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A perfectly ordered Dutch borough measures life by clocks and cabbages until a strange fiddler crosses the surrounding hills.
A young Hungarian revolutionary crosses postwar Italy with no money, a party credential, and an unwavering faith in the world revolution.
During the Prussian occupation, a young Frenchwoman is drawn into an officers’ supper where humiliation sharpens into resistance.
A yellow dog surveys his unhappy New York home and decides that he and his henpecked master both deserve a better life.
Bertie agrees to house a sheltered young lord in New York, then discovers that the guest has plans his mother never imagined.
A dying professor lends his brain to an experimental warship, and the machine begins making decisions its creators never authorized.
On a colonized, dying Mars, an exiled musician plays a tune that may summon a violent reckoning for Earth’s occupiers.
After inventing an immortality serum, a biologist is pursued by a secret organization determined to control the discovery.
A condemned ritual thief on a dying Mars raids a forbidden vault, hoping that fragments of ancient science can save his people.
A submarine officer deserts rather than help begin total nuclear war, but enemy vessels force him to decide what he is still willing to fight for.
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