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(Excerpt): "In addition, Perrie and Dexter were volunteers for what Dr. Aloys Ormond referred to cryptically as "very advanced experimentation." The group at large had not been told the exact nature of these experiments, but the implication was that they were mental exercises of such power that Dr. Al did not wish other advanced students to try them, until the brave pioneer work being done by Perrie and Dexter was concluded and he had evaluated the...

A must read sci-fi short. With the evil that is descending on us this story shows just what it would take to get us together again. Many religions have some variation of Do Unto Others as You Would Have Them Do Unto You but that's never the part that makes the news, that's never what you hear chanted...

This is a classic science fiction short story by James H. Schmitz that first appeared in Analog Science Fact and Fiction. The following passage is part of its intriguing intro: 'The most dangerous of animals is not the biggest and fiercest-but the one that's hardest to stop. Add intelligence to that... and you may come to a wrong conclusion as to what the worst menace is.... ' This work is part of our Vintage Sci-Fi Classics Series, a series in which...

This is a classic science fiction short story by James H. Schmitz and illustrated by Brotman. The following passage is part of its intriguing intro: 'It's one thing to try to get away with what you believe to be a lie and be caught at it- and something different, and far worse sometimes, to find it isn't a lie ...' This work is part of our Vintage Sci-Fi Classics Series, a series in which we are republishing some of the best stories in the genre by...

This is a classic science fiction short story by James H. Schmitz and illustrated by Brotman. The following passage is part of its intriguing intro: 'He contracted for a charter trip- but the man who hired his spacer wasn't quite a man, it turned out-and he wanted more than service! ' This work is part of our Vintage Sci-Fi Classics Series, a series in which we are republishing some of the best stories in the genre by some of its most acclaimed authors,...

The robbery of the Dosey Asteroids Shipping Station in a remote and spottily explored section of space provided the news casting systems of the Federation of the Hub with one of the juiciest crime stories of the season. In a manner not clearly explained, the Dosey Asteroids Company had lost six months' production of gem-quality cut star hyacinths valued at nearly a hundred million credits. It lost also its Chief Lapidary and seventy-eight other company...