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Robert Sheckley - Watchbird

3 Robert Sheckley short stories that demonstrate the breathof his fantastic imagination. In Watchbird, the question «can machines solve human problems?» is answered with a resounding YES! But there may be a few...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 30 minutes

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474

Keith Laumer - Gambler's World & The Yillian Way

Here are two stores starring the always unconventional Terrestrial Diplomat, Retief. As a diplomat, Retief does not always follow procedure. Well the truth is that he almost never follows procedure but somehow his wit...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 35 minutes

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Murray Leinster - Ambulance Made Two Trips

Big Jake Connors is taking over his town through violence, inimidation and bribery but Detective Sergeant Fitzgerald can only grind his teeth in frustration. The gangsters seem to have everything going their way until...

Phil Chenevert 56 minutes

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Poul William Anderson - Chapter Ends

Far, far in the future the Earth is still spinning around the Sun, on the edge of the galaxy, dozing in obscurity, forgotten by it's trillions of progeny and completely irrelevant. But this doesn't matter to the few...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 1 minute

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Andre Norton - Time Traders, (Version 2)

If it is possible to conquer space, then perhaps it is also possible to conquer time. At least that was the theory American scientists were exploring in an effort to explain the new sources of knowledge the Russians...

Mark Nelson 6 hours 54 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Kurt Becker. S. J. - Countdown

The first flight to outer space became an actual fact – Mars would be the first stop. But before the spaceship took off, two insane enemies almost succeeded in preventing the departure. This science fiction story for...

Maria Therese 3 hours 52 minutes

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Philip K. Dick - Eyes Have It & Tony and the Beetles

Aliens have invaded the earth! Horrible one celled creatures disguised as normal human beings! Well, at least that is what it seems to the author. Yes, The Eyes Have It is a whimsical story, making gentle fun of...

Phil Chenevert 43 minutes

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Randall Garrett - Nor Iron Bars A Cage ...

Iron bars do not confine a Man—only his body. There are more subtle, and more confining bindings, however....Police methods of the future will naturally use complex new technology but police will still need to deal...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 42 minutes

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Philip K. Dick - Beyond Lies the Wub & The Skull

Two stories in the inimitable Philip Dick style. What is a Wub? A 400 pound slovenly, fat, ungainly, drooling animal that looks like a cross between a walrus and an enormous hog? Well, yes that is pretty much what he...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 10 minutes

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Murray Leinster - Pariah Planet (version 2)

When the blue plague appeared on the planet of Dara, fear struck nearby worlds. The fear led to a hate that threatened the lives of millions and endangered the Galactic peace. (Summary by Gutenberg text)

Mark Nelson 4 hours 1 minute

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Randall Garrett - Spaceship Named McGuire

Can a spaceship go crazy? Well, yes it can if it has a brain. And the new MG (magnetogravitic drive) experimental robot space ship does indeed have a 'brain'. Completely bewildered as to why the first six models of...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 42 minutes

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Murray Leinster - Pariah Planet

When the blue plague appeared on the planet of Dara, fear struck nearby worlds. The fear led to a hate that threatened the lives of millions and endangered the Galactic peace. But the Med Service ship Aesculapius 20...

Phil Chenevert 4 hours

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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