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| The Machine Crusade |
| by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson See the Reading Guide to the Dune Prequels |
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| "The Machine Stops" |
| by E.M. Forster See the Reading Guide |
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| The Magician's Nephew |
| by C. S. Lewis See the General Guide to The Chronicles of Narnia |
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| "Making It All the Way into the Future on Gaxton Falls of the Red Planet" |
| by Barry Malzberg First published in Nova 4, 1974 Collected in The Norton Book of Science Fiction |
| Preview: In 2115 on Mars Betsy and the narrator visit a reconstructed American town of 1974. |
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| "The Malley System" |
| by Miriam Allen deFord First published in Dangerous Visions, 1967 |
| Preview: In the 21st century, five hardened criminals remember their misdeeds. |
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| "The Manamouki" |
| by Mike Resnik First published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1990 Winner of a Hugo for Best Novelette |
| Preview: A middle-aged couple, the first newcomers, arrive on the terraformed world of Kirinyaga; the wife tries very much to fit into the society as a manamouki, a female property, as is the custom of the Kikuyu from Kenya who have settled the world. |
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| "The Man Who Evolved" |
| by Edmund Hamilton See the Reading Guide |
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| "The Man Who Went to the Moon--Twice" |
| by Howard Rodman First published in Dangerous Visions, 1967 |
| Preview: A nine-year-old boy astounds his neighborhood when he announces that he has been to the moon. At the age of 90, he announces that he has been to the moon again, but with different results. |
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| "Ma Qui" |
| by Alan Brennert First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1991 Winner of a Nebula for Best Short Story |
| Preview: An American soldier dies in combat in Vietnam and discovers that he has become a whot who follows Vietnamese rules about the soul in the afterlife. |
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| "The Marching Morons" |
| by C.M. Kornbluth First published in Galaxy, April 1951 Collected in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. IIA |
| Preview: In the far future as a result of low birth rates among the educated and high birth rates among the disadvantages, a minority of people of normal intelligence maintain the civilization in which the average IQ is 45. |
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| Mars Crossing |
| by Geoffrey Landis 2000 |
| Preview: An expedition of six astronauts stranded on Mars must travel to an abandoned spacecraft at the pole where two of them will be able to return to Earth. |
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| "Mars is Heaven" |
by Ray Bradbury |
| Preview: The crew on the third voyage to Mars land to find breathable air and what seems to be the small town of Green Lake, Wisconsin, circa 1926, peopled with the crew's long-dead relatives. |
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| "A Martian Odyssey" |
| by Stanley Weinbaum See the Reading Guide |
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| "The Martian Way" |
| by Isaac Asimov First published in Galaxy, November 1952 Collected in the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. IIB |
| Preview: Scavengers patrol the space routes between Earth and Mars to salvage the dsicarded stages of spacehips. But Earthmen want the salvage as compensation for costs associated with the price of supplying the colonies. |
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| "Master Zacharius" |
| by Jules Verne Originally published as "Maitre Zacharuius" in Musée des Familles, April to May 1854 First English translation published in Doctor Ox and Other Stories, 1874 Collected in Science Fiction, Stories and Contexts |
| Preview: A master clockmaker is convinced that his life is connectd to the workings of his timepieces. |
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| "The Meeting" |
| by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1972 Winner of a Hugo for Best Short Story |
| Preview: Harry Vladek, father of an emotionally-disturbed child, attends his first PTA meeting at his son's new school and searches for answers to the questions he has about his child's prospects for the future. |
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| "A Meeting With Medusa" |
| by Arthur C. Clarke See the Reading Guide |
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| "Melancholy Elephants" |
| by Spider Robinson First published in Analog, June 1982 Winner of a Hugo for Best Short Story |
| Preview: A woman argues for the defeat of a bill to extend the length of copyright protection. |
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| "Methusaleh's Children" |
| by Robert A. Heinlein First published in Astounding, July 1941 collected in The Past Through Tomorrow, 1967 |
| Preview: Due to selective breeding the Howard Foundation has succeeded in increasing the life span of humans. These long-lived humans, known as the Families, leave Earth under duress to colonize the stars. |
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| "The Midas Plague" |
| by Frederik Pohl First published in Galaxy, April 1954 Collected in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. IIB |
| Preview: The poor spend most of their time frantically consuming goods and serivces in order to spend their large quotas of ration points. Morey Fry devises an illegal scheme to allow his robots to waste his rations for him. |
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| "Microcosmic God" |
| by Theodore Sturgeon See the Reading Guide |
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| Midnight News |
| by Lisa Goldstein See the Reading Guide |
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| "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" |
| by Lewis Padgett See the Reading Guide |
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| "The Missing Man" |
| by Katharine MacLean First published in Analog, March 1971 Collected in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. IV Winner of a Nebula for Best Novella |
| Preview: The New York of the future is organized into kingdoms of like-minded individuals. In the mixed areas populated by non-conformists, maintenance man Carl Hodges has been kidnapped. George Sandford of the Rescue Squad must use his intuition to find Hodges before the teenage gang who has kidnapped him can use his knowledge of the vulnerable spots in public works to extort communites that fear for their existence. |
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| The Moon and the Stars |
| by Vonda N. McIntyre 1997 Winner of a Nebula for Best Novel |
| Preview: In this alternate history of the year 1693, at the court of King Louis XIV of France at Versailles, Marie-Josèphe de la Croix, an impoverished lady-in-waiting, assisters her brother, a Jesuit priest, in his study of a captive sea-monster. As she learns to communicate with the sea-monster and attempts to liberate the creature, she finds herself caught in the intrigue of the Court. |
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| "The Moon Moth" |
| by Jack Vance First published in Galaxy, August 1961 Collected in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. IIB |
| Preview: Edwer Thessell is the new Counsular Representative to Serene, a planet with an intricate and rigid social hierarchy; reputation is the only currency of exchange. When Thessell is ordered to apprehend an assassin, he is at a disadvantage because he wears the Moon Moth mask of low prestige. |
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| "More Than the Sum of His Parts" |
| by Joe Haldeman First published in Playboy, May 1985 |
Preview: In 2058 after a severe accident Dr. Wilson Cheetham, an engineer, has lost an arm, a leg, much of his face, and his genitals. He keeps a diary of his recovery as he becomes a state-of-the-art cyborg. Compare to "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes. |
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| Mortal Engines |
| by Philip Reeve #1 in the Hungry City Chronicles |
| Preview: In the far future as the Traction city of London moves across the earth searching for fertile hunting ground, Hester Shaw, a deformed girl, tries to assassinate Head Historian Thaddeus Valentine and is thwarted by Apprentice Historia Tom Natsworthy. When Valentine tries to kill Tom, the young man finds himself stranded in the Out-Country with Hester. As Tom and Hester struggle to return to London to stop the Traction City's attempt to break the Shield Wall, Valentine's daughter Katherine investigates MEDUSA, the artifact over which Valentine had killed Hester's mother. |
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| Mostly Harmless |
| by Douglas Adams See the Reading Guide to The Hitchhiker's Trilogy |
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| "Mother to the World" |
| by Richard Wilson First published in Orbit 3, 1968 Winner of a Nebula for Best Novelette Collected in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. III |
| Preview: Martin Rolfe, 42, and Cecelia Beamer, 28 and retarded (with a mental age of 8) are the last two people left in the world after nuclear war and germ warfare. |
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| "The Mountains of Mourning" |
| by Lois McMaster Bujold First published in Analog, May 1989 Winner of a Hugo for Best Novella Winner of a Nebula for Best Novella |
| Preview: Miles Vorkosigan, newly-graduated from the Imperial Service Academy, is sent by his father to the backcountry to dispense justice in the case of an infant murdered due to a birth defect. |
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