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Eight classic short stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction by L. J. Stecher. Featured here: "The Man in a Sewing Machine", "Upstarts", "Garth and the Visitor", "Man in a Quandary", "An Elephant for the Prinkip", "A Perfect Answer", "Cakewalk to Gloryanna", and "When You Gifflle..."
65) The Alien
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Just speculate for a moment on the enormous challenge to archeology when interplanetary flight is possible ... and relics are found of a race extinct for half a million years! A race, incidentally, that was scientifically so far in advance of ours that they held the secret of the restoration of life!
One member of that race can be brought back after 500,000 years of death....
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Excerpt from " A Mixture of Genius: "Perhaps the most startling case of all," Ambly went on, "concerns the two seventeen-year-olds who caused something of a sensation in Florida when they used the Branski-Baker method of genetic exchange to breed a quite fabulous species of winged alligator. Several of these so called 'alli-bats' escaped into the everglades, but it is doubted that they will be able to reproduce themselves. At least there is some doubt."...
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Adam had three brothers, named Etienne, Yancy, and Rreq. This story is about the descendeds of Req, or as they're better known the Wrecks. His quirky style made his work hard to pigeonhole and market, but he still managed to influence a wide array of today's best writers. Simply on of the best writers the science fiction and fantasy field has ever produced.
69) The Ugly Sea
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The Sea is ugly and monotonous, with only four or five faces, and all of them coarse, but mankind has just decided to deny this ugliness for subconscious reasons. Lafferty was the winner of the Hugo and World Fantasy Award and a six time Nebula Award Nominee. His quirky style made his work hard to pigeonhole and market, but he still managed to influence a wide array of today's best writers. Simply on of the best writers the science fiction and fantasy...
71) Ghost Light Burn
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As the Gate Project expands, building stable, artificial wormholes in orbit around ever more worlds in the Pan Galactum, its hunger for construction materials grows exponentially. But the discovery of the dead binary planets, Sound and Fury, may finally sate the project's hunger ten times over.
In the shadow of massive, shattered Fury comes an interstellar travelling theatre, bringing with it an old friend of the Maverick Heart crew. One with a nose...
72) Quickening Ceres
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If someone told you a story you'd never heard before, a story of other worlds and strange beings, would you believe it? And what if this person claimed to be from another planet? Well, that's exactly what happened to a young man on the planet Ceres.
The brisk evening air opened to a blanket of stars gleaming across the heavens as Nevek stood outside the local tavern. He looked at the stars in wonder, when he noticed one of them suddenly growing larger....
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A dismal society in cataclysmic decline, including government oppression and environmental ruin, provide the thrilling backdrop for two disparate families and a romantically linked couple caught in a whirlwind of events in which they find themselves pursued by aggressive authorities in AD 2099.
Dominic Splicer, multibillionaire scientist and space visionary, sets out on a solo rescue mission to locate interplanetary guests, colonists from Mars,...
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Hey, you! (Reading the description of this book) Is this your first Harold and Clara? Wow, you're in for a real treat! Evil aliens, secret missions, and an underground base on the moon. Sound interesting?
How about space battles, mysteries of the universe to solve, and of course, a sassy cat and brave dog?
A mysterious request to join a top-secret group: The Planetary Exploration Team (or P.E.T for short). Its mission: to save the Earth...
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Science isn't about wearing thick glasses and talking down to people in a nasally whine. Science isn't about fighting tradition or advancing an agenda.Science is about riding what could have been a nuclear missile into outer space. Science is about attacking chemicals with math until you blow something up. Science is about living on a space station that spins like a top to create "artificial gravity." Science is about learning about other cultures...
76) Saturday You Die
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Besides being born (that is an ordeal, no less an ordeal because you forget it) the worst thing to be gone through is to be a new boy in a small Southern town. Lafferty was the winner of the Hugo and World Fantasy Award and a six time Nebula Award Nominee. His quirky style made his work hard to pigeonhole and market, but he still managed to influence a wide array of today's best writers. Simply on of the best writers the science fiction and fantasy...
77) The Impossibles
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The Impossibles is a science fiction novel by Randal Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer. Malone. Kenneth Malone lives in a world where psionic powers such as telepathy and teleportation exist. He must cope with them as well as an FBI Director who leaves Malone continually confused about what situation he is being asked to handle and what he is expected to do about it. Kenneth Malone-sometimes known as Sir Kenneth of The Queen's Own FBI-had had problems...
78) All the People
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Tin Tony Trotz had only one job-to watch out for something a little odd-in a universe that was insane! Lafferty was the winner of the Hugo and World Fantasy Award and a six time Nebula Award Nominee. His quirky style made his work hard to pigeonhole and market, but he still managed to influence a wide array of today's best writers. Simply on of the best writers the science fiction and fantasy field has ever produced.
80) Space Quest
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After spotting a radio signal from space, twins Anthony and Astrid team up with their astronomer grandfather to search for extraterrestrial life. On the way, they learn about space concepts, such as effective rocket design, the effects of gravity on astronauts, and properties of planets in the solar system. When they find an alien on the moon, the adventure really begins! Through this informative and entertaining adventure, readers will increase their...
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