was miserable. School was boring. He was tired of chores at home. He fell asleep feeling grumpy and irritable. Hearing his name called, he awoke to find a green goblin in his …

Charley has decided to keep a journal of his exploits as a schoolboy. He chronicles his adventures with his friends and his observations of their behavior with regard to his Christian religious upbri …