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Philip K. Dick - Mr. Spaceship

The war with the Yucks from Proxima Centauri was claimed to be a stalemate but they were really winning. The mine belts they laid seemed to propagate themselves and were slowly strangling Terran planets. How did they...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 12 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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Harry Harrison - Misplaced Battleship

«It might seem a little careless to lose track of something as big as a battleship… but interstellar space is on a different scale of magnitude. But a misplaced battleship—in the wrong hands!—can be most dangerous.»...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 11 minutes

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Clifford D. Simak - Project Mastodon

Clifford Simak deals with the implications of time travel in his own unique way in this story. What if a group of guys did it on their own, without any help from government or industry? On a shoestring,so to speak?...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 11 minutes

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Philip K. Dick - Beyond Lies the Wub & The Skull

Two stories in the inimitable Philip Dick style. What is a Wub? A 400 pound slovenly, fat, ungainly, drooling animal that looks like a cross between a walrus and an enormous hog? Well, yes that is pretty much what he...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 10 minutes

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Bobby in Search of a Birthday (version 2)

Family

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Lebbeus Mitchell - Bobby in Search of a Birthday (version 2)

Bobby is a little orphan boy of about 5 who discovers he has somehow lost his 'birfhday' and decides to go looking for it. This epic quest takes him into strange places and meetings with people who are sometimes...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 9 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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W. F. Harvey - Beast With Five Fingers

A well off English bachelor receives a legacy from his uncle. This includes the uncle's very large library and a box containing something that used to belong to his uncle. The box has air holes in it. It is not a rat...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 8 minutes

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Clifford D. Simak - Hellhounds of the Cosmos

From Astounding Stories of 1932. Earth is being attacked by horrible black monsters that appear from nowhere and destroy and kill everything and everyone in their paths. Nothing affects them, nothing stops them; they...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 8 minutes

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (abridged, version 3)

Action & Adventure

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Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (abridged, version 3)

A delightful version of Alice's Adventures following that scurrying Rabbit with the watch that is shortened for the enjoyment of younger children. She meets all of the strange talking animals (and they are just as...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 8 minutes

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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 3)

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Henry David Thoreau - On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 3)

«That government is best which governs least» is the famous opening line of this essay. The slavery crisis inflamed New England in the 1840s and 1850s. The environment became especially tense after the Fugitive Slave...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 7 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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Detective Fiction

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventure of the Speckled Band

Sherlock Holmes and Watson are awoken early by a distraught woman desperately seeking their aid. Something is terribly wrong and she fears for her life. Upon hearing her story, Sherlock agrees and springs into action...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 6 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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