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A Toothache on ZenobA Toothache on ZenobNautunal turned the fifth dial a few degrees, and glanced up. "Depends on your interest. It's true this is just routine space-sweep, but noise from space is amazingly variegated. Just one more sector to scan tonight, and I'll be through. What's...
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Call Mr. FortuneCall Mr. FortuneYou only do just enough, Dr. Fortune complained. Never brilliant. No zeal. Now, Reginald, it wont do. Just enough is always too little. Take my word for it. And do be attentive to the Archduke. God bless you! Have a good time,...
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Cronus of the D.F.CCronus of the D. F. C.A bright, sunny day in May, and a new job for me. I found the room in the basement of police headquartersa big room, with freshly stenciled letters D F C on the door, and an unholy conglomeration of...
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The JesterThe JesterThis was in accordance with custom. Six times had cap and bells descended from father to son: we see Peregrine as the seventh inheritor thereto, which, perchance, holds some significance. Pythagorus would doubtless have told us it held much; would have told us...
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The Tenants: An Episode of the '80sThe Tenants: An Episode of the '80sThey were tearing down the old Gwynne house the other day as we drove past, and it was not without a twinge of sentimental regret that we beheld the spectacle. The old Gwynne house was what our newspapers...
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Family TreeFamily TreeThe method Masefield Truggles used was the tried-and-true Masefield Truggles method. Of course, he didn't know at the beginning that Blan Forsythe was a superman. But Forsythe had lived in Marston Hill most of his lifeborn there, in factwhile Truggles had been there...
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La Casa de los CuervosLa Casa de los CuervosEn la parte que el sol no calienta, el musgo extiende su terciopelo verde, como un suave tapiz. Crecen los yuyos en las grietas de los oscuros adobes manchados por la cal del antiguo revoque; se ve en un muro...
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Routine for a HornetRoutine for a HornetRunning to the suitlocker, he wondered if the bells had to be loud enough to jar a man's mind. The other on-duty men in the wardroom were running with him, and the corridor outside reverberated to the sound of pounding feet...
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When Wilderness was King: A Tale of the Illinois CountryWhen Wilderness was King: A Tale of the Illinois Country SURELY it was no longer ago than yesterday. I had left the scythe lying at the edge of the long grass, and gone up through the rows of nodding Indian corn to the house,...
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A Little KnowledgeA Little KnowledgeEven with modern conveniences, Caesar could never have staged such a triumph, and in the face of world history-making, he wouldn't have reason to. Olbu's visit to the earth was certainly a bigger deal for the archives than anything Caesar ever did....
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But the Patient LivedBut the Patient LivedThe receptionist ushered the patient into Dr. Walter Needzak's office. She punched her glasses higher onto the bridge of her nose, patted the bun of hair at the back of her head, and said: Dr. Needzak motioned the patient to a...
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The ChasmThe ChasmThe old man's face was turning gray with fatigue under the wrinkled brown. He was beginning to get that deadly catching pain in his left chest. But he forced himself to move again, his ragged dusty uniform of the old Home Guard blending...
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Betty's Virginia ChristmasBetty's Virginia ChristmasIt was as cold as Christmas, and Christmas Eve it was. A thin crust of snow lay over the level landscape of lower Virginia, and the declining sun cast a lovely rose-red light upon the silver world. Afar off lay the river...
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The Happy HerdThe Happy HerdEveryone was thoughtful, considerate, kind and very happy. But where was the right of dignity or individuality? It was like being dropped into the middle of a nightmare. The kind that finds you running naked in a crowd. Kane smiled. He had...
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Corbow's TheoryCorbow's TheoryIt was a terrific theory and it would send Man to the stars. But the two men involved had to buck more than physical laws; and so the project was finished, over, done with. Unless.... Bronsen Corbow glared at the older man, his...
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Brain TeaserBrain Teaser"Damned centipedes!" Barnes said. "I still say they're telepathic." He looked at his watch. Zero hour minus twenty-six minutes. "Good luck, boy, and I hope this space warp dingus works like they think it will." He waddled down the boarding ramp and Engle...
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Dearest EnemyDearest EnemyFrom somewhere there was a buzzing sound. It kept repeating. The gentle throb of it vibrated his eardrums; the vibrations registered somewhere at the bottom edges of his brain. Buzzzz. Insistently, like a wasp. Like a trapped wasp.... But there were no wasps...
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Shock TroopShock TroopZurg thwirmed, and admitted to himself that he was uneasy. Arching his thorax, he unrolled his antennae slowly in a lazy gesture he hoped would conceal the unseemly nervousness he felt now that the ship had swung into an orbit around the strange...
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CommunicationCommunicationFor many years before space flight was accomplished, there had been discussions and theories about how to communicate with Martians, if any existed. But, of course, nobody was ready when the time came. Von Frisch, Riley and Smith watched the half dozen Martians approach,...
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Your Servant, SirYour Servant, SirThe chubby woman glared at the android and dropped her suitcase on the floor. She turned to her husband and said in an angry, unsteady voice, "I'm leaving." Her double chin trembled. "I can't stand the sight of that thing another second."...
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