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Hocus-Pocus Universe [MultiFormat]
by Jack Williamson
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 Into the world of facts and figures, scientists and soldiers, came Eon Hunter. Eon the misfit, with his stubborn refusal to accept the world as it was; Eon the enigmatic, who always returned to involve himself in Guilborn's life. They loved the same girl, but were opposites in every other aspect. And Guilborn the scientist now has a theory that may prove to be the salvation of Earth. But Eon is convinced it will destroy it! 1953
Words: 16207 - Reading Time: 46-64 min.
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Heel & The Wounded [MultiFormat]
by Philip Jose Farmer
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Two stories from Science Fiction Grand Master, Philip José Farmer. Heel--There's a great movie being made thousands of years in our past. The Director is Zeus and the screenplay writer is Apollo. Their actors are Achilles and the cast of the Trojan war. Only they're not aware of even what a movie may be. The gods/crew of the movie all have different motives. But it should all make for a great epic. The Wounded--What happens when the Master of Love gets smitten? 1954
Words: 7399 - Reading Time: 21-29 min.
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The Men Return and Others [MultiFormat]
by Jack Vance
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  Five vintage stories from the 1950s by Science Fiction Grand Master, Jack Vance. SF stories of adventure, detection, horror, and humor. Stories include The Men Return; The Devil On Salvation Bluff; A Practical Man's Guide; Worlds of Origin; and the haunting, When the Five Moons Rise.
Words: 25245 - Reading Time: 72-100 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! 1956
Words: 7734 - Reading Time: 22-30 min.
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Blood On My Jets and Others [MultiFormat]
by Algis Budrys
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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.
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Captives Of The Flame [MultiFormat]
by Samuel R. Delany
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The Empire of Toromon had finally declared war. The attacks on its planes had been nothing compared to the final insult--the kidnapping of the Crown Prince. The enemy must be dealt with, and when they were, Toromon would be able to get back on its economic feet. But how would the members of this civilization--one of the few that survived the Great Fire--get beyond the deadly radiation barrier, behind which the enemy lay? And assuming they got beyond the barrier, how would they deal with that ene... more info>> 1963
Words: 48397 - Reading Time: 138-193 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. 1953
Words: 8868 - Reading Time: 25-35 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>> 2009
Words: 24997 - Reading Time: 71-99 min.
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Try To Remember [MultiFormat]
by Frank Herbert
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The science language―an overly-neglected field for the extrapolations science-fiction―is put brilliant use in this powerful story. Against a background ultimate peril from a galactic invader, man (in this case, woman) back beyond Babel to recall for humanity the places the soul, where words are not enough. Would the similarity between the gestures of an Arab dancer and those of the dread Galactic invaders help to break the communication barrier before it was too late? 1961
Words: 13822 - Reading Time: 39-55 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. 1946
Words: 15293 - Reading Time: 43-61 min.
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The Guilty Ones [MultiFormat]
by Ross Macdonald
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Lew Archer didn't like his client, J. Reginald Harlan, M.A. Of course Archer generally didn't like people whose names started with a single syllable. Harlan hired Lew to find his sister. A respectable school mistress that has run off with a bohemian artist type. But he finds more than what he expected when he has a corpse literally dumped on him! 1952
Words: 8846 - Reading Time: 25-35 min.
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Tongues of the Moon [MultiFormat]
by Philip Jose Farmer
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Earth was dying. Possibly the only human beings left in the Universe were those on the Moon. On this last outpost of humanity, the age-old controversy between ideologies continued to tear the human race apart, as each group prepared to unleash the deadly ...Tongues of the Moon 1961
Words: 10331 - Reading Time: 29-41 min.
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Black Bargain and Other Raw Deals [MultiFormat]
by Robert Bloch
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Deals with the devil, vampire cloaks, time machines, aliens and atomic bombs are some of the ingredients in this Horror Master's recipe. Elements of Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror co-mingle into a unique flavor that can only be Robert Bloch. Seven stories of that will leave you up at night! Stories included are: Black Bargain, Founding Fathers, The Past Master, Daybroke, The Hungry Eye, The Old College Try, A Good Imagination and The Cloak. From the author of Psycho! 2009
Words: 56459 - Reading Time: 161-225 min.
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The Imaginary Blonde [MultiFormat]
by Ross Macdonald
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Lew Archer was in a dismal mood when he checked into a sleepy motel. He had just lost the man he was trailing and then got into a crazy highway chase with a Cadillac. Now he just wanted to get some sleep. But his thoughts of sleep ended when a screaming brunette woke him with her screams and a hand covered in blood. It looked like a murder, but where was the victim? And Lew Archer only had one suspect―an imaginary blonde that nobody seems to have seen. 1953
Words: 12277 - Reading Time: 35-49 min.
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Queen of the Deep [MultiFormat]
by Philip Jose Farmer
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Jones was on his way on a Luxury Liner when it was suddenly blown up. He is captured by a robotic enemy submarine. The secret high-tech sub has a robot with a definite female voice and character and "she" is a weapon of war. It drugs, prods him and even probes his psyche, then announces it needs Jones's help. But Jones's problem is he needs to overcome his claustrophobia of dark places to save himself. And to save himself he needs to save the submarine. This story under the varient title "Son" i... more info>> 1954
Words: 7382 - Reading Time: 21-29 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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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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Time Grabber [MultiFormat]
by Gordon R. Dickson
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TIME GRABBER - Philton J. Bugsomer is a scholar of sociomaticsin the 27th century. With the time-grabber he'll be able snatch some Christians from the 1st century before they are killed by the Roman Gladiators. Bugsomer, despite the possiblilty of a time paradox, decides to replace those Christians with some round heads. But things don't got exactly as planned. Do they ever when time travel is involved? Also includes the story THE BREAKING OF JERRY McCLOUD - It seemed to be logical research, swi... more info>> 1952
Words: 12356 - Reading Time: 35-49 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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Forever After [MultiFormat]
by Jim Thompson
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The life insurance money--wasn't that reason enough for Ardis Clinton to kill her husband? That and his annoying neglect of his loving. But Ardis has the plan--with her dimwitted boyfriend and a meat cleaver she'll be on easy street. But sometimes the best laid plans of mice and unfaithful women often go astray. 1960
Words: 2736 - Reading Time: 7-10 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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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>> 1931
Words: 8424 - Reading Time: 24-33 min.
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Everybody's Watching Me [MultiFormat]
by Mickey Spillane
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When Joe Boyle delivered the message to Renzo, one of the toughest crime lords in the city, he didn't expect to be beaten to within an inch of his life. But the message was from Vetter, one the most dangerous underworld figures. No one had ever seen Vetter, but all the crime lords knew his reputation―whatever city he came to, he took over to his advantage leaving a pile of corpses in his wake. Joe is going to be lucky to stay alive when they realize that he maybe the only chance the city's... more info>> 1953
Words: 29344 - Reading Time: 83-117 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>> 1953
Words: 11098 - Reading Time: 31-44 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. 1948
Words: 19631 - Reading Time: 56-78 min.
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