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Robert SheckleySeekers from several species travel to a machine that knows everything, only to learn that knowledge depends on asking a valid question.
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A freighter’s failed engine sends three incompatible crewmen out of the solar system with no ordinary route home.
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An alien envoy announces Earth’s forced annexation and dares a military research team to overcome his perfect defenses.
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After inventing an immortality serum, a biologist is pursued by a secret organization determined to control the discovery.
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The apparent last man on a ruined Earth can create anything he imagines, until a woman arrives and challenges what he believes is real.
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An alien organism that converts every attack into food begins spreading across rural New York.
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The masked president of a future Western dictatorship opens talks with his Asian rival, then learns that his purges have missed the real infiltrators.
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A condemned ritual thief on a dying Mars raids a forbidden vault, hoping that fragments of ancient science can save his people.
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