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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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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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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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Katherine MacLean - Contagion

Minos was such a lovely planet. Not a thing seemed wrong with it. Excepting the food, perhaps. And a disease that wasn't really. Originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction, October, 1950. Katherine Anne MacLean...

David Wales 1 hour 12 minutes

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Anna Bowman Dodd - Republic of the Future

or Socialism a Reality In the year 2050, Wolfgang travels to the socialist city of New York. He writes enthusiastically to his friend Hannevig describing the wonders of the journey (via pneumatic tube under the...

Jennifer Fournier 1 hour 15 minutes

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Donald Wandrei - Raiders of the Universes

It was the 34th century and all five of the Federation of Planets around Sol were buzzing with their usual activity when the Raiders appeared. They were indeed Raiders of Universes because they had ravaged many...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 2 minutes

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E. E. Smith - Tedric

This is a wonderful combination of far future science fiction with Conan like sword and sorcery; lots of blood, gore, honor and evil. The immensely powerful hero, Tedric, is a man's man who refuses to accept the cruel...

Phil Chenevert 53 minutes

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Jack Williamson - Salvage in Space

This is an SF tale of excitement, danger, derring-do and strangely enough, love. A lonely and very poor asteroid miner, slowly collecting bits of metallic ore in the asteroid belt on his slowly accumulating 'planet'...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 4 minutes

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Gerald Vance - 3 Science Fiction Stories by Gerald Vance

Three Science Fiction stories by the great Gerald Vance: Monsoons of Death is a very nice blend of horror story and a study of true bravery on the planet Mars. A newly commissioned lieutenant finds out a lot about...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 24 minutes

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Poul William Anderson - Sentiment, Inc.

The way we feel about another person, or about objects, is often bound up in associations that have no direct connection with the person or object at all. Often, what we call a «change of heart» comes about sheerly...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 13 minutes

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John Berryman - Card Trick

The Psi Lodge had their ways and means of applying pressure, when pressure was needed. But the peculiar talent this fellow showed was one that even they'd never heard of...! — Summary by John Berryman

Gary Dana 1 hour 18 minutes

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H. P. Lovecraft - Herbert West: Reanimator

«Herbert West—Reanimator» is a story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft that was first serialized in February through July 1922 in the amateur publication Home Brew. The story was the basis of the 1985...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 29 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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