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26. Josephine Saxton - Elouise and the Doctors of the Planet Pergamon, 2 stars. Illegally unhealthy woman examined by legions of ill doctors.
27. Ken McCullough - Chuck Berry, Won't You Please Come Home?, 1 star. Guy keeps a pet tick.
28. David Kerr - Epiphany for Aliens, 3 stars. Cluster of Neanderthals discovered on touristy French mountainside.

23. Gregory Benford - And the Sea Like Mirrors, 3 stars. Trying to survive after shipwreck, dealing with alien species.
24. Evelyn Lief - Bed Sheets Are White, 2 stars. Man in traffic jam grumbles about new laws.
25. James Sallis - Tissue, 3 stars.
  01. at the fitting shop - Wandering around mall asking for directions.
  02. 53rd american dream - Father presides over domestic issues.

Wiki: "Others asserted that it was an Austrian Archduke, and that the union was legal, though morganatic."

18. David Gerrold - With a Finger in My I, 1 star. Guy with a milky eye sees reality falling apart.
20. Lee Hoffman - Soundless Evening, 3 stars. Everyone loves cute little kids, despite population controls.
21. Gahan Wilson - ●, 2 stars. Blotch appears, and grows.
22. Joan Bernott - The Test-Tube Creature, Afterward, 3 stars. Disturbed man considers the future of his intelligent pet.

Wiki: "He grasped the kris before him, his eyes darting this way and that, and Archer, to his horror, saw that the man was trembling where he stood."

14. T.L. Sherred - Bounty, 4 stars. Reward money offered for the death of robbers.
15. K.M. O'Donnell - Still-Life, 4 stars. Stressed astronaut is frustrated with his professional and personal life.
16. H.H. Hollis - Stoned Counsel, 2 stars. Lawyers hallucinate together to present their case.

10. Kate Wilhelm - The Funeral, 4 stars. School girl is trained for her permanent career.
11. James B. Hemesath - Harry the Hare, 1 star. Manchild misses cartoon.
12. Joanna Russ - When It Changed, 3 stars. All female society visited by men.
13. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - The Big Space Fuck, 4 stars. Garbage dump earth sends sperm into space.

Wiki: "I haven’t had a Skor Blizzard in ages."

Wiki: "If he got to El Taj he would eat abra, which the Goran tribes made out of colocynth, boiling the pips to get rid of bitterness and then crushing it along with dates and locusts."

Wiki: "In spite of being Lord Suffolk he lived in Devon, and until war broke out his passion was the study of Lorna Doone and how authentic the novel was historically and geographically."

Charles Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk > Heavy water

Word: "He loved the word – the propinquity of water, the propinquity of two or three bodies in a car driving the Sand Sea for six hours."

1. nearness of blood
2. nearness in place or time

Wiki: "...which took place during the 1939 desert expedition in search of Zerzura."

07. Ray Bradbury - Christ, Old Student in a New School, 2 stars. Poem about Jesus and mankind.
08. Chad Oliver - King of the Hill, 4 stars. Rich man saves his money for pet project.
09. Edward Bryant - The 10:00 Report is Brought to You By..., 3 stars. News station reports crime as it happens.

04. Andrew J. Offutt - For Value Received, 3 stars. New father calls hospital's billing bluff.
05. Gene Wolfe - Mathoms from the Time Closet, 3 stars.
  01. Runaways listen to an older boy's story.
  02. German plane enthusiast sees a pretty girl in a balloon.
  03. Parents' brief interactions with adopted child.
06. Ray Nelson - Time Travel for Pedestrians, 4 stars. Tripping balls & experiencing past lives/deaths.

01. John Heidenry - The Counterpoint of View, 2 stars. The author is the reader and vice versa.
02. Ross Rocklynne - Ching Witch!, 2 stars. Old hepcat escapes earth just before it explodes, makes himself seem fashionable on ignorant planet.
03. Ursula K. Le Guin - The Word for World Is Forest, 3 stars. [2016]

20. Theodore Sturgeon - If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?, 3 stars. Inquisitive man discovers why a resource rich planet and its residents are shunned to the point of pretending they don't exist.
04. Philip Jose Farmer - Riders of the Purple Wage, 1 star. DNF 46%, sooo edgy sexual/artsy garbage.

10. Philip K. Dick - Faith of Our Fathers, 3 stars. Unwitting pawn gets a good look at the man in charge.
12. Fritz Leiber - Gonna Roll the Bones, 3 stars. No good husband meets his match at the craps table.
30. Keith Laumer - Test to Destruction, 2 stars. Man fights off two opponents attempting to control his mind.

31. Norman Spinrad - Carcinoma Angels, 2 stars. Ambitious (but easily bored) man decides to cure his terminal illness.
32. Roger Zelazny - Auto-da-Fe, 3 stars. Retired fighter returns to the ring.
33. Samuel R. Delany - Aye, and Gomorrah, 4 stars. Modified people tour the earth looking for fetishists.

26. Kris Neville - From the Government Printing Office, 3 stars. Small curious child is frustrated by his parents refusal to explain anything.
27. R.A. Lafferty - Land of the Great Horses, 4 stars. People all over the world travel to their ancestral homes.
28. J.G. Ballard - The Recognition, 3 stars. Tiny circus opens for one night.
29. John Brunner - Judas, stars. Man confronts mechanical god.

23. Sonya Dorman - Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird, 4 stars. Woman on the run recalls recent hard times.
24. John Sladek - The Happy Breed, 4 stars. Machines keep us happy and save us from ourselves.
25. Jonathan Brand - Encounter with a Hick, 3 stars. Young man being interrogated regarding his conversation with a stranger.

19. Damon Knight - Shall the Dust Praise Thee?, 1 star. God & angels visits earth on the 8th day.
21. Larry Eisenberg - What Happened to Auguste Clarot?, 2 stars. Reporter tries to find missing man, mostly nonsense.
22. Henry Slesar - Ersatz, 3 stars. Soldier finds scant comfort at relief station.

15. David R. Bunch - Incident in Moderan, 2 stars. Robot distracted by fleshy creature while waiting for war to resume.
16. David R. Bunch - The Escaping, 2 stars. Little guy wants a better job.
17. James Cross - The Doll-House, 4 stars. Man living beyond his means tries his luck with an oracle.
18. Carol Emshwiller - Sex and/or Mr. Morrison, 4 stars. Girl hides in neighbor's apartment to see him naked.

09. Howard Rodman - The Man Who Went to the Moon - Twice, 2 stars. Man wants attention at every age.
11. Larry Niven - The Jigsaw Man, 3 stars. Nervous guy might get the death penalty for his crimes, benefitting mankind
13. Joe L. Hensley - Lord Randy, My Son, 4 stars. Father resents his seemingly retarded son.
14. Poul Anderson - Eutopia, 3 stars. Anthropologist studying alternate earths makes a faux pas.

06. Robert Bloch - A Toy for Juliette, 4 stars. Sadistic murderess eagerly awaits her new victim.
07. Harlan Ellison - The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World, 3 stars. Jack the Ripper is yoinked into the future to entertain people.
08. Brian W. Aldiss - The Night That All Time Broke Out, 2 stars. Time gas leak makes everyone revert to their ancestors.

Wiki: "Except with Judge Crater; there she was—"

Wiki: "You would have been amused at what she did to Caspar Hauser."

01. Lester del Rey - Evensong, 3 stars. Man is on the run from powerful people.
02. Robert Silverberg - Flies, 3 stars. Reconfigured man is sent home to collect emotional data.
03. Frederik Pohl - The Day After the Day the Martians Came, 4 stars. Crowd cracks jokes about aliens.
05. Miriam Allen deFord - The Malley System, 3 stars. New punishment makes the guilty relive their crimes until they become distasteful.

Wiki: "They ran reminders of Deacon Brodie (the inspiration, it was said, behind Stevenson’s Jekyll & Hyde)..."

Best:
Heather Clitheroe - Cuts Both Ways
N.K. Jemisin - Walking Awake
Maria Dahvana Headley - Dim Sun
Tananarive Due - Like Daughter
Maureen F. McHugh - The Cost to Be Wise

62. Georgina Kamsika - Women Who Are More Than Strong, 2 stars. Wants female characters.
63. Cheryl Morgan - A Science-Fictional Woman, 3 stars. People are afraid of progress.
64. Pat Murphy - Your Future is Out of Date, 4 stars. Heinlein broke her heart.
65. E. Catherine Tobler - Stray Outside the Lines, 2 stars. Men are easily threatened.
66. Seanan McGuire - My Love Can Destroy, 2 stars. Little girls are brutal.