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E. M. Forster - Machine Stops (version 3)

«The Machine Stops» is a science fiction short story by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other...

Elizabeth Klett 1 hour 20 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Lloyd Eshbach - Gray Plague

End of the world sci-fi tale borrows heavily from H.G. Wells' WOTW and In The Days of the Comet — looks like fun! ( Summary by BellonaTimes )

Bellona Times 1 hour 22 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Lee Hawkins Garby - Subspace Survivors

A team of space travelers are caught in a subspace accident which, up to now, no one has ever survived. But some of the survivors of the Procyon are not ordinary travelers. Their psi abilities allow them to see things...

Juliana M. and 1 more 1 hour 26 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Michael Shaara - Conquest Over Time

Pat Travis, a spacer renowned for his luck, is suddenly quite out of it. His job is to beat his competitors to sign newly-Contacted human races to commercial contracts... But what can he do when he finds he's...

Mark F. Smith 1 hour 20 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Poul William Anderson - Security

“Security”, tells the story of a compartmentalized government physicist ordered by secret police to complete experiments aimed at developing a new weapon. He is brought to a hidden space station and put in charge of...

Gregg Margarite 1 hour 19 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Murray Leinster - Aliens

The human race was expanding through the galaxy… and so, they knew, were the Aliens. When two expanding empires meet… war is inevitable. Or is it ...? (Summary from Gutenberg text)

tabithat 1 hour 20 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Edmond Hamilton - Stars, My Brothers

Edmond Hamilton (1904 – 1977) had a career that began as a regular and frequent contributor to Weird Tales magazine. The first hardcover publication of Science Fiction stories was a Hamilton compilation, and he and...

Gregg Margarite 1 hour 23 minutes

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Science Fiction

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E. M. Forster - Machine Stops (version 2)

Published in 1909, this science fiction short story takes place in a future where mankind, seemingly no longer able to survive on earth's surface, exists in a vast underground civilization known as «The Machine»....

Jerome Lawsen 1 hour 18 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - 2 B R 0 2 B (Dramatic Reading)

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was a prolific and genre-bending American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions. 2 B R 0...

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Science Fiction

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John J. McGuire - Return

Two-hundred years after a global nuclear war, two explorers from a research outpost, that largely survived the cataclysm, discover a settlement of humans who have managed to maintain their civilisation despite...

Reynard T. Fox 1 hour 21 minutes

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Science Fiction

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E. M. Forster - Machine Stops

The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual lives in isolation in a 'cell', with all...

Jenilee and 1 more 1 hour 12 minutes

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Science Fiction

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H. Beam Piper - Police Operation

H. Beam Piper (1904–1964) was an American science fiction author. He wrote many short stories and several novels. He is best known for his extensive Terro-Human Future History series of stories and a shorter series...

Alex Buie and 1 more 1 hour 16 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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