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To Serve Man [MultiFormat]
by Damon Knight
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Classic spine-tingler that was made into an episode of "The Twilight Zone." It's interesting to compare the original short story version to the Rod Serling screenplay. 1950 1951 Retro Hugo Award Winner
Words: 2861 - Reading Time: 8-11 min.
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Masks [MultiFormat]
by Damon Knight
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A man is saved by expensive technology, but is he still a man? One of Knight's best-known works, short but packs a wallop. 1968 Nebula Award(R) Nominee
Words: 3637 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
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The Big Pat Boom [MultiFormat]
by Damon Knight
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If you thought the Internet stock price boom was nuts, try this one on for size. Connie Willis lists this as one of her favorite stories of all time. 1963
Words: 2272 - Reading Time: 6-9 min.
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I See You [MultiFormat]
by Damon Knight
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A machine is invented that can view any person, place, or thing at any time in the past or present anywhere in the universe. The implications for politics, personal privacy, crime and punishment, space exploration, and historical research are mind-boggling and brilliantly explored in this short story. 1976 Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 4903 - Reading Time: 14-19 min.
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La Ronde [MultiFormat]
by Damon Knight
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A rare fantasy by Damon Knight who usually writes science fiction. A man involved in an accident searches for help and finds himself drawn into an inexplicable situation. This story uses various devices to draw the reader deeper and deeper into its reality until you just can't escape. 1983
Words: 5807 - Reading Time: 16-23 min.
Category: Fantasy
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The Last Word [MultiFormat]
by Damon Knight
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A fallen angel has to work hard trying to destroy the entire human race. 1956
Words: 1776 - Reading Time: 5-7 min.
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Backward, O Time [MultiFormat]
by Damon Knight
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Mind-blowing concept of how life would be if time flowed backwards. This is not like the myth of Merlin, who could see the future because he moved backwards in time, but rather a different view of how things might be if everyone lived in a time-reversed world. 1956
Words: 3226 - Reading Time: 9-12 min.
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Time Enough [MultiFormat]
by Damon Knight
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Everyone should have a second chance. And a third. And a fourth... 1960
Words: 1574 - Reading Time: 4-6 min.
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Rule Golden [MultiFormat]
by Damon Knight
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As a newspaper publisher, Robert James Dahls found the news disconcerting; in fact, inexplicable. News items like two boxers simultaneously knocking each other out, prison guards sick and unable to guard the prisoners, policemen shooting fleeing culprits and collapsing themselves, battered wives with husbands suffering the same injuries that they inflicted. Dahl catches wind of a large experimental facility that is being led by the U.S. Department of Defense. His suspicions coincide with the str... more info>> 1954
Words: 27335 - Reading Time: 78-109 min.
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Anachron [MultiFormat]
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A man accidentally discovers a way to pluck small items out of the past, but contradictions are avoided due to some unusual limitations on the process. 1953
Words: 6400 - Reading Time: 18-25 min.
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Eripmav [MultiFormat]
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This short-short story explores a planet inhabited by sentient plants and the dangers they face. 1958
Words: 300 - Reading Time: 0-1 min.
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Thing of Beauty [MultiFormat]
by Damon Knight
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A machine from the future will make a little con man rich by drawing pictures--but the manual is in an alien language. What does it mean when it keeps saying "ett mönster"? 1958
Words: 10471 - Reading Time: 29-41 min.
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A Likely Story [MultiFormat]
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A meeting of science fiction writers leads to a night of fun, confusion, and an unlikely outcome. Damon Knight tells us that every one of the characters in this humorous story is based on a real science fiction writer from the 1950s. The names are only slightly changed to protect the guilty. Some are anagrams, some sound-alikes. Can you guess who everyone is? 1956
Words: 5874 - Reading Time: 16-23 min.
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Semper Fi [MultiFormat]
by Damon Knight
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An inventor seems to be spending an awfully large amount of time living in his own virtual world, and complications ensue as a religious leader attacks the new technology. 1956
Words: 4454 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
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Life Edit [MultiFormat]
by Damon Knight
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What if a machine allowed you to edit your life? What would you change? 1996 Hartwell "Year's Best SF" Selection
Length: 0 hours, 6 minutes, 22 secs
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Not With a Bang [MultiFormat]
by Damon Knight
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The last man on Earth courts the last woman. Damon Knight wrote that this was the ninth story he published, very early in his career, and the first one that he considered to be at a professional level. 1949
Words: 1926 - Reading Time: 5-7 min.
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The Analogues [MultiFormat]
by Damon Knight
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What if psychologists could implant an infallible artificial conscience in people? Would it make the world a better place? 1952
Words: 4352 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
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Cabin Boy [MultiFormat]
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An early Knight story. Quirky-yet-cool story about strange aliens who mistake an Earth ship for food. Oddly enough, this story was inspired by a Limerick: "Tommy Loy the Cabin Boy..." 1951
Words: 9917 - Reading Time: 28-39 min.
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Special Delivery [MultiFormat]
by Damon Knight
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A man thinks his pregnant wife is crazy as she follows instructions given to her from her unborn child. Comical and off-beat D. Knight story. 1954
Words: 6678 - Reading Time: 19-26 min.
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Man in the Jar [MultiFormat]
by Damon Knight
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A tourist visiting another planet just can't seem to get all his momentos packed for the next leg of his journey. He comes upon an unusual solution. 1957
Words: 4865 - Reading Time: 13-19 min.
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The Handler [MultiFormat]
by Damon Knight
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The big man was the life of the party, until ... well, if I say much more you won't need to read this very short story. A great example of Knight's ability to paint a humorous scene with a mixture of irony and even a message lurking in there somewhere. 1960
Length: 0 hours, 25 minutes, 49 secs
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Mary [MultiFormat]
by Damon Knight
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They said Mary wasn't like the others in her clan, that she should have never been hatched. But the elders knew best, after all. 1964
Words: 7067 - Reading Time: 20-28 min.
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Down There [MultiFormat]
by Damon Knight
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A futuristic author uses a computer to write a short story. This story predates home computers by a dozen years and eBooks by a quarter century! 1973
Words: 3638 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
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The Enemy [MultiFormat]
by Damon Knight
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A fifteen year old girl is left alone on a planetoid to survey and mine it. Normally this would be no problem at all, except this time the enemy arrived. 1957
Words: 6700 - Reading Time: 19-26 min.
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Damon Knight Stories Bundle
by Damon Knight
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A convenient way for you to add many of Damon Knight's works to your bookshelf at one time. [When you add a bundle to your cart, any eBooks you already own are automatically removed. You can't accidentally buy the same story twice.]
Words: 100629 - Reading Time: 287-402 min.
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