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Short Science Fiction Collection 048

Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contemporary world. The...

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Murray Leinster - Forgotten Planet

The «forgotten» planet had been seeded for life, first with microbes and later with plants and insects. A third expedition, intended to complete the seeding with animals, never occurred. Over the millennia the insects...

Richard Kilmer 7 hours 6 minutes

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Murray Leinster - Red Dust

You who have read «The Mad Planet» by Murray Leinster, will welcome the sequel to that story. The world, in a far distant future, is peopled with huge insects and titanic fungus growths. Life has been greatly altered,...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 45 minutes

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Ray Cummings - Phantoms of Reality

Red Sensua's knife came up dripping—and the two adventurers knew that chaos and bloody revolution had been unleashed in that shadowy kingdom of the fourth dimension. (Summary by Ray Cummings)

Richard Kilmer 2 hours 4 minutes

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H. Beam Piper - Naudsonce

Naudsonce? What does THAT mean? Well, to find out you will need to listen to this story where Piper's unique mind explores what we mean by 'communication' and how it happens. The joint Space Navy-Colonial Office...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 55 minutes

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John Wood Campbell. Jr. - Islands of Space

As Earth's faster-than-light spaceship hung in the void between galaxies, Arcot, Wade, Morey and Fuller could see below them, like a vast shining horizon, the mass of stars that formed their own island universe. Morey...

Mark Nelson 7 hours

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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