Harlan Ellison: Jeffty Is Five
When I was five years old, there was a little kid I played with: Jeffty. His real name was Jeff Kinzer, and everyone who played with him called him Jeffty.
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Juan José Arreola: Baby HP
To the Lady of the House: Convert your children’s vitality into an energy force. We now have on sale the marvelous Baby HP, a device that is set to revolutionize
Ray Bradbury: All Summer in a Day
‘Ready?’ ‘Ready.’ ‘Now?’ ‘Soon.’ ‘Do the scientists really know? Will it happen today, will it?’ ‘Look, look; see for yourself!’ The children pressed to each other like so many roses,
Ray Bradbury: The Other Foot
Ray Bradbury’s short story ‘The Other Foot,’ included in his collection ‘The Illustrated Man’ (1951), tells the story of a black community on Mars that tensely awaits the arrival of a rocket from Earth, the first in twenty years and with a white man on board. The inhabitants of Mars, who had fled a past of racial discrimination and violence on Earth, are confronted with their memories and the temptation to reverse the roles of oppression as they welcome this new visitor.
Philip K. Dick: Colony
Major Lawrence Hall bent over the binocular microscope, correcting the fine adjustment. “Interesting,” he murmured. “Isn’t it? Three weeks on this planet and we’ve yet to find a harmful life
H. G. Wells: The Stolen Body
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