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518 Anthony Boucher and Miriam Allen deFord … But then why were there no carnivorous animals on Xilmuch, but plenty of herbivorous ones and every sort of vegetation? Catastrophes were not quite so selective as that. And how … how else could Zoth have plunged a knife deep into his wife’s breast—Patrick’s horror-stricken eyes had seen the blade go in to the handle—and draw not a single drop of blood, elicit no sign of pain? Xilmuch would be a wonderful planet for colonization. Its discovery would be the climax of his career as a scout; there would be no limit to his rise in the profession after that. And how Zoth would welcome the colonists! … And what unguessed harm he could do them unwittingly by that fifth wish of his! In twenty-seven years or so Zoth and Jyk would both be dead. Zoth could do no harm then. But what would the Galactic Presidium think if a scout should announce that here was a perfect colonization-point—only it must not be approached while an old man was still alive who might jinx them? And with or without Zoth, how about a planet evidently full of mischievous, rancorous, double-crossing grosh, with who knew what bags of tricks in their possession? To say nothing of the Nameless, that distinctly unpretty god or devil whose image Patrick had seen for himself. Patrick Ostronsky-Vierra, trusted and dedicated Two Star Scout, decided deliberately to violate his sacred oath of office. When he returned to the headquarters of the Galactic Presidium, his report read: “I visited Planet IV of Altair, which has been hitherto undiscovered, and which on first approach appeared to be suitable for colonization. On further investigation I found that the atmosphere consists mostly of methane. The planet itself is still in a semi-molten state, with incessant volcanic eruptions and violent windstorms of ethane gas. “I advise that the planet be given a wide berth—permanently. It is completely unfit for human habitation.” But there was another report: a private one. It was found among Ostronsky- Vierra’s effects after his death in 4009. It was in a plastic closure marked: For the Sealed Files of the Galactic Presidium. To Be Opened 50 Years after Receipt. In it was this complete narrative as I, Mari Swenskold-Wong, Secretary of the Presidium in this year 4060, read it to the entire Presidium at its meeting upon February 30. We are still, as everyone knows, in great need of more living-space in the colonized planets. There has been much discussion of the possibility of colonizing Xilmuch, and there will be much more discussion, perhaps even insistence upon the part of the Opposition. But the majority opinion, in which I concur, is that no foreseeable Galactic situation, even the mounting pressure of expansion, can justify sending colonists to what Ostronsky-Vierra justly labeled the Mary Celeste of space. Empty of Zoth
Mary Celestial 519 Cheruk and his Jyk it must be by now, but not of its Nameless and its grosh (and who can say what powerful type of unknown life-form hides behind these supernatural masks?). Superstitious, I hope I may safely say, we surely are not; but neither are we, in our Chairman’s ringing words, “reckless damn fools.” There are other worlds.
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The Compleat Boucher i The Compleat
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The Compleat Boucher iii Copyright
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The Compleat Boucher v Contents Edi
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The Compleat Boucher vii The Very M
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The Compleat Boucher ix The Complea
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The Quest for Saint Aquin 1 The Que
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The Quest for Saint Aquin 3 syllabl
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The Quest for Saint Aquin 5 head of
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The Quest for Saint Aquin 7 purely,
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The Quest for Saint Aquin 9 The rob
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The Quest for Saint Aquin 11 Save y
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The Quest for Saint Aquin 13 way ba
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The Compleat Werewolf 15 The Comple
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The Compleat Werewolf 17 rumors abo
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The Compleat Werewolf 19 about it f
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The Compleat Werewolf 21 screen aga
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The Compleat Werewolf 23 had made h
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The Compleat Werewolf 25 “This is
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The Compleat Werewolf 27 He noticed
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The Compleat Werewolf 29 Wolf growl
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The Compleat Werewolf 31 you?” bu
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The Compleat Werewolf 33 pity to us
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The Compleat Werewolf 35 “They ha
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The Compleat Werewolf 37 dog can ge
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The Compleat Werewolf 39 threatenin
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The Compleat Werewolf 41 mightn’t
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The Compleat Werewolf 43 turn you i
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The Compleat Werewolf 45 open her m
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The Compleat Werewolf 47 Then a bri
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The Compleat Werewolf 49 of the Dar
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The Compleat Werewolf 51 In the baz
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Elsewhen 53 Elsewhen “My dear Aga
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Elsewhen 55 hour was simply not tim
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Elsewhen 57 Kept ’em in empty gas
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Elsewhen 59 and cheek. “Why, Mr.
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Elsewhen 61 as Harun-al-Rashid, all
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Elsewhen 63 library?” The butler
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Elsewhen 65 worm that had been Mr.
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Elsewhen 67 “Quite an establishme
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Elsewhen 69 The police. But how per
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Elsewhen 71 matter of minutes befor
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The Pink Caterpillar 73 The Pink Ca
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The Pink Caterpillar 75 failure. He
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The Pink Caterpillar 77 “But that
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The Pink Caterpillar 79 Fergus paus
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The Chronokinesis of Jonathan Hull
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Gandolphus 95 Gandolphus “If ther
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Gandolphus 97 It seemed, in fact, a
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Gandolphus 99 might be considered e
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Gandolphus 101 and Twenty-One and G
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Sriberdegibit 103 Sriberdegibit “
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Sriberdegibit 105 you were a magici
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Sriberdegibit 107 an incantation—
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Sriberdegibit 109 course—demon ha
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Sriberdegibit 111 Sriberdegibit twa
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Sriberdegibit 113 memory of those s
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Sriberdegibit 115 under a curse.”
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ever mention that to my employers
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Sriberdegibit 119 the last shreds o
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Sriberdegibit 121 ecstasy vanished.
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Sriberdegibit 123 changing size qui
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Sriberdegibit 125 tail twitched, th
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The Ambassadors 127 The Ambassadors
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The Ambassadors 129 the life of the
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Q. U. R. 131 Q. U. R. It’s got so
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Q. U. R. 133 We all seemed to be th
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Q. U. R. 135 I don’t know what I
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Q. U. R. 137 just those things, wit
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Q. U. R. 139 occasion too noble for
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Q. U. R. 141 funereal ellipses.”
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Q. U. R. 143 mixing for the first s
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Q. U. R. 145 And there was a bar. A
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Robinc 147 Robinc You’d think may
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Robinc 149 ply that the Empire face
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Robinc 151 money because they’re
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Robinc 153 things to worry about. T
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Robinc 155 The next thing was dural
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Robinc 157 up the disk. You never s
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Robinc 159 “But it’s all from t
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Nine-Finger Jack 161 Nine-Finger Ja
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Nine-Finger Jack 163 Gillingsworth
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Barrier 165 Barrier The first diffi
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Barrier 167 the changes in language
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Barrier 169 by Cosmos—came from t
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Barrier 171 of the metaphysical asp
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Barrier 173 Martha the back of your
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Barrier 175 “First tell me year.
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noise outside. Or was it pure imagi
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Barrier 179 that point clear to the
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Barrier 181 Stephen beamed. “It b
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Barrier 183 the sacred symbol of Co
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Barrier 185 found the Derringer mac
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Barrier 187 Surely my good daemon h
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Barrier 189 perversely, could discu
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Barrier 191 of time. Therefore each
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Barrier 193 Brent jumped. “Hey! L
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Barrier 195 “Or,” Mimi added,
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Barrier 197 Harrinton’s eyes lit
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Barrier 199 “But you— How did y
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Barrier 201 Brent grinned. “Madam
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Pelagic Spark 203 Pelagic Spark A.D
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Pelagic Spark 205 throat choked whe
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Pelagic Spark 207 The courier smile
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Pelagic Spark 209 The captain nodde
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Pelagic Spark 211 twentieth-century
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Pelagic Spark 213 depended absolute
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The Other Inauguration 215 The Othe
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The Other Inauguration 217 There go
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The Other Inauguration 219 ‘retur
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The Other Inauguration 221 union, b
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The Other Inauguration 223 nates. I
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One-Way Trip 225 One-Way Trip PROLO
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One-Way Trip 227 I. A tiny five-met
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One-Way Trip 229 bracelets, but tha
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One-Way Trip 231 Calmly Garrett plu
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One-Way Trip 233 them. For though B
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One-Way Trip 235 namesake in Luna C
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One-Way Trip 237 about the beautifu
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One-Way Trip 239 no difference betw
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One-Way Trip 241 “Mig!” Uranov
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One-Way Trip 243 “Nice of you to
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One-Way Trip 245 before. A W.B.I. m
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One-Way Trip 247 Christ; he was a l
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One-Way Trip 249 treasured it, but
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One-Way Trip 251 He flowed along li
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One-Way Trip 253 “No. Should it h
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One-Way Trip 255 “And still you k
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One-Way Trip 257 “Migdito! No—
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One-Way Trip 259 her now. “This i
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One-Way Trip 261 It happened almost
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One-Way Trip 263 The man kept his e
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One-Way Trip 265 war. Now he leads
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268 Anthony Boucher Kleinbach is at
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270 Anthony Boucher For a moment Ar
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272 Anthony Boucher The audition wi
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274 Anthony Boucher She opened her
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276 Anthony Boucher “I’m furiou
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278 Anthony Boucher It was night in
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280 Anthony Boucher The spaceliner
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282 Anthony Boucher
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284 Anthony Boucher “Joking? Abou
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286 Anthony Boucher found a hammer,
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288 Anthony Boucher The man from th
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290 Anthony Boucher “As do all go
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292 Anthony Boucher the first and o
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294 Anthony Boucher “I fear that
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296 Anthony Boucher “Numbers? All
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298 Anthony Boucher more normal, pe
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300 Anthony Boucher There’s no de
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302 Anthony Boucher quality; indeed
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304 Anthony Boucher naval uniform o
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306 Anthony Boucher I drained my se
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308 Anthony Boucher I pictured the
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310 Anthony Boucher “—I’m wor
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312 Anthony Boucher It was no sinis
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314 Anthony Boucher “In Cobbsvill
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316 Anthony Boucher “I’ve talke
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318 Anthony Boucher He obeyed the f
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Snulbug 321 Snulbug “That’s a h
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Snulbug 323 with his tail tip. “I
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Snulbug 325 a match and held it ove
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Snulbug 327 “But how about man’
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Snulbug 329 soul. This is the last
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Snulbug 331 ing “Uxtruh!” Bill
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Sanctuary 333 Sanctuary So there I
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Sanctuary 335 leering Gestapo villa
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Sanctuary 337 I changed the subject
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Sanctuary 339 I turned to gape at t
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Sanctuary 341 Commando. One little
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Transfer Point 343 Transfer Point T
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Transfer Point 345 At last he picke
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Transfer Point 347 feat of physical
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Transfer Point 349 hairsbreadth man
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Transfer Point 351 Escape for the t
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Transfer Point 353 “Ever try writ
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Transfer Point 355 Manning Stern lo
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Transfer Point 357 “Does that mak
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Conquest 359 Conquest The cat was t
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Conquest 361 beyond it looked unfam
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Conquest 363 through. While she was
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Conquest 365 peeling. I needed two
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The First 367 The First “He was a
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The Greatest Tertian 369 The Greate
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The Greatest Tertian 371 to we must
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Expedition 373 Expedition The follo
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Expedition 375 ing off very soon fo
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Expedition 377 In this posture the
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Expedition 379 (Trubz has been work
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Expedition 381 Tell Trubz to work o
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Expedition 383 we hardly watched hi
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Public Eye 385 Public Eye The great
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Public Eye 387 “He didn’t fall,
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Public Eye 389 By the time the squa
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Public Eye 391 that ninety per cent
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Public Eye 393 on the sneak-thief,
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Public Eye 395 never to feed the de
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Secret of the House 397 Secret of t
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Secret of the House 399 own bread.
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Secret of the House 401 “A woman
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The Scrawny One 403 The Scrawny One
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The Scrawny One 405 His ears functi
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Star Bride 407 Star Bride I always
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The Way I Heard It 409 The Way I He
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The Way I Heard It 411 home from sc
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The Star Dummy 413 The Star Dummy
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The Star Dummy 415 phone calls to G
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The Star Dummy 417 “But why do yo
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ity.” He started the car. The Sta
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The Star Dummy 423 “Yes,” said
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Review Copy 425 Review Copy The onl
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Review Copy 427 She had never heard
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Review Copy 429 lievable name, Hier
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Review Copy 431 to the current-revi
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A Kind of Madness 433 A Kind of Mad
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A Kind of Madness 435 There is a sm
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A Kind of Madness 437 The rope spra
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Nelthu 439 Nellthu Ailsa had been e
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Rappaccini’s Other Daughter 441 R
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Khartoum 443 Khartoum: A Prose Lime
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A Shape in Time 445 A Shape in Time
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Summer’s Cloud 447 Summer’s Clo
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The Tenderizers 449 The Tenderizers
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They Bite 453 They Bite There was n
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Tallant’s thin lips were set firm
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They Bite 457 “There are ogres, y
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They Bite 459 a part of the Past. A
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The Model of a Science Fiction Edit
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We Print the Truth 463 We Print the
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We Print the Truth 465 he didn’t
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