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| The Naked Sun |
| by Isaac Asimov See the Reading Guide to the Foundation and Robot Novels |
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| Nekropolis |
| by Maureen McHugh See Reading Guide |
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| "Nerves" |
| by Lester del Rey See the Reading Guide |
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| "Neutron Sleep" |
| by Gregory Benford First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 1986 |
| Preview: After dying in an airplane crash, a physics professor finds himself in Hell and tries to make sense of his environment. |
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| "Neutron Star" |
by Larry Niven Niven says he got the idea for this story from the article "Time and Tide" by Isaac Asimov in the May 1966 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Asimov 299-300). |
| Preview: An alien puppeteer extorts pilot Beowuf Shaeffer's agreement to fly a spaceship to a neutron star to try to discover what causes the collapse of the hull of an earlier spacehip. |
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| Never Let Me Go |
| by Kazuo Ishiguro 2005 |
| Preview: Kathy H., a 31-year-old carer in the last year of her assignment, looks back on her childhood when she and her friends, growing up in a sheltered environment, puzzled out the truth of their existence. |
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| "Nightfall" |
| by Isaac Asimov See the Reading Guide |
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| "The Night That All Time Broke Out" |
| by Brian Aldiss First published in Dangerous Visions, 1967 |
| Preview: The discovery of time gas allows humans to set their surroundings to a particular time in the past. But one day there is an accident at the time works. |
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| "Nightwings" |
| by Robert Silverberg First published in Galaxy, September 1968 Winner of a Hugo for Best Novella |
| Preview: In the Third Cycle of civilization a Watcher for invasion from space, a Flier, and a guildless changeling in love with the Flier in violation of the law enter Roum where the Flier allows the Prince to violate her in exchange for lodging for the tiny group. |
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| "The Nine Billion Names of God" |
| by Arthur C. Clarke See the Reading Guide |
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| "Nine Hundred Grandmothers" |
| by R. A. Lafferty First published in If, February 1966 Collected in The Norton Anthology of Science Fiction, ed. Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebery |
| Preview: On an expedition to make profit from the materials on the asteroid Proavitus, student of culture Ceran Swicegood investigates the origins of the inhabitants who claim that they do not age. |
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| "Nine Lives" |
| by Ursula K. Le Guin See the Reading Guide |
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| "No Truce With Kings" |
| by Poul Anderson First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1963 Winner of a Hugo for Short Fiction |
| Preview: Three centuries after nuclear war has split the United States into autonomous regions, the Judge of the Pacific States of America is impeached and replaced by a man determined to reunify the continent. Humans are being secretly observed and manipulated by alien psychodynamacians who control the Espers, a quasi-religious group whose psionic powers are really based on access to advanced alien technology. |
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| Sources |
| Asimov, Isaac, ed. Stories from the Hugo Winners. Vol. 2. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1971. |
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