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1. Short [5475 words]S as in Zebatinsky by Isaac Asimov [Science Fiction/Humor]
2. Long [53424 words]Science Fiction Grand Master, Robert Silverberg: Volume One, Dangerous Dimensions by Robert Silverberg [Science Fiction]
3. Short [24997 words]Earthman, Beware! and Others by Poul Anderson [Science Fiction]
4. Long [68095 words]Over My Dead Body by Rex Stout [Mystery/Crime]
5. Long [73499 words]The Lucky Stiff by Craig Rice [Mystery/Crime]
6. Mid-Length [43554 words]Meeting of the Minds: Short Stories of Robert Sheckley, Volume 1 by Robert Sheckley [Science Fiction/Fantasy]
7. Mid-Length [42803 words]The Odor Of Thought: Short Stories Of Robert Sheckley, Volume 2 by Robert Sheckley [Science Fiction]
8. Mid-Length [38724 words]A Handful of Stars by Poul Anderson [Science Fiction]
9. Long [50543 words]Master of Noir: Volume Three by John D. MacDonald & Lawrence Block & Ed McBain [Mystery/Crime]
10. Long [60249 words]Bare Trap by Frank Kane [Mystery/Crime]
  1. Mid-Length [43554 words]Meeting of the Minds: Short Stories of Robert Sheckley, Volume 1 by Robert Sheckley [Science Fiction/Fantasy]
2. Long [54382 words]The Lost Bradbury: Forgotten Tales of Ray Bradbury by Ray Bradbury [Science Fiction/Fantasy]
3. Mid-Length [44296 words]Worlds of the Imperium by Keith Laumer [Science Fiction/Suspense/Thriller]
4. Mid-Length [44667 words]The Towers of Titan and Other Stories by Ben Bova [Science Fiction]
5. Short [13159 words]Scanners Live in Vain by Cordwainer Smith [Science Fiction]
6. Short [15288 words]Second Variety by Philip K. Dick [Science Fiction]
7. Short [15293 words]The Creatures That Time Forgot by Ray Bradbury [Science Fiction]
8. Short [12356 words]Time Grabber by Gordon R. Dickson [Science Fiction/Alternate History]
9. Short [22469 words]Lorelei of the Red Mist by Ray Bradbury & Leigh Brackett [Science Fiction/Fantasy]
10. Short [5475 words]S as in Zebatinsky by Isaac Asimov [Science Fiction/Humor]
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1 S as in Zebatinsky [MultiFormat]
by Isaac Asimov
  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.
Category: Science Fiction/Humor
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2 Science Fiction Grand Master, Robert Silverberg: Volume One, Dangerous Dimensions [MultiFormat]
by Robert Silverberg
  Hugo and Nebula Award Winning and Nominated Short Fiction from Science Fiction Grand Master, Robert Silverberg. In an Earth far into the future, the human race has reverted to a rigid Guild system where every citizen is classified according to function and mandated to strictly abide by the Guild's set of rules. Those who are Guildless are not considered men; they are at the lowest rung of the social ladder and shunned by all. In this universe of specialized citizens, genetic engineering had be... more info>> Nebula Award(R) Finalist, Hugo Award Winner, Locus Poll Award Nominee, Locus Poll Award Winner, Hugo Award Nominee

Words: 53424 - Reading Time: 152-213 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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3 A Handful of Stars [MultiFormat]
by Poul Anderson
  Dominic Flandry is the Terran Naval Intelligence equivalent to James Bond. Dashing and debonair, he is deadly both to human women and his enemies. His foes are remarkable for their skill in manipulating people, but Flandry is matching them wit for wit. With his extremely good luck and keen mind honed from years of experience being a spy in various guises, Flandry is able to survive one near-fatal disaster after another. He seems indestructible and unmatched in all of the Terran empire. The Adm... more info>>

Words: 38724 - Reading Time: 110-154 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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4 Bare Trap [MultiFormat]
by Frank Kane
  Hollywood keeps no secrets from Johnny Liddell ? When Private Eye Johnny Liddell moves his base of operations to the West Coast, he takes his talent for trouble with him, uncovering more dirt than a ditch-digger on overtime. First there's a movie mogul's adopted son (loaded with cash) living in constant fear of death. The there's a bevy of beautiful gals, all connected with the unlucky lad, but perfectly willing to change the color of their silks when Johnny shows up. Then there's murder--raw an... more info>> (Published: 2011)

Words: 60249 - Reading Time: 172-240 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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5 Earthman, Beware! and Others [MultiFormat]
by Poul Anderson
  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.
Category: Science Fiction
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6 Master of Noir: Volume Three [MultiFormat]
by John D. MacDonald, Lawrence Block, Ed McBain
  This anthology features some of the most famous authors writing at the peak of their careers! Volume three of Master of Noir has the following ten great stories: THE KILLERS by JOHN D. MACDONALD, ATTACK by ED McBAIN, JUST WINDOW SHOPPING by LAWRENCE BLOCK, SIX FINGERS by HAL ELLSON, STRANGER IN THE HOUSE by THEODORE PRATT, MAY I COME IN? by FLETCHER FLORA, COP FOR A DAY by HENRY SLESAR, PRECISE MOMENT by HENRY KANE, GRAVEYARD SHIFT by STEVE FRAZEE, BAIT FOR THE RED-HEAD by EUGENE PAWLEY

Words: 50543 - Reading Time: 144-202 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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7 Meeting of the Minds: Short Stories of Robert Sheckley, Volume 1 [MultiFormat]
by Robert Sheckley
  Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 -- December 9, 2005) was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and broadly comical. Sheckley was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001. Included in this collection are nine of some of his best stories written in the 1950s. Includes the following stories: ME... more info>>

Words: 43554 - Reading Time: 124-174 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy
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8 Over My Dead Body [MultiFormat]
by Rex Stout
  A spine-tingling NERO WOLFE murder-mystery. It all began when Nero Wolfe was blackmailed into taking the case of a rather stunning blonde who was accused of stealing. Suddenly there was a corpse! And to further complicate matters ... another corpse! Then Nero Wolfe started weaving his fine web. When he had completed it, he was stunned to find himself enmeshed in it! For big spiders were weaving, too! Powerful, international spiders that had everything to lose if Nero Wolfe should win--and who w... more info>>

Words: 68095 - Reading Time: 194-272 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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9 The Lucky Stiff [MultiFormat]
by Craig Rice
  "Anna Marie St. Claire died in the electric chair at one minute after midnight this morning, with smile on her lips ? " Brooding over his gin in Joe the Angel's City Hall Bar, John J. Malone read those headlines, and the story of how, half an hour too late, a dying gangster's confession had proved Anna Marie innocent. She had been too beautiful to die. Malone knew if he had defended her she wouldn't have had to die. Suddenly he turned white. For there, floating through the swinging doors, came ... more info>>

Words: 73499 - Reading Time: 209-293 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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10 The Odor Of Thought: Short Stories Of Robert Sheckley, Volume 2 [MultiFormat]
by Robert Sheckley
  Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 -- December 9, 2005) was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and broadly comical. Sheckley was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001. Included in this collection are nine of some of his best stories written in the 1950s. Includes the following stories: WA... more info>>

Words: 42803 - Reading Time: 122-171 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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11 'A' as in Android [MultiFormat]
by Milton Lesser
  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.
Category: Science Fiction
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12 77 Rue Paradis [MultiFormat]
by Gil Brewer
  He met a gutter angel on the roadway to hell! It began here for Baron--the whole grotesque skein of terror-- here in this Marseilles street of despair, the street called the Rue Paradis. There was Gorssmann, fat and corrupt, who waited until Baron scraped bottom--and then blackmailed him into treason. And Lili, the dark, lovely gamin, who fell in love with Baron--and worked for the man determined to destroy him. Altogether for Frank Baron it was a small hell on the street called Paradise!

Words: 60415 - Reading Time: 172-241 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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13 A Bullet For Cinderella [MultiFormat]
by John D. MacDonald
  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.
Category: Mystery/Crime/Suspense/Thriller
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14 A Matter of Faith [MultiFormat]
by Robert A.W. Lowndes
  Among an infinite multitude of worlds, almost any type of culture is possible. But all science requires that cause and effect be related. To the fellahin culture of the worlds of Ein, no real science was possible. There was only the will of Ein. Yet Dondyke found that both their religion and their peculiar science could be horribly effective! (Published: 1952)

Words: 15320 - Reading Time: 43-61 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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15 Alarm In The Night [MultiFormat]
by Stewart Sterling
  A FIRE MARSHAL PEDLEY MYSTERY A murderous arsonist leaves a trail of horrible death and destruction in his wake, and a series of difficult cases for fearless and resourceful Fire Marshal Pedley to solve. Pedley fights desperately through a maze of clues, and a group of evasive suspects which includes everything from slick night-club operators to a cagey lady numerologist, to ferret out an arsonist-murderer far more deadly and difficult to trace than any ordinary killer.

Words: 48325 - Reading Time: 138-193 min.
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16 Backwoods Girl [MultiFormat]
by Peggy Gaddis
  Innocent as she was, Cindy knew men .... Just a country girl, lovely and wild as the hills she was born and raised in, that was Cindy. But Enoch, the boy who loved her with the pure, fierce love of a rushing mountain stream. Lorna, the woman who hated her as only one woman can hate another, when one has purity and beauty, and the other has lost both. And Jim, the man who found her when he thought there was nothing left in the world worth finding .... These three did not understand Cindy. Not un... more info>> (Published: 2011)

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17 Beware the Fury [MultiFormat]
by Theodore Sturgeon
  Meet Wolf Reger--traitor. Compared to him Benedict Arnold was a national hero and Judas Iscariot a paragon of virtue. At least that's the way it showed in the Major's notes?. But traitors aren't born that way. Something has to happen to them long before they turn against society. That's why, when you dig deep enough, you may find that the word traitor can be one hell of a misnomer! (Published: 1954)

Words: 9110 - Reading Time: 26-36 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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18 Beyond Bedlam and Other Stories [MultiFormat]
by Wyman Guin
  Wyman Guin burst upon the Science Fiction field with the classic Beyond Bedlam in the 1950s. His story of how society has made living with schizophrenia the norm rather than the exception. The story reads like a mash-up of 1984 with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The other stories in this collection are in a lighter vein and shows that Guin was one of the best humorist writing SF in the decade of the 50s. Stories about witches, genetic engineered creatures, and mathematical magic. Also contain... more info>>

Words: 44624 - Reading Time: 127-178 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy
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19 Blabbermouth and Abreaction [MultiFormat]
by Theodore Sturgeon
  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.
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
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20 Blood On My Jets and Others [MultiFormat]
by Algis Budrys
  Four stories from a master of Science Fiction. Blood on My Jets--Ash had been working for the Earth agency in a covert way for a long time. If there was an area that was classified, that needed cleaning up, that operated in the gray areas even when those gray areas that went black--Ash was their man. Ash had blood on his hands, but it was in the service of the good, he hoped. But then Pat McKay walked into his life again. A beautiful girl with cooper hair and brown eyes. She turned the head of e... more info>>

Words: 39577 - Reading Time: 113-158 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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21 Bodies in Bedlam [MultiFormat]
by Richard Prather
  Shell Scott was up to his neck in guns, girls and gore. Constanza Carmocha was unarmed--that is, she didn't have a gun. She didn't need one, either. She had all the weapons that have ruined men from time immemorial--or time immoral. One man had had his throat slit because of her, another was going to die. She was surrounded by a guy who resembled a shaved ape and looked as though he could pick himself up with one hand. But the hand isn't always quicker than the private eye, and as sure as my nam... more info>>

Words: 56719 - Reading Time: 162-226 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime/Suspense/Thriller
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22 Bodyguard and Other Stories [MultiFormat]
by Evelyn Smith
  Gabe Lockard had it all--a beautiful wife, lots of money, social connections, and most of all, a great face in a great body. Only problem was, inside that body wasn't Gabe Lockard. The real Gabe Lockard was a wanderer, a dutchman--a zarquil addict, who regularly plays the galaxy's most dangerous tournament just to be encased in another man's anatomy. But even that was a lie. For the truth was that Gabe Lockard wanted his body back. He followed it to the ends of the earth and outer space, playing... more info>>

Words: 44904 - Reading Time: 128-179 min.
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23 Bold Rider [MultiFormat]
by Luke Short
  Getting the gold was easy--as easy as riding his horse up that mountain. But getting down again was another story. Set up by his partner, ambushed by his ally, left for dead in an avalanche, Poco St. Vrain had a long trail ahead. He had to recover the gold and clear his name. To do that meant tracking down not one gang of desperadoes but two. It would take a good horse, a fast gun, and the steady nerve of a ... BOLD RIDER!

Words: 64344 - Reading Time: 183-257 min.
Category: Suspense/Thriller/Historical Fiction
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24 Brain of the Galaxy [MultiFormat]
by Jack Vance
  Arthur Caversham of 22nd-century Boston finds himself naked at a dinner party. Bearwald the Halforn battles the Brands from Mount Medallion. Ceistan seeks a parchment in the dead city of Therlatch filled with treasure that is now worthless. Dobnor Daksat is competing with artists of the top order to create worlds with the imagicon, a device unknown to him. What is the connection of these disparate tales? Not even the Brain of the Galaxy understands their full ramifications. First published in 1... more info>> (Published: 1951)

Words: 8996 - Reading Time: 25-35 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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25 Campus Doll [MultiFormat]
by Donald E. Westlake
  The intimate story of a coed who turned "love" into a big business! At Clifton College the male students were never frustrated. When a campus cutie teased and ran, there was always Jackie Hayes' "study rooms" to resort to. There you could do your "homework" in peace. There you could carry on experiments so dear to the hearts of all eager students, with tutors truly dedicated to their work: Sandy, Laura, Rita, Honey and even Jackie--the campus doll herself. True, this extra-curricular work led to... more info>>

Words: 46957 - Reading Time: 134-187 min.
Category: Erotica/Classic Erotica/Mystery/Crime
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