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77 stories · Selected from the catalog · Page 4 of 4
Ray BradburyOn a world where people are born, grow old, and die within eight days, a boy races against his own lifetime to find a way beyond it.
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On a colonized, dying Mars, an exiled musician plays a tune that may summon a violent reckoning for Earth’s occupiers.
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An aging prospector on a remote asteroid gives his work robot a personality and gains the companion he never expected.
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Wounded in a cavalry clash during the Sino-Japanese War, a Chinese soldier rides alone through the Manchurian fields with death suddenly close.
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At Tokyo’s dazzling Rokumeikan ball in 1886, a seventeen-year-old Japanese woman dances for the first time with a visiting French naval officer.
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