Fiction

Dr. David Wong stepped out from behind the large bookcase, listening.

C.I.B. Agent Pell used his head, even if he did rely on hunches more than on the computer. In fact, when the game got rough, he found that to use his head, he first had to keep it....

The new life was bitter and difficult and as their resources were depleted so also did their numbers diminish. Huddled at their last retreat the Rell watched the ever smaller ice cap annually diminish and lived with the knowledge they faced extinction. A mere thousand years more would see even this trifling remainder gone. . . .

Norm Venner's fancy was pretty well fixed on thoughts of electronic calculators—until the invention started making passes at the inventor!

This was love, and what could be done about it? It’s been happening to guys for a long time, now.

Free online fiction. This is my mainline cyberpunk story, published first in OMNI then in Bruce Sterling's Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology. I think this is the Japanese OMNI cover.

THE SECOND FALL OF THE ANGELS Long ago, in the days before the great Flood, the mighty Sons of God (or Angels), ruled Earth and the solar system from Jupiter, mingling with men and women as equals. But some prideful Angels, like certain others before them, were tempted by the thought of power over humankind and lust for its women. Soon, their yoke lay heavy on all the planets. That is when Damis, one of the Nephilim, the off-spring of Angels and humans, rose up to lead his own kind and humans in a spirited revolt that would end in cataclysm and a new age for the Earth.

Aerophilia is a short story from the collection Tides from the New Worlds.

Stephen Marlowe (born Milton Lesser) was an American author of science fiction, mystery novels, and fictional autobiographies of Christopher Columbus, Miguel de Cervantes, and Edgar Allan Poe. This is one of those stories.

Stephen Marlowe (born Milton Lesser) was an American author of science fiction, mystery novels, and fictional autobiographies of Christopher Columbus, Miguel de Cervantes, and Edgar Allan Poe. This is one of those stories.

George Wong stood pale and silent by the video screen, listening to the election returns, a long-stemmed glass of champagne clutched forgotten in his trembling right hand.

Stephen Marlowe (born Milton Lesser) was an American author of science fiction, mystery novels, and fictional autobiographies of Christopher Columbus, Miguel de Cervantes, and Edgar Allan Poe. This is one of those stories.

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

A month after the events in "Parasite Planet", Hamilton "Ham" Hammond and Patricia Burlingame are married, and thanks to Burlingame's connections, the two have been commissioned by the Royal Society and the Smithsonian Institution to explore the night side of Venus.