The Mortal Immortal
Mary ShelleyAfter drinking an alchemist's unfinished elixir, a lovesick young man begins to outlive everyone he knows.
25 min · Melancholy
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Defense Mech
Ray BradburyA terrified Mars-bound crewman is given a mental refuge so convincing that his childhood memories become the only world he can see.
20 min · Suspenseful
Don’t Get Technatal
Ray BradburyIn a crime-free future, a pulp writer discovers that a perfect society has left him dangerously short of material.
4 min · Humorous
I, Mars
Ray BradburySixty years after being stranded on Mars, an old man receives a phone call from the younger self he recorded to survive the silence.
14 min · Melancholy
Jonah of the Jove-Run
Ray BradburyAn aging, disgraced navigator claims he can guide a vital supply ship through an asteroid belt after its computers fail.
25 min · Hopeful
Lazarus Come Forth
Ray BradburyA grieving morgue-ship attendant recovers a scientist who has floated frozen through space for three centuries—and may hold the key to a war.
19 min · Suspenseful
Morgue Ship
Ray BradburyA burned-out coroner on a space morgue ship gets one last chance to confront the war whose dead he has carried for a decade.
17 min · Solemn
Rocket Summer
Ray BradburyOn the eve of humanity’s first Moon rocket, the man who owns the launch company tries to stop a breakthrough he believes civilization is not ready to use.
20 min · Foreboding
The Creatures That Time Forgot
Ray BradburyOn a world where people are born, grow old, and die within eight days, a boy races against his own lifetime to find a way beyond it.
71 min · Wondrous
The Monster Maker
Ray BradburyStranded on an asteroid with minutes of oxygen left, a patrolman and his camera-obsessed partner confront monsters that may exist only in the mind.
25 min · Adventurous
The Pendulum
Ray BradburyAfter a catastrophic time-machine demonstration, an inventor is condemned to become the living pendulum of the device he built.
8 min · Bleak
The Piper
Ray BradburyOn a colonized, dying Mars, an exiled musician plays a tune that may summon a violent reckoning for Earth’s occupiers.
7 min · Foreboding
Zero Hour
Ray BradburyAcross peaceful future suburbs, children take up a new game called Invasion—and their parents cannot decide whether to take it seriously.
14 min · Foreboding
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