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One Minute Past Eight [MultiFormat]
by George Harmon Coxe
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 A suspense thriller from Mystery Grand Master, George Harmon Coxe. At approximately eight o'clock private detective Harry Baker stumbled onto something big. At exactly one minute past eight, Baker was dead. The local police had figured that out for themselves. Now they wanted to know the rest from Jeff Lane. But what could Jeff tell them? He had sent Baker to locate his missing step-brother in Caracas. When Baker cabled he had news, Jeff went to Venezuela himself. Now Baker was dead. And, a few ... more info>> (Published: 1957)
Words: 64732 - Reading Time: 184-258 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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Wake Up to Murder [MultiFormat]
by Day Keene
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What had he done? Jim took a quick shot of whiskey and stood eyeing the girl in the bed--She was all too real, too warm, and entirely too luscious--but last night was a blank--The answer came in 24 hours when Jim Charters, nice guy and home-loving type, went home to his wife to find himself the fugitive from a grisly game of death--a nightmare that had started with a "night on the town" and wound up with multiple murders!
Words: 49237 - Reading Time: 140-196 min.
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Sneak Preview [MultiFormat]
by Robert Bloch
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Graham is a discontented Talent in futuristic America. He questions the ideology of Planned Society and gets himself in trouble for it. However, he finds an ally in the persons of Doc and Clare, who are outwardly posing as representatives of the Psycho-controlled Insanitarium, but in reality are using it as an underground headquarters for the overthrow of the present system. Together they plan and work on infiltrating the Dome and overpowering the highest leader MGMinence Archer into submission.... more info>> (Published: 1959)
Words: 35843 - Reading Time: 102-143 min.
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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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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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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>> (Published: 1953)
Words: 29344 - Reading Time: 83-117 min.
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Mona [MultiFormat]
by Lawrence Block
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Also published as Grifter's Game. The living was high and the pickings came easy--till my one wild love became my sweet, slow death. Clip artist, reamer, pigeon plucker--take your pick. They all spell confidence man. Hell--they all spell me, Joe Marlin. But then, by any other name I'd smell as sweet to bored women on the prowl--rich ladies with their baby blues tight shut and their pocketbooks wide open. That was my game--devil-may-care conning, fly-by-night living, skipped checks at plush hotel... more info>>
Words: 49793 - Reading Time: 142-199 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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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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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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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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People of the Crater [MultiFormat]
by Andre Norton
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A flight to a lost world of Antarctica. Garin Featherstone has been sent to explore a mysterious blue haze that was spotted in the polar region. There he discovers a lost civilization and a strange environment of vivid green lands, crimson tree trunks, and golden rivers. He most save Thrala of the light against the lizard men. This is Andre Norton's first professional published story from 1947. Even the Grand Dame of Science Fiction had to have her first sale. And she shows her strengths in her ... more info>> (Published: 1947)
Words: 15451 - Reading Time: 44-61 min.
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The Golden Slave [MultiFormat]
by Poul Anderson
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100 B.C. The Cimbrian hordes galloped across the dawn of history and clashed in screaming battle against the mighty Roman legions. Eodan, son of Chief Boierek, has been on the war campaign for many years. The Cimbrain army has become a hungry homeless pagan tribe. Their sworn enemy, the Romans, they have battled against gloriously. But for all the burning towns, the new-caught women weeping, the wine drunk, the gold lifted, the Cimbri did not find a home. And after a mighty clash, the battle is ... more info>> (Published: 1960)
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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 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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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>> (Published: 1931)
Words: 7546 - Reading Time: 21-30 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>> (Published: 1961)
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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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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! (Published: 1953)
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I Am Tomorrow [MultiFormat]
by Lester del Rey
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Thomas Blake has just become president. He has plans to change the world. To be a benevolent leader that will give the power to the people. But when he is wrenched out of his body and finds himself in the body of a rebel assassin who's job is to kill the Bigshot dictator. The dictator is Blake forty years hence, and now he was obviously falling in love with a girl who believed his highest mission in life was to shoot his older self!
Words: 15273 - Reading Time: 43-61 min.
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Plague of Pythons [MultiFormat]
by Frederik Pohl
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The pythons had entered into Mankind. No man knew at what moment he might be Possessed! On Christmas the world's freedom died. Every man, woman and child lay in the grip of fear, for no one knew at what moment his nearest friend or a casual stranger might suddenly be possessed by some brutal mind ... and begin to murder and destroy. For Chandler it was worse than for most. He was both victim and executioner. He had suffered himself, and he had committed a violent crime while under the strange do... more info>> (Published: 1962)
Words: 39630 - Reading Time: 113-158 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>> (Published: 1954)
Words: 7382 - Reading Time: 21-29 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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