Robert Sheckley 
Beside Still Waters and four more stories [EPUB ebook] 

Imagine you could genetically engineer a microorganism that was able to produce LSD into its culture broth. If the microorganism was a brewing yeast you could make beer spiked with homemade LSD. Imag …

Humanity has survived the horrors of Nuclear war, now they must work together as a species to defend their growing colonies against an alien menace. …

Quantum Theory suggests that where a person is in time determines WHEN that person is in time. The big bang, is ‘time zero’. Dinosaurs would still rule the earth at a point in space 650 million years …

An arc of light across the sky and shots fired from a U.S. Navy Blue Angel F/A-18 supersonic hornet fail to collide; the light vanishes from the sky, and the light energy of the android Lawrence …

What place for love in a city ruled by greed?  Sarah, spirited and caring, is on her first trip outside her village. But the city is dominated by the grim law of the market – the only relat …

Tia Calloway is a loner, preferring solitude and romance novels to human interaction. But her life is about to change profoundly when she wakes up one day and finds herself on an alien spaceship. The …

A series of spectacular disasters leads to the destruction of the Old World. The few survivors flee, settling in the tri-systems forged in the outer reaches of space. The legacy of this settlement wa …