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Isaac Asimov & Alice Laurance

Foreword: The Scope of Science Fiction - Isaac Asimov Nor Iron Bars a Cage - Roger Robert Lovin Surfeit - [Humanx Commonwealth] - Alan Dean Foster The Winds of Change - Isaac Asimov Harpist - Joe L. Hensley Great Tom Fool or The Conundrum of the Calais Customhouse Coffers - R.A. Lafferty The Hand of the Bard - short story by Mack Reynolds The Man Who Floated in Time - Robert Silverberg Flee to the Mountains - Rachel Cosgrove Payes Last Day - Gene Wolfe The Newest Profession - Phyllis Gotlieb A Break for the Dinosaurs - Jack Williamson Event at Holiday Rock - Jacqueline Lichtenberg A Touch of Truth - Alice Laurance and William K. Carlson "Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?" - Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg …Old…As a Garment - Zenna Henderson Flatsquid Thrills - Scott Baker The Mystery of the Young Gentleman - Joanna Russ Biographies of the Authors To Break the Code

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Bernard Wolfe

On August 20, 1940, Marxist philosopher, politician, and revolutionary Leon Trotsky was attacked with an ice axe in his home in Coyoacán, Mexico. He died the next day. In The Great Prince Died, Bernard Wolfe offers his lyrical, fictionalized account of Trotsky's assassination as witnessed through the eyes of an array of characters: the young American student helping to translate the exiled Trotsky's work (and to guard him), the Mexican police chief, a Rumanian revolutionary, the assassin and his handlers, a poor Mexican "peón," and Trotsky himself. Drawing on his own experiences working as the exiled Trotsky's secretary and bodyguard and mixing in digressions on Mexican culture, Stalinist tactics, and Bolshevik history, Wolfe interweaves fantasy and fact, delusion and journalistic reporting to create one of the great political novels of the past century.

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Robert Heinlein

Synopsis courtesy of GoodReads : Utopia has been achieved. For centuries, disease, hunger, poverty and war have been things found only in the history tapes. And applied genetics has given men and women the bodies of athletes and a lifespan of over a century. They should all have been very happy.... But Hamilton Felix is bored. And he is the culmination of a star line; each of his last thirty ancestors chosen for superior genes. Hamilton is, as far as genetics can produce one, the ultimate man. And this ultimate man can see no reason why the human race should survive, and has no intention of continuing the pointless comedy. However, Hamilton's life is about to become less boring. A secret cabal of revolutionaries who find utopia not just boring, but desperately in need of leaders who know just What Needs to be Done, are planning to revolt and put themselves in charge. Knowing of Hamilton's disenchantment with the modern world, they have recruited him to join their Glorious Revolution. Big mistake! The revolutionaries are about to find out that recruiting a superman was definitely not a good idea....

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Roger Zelazny

**Book 6 of the Chronicles of Amber.** Merlin, son of Prince Corwin, is finishing up his education on Shadow Earth, and wrapping up a few loose ends. For example, why does someone attempt to kill him, every April 30th? The latest attempt leads him to the loss of an old love, a strange deck of Trumps, and a reconnection with an old friend. But all roads lead to Amber, and the mystery leads him into further danger....