The story shelf
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5 stories · Selected from the catalog
Ambrose BierceAn inventor claims that machines can think, then a visitor hears a struggle inside his workshop.
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A bored passenger on a future balloon tour writes a letter full of confident errors about the nineteenth century.
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A doctor’s attempt to awaken an intellectually disabled girl’s mind leads her family into a marriage that makes affection another form of confinement.
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A hungry starship crew buys a hulking Martian animal, then learns its mind may be more civilized than their own.
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A government animal inspector discovers that one engineered pet can think and speak like a child, forcing him to decide who counts as human.
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