Written by Jerome Bixby

Tubemonkey

by Jerome Bixby

Tubemonkey is a space opera written by Jerome Bixby. Steve Podalski swung his legs into view and slid carelessly down the dull metal roundness of tube fourteen, like a boy on a barrel. His magnetic boots thunked onto tube thirteen and took hold. He gave Rhiannon a look compounded of acid and pity. "Go to hell with your noise."Off at the other end o..

Cargo to Callisto

by Jerome Bixby

Cargo To Callisto is a science fiction short story written by Jay B. Drexel. Four Aarnian criminals—vicious and deadly—fled silently into the Martian night; and grimly the Patrol threw out an airtight dragnet. Nothing human could have escaped ... but what's human about an Aarnian?Joe gave himself a last swipe with the towel and tossed it ..

The Battle of the Bells

by Jerome Bixby

Owensville is a small town in western Pennsylvania. It sits low in one end of a green-sided valley, just a few frame houses and stores strung along a main street ... and that main street is on the one and only road that leads through the valley: a road that all the maps show to be a convenient and dependable connection between the Penn Turnpike and..