George Spenton-Foster

The Midas Plague

The Future. Robot labour and free energy make the creation of goods easy and automatic. Now people are continually supplied with more things than they can possibly consume.

Some Lapse of Time

Dr Max Harrow is awakened from a re-current nightmare in which he is pursued by a barbaric accusing figures, to find a tramp collapsed on his doorstep, The tramp is suffering from a genetic radiation disorder that should killed him in infancy as it did Harrow's baby son. The man is the living image of Harrow's nightmare figures, Clutched in his hand is a human finger bone and he speaks a strange, unknown tongue,

Sucker Bait

An expedition sets out to discover what has happened to a lost colony on a distant planet. Amongst the scientists is a teenager raised to be a kind of human computer, able to make connections between different specialisms.

Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come......?

Henry Wilkes cultivates rare tropical plants.The length to which he goes to propagate and nurture new hybrids alarms his wife.

Time in Advance

The future. Criminals serve prison sentences before they commit their crimes. Prisons are on new planets that are being colonised. After serving their time, the former prisoners return to their home planet.

The Dead Past

The Chronoscope is a device that analyses ancient photons to allow a glimpse into any event in Earth's distant past. Historian Arnold Potterley is rebuffed when he petitions for use of the Chronoscope to study ancient Carthage. So he commissions the building of a private time-viewing machine.

Stranger in the Family

A boy is skilled at telepathy and in mind control. He attracts the attention of the government.

The Counterfeit Man

On Jupiter's moon Ganymede, an alien life-form has taken over the body of a human astronaut, creating an almost perfect copy. It then begins the long return journey to Earth.