Science Fiction
A Coffin for Jacob
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Edward W. Ludwig
Recently graduated and now a junior astrogator, Ben Carson punches an irritating drunkard in Luna City, killing him with one punch. Fleeing …
Climate--Incorporated
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George O. Smith
Climate control was an elusive dream. A brilliant inventor chanced upon a solution and the dream briefly became a luxurious reality. But nob…
Robert Easby Oneira
Sci-fi story about a museum attendant, Oneira, who is invited on a quest to discover the secrets of the universe by 400-year-old Dutchman de…
The Year When Stardust Fell (Version 2 Dramatic Reading)
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Raymond Fisher Jones
Emergency can take any form. Here is a story in which the mechanical foundation of our culture is threatened... But more important, this is …
The Vanisher
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Michael Shaara
He was expendable, this Web Hilton, this young officer with the strange heritage. And so it was that he was ordered out into space where he …
Marvels of Machinery in Space (Ed Reads Short Sci-fi, vol. X)
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Captain S. P. Meek, Ben Bova, Stanton A. Coblentz, Allyn Donnelson, J. H. Haggard, R. A. Lafferty, Richard O. Lewis, Noel Loomis, Rog Phillips, L. J. Stecher, Dwight V. Swain and William A. P. White
Thirteen science fiction short stories. - Summary by The Reader
The Pirates of Shan: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story
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Harold L. Goodwin
"The Pirates of Shan: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story" tells of three young boys solving the mystery of the disappearance of …
A Drop in Infinity
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Gerald Grogan
This 1915 sci-fi book is possibly the first work to use in its plot what we would now call a parallel universe. Jack Thorpe and Marjorie Mat…
The Abysmal Horror
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Bruce Wallis
While on holiday at an inexpensive English seaside resort, twenty-six-year-old Batson was contemplating the monotony of his life when he wit…
Victory (Version 2)
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Lester Del Rey
The earth is undefended. A ripe, juicy, rich plum just innocently waiting for one of the many new and warlike civilizations in the nearby un…
Bratton's Idea
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Manly Wade Wellman
Bratton, a humble old janitor at a Hollywood film studio, has a secret passion... Mad Science! He has made it his life's ambition to create …
Biddy and the Silver Man
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Harlan Ellison
A man came out of the sky and they took him and hanged him from the nearest tree thinking that they lynched a devil. But perhaps they crucif…
The Winds of Time
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James H. Schmitz
"The Winds of Time" by James H. Schmitz is a science fiction novella written in Sept 1962. The Captain, Gefty Rammer, and one of h…
The Golden Skull, A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story
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Harold L. Goodwin
Rick Brant and his friends have another adventure in the Philippines. Together Rick, Scotty Chahda and Dr Briotti work to solve a mystery in…