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| "A Cabin on the Coast" |
| by Gene Wolfe First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1984 |
| Preview: Tim Neal and his girlfriend Lissy are staying at his father's cabin on the beach. When Lissy disappears, Tim swims out to the ghostlike ship that intermittently appears off shore and stikes a bargain for her return. |
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| "Call Him Lord" |
| by Gordon R. Dickson First published in Analog, May 1966 Collected in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. III Winner of a Nebula for Best Novelette |
| Preview: The Emperor's son, travelling incognito as Count Sirii North, comes to Earth (which has been returned to its state before space travel and alien wars) on a Grand Tour. Kyle Armen, descendent of royal bodyguards, is assigned to accompany the royal and to help him understand the worth of a world that has chosen to live in the past. |
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| "Call Me Joe" |
| by Poul Anderson See the Reading Guide |
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| Camouflage |
| by Joe Haldeman 2004 Winner of a Nebula for Best Novel |
| Preview: In the near future two aliens, a changeling and a chameleon, who have wandered Earth for millenia, are drawn to a strange artifact recovered from deep in the Pacific Ocean. |
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| "Cascade Point" |
| byTimothy Zahn First published in Analog, December 1983 Winner of a Hugo for Best Novella |
| Preview: A mental patient and his psychiatrist aboard a tramp steamer refuse a dose of sleeper to get them through a cascade point, a type of space full of alternate realities. |
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| "Cassandra" |
| by C. J. Cherryh First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1978 Collected in Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts, ed. Heather Masri Winner of a Hugo for Best Short Story |
| Preview: During wartime, Alis wanders a ravaged city among ghosts and ghastly ruins that only she can see. |
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| "Catch That Zeppelin!" |
| by Fritz Leiber First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1975 Winner of a Hugo and an Nebula for Best Short Story |
| Preview: A man visiting New York City in 1973 is suddenly flung to an alternate reality in which he is a German visitor to New York on May 6, 1937. |
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| The Cat Who Walked Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners |
| by Robert A. Heinlein 1985 |
| Preview: A newly-married couple dodges assassins from the Time Corps who believe the couple will reactivate the computer entity previously known as Mike from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress that it can supervise the timelines to ensure their best outcomes. |
| Commentary: The only interesting aspect of this novel is Jubal Harshaw's explanation of the World as Myth or multiperson solipsism: ""'The World is myth. We create it ourselves--and we change it ourselves. A truly strong myth makeer, such as Homer, such as [L. Frank] Baum, such as the creator of Tarzan, creates substantial and lasting world . . . [sic] whereas the fiddlin', unimaginative liars and fabulists shape nothing new and their tedious dreams are forgotten'" (Chap. 28). |
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| The Caves of Steel |
| by Isaac Asimov See the Reading Guide to the Foundation and Robot Novels |
| Chapterhouse: Dune |
| by Frank Herbert See the Reading Guide to the Dune Novels |
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| Children of Dune |
| by Frank Herbert See the Reading Guide to the Dune Novels |
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| The Children of Men |
| by P. D. James 1993 Film version starring Clive Owen and Julianne Moore, 2006 |
| Preview: In the near future humanity has become sterile and id dying out. Fifty-year-old historian Theodore Faron, cousin of and former advisor to the all-powerful Warden of England, gets involved with the Five Fishes, a small group of would-be revolutionaries. |
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| The Chronicles of Narnia |
| by C. S. Lewis See the General Guide to The Chronicles of Narnia |
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| A Citizen of the Galaxy |
| by Robert A. Heinlein 1957 |
| Preview: The slave boy Thorby is rescued and raised by Baslim, a spy for the Exotic Corps of the Hegemony Guard who guides him to uncover his true identity. |
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| City of Illusions |
| by Ursula K. Le Guin 1967 |
| Preview: Falk awakes in the Forest with no memory and is taken in by the Forest people who nonetheless suspect he is an agent of the Shing, the Liars who keep humanity in a state of semi-barbarity by denying humans technological progress. |
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| "A Clean Escape" |
| by John Kessel First published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1985 |
Preview: A psychiatrist tries to break through to a man without short-term memory. Story starring Judy Davis and Sam Waterston was filmed as an episode of the television anthology Masters of Science Fiction in 2007 |
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| "The Cloak and the Staff" |
| by Gordon R. Dickson First published in Analog, August 1980 Winner of a Hugo for Best Novelette |
| Preview: A courier for the conquerors of Earth had inadvertently created a piece of graffiti that has been adopted by human resistance fighters. On a visit to headquarters, he waits to deliver his messages while in an adjoining room a woman awaits questioning under torture about her use of that resistance symbol. |
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| "The Cold Equations" |
| by Tom Godwin See the Reading Guide |
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| "Coming Attraction" |
| by Fritz Leiber First published in Galaxy, November 1950 Collected in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. I |
| Preview: After World War III, American women wear masks on their faces "to create mystery." A British businessman in bombed-out New York City pulls one such masked woman out of the path of a car, and she asks him to help her escape to England. |
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| "Computer Friendly" |
| by Eileen Gunn See the Reading Guide |
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| A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| by Mark Twain 1889 |
| Preview: A 19th century man is transported to the time of King Arthur. |
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| Coraline |
| by Neil Gaiman Published 2002 Winner of a Hugo and a Nebula for Best Novella |
| Preview: In her family's new flat, bored, young Coraline Jones unlocks a door behind which there should be a brick wall and enters another flat with another set of parents and neighbors who all have black buttons for eyes. When she returns to her own flat, she discovers that her real parents are trapped behind a mirror and she realizes that she must return to the other flat to save them. |
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| "The Country of the Kind" |
| by Damon Knight See the Reading Guide |
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| "The Crystal Spheres" |
| by David Brin First published in Analog, January 1984 Winner of a Hugo for Best Short Story |
| Preview: In the far future the solar system is encased in a now-cracked crystal sphere; its shards illuminate the sky of Earth. |
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