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           A Chance Encounter  Byard
          Clemmons 
          The Royal Mail, Mining Division, carried supplies and cargo to the furthest colonies in the Solar System, thrilling in principle,
          but boring (months on end alone except for the ship's artificial intelligence) in practice. Of course, hearing voices out of
          empty space that then started coming from inside the ship livened things up considerably. 
          Buried In Tomorrow  Alex P.
          Perdian 
          For hundreds of thousands of years, the living Earth had watched while humans rose from a few scattered tribes to a horde
          numbering in the billions, threatening the existence of every other species on the planet. Now it was time to do something about
          it. 
          Darkside  James Michael White 
          The missile base on the dark side of the Moon was falling apart — or rather its people were. One one, they were dying
          — accident (maybe), suicide (maybe), or murder. 
          He Waits  S. P. Nicolee 
          Her one true love had moved away years before — and now she had learned that he was dead. Her children were grown, and her
          mother was dying — so going to join her love seemed like the thing to do. 
          Once Upon Some Time  Richard
          Tornello 
          Harlan Ellison once said that all gods are mad. But what if some of them are just not very bright? 
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           Pet Adoption  John Winn 
          Jeremy, a sleek and strong orange tabby, awakens in a place that he doesn't recognize, with slimy green creatures instead of
          his two-legged family. Whatever they want with him, they are in for trouble… 
          Shadow of the Dragon  Kyra
          Dune 
          Micayta was an unlikely dragon hunter — fighting monsters was not something expected of former barmaids. But she and her
          brother had their own reasons for seeking out one dragon in particular. 
          The Everlasting Sorrow of
          Silence  Michael C. Keith 
          He knew that it was not unheard of for the dead to visit the living — rare, but not unheard of. Still, he was not prepared
          for his mother's arrival at his back door after two years in the grave. 
          Wood, Mud, Blood  Mark Ward 
          The wizard Edmund Farrier had been sent to investigate trouble in the North Country — an escalating battle between the
          king's soldiers and an army of ludkin — magically animated wooden men… 
          Z2R-4  E. S. Strout 
          The sudden discovery of an Earth-like planet around Zeta 2 Reticuli caused a sensation. And everything the manned expedition found
          there raised more questions than they answered. 
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