Fifty short science fiction tales
Ballade of an Artificial Satellite - poem by Poul Anderson
The Fun They Had - juvenile - short story by Isaac Asimov
Men Are Different - short story by Alan Bloch
The Ambassadors - short story by Anthony Boucher
The Weapon - short story by Fredric Brown
Random Sample - short story by T. P. Caravan
Oscar - short story by Cleve Cartmill
The Mist - short story by Peter Grainger [as by Peter Cartur]
Teething Ring - short story by James Causey
The Haunted Space Suit - short story by Arthur C. Clarke (variant of Who's There? 1958)
Stair Trick - short story by Mildred Clingerman
Unwelcome Tenant - short story by Roger Dee
The Mathematicians - short story by Arthur Feldman
The Third Level - short story by Jack Finney
Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful! - short story by Stuart Friedman
The Figure - short story by Lawrence L. LeShan [as by Edward Grendon]
The Rag Thing - short story by Donald A. Wollheim [as by David Grinnell]
The Good Provider - short story by Marion Gross
Columbus Was a Dope - short story by Robert A. Heinlein
Texas Week - short story by Albert Hernhuter
Hilda - short story by H. B. Hickey
The Choice - short story by Wayland Hilton-Young [as by W. Hilton-Young]
Not with a Bang - short story by Damon Knight
The Altar at Midnight - short story by C. M. Kornbluth
A Bad Day for Sales - short story by Fritz Leiber
Who's Cribbing? - short story by Jack Lewis
Spectator Sport - short story by John D. MacDonald
The Cricket Ball - short story by Avro Manhattan
Double-Take - short story by Winston K. Marks
Prolog - short story by John P. McKnight
The Available Data on the Worp Reaction - short story by Lion Miller
Narapoia - short story by Alan Nelson
Tiger by the Tail - short story by Alan E. Nourse
Counter Charm - short story by Peter Phillips
The Fly - short story by Arthur Porges
The Business, As Usual - short story by Mack Reynolds
Two Weeks in August - short story by Frank M. Robinson
See? - short story by Edward G. Robles, Jr.
Appointment at Noon - short story by Eric Frank Russell
We Don't Want Any Trouble - short story by James H. Schmitz
Built Down Logically - short story by Howard Schoenfeld
An Egg a Month from All Over - short story by Margaret St. Clair [as by Idris Seabright]
The Perfect Woman - short story by Robert Sheckley
The Hunters - short story by Walt Sheldon
The Martian and the Magician - short story by Evelyn E. Smith
Barney - short story by Will Stanton
Talent - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
Project Hush - short story by William Tenn
The Great Judge - short story by A. E. van Vogt
Emergency Landing - short story by Ralph Williams
Obviously Suicide - short story by S. Fowler Wright
Six Haiku - poem by Karen Anderson
Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, short stories (single author), Anthologie, Science-Fiction
Isaac Asimov, Groff Conklin, Poul Anderson, Alan Bloch, Anthony Boucher, Fredric Brown, Charles Muñoz, Cleve Cartmill, Peter Grainger, James Causey, Arthur C. Clarke, Mildred Clingerman, Roger D. Aycock, Arthur Feldman, Jack Finney, Stuart Friedman, Lawrence L. LeShan, Donald A. Wollheim, Robert A. Heinlein, Albert Hernhuter, H. B. Hickey, Wayland Hilton Young, Damon Knight, Fritz Leiber, Jack Lewis, John D. MacDonald, Avro Manhattan, John P. McKnight, Lion Miller, Alan Nelson, Alan Edward Nourse, Peter Phillips, Arthur Porges, Edward G. Robles Jr., Eric Frank Russell, Howard Schoenfeld, Margaret St. Clair, Robert Sheckley, Walt Sheldon, Evelyn E. Smith, Will Stanton, Theodore Sturgeon, William Tenn, A. E. van Vogt, S. Fowler Wright, Karen Anderson
Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers.  Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2.  His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy store when he was three years old.  He taught himself to read at the age of five. He began reading the science fiction pulp magazines that his family's store carried. Around the age of eleven, he began to write his own stories, and by age nineteen, he was selling them to the science fiction magazines. He graduated from Columbia University in 1939. He married Gertrude Blugerman in 1942.  During World War II he worked as a civilian at the Philadelphia Navy Yard's Naval Air Experimental Station.  After the war, he returned to Columbia University and earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1948.  He then joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Medicine until 1958, when he became a full-time writer. His first novel, [Pebble in the Sky](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL46402W), was published in 1950. He and his wife divorced in 1973, and he married Janet O. Jeppson the same year. He was a highly prolific writer, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 9,000 letters and postcards. || Edward Groff Conklin was born in New Jersey. He graduated from Columbia University in 1927. He was a leading science fiction anthologist, having edited 41 anthologies of science fiction. He also wrote books on home improvement and was a freelance writer on scientific subjects. From 1950 to 1955, he was the book critic for Galaxy Science Fiction. || Poul William Anderson was an American science fiction author who began his career during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories. He received numerous awards for his writing, including seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards.

Anderson received a degree in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1948. He married Karen Kruse in 1953. They had one daughter, Astrid, who is married to science fiction author Greg Bear. Anderson was the sixth President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, taking office in 1972. He was a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America, a loose-knit group of Heroic Fantasy authors founded in the 1960s, some of whose works were anthologized in Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! anthologies. He was a founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. Robert A. Heinlein dedicated his 1985 novel The Cat Who Walks Through Walls to Anderson and eight of the other members of the Citizens' Advisory Council on National Space Policy.

Poul Anderson died of cancer on July 31, 2001, after a month in the hospital. Several of his novels were published posthumously.

Source: Goodreads || Anthony Boucher (born William Anthony Parker White) was an American science fiction editor and author of mystery novels and short stories. He was particularly influential as an editor. - Wikipedia || Fredric Brown was born in Cincinnati.  He wrote science fiction and mystery fiction.  His first novel, What Mad Universe, a popular parody of pulp science fiction, was published in 1949. || American poet, fiction writer and publisher || Cleve E. Cartmill was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy short stories. He is best remembered for what is sometimes referred to as "the Cleve Cartmill affair", when his 1944 story "Deadline" attracted the attention of the FBI by reason of its detailed description of a nuclear weapon similar to that being developed by the highly classified Manhattan Project. - Wikipedia || Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.

He is famous for being co-writer of the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely considered to be one of the most influential films of all time. Clarke was a science writer, who was both an avid populariser of space travel and a futurist of uncanny ability. On these subjects he wrote over a dozen books and many essays, which appeared in various popular magazines. In 1961 he was awarded the Kalinga Prize, an award which is given by UNESCO for popularising science. These along with his science fiction writings eventually earned him the moniker "Prophet of the Space Age". His other science fiction writings earned him a number of Hugo and Nebula awards, which along with a large readership made him one of the towering figures of science fiction. For many years Clarke, Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov were known as the "Big Three" of science fiction.

Clarke was a lifelong proponent of space travel. In 1934, while still a teenager, he joined the British Interplanetary Society. In 1945, he proposed a satellite communication system using geostationary orbits. He was the chairman of the British Interplanetary Society from 1946–1947 and again in 1951–1953.

Clarke emigrated from England to Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) in 1956, largely to pursue his interest in scuba diving. That year he discovered the underwater ruins of the ancient Koneswaram temple in Trincomalee. Clarke augmented his fame later on in the 1980s, from being the host of several television shows such as Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World. He lived in Sri Lanka until his death.

Clarke was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1989 "for services to British cultural interests in Sri Lanka". He was knighted in 1998 and was awarded Sri Lanka's highest civil honour, Sri Lankabhimanya, in 2005.

---From Wikipedia || Roger D. Aycock was an American author who wrote under the pseudonym Roger Dee. He primarily wrote science fiction. - Wikipedia || Walter Braden "Jack" Finney (born John Finney, October 2, 1911 – November 14, 1995) was an American author. His best-known works are science fiction and thrillers, including *The Body Snatchers* and *Time and Again*. The former was the basis for the 1956 film *Invasion of the Body Snatchers* and its remakes.

**Source**: [Jack Finney](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Finney) on Wikipedia. || Donald Allen Wollheim was an American science fiction author, editor, and publisher. || Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of the genre. He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality. He was one of the first writers to break into mainstream, general magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, in the late 1940s, with unvarnished science fiction. He was among the first authors of bestselling, novel-length science fiction in the modern, mass-market era. For many years, Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke were known as the "Big Three" of science fiction. ([Source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein).) || Damon Knight was born in Baker City, Oregon.  He graduated from the WPA Art Center in Salem, Oregon, then moved to New York City.  His first story, "Resilience", was published in 1941.  In 1943 he went into publishing, first with Popular Publications, then editing Beyond in 1950-51 and If in 1959-60.  He became a science fiction critic in 1945, but gave that up in 1954.  In 1956 he co-founded the Milford Science Fiction Writers' Conference.  Also in 1956, he received the Hugo Award for science fiction criticism.  In 1965, he founded and became the first president of the Science Fiction Writers of America.  He published his last book, Will the Real Hieronymus Bosch Please Stand Up? on the internet in 2000.  He lived in Eugene, Oregon, United States, with his wife Kate Wilhelm, also a science fiction writer. || Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. (December 24, 1910 – September 5, 1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theater and films, playwright and chess expert. With writers such as Robert E. Howard and Michael Moorcock, Leiber can be regarded as one of the fathers of sword and sorcery fantasy, having coined the term. 

**Source**: [Fritz Leiber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Leiber) on Wikipedia. || John D. MacDonald was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania.  He attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania but dropped out to move to New York City, where he took menial to support himself.  While attending the School of Management at Syracuse University, he met Dorothy Prentiss, and they married in 1937.  He graduated from Syracuse the following year, and in 1939 he received an MBA from Harvard University.  During World War II he served in the Office of Strategic Services in the Far East.  In 1945, he wrote a short story for his wife and mailed it to her.  She submitted it to the magazine Story, and it was published.  When he returned home after the war, he wrote full-time, often working 14 hours every day.  After five months without another success, he sold a story to the pulp magazine Dime Detective, and he continued to write for detective, mystery, adventure, sports, western and science fiction pulps.  In 1950 his first novel, The Brass Cupcake, was published.  In 1953, he began specializing in crime thrillers, producing some of the most-respected novels in the hardboiled style.  Several of his novels have been made into films. || science fiction writer || American writer and physician || British journalist and writer || English science fiction writer || Margaret St. Clair was an American science fiction writer, who also wrote under the pseudonyms Idris Seabright and Wilton Hazzard.  - Wikipedia || Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 – December 9, 2005) was an American writer. First published in the science-fiction magazines of the 1950s, his many quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist, and broadly comical.

Nominated for Hugo and Nebula Awards, Sheckley was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001. || Theodore Sturgeon was born Edward Hamilton Waldo in Staten Island, New York.  He changed his name in 1929, choosing Sturgeon to match his mother's surname after her second marriage, and "Theodore" to match his nickname, "Teddy."  His mother, Christine Hamilton Dicker Sturgeon, was a well-educated writer, watercolorist, and poet who published journalism, poetry and fiction under the pseudonym Felix Sturgeon.

As an adolescent, Sturgeon wanted to be a circus acrobat, but then had an episode of rheumatic fever.  From 1935 to 1938, he was a sailor in the merchant marine. He sold his first story in 1938, and his first science fiction story, "Ether Breather" was published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1939.  A few of his early pulp stories were published under the pseudonym "E. Waldo Hunter."  

He married his first wife, Dorothe Fillingame, in 1940.  That year, they moved to the West Indies, where Sturgeon managed a hotel for about a year.  He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, and in 1944 he returned to the U.S. and worked as an advertising copywriter.  He divorced in 1945, and married singer Mary Mair in 1949 until an annulment in 1951.  In 1950, he published his first novel, The Dreaming Jewels.  In 1951, he married Marion McGahan and they had a son in 1952, a daughters in 1954, a daughter in 1956, and a son in 1960.  In 1963, he ghost-wrote the Ellery Queen mystery novel The Player on the Other Side, which received critical praise.  He wrote two screenplays for the television show Star Trek in 1966 and 1967, and one screenplay for the show Land of the Lost in 1975, and two of his stories were adapted for The New Twilight Zone.  At the height of his popularity in the 1950s he was the most anthologized author alive.

His last long-term committed relationship was with writer and educator Jayne Engelhart Tannehill, with whom he remained until the time of his death.  He died in May of 1985 of lung fibrosis, in Eugene, Oregon. || Alfred Elton van Vogt was born on a farm in Edenburg, a Russian Mennonite community east of Gretna, Manitoba. Early in his career he wrote for true confession pulp magazines like True Story, but in the late 1930s he began writing science fiction, which he was more interested in. His first published SF story, "Black Destroyer" was published in 1939, and is considered to be one of the first works of the Golden Age of science fiction. In 1941 he left his job at the Department of National Defence to become a full-time writer, and he went on to write a large number of short stories. In 1944 he moved to Hollywood, California. In the 1950s he briefly became involved in L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics projects. Although he left Dianetics, he claimed that Hubbard's followers continued to harass him, and he stopped writing for a few years. In the 1960s Frederik Pohl convinced him to start writing again, and he wrote novels (as opposed to short stories that were later developed into novels) until his death in 2000. || Sydney Fowler Wright was born in the Kings Norton district of Birmingham. He attended school until age eleven, at which point he worked full time. He spent his spare time studying literature, and in 1917 he helped found the Empire Poetry League and edited its journal, *Poetry*. In 1918, his first wife, Nellie, died, and two years later he married Truda Hancock. In the 1920s, he began writing science fiction. In 1924, his novel, *The Amphibians* was published. He continued to write and publish science fiction novels and short stories, using fantastical beings to criticize modern civilization. In 1934, he visited Nazi Germany and was inspired to write three novels about a future war in Europe. He died in 1965. || Karen Anderson is a pseudonym of June Millichamp "Karen" Kruse Anderson. She is the widow and sometime co-author of Poul Anderson and mother-in-law of writer Greg Bear. - Wikipedia