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Short Science Fiction Collection Vol. 012

by Various

Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological and technical speculations based on current or future science or technology. This is a reader-selected collection of short stories that entered the US public domain when their copyright was not renewed.

Summary by Cori Samuel, with Wikipedia input.

• Wikipedia – Science Fiction
• Wikipedia – History of Science Fiction
• Wikipedia – Short Science Fiction Index
• LibriVox’s Short Science Fiction Collection Vol. 012 Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book (126 MB)
• RSS feed · Subscribe in iTunes

Total running time: 4:22:18

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• As Long As You Wish by John O’Keefe – 00:10:33
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  Read by: Joelle Peebles
• The Big Fix by George O. Smith – 00:57:42
  Source: E-text
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  Read by: Alan Winterrowd
• The Fourth Invasion by Henry Josephs – 00:09:33
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  Read by: Tibbi Scott
• Goliah by Jack London – 00:57:10
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  Read by: Gregg Margarite
• The Man who Saw the Future by Edmond Hamilton – 00:30:47
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  Read by: Gregg Margarite
• The Nothing Equation by Tom Godwin – 00:20:15
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  Read by: Janet Moursund
• The Putnam Tradition by Sonya Dorman – 00:14:43
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  Read by: Tibbi Scott
• A Scientist Rises by D. W. Hall – 00:18:50
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  Read by: David Adamson
• The Shadow and the Flash by Jack London – 00:33:50
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  Read by: Gregg Margarite
• We Didn’t Do Anything Wrong, Hardly by Roger Kuykendall – 00:08:55
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  Read by: Joelle Peebles

Cataloged on March 12, 2009