A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.
The readership the story was written for.
Bertie must convince a nerve specialist that he is a suitable son-in-law, but his flat is about to give the wrong impression.
A poet who hates New York must send his aunt lively reports from its nightlife to keep the allowance that lets him stay in the country.
Bertie has one job: get his troublesome cousins onto a ship. Both fall for the same woman and refuse to leave.
Bertie backs a village sermon contest, but the clergy keep upsetting his carefully calculated odds.
Sippy cannot refuse his old headmaster or tell a poet he loves her, so Bertie tries to cure both problems with a bag of flour.
Bingo tries to win Mary with a village Christmas show, while a rival and a bookmaker watch his every move.
Bertie and Jeeves back two unlikely contenders at a village sports day, but their bookmaker has plans of his own.
Biffy has lost the woman he loves and is engaged to another. Bertie’s rescue plan takes them to a crowded exhibition.
After a Boat Race night arrest, Bertie poses as his jailed friend at a Cambridge house full of people he'd rather avoid.
A hungry starship crew buys a hulking Martian animal, then learns its mind may be more civilized than their own.
A cuckoo clock takes sides in a failing marriage and refuses to behave like the possession its owner thinks he bought.
A dying professor lends his brain to an experimental warship, and the machine begins making decisions its creators never authorized.
When soldiers on a remote asteroid declare themselves plants, a psychiatrist enters the woods to find who taught them.
A major crosses a ruined battlefield to negotiate peace, unaware that the autonomous weapons around him have learned to look human.
Three Terran agents flee Mars with a stolen city hidden among office supplies, but one fellow passenger asks too many questions.
After eight years underground, three men risk the radioactive surface and find the robots fighting their war have kept a secret.
A casual reader finds an alien invasion hidden in plain sight inside the figures of speech in a paperback novel.
Explorers land on a dead planet and discover that one weapon has outlived the civilization it was built to defend.
A shopkeeper notices a corpse that his entire town ignores, then realizes being the only person alarmed may mark him as prey.
A condemned hunter is sent two centuries into the past to kill a religious founder, armed only with a gun and the target’s skull.
A Terran boy visits his alien friends on the day their people finally begin winning back a century of conquered worlds.
After a Mars-based spiritual grifter strands a group of elderly women, their leader decides they will take the promised journey anyway.
Stranded on a seemingly hospitable planetoid, a spaceman discovers that the only danger comes when he tries to sleep.
A terrified Mars-bound crewman is given a mental refuge so convincing that his childhood memories become the only world he can see.
