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The Starlight Wonder Book
by Henry BestonThe Starlight Wonder Book is a collection of short stories for children written by Henry Beston. THE BRAVE GRENADIERTHE PALACE OF THE NIGHTTHE ENCHANTED BABYTHE TWO MILLERSTHE ADAMANT DOORTHE CITY OF THE WINTER SLEEPAILEEL AND AILINDATHE WONDERFUL TUNETHE MAN OF THE WILDWOODTHE MAIDEN OF THE MOUNTAINTHE BELL OF THE EARTH AND THE BELL OF T..
Jabberwock, Beware!
by Richard A. SternbachThe Security Council was in emergency session. The four delegates would have had easier consciences had more nations been represented, but it was hard to travel now. Only Russia, England and France were able to send their men to New York.The others said nothing. Overhead, above New York's stone and glass UN building that had been conceived in hope ..
Guaranteed—Forever!
by Frank M. RobinsonClark Street, just north of Chicago's Loop, was the symbol of a million things, all of them bad, Manning thought. Bumpy paving bricks rutted with street car tracks and bordered on both sides by cheap saloons and quarter-a-night flop houses. Hot summer nights when the drunks clustered like flies on the sidewalks and Newberry Park was crowded with cr..
The Lost Ego
by Rog PhillipsIt was evening. Somewhere down the block a woman was calling someone named Johnny. Across the street a man was going up the walk to the house from his car. Next door a skinny man with a large Adam's apple was mowing the lawn. He saw me and waved at me. A nervous smile flitted over his lips.I started to take off my coat. Sudden doubt made me pause. ..
Preferred Position
by Dave DryfoosBut the damage had been done. At the word "coffee" a grotesque marionette opened the bedroom door and minced in with two steaming cups on a tray, swinging them artfully so that they appeared likely to spill, but didn't.For some years, now, that dance had left Janet unamused. She was about to say so when Les growled, "These darned dolls are a nuisan..
Milk Run
by Robert Donald LockeThe Star Rover, a rusty freighter that shuttled between Rigel and the home system, hovered above a transfer station some two million miles out from Rigel's twelfth planet, awaiting port clearance. Every crewman knew the skipper was oiled, but they knew the entropy barrier would set him back a full day, shocking him into cold alertness.Second Office..
Paradise Planet
by Richard S. ShaverIt was a queer looking planet. As his ship approached it, Steve Donay could see slowly rising and twisting coils of strange smoke, brown and silver and gold, like great snakes or the tenuous flesh of some creature of the air. He hated to think of setting down on that world of surface fires. But what else was there to do? He was at the end of his su..
No Sons Left to Die!
by Hal AnnasSusan Wildress knew that what she was about to do might mean death. She stopped eating and stared at the ration of ground cedar bark, rabbit, and a hydroponic which tasted like eggplant. She pushed back her plate and glanced around at the tense girl faces in the huge dining hall. She lifted a small strong hand and ran it inside her sweater. She bro..