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Short Science Fiction Collection Vol. 013

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, first published between 1951 – 1962, that entered the US public domain when their copyright was not renewed.

Summary by Cori Samuel, with Wikipedia input.

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• Wikipedia – History of Science Fiction
• Wikipedia – Science Fiction
• Wikipedia – Short Science Fiction Index
• Get a standard or slim CD case insert for this book
• M4B format available
• LibriVox’s Short Science Fiction Collection Vol. 013 Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire collection – 124MB
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• Faithfully Yours by Lou Tabakow – 00:39:52
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• The Golden Judge by Nathaniel Gordon – 00:43:32
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• The Invaders by Benjamin Ferris – 00:34:54
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• Moment of Truth by Basil Wells – 00:10:11
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• The Next Logical Step by Ben Bova – 00:14:27
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• Pandemic by J. F. Bone – 00:44:33
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• The Perfectionists by Arnold Castle – 00:31:48
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• Reluctant Genius by Henry Slesar – 00:06:04
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• Tight Squeeze by Dean Ing – 00:34:32
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• We Didn’t Do Anything Wrong, Hardly by Roger Kuykendall – 00:10:42
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Cataloged on April 24, 2009