Short stories tagged with Outer Space

Listing 39 stories.

A routine inspection for a Space Navy ship leads to confusion over a vague item. A hasty fix before a military inspection causes more stress than intended.

A team of three space hunters attempt to kill a theriida—a space whale with invaluable organs and skin that can provide riches and protect humans against interstellar radiation—but in their zeal, they face the risk of turning into theriidas themselves.

A squirrel monkey defeats the competition and fulfills her dream of becoming an astronaut. Based on the true story of Miss Baker, one of the first animals to be launched into space in 1959.

A doctor plans an insurrection against the aliens that kidnapped his crew. After being taken prisoner on an alien planet, a doctor and his remaining crew devise an intricate means to escape.

In outer space, cat-like alien outwits its human captors until its own plan backfires.

On a distant planet where the citizens are made of porcelain, a low-class woman makes the mistake of falling in love with a human tourist.

A spaceship captain risks his life and crew when he travels to a black hole to retrieve a missing senator and his own long-lost family.

Three astronauts on the spaceship Sunbird survive collision with a solar flare only to discover that they have been transported through time, and are being contacted by a space crew of some of the last humans on Earth.

In a futuristic world, a well-intentioned African witch doctor kills a newborn baby that according to his culture was a demon. However, Maintenance, white people from another planet, disagree with the witch doctor’s cultural traditions and try to stop this practice.

A woman awaits her husband’s return from a space expedition to Mars, and struggles with his condition when he comes back living minutes ahead of Earth time.