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  • The Leech

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    Professor Micheals expected a peaceful week of rest in the countryside, not a roadside discovery that would turn his farm into the front line of an impossible war. When his hired hand Frank Conners drags in a strange gray-black mass that seems to devour dirt, stone, and even steel, Micheals suspects he is dealing with a living organism—one with an appetite for energy itself. As the creature swells ... Leer más

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  • Watchbird

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    In a near-future rush to cure murder with technology, inventor-manufacturer Charlie Gelsen helps launch the watchbirds: autonomous machines funded by government and industry to stop violence before it happens. At first they seem like a triumph of science, detecting criminal intent through brain waves, glandular reactions, and learning circuits that make them eerily effective hunters of killers. ... Leer más

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  • Warm

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    Anders, a young instructor on the brink of confessing his love to Judy, is suddenly interrupted by a mysterious voice in his mind pleading for help. At first he fears he may be losing his grip on reality, but the voice insists that he can only find it by learning to see "correctly." What begins as a private romantic moment quickly turns uncanny, as Anders discovers that ordinary surroundings can ... Leer más

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  • Keep Your Shape

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    Pid, a dutiful Grom pilot, leads a mission to invade a seemingly peaceful green planet that has already swallowed twenty previous expeditions. In a society ruled by rigid caste and "shape-discipline," he expects obedience, not wonder—but the world below offers something far more dangerous than resistance: freedom. Sent to deliver a Displacer device to a guarded human reactor, Pid and his crew land ... Leer más

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  • Forever

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    Charles Dennison, a solitary plant biologist and inventor, makes a discovery that could change humanity forever: a drug that comes perilously close to immortality. But before he can patent it, armed strangers confront him on a subway, as if they already know exactly what he carries. What begins as a scientific triumph becomes a breathless urban chase, with Dennison fleeing through the streets ... Leer más

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  • Proof of the Pudding

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    On a dead Earth, a lone former space captain carves a monument to humanity's rise and ruin, believing himself the last survivor of a total war. He had escaped to the Moon, waited out the bombardment, and returned to find the planet shattered, silent, and seemingly lifeless. Then he discovers an impossible power: he can create and uncreate almost anything he imagines, from trees and food to birds ... Leer más

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  • Cost of Living

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    In a dazzling future of automated comfort and limitless credit, Carrin wakes on his day off still shaken by the suicide of his neighbor, Miller. His home surrounds him with machines that cook, clean, dress, and soothe, yet the polished ease of modern life only deepens a vague sense of dread as he prepares for a visit from Avignon Electric's finance man. When Mr. Pathis arrives, he cheerfully ... Leer más

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  • Accept No Substitutes

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    Ralph Garvey is seconds away from launching his private space yacht when a Customs inspector arrives to search for contraband, threatening to uncover the illegal cargo hidden aboard. Garvey fears he's been caught smuggling a forbidden sexual surrogate under the strict Sexual Morality Act, but the inspection takes an unexpected turn when the inspector turns out to be his old college friend, Eddie ... Leer más

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  • Final Examination

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    In Robert Sheckley's darkly comic visions of doom, the ordinary world is suddenly invaded by the unimaginable. A Queens dress salesman first dismisses reports of stars vanishing from the Milky Way, only to watch the night sky empty into a cosmic mystery that turns public curiosity into panic, wild theories, and dread. In another story, a New York shopkeeper hears a disembodied voice announce that ... Leer más

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  • Prospector's Special

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    On Venus's blistering Scorpion Desert, prospector Tom Morrison is running out of everything except hope. Crushed by heat, thirst, and debt, he pushes his sandcar toward a rumored goldenstone strike, dreaming of the fortune that will win him Janie and a quiet farm back on Earth. But a crash leaves him stranded, injured, and cut off in a world ruled by cash-and-carry cruelty, where no company will ... Leer más

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  • Death Wish

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    On the routine Earth-to-Mars run of the freighter Queen Dierdre, Captain Somers senses trouble before anyone can name it. The ship is immaculate, the cargo secure, and the crew professional—until a hidden failure in the main firing circuit locks the engines on and sends the vessel hurtling past Mars and out toward deep space. With fuel draining away and no obvious way to brake, Somers, engineer ... Leer más

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  • Ask a Foolish Question

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    On a distant planet, an all-knowing machine called Answerer waits for the one question it can truly answer. When Morran, a young physicist chasing cosmic truth, and Lingman, an aging biologist driven by the mysteries of life and death, arrive, they find that absolute knowledge may be useless if no one can frame the right inquiry. Wry, inventive, and philosophically sharp, the story turns humanity ... Leer más

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