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Aierowen Dickess has worked her way up through the ranks of the Astro Security. She is the first female to ever hold the post of Head of the Astro Security. I always admired his genuine curiosity, how he viewed things with a particular interest I am spinning slowly in my tank, suspended in doped-up air, buoyant, bobbing. Piano music Beethoven? My eyes are closed, but if I opened them, I would see only pale yellow light enclosing me in a warm glow. I like the piano music. It makes me feel calm.
That, alongside the sedation. The Facility keeps mine light, because I prefer it that way, and because I am well-behaved. I have been here for a long time now. It must be years, though t Now he waited among the sea of humanity in the square for the curly-haired vendor to wrap his fresh-cut flowers.
An acoustic band played in the middle of the market, twangy notes bouncing off tents and muddled with the voices of the crowd. Where's the bucket? Leaving my moccasins in our makeshift dwelling I enjoyed the mud in the stream bed squishing between my toes. Wading into the knee deep crystal clear water I used a ladle made from a gourd to fill the bucket with fre I died in a cop car and was reborn on a conveyor belt.
Hours before my death I shivered on a sidewalk. My blankets were covered in an inch of snow. People glanced at me as they passed. Someone will help her. They arrested me. Can I bring my blankets, I asked. No, they said. As we drove, the officers complained that I smelled and cracked their car windows open Erin was a speck of dust on the map back home, trapped in the holographic border marking the edge of Human space.
All around her, specks of dust were still exploding. When she thought of home Erin meant West Virginia. Of all the places left on Old Earth, West Virginia might have changed the least. It was still poor. Still a backwater. Still hell, for a precocious young woman like her. Every night I dream of the day I lost my home. Seems like most sci-fi authors felt that the future is going to end badly in some way.
I had to skip one story because it was unlistenable. It does contain a couple of gems such as "The Repairman" and "The Missing Battleship" by Harry Harrison but I found most of the other stories rather poor fair. This is not a fault of the readers, I just found most of the stories rather uninspiring. These collections generally suffer from a lack of consistency.
Collection books need to have a theme in order to shine. The stories in this collection are so varied and disparate that you cant really "get into it". Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Publication date Usage Public Domain Topics librivox , literature , audiobook , sci-fi , short stories. Science fiction abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological and technical speculations based on current or future science or technology.
This is a reader-selected collection of short stories originally published between and , that entered the US public domain when their copyright was not renewed. Summary by Cori Samuel, with Wikipedia input For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats if available , please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.
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