Being ship wrecked on an alien planet has its discomforts—and problems. Like the problem of inducing the local natives, who happened to be divided into two armed camps, to let you get together...
The trouble with a machine capable of independent self-adjusting operation is, of course, that it may get out of adjustment in a way it decides to maintain—and you can’t...
There are some things that simply can’t be stolen. You can’t, for instance, steal the satisfaction of creating a fine thing; you can steal only the thing. And if it’s an Idea—or a...
The Thing in the City had an immense mass of knowledge, and the immense power that stems from vast knowledge. But—it lacked something which, because it was lacking, it could not know it lacked, until it engulfed the...