What is happening to Mrs. McInally?

A man struggles with his anxieties, manifested in a blizzard-swept bus station. Nebula Award® Nominee

A woman's personal demons follow her in an unusual form.

A young clerk learns that, from gene-splicing to edible bats, the customer is always right at this intergalactic hotel.

Corporate out-sourcing takes on new meaning via time travel.

This story is fascinating from several different angles. First, it is an alternate history story that presumes that the founder of science fiction was G.K. Chesterton instead of Hugo Gernsback. Seco... more »

To the xenoarchaeologists, Siraga IV was a planet ripe for the picking. But the planet itself had other plans.

Aliens ponder Terran philosophy while, below decks, the machines devise a few new beliefs of their own.

Did the ouija board bring the strangers to Sarah's door or was it the End Of All Things?

A story about a guy, his talking mutt, and their space ship.

A small-town newspaper editor discovers a strange girl--or is it a girl?--and must decide between the scoop of his lifetime or an act of kindness.

A young college professor struggles to find real-life analogies of scientific principles to motivate his 'physics for non-science majors' class, but he himself has much more trouble understanding re... more »

Even the Road to Salvation needs a traffic cop.

A handwriting expert is called in to a case with national security implications, and as he falls in love with the unknown person whose writing he is analyzing, he finds that the case is the most unu... more »

Scientists exploring the nature of quantum reality by performing cruel experiments on human subjects find much more reality than they've bargained for.

To undermine militant Green campaigners, a billionaire spaceflight enthusiast hires an art historian to authenticate erotic forgeries of paintings by Archimboldo, and she is kidnapped and designer-d... more »

In a bleak future in which society has begun to break down, a group of seven scientists and researchers visit Miami in a desperate attempt to find out why the entire city died forty years earlier. W... more »

A 12 year old boy peeping through windows with a telescope sees something that turns his entire life into an obsessive quest.

An expedition into earth's far future seeks to find resources to sustain a crowded world, but against all the rules, one of the explorers plots to stay behind. (Or actually, to stay ahead. In time, ... more »

In the 22nd century, the ugly man is king. (Sexual content)

An alien race tries to reconstruct a horribly wounded man, but they decide to make one or two minor alterations while they're at it. At least they thought the alterations were minor? ... more »

One of Silverberg's most recent short works, this sweeping story has received widespread critical acclaim. It tells the tale of a boy who grew up to challenge The Entities, a group of alien invaders... more »

A researcher attempts to listen to the voices of people from a thousand years ago by reading grooves on pottery. Amazingly, this is a hard science fiction story based on actual research, and it may ... more »

An astronomer who is an expert on the sun meets with two aliens who believe that stars are god-like entities with individual personalities. [Note: This story was co-authored by Gordon Eklund.] Nebul... more »

A head-in-the-clouds professor has made an important discovery, but his more down-to-earth wife doesn't seem to understand its importance. Comical portrayal of differing attitudes between the sexes ... more »