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07/11/2024
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Search the Sky

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Ross was a junior trader on Halsey’s Planet, and had great prospects but was not happy at all. Everything smelled of decay. The whole planet seemed to be slowly disappearing, the population dwindling month by month and year by year and yet no one seemd to care or even notice. Something was very, very wrong. When the first interstellar transport in 30 years arrived on Halsey’s Planet, it brought things to a head. The ship had touched on six other colony worlds – and all six had been devoid of human life. Where was everybody? It was almost as if humankind, when separated by cosmic distances from Mother Earth, could not survive. He didn’t know the answer but he knew it all smelled highly of decay. Decay and Rot. This highly praised novel by C.M.Kornbluth and Frederick Pohl was first published in 1954 was seen as a wonderful satire on various trends in the society of the 1950’s. – Summary by phil Chenevert     [chương_files]  

07/11/2024
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3 Science Fiction Stories by Frank Herbert

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As the title indicates, here are three SF stories by Frank Herbert, Missing LInk, originaly purlished in Astounding SF, 1959; Operation Haystack, also published in Astounding SF 1959; and Old Rambling House, published in Galaxy SF 1958. – Summary by Phil chenevert     [chương_files]  

07/11/2024
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Entirely New Feature of a Thrilling Novel! Entitled, The Social War of the year 1900; or, The Conspirators and Lovers!

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Chapter: 102 | Listen:

Described by io9.com contributor Jess Nevins as “the worst science fiction novel of the 19th century,” The Social War of 1900, or The Conspirators and Lovers! has become infamous for its overwrought prose, flimsy characterizations, ludicrous plotting, and repugnant ideas. For these same reasons, the book has gained infamy as a cultural oddity, a guilty pleasure, and a somewhat over-imaginative work of outsider art. The Social War of 1900 follows the adventures of Dr. Victor Juno, a Naturalist who heals sickness through animal magnetism, and his sweetheart Lucinda. Juno, the leader of a secret paramilitary society, wages a revolutionary war against an American society steeped in sin and avarice—and, in particular, against a villainous triumvirate known as “The Bloody Conspirators.” But will his revolution succeed? And if so, what form will his idealized utopia finally take? – Summary by ChuckW     [chương_files]  

07/11/2024
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His Master’s Voice

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This is a follow up story to Randal Garrett’s original story, A Spaceship Named McGyer. The intrepid protagonist, now that he has become the completely unintended and unwilling master of the robot spaceship McGyer, is called in by the owners, very reluctantly. to see if he can help their experts fix the problem. Since he is the only human McGyer will listen to they must have him there to get the ship to comply with any request at all. But there are rival corporations that wish the ship and the project, robot spaceships, to fail so he is indeed in great danger. But the real question of this story revolves around Asimov’s three laws of robotics and the messy problems of how to define a human being. That can get very messy indeed. Enjoy another fascinating story by Randall Garrett. – Summary by Phil chenevert     [chương_files]  

07/11/2024
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Astounding Stories 20, August 1931

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Chapter: 19 | Listen: 2

This issue contains THE DANGER FROM THE DEEP by Ralph Milne Farley Marooned on the Sea-Floor, His Hoisting Cable Cut, Young Abbot Is Left at the Mercy of the Man-Sharks [BROOD OF THE DARK MOON PART 1 .We are not inlcuding this as this is the last full issue available. All 4 episodes are available in our catalogue]. IF THE SUN DIED by R.F Starzl Tens of Millenniums After the Death of the Sun There Comes a Young Man Who Dares to Open the Frozen Gate of Subterranea. THE MIDGET FROM THE ISLAND by H.G. Winter Garth Howard, Prey to Half the Animals of the Forest, Fights Valiantly to Regain His Lost Five Feet of Size. A Complete Novelette. “Jazzing up the Universe” A Science Fact THE MOON WEED by Harl Vincent Unwittingly the Traitor of the Earth, Van Pits Himself Against the Inexorably Tightening Web of Plant-Beasts He Has Released from the Moon. THE PORT OF MISSING PLANES by Captain S.P. Meek In the Underground Caverns of the Selom, Dr. Bird Once Again Locks Wills with the Subversive Genius, Saranoff. “A Classification of the Universe ” A Science Fact THE READERS’ CORNER ALL OF US A Meeting Place for Readers of Astounding Stories. ” A living disembodied heart” – Summary by Annise     [chương_files]  

07/11/2024
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Mummy and Miss Nitocris: A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension

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” Certain it should be that, beyond and about this World of Length, and Breadth, and Thickness, there is another World, or State of Existence, consisting of these and another dimension of which only those beings who are privileged to enter or dwell in it can have any conception. Now, if this postulate be granted, it follows that a dweller in this State would be freed from those conditions of Time and Space which bind those beings who are confined within the limits of Tri-Dimensional Space, or Existence. For example, he would be able to make himself visible or invisible to us at will by entering into or withdrawing himself from this State, and returning into that of Four Dimensions, whither our eyes could not follow him—even though he might be close to us in our sense of nearness. Moreover, he could be in two or more places at once, and cause two bodies to occupy the same space—which to us is inconceivable. Stranger still, he might be both alive and dead at the same time—since Past, Present, and Future would be all one to him; the world without beginning or end …”—From the “Geometrical Possibilities,” of Abd’el Kasir, of Cordoba, circa. 1050 A.D. ( from the Forward to The Mummy and Miss Nitocris)     [chương_files]  

07/11/2024
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Randall Garrett: 3 Science Fiction stories

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The irrepressible Science Fiction author Randall Garrett wrote a wide array of short stories for the SF magazines of his day poking fun at many of the then current cherished beliefs, but he had a habit of writing under many different names. These three stories were all published in the 1960’s and no matter what the by-line may look like, be assured they were all written by him in his quirky, imaginative and very entertaining style. The three here for your enjoyment are: With No Strings Attached; The Destroyers and In Case of Fire     [chương_files]  

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

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Chapter: 8 | Listen: 1

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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Chapter: 25 | Listen: 1

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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Chapter: 6 | Listen: 1

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]