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Short Science Fiction Collection 032
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H. G. Wells
Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…
Plague of Pythons
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Frederik Pohl
In a post-apocalyptic world where every government in the world has been overrun by its own military machinery, only to see that military ma…
Sparkling Death
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Mark Butler
Mankind has conquered the stars, spreading out to populate the galaxy. Despite technological advancements the human desire for greed and pro…
There's a certain slant of light
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Emily Dickinson
In tribute to the first real snowfall this year. - Summary by David Lawrence
Rose O' The River
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
Rose Wiley is a pretty country girl. She's engaged to Stephen Waterman, a country boy. She is quite content, until Claude Merril, a man from…
Rain Magic
Read by Ben Tucker
Erle Stanley Gardner
From the deck of a ship the sea snatched him and hurled him into a weird adventure and romance such as few men experience! - Summary by Argo…
Out of Mulberry Street
Read by Lee Smalley
Jacob A. Riis
These riveting accounts by Jacob A. Riis are from the late 19th century, when lower Manhattan was teeming with struggling, near-starving imm…
Short Science Fiction Collection 033
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H. G. Wells
Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…
5 Science Fiction Stories by Mack Reynolds
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Dallas Mccord Reynolds and Mack Reynolds
Five early stories by one of my favorite SF writers, Mack Reynolds. Medal of Honor is an intriguing look into the mind of someone who is ab…
4 SF Stories by Mack Reynolds
Read by Phil Chenevert
Mack Reynolds
4 Science Fiction Stories by the quirky Mack Reynolds from the golden age of SF, the 1950s - Summary by phil chenevert
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 1
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Charles Mackay
The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philoso…
Sense Memory
Read by Brion J. Humphrey
Brion J. Humphrey
If our memory is the thing that shapes and defines us, that informs who we are at our very core, then God help us all...for memory, is a wic…
Plum Pudding: Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
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Christopher Morley
Chrisopher Morley was an American literary luminary whose prolific writings included novels, essays, poetry, plays and great journalistic ou…
Captain Salt in Oz
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Ruth Plumly Thompson
A voyage on the famous Nonestic Ocean! What could be more thrilling than that? We—many of us—have taken trips on the prosaic Atlantic or eve…
Educide
Read by S. Lawrence Parrish
S. Lawrence Parrish
Meet Avery Carmichael, student-teacher. This year he's teamed up with Mr. Samuel Petersen, veteran teacher. Avery is about to get an educati…
Storm Over Warlock, Version 2
Read by Mark Nelson
Andre Norton
The Throg task force struck the Terran survey camp a few minutes after dawn, without warning, and with a deadly precision which argued that …
Revival Incidents
Read by Beverly Carradine
Beverly Carradine
Beverly was a traveling evangelist during the holiness era--late 19th, early 20th century when he penned this Christian classic. Travel with…
Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History
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Allen H. Godbey
"Mankind is constantly astonished by reports of mishaps and disasters of manifold character, when there is seldom room for astonishment…
Aquis submersus
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Theodor Storm
Das rätselhafte Porträt eines toten Knaben und die Aufzeichnungen des Malers Johannes aus dem 17. Jahrhundert führen den Erz&…
Lore of Proserpine
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Maurice Henry Hewlett
If a thing is not sensibly true it may be morally so. If it is not phenomenally true it may be so substantially. And it is possible that one…