| 11 |
Introduction (In Dreams Awake)
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Leslie A. Fiedler
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Essay
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| 25 |
The Beginnings
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Leslie A. Fiedler
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Essay
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| 27 |
The Crystal Egg
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H. G. Wells
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Short Story
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| 44 |
Unprofessional
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Rudyard Kipling
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Short Story
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| 63 |
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Short Story
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| 69 |
The Tartarus of Maids
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Herman Melville
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Short Story
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| 83 |
Three Thousand Years Among the Microbes (excerpt)
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Mark Twain
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Short Fiction
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| 90 |
The Colour Out of Space
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H. P. Lovecraft
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Novelette
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| 119 |
The Golden Age
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Leslie A. Fiedler
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Essay
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| 121 |
The Cold Equations
|
Tom Godwin
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Novelette
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| 147 |
Helen O'Loy
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Lester del Rey
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Short Story
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| 159 |
It's a Good Life
|
Jerome Bixby
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Short Story
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| 178 |
Resurrection
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A. E. van Vogt
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Short Story
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| 196 |
The Green Hills of Earth
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Robert A. Heinlein
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Short Story
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| 208 |
Liar!
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Isaac Asimov
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Short Story
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| 226 |
The Nine Billion Names of God
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Arthur C. Clarke
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Short Story
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| 233 |
August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains
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Ray Bradbury
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Short Story
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| 240 |
Mother
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Philip José Farmer
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Novelette
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| 268 |
The Muse
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Anthony Burgess
|
Short Story
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| 287 |
New Directions
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Leslie A. Fiedler
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Essay
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| 289 |
Nine Lives
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Ursula K. Le Guin
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Novelette
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| 316 |
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
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Harlan Ellison
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Short Story
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| 328 |
Time Considered As a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones
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Samuel R. Delany
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Novelette
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| 366 |
The Second Inquisition
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Joanna Russ
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Novelette
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| 398 |
Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy
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J. G. Ballard
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Short Story
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