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A Maid in ArcadyA Maid in ArcadyThe clear water of the little river, in which the willows were mirrored quiveringly, shallowed where a tiny bar of silver-white sand thrust the ripples aside. Thus confined, the stream sulked for a moment in a deep, pellucid pool, and then,...
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Satellite PassageSatellite PassageThe three men bent over the chart and once again computed the orbit. It was quiet in the satellite, a busy quiet broken by the click of seeking microswitches and the gentle purr of smooth-running motors. The deep pulsing throb of the air...
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The FlameThe FlameGabriele D'Annunzio, poet, novelist, and dramatist, was born in 1864, on the yacht Irene near Pescara in the Abruzzi, his mother being the Duchess Maria Galesse of Rome. His education was begun in the College of Prato, in Tuscany, and finished in the...
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The Cinder Buggy: A Fable in Iron and SteelThe Cinder Buggy: A Fable in Iron and SteelI feel as did Mark Sullivan, who said: Garet Garrett has written one of the great novels of the day.... That is beside the point to one who wants to study man and his work.... The...
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Half Around PlutoHalf Around PlutoTheir glassite space helmets fogged, and their metal glove joints stiffened in the incredible surface cold: but the two men who could work finished their job. In the black sky glistened the little arclight of the sun, a sixteen-hundredth of the blaze...
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Man AloneMan AlonePhoenix I belled out smoothly in the region of a G-type star. There was a bright flare as a few random hydrogen atoms were destroyed by the ship's sudden appearance. One moment space had been empty except for the few drifting atoms, and...
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Il fantasma di Canterville e il delitto di Lord SavileIl fantasma di Canterville e il delitto di Lord Savile Non rifar la biografia d'Oscar Wilde, ormai cosa pubblica, ahim, troppo pubblica. Pi che per la grandezza e la decadenza della sua vita, pi che per la stessa sua opera, Wilde interessa sopratutto per...
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ShandyShandyHolman came down out of the forest of giant orange-woods and trudged across the plain toward the place where Nancy Tanner lived. It was late afternoon and the woods beyond Nancy's home were already growing dark and dim. The door of the old spaceship...
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The Pure ObserversThe Pure ObserversNovna, my dear, I am writing this as a release for my conscience. Those things which trouble me are not such as one exchanges with vigil companions, or indeed with anyone not bound by ties like ours. If I were at home...
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The Big Blue SoldierThe Big Blue SoldierWell, now, if he came on that train, he ought to be in sight around the bend of the road in about three minutes, she said tensely. Ive timed it often when[6] folks were coming out from town, and it always...
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The Fishdollar AffairThe Fishdollar AffairWith more courage than prudence, the ensign followed his star to the final (and delectably feminine) test of a young officer's honor.... A tender, ironic and funny story, by a new name you'll be seeing again. Thoughts came unbidden to watch officer...
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La Comédie humaine - Volume 11. Scènes de la vie parisienne - Tome 03La Comédie humaine - Volume 11. Scènes de la vie parisienne - Tome 03Nest-ce pas vous, madame, dont la haute et probe intelligence est comme un trsor pour vos amis, vous qui tes la fois pour moi tout un public et la plus indulgente...
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SpecimenSpecimenAs official reporter on the project I was in Srtes' office when they brought the alien in. He was as tall as an average Zade, of pretty much the same color, and would have been able to pass as one of us except that...
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The Used People LotThe Used People LotEver since that drunk in his two-seat Charioteer plowed into the rear end with such force that even my radar repellant couldn't stop it, my Thunderflash had been out of kilter. The specialists my garage recommended worked over it for two...
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El OmbúEl OmbúWho has lived with and knows (even to the marrow as they would themselves say) the horsemen of the Pampas, and who alone of European writers has rendered something of the vanishing colour of that remote life. The two short stories included in...
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Scenes and PortraitsScenes and PortraitsIt is a necessity of the human mind to give everything a name, thus recognising a difference between one thing and another, and recording it. Science, which is the highest development of this necessity, recognises, and records systematically, all the facts of...
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BattlewrackBattlewrackThe sun hung in the mists of morning, swollen, blood-red, a symbol of augury, as the artillery brigade pulled out of the village where it had been billeted for the night. At the tail of its long line of slowly moving vehicles marched a...
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The Downhill Side of ThirtyThe Downhill Side of ThirtyChuck Dane patted shaving lotion on his face, enjoying the second of vicious sting. He closed the medicine cabinet and stood for a minute examining himself in the fluorescent lighted mirror. He was lean and hard and, of course, tanned....
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The Fascinating Stranger, and Other StoriesThe Fascinating Stranger, and Other StoriesMR. GEORGE TUTTLE, reclining at ease in his limousine, opened one eye just enough to perceive that daylight had reached his part of the world, then closed that eye, and murmured languidly. What he said, however, was not, Home,...
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The Owls' HouseThe Owls' HouseIt was late evening when John Penhale left the Helston lawyers office. A fine drizzle was blowing down Coinage Hall Street; thin beams of light pierced the chinks of house shutters and curtains, barred the blue dusk with misty orange rays, touched...
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