Science Fiction Short Stories p2
Science Fiction Short Stories -- page 2
All these are available from Project Gutenberg, and are likely, in Cori's opinion, to be under an hour in finished recording time*. The advantage of using PG texts is that they have already been carefully copyright checked, so unlikely to give us legal problems in that respect! (Though a few books there are copyrighted - double-check the licence text before recording.)
Longer books and more short stories and novellas can be found on the Science Fiction Bookshelf at PG, or search there for your favourite authors -- you may be surprised!
Multiple versions are very welcome - however, if you want to read something for the first time, please cross-reference with the LibriVox Short Science Fiction Index.
Word counts are only rough estimates of total words in each story. Another loose rule-of-thumb is 1 min per KB.
* Longer stories -- but which may still fit within the 70min limit of the Short Story collection, depending on how fast you read -- may now be found at Science Fiction Shortish Stories. Stories which turn out longer than 70mins can be split into more than one file and catalogued as a solo. See also Science Fiction Novels.
Authors Surname A-K
Authors Surname L-Z
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Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas by Raphael Aloysius Lafferty http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23161 ~2666words
Slingshot by Irving W. Lande http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22462 ~5033words
The Great Potlatch Riots by Allen Kim Lang http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24864 ~7328words
Join Our Gang? by Sterling E. Lanier (41KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29987
The Yillian Way by John Keith Laumer http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/21782 ~5166words
One Martian Afternoon by Tom Leahy (31KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29975
Junior Achievement by William M. Lee - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/27665 - 47KB
The Bell Tone by Edmund H. Leftwich http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22470 ~1764words
Bread Overhead by Fritz Leiber http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22579 ~5079words
The Moon is Green by Fritz Leiber (53KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29662
What's He Doing in There? by Fritz Leiber - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29504 - 31KB
Attention Saint Patrick by [pseud.] Murray Leinster http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23439 ~7822words
A Bottle of Old Wine by Richard O. Lewis (40KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/30004
Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony, 1913-1966 - The Game of Rat and Dragon (51KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29614
Daughters of Doom by Herbert B. Livingston http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/25094 ~6551words
G-r-r-r...! by Robert Donald Locke - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29194 - 36KB
Mex by William Logan http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/28518 ~849words
The Big Tomorrow by Paul Lohrman (50KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29931
The Calm Man by Frank Belknap Long http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/28583 ~ 6278 words
The Man from Time by Frank Belknap Long - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29418 - 48KB
The Man the Martians Made by Frank Belknap Long - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29432 - 60KB
The Mississippi Saucer by Frank Belknap Long http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23568 ~6008words
The Sky Trap by Frank Belknap Long http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24151 ~5663words
When I Grow Up by Richard E. Lowe - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/28953 - 39KB
Troubadour by Robert Augustine Ward Lowndes http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23091 ~1431words
Tulan by C.C. MacApp - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/27968 59KB
The Carnivore by Katherine MacLean (31KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/30044
The Alternate Plan by Gerry Maddren http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24792 ~2062words
The Deadly Daughters by Winston K. Marks http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24965 ~3647words
Black Eyes and the Daily Grind by Stephen Marlowe (49KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/30329
The One and the Many by Stephen Marlowe (32KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/30386
Summer Snow Storm by Stephen Marlowe http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/26968 ~4649words
Spies Die Hard! by Arnold Marmor (25KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/30383
Beyond Pandora by Robert J. Martin http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23930 ~880words
Pushbutton War by Joseph P. Martino http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24122 ~7640words
Something Will Turn Up by David Mason http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24189 ~2187words
Shepherd of the Planets by Alan Mattox http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/28048 ~4236words
Rex Ex Machina by Frederic Max http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/28543 ~ 1161 words
On Handling the Data by M. I. Mayfield http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23429 ~6063words
Mother America by Sam McClatchie http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/26180 ~5361words
Criminal Negligence by J. Francis McComas http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24399 ~6880words
Life Sentence by James V. McConnell (47KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29889
Celebrity by James McKimmey (25KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29962
Pipe of Peace by James McKimmey (27KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/30380
Planet of Dreams by James McKimmey (35KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/30045
It's All Yours by Sam Merwin - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29195 - 40KB
Reel Life Films by Sam Merwin - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29209 - 36KB
Death of a Spaceman by Walter M. Miller (56KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29643
The Hoofer by Walter M. Miller - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29170 - 41KB
In the Control Tower by Will Mohler http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23149 ~5790words
Song in a Minor Key by Catherine Lucille Moore http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/28550 ~ 964 words
Divinity by William Douglas Morrison http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22623 ~6807words
The Hunters by William Douglas Morrison http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22524 ~5355words
General Max Shorter by Kris Ottman Neville http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23571 ~7354words
Of Time and Texas by William F. Nolan - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/28893 - 23KB
Small World by William F. Nolan - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29308 - 41KB
All Cats Are Gray by Andre Norton - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29019 - 36KB
The Gifts of Asti by Andre Norton http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/19029 ~6155words
An Ounce of Cure by Alan Edward Nourse http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22866 ~1444words
Circus by Alan Edward Nourse http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22875 ~2557words
Coffin Cure by Alan Edward Nourse http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24276 ~5649words
Image of the Gods by Alan Edward Nourse http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22882 ~6414words
Letter of the Law by Alan Edward Nourse http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24275 ~5842words
Meeting of the Board by Alan Edward Nourse http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22867 ~5899words
My Friend Bobby by Alan Edward Nourse http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22881 ~4962words
PRoblem by Alan Edward Nourse at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24290 47KB
Second Sight by Alan Edward Nourse http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22997 ~8164words
The Dark Door by Alan Edward Nourse http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22869 ~8944words
The Link by Alan Edward Nourse http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22876 ~6045words
The Native Soil by Alan Edward Nourse http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24274 ~7311words
O'Hara, Thomas J. - Rescue Squad (47KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29822
As Long As You Wish by John O'Keefe http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24121 ~1811words
The Diamond Lens by Fitz-James O'Brien http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23169 ~9251words
The Good Neighbors by Edgar Pangborn http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/26536 - 31KB
This One Problem by M. C. Pease - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29354 - 38KB
Lost in the Future by John Victor Peterson http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/28645 ~ 1102 words
The White Feather Hex by Don Peterson http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23308 ~4989words
Dearest by H. Beam Piper http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/19102 ~6657words
Crossroads of Destiny by H. Beam Piper http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18632 ~4676words
Operation R.S.V.P. by H. Beam Piper http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18261 ~2941words
The Answer by H. Beam Piper http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18342 ~4677words
Time and Time Again by H. Beam Piper http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18831 ~7112words
The Day of the Boomer Dukes by Frederik Pohl http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22559 ~8308words
The Hated by Frederik Pohl - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29503 - 41KB
Pythias by Frederik Pohl (30KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/30399
Revenge by Arthur Porges - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/27756 - 36KB
The Hohokam Dig by Theodore Pratt (45KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29793
The Green Beret by Thomas Edward Purdom http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24278 ~4724words
A Filbert Is a Nut by Rick Raphael http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23588 ~2991words
Dogfight—1973 by Dallas McCord (Mack) Reynolds (24KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29940
Gun for Hire by Dallas McCord (Mack) Reynolds http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24247 ~5037words
Happy Ending by Dallas McCord (Mack) Reynolds and Fredric Brown - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29206 - 50KB
I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Dallas McCord (Mack) Reynolds http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/26741 ~2023words
Off Course by Dallas McCord (Mack) Reynolds (35KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/30035
Summit by Dallas McCord (Mack) Reynolds http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23669 ~1949words
Subversive by Dallas McCord (Mack) Reynolds http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23197 ~7109words
Unborn Tomorrow by Dallas McCord (Mack) Reynolds http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23942 ~4480words
Such Blooming Talk by L. Major Reynolds - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29356 - 24KB
Disturbing Sun by Robert Shirley Richardson http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24150 ~4091words
Decision by Frank M. Robinson (46KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29680
See? by Edward G. Robles (28KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29601
Sorry: Wrong Dimension by Ross Rocklynne (36KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29620
The Second Voice by Mann Rubin (46KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29910
The Premiere by Richard Sabia http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24865 ~5766words
Operation Lorelie by William P. Salton - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29160 - 28KB
Divinity by Joseph Samachson http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22623 - 56KB
The Hunters by Joseph Samachson http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22524 - 49KB
Runaway by Joseph Samachson (45KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29897
DP by Arthur Dekker Savage (50KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/30305
Trees Are Where You Find Them by Arthur Dekker Savage (33KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/30010
An Incident on Route 12 by James H. Schmitz http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/21897 ~5087words
The Other Likeness by James H. Schmitz (57KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/30398
Watch the Sky by James H. Schmitz http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24558 ~8380words
Quiet, Please by Kevin Scott http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/21541 ~970words
Alien Offer by Al Sevcik http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/26956 ~5320words
A Matter of Magnitude by Al Sevcik http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24927 ~2097words
Survival Tactics by Al Sevcik http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24966 ~4183words
The Dope on Mars by Jack Sharkey http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/26843 ~5629words
Minor Detail by John Michael Sharkey http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/28156 ~ 3713 words
Stairway to the Stars by Larry Shaw http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23159 ~6193words
The Helpful Robots by Robert J. Shea http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/28438 ~ 1301 words
Mutineer by Robert Shea - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29196 - 40KB
Resurrection by Robert J. Shea http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/28031 ~679words
Bad Medicine by Robert Sheckley - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/9055 - 47KB
Beside Still Waters by Robert Sheckley - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29446 - 27KB
Cost of Living by Robert Sheckley - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29458 - 38KB
Death Wish by Robert Sheckley (39KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29876
Forever by Robert Sheckley - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29487 - 39KB
The Hour of Battle by Robert Sheckley - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29445 - 31KB
The Leech by Robert Sheckley - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29525 - 53KB
Warm by Robert Sheckley - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29509 - 37KB
Warrior Race by Robert Sheckley - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29548 - 43KB
Houlihan's Equation by Walter J. Sheldon - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29168 - 39KB
This is Klon Calling by Walter J. Sheldon - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/28954 - 29KB
Two Plus Two Makes Crazy by Walter J. Sheldon - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/28894 - 28KB
The Happy Unfortunate by Robert Silverberg http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/25035 ~7373words
The Hunted Heroes by Robert Silverberg http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/25627 ~5181words
Postmark Ganymede by Robert Silverberg http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/25629 ~2854words
The Street That Wasn't There by Carl Richard Jacobi and Clifford Donald Simak http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22218 ~5994words
The Delegate from Venus by Henry Slesar http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/25086 ~4655words
Dream Town by Henry Slesar - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29193 - 42KB
My Father, the Cat by Henry Slesar http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/28119 ~ 3080 words
Reluctant Genius by Henry Slesar http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/28030 ~1109words
The Success Machine by Henry Slesar http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/26168 ~4016words
The Doorway by Evelyn E. Smith - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29138 - 29KB
The Blue Tower by Evelyn E. Smith http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23104 ~5266words
Benefactor by George H. Smith - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/28892 - 24KB
History Repeats by George Oliver Smith http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23884 ~4367words
Instinct by George Oliver Smith http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23931 ~4623words
Stop Look and Dig by George Oliver Smith http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/19963 ~9722words
Compatible by Richard R. Smith - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/28922 - 26KB
No Hiding Place by Richard R. Smith - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29272 - 38KB
Old Mr. Wiley by Fanny Greye la Spina http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23379 ~9823words
The Marooner by Charles A. Stearns http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24791 ~4412words
Upstarts by L. J. Stecher http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/27492 ~5370words
The Hands by Richard Sternbach - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29535 - 21KB
Solar Stiff by Chas. A. Stopher http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/28646 ~ 2341 words
Faithfully Yours by Lou Tabakow http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24566 ~6921words
Far from Home by J.A. Taylor http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23408 ~6644words
Cerebrum by Albert Teichner http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/26761 ~6971words
Man Made by Albert Teichner http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24955 ~3646words
Sweet Their Blood and Sticky by Albert Teichner http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/21568 ~2024words
The Big Bounce by Walter S. Tevis http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23153 ~6930words
Pleasant Journey by Richard F. Thieme (30KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29790
There Will Be School Tomorrow by V. E. Thiessen - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29317 - 37KB
The Professional Approach by Harness and Thomas http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23872 ~8172words
High Dragon Bump by Don Thompson (44KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/30330
Tinker's Dam by Joseph Tinker http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24655 ~7669words
The Glory of Ippling by Helen M. Urban http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23185 ~4668words
Vital Ingredient by Gerald Vance http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/27797 ~3637words
Jubilation, U.S.A. by G.L. Vandenburg http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22589 ~3664words
Martian V.F.W. by G.L. Vandenburg http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22110 ~2584words
Grove of the Unborn by Lyn Venable - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29205 - 43KB
Monkey On His Back by Charles V. De Vet http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/26569 ~4848words
2 B R 0 2 B by Kurt Vonnegut http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/21279 ~2675words
The Big Trip Up Yonder by Kurt Vonnegut(41KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/30240
Shock Absorber by E. G. von Wald http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24380 ~8714words
The 4-D Doodler by Graph Waldeyer http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22227 ~5506words
A Matter of Proportion by Anne Walker http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23920 ~5660words
Bolden's Pets by Floyd Wallace http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/28460 - 57KB
Second Landing by Floyd Wallace http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24958 ~2666words
Has Anyone Here Seen Kelly? by Bryce Walton (40KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/30086
Strange Alliance by Bryce Walton http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/28047 ~3890words
The Ideal by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22897 ~8112words
Pygmalion's Spectacles by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22893 ~7129words
The Point of View by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22895 ~6745words
The Worlds of If by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22890 ~6309words
Moment of Truth by Basil Eugene Wells http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/28111 ~ 1628 words
Second Sight by Basil Eugene Wells (44KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29832
The Coming of the Ice by G. Peyton Wertenbaker http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/26967 ~6328words
Cogito, Ergo Sum by John Foster West - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29149 - 36KB
Upstarts by Joseph Wesley (50KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/27492
The Risk Profession by Donald E. Westlake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/27089 ~11227words
The Quantum Jump by Robert Wicks http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24418 ~3785words
Be It Ever Thus by Robert Moore Williams - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29240 - 46KB
The Cosmic Express by John Stewart Williamson http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/26066 ~4984words
Double Take by Richard Wilson (41KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/30063
Out Around Rigel by Robert H. Wilson http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20553 ~8351words
Lonesome Hearts by R. R. Winterbotham (29KB) at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/30170
Longevity by Therese Windser - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24928 - 22KB
The Infra-Medians by Sewell Peaslee Wright http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20838 ~9988words
The Terror from the Depths by Sewell Peaslee Wright - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/29118 - 63KB
Unspecialist by Murray F. Yaco http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23443 ~4532words
No Moving Parts by Murray F. Yaco http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/25078 ~6405words
Collector's Item by Robert F. Young - http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/28924 - 27KB
Star Mother by Robert F. Young http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/26957 ~1897words
