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2BR02B by Kurt Vonnegut.

"2 B R 0 2 B" is a science fiction short story by Kurt Vonnegut, originally published in the digest magazine Worlds of If Science Fiction, January 1962, and collected in Vonnegut's Bagombo Snuff Box (1999). The title is pronounced "2 B R naught 2 B", referencing the famous phrase "to be, or not to be" from William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. In this story, the title refers to the telephone number one dials to schedule an assisted suicide with the Federal Bureau of Termination. Vonnegut's 1965 novel God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater describes a story by this name, attributing it to his recurring character Kilgore Trout, although the plot summary given is closer in nature to the eponymous tale from his short-story collection Welcome to the Monkey House.

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Family Tree by Charles L. Fontenay

You don't like Darwin's theory of Evolution? Maybe you're right. Maybe Man's ancestors weren't monkeys after all....

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Bright Islands by Frank Riley

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.—RAINER MARIA RILKE

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Freeway by Bryce Walton

The Morrisons didn't lose their freedom. They were merely sentenced to the highways for life, never stopping anywhere, going no place, just driving, driving, driving....

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The Laboratorians by Edward Peattie

Playing "Napoleon" can get to be a habit, especially when a man is devoted to pure science. Which was Dr. Whitemarsh's devotion—until Dr. Sally Chester came along!

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The Outer Quiet by Herbert D. Kastle

Fear is often Man's greatest enemy. But when there is nothing left to lose, there is everything to gain.... And with everything to gain, where is the enemy?

A thrilling short story,

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Firth's World by Irving E. Cox

A science fiction short story. His world was Utopia inhabited only by wealthy, brilliant, creative, ambitious people; it was the ultimate in freedom, exempt from taxes, social problems, petty responsibilities....

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The Pacifists by Charles E. Fritch

Parker was a trouble maker wherever they landed. But here was the planet ideal, a chance he had awaited a long, long time—easy, like taking candy from a baby....

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The Creature from Beyond Infinity by Henry Kuttner

Like a great, lethal snake, plague creeps through the galaxies. No conscious entity can halt its progress, and life is slowly draining from planet after planet. Only one super-intelligence is capable of preventing cataclysm. To do it, he must penetrate far beyond infinity--to the formless, deathless creature out to kill the universe. A pulp novella that can stand right next to any other Sword and Spaceship tale from the era. In this story, there are two co-running plots of an alien searching for human geniuses throughout time and one of those geniuses striving to contain a pandemic that is turning people into life force vampires. With muscle and brain-bound men, strong-willed beauties helpless in the arms of strong men, and lots of action.

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Task Mission by Fox B. Holden

Captain Jorl thought Arcturus IV was the answer to all he had ever wanted. And it was. But there was also a twist.... How can there be an ideal where everything is perfection?  A thrilling science fiction short story by Fox B. Holden.

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The Third Party by Lee B. Holum

A series of "incidents" had provoked a state of emergency between two great powers. The reason was obvious. But why a single chemist as bait—and who was the third party?...

A thrilling short story by Lee B. Holum.

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The Dark World by Henry Kuttner

An amnesiac man is transported to another world -- a new world, where he has a new name, and a new destiny! A good treatment of parallel worlds/magic explained as physics/doppelgangers/and a quest to save the world.

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Escape Mechanism by Charles E. Fritch

B​eing a world unto one's self is lonely. Even the poor amoeba creature from Venus knew that....

A thrilling short science fiction tale by Charles E. Fritch.

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The Forest Monster by Charles E. LaSalle

Or, Lamora, the Maid of the Canyon.

Horror story of a monster loose in the woods.  Thrilling tale for old and young alike.

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After London by Richard Jefferies

After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England, the countryside reverts to nature, and the few survivors to a quasi-medieval way of life. Beginning with a loving description of nature reclaiming England -- fields becoming overrun by forest, domesticated animals running wild, roads and towns becoming overgrown, the hated London reverting to lake and poisonous swampland -- the rest of the story is an adventure set many years later in the wild landscape.

The meadows were green, and so was the rising wheat which had been sown, but which neither had nor would receive any further care. Such arable fields as had not been sown, but where the last stubble had been ploughed up, were overrun with couch-grass, and where the short stubble had not been ploughed, the weeds hid it. Jefferies’ novel can be seen as an early example of post-apocalyptic fiction. After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England, the countryside reverts to nature, and the few survivors to a quasi-medieval way of life. The first part, The Relapse into Barbarism, is the account by some later historian of the fall of civilisation and its consequences, with a loving description of nature reclaiming England. The second part, Wild England, is an adventure set many years later in the wild landscape and society. The book is not without its flaws but is redeemed by the quality of the writing, particularly the unnervingly prophetic descriptions of the post-apocalyptic city and countryside.

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The Golden Slave by Poul Anderson

This might have happened. The Cimbri are still remembered by the old district name Himmerland. Plutarch describes the battle at Vercellae, which took place 101 B.C., and its immediate aftermath. Other classical writers, such as Tacitus and Strabo, and a treasure of archeological material enable us to guess at the Cimbri themselves. Apparently they were a Germanic tribe from Jutland, with some elements of Celtic culture; by the time they reached Italy they had grown into a formidable confederation.

The Cimbrian hordes galloped across the dawn of history and clashed in screaming battle against the mighty Roman legions.Led by their chief, Boierik, and his son, Eodan, the hungry and homeless pagan tribes hurled back the Romans time after time in their desperate search for land. But for all the burning towns, the new-caught women weeping, the wine drunk, the gold lifted, the Cimbri did not find a home. And now it was over. At Vercellae the Roman armies shattered them completely. Only a few survived—and for them death would have been more merciful.​ Eodan, the proud young chieftain, had been caught and sold into slavery, his infant son murdered and his beautiful wife, Hwicca, taken as a concubine.

But whips and slave chains could not break the spirit of this fiery pagan giant who fought, seduced and connived his way to a perilous freedom to rescue the woman he loved.

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Black Man's Burden by Dallas McCord Reynolds

The turmoil in Africa is only beginning—and it must grow worse before it's better. Not until the people of Africa know they are Africans—not warring tribesmen—will there be peace....A strange tale of a possible future.  This is a thrilling tale of science fiction and possiblities by Dallas McCord Reynolds.