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| •"Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" • On Basilisk Station • " One" • "One Down, One to Go" •"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" • "Or, All the Sea With Oysters" • Oryx and Crake • "Out of All Them Bright Stars" • Over Sea, Under Stone •"Over the River and Through the Woods" |
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| "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand" |
| by Vonda N. McIntyre 1973 Collected in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. IV Winner of a Nebula for Best Novelette Later republished as the first section of the novel Dreamsnake |
| Preview: A healer fights superstition and fear as she attempts to cure a young boy. |
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| On Basilisk Station |
| by David Weber 1993 |
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After taking her first
command, Captain Honor Harrington upstages an admiral during fleet exercises
and is exiled to Basilisk Station where she eventually wins over her disgruntled
crew with her integrity and effectiveness in policing a vital jump point.
This novel, first in a series featuring Honor Harrington of the Royal Manticoran Navy, is modeled after the novels about Horatio Hornblower. |
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| "One" |
| by George Alec Effinger First published in New Legends, 1995 |
| Preview: A couple sets out from Earth to find life in the galaxy. |
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| "One Down, One to Go" |
| by Philip José Farmer First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1990 |
| Preview: Charlie Roth, who wanted to be an entomologist, is a social worker whose pregnant wife has just left him. His job it is to convince welfare recipients to get sterilized. Note how Charlie describes and perceives of his environment in relation to the habits of insects. |
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| "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" |
| by Ursula K. Le Guin First published in New Dimensions 3, 1973 Winner of a Hugo for Best Short Story |
| Preview: The perfect society of Omelas is sustained by the existence of one wretched child. |
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| "Or, All the Sea With Oysters" |
| by Avram Davidson First published in Galaxy, May 1958 Winner of a Hugo for Best Short Story |
| Preview; Ferd, a partner in a bicycle shop, theorizes about the disappearance of safety pins and the proliferation of coat hangers. |
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| Oryx and Crake |
| by Margaret Atwood 2003 |
| Preview: After civilization is destroyed due to a biological accident, Snowman, the lone non-genetically altered human survivor, forages for food and reminisces about his friendship with the transgeneticist Crake and with Oryx the mysterious love of his life. |
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| "Out of All Them Bright Stars" |
| by Nancy Kress See the Reading Guide |
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| Over Sea, Under Stone |
| by Susan Cooper See the General Guide to the Dark is Rising Sequence |
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| "Over the River and Through the Woods" |
| by Clifford D. Simak First published in Amazing Stories, May 1965 |
| Preview: In 1896 Ellen Forbes is visited by two strange children claiming to be her grandchildren. |
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