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The invisible enemy

Jerry Sohl

A Federation ship reaches a dangerous planet where several previous crews and three search ships have vanished without a visible enemy. As the crew studies a half-buried wreck on the desert surface, Commander Warrick briefs nearly fifty men on the losses and says their mission is to identify and destroy whatever is causing the disappearances. Computer specialist Harley Allison works amid the tension while the ship circles the site and the crew prepares to go down for a closer look.

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Underestimation

Algis Budrys; Jerome Bixby

On a flight to Mars, James Gerris discovers a wounded young stowaway who has escaped from a correctional institution. Returning her to Earth is difficult, but the small research colony has almost no spare space or privacy. Her arrival forces Gerris to confront a problem that his expedition was never equipped to handle.

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A minute to think

Ray Humphreys

This western short story follows Old Pappy Stewart, the longtime stage driver for the Q-B Stage Lines, as he is pushed to leave his six-mule team and learn to drive a new motor bus between Gunsight and Central City. He resents the change, worries about his mules, and endures teasing from coworkers while the road and his driving lessons are adjusted to the new vehicle. The story centers on his stubborn loyalty, his reputation for reliability, and the uneasy shift from mule stages to motor buses.

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All's fair

Ray Humphreys

In Monte Vista, Sheriff Joe Cook is beset by two worries: a falling potato market threatens his farm income, and the elusive thief Foxy Fromera has again avoided arrest. His deputy, Shorty McKay, tries to calm him with advice to store the potatoes and take time away from the office. As the sheriff weighs whether to go fishing to clear his head, Shorty is already thinking about how to help him.

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Connie Morgan in the cattle country

James B. Hendryx

James B. Hendryx’s novel follows Connie Morgan and his partner Waseche Bill in the cattle country and the northern frontier around Ten Bow. The story centers on their cabin, their work on the trail, and tensions with outsiders over land and settlement, while Connie also encounters cow towns, bad roads, and armed confrontations. A chapter list suggests episodes involving neighbors, branding, fire, the bad lands, an outlaw, an agency, and the cowboys who help out.

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The fourth plague

Edgar Wallace

Set in Siena and the Palazzo Festini in 1899, the story centers on the aristocratic Festini family, whose name carries old feuds and a reputation for political violence. Salvani Festini, an imposing and menacing patriarch, sits with his two sons while one asks about government suspicion of the Red Hand and the family’s links to crime. The elder son is connected to an investigation led by a professor, and tensions within the household rise around loyalty, suspicion, and the family’s secretive standing.

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Ganymede House

David Grinnell

A New York salesman steps into Ganymede House, a shop whose unusual merchandise appears to come from another world. He chooses a salt cellar as a present for his wife, only to find that it behaves in ways no household object should. When he tries to return to the shop, locating it becomes a puzzle of its own.

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The neurotic rose

Jr. H. Nearing

Professor Ransom has used an experimental technique to cross a rose with a borrowed dog, Cooley. Preparing the result for a flower show proves difficult as the hybrid develops unexpected appetites and habits. Ransom and his colleague MacTate struggle to keep their creation under control and out of Mrs. Underdouble’s sight.

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Alias Napoleon

John Jakes

Jack Morris runs a carnival wax museum in Peelsville, Illinois. After a child insists that one of the figures is alive, Morris investigates the Napoleon display and encounters a presence studying its human visitors. The discovery turns a routine evening at the carnival into a confrontation with an unfamiliar threat.

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Dangling doom

W. C. Tuttle

Set in a bitterly cold snowbound mountain country, this western follows a deputy sheriff who tracks a fugitive through the snow after a killing in Galena. He finds the man camped by a dying fire, disarms him, and binds him to a lodge-pole tree while accusing him of murder. The scene is shaped by exhaustion, hunger, and the harsh winter wilderness as the two men face each other in the isolated backcountry.

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The lake of life

Edmond Hamilton

Millionaire Asa Brand recruits Clark Stannard and a group of desperate men to search for the legendary Lake of Life in Africa. Their expedition enters a hidden region divided by rival peoples and dangerous alliances. Stories of waters that promise immortality draw the travelers into a struggle over who will reach the lake first.

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The last woman

Thomas S. Gardner

This science-fiction short story is set in a far-future solar system where one woman remains in a world dominated by men and other intelligent beings. She is displayed as an anachronism in a great city once called New York, while men travel the planets and a historian explains how a scientific civilization arose from earlier efforts to control sex hormones and suppress emotion.

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Childhood

Alice Meynell

Alice Meynell’s Childhood is a reflective essay on children’s perceptions, preferences, and fears. It considers the kinds of toys children actually cherish, criticizing grotesque or fragile playthings in favor of simple, lasting objects that can be loved and named. It also looks closely at the inner life of a little girl named Sylvia and at children’s interpretations of the behavior of other children across a street.

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A bear-raising ride

Ray Humphreys

This western story follows old stage driver Whiskers Graham on the Como to Fairplay run, where he is ordered to carry Superintendent Joe McGraw’s bearskin overcoat. Whiskers fears the coat is cursed because he associates it with two deaths, while his only passenger is Miss Rosie Roach, the schoolteacher. The ride also shows Whiskers’ reputation as an experienced, fast stage driver in the South Park district.

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Brains—but scrambled

Ray Humphreys

Sheriff Joe Cook is furious to find his deputy, Shorty McKay, spending time with the beautiful Señorita Dorothe while claiming to study Spanish. The town of Monte Vista is still troubled by the robbery of a stage carrying money, mail, and passengers’ valuables, and Cook has been frustrated by an unsuccessful chase through the Smoky Creek badlands. When he orders Shorty to prepare supplies for another ride, his suspicion grows that the deputy’s interest in Dorothe is distracting him from the search.

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