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A hungry starship crew buys a hulking Martian animal, then learns its mind may be more civilized than their own.
A major crosses a ruined battlefield to negotiate peace, unaware that the autonomous weapons around him have learned to look human.
Three Terran agents flee Mars with a stolen city hidden among office supplies, but one fellow passenger asks too many questions.
After eight years underground, three men risk the radioactive surface and find the robots fighting their war have kept a secret.
A casual reader finds an alien invasion hidden in plain sight inside the figures of speech in a paperback novel.
A shopkeeper notices a corpse that his entire town ignores, then realizes being the only person alarmed may mark him as prey.
After a Mars-based spiritual grifter strands a group of elderly women, their leader decides they will take the promised journey anyway.
A terrified Mars-bound crewman is given a mental refuge so convincing that his childhood memories become the only world he can see.
In a crime-free future, a pulp writer discovers that a perfect society has left him dangerously short of material.
In a future that has abolished fear, graveyards, and the literature of horror, the last man from the dead rises to make the world afraid again.
On the eve of humanity’s first Moon rocket, the man who owns the launch company tries to stop a breakthrough he believes civilization is not ready to use.
Across peaceful future suburbs, children take up a new game called Invasion—and their parents cannot decide whether to take it seriously.
Seekers from several species travel to a machine that knows everything, only to learn that knowledge depends on asking a valid question.
Two starving space travelers search an abandoned alien warehouse for anything a human can safely eat.
The apparent last man on a ruined Earth can create anything he imagines, until a woman arrives and challenges what he believes is real.
A crew guarding Earth against telepathic invaders waits for a detector to reveal the first compromised mind.
A voice in a psychology instructor’s mind guides him toward a way of seeing that strips ordinary reality of meaning.
Two stranded space travelers need fuel from a society whose idea of honorable warfare makes a simple recovery mission dangerous.
A student in a celebrated writing course objects to his professor’s rules for describing aliens and other planets.
Years after leaving school, a former pupil remembers the aging English teacher his class turned into an object of relentless laughter.
A moonlit song outside a village house becomes the first chapter in a legend about Japan’s shape-shifting badgers.
A university professor receives a bereaved mother whose composed manner appears to embody the ideal he has made of Japanese restraint.
A Buddhist priest’s determined campaign to shorten his extraordinary nose brings him the attention he thought he wanted, and also a new humiliation.
When a devil disguised as a missionary plants a mysterious crop in sixteenth-century Japan, one cattle dealer makes a wager to learn its name.
