On a distant planet called Nova Prime, the United Ranger Corps defends the galaxy’s remaining humans from an alien race known as the Skrel and their genetically engineered predators, the Ursa. But one ordinary man may have just found the key to...
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From Ms. Magazine, August 1981 issue. The short story that formed the basis for the 1983 movie “Testament,” starring Jane Alexander and William...
The apocalypse has hit Monument, Colorado, and Jake Simonsen, captain of the football team, is caught in the middle of it. A series of escalating disasters, beginning with a monster hailstorm and ending with a terrible chemical weapons spill that...
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“By the Waters of Babylon” is a post-apocalyptic short story by Stephen Vincent Benét first published July 31, 1937, in The Saturday Evening Post as “The Place of the Gods”. It was republished in 1943 in The...
Five college students on vacationing in England take refuge from a thunderstorm in what looks to be an abandoned church. Once they are safe and dry, they discover the beauty, passion, and power that this sanctuary has to offer, leading to a truly...
“Normality” is a myth; we’re all a little neurotic, and the study of neurosis has been able to classify the general types of disturbance which are most common. And some types (providing the subject is not suffering so extreme a case as to have...
The legends of Jaq Merril are legion—but legends. Hark, ye, then to the true story of the pirate benefactor of...
The man is rare who will give his life for what is merely the lesser of two evils. Merrick’s decision was even tougher: to save human beings at the expense of humanity, or vice...
Every era in history has had its Pop Ganlon’s. Along in years and not successful and not caring much anyway. A matter of living out their years, following an obscure path to oblivion.
It was that way in ancient Egypt, just as it will be...