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stretched out towards her, calyx erect, leaves like blood-red sabres. I stepped round her quickly and switched off the argon feed. The Arachnid sank to a whimper, and around us there was a nightmarish babel of broken notes and voices toppling from high C's and L's into discord. A faint whispering of leaves moved over the silence. The woman gripped the edge of the tank and gathered herself. Her skin dimmed and the insects in her eyes slowed to a delicate wavering. 'Why did you turn it off?' she asked heavily. 'I'm sorry,' I said. 'But I've got ten thousand dollars' worth of stock here and that sort of twelvetone emotional storm can blow a lot of valves. Most of these plants aren't equipped for grand opera.' She watched the Arachnid as the gas drained out of its calyx. One by one its leaves buckled and lost their colour. 'How much is it?' she asked me, opening her bag. 'It's not for sale,' I said. 'Frankly I've no idea how it picked up those bars - ' 'Will a thousand dollars be enough?' she asked, her eyes fixed on me steadily. 'I can't,' I told her. 'I'd never be able to tune the others without it. Anyway,' I added, trying to smile, 'that Arachnid would be dead in ten minutes if you took it out of its vivarium. All these cylinders and leads would look a little odd inside your lounge.'
'Yes, of course,' she agreed, suddenly smiling back at me. 'I was stupid.' She gave the orchid a last backward glance and strolled away across the floor to the long Tchaikovsky section popular with the tourists. 'Pathetique,' she read off a label at random. 'I'll take this.' I wrapped up the scabia and slipped the instructional booklet into the crate, keeping my eye on her all the time. 'Don't look so alarmed,' she said with amusement. 'I've never heard anything like that before.' I wasn't alarmed. It was that thirty years at Vermilion Sands had narrowed my horizons. 'How long are you staying at Vermilion Sands?' I asked her. 'I open at the Casino tonight,' she said. She told me her name was Jane Ciracylides and that she was a speciality singer. 'Why don't you look in?' she asked, her eyes fluttering mischievously. 'I come on at eleven. You may find it interesting.' I did. The next morning Vermilion Sands hummed. Jane created a sensation. After her performance three hundred people swore they'd seen everything from a choir of angels taking the vocal in the music of the spheres to Alexander's Ragtime Band. As for myself, perhaps I'd listened to too many flowers, but at least I knew where the scorpion on the balcony had come from.
Page 2 and 3: J.G. Ballard The Complete Short Sto
Page 4 and 5: gathered together and arranged in t
Page 6 and 7: CONTENTS Introduction 10 Prima Bell
Page 8 and 9: The Dead Astronaut 1506 The Comsat
Page 10 and 11: INTRODUCTION Short stories are the
Page 12 and 13: Prima Belladonna I first met Jane C
Page 14 and 15: metallic hat. Even in shadow the si
Page 16 and 17: the others. Invariably when I opene
Page 18 and 19: Insect legs wavered delicately roun
Page 22 and 23: Tony Miles had heard Sophie Tucker
Page 24 and 25: play i-Go with a golden-skinned wom
Page 26 and 27: I shook my head. Tony and Harry tol
Page 28 and 29: 'I'm afraid I'm your one failure,'
Page 30 and 31: 'But you didn't get your voice from
Page 32 and 33: The next day it died. Where Jane we
Page 34 and 35: I shrugged and went back to 17 down
Page 36 and 37: The scene drew to a close, the old
Page 38 and 39: All three programmes were repeating
Page 40 and 41: 'Yeah, thanks. Listen, Tom,' I went
Page 42 and 43: 'Helen!' I insisted, gripping her s
Page 44 and 45: 'Yes, thanks a lot. Tom, could you
Page 46 and 47: Before I could finish I found mysel
Page 48 and 49: 'What, sorry?' 'Are you asleep, ang
Page 50 and 51: hard aching pain running from the t
Page 52 and 53: 'I don't think they have,' I said.
Page 54 and 55: 'Only the first theory,' M. explain
Page 56 and 57: arena. My arms were out at my sides
Page 58 and 59: Franz smiled politely. 'That wouldn
Page 60 and 61: Franz picked it up and launched it
Page 62 and 63: A south-bound express took him to t
Page 64 and 65: with her customary smile of welcome
Page 66 and 67: Gregson shook his head. 'No. How di
Page 68 and 69: Below them in the street a lot of s
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'Don't worry, we know.' He smiled o
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Franz and Gregson entered the stati
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train. There were two cars; a sleep
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'Starting up,' Franz said easily. '
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10th Day: East 900 .755th Greater M
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'It's always been here,' the surgeo
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change to a 438 suburban and go dow
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I patted Carol on the shoulder. 'Re
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eforehand I fail to understand. The
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I presumed she would be rather unpl
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'Then why is it sagging upwards ins
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Academic Festival Overture and Rach
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of lawn next to the house and turne
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to trumpet out the opening bars of
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the galvanized metal sheets. - All
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or other public nuisance. Her main
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I bent down and pressed my hands ag
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'They'll stop it,' Carol said. 'The
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with a sharp, impatient mouth and s
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yet, but visualize the universal ap
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'They won't,' Neill said. He stood
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interns sat around waiting by their
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physical, checking their renal clea
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He noticed Lang giving him an amuse
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Then Neill came down, and they bega
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'Tell them I'll be asleep for forty
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Morley smiled. 'Now and then,' he s
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Now the air was flat and motionless
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deliberately. Above them the banks
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The gymnasium closed in. Now less t
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'Quarter past three,' he remarked,
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ceiling. Avery ran his hands over t
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floor. The other hand supported his
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fingers. Phrases swam through his m
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probably that. They've just pulled
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Track 12 'Guess again,' Sheringham
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sort of crazy novelty value, like b
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everie abruptly. The air in the pat
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the sounds rose until they filled t
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The Waiting Grounds Whether Henry T
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you must have heard it all on the r
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Tallis drove me down to the settlem
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Tallis nodded. 'In about two millio
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was a magnificent piece of equipmen
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cabin. It was an hour to noon, and
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He shook my hand carefully before h
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I suppose the whole episode would e
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Tallis had done his job too well. T
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I looked at the Bible again. It was
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working the mine, using Talus as th
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'Prime archezoic loam,' I said, rep
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Although the roof seemed hard as st
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There were at least a dozen languag
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the stars had chiselled to tabulate
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More important, I wanted someone to
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Mayer listened, broke away and wand
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'Let's get back to the truck,' I te
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The shell missed him by three feet
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Epochs drifted. Time massed on giga
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0.00000001 of its previous phase. T
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sun and the stars of our brief priv
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I stepped back and craned up at the
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Now: Zero You ask: how did I discov
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office and keep me waiting pointles
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in an accident that intervened to s
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Rankin had done his work of denigra
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Two minutes later we knew it was Ca
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Jacobson had been morbidly influenc
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Completely flabbergasted - at first
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agency was at work, and was somehow
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detective stopped me in the street
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its twist, indeed one so violent as
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Carefully he ran the long snout of
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He had been calling on Madame Gioco
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As Mangon brought her tea she heave
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stop him crying, he had been stone
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telegrams to him. Of course Hector
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music of any type - had gone comple
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a natural length recording, but wit
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thirteenth-century pediments from t
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sunken lounge. Wide studio windows
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the copyright on Stravinsky lapse?
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Alto laughed shortly, tore up his s
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'The idea of a closed circuit progr
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The stage was deserted, the couch a
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acute shock. Then she drew from her
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Madame Gioconda was watching him, a
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the air tingling with a thousand vi
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unbroken phonic high, invisible but
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only twenty feet away at its neares
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the easy patter of announcers, the
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Hector LeGrande. Of course, Mangon
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impatience. 'It's useless, Mangon,
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you're supposed to stand quietly in
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Above them in the hallway a door sl
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something like the old days. Reveng
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Five 'He'll be in Bermuda. Business
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had rehearsed with Alto his entry b
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with them Mangon's whole relationsh
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and cathode tube. They were all pre
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crescendo. At the same time Madame
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Mangon attempted to say something,
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Zone of Terror Larsen had been wait
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outside, and saw the tall, angular
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'You described it pretty exactly,'
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had pulled him off the project and
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no windows or side doors - but ther
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A man was sitting on the sofa, legs
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Bayliss snapped his fingers. 'No yo
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Purely visual memories are never co
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like to suddenly see yourself? All
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The transformation was effective. W
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still hesitating in the doorway, lo
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chalets. The second double was maki
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tried to drag Larsen towards the ga
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Then the double by his shoulder rai
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Most of the time, when he wasn't re
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'Eleven and twelve,' he had pointed
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into the standard small black box,
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every clock or wristwatch brought i
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As he carried it home its tick seem
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would pip out in less than ten seco
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houses. Half of them were empty, wi
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its character; buildings, were larg
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of lifts and escalators. The street
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What's really remarkable is that it
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Stacey stopped, pointed to a blue-f
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'There were a dozen socio-economic
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printed for you in the newspaper co
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pavement and gunned the car towards
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echoes rolling from one street to t
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old man darting between the stairwa
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Conrad went over to the window, poi
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and in doorways, listening to the d
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halfway up masked the sunlight that
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One The Voices of Time Later Powers
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materials. To himself he thought: I
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and Powers remembered that the youn
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emedy, or merely the idly curious,
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happen. Fortunately the nightmarish
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He saw the girl again the next day
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'What have you got in there?' Coma
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'He built that house himself,' Powe
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punch tape. Knock out one link with
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work Dr Whitby successfully develop
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Three He went back to the desk, pul
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Switching it on, he zeroed the tape
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lowered basal metabolic rate - anot
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You mean a lot to him, doctor. In f
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Coma stood up to leave. 'You must c
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were a stack of unopened cement bag
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discipline, all the better qualitie
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on the edge of the bed, elbows on h
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a gallows against the sky, his lone
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misguided enough to be playing the
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He handed the volume to Powers, who
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take these along to remind myself.
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it, then tossed a black pellet he h
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tyres cutting across the blue grave
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at countless angles, they plunged i
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'I don't know.' Nodding to her, Kal
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1960
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listened to the thunder sounding fa
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One room he had still not entered -
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penumbral figure of Mr Goddard loom
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offices over the shops came to life
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something earnestly. Usually Durran
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ceiling and lowered the lid. He sto
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pressing into the alleyway beside t
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Goddard traced each thread, trying
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intermediary between the bookmaker
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ecently that otherwise I should hav
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As he swung the box out of the safe
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eyes ranging between the table and
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Why she refused to answer her bell
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starting in the evening, when the l
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Low, but clear and strangely menaci
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The quartz flints stung at my bare
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I looked at my watch. It was 11:55.
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ask me over. 'Yes, I have. Appallin
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overall import was strangely distur
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'Girl. She's probably sixty and tip
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That night I had the first of what
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large and spongy, the size of a cus
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I carried the cartons into the loun
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to my feet, taking the door key out
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her own policy, to make her own sel
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'Vaguely,' I said, casting my mind
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columns that had shone around us we
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Aurora chuckled. 'I suppose you're
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I picked up the terrace telephone a
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Finally Tristram picked up the phon
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more. Duly the next day a second ba
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'One poem is enough,' she told me,
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'Well, with luck I won't be killed.
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chamber. As we went I thought I saw
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the arena, which provided an escape
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take another poet's dreams seriousl
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with a perfect opportunity to stage
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written verses I might be intereste
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narrow ring of white beach still vi
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had already disappeared. By the tim
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'I know,' Holliday said in a bored
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coming back. Someone's got to stay
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lind and homeless, flitting through
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'Dog-fish,' Granger muttered. 'Shar
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should shade it for a few hours, he
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if Earth were a garbage dump. Still
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their car, yelling and playing catc
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She stepped into the lounge and cam
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Ready now, he lay back and surveyed
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moved slowly backwards and forwards
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subject-object relationship is not
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When the shower was over he grunted
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the wrist strap, massaging his arm
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pressed to his ears, Faulkner exami
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'Oh, for Pete's sake.' Shaking his
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Professor Harman. He told me that y
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Then at last they came into brief p
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Mr F. is Mr F. And baby makes three
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Yet? Freeman listened to her feet d
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Freeman had credited this apparent
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When they reached home he wandered
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psychosomatic excess? Although he f
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Reluctant to use his voice, which h
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ed and hid his tiny body behind it,
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forced to stop. Out of breath, he l
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Elizabeth came out of her bedroom.
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aware that his metamorphosis contin
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'Do call me Robert. See you again s
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her large figure to fit the unfamil
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Billennium All day long, and often
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surprised if you haven't got at lea
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stadium on one side and those appro
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although this was against the fire
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Rossiter smiled. 'Sorry, John, I'd
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The girl leaned against him as they
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The manager nodded vaguely. 'You're
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ut the occupant, a man of seventy,
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Panel, by panel, they prised away t
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After due precautions, they let the
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The aunt arrived within five minute
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him, a clear six feet to the wall a
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salesman at the store told him ther
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with a marked slope, which made his
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antiquated and confused, and he fou
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The clerk shook his head doubtfully
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of a powerful sporting rifle, and a
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and rested one elbow on the table,
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'But of course you will. I'm absolu
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minute toenails with their chipped
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Dr Jamieson sat forward intently. T
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crookedly into the cigarette kiosk,
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would have lived. His whole stratag
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uneasy. Under a flap of the raincoa
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The girl choked on her cigarette, t
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drooling on the doorsteps, sleeping
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'She asked you for assistance, doct
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Over their third carafe of burgundy
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As he entered the tenth-floor bedro
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desperately. 'Damn, I hated my fath
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Gregory gripped the windscreen. 'Yo
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As was his custom before beginning
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flung back in a reversal of time, a
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limitless extent of the army. What
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Crossing the lake, he and his wife
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the other all day. When his wife mo
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the ceaseless tide of humanity. The
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The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista
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through two movie starlets, a psych
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providing back and arm rests. 'Sit
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We had come to Vermilion Sands for
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ank presidents had been in short su
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eauty and simplicity of the garden
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was a famous architect Howard, were
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tempted to depart from principle by
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controlled. If I leapt out of my ch
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Finally she stormed away into her b
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Later I knew that I was, in fact, t
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'For heaven's sake, Fay, don't be s
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vortex of anger that converged upon
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It must have been only four o'clock
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I fumbled in my pockets for a knife
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have been hypnotized by the persona
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Thirteen to Centaurus Abel knew. Th
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'Hello, Abel,' Dr Francis said easi
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filled with luminous dials and flic
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Dr Francis joined in the laughter.
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e old by the time they do. But don'
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the last scene he had shown Abel, t
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tilted slightly to reveal the catwa
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place is being run. Did you see the
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prepared to accept the idea of a sm
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morning, as he walked around the sh
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three names supplied, were here in
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Kersh smiled. 'I was looking in at
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for his foolishness; antagonizing t
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having children. In 25 years only t
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and unemotional; the cine-cameras w
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But when Francis' pounding roused A
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just because you didn't look at Rou
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He watched the young man disappear
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Passport to Eternity It was half pa
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went on. 'Do you really think that
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Margot lay back among the cushions
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Margot stirred lazily as the should
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grated loudly and stripped the codi
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Tony mapped out an itinerary, slipp
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Tony was no longer following the co
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'I thought there was a vacation age
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ship assault corps under Admiral St
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(polysexual delta-humanoids about t
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it's all even more confused by the
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little groups in the shadows, quiet
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Take-off in zero two minutes, Purse
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He woke in his bedroom, lying comfo
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nonetheless fascinating. It was rec
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The Cage of Sand At sunset, when th
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salvaged from the submerged chalets
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e wind-borne and drawing these down
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unregretted past. By day he always
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waiting for the sea to surrender he
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Travis to Canaveral, the abandoned
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He dropped the memo-tape into a dra
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ground, the concrete lip was now se
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then turned back to Bridgman, a bri
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craning up at the windows of the ap
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'This is the first time they've bee
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Bridgman searched the still, crysta
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would fractionally lower the gravit
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gratefully submitted to a year's qu
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from the horizon like an invasion f
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After her arrival he once invited h
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horizon, it soared towards them, th
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glowing particles, sparkling like f
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masks, the wardens manoeuvred aroun
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The Watch-Towers The next day, for
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Mrs Osmond invariably spent the aft
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She took it from Renthall and start
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'Is that the committee's decision?'
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'A what?' Renthall exploded. He sat
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egarded him as anything but a shabb
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Renthall would have liked to challe
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ut there seemed little point. 'Yes,
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Clifton glanced at him and then tur
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'A f?te,' Renthall corrected. The s
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The two men regarded each other sil
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Renthall yawned. 'I'm rather bored
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'So I'm aware.' Renthall sat down o
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here all this time.' She turned a m
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'Sorry, Mr Renthall. A man called B
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everyone viewed the towers. There w
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Renthall hesitated, lowering his vo
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'But I don't want to forget it. I w
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'Our arrangement was that it should
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'Exactly. I'm glad you understand,
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'The last few days have been fantas
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Within ten minutes he realized that
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The Singing Statues Again last nigh
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Goalen. Nevers was hesitating, appa
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across it, numbing the smooth white
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electronic overtones disguising my
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you'll be a great success. Ten thou
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I turned to see Lunora Goalen. Unhe
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Lunora smiled briefly. 'It seems to
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purple catafalque. Her face shone i
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'He is preparing his equipment,' Mm
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told her of her beauty to no mirror
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The Man on the 99th Floor All day F
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foot, he lowered it on to the first
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might easily, in an unthinking act
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Forbis shrugged, sitting up on one
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'All right?' Vansittart asked as th
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jacket buttons, and then levered hi
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vehicles drawn up in the centre of
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endezvous with Hathaway and his str
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Hathaway leaned around lazily, one
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centre of his life - the three mort
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shudder and vibrate, jarring his sp
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Inserting his coins (paper money wa
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'I would, but they smell so awful.'
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expensive discount schemes operated
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trucks, washing machines and refrig
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visualize it, Doctor - a seven-day
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its seals still unbroken, which blo
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trying to swing a two-month model c
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Refrigerator (3 months) 2 radios (7
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Then the flicker of lights cleared
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from a truck. He looked at the sign
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children clung to the skirt of the
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'You're always seeing Sherrington.
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the School of Physiology, her inter
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wurlitzer at the funfair. Everywher
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together. In the nude, or the near-
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'Something's in the water.' Mildred
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Again, as everyone watched, this se
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continuous palisade along the shore
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'Sherrington!' Pelham started to sh
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The time might pass more slowly the
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eing too persistent. When all was s
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'Not in a conscious sense. But the
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hazards facing them are immense, an
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Connolly's pallid face and hands, a
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Pereira packed the tooled metal fac
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overt signs of hostility, as if the
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on his lips and the fading traces o
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stroll after Ryker towards the bung
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animal skins, those of a vole or so
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stupid minion, locked it away in th
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What a fantastic idea. Pereira does
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'You're his only contact? There are
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the sun, sweating like a drowsy pig
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After breakfast Connolly sat under
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overturned fires and cooking pots.
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fingering him with curious position
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classification of aboriginal people
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cults. As I said, they're very mate
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jungle. Pereira waited until the la
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Ruefully shaking his head in admira
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He slapped the manual. 'What you re
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finds a tribe with a strong cargo c
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without saying that he regards the
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One The Time-Tombs Usually in the e
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'You come with us, kid. Tonight we'
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over to Pascal. Something may have
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For ten millennia the Sea of Vergil
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the tombs. Each one robbed represen
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acing across his wrist. For a momen
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lay in the centre of what seemed to
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Straddling the desk in the tilting
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slammed the metal cans on to the co
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previously seemed a random and utte
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persona within the tomb. Bridges wh
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Traxel gestured expansively. 'It's
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canisters, turning the fluttering s
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end of the road as a last glow was
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eturning to the twilight world of h
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undisturbed in the sea's immense li
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Miriam shook her head, hands claspe
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luminous figure had gone. His damp
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'Richard, I think you should stop g
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any apparent motion of her limbs, s
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The Venus Hunters When Dr Andrew Wa
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Professor Cameron propped his glass
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used as a small science fiction exc
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'Well, he seems popular with them,'
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leaning forward and listening with
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Ward picked up the book and turned
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prowling in dim bewilderment over t
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'You mustn't believe everything tha
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notifying every government and obse
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chance to tackle him directly on an
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locks, distinguished from each othe
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In the fortnight since he had retur
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only out of a deep sense of obligat
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Vernon Gardens, hoping to see Kandi
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Ward watched him finish a row. 'It'
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'This Venusian you've seen,' Ward s
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andom basis? Now obviously he had s
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Mount Vernon Observatory. At 3.30 P
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meetings with their occupants are s
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ut he felt too preoccupied to care.
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uneasiness in his mind. The air see
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looked at the venerable figures to
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Kandinski had told him that the rid
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had seen only once, when he had col
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'Please, Charles,' Ward said, feeli
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motionlessly in the lounge in one o
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the dimension of time still existed
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twenty. Do you think you can keep s
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anxiety and guilt, but that innate
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Constantin sat forward and examined
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doubt motivated the many others who
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'But what does that mean?' Constant
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sort of relationship was essential
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of an experienced senior inspector
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Malek had gone upstairs! Constantin
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His convalescence from this episode
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From the start, Constantin was comp
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some two weeks after the incident o
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demurred. 'There's no difficulty in
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convince oneself of anything, given
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'Malek.' Something made him turn an
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Mellinger cast a baleful glare at e
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grounds, dormitory blocks, garages
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'Doctor, please.' Dr Mellinger rais
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Green Hill, a Green Hill without sh
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ills were satisfied. All this made
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soon as he is free. Dr Booth, does
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Dr Mellinger shook his head with a
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know literally nothing whatever abo
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There was a sharp knock on the door
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moment, he propelled himself into t
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But what most surprised him were th
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'You're in bad shape, old sport,' h
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arm in a cast, and then a picture o
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house near Worthing, but the vision
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efore his eyes. She was lying in th
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The girl hesitated. When she spoke
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and its automobile club badges. The
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Startled, he watched this intruder
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the park. 'You know, it's rather fu
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The Screen Game Every afternoon dur
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through the cerise sand, and soon w
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Not that there was anything amateur
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Much as I liked the story, the firs
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From the beach-houses on the southe
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handsome, youthful man with a sensi
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Lagoon West, the subtle displacemen
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I looked back across the terrace to
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Above them, hidden in the shadows a
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melting into blurred pools of turqu
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gazed around at the zodiacal symbol
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'Thank you, doctor,' he muttered. T
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wavered in the haze, like the shift
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of dust behind his speeding Maserat
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'Wait!' I pulled Emerelda back from
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egun as a pleasant divertimento, a
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'Emerelda!' he shouted thickly. Ray
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members of the film company approac
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Time of Passage Sunlight spilled am
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pupils, like the reflection of a st
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his sister. 'Careful, Betty, or you
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feebleness, but Falkman ignored her
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The ceremony on Falkman's first day
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had turned almost exclusively to th
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walk home arm in arm, in the summer
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Walking through the market in the t
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own personality, but at last they e
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Prisoner of the Coral Deep I found
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other shelter and that a hidden pat
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I turned to look at her. 'You knew?
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'Listen to it!' she admonished me.
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Closing my eyes, I let the image of
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As the Continental Daily Mail put i
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audacity to steal it was a tragic c
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genuine would soar - as well as to
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ack of the oak panel with its six a
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Only Georg de Stael seemed able to
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over them.' Again I noticed the mar
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who seem to preside in his painting
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'An interesting question,' Georg sa
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painting.' Georg paused. 'Do you se
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egan to come forward towards him. '
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When he greeted me at the doorway o
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and so on. The back of the canvas,
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to materialize and make his magnifi
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white villa by the water's edge, a
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The painting had suffered no damage
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Giving up the attempt to find the b
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lockhouses ruled out any attempt to
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Traven sat up and took stock of him
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Further along, flung into a small t
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For the first few weeks Traven made
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the symptoms of ben-ben had become
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They were arranged in a series of t
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wander among the blocks. Sometimes
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e a repressed premonition of our ow
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from a canteen as Dr Osborne dresse
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'Not now, I think,' Traven replied.
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On the walls of the recording tower
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Somewhere there was a flicker of li
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around its edges, and sat down in t
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ich liqueurs and distillations of i
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Searching for a piece of rope in th
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The Illuminated Man By day fantasti
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great oblate diadem that is probabl
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general traffic, and our bus twice
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'Safe approach?' I repeated to Rest
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disturbed water we all turned and w
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armour of light, reappeared, their
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crystal trees dismembered and carri
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selfcentred about his long fleshy f
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original like a displaced image in
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heavily encrusted that they formed
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of the trees, and then extended in
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Once, as I rested against the trunk
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its progress. Under pressure of nec
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soon, and the rest of the world. Ne
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For several hours, led by this stra
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'The bearded man? He was taking she
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handful, she brought them up to her
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was convinced, perhaps sincerely, t
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ings, topaz brooches and pendants,
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My voice distracted him from his sc
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Raising my jewelled arm, I drove ba
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see, I fear that the church, like i
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a blood-red rose blossomed from the
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the sun itself has begun to efflore
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'Look at them now, before the light
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dialogue, he added: 'I tell Mr Lowr
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'Well, I'm beginning to understand
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Lowry and Louise. Lowry's meticulou
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Gifford gestured irritably at the g
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and in a slightly ambiguous way res
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Although his strength had ebbed mar
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could prevent herself, her hand mov
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'You and your snakes. Charles, you
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'Tonight, Mechippe,' Gifford told h
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They plodded on a further ten yards
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'Louise.' With a last effort Giffor
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The Drowned Giant On the morning af
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skywards, unaware of the minuscule
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People were now clambering all over
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the policemen who pushed back the p
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lives are the concluding products.
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acrid odour I had noticed before wa
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appear merely human in scale, his v
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Both the thigh-bones had been remov
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first saw him cast up on the shore
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Fretting impotently to himself, he
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the constant need for some sort of
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cleared he moved nearer the shore,
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emained sealed behind the screen of
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lace-work hung from the doors and w
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to subside, realizing that his inne
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wear. Anyway, these dressings let t
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The Volcano Dances They lived in a
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The stick-man, a collection of tatt
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'Do you remember seeing someone cal
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As he remonstrated Vandervell close
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village, and hundreds of embers glo
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Statler waded through the breaking
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Guardia Civil Quimby watched the ol
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Raissa bent forwards over the bed.
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cork bathmat and took her elbow in
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Statler opened the capsule and drew
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Yardley Sir Giles helped himself to
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hidden perspectives of the landscap
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School of Fine Arts, playing throug
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sky, reminded him of his own recurr
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Mallory inclined his head in a smal
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slight tension between the two men,
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On occasion, Mallory would go off i
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the columns of the loggia beside th
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Halliday hesitated by the low wall
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Before she could reply Halliday was
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When the clocks were going again he
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marked a change in Mallory whose si
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By the sea, where the antique theat
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and the basin was partly covered by
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the windshield. As he drove on west
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Involuntarily Conrad moved away tow
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ack but the car was on them, bursti
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Outside, the fountains played among
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Dr Knight spread his hands in an am
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hythms and hesitant walk overlaying
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accept blood transfusions, even tho
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has been for geriatric purposes, th
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that ran around the base of his thu
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Dr Knight nodded. 'Exactly, Conrad.
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artificial limb with which he had b
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'Doctor?' Conrad repeated. 'Do you
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'Tomorrow. Don't you, Conrad?' Conr
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'Was he there when I was born?' 'He
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into a run. Somewhere a familiar co
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attacked the picket ship. Each of t
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Later, when the excitement and puls
Page 1386 and 1387:
suspect that she too might be mad.
Page 1388 and 1389:
scanning the dark line of the escar
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After the destruction of the farm,
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iver past the drifting forms it see
Page 1394 and 1395:
something, perhaps their shared exp
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'Do you want more wood?' Crispin as
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It was this undefined feeling of re
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'Doves! They're all doves! I should
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walking from her house the next mor
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'That's the way, Crisp...' The dwar
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stronger gusts moved across the cre
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shot hit him in the chest, down int
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pointed to the three men looking do
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'He'll catch up with us, all right.
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a minor emigration infringement. Th
Page 1416 and 1417:
he unzipped his suit and glanced qu
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you feel all this is necessary, Cap
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out like a firework. Within two or
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Thornwald sat alone on the veranda
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Two hours after dawn the next morni
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yours. You weren't very keen on my
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THE ASSASSINATION OF JOHN FITZGERAL
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eceiving his prize after winning th
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Cry Hope, Cry Fury! Again last nigh
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near the jagged mouth of a quartz v
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She came into the cabin half an hou
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Whom had Foyle and Barbara Quimby e
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These unfortunate effects were all
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anatomy into the multiple outlines
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The portrait showed Hope in a conve
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on my own features, the pigments mo
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As I look back now, I think I merel
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were becoming smaller, submerged in
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ear. I fell to my knees, and the bl
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oomed among the rock spires, startl
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But he seemed no longer interested,
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The Recognition On Midsummer's Eve
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lights from the distant fairground
Page 1462 and 1463:
their secretive animals? Perhaps th
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The woman held his arm. She moved t
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'Tomorrow,' the woman told me in a
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of two of the wagons were visible i
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een put in sole charge of such a do
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the young woman and the dwarf. Both
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shoulders, I looked around for any
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The Cloud-Sculptors of Coral D All
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y the sonic statues, twisting their
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of this first feeling of exhilarati
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child. Its wide cheeks framed a pla
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a flurry of torn fabric. Van Eyck f
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Manuel. They stood in the gathering
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We had entered an inflamed landscap
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As the helmsman moored the craft Va
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if playing with the possibilities t
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he had done. The portrait, with cru
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uneasy giants. I walked up the slop
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In her face the diagram of bones fo
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the whirlwind. His wings held stead
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Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan *D
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generated spontaneous orgasm in 98
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The Dead Astronaut Cape Kennedy has
Page 1508 and 1509:
passed overhead, its faint beacon s
Page 1510 and 1511:
first, his last radio transmissions
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'Mr and Mrs Groves?' After a pause
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covered with rubbish and that here,
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dreamlike violence played in the un
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later, as I shielded my eyes, an ex
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She looked at me with puzzled eyes.
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I walked forward and pulled the box
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The Comsat Angels When I first hear
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Curie. However, the Duvals' house w
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While this familiar catalogue was b
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was the same: the press conference,
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'For how long?' I pulled a chair up
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Charles handed me the list. 'Come o
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Sherrington might have gone off to
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means and education, but the son ha
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never says anything in public, but
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is the youngest, barely seventeen,
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Caldare in the Cosa Nostra, Georges
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There was an exasperated silence. '
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With any luck, Pearson hoped, the c
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Avoiding the lieutenant's eyes, Pea
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'Right. We'll have another go at th
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the woods below the hill-crest. Pea
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'I'm not a combat soldier, Major. I
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The captain tapped the memorial sto
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wondered if the cleaning of the mem
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Earlier that morning Mannock had cl
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want to defend these few streets wh
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test-rotating its turret. Exhaust b
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Mannock leaned into the back seat o
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Mannock sat uncomfortably in the po
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poured ashore, unloading staff cars
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a child. Mannock twisted the weapon
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young woman danced by herself in he
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He looked down at his dappled sleev
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their colours running into blurred
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'Raine Charming...'he repeated. 'Be
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I hated them? I really wanted every
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'Mr Samson, I tried to telephone yo
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lay blanched and inert. Others had
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edroom. 'Forgive me saying so, but
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shoulders and broken nose standing
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terrace. Around me the shadows of d
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and looked up at the deserted house
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The Greatest Television Show on Ear
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programmes for the year 2002 offere
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fewer combatants actually present t
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more were provided to trample down
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water. Along the horizon the sabre-
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My Dream of Flying to Wake Island M
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approached the Messerschmitt, but t
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months. During his convalescence at
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idge retained its rectilinear form,
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Systematically, Melville organized
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engine cowlings removed, stood at t
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of controlled euphoria which his so
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oof-turret, stepping through the de
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nervous vomiting, she had moved bac
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The Air Disaster The news that the
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eplayed over the radio, was the las
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collection of houses grouped around
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startled editor while my rivals wer
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windshield, and with the other poin
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Perhaps they were mute, or deaf. Th
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the aircraft was little more than a
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There was a bundle of old clothing
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ocks, but at the same time his comp
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itter, this vigorous and unquenched
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treasures in case the world opened
Page 1648 and 1649:
pregnancy was a major evolutionary
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with people enjoying themselves wit
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For some reason the consolations of
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the real obscenity. In the foyer of
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When he reached the young woman and
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When at last he heard Judith's cry
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tomorrow - the Cerveras can look af
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into the air and fanned out behind
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very bright girl. She's managed to
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Cervera. The district nurse had tak
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The Life and Death of God During th
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congregations, a reluctance to jump
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At the conclusion of the statement
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commercial TV aerials and any other
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and sat about on their doorsteps wi
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Kingdom of God might be at hand, bu
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This statement was soon followed by
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Russian missile-firing submarines w
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There is no evidence that the patie
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general activity. He is forever mov
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Suffolk, visiting one abandoned air
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Loughlin suffering from cancer of t
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paralysed the airport for an hour b
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14 All the evidence collected indic
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17 This afterthought, attached to t
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2.15 P.M. The 60 Minute Zoom Lioret
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Almost no sky surrounds the hotel,
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applications of sun-oil, the dabbin
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for a clean shirt in his wardrobe h
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involuntarily gate-crashed their wa
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pointing to the burn marks left by
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spoken agreement in a blatant way.
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The Smile Now that a nightmare logi
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of some solitary herd slaughtered f
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Attached to the plaque was a dusty
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to the shop to inquire about her pr
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saw, an inch above the still-concea
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smile, relaxed into the contented p
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communicating some private message.
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insolent suitor whistling as he sau
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she often reminded me of a tired an
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The Ultimate City All winter, while
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than a whisper, the wind sucked sof
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wing-loading they might need, almos
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of the tidal-power machines - all t
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sunlight alternated between the bui
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ackwaters determined to build the f
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efore, in the encyclopaedias of ind
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ordered direct from the craftsman w
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Protected by the buckling wings, th
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For the next two hours, as the sun
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that someone was following him. The
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under-stratum of bars and pintable
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avenue all the cars had been cleare
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first time to catch his breath. The
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arely gained a purchase on the base
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the city marked off into various zo
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man was crouching over the controls
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clowns whom Halloway and his friend
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what he assumed was Olds' dining ar
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'And you're sure they all run?' Hal
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apartment. Already the elements of
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seemed to contain every tool ever d
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For the time being it hardly matter
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centre of the square was the larges
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The old man in his whites was waiti
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put up a monument here and there to
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By contrast, this young woman - his
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grandparents on one side and the yo
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nearly flung to the road as Stillma
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together filled Halloway's head wit
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his accident, had become the centra
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conversations recorded by husbands
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A little too much - even for me. 'N
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Halloway pointed at the deserted st
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usinesses, even the clandestine lis
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In no time Stillman had staked out
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printing shop next to the police st
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arquentine built by the Garden City
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leaned across his control console a
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the monitor, when he realized that
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Halloway had even been pleased when
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shown his first irritation with the
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ecruits against their first week's
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The day after this incident Buckmas
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embedded in a matrix of detergent p
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vehicles mounted on their movable t
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a powerful economic regulator, we'd
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However, much to Halloway's relief
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into a miniature greenhouse. Each o
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city, with its now barren stone and
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overheated generators, replaced the
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surrounded the car park, crouching
Page 1834 and 1835:
fluid overran Stillman's feet as he
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people made their way back to their
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The Dead Time Without warning, as i
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eceding behind us, I watched the pa
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various categories of table-ware. I
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already I knew that we were not bei
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arranged with great care and devoti
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'We need two drivers,' the interpre
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The prospect of seeing them, after
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ahead there's a sluice-bridge. It l
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seeing my parents and sister later
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Needless to say, Hodson and I were
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to side on the earth track. Behind
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adiator with water from the canal,
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like a hostile chorus, their inclin
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uncertain whether the events taking
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Together the child and I walked dow
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pressed the child to my chest, awar
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My son David crouches at his mother
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hospital cr?che, and thus spared al
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appearance, I shelved my other pati
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sense of self-consciousness, and li
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ourselves to each other - fortunate
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into the doorway, as if nervous tha
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feet from me now, ready to mount hi
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Author's preface Theatre of War Aft
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pours more and more troops into wha
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What's the alternative to fooling a
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carefully framed portraits of Georg
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government forces is an aggressive,
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Meanwhile, however, the British Com
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Police hustling them about. Older p
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Well, it depends very much on what
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Commentator Here at Cookham, only t
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their equipment. The American weapo
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in Operation Pegasus killed 207 ene
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Commentator As for the British troo
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operation should be finalized. It's
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Naturally one hopes that peace will
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along a pathway on the far side of
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of bodies, mostly young women and c
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Having a Wonderful Time 3 July 1985
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won't be here until tomorrow at the
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of Being Ernest. Richard takes it a
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12 November. Hotel Imperial An extr
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you have never been delivered, but
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materialize for her and fill it wit
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Strictly speaking, this wasn't true
Page 1930 and 1931:
confrontation, assuaging his own un
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had been able to protect his head,
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1944. After a moment, to Ogden's re
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'They were here all right. Mme Saun
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By the next morning, after Ogden ha
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Richard Foster returned from the te
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containing the boathouse, at which
Page 1944 and 1945:
pistol with a blood-stained shoe. H
Page 1946 and 1947:
world both narrowing and expanding
Page 1948 and 1949:
through that eyepiece. They seemed
Page 1950 and 1951:
computer and the clones, the coil w
Page 1952 and 1953:
sidle around him like caricatures f
Page 1954 and 1955:
new logic, a conceptualized violenc
Page 1956 and 1957:
assume that she was giving birth to
Page 1958 and 1959:
Motel Architecture Pangborn's suspi
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circular chamber was empty, like th
Page 1962 and 1963:
past fifteen years, and his confuse
Page 1964 and 1965:
concentrated on the television scre
Page 1966 and 1967:
ody processes, the night's heart ra
Page 1968 and 1969:
together the sections of the vacuum
Page 1970 and 1971:
man had no intention of attacking h
Page 1972 and 1973:
then caught what seemed to be brief
Page 1974 and 1975:
found a secure hiding place, perhap
Page 1976 and 1977:
stained the towels in the bathroom.
Page 1978 and 1979:
pulse drumming through the floor in
Page 1980 and 1981:
A Host of Furious Fancies Don't loo
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one Mlle Brossard, had not arrived
Page 1984 and 1985:
were all too often convenient descr
Page 1986 and 1987:
circular flights of the divided sta
Page 1988 and 1989:
gloomy mansion. As for her dermatit
Page 1990 and 1991:
Dr Charcot, that the choice is not
Page 1992 and 1993:
facilitated by her recent well-publ
Page 1994 and 1995:
deranged - when she drove off in ou
Page 1996 and 1997:
For all my resistance to that pseud
Page 1998 and 1999:
Reaching forward, she added the cov
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News from the Sun In the evenings,
Page 2002 and 2003:
near the air base, in the silent ru
Page 2004 and 2005:
Franklin slowed to avoid running do
Page 2006 and 2007:
faces, and a small aircraft soared
Page 2008 and 2009:
Franklin looked down at the white-h
Page 2010 and 2011:
was a trainee astronaut once. My wi
Page 2012 and 2013:
complete run of the place. Moving a
Page 2014 and 2015:
seen the astronauts' original fugue
Page 2016 and 2017:
Franklin was thinking about Trippet
Page 2018 and 2019:
from a sea of dunes? Franklin had b
Page 2020 and 2021:
sources of the malaise were to be f
Page 2022 and 2023:
spent dreams, which had once boaste
Page 2024 and 2025:
Admiring Slade for his nerve in usi
Page 2026 and 2027:
the time drained out of her, the co
Page 2028 and 2029:
parks, emotions hung on these abstr
Page 2030 and 2031:
Fired by all this, I set off for th
Page 2032 and 2033:
If time is a primitive mental struc
Page 2034 and 2035:
each in a straight-backed chair on
Page 2036 and 2037:
As the microlight soared away, Fran
Page 2038 and 2039:
office, Franklin. Think of it as my
Page 2040 and 2041:
He set off towards Las Vegas, tryin
Page 2042 and 2043:
emerged from beneath his heels and
Page 2044 and 2045:
Time, in a brief act of kindness, f
Page 2046 and 2047:
Ursula and her father, of course, c
Page 2048 and 2049:
he moved across the desert. The lak
Page 2050 and 2051:
noise and violence of the engine we
Page 2052 and 2053:
'Slade! Leave the old man!' Frankli
Page 2054 and 2055:
The sky was filled with winged men.
Page 2056 and 2057:
familiar hard brow behind the pilot
Page 2058 and 2059:
we've run out of. I'm getting those
Page 2060 and 2061:
conceived and born here at Cape Ken
Page 2062 and 2063:
photographs; and a psychoanalytic s
Page 2064 and 2065:
Mallory was relying on the car's po
Page 2066 and 2067:
of the universe that had been aband
Page 2068 and 2069:
From the shelter of the culvert, Ma
Page 2070 and 2071:
fell slowly to the ground, deferrin
Page 2072 and 2073:
face gazed at the glass floor ten f
Page 2074 and 2075:
doctor, no one comes on holiday to
Page 2076 and 2077:
'So did my father.' She spoke sharp
Page 2078 and 2079:
Alan Shepley - the first man to be
Page 2080 and 2081:
Hinton believe himself innocent of
Page 2082 and 2083:
'Mallory, yes... it's you still!' H
Page 2084 and 2085:
'Mallory, I'm glad you came!' Hinto
Page 2086 and 2087:
turn his back on Mallory, clearly s
Page 2088 and 2089:
Hinton had taken his arm in a comfo
Page 2090 and 2091:
last an eternity. I'd better decide
Page 2092 and 2093:
ability to leave his physical form
Page 2094 and 2095:
(Anne): Did you teach them? What am
Page 2096 and 2097:
intersection, see the same rusty si
Page 2098 and 2099:
pace only when it circled the hotel
Page 2100 and 2101:
they were already moving through th
Page 2102 and 2103:
Myths of the Near Future At dusk Sh
Page 2104 and 2105:
the snake-headed profile cut in the
Page 2106 and 2107:
Cessna, her white hands waved a dis
Page 2108 and 2109:
ushed into the silver gullies of th
Page 2110 and 2111:
and the hours spent playing back pa
Page 2112 and 2113:
how close the whole malaise was to
Page 2114 and 2115:
sacked his exhausted staff, she pac
Page 2116 and 2117:
extravagant creature as plumed and
Page 2118 and 2119:
exposing its contents to the driver
Page 2120 and 2121:
unshaven skin stretched across the
Page 2122 and 2123:
what about a filet steak, you reall
Page 2124 and 2125:
Picasso doves chalked on the boarde
Page 2126 and 2127:
vanished, swept away by the sea. Be
Page 2128 and 2129:
unning-board of the truck, holding
Page 2130 and 2131:
laundromat was charged by his own b
Page 2132 and 2133:
young psychologist sitting at the f
Page 2134 and 2135:
special kind of madness. You should
Page 2136 and 2137:
eproduction. 'It's a machine, of a
Page 2138 and 2139:
escue his wife, to find a key to ev
Page 2140 and 2141:
paving the dusty sidewalks with a c
Page 2142 and 2143:
Bird-signs marked the trees, Picass
Page 2144 and 2145:
Sheppard let him go. He knew now wh
Page 2146 and 2147:
chamber, a circle of well-upholster
Page 2148 and 2149:
He could see the glider outside, th
Page 2150 and 2151:
Sheppard walked towards the water.
Page 2152 and 2153:
Report on an Unidentified Space Sta
Page 2154 and 2155:
thousands of passengers. There are
Page 2156 and 2157:
Survey Report 5 No trace of our com
Page 2158 and 2159:
that its passengers were embarked o
Page 2160 and 2161:
eligious. Our instruments confirm w
Page 2162 and 2163:
smaller than I expected, and looks
Page 2164 and 2165:
observed flying across the Home Par
Page 2166 and 2167:
naval attaches, State Department an
Page 2168 and 2169:
frauds, disturbances of the peace .
Page 2170 and 2171:
14 October 1987. The Boy has escape
Page 2172 and 2173:
izarre chapel something convinced m
Page 2174 and 2175:
television, I detected the same hyp
Page 2176 and 2177:
astronaut, and the darkened nave of
Page 2178 and 2179:
Is Col. Stamford trying to hijack t
Page 2180 and 2181:
fever that had seized the whole of
Page 2182 and 2183:
Wars poster, which lay across him l
Page 2184 and 2185:
Answers to a Questionnaire 1) Yes.
Page 2186 and 2187:
30) Suite 17B, London Penta Hotel.
Page 2188 and 2189:
President of the Royal Society, (3)
Page 2190 and 2191:
96) I did not wish to spend the res
Page 2192 and 2193:
memory of the actual space-flights.
Page 2194 and 2195:
lottery touts. Perhaps I would visi
Page 2196 and 2197:
camel driver posing for pennies aga
Page 2198 and 2199:
tourist revenue it brought him. For
Page 2200 and 2201:
I showed him my card. 'I'm writing
Page 2202 and 2203:
of convincing himself that he was a
Page 2204 and 2205:
himself from the surrounding world,
Page 2206 and 2207:
vulgar clothes, their look of bored
Page 2208 and 2209:
'Well, I could use an arm.' Scranto
Page 2210 and 2211:
care for Scranton, but during his f
Page 2212 and 2213:
The Secret History of World War 3 N
Page 2214 and 2215:
missed this amiable old actor who r
Page 2216 and 2217:
epeating a studio engineer's aside:
Page 2218 and 2219:
had appeared along the bottom of th
Page 2220 and 2221:
away on the back pages I found a fe
Page 2222 and 2223:
the Bering Strait. The President's
Page 2224 and 2225:
that attack of Presidential flatule
Page 2226 and 2227:
Searching the print-outs below the
Page 2228 and 2229:
patriotic motives. Yet both of us w
Page 2230 and 2231:
pleasant young woman - student, wai
Page 2232 and 2233:
videos for the young recruits in th
Page 2234 and 2235:
occasion. 'Well, it's wonderful to
Page 2236 and 2237:
think of her patriotic duty and the
Page 2238 and 2239:
eyed young Jesuit in his Gypsy Brig
Page 2240 and 2241:
house and switch off the ignition,
Page 2242 and 2243:
already been on sick-leave for thre
Page 2244 and 2245:
the dining-room fireplace. On the t
Page 2246 and 2247:
'Can I help you, officer?' I assume
Page 2248 and 2249:
yet to be opened, were contingent o
Page 2250 and 2251:
Eager to erase her memory, I set of
Page 2252 and 2253:
was blundering around the Marienbad
Page 2254 and 2255:
my project will be complete before
Page 2256 and 2257:
the pantry. But already the walls o
Page 2258 and 2259:
The Largest Theme Park in the World
Page 2260 and 2261:
failed to catch their return flight
Page 2262 and 2263:
variety of fringe philosophies bega
Page 2264 and 2265:
drilled together as they faced the
Page 2266 and 2267:
inland, stealing sheep and looting
Page 2268 and 2269:
It was clear that Europe, where so
Page 2270 and 2271:
Beirut would descend like the dove,
Page 2272 and 2273:
at their feet in a grim tableau. 'W
Page 2274 and 2275:
mercenaries and idealists, religiou
Page 2276 and 2277:
What ransom could buy a ceasefire?
Page 2278 and 2279:
'I've no idea. As it happens, I've
Page 2280 and 2281:
of Monaco, the Christians are mostl
Page 2282 and 2283:
To break this propaganda strangleho
Page 2284 and 2285:
'... and the fighting will just fad
Page 2286 and 2287:
their lives were threatened. The pr
Page 2288 and 2289:
point somewhere to the south-west o
Page 2290 and 2291:
needed after the last curtain. 'It'
Page 2292 and 2293:
'You can leave us, corporal. I'll b
Page 2294 and 2295:
programme of vaccination, involving
Page 2296 and 2297:
credit to you, but the experiment m
Page 2298 and 2299:
he returned and searched for his he
Page 2300 and 2301:
lood, as if an invisible audience w
Page 2302 and 2303:
Dream Cargoes Across the lagoon an
Page 2304 and 2305:
Caribbean air, pennants painted wit
Page 2306 and 2307:
unning riot. Vivid new shoots pushe
Page 2308 and 2309:
Coast Guard dispatched them into th
Page 2310 and 2311:
poisonous vapour rising through the
Page 2312 and 2313:
iologist and the way she took a clo
Page 2314 and 2315:
for these dangerous and unstable ch
Page 2316 and 2317:
ut you've mixed a remarkably potent
Page 2318 and 2319:
Johnson was so pleased to see her t
Page 2320 and 2321:
ut he was certain that these fruits
Page 2322 and 2323:
'Johnson, wake up!' 'I am awake. Ch
Page 2324 and 2325:
only calming herself two hours late
Page 2326 and 2327:
survived it would face a fierce cha
Page 2328 and 2329:
11.00 Office War. Long-running seri
Page 2330 and 2331:
The Message from Mars The successfu
Page 2332 and 2333:
would later carry a five-man crew,
Page 2334 and 2335:
Age'. From that moment no Congressm
Page 2336 and 2337:
landing, guided by its on-board com
Page 2338 and 2339:
from their seats and hurried along
Page 2340 and 2341:
imposed prison. Right from the star
Page 2342 and 2343:
they might have stayed forever on t
Page 2344 and 2345:
the organic sediments in the trappe
Page 2346 and 2347:
Tramps and hippies sheltered under
Page 2348 and 2349:
Surprisingly, this has activated th
Page 2350 and 2351:
At the same time, our researches ha
Page 2352 and 2353:
But at some point in the new millen
Page 2354 and 2355:
'The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista
Page 2356 and 2357:
'The Life and Death of God' Ambit 1
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