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Randall Garrett - Penal Cluster

What do you do with telepaths? Chain them to an asteroid of course and just leave them there… but why? Wait a minute… did I just say that the punishment for being a telepath in the future earth was to be chained to an...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 9 minutes

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Frederik Pohl - Plague of Pythons

In a post-apocalyptic world where every government in the world has been overrun by its own military machinery, only to see that military machinery self-destruct, people are randomly being affected by a plague that...

Nick Bulka 4 hours 17 minutes

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Harry Bates - Astounding Stories 19, July 1931

THE DOOM FROM PLANET 4 JACK WILLIAMSON A Ray of Fire, Green, Mysterious, Stabs Through the Night to Dan on His Ship. It Leads Him to an Island of Unearthly Peril. THE HANDS OF ATEN H. G. WINTER Out of the...

Richard Kilmer and 6 more 8 hours 33 minutes Astounding Stories Magazines Issues 1-20

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Randall Garrett - But, I Don't Think

The title is obscure and a bit unsettling I admit; what could it possible mean? Randall Garrett wrote a story here that had me blissfully going in the wrong direction until he quietly yanked the rug from under my feet...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 22 minutes

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Randall Garrett - Damned If You Don't

We've all heard of the wonderful invention that the Big Corporation or the Utilities suppressed? The one that would revolutionize society with it's simplicity? Well usually, that Wonderful Invention won't work,...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 54 minutes

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Fritz Leiber - Kreativity for Kats & Other Stories

Here are three stories by the inimitable Fritz Leiber, all from Galaxy Magazine: Kreativity for Kats 1961 — aliens do live among us; The Last Letter from Galaxy 1958 — a hand written letter paralizes the postal...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 6 minutes

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Marie Corelli - Young Diana

Poor Diana May. Her fiancé has jilted her, her parents think she is an encumbrance and no one recognises her intelligence. She seems destined to remain unloved, unappreciated and unpaid — until she decides to take...

Newgatenovelist 13 hours 23 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Edmond Hamilton - Legion of Lazarus

Those convicted of the most heinous crimes are sentenced to the Humane Penalty: they are ejected from the airlock of a ship, to freeze in the icy chill of outer space. Death is instantaneous. But in some cases, not...

Peter Eastman 2 hours 38 minutes

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Poul William Anderson - Sensitive Man

Poul Anderson delves into the realm of human potential in this exciting story and asks some penetrating questions for us to think about. What if psychology finally enabled people to even partially control all those...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 38 minutes

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Lester del Rey - 3 Science Fiction Stories by Lester del Ray

The quirky mind of famous SF writer Lester del Ray gives us three wonderful tales ranging from zombies (Dead Ringer), time travel (how do you convince your earlier self it is safe to get into the time machine,...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 42 minutes

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Poul William Anderson - Inside Earth

This story takes place in the not so distant future. Earth has been conquered and is a subjugated planet, the much too humanoid new rulers now extract heavy taxes, control industry and reproduction and interfere in...

Phil Chenevert 2 hours 4 minutes

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Joseph Conrad - Inheritors

The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story (1901) is a quasi-science fiction novel on which Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad collaborated. It looks at society's mental evolution and what is gained and lost in the process....

John Burlinson and 4 more 7 hours 10 minutes

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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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