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Beyond Lies the Wub
The slovenly wub might well have said: Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools. They had almost finished with the loading. Outs…
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Second Variety - (1)
ILLUSTRATED BY EBEL The claws were bad enough in the first place nasty, crawling little death-robots. But when they began to imitate their…
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Second Variety - (2)
Hendricks slowed down. He lifted his fieldglasses and studied the ground ahead of him. Were they there, someplace, waiting for him? Watchin…
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Second Variety - (3)
"I had only the one pack." "Too bad. Maybe if we get back to your bunker we can find some." The other boot fell. Tasso reached up for the l…
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Second Variety - (4)
Back the way they had come a figure appeared. The figure walked unsteadily toward them. Its clothes were torn. It limped as it made its way…
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The Eyes Have It
Produced by Greg Weeks, Barbara Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net This etext was produced from Sc…
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The Hanging Stranger - (1)
ILLUSTRATED BY SMITH Illustration Ed had always been a practical man, when he saw something was wrong he tried to correct it. Then one day…
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The Hanging Stranger - (2)
A few seats down the aisle a man was watching him. Loyce broke off his chain of thought. A slender man, with dark hair and a small mustache…
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The Defenders - (1)
Illustrated by EMSH No weapon has ever been frightful enough to put a stop to war perhaps because we never before had any that thought for…
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The Defenders - (2)
"Two periods from now," Franks said softly, "an initial investigating party will be ready to go surface-side. We're going up the Tube in su…
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The Defenders - (3)
"Come on," Franks said. "Outside." He walked out through the door, the others following him. They were on a hill, overlooking the vast bowl…
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The Variable Man - (1)
ILLUSTRATED BY EBEL He fixed things clocks, refrigerators, vidsenders and destinies. But he had no business in the future, where the calcul…
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The Variable Man - (2)
The knife belonged to the lady in the big green house. Every time Cole came by with his Fixit cart the lady had something to be sharpened.…
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The Variable Man - (3)
Night was descending rapidly. The line of hills rising above the town were already lost in darkness. A few lights had come on here and ther…
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The Variable Man - (4)
The first plane dived. It dropped like a stone, swelling into a great black shape. Cole gasped, sinking down. The plane roared in an arc, s…
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The Variable Man - (5)
Sherikov met Reinhart at the bottom end of the tunnel, where the tunnel opened up onto the main floor of the lab. The big Pole approached,…
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The Variable Man - (6)
"Come along with me. Over in this direction." He and Reinhart climbed the side of a demolished hill, both of them panting for breath. "I wa…
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Piper in the Woods - (1)
By Philip K. Dick Earth maintained an important garrison on Asteroid Y-3. Now suddenly it was imperiled with a biological impossibility men…
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Piper in the Woods - (2)
"Thanks." Harris took a chair, stretching his legs out. He watched Watts as he closed the door to the hall. "By the way, any more cases com…
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The Skull - (1)
Conger agreed to kill a stranger he had never seen. But he would make no mistakes because he had the stranger's skull under his arm. THE SK…
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The Skull - (2)
"Can I see the room?" he said. "Certainly." Mrs. Appleton went to the stairs. "I'll be glad to show it to you." They went upstairs. It was…
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Mr. Spaceship - (1)
By Philip K. Dick Illustration Kramer leaned back. "You can see the situation. How can we deal with a factor like this? The perfect variabl…
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Mr. Spaceship - (2)
The ship leaped. Kramer closed his eyes and held his breath. They were moving out into space, gaining speed each moment. "Well, what do you…
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Mr. Spaceship - (3)
Gross turned to the technician. "Tell them to go ahead." "I'm sorry, sir, but now the ship has gotten away. Look down at the board." Gross…
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Beyond the Door
Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Did you ever wonder at the lo…
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The Gun - (1)
Nothing moved or stirred. Everything was silent, dead. Only the gun showed signs of life ... and the trespassers had wrecked that for all t…
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The Gun - (2)
"But who fires it?" Tance said. Dorle laughed. "No one. No one fires it." They stared at him. "What do you mean?" "It fires itself." They c…
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Tony and the Beetles - (1)
Reddish-yellow sunlight filtered through the thick quartz windows into the sleep-compartment. Tony Rossi yawned, stirred a little, then ope…
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Tony and the Beetles - (2)
"I'll take my packages," the female said. "I go this other way, down this third-level ramp." Tony nodded to his EEP and it lowered the bund…
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The Crystal Crypt - (1)
Stark terror ruled the Inner-Flight ship on that last Mars-Terra run. For the black-clad Leiters were on the prowl ... and the grim red pla…
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The Crystal Crypt - (2)
They walked on, the hard sand crunching under their feet. Against the horizon they could see specks moving, other persons going toward the…