| 1956-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Racer |
Ib Melchior |
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Merril02 (1), into-movie (1), social commentary (1), near future (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), auto racing (1), blood sport (1)
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| 1953-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Disappearing Act |
Alfred Bester |
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time travel (1), near future (1), social commentary (1), satire (1), war (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), fantasy (1), alternate universes (1)
|
| 1953-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
It's a Good Life |
Jerome Bixby |
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mutant (1), music (1), into-tv (1), into-movie (1), horror (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), paranormal powers (1), childishness (1), Ohio (1), Twilight Zone (1)
|
| 1953-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Punishment Fit the Crime |
Lyn Venable |
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robots (1), only Earth (1), fire (1), babysitting (1), irony (1)
|
| 1953-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Share Alike |
Jerome Bixby and Joe E. Dean |
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lifeboat (1), vampire (1), contemporary (1), only Earth (1), friendship (1), shame (1)
|
| 1953-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Star Light, Star Bright |
Alfred Bester |
|
|
paranormal powers (1), mutants (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), contemporary (1), wishes (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1953-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Liberation of Earth |
William Tenn |
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machine intelligence (1), first person point of view (1), only Earth (1), interstellar war (1), first contact (1), alien war (1), satire (1), looking backward (1), aliens (1)
|
| 1953-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Nine Billion Names of God |
Arthur C. Clarke |
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contemporary (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), fantasy (1), computers (1), Buddhism (1), end of the world (1), tibet (1), religion (1), into-movie (1)
|
| 1953-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Water Eater |
Winston K. Marks |
|
|
first person point of view (1), contemporary (1), only Earth (1), dangerous creature (1)
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| 1953-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Time Is the Traitor |
Alfred Bester |
|
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divergence (1), business (1), satire (1), love (1), cloning (1), near future (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), into-radio (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1952-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Telek |
Jack Vance |
|
|
floating city (1), near future (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), telekinesis (1), revolution (1)
|
| 1952-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Smile |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
resentment (1), near future (1), Mona Lisa (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), postapocalyptic dystopia (1), catharsis (1), art (1)
|
| 1951-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Beyond Bedlam |
Wyman Guin |
|
|
split personality (1), near future (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), sociology (1), psychology (1)
|
| 1951-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Biography Project |
H. L. Gold |
|
|
twist ending (1), viewing of past (1), Sir Isaac Newton (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), paranoid psychosis (1)
|
| 1950-05-06 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
There Will Come Soft Rains |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
X Minus 1 (2), Dimension X (1), nuclear war (1), only Earth (1), postapocalyptic (1), smart house (1), near future (1), post apocalypse (1), science fiction (1), into-radio (1), housework (1), Los Angeles (1), robots (1), dogs (1), fire (1), into-comics (1), into-movie (1)
|
| 1948-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
He Walked Around the Horses |
H. Beam Piper |
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Librivox (1), time travel (1), epistolary (1), alternate history (1), parallel universe (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), into-tv (1), Benjamin Bathurst (1), science fiction (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1948-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Pillar of Fire |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
social commentary (1), only Earth (1), vampire (1), fantasy (1), 24th century (1), gothic (1), anger (1), resurrection (1), Librivox (1)
|
| 1946-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Chromium Helmet |
Theodore Sturgeon |
|
|
first person point of view (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), electronic engineering (1), psychology (1), dreams (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1941-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Adam and No Eve |
Alfred Bester |
|
|
last man on Earth (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), post-apocalyptic (1), circle of life (1), science fiction (1), invention (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1941-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Golden Nemesis |
David A. Kyle |
|
|
brain function (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), epistolary (1), first person point of view (1), medical self-experimentation (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1939-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Secret of the Sun |
Ray Cummings |
|
|
contemporary (1), laboratory research (1), murder (1), greed (1), poetic justice (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1)
|
| 1934-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Traders in Treasures |
C. P. Mason |
|
|
epistolary (1), subterranean species (1), Earth’s core (1), exploration (1), antarctica (1), only Earth (1), radioactivity (1)
|
| 1932-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Scientist Rises |
Harry Bates and D. W. Hall |
|
|
Librivox (1), World is Not Ready (1), Growth (1), contemporary (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), scientist (1), New York City (1), spies (1), scientists (1)
|
| 1931-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
German |
Der Schlag ans Hoftor |
Franz Kafka |
|
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arbitrary (1), first person point of view (1), siblings (1), arrest (1), only Earth (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), trial (1), crime (1)
|
| 1926-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Outsider |
H. P. Lovecraft |
|
|
fantasy (1), horror (1), mirrors (1), Monstrosity (1), alienation (1), first person point of view (1), only Earth (1), contemporary (1), ghouls (1)
|
| 1904-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Curious Experience of Thomas Dunbar |
Francis Stevens |
|
|
science fiction (1), rescue (1), new element (1), first person point of view (1), superstrength (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), contemporary (1), research laboratory (1)
|
| 1895-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Final Men |
H. G. Wells |
|
|
first person point of view (1), only Earth (1), distant future (1), time travel (1), future evolution (1)
|
| 1845-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar |
Edgar Allan Poe |
|
|
Librivox (1), zombies (1), into-movie (1), first person point of view (1), mesmerism (1), 19th century (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), moment of death (1), experiment (1), horror (1), into-radio (1), into-play (1)
|
| 1837-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment |
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
|
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contemporary (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), fountain of youth (1), human experimentation (1), folly of youth (1), perspective of age (1), into-movie (1)
|
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