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The Only Game In Town: A Time Patrol Story [MultiFormat]
by Poul Anderson
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 Manse Everard, as a member of the Time Patrol, has a new assignment. In a time before Europe's discovery of the New World. There's a problem with the Mongul, Kublai Khan, the most powerful man on earth. Everard and his partner has to stop the Monguls and the Khan dynasty from becoming the permanent discoverers of North America. But what can two men do against the force of the Mongul hoard? 1960
Words: 11540 - Reading Time: 32-46 min.
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Delenda Est: A Time Patrol Story [MultiFormat]
by Poul Anderson
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It was time to relax for Manse Everard of the Time Patrol. With his fellow agent, Piet van Sarawak, they slake their thirst for rest and relaxation at the Time Patrol lodge in the Pleistocene Era. Deciding they need a change of venue, Everard decides to go to 1960 New York City for dancing, music, and girls! But their journey in time ends in disaster as they end up in jail in a place that is nothing like the New York of Everard's memory. No one speaks a recognizable language and their only hope ... more info>> 1955
Words: 14491 - Reading Time: 41-57 min.
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Time Patrol [MultiFormat]
by Poul Anderson
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It had been a simple want ad that Manson Everard interviewed for, but the job wound up being anything but simple. He soon finds himself training at an academy for the clandestine Time Patrol in the Oligocene period. From 1954 to Prehistoric England to World War ll and back again, Everard patrols time and space to thwart changes that nefarious agents dare to attempt that could change or even destroy the world as he knows it. Yet would an attempt by his friend be his own undoing? Find out in this ... more info>> 1955
Words: 14327 - Reading Time: 40-57 min.
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Mr. Spaceship [MultiFormat]
by Philip K. Dick
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The war continues as a stalemate. The Yucconae, an alien race, are living organisms that can traverse outer space. The Earth's drone rockets do not have a chance against the flexibility of a living organisms. Working in a military research facility, Kramer comes up with a system of installing a man's brain as the central processor of a rocket. Since a pilot could not withstand the pressures of deep space flight, a willing sacrifice will need to be made. Kramer's ex-wife, Dolores, remembers an ol... more info>> 1953
Words: 10665 - Reading Time: 30-42 min.
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Worlds of the Imperium [MultiFormat]
by Keith Laumer
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When Brion Bayard was kidnapped and brought to the alternate world where Earth's history took a different turn, it was not a pleasant experience. It was, however, a startling experience. Here was a world that was just like the Earth he was taken from--with just a few subtle changes. On top of all this, Brion was given a puzzling assignment by his captors. He was to secretly enter a palace, and kill a dangerous and tyrannical dictator. There was one, small catch--the hated dictator in this world ... more info>> 1961
Words: 44296 - Reading Time: 126-177 min.
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Hot Planet [MultiFormat]
by Hal Clement
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An expedition team of scientists is exploring the planet Mercury. The constant rumblings of earthquakes and wind have shaken their ship, the Albireo. A small explorative party departs on tractors. It's then when the volcanic reaction starts. And it looks like the end of the team unless man's intelligence can beat the malevolent nature of a fiery planet! 1963
Words: 8752 - Reading Time: 25-35 min.
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Through the Purple Cloud [MultiFormat]
by Jack Williamson
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From the early days of Pulp Science Fiction comes this tale from an SF Grand Master. George Cleland, while returning home on a small passenger plane with three other passengers, flew into a purple cloud that suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Passing through the cloud they plummet into the black mountains under a blood red sky. The purple cloud is a gateway into the fourth dimension that takes them to a weird and inhospitable world. George and his new friend and love interest, Juanita, have to su... more info>> 1931
Words: 7546 - Reading Time: 21-30 min.
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The Defenders [MultiFormat]
by Philip K. Dick
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Taylor felt life was pretty good. Sure living in an underground bunker developing more sophisticated weapons to bomb the Soviets was less than ideal. But he had a pretty wife, and he was safe from the radioactive poisoned enviroment that existed above ground. The leadies, a sophisticated robot servant, could inform them of the devastating destruction, the bombed out cities, and the further Soviet attacks. But it was a strange fact that the latest leadie to return to the bunker showed no sign of ... more info>> 1953
Words: 8608 - Reading Time: 24-34 min.
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The Vanishing Venusians [MultiFormat]
by Leigh Brackett
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  Matt Harker and his people have journeyed for far too long. A rag-tag group of Earthmen and Venusians floating on the Sea of Morning Opals. Floating without a home and with very little hope. Victimized by hostile natives, burning fevers, bad soil, and bad luck. When land is sighted Harker makes the decision to scale the mountainous terrain in the dim hopes of finding a new home. With two companions they ascend to encounter unknown malevolent alien beings. Harker thought he'd be lucky if they ... more info>> 1945
Words: 10930 - Reading Time: 31-43 min.
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The Gun [MultiFormat]
by Philip K. Dick
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A small crew aboard a spaceship exploring planets are reluctant to land on a planet that show signs of fission. A planet likely destroyed by nuclear war. Mile after mile of unbroken ruin stretched out, blackened slag, pitted and scarred, and occasional heaps of rock. Before the crew can leave the atmosphere, they are struck by an atomic shell. Soon they are falling to the dead planet. But if it's dead what fired that weapon? Originally published in the September, 1952 issue of Planet Stories. 1952
Words: 4870 - Reading Time: 13-19 min.
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The Priests of Psi [MultiFormat]
by Frank Herbert
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"There was a half-humorous saying in Investigation & Adjustment that senior field agents could be detected by the number of scars and medical patches they carried." Lewis Orne is an operator in the I-A (Investigation and Adjustment Agency) of a galactic government. The I-A duties lie in preventing disastrous wars like the recent rim war that has devastated galactic civilization. The planet Amel--The Priest Planet--has accepted Orne as a disciple. Surprisingly, Orne never applied. But the I-A sor... more info>> 1960
Words: 20066 - Reading Time: 57-80 min.
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Mousetrap [MultiFormat]
by Andre Norton
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The tourist's guides on Mars referred to Sam Levatts as a "desert spider." To all the locals he was just a drunk. A barfly that frequents the taverns with a wild tale of "the lovely lady." But Len Collins thinks there might be something more to Sam's drunken tales. For everyone, even the tourists, knows of the value of the "sand monsters." The "sand monsters" are gigantic, horrible, sand statues that are worth their weight in any treasure imaginable. And Sam is the only one that may know their s... more info>> 1954
Words: 2720 - Reading Time: 7-10 min.
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The Skull [MultiFormat]
by Philip K. Dick
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In the future, an authoritarian government is battling the uprising of The First Church. One man, Conger, must be sent back in time to around 1960. Conger's mission: Assassinate the man who is the founder of The Church. A man hidden in the secrecy of the past. Conger's only way of identifying this man is a two hundred year old skull. 1952
Words: 7782 - Reading Time: 22-31 min.
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The Game of Rat and Dragon [MultiFormat]
by Cordwainer Smith
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Future humanity has found the secret of faster-than-light travel, but it comes with great dangers. To minimize these dangers, man can pilot ships through the up-and-out with cats as their partners. Underhill shares his mind with his cat-partner, the Lady May, and must travel to the terrible open places between the stars. Only by working together can they defend themselves and the ship's passengers against the dragons in the emptiness of space. 1955
Words: 5494 - Reading Time: 15-21 min.
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Scanners Live in Vain [MultiFormat]
by Cordwainer Smith
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Man has conquered space, but not without costs. To maintain the space lanes, Scanners have to undergo an operation in which their brain is severed from their sensory inputs to block the Pain of Space. Martel has made this sacrifice. He must monitor his vital functions via implanted dials and instruments in his chest. His only respite from this isolated existence is his ability to occasionally "cranch" and return to some sort of normalcy with his wife, Luci. But now a man named Adam Stone has cla... more info>> 1949
Words: 13159 - Reading Time: 37-52 min.
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Wolves of Darkness [MultiFormat]
by Jack Williamson
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When Clovis McLaurin received an urgent letter from his father, Dr. Ford McLaurin, he rushed in the dead of winter to his father's ranch. Clovis arrives to find the local townspeople are being attacked and killed by a pack of wolves. As he journey's to his father's ranch, a scientist who has been doing revolutionary experiments, he is attacked by wolves. But wolves are not the only thing running with the pack. Stella Jetton, the daughter of his father assistant, is running with the wolves dresse... more info>> 1932
Words: 27680 - Reading Time: 79-110 min.
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Fondly Fahrenheit [MultiFormat]
by Alfred Bester
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A pyrotechnic tour de force by one the greatest writers and stylists of science fiction. Androids cannot kill! Yet that is the case for James Vandaleur's rare multiple-aptitude android. Feeling he has no choice, Vandaleur flees the authorities, and finds himself encompassed in even more horrendous murders. The heat is affecting the man-made servant, but scarier still is what is affecting Vandaleur's mind. 1954
Words: 6877 - Reading Time: 19-27 min.
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Coming Attraction [MultiFormat]
by Fritz Leiber
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A future New York City has changed since a nuclear bomb left areas of radiation that threaten the residents. Women wear coverings over their faces as the latest fashion trend. An Englishman in New York saves a girl from a speeding coupe with fish hooks on its fender. He finds himself attracted and repelled by the girl in this classic story of future shock from a science-fiction grand master. 1950
Words: 4976 - Reading Time: 14-19 min.
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