Science Fiction
epub, mobi |eng | 1955-10-08 | Author:Robert Abernathy [Abernathy, Robert]

The sun was low, and the shadows of rocks and dunes in the valley behind them were pointing long blue fingers eastward, when the machine staggered up the last precipitous ...
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epub | | 1957-08-01 | Author:Andre Norton [Norton, Andre]

They had gone a quarter of the circle when Rip’s hand came down on Dane’s arm and the astrogator-apprentice motioned that Thorson was to remain where he was while Rip ...
( Category: Adventure October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 1957-10-08 | Author:Galaxy

HP HE Dutch word Walghvogels •*• (also spelled Walchvogels ) translates literally as "nauseating birds," but it led to one of the many mistakes that crowd the dodo's short life ...
( Category: Anthologies October 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Essays on Modern Science Fiction

16. THE JAGGED BLADE: James Blish JAMES BLISH IS AN intense young man with a brilliant scholastic mind and an astonishing variety of enthusiasms—e.g., music, beer, astronomy, poetry, philosophy, cats. ...
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epub |eng | 1957-01-08 | Author:Galaxy

GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION paragraph which was relevant here. Van Pelt had told the general that Horn's health was not good. Apoplexy, I believe —I am not very familiar with medical ...
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epub, mobi |eng | 1957-10-08 | Author:Evelyn E. Smith [Smith, Evelyn E.]

As time went on, the greech thrived and grew remarkably stout on the Earth viands, which it consumed in almost improbable quantities. Then, one day, it disappeared and its happy ...
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mobi |eng | 2011-08-12 | Author:James Blish

Mark's most likely theater of "corrective discipline," then, would be his own office. He would be running the Cloud for the Warriors and no doubt doing a far worse job ...
( Category: Science Fiction October 9,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1958-10-08 | Author:Evelyn E. Smith [Smith, Evelyn E.]

"I don't like that Gregory," Paul told Ivo one Monday evening as they were enjoying a quiet smoke together, for there was no performance that night. "He used to be ...
( Category: Anthologies October 9,2015 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 1955-10-08 | Author:Smith, Evelyn E. [Smith, Evelyn E.]

During the next fortnight, Tarb gained fluency in Terran and also learned to operate a Terrestrial typewriter equipped with Fizbian type—mostly so that she could dispense with the services of ...
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epub |eng | 1954-01-02 | Author:Edgar Pangborn [Pangborn, Edgar]

I don't recall much about the ovation they gave her: we were all hysterical. I don't even remember what all her encores were. There were seven. We let her go ...
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mobi |eng | 1957-02-08 | Author:Galaxy

The steady monotonous work, once he was used to it, left his mind free to think and he tried furiously to plan what he would do when he got out. ...
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epub |eng | 2012-02-15 | Author:James Blish [Blish, James]

4 T his, then, was the end of the battle to do what was right, whatever the odds. All the show of courage against superstition, all the black battles against ...
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epub |eng | 1957-07-15 | Author:Isaac Asimov [ASIMOV, ISAAC]

Mishnoff said, "Surface waves only. Very superficial. It's not underground." Ching looked a little more dismal, "What is it then?" "I think," said Mishnoff, "we'd better find out." His face ...
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epub |eng | 2011-01-18 | Author:Murray Leinster [Leinster, Murray]

* * * 7 Time passed. Hours, then days. Things began to happen. Trucks appeared, loaded down with sacks of white powder. The powder was very messily mixed with water ...
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epub |eng | 1953-10-08 | Author:Arthur G. Stangland [Stangland, Arthur G.]

Philon began to laugh. "Well, I'll tell you, Bill, your little racket of having spurious first editions printed some place and then peddling them sure caught up with me." The ...
( Category: Adventure October 9,2015 )