# Short Fiction — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Short Fiction by Fritz Leiber.

- [Later Than You Think](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/later-than-you-think.md): An Explorer returns from space and visits an Archeologist who has discovered the remains of an extinct intelligent species on Earth. The Archeologist describes the species' temperamental instability, overgrown possessive
- [Coming Attraction](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/coming-attraction.md): An Englishman visiting a post-apocalyptic New York rescues a masked woman from a murder attempt by three men in a coupe. She invites him to her apartment, but during a cab ride she evades his questions and slaps his hand
- [Nice Girl with 5 Husbands](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/nice-girl-with-5-husbands.md): Tom Dorset, a frustrated artist on a Tosker-Brown Vacation Fellowship, wanders into a time wind near a balancing rock in the American Southwest and is transported a hundred years into the future. There he meets Lois Wolv
- [Appointment in Tomorrow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/appointment-in-tomorrow.md): Jorj Helmuth, a leader of the Thinkers, uses a somno-learner and robots to invite rocket physicists to a conference, including Willard Farquar. The Thinkers' supercomputer Maizie is revered by the President and generals,
- [A Pail of Air](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/a-pail-of-air.md): The narrator, a boy living with his family in a makeshift insulated 'Nest' after Earth has been torn from the Sun, recounts his terrifying experience seeing a mysterious light and a face in a window while fetching air. H

> 58 more chapter companions — [open a free preview](https://www.betterreads.dev/reader?bookId=short_fiction_19_se_979kb&preview=1) to unlock the rest.

- [Dr. Kometevsky's Day](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/dr-kometevsky-s-day.md)
- [The Moon Is Green](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/the-moon-is-green.md)
- [Yesterday House](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/yesterday-house.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/i.md)
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/iii.md)
- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/v.md)
- [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/vii.md)
- [A Bad Day for Sales](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/a-bad-day-for-sales.md)
- [Friends and Enemies](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/friends-and-enemies.md)
- [Time in the Round](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/time-in-the-round.md)
- [What's He Doing in There?](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/what-s-he-doing-in-there.md)
- [Bread Overhead](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/bread-overhead.md)
- [The Last Letter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/the-last-letter.md)
- [Bullet with His Name](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/bullet-with-his-name.md)
- [Pipe Dream](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/pipe-dream.md)
- [The Night of the Long Knives](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/the-night-of-the-long-knives.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/i.md)
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/iii.md)
- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/iv.md)
- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/v.md)
- [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/vii.md)
- [Kreativity for Kats](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/kreativity-for-kats.md)
- [The Big Engine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/the-big-engine.md)
- [The 64-Square Madhouse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/the-64-square-madhouse.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/i.md)
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/iii.md)
- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/iv.md)
- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/v.md)
- [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/vi.md)
- [The Snowbank Orbit](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/the-snowbank-orbit.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/i.md)
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/iii.md)
- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/iv.md)
- [The Creature from Cleveland Depths](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/the-creature-from-cleveland-depths.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/i.md)
- [Chapter II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/iii.md)
- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/v.md)
- [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/vi.md)
- [Chapter VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/vii.md)
- [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/viii.md)
- [X Marks the Pedwalk](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/x-marks-the-pedwalk.md)
- [A Hitch in Space](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/a-hitch-in-space.md)
- [No Great Magic](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/no-great-magic.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/i.md)
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/iii.md)
- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/iv.md)
- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/v.md)
- [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/vii.md)
- [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/viii.md)

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