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07/11/2024
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Anything You Can Do … (version 2)

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The Alien did not intend to crash land on earth, but he did. The alien tried to communicate with humans, but he could not. The alien did not wish to be captured, and so he wasn’t. For over 5 years he roamed, looting and killing as necessary. Why could the combined forces and brains of all the nations on earth not deal with him or it? Well, Earth was faced with a strange problem indeed. They had to have a superman. And there weren’t any available. So perhaps one had to be made…. – Summary by preface and phil chenevert     [chương_files]  

06/11/2024
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Astounding Stories 16, April 1931

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Contents of this issue :- MONSTERS OF MARS EDMOND HAMILTON – Three Martian-Duped Earth-Men Swing Open the Gates of Space That for So Long Had Barred the Greedy Hordes of the Red Planet. (A Complete Novelette.) THE EXILE OF TIME RAY CUMMINGS – From Somewhere Out of Time Come a Swarm of Robots Who Inflict on New York the Awful Vengeance of the Diabolical Cripple Tugh. (Beginning a Four-Part Novel.) HELL’S DIMENSION TOM CURRY – Professor Lambert Deliberately Ventures into a Vibrational Dimension to Join His Fiancée in Its Magnetic Torture-Fields. THE WORLD BEHIND THE MOON PAUL ERNST – Two Intrepid Earth-Men Fight It Out with the Horrific Monsters of Zeud’s Frightful Jungles. FOUR MILES WITHIN ANTHONY GILMORE – Far Down into the Earth Goes a Gleaming Metal Sphere Whose Passengers Are Deadly Enemies. (A Complete Novelette.) THE LAKE OF LIGHT JACK WILLIAMSON – In the Frozen Wastes at the Bottom of the World Two Explorers Find a Strange Pool of White Fire—and Have a Strange Adventure. THE GHOST WORLD SEWELL PEASLEE WRIGHT – Commander John Hanson Records Another of His Thrilling Interplanetary Adventures with the Special Patrol Service. THE READERS’ CORNER ALL OF US – A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories.     [chương_files]  

06/11/2024
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Knights of Arthur (Version 2)

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Pohl takes us into the future in this quirky and funny story, where the population of the United States is less than 10,000 people … total. Yes you guessed it, there was a war; but the ‘clean’ bombs killed people and left most everything else intact. Our trio of ‘Knights’ are not very talented or smart or brave, but they have survived very well and now are taking on New York City to fulfill a quest of Arthur. You see, Arthur has no legs. Or arms. Or body. But he is very opinionated nevertheless. Listen to this fascinating story that is full of humor and human nature as only Pohl can do it. (Summary by Phil Chenevert)     [chương_files]  

06/11/2024
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Revolutions of Time

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The Canitaurs, who believe that the past is the key to the future, and the Zards, who believe that the past is just the past, are at war and each believes that a redeemer will arrive and propel them to victory. What role Jehu, who has been summoned to the island of Daem, will play in stopping these hostilities is unclear but he soon learns that he will determine not just the outcome of the war but the fate of all humanity.     [chương_files]  

06/11/2024
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Astounding Stories 17, May 1931

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This issue of the science-fiction magazine includes a novella by Charles W. Diffin titled “Dark Moon” and several short stories, including “When Caverns Yawned”, by Captain S.P. Meek “When the Moon Turned Green”, by Hal K. Wells and “The Death-Cloud.” by Nat Schachner & Arthur L. Zagat There is also a second part of “The Exile of Time” by Ray Cummings. – Summary by Bill Boerst     [chương_files]  

06/11/2024
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3 Science Fiction Stories by Lester del Ray

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The quirky mind of famous SF writer Lester del Ray gives us three wonderful tales ranging from zombies (Dead Ringer), time travel (how do you convince your earlier self it is safe to get into the time machine, eh?)(…And It Comes Out Here) and eternal life (The Dwindling Years). Listen and enjoy.     [chương_files]  

06/11/2024
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5 Science Fiction Stories by Mack Reynolds

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Five early stories by one of my favorite SF writers, Mack Reynolds. Medal of Honor is an intriguing look into the mind of someone who is above the law; who cannot commit a crime. How will he act? especially if he is a self centered drunk? Potential Enemy is story about the sad state of human minds that are ruled by fear and paranoia. Happy Ending is an SF story about the far future when the last solar system wide dictator has been finally defeated and what will he do? What will he do? This is also an exploration of mental megalomania and it’s effects. His happy ending is perhaps suitable, but probably not so happy. A Gun For Hire explores in a light-hearted but painful way, the fact that hired guns are just that: hired. The final story is the funniest of the lot the and is set in Tangiers in the present or very near future. UFO’s are a crackpot idea, right? Well, perhaps not. – Summary by Phil Chenevert     [chương_files]  

06/11/2024
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Planet of the Gods

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Far, far in the future Earth has achieved real peace and is sending out interstellar expeditions, not to conquer, but to explore. The third such expedition, has made it to the Vega system and discovered to everyone’s amazement, not only a solar system but two worlds circling the Vega sun that seem to have atmosphere and water. And apparently intelligent life is there as well because something tries, and almost succeeds, in blasting the expedition ship out of space before it can even get close to either one. Damaged, with 3 dead men aboard, the expedition ship semi-crashes and seeks to hide from this obviously hostile civilization. The three dead members of the crew are buried and four of the local inhabitants pay a friendly call. Then during the second night on this planet, one of the dead bodies knocks on the door and wants to come in. Something very strange is going on here.     [chương_files]  

06/11/2024
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Twelve Stories and a Dream

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Thirteen short stories by HG Wells, the master of speculative fiction! Included in this collection is “Mr Skelmersdale in Fairyland” where a man finds his way into fairyland where a fairy queen tries to seduce him away from his human fiancée. In other stories a ghost gets stuck and can’t get back to the “other side”, a man decides to try being a god for a few months, a magic shop sells “the real thing”, a scientist sells time in a bottle, a body is stolen (while its owner is still alive) and a man dreams or does he? (Summary by Beth Thomas)     [chương_files]  

06/11/2024
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Sensitive Man

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Poul Anderson delves into the realm of human potential in this exciting story and asks some penetrating questions for us to think about. What if psychology finally enabled people to even partially control all those automatic reactions of our minds and bodies? What if we were not slaves to anger, fear, emotions, hormones, blood pressure and the thousand other things that our bodies ‘take care of’ from instant to instant? What if those things could be brought under the control even partially of our reason and minds? In this story one man stood between a power-hungry cabal and their world mastery—but a man of, shall we say, unusual talents.     [chương_files]