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The people of the crater
The People of the Crater is a science fiction novella by American author Andre Norton. "Send the Black Throne to dust; conquer the Black Ones, and bring the Daughter from the Caves of Darkness." These were the tasks Garin must perform to fulfill the prophecy of the...
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Men without women stories
Novellsamling där författaren koncentrerar sig på kvinnor och män i olika konstellationer. En skådespelare anställer en chaufför och anförtror henne sina innersta hemligheter. En man har blivit lämnad av sin hustru och öppnar en bar som blir hemsökt av något...
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The aliens
The Aliens is a science fiction novella by Murray Leinster first published in 1959. The human race was expanding through the galaxy ... and so, they knew, were the Aliens. When two expanding empires meet ... war is inevitable. Or is it ...? Human civilisation is...
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The man who saw the future
The Man Who Saw the Future is a science fiction short story by Edmond Hamilton first published in 1930. A man from the Dark Ages, an assistant apothecary in 1444 Paris, is investigating mysterious thunderclaps in a field, when he is plucked from his time and deposited...
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The big time
The Big Time is a science fiction novella by Fritz Leiber published in 1958. It was awarded the Hugo Award during 1958. The Big Time is a story involving only a few characters, but with a vast, cosmic back story. The storyline features members of one of two factions,...
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The aliens
The Aliens is a science fiction novella by Murray Leinster frist published in 1959. The human race was expanding through the galaxy ... and so, they knew, were the Aliens. When two expanding empires meet ... war is inevitable. Or is it ...? Human civilisation is...
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The awkward black man
"Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension, both with his extraordinary fiction and gripping writing for television. The Awkward Black Man collects seventeen of Mosley's most accomplished short stories to display the full range of...
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The valor of Cappen Varra
The Valor of Cappen Varra is a science fiction short story by Poul W. Anderson first published in 1957. "Let little Cappen go," they shouted. "Maybe he can sing the trolls to sleep—" We have said that there are many and strange shadows, memories surviving from dim...
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Collected stories
"Including twenty-eight works of short fiction in all, Shirley Hazzard's Collected Stories is a work of staggering breadth and talent. Taken together, Hazzard's short stories are masterworks in telescoping focus, "at once surgical and symphonic" (The New Yorker), ranging...
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Bread overhead
Bread Overhead is a science fiction short story by Fritz Leiber published in 1958. A satire on business, advertising, and politics in the future. Bread is manufactured with the wrong gas injected at the factory, and literally becomes "lighter than air". While no...
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The big fix
The Big Fix is a science fiction novella by George O. Smith first published in 1959. Anyone who holds that telepathy and psi powers would mean an end to crime quite obviously underestimates the ingenuity of the human race. Now consider a horserace that had to...
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No strings attached
No Strings Attached is a science fiction short story by American author Lester del Ray, first published in 1954. Poor Henry was an unhappy husband whose wife had a habit of using bad clichès. Alféar was a genii who was, quite like most humans, a creature of...
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Dead ringer
Dead Ringer is a science fiction short story by American author Lester del Ray, first published in 1956. There was nothing, especially on Earth, which could set him free—the truth least of all! A newspaperman is hounded from his jobs because he keeps trying to report...
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A ballet of lepers a novel and stories
An unprecedented glimpse into the formation of the legendary talent of Leonard Cohen. Before the celebrated late-career world tours, before the Grammy awards, before the chart-topping albums, before 'Hallelujah' and 'So Long, Marianne' and 'Famous Blue Raincoat', the...
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-Or your money back
...Or Your Money Back is a science fiction novella by Randal Garrett, first published in 1951, under the pen-name David Gordon. There are lots of things that are considered perfectly acceptable ... provided they don't work. And of course everyone knows they really don't,...
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The escape
The Escape is a science fiction novella by Poul Anderson first published in 1953. The effect of the Change was actually rather small— but great enough to make foxes open locked doors, turn a moron into a super-moron, and give Earth a galaxy while its own system fell...
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A story of the Stone Age
A Story of the Stone Age is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, first published in 1897. This story is of a time beyond the memory of man, before the beginning of history. . . The story is set during the Stone Age, and tells of a caveman named Ugh-lomi, who bonds...
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Coming attraction
Coming Attraction is a science fiction short story by Fritz Leiber originally published in the second issue (November 1950) of Galaxy Science Fiction. The story was nominated for a Retro Hugo Award in 2001. The story is set in Manhattan during a protracted war between...
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No strings attached
No Strings Attached is a science fiction short story by American author Lester del Ray, first published in 1954. Poor Henry was an unhappy husband whose wife had a habit of using bad clichès. Alféar was a genii who was, quite like most humans, a creature of...
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The moon metal
The Moon Metal is a science fiction novella by Garrett P. Serviss first published in 1900. After the huge gold deposits were found in Antarctica and gold became common, the world's financial markets went into a tailspin and every currency lost its value. A group of...
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Minutes of glory, and other stories
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, although renowned for his novels, memoirs, and plays, honed his craft as a short story writer. From “The Fig Tree,” written in 1960, his first year as an undergraduate at Makerere University College in Uganda, to the playful “The Ghost of...
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The ego machine
The Ego Machine is a science fiction novella by American author Henry Kuttner first published in 1952. When a slightly mad robot drunk on AC, wants you to join an experiment in optimum ecology—don't do it! After all, who wants to argue like Disraeli or live like Ivan...
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A pail of air
A Pail of Air is a science fiction short story by Fritz Leiber which appeared in the December 1951 issue of Galaxy Magazine and was dramatized on the radio show X Minus One in March 1956. The story is narrated by a ten-year-old boy living on Earth after it has become a...
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The man who evolved
The Man Who Evolved is a science fiction short story by Edmond Hamilton that was first published in the April 1931 issue of Wonder Stories. In his comments on the story in Before the Golden Age, Isaac Asimov called it the first science fiction short story (as opposed to...
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The big fix
The Big Fix is a science fiction novella by George O. Smith first published in 1959. Anyone who holds that telepathy and psi powers would mean an end to crime quite obviously underestimates the ingenuity of the human race. Now consider a horserace that had...
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History repeats
History Repeats is a science fiction short story by George O. Smith first published in 1959. A space detective with an evolved (super intelligent, talking) dog is searching for a kidnapped heiress in the corrupt Xanabar Empire. There are--and very probably will always...
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The dwindling years
The Dwindling Years is a science fiction short story by American author Lester del Ray, first published in 1956. He didn’t expect to be last— but neither did he anticipate the horror of being the first! A totally different story on eternal life. The Dwindling Years...