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'A' as in Android [MultiFormat]
by Milton Lesser
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The question is asked: Are the famous Dancing Girls of the Hyperion Club androids? Michael Carmody, Special Investigator for Android Service, especially wants to know, and his work takes him all the way to Saturn's seventh moon just to find out. But will the answers be as important as his own life? (Published: 1951)
Words: 4327 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
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The Risk Profession [MultiFormat]
by Donald E. Westlake
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There are a thousand ways to die in the Asteroid Belt, but roving claims investigator Ged Stanton wants to be sure--was the death of Jafe McCann planned or accidental? He knows he has to move carefully on this, or he might end up being the next victim! (Published: 1961)
Words: 10261 - Reading Time: 29-41 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. (Published: 1952)
Words: 7782 - Reading Time: 22-31 min.
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S is for Zebatinsky [MultiFormat]
by Isaac Asimov
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Marshall Zebatinsky was embarrassed. He, a nuclear physicist, visiting a numerologist in the hopes of furthering his career--to be famous. Was he so desperate for advancement that he would resort to the superstition, or worse fakery, of a numerologist? It was at his wife urgings and now the numerologist has told him that by changing one letter in his name all his dreams would come true. This story originally appeared in Star Science Fiction magazine in 1958. It later appeared in the story collec... more info>> (Published: 1958)
Words: 5475 - Reading Time: 15-21 min.
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The Last Spin [MultiFormat]
by Ed McBain
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Two young men, one loaded gun, one simple mission. For Dave and Tigo, that was all there was to it. Yet in the end, they realize there is more to life, and friendship, than meets the eye. The question remains: Will they be convinced soon enough? (Published: 1956) Edgar Award Winner
Words: 2674 - Reading Time: 7-10 min.
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A Bullet For Cinderella [MultiFormat]
by John D. MacDonald
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Her veneer was big city--but one look and you knew that Toni Rassell's instincts were straight out of the river shack she came from. I watched her as she toyed with the man, laughing, her tumbled hair like raw blue-black silk, her brown shoulders bare. Eyes deep-set, a girl with a gypsy look. So this was the girl I had risked my life to find. This was the girl who was going to lead me to a buried fortune in stolen loot.
Words: 56257 - Reading Time: 160-225 min.
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Poor Superman and Others [MultiFormat]
by Fritz Leiber
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Veritable Classics and Forgotten Gems! A fantastic collection containing some of the most thought-provoking stories by science fiction and fantasy great, Fritz Leiber. From the strange shared universe of Poor Superman and Coming Attraction to forgotten gems like the Chthulu Mythos story, The Dreams of Albert Moreland. Diverse stories like No Great Magic (A story of the Change War) to the fan favorite, A Pail of Air. Tales from the darkly disturbing--A Bit of the Dark World--to the hilarious and ... more info>>
Words: 100455 - Reading Time: 287-401 min.
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Shane [MultiFormat]
by Jack Schaefer
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 Joe Starrett is a humble farmer, loving husband and father, and law-abiding citizen, but a rancher such as Luke Fletcher can get the worst out of even him. The Starrett family and others like them are having land conflicts with the notorious cattle owner, and they seem to be at the losing end. But then Shane comes into the picture--and their lives change forever. What seemed to be a simple political issue turns out to be a lesson in life.
Words: 44421 - Reading Time: 126-177 min.
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The Hinges of Hell [MultiFormat]
by Stewart Sterling
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Expect the unexpected? A hotel fire. A murdered million dollar heiress. A missing priceless sapphire. A pyromaniac newly-wed-husband-turned-widower. All the elements and the accompanying evidence point to an open-and-shut-case, but for some reason, seasoned Chief Fire Marshall Ben Pedley doesn't think so. His investigation brings him in circles, but in the end he realizes the first place to go to is always the last place anyone ever looks!
Words: 38558 - Reading Time: 110-154 min.
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The Web of the Worlds [MultiFormat]
by Harry Harrison, Katherine MacLean
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"This must be another world altogether, separate from his own in time and space. He wasn't sure about the details―it had been a long time since he had read H. P. Lovecraft―but this theory seemed the most tenable." Grant O'Reilly was not the adventurous type. A sheltered invalid as a child, who used books for accompaniment, he had barely begun to live his life before the great change occurred. Suddenly, about to be married, he is taken by a seizure to wake in a land like none he had k... more info>> (Published: 1953)
Words: 28164 - Reading Time: 80-112 min.
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Blabbermouth and Abreaction [MultiFormat]
by Theodore Sturgeon
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Eddie Gretchen meets Maria Undergaard. They fall madly in love with each other and get married. But like any decent fairy tale, there is a wicked witch, yet who would have thought that the princess herself and witch would be one and the same? Eddie is frustrated. How can he successfully parade his beautiful wife if she turns out to be an ugly monster at parties. Could there still be a happy ending for them both?
Words: 14696 - Reading Time: 41-58 min.
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Earthman, Beware! and Others [MultiFormat]
by Poul Anderson
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Three stories by Science Fiction Grand Master, Poul Anderson. EARTHMAN BEWARE! What if you were an alien child orphaned on earth. You look human enough to masquerade as human, but what if your mind was vastly different? Different in more ways than you can imagine. DUEL ON SYRTIS.... Although it was illegal to hunt Martians for sport, when one had a enough money the laws could be circumvented. Riordan had the money now he wanted the skin of Martian to hang on the wall of his trophy room. Of cours... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 24997 - Reading Time: 71-99 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>> (Published: 1953)
Words: 10665 - Reading Time: 30-42 min.
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Slow Djinn [MultiFormat]
by Mack Reynolds
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Jake O'Gara is quickly losing his movie writer touch, what with all the alcohol in his brain. But his big break finally comes in the form of a djinn. Or so he thinks.... (Published: 1957)
Words: 4925 - Reading Time: 14-19 min.
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Summer Guests [MultiFormat]
by James Schmitz
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Mel just wanted to enjoy his stay-at-home vacation in his mostly quiet apartment. But when a he looked into a birdhouse and saw beautiful slanted golden eyes staring back at him his vacation was going to be anything but boring. They were certainly alive! One was green, a tiny body of jade, and the other was silkily human-colored, which was why he had been confused on that point. The wings could hardly be anything else, though they were very odd-looking, almost like thin, flexible glass. Soon he ... more info>> (Published: 1959)
Words: 11661 - Reading Time: 33-46 min.
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The Perfect Host [MultiFormat]
by Theodore Sturgeon
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A boy witnesses a horrible tragedy as a mad woman jumps from a hospital window and vanishes. The boy, his father, and a nurse will never be the same. For something has changed in each of them. A secret that was hiding in a mad woman, but is now loose. A dark fantasy classic about possession, desire and death. (Published: 1948)
Words: 19631 - Reading Time: 56-78 min.
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The Velvet Glove [MultiFormat]
by Harry Harrison
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Despite the Robot Equality Act, being a robot is tough. Jon Venex, a robot designed for work on Venus, needed a job bad or it could mean the scrap heap. When he found a job listing for Venex robot, it sounded too good to be true. And when you're a second-class citizen, like a robot, it usually is. He soon finds himself embroiled in a scheme with underground crime--literally and figuratively! (Published: 1956)
Words: 7734 - Reading Time: 22-30 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. (Published: 1950)
Words: 4976 - Reading Time: 14-19 min.
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Don't Go Near [MultiFormat]
by Craig Rice
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John J. Malone had had some peculiar clients in his past, but never a 550-pound carnivore. He was hired to protect Leopold, a large circus lion. Someone has been murdering the circus's lions, and the suspects are all carny folks. Malone was going to put himself between a ferocious lion and a killer. Only he didn't no which one was more dangerous! A vintage detection tale from 1953. (Published: 1953)
Words: 8868 - Reading Time: 25-35 min.
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Now Die In It [MultiFormat]
by Ed McBain
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Matt Cordell was on his way down. Since he lost his license as a detective for attacking his wife and her lover, his goal is seeking oblivion with a bottle. But P. I. work came to him in spite of himself. His buddy's sister-in-law is pregnant and he wants to know who the daddy is. The case takes on extra emphasis when his buddy's sweet sister-in-law turns up dead. With the help of a nympho, Matt finds out the person he's seeking name is Freddie. Now with only about 100,000 Freddies in NY, Matt C... more info>> (Published: 1953)
Words: 11098 - Reading Time: 31-44 min.
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Preferred Risk [MultiFormat]
by Frederik Pohl, Lester del Rey
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The Company was a powerful, efficient, and monstrous insurance organization that controlled the entire world, scientifically regulating everything in life: war, epidemics, one-a-day food pills and test-tube sex...all through the use of its patented, terrifying human deep-freeze vault. Claims Adjuster Wills, a great believer in the Company, begins to have second thoughts when he meets beautiful and sorrowful Rena, whose radical father lies in a frozen subterranean vault. (Published: 1955)
Words: 59581 - Reading Time: 170-238 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>> (Published: 1954)
Words: 27335 - Reading Time: 78-109 min.
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The Creatures That Time Forgot [MultiFormat]
by Ray Bradbury
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FROM PLANET STORIES: Mad! impossible world! Sun-blasted by day, cold-wracked by night--and life condensed by radiation into eight days! Sim eyed the Ship--if he only dared reach it and escape! ... but it was more than half an hour distant--perhaps the limit of life itself! From the author of Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man. Originally published in the Fall 1946 issue of Planet Stories. It was later reprinted under the title Frost and Fire. (Published: 1946)
Words: 15293 - Reading Time: 43-61 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>> (Published: 1953)
Words: 8608 - Reading Time: 24-34 min.
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The Doom From Planet 4 [MultiFormat]
by Jack Williamson
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Dan McNally's tranquil night aboard his schooner in the tropic is suddenly torn asunder when he receives an SOS from a nearby island. Soon after a ray of green light darts out from the island and destroys his ship. After swimming ashore and fighting a mechanical monster he befriends a beautiful girl. After she unfolds her dramatic story, he realize that he has to destroy the mysterious base on the island or the whole planet Earth will be destroyed by the inhabitants of Mars, which is the Doom fr... more info>> (Published: 1931)
Words: 8424 - Reading Time: 24-33 min.
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