Once upon a moment, the One spoke to He and She, and learned that infinity and eternity are slippery concepts. At best.

Gregory Benford is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine.

As a science fiction author, Benford is best known for the Galactic Center Saga novels, beginning with In the Ocean of Night (1977). This series postulates a galaxy in which sentient organic life is in constant warfare with sentient mechanical life.

A surprising story about a girl who took a terrific gamble...

Story of a boy who found a way.

Danny Watson should have known that there was something wrong with this fighter, Leslie, considering how he had obtained him...

Which is harder: seeing your own future—or truly knowing your past? A science fiction tale of Christmases past and yet to come.

He was huge, and slow, and very powerful. And the family was never the same again.

Miranda was her name — and she sang a sad song.

Every ring champ knows the time when he’s too slow, too tired — too old to win. For those who can’t quit, there’s only one thing to do — lean into the storm of red leather and keep on trying for—

Some heroes don’t carry blades or go to war. Some heroes are fathers desperately trying not to fail their sons.

Like some other stories published on Tor.com, “The Hell of It” contains scenes and situations some readers will find upsetting and/or repellent.[—The Editors]

This novelette was acquired and edited for Tor.com by senior editor Claire Eddy.

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“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 crossed the border into psychosis) can be not only useful, but perhaps necessary for certain kinds of work….

The man lay dying in the street. She walked on without even turning, carrying in her white shoulder bag his grisly legacy of death.

Five in six weeks it had been: Rape and murder in the deserted park. When would the next one happen?

Why did everybody step off the ship in this strange valley and promptly drop dead? How could a well-equipped corps of tough spacemen become a field of rotting skeletons in this quiet world of peace and contentment? It was a mystery Peter and Sherri had to solve. If they could live long enough!Transcriber’s Note:This etext was produced from Amazing Stories October 1956. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and typographical errors have been corrected without note.

The Kite Maker is Brenda Peynado’s science fiction novella of of how humans cope with alien contact.

After aliens arrive on earth, humans do the unthinkable out of fear. When an alien walks into a human kite maker’s store, coveting her kites, the human struggles with her guilt over her part in the alien massacres, while neo-Nazis draw a violent line between alien and human.

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Once Brud had been certain there were thinas nothing in the world could make him do. But in this new world were the Black Dukes and the Sportsters.