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"The Dancing Girls, and Other Stories" contains four short-stories by two-times Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Ferber, written between 1910 and 1919. The title story paints a pictures of small-town America and of life "on the other side of the tracks....

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"The Homely Heroine" is a short story by American author Edna Ferber. It features a writer whose heroines are generally extremely beautiful. But one day, whilst she is out shopping, a shop-keeper asks her why she doesn"t write stories about a home...

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The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling. The tales in the book and also those in The Second Jungle Book which followed in 1895, and which includes five further stories about Mowgli, are fables, using animals in an anth...

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That Sweet Little Old Lady ( Brain Twister ) is a science fiction novel by Randal Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer under the pen-name of "Mark Phillips", first published in 1959. It was nominated for the Hugo Award in 1960 under the name Brain Twis...

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But, I Don't Think is a science fiction novella by Randal Garrett first published in 1959. In an intragalactic empire organized as an aristocracy (from Execs to lowly Sevens) the empire's ships are being attacked in hyperspace by the ships of the ...

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Damned If You Don't is a science fiction novella by Randal Garrett first published in 1960. A brilliant engineer invents a cold fusion power plant the size of a suitcase and two of his prototypes are immediately stolen. He goes after the power com...

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His Master's Voice is a science fiction novella by Randal Garrett first published in 1962. This is a follow up story to Randall Garrett's original story, A Spaceship Named McGyer . The intrepid protagonist, now that he has become the completely un...

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The Judas Valley is a science fiction novella by Randal Garrett and Robert Silverberg (under the pen-name "Gerald Vance") first published in 1962. Fifty-nine men and one love interest land on a world that killed most of the first scout ship that l...

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Nor Iron Bars A Cage.... is a science fiction novella by Randal Garrett first published in 1962. Iron bars do not confine a Man-only his body. There are more subtle, and more confining bindings, however.... Police methods of the future will natura...

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The Penal Cluster is a science fiction novella by Randal Garrett (under the pen-name "Ivar Jorgensen"), first published in 1957. Tomorrow's technocracy will produce more and more things for better living. It will produce other things, also; among ...

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A Spaceship Named McGuire is a science fiction novella by Randal Garrett, first published in 1961. The basic trouble with McGuire was that, though "he" was a robot spaceship, nevertheless "he" had a definite weakness that a man might understand......

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Equation of Doom is a science fiction novella by Randal Garrett, first published in 1957 under the pen-name Gerald Vance. They grounded Ramsey"s ship on a hostile planet hoping he would starve to death, so the first thing he did was give most of h...

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The Skull is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1952. Conger agreed to kill a stranger he had never seen. He wasn't concerned about getting the wrong man. He knew what the man looked like. There was no way he could...

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The Crystal Crypt is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1954. In the Crystal Crypt, taken from the 1954 Planet Stories, the war between Mars and Terra is about to erupt and earth has only merchants and salesmen to ...

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The Defenders is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1953. The terrible destruction of total nuclear war between the Western and Eastern Blocks has succeeded in sterilizing the surface of the earth. No living creatu...

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Mr. Spaceship is a science fiction novella by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1953. Humanity is at war with "Yuks," an alien life form which does not use mechanical spaceships nor constructions. Instead, it relies on life forms. The war with th...

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Second Variety is a science fiction novella by Philip K. Dick, first published in 1953. "The claws were bad enough in the first place-nasty, crawling little death-robots. But when they began to imitate their creators, it was time for the human rac...

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Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Ayn Rand, first published in 1938 in England. Anthem is taking place at some unspecified future date. Mankind has entered another dark age as a result of what Rand saw as the weaknesses of socialistic think...

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Emma McChesney and Company (Emma McChesney trilogy #3) is a novel by American, Pulitzer prize winning novelist Edna Ferber, first published in 1915. This is the final volume in the trilogy following the smart, stylish, divorced and independent bus...

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One Basket is a sparkling collection of 7 short stories by Edna Ferber and includes some that are considered her all time best like The Woman Who Tried To be Good and The Maternal Feminine . Writing for and about women, Edna Ferber touches the ver...

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Personality Plus (Emma McChesney trilogy #2) is an early novel by American author Edna Ferber. Originally published in 1914, Personality Plus is the second of three volumes chronicling the travels and events in the life of Emma McChesney. Ferber a...

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Roast Beef, Medium (Emma McChesney trilogy #1), first published in 1913 is a novel by Pulitzer Prize winner, the American novelist Edna Ferber. This book follows the adventures of Emma McChesney, a smart and savvy divorced mother who travels the M...

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Hellhounds of the Cosmos is a science fiction short story by Clifford D. Simak, from Astounding Stories of 1932. Earth is being attacked by horrible black monsters that appear from nowhere and destroy and kill everything and everyone in their path...

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Project Mastodon is a science fiction short story by Clifford D. Simak, first published in March 1955 in the Galaxy magazine. Clifford Simak deals with the implications of time travel in his own unique way in this story. What if a group of guys di...

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The World That Couldn't Be is a science fiction short story by American author Clifford D. Simak. Layard was a curiosity to sociologists. The planet supported thriving tribes of natives but they were genderless. How could tribes form without famil...

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The Misplaced Battleship is a science fiction short story by Harry Harrison first published in 1960. The world class con man and thief known as the Stainless Steel Rat (diGriz) has another very big problem to solve. In this science fiction novella...

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The K-Factor is a science fiction short story by Harry Harrison, first published in 1960. The human race has reached the stars, colonized many planets and done amazing things in all areas of scientific progress. But humans are still humans and rem...

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Arm of the Law is a science fiction short story by Harry Harrison first published in 1958. How could a robot-a machine, after all-be involved in something like law application and violence? Harry Harrison tells what happens when a police robot hit...

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The Repairman and Other stories is a science fiction short story compilation by Harry Harrison. This is a collection of 3 of Harry Harrison marvelous early stories that were published in Galaxy , Analog and Fantastic Universe . The Repairman (1958...

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Triplanetary (NOVEL version) is a science fiction novel and space opera by American author E. E. "Doc" Smith. It was first serialized in the magazine Amazing Stories in 1934. The novel covers several episodes in an eons-long human breeding project...

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