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A Martian Odyssey

Stanley G. Weinbaum — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:28:00 -0000

A Modest Proposal

Jonathan Swift — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:22:00 -0000

A Modest Proposal for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick.

Born of the Sun

Jack Williamson — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:24:00 -0000

The deep song of a wide-open motor throbbed into the huge mahogany library—the first faint note of rising menace.

Unprofessional

Rudyard Kipling — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:38:00 -0000

Since Astronomy is even less remunerative than Architecture, it was well for Harries that an uncle of his had once bought a desert in a far country, which turned out to overlie oil.

A Holy Terror

Ambrose Bierce — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:17:00 -0000

There was an entire lack of interest in the latest arrival at Hurdy-Gurdy.

The Monster-God of Mamurth

Edmond Hamilton — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:02:00 -0000

Out of the desert night he came to us, stumbling into our little circle of firelight and collapsing at once.

Giant Killer

A. Bertram Chandler — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 02:11:00 -0000

The Gnarly Man

L. Sprague de Camp — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:48:00 -0000

Dr. Matilda Saddler first saw the gnarly man on the evening of June 14^th , 1956, at Coney Island.

The Mark of the Beast

Rudyard Kipling — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 03:34:00 -0000

EAST of Suez, some hold, the direct control of Providence ceases; Man being there handed over to the power of the Gods and Devils of Asia, and the Church of England Providence only exercising an occasional and modified supervision in the case of Englishmen.

Home is the Hunter

C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 05:00:00 -0000

There's nobody I can talk to except myself. I stand here at the head of the great waterfall of marble steps dropping into the reception hall below, and all my wives in all their jewels are waiting, for this is a Hunter's Triumph—my Triumph, Honest Roger Bellamy, Hunter.

A Matter of Fact

Rudyard Kipling — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 03:30:00 -0000

Once a priest, always a priest; once a mason, always a mason; but once a journalist, always and forever a journalist.

Research Alpha

A. E. van Vogt and James H. Schmitz — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 07:40:00 -0000

Barbara Ellington felt the touch as she straightened up from the water cooler. It was the lightest of touches, but quite startling—momentary, tiny flick of something ice-cold against the muscle of her right arm at the shoulder.

Light of Other Days

Bob Shaw — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 05:19:00 -0000

Leaving the village behind, we followed the heady sweeps of the road up into a land of slow glass.

The Facts Concerning The Recent Carnival Of Crime In Connecticut

Mark Twain — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 03:29:00 -0000

I was feeling blithe, almost jocund. I put a match to my cigar, and just then the morning's mail was handed in.

Pollock and the Porroh Man

H. G. Wells — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:24:00 -0000

It was in a swampy village on the lagoon river behind the Turner Peninsula that Pollock's first encounter with the Porroh man occurred

Lulu

Clifford Simak — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:23:00 -0000

The machine was a lulu.

That's what we called her: Lulu.

And that was our big mistake.