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Sci- Fi Short Story: “A Little Journey ” by Ray Bradbury

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A LITTLE JOURNEYBy Ray Bradbury

She’d paid good money to see the inevitable …
and then had to work to make it happen!

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There were two important things—one, that she was very old; two, that Mr. Thirkell was taking her to God. For hadn’t he patted her hand and said: “Mrs. Bellowes, we’ll take off into space in my rocket, and go to find Him together.”

And that was how it was going to be. Oh, this wasn’t like any other gro...

Sci-Fi Short Story: “Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night” by Algis Budrys

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WALL OF CRYSTAL, EYE OF NIGHTBy Algis Budrys

He was a vendor of dreams, purveying worlds beyond imagination to others. Yet his doom was this: He could not see what he must learn of his own!

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Soft as the voice of a mourning dove, the telephone sounded at Rufus Sollenar’s desk. Sollenar himself was standing fifty paces away, his leonine head cocked, his hands fla...center;">•••

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Sci- Fi Short Story: “Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night” by Algis Budrys

This story is reprinted courtesy of Project Gutenberg. View the source text.

WALL OF CRYSTAL, EYE OF NIGHTBy Algis Budrys

He was a vendor of dreams, purveying worlds
beyond imagination to others. Yet his doom was this:
He could not see what he must learn of his own!

•••

Soft as the voice of a mourning dove, the telephone sounded at Rufus Sollenar’s desk. Sollenar himself was standing fifty paces away, his leonine head cocked, his hands flat in his hip pockets, watching the nighted world through t...

Sci-Fi Short Story: “Youth” by Isaac Asimov

Red and Slim found the two strange little animals the morning after they heard the thunder sounds. They knew that they could never show their new pets to their parents.

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YOUTHBy Isaac Asimov

THERE was a spatter of pebbles against the window and the youngster stirred in his sleep. Another, and he was awake.

He sat up stiffly in bed. Seconds passed while he interpreted his strange surrounding...awake.

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Sci- Fi Short Story: “Youth” by Isaac Asimov

Red and Slim found the two strange little animals the morning after they heard the thunder sounds. They knew that they could never show their new pets to their parents.

This story is reprinted courtesy of Project Gutenberg. View the source text.

YOUTHBy Isaac Asimov

THERE was a spatter of pebbles against the window and the youngster stirred in his sleep. Another, and he was awake.

He sat up stiffly in bed. Seconds passed while he interpreted his strange surroundings. He wasn’t in his own home, of...

Sci-Fi Short Story: “The Day Time Stopped Moving” by Bradner Buckner

Dave Miller pushed with all his strength, but the girl was as unmovable as Gibraltar.

 

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THE DAY
TIME
STOPPED
MOVINGBy Bradner Buckner

All Dave Miller wanted to do was commit suicide in peace. He tried, but the things that happened after he’d pulled the trigger were all wrong. Like everyone standing around like statues. No St. Peter, no pearly gate, no p...center;">Allcenter;">Bycenter;">ThisGibraltar.

Sci- Fi Short Story: “The Day Time Stopped Moving” by Bradner Buckner

Dave Miller pushed with all his strength, but the girl was as unmovable as Gibraltar.

 

This story is reprinted courtesy of Project Gutenberg. View the source text.

THE DAY
TIME
STOPPED
MOVINGBy Bradner Buckner

All Dave Miller wanted to do was commit suicide in peace. He tried, but the things that happened after he’d pulled the trigger were all wrong. Like everyone standing around like statues. No St. Peter, no pearly gate, no pitchforks or halos. He might just as well have saved the bullet!

DAVE...

Sci- Fi Short Story: “The Day Time Stopped Moving”

Dave Miller pushed with all his strength, but the girl was as unmovable as Gibraltar.

 

This story is reprinted courtesy of Project Gutenberg. View the source text.

THE DAY
TIME
STOPPED
MOVINGBy Bradner Buckner

All Dave Miller wanted to do was commit suicide in peace. He tried, but the things that happened after he’d pulled the trigger were all wrong. Like everyone standing around like statues. No St. Peter, no pearly gate, no pitchforks or halos. He might just as well have saved the bullet!

DAVE...

Sci- Fi Short Story: “The Tunnel Under The World” By Frederik Pohl

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On the morning of June 15th, Guy Burckhardt woke up screaming out of a dream.

It was more real than any dream he had ever had in his life. He could still hear and feel the sharp, ripping-metal explosion, the violent heave that had tossed him furiously out of bed, the searing wave of heat.

He sat up convulsively and stared, not believing what he saw, at the quiet room and the bright sunlight coming in the window.

He croak...

Sci-Fi Short Story: “Sentiment, Inc.” by Poul Anderson

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The way we feel about another person, or about objects, is often bound up in associations that have no direct connection with the person or object at all. Often, what we call a “change of heart” comes about sheerly from a change in the many associations which make up our present viewpoint. Now, suppose that these associations could be altered artificially, at the option of the person who was in charge of the process…....