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STAND-BY: ☆☆☆☆

THE DAYS OF PERKY PAT: ☆☆☆☆

ORPHEUS WITH CLAY FEET: ☆☆☆☆☆

WHAT THE DEAD MEN SAY: ☆☆

WATERSPIDER: ☆☆☆☆☆

NOVELTY ACT: ☆☆☆☆

IF THERE WERE NO BENNY CEMOLI: ☆☆☆

WAR GAME: ☆☆

EXPLORERS WE: ☆☆☆

THE UNRECONSTRUCTED M: ☆☆☆☆

RECALL MECHANISM: ☆☆☆

THE MINORITY REPORT: ☆☆☆☆

THE MOLD OF YANCY: ☆☆☆☆

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SERVICE CALL: ☆☆☆☆☆

AUTOFAC: ☆☆☆☆☆

I think I'm losing momentum with the short stories. Possibly because I don't know when one story ends and the next begins.

Just finished reading "Waterspider" which is a time travel story featuring Poul Anderson. It was a lot of fun with appearances by A.E. van Vogt, Jack Vance, Ray Bradbury, Jack Williamson, Margaret St. Clair, Robert Heinlein, Philip K. Dick, and more. The story was written in 1963. I bet his fellow authors got a kick out of it. Especially Poul Anderson, who says "Gosh" quite a bit. :)

Just finished "The Minority Report" story. It was great Very clever. Best short story so far in this book. I saw the movie once, but don't remember all the details of it. Do know that I enjoyed this story more than the movie. Not that the movie was bad. The movie was okay compared to many sci-fi movies. Anyway, Philip K. Dick was a very inventive writer.

Read a couple more stories. Clever writing.

Read first story "Autofac" and liked it. I could make a game out of this story.

#reading

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Asimov, Heinlein, Anderson, Vance, Van Vogt are pre-cogs. Ha!

Mindblowing

Getting better.

First story done and I am already confused.

These stories lend well to being action movies, but it's nice to hear the calm philosophical originals. Minority Report finished, fee minutes into Total Recall.

I can't get enough Dick. Seriously, this collection is like tales from the Twilight Zone. Loving it.

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