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Philip K. Dick - Second Variety (Version 2)

First published in Space Science Fiction May 1953. «The claws were bad enough in the first place—nasty, crawling little death-robots. But when they began to imitate their creators, it was time for the human race to...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 55 minutes

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Randall Garrett - Anything You Can Do...

An alien crash lands on Earth, and for ten years terrorizes the planet, hiding, periodically killing and eating people and stealing materials for some unknown purpose. The only hope is Bart Stanton, a...

Mark Nelson 6 hours 8 minutes

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Smoky God or a Voyage to the Inner World

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Willis George Emerson - Smoky God or a Voyage to the Inner World

The Smoky God, or A Voyage Journey to the Inner Earth is the narrative of an aged Norwegian sailor compelled before he dies to tell the story of how he found a passageway to the center of the earth and discovered a...

JaySands 2 hours 6 minutes

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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...

Lynne T and 11 more 9 hours 57 minutes Short Science Fiction Collections

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Frederik Pohl - Tunnel Under The World

This famous Pohl story explores cybernetic robots and implanted personalities in a way that certainly expanded my way of looking at reality. Is that wall really real? or is it just kinda, sorta real? And who am I? The...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 24 minutes

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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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Murray Leinster - Tanks

Tanks and the future of war is what Murray Leinster speculates about in this story. Written in the 1920's he observed the terrible new inventions that were used in World War I to kill people, armored tanks and...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 11 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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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - 2 B R 0 2 B (version 2) & The Big Trip Up Yonder (version 5)

These two stories by Kurt Vonnegut were written over a decade apart but they are definitely connected. The Big Trip Up Yonder, published in Galaxy Science Fiction January 1954 is a comical yet scary description of...

Phil Chenevert 46 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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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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