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| • "R & R" •"Rachel in Love" •"Rappaccini's Daughter" • " Rat" • "Reason" •"The Recognition" •"Recording Angel" • Red Planet •"'Repent, Harlequin. . ." • Restaurant at the End of the Universe • "Riders of the Purple Wage" • "Road Not Taken" • "Roads Must Roll" • "Robbie" • "Robot Dreams" • Robots and Empire • Robots of Dawn • Rocannon's World • "Rogue Moon" • Rolling Stones • "Rose for Ecclesiastes" • R.U.R. |
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| "R & R" |
| by Lucius Shephard First published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1986 Winner of a Nebula for Best Novelette This story was later incorporated into the novel Life During Wartime (1987) |
| Preview: On leave, three combat veterans follow rituals that they believe will protect them when they return to duty. One of these men, David Mingolla, meets a native girel; they reveal to each other that they possess ESP. She predicts that he will die in combat. Caught between his memories, his sense of duty, and a strong sense of magic, Mingolla contemplates deserting. |
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| "Rachel in Love" |
| by Pat Murphy First published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1987 Winner of a Nebula for Best Novelette |
| Preview: Rachel is a chimpanzee who has been imposed with the mind and personality of a scientist's dead daughter. When the scientist dies, Rachel is left to fend for herself. She is captured and imprisoned in a primate research center wherer she begins to think she is in love with the deaf and slow-witted janitor. |
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| "Rappaccini's Daughter" |
| by Nathaniel Hawthorne See Reading Guide |
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| "Rat" |
| by James Patrick Kelly First published 1986 in The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy |
| Preview: Rat, a drug smuggler, tries to double cross his partners. |
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| "Reason" |
| by Isaac Asimov See Reading Guide |
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| "The Recognition" |
| by J. G. Ballard First published in Dangerous Visions, ed. Harlan Ellison, 1967 |
| Preview: On Midsummer's Eve a woman of indeterminant age and a dwarf come to town with a small bedraggled circus. |
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| "Recording Angel" |
| by Ian McDonald See Reading Guide |
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| Red Planet |
| by Robert A. Heinlein 1949 |
| Preview: Teenagers uncover a plot by the Mars Corporation to limit migration for financial reasons. |
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| "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" |
| by Harlan Ellison See the Reading Guide |
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| The Restaurant at the End of the Universe |
| by Douglas Adams See the Reading Guide to The Hitchhiker's Trilogy |
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| "Riders of the Purple Wage" |
| by Philip José Farmer First published in Dangerous Visions, 1967 Winner of the Hugo for Best Novella |
| Preview: In the 22nd century an artist is the only confidant of his great-great-great-grandfather, the Last of the Billionaires and the Greatest Criminal of the Century. |
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| "The Road Not Taken" |
| by Harry Turtledove See the Reading Guide |
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| "The Roads Must Roll" |
| by Robert A. Heinlein See the Reading Guide |
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| "Robbie" |
| by Isaac Asimov See the Reading Guide |
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| "Robot Dreams" |
| by Isaac Asimov See the Reading Guide |
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| Robots and Empire |
| by Isaac Asimov See the Reading Guide to the Foundation and Robot Novels |
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| Robots of Dawn |
| by Isaac Asimov See the Reading Guide to the Foundation and Robot Novels |
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| Rocannon's World |
| by Ursula K. Le Guin 1966 |
| Preview: When enemies of the League of All Worlds attack Rocannon, an ethnographer, and destroy his companions and ship, Rocannon must find a way to warn the League of the danger. |
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| "Rogue Moon" |
| by Algis Budrys First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1960 Collected in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. IIB |
| Preview: When a large formation of unknown origin is found on the dark side of the moon, Dr. Edward Hawks uses his matter transmitter to create two versions of a volunteer, one to explore the formation until he dies and the other, connected by telepathy to the traveler, to record what the explorer has learned. But when the first volunteer goes mad when he experiences the death of his double, Hawks goes looking for a second volunteer who enjoys dying enough not to be driven insane by the experience. |
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| The Rolling Stones |
| by Robert A. Heinlein 1952 |
| Preview: The multi-generational, multi-talented Stone family have adventures as they travel through space. |
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| "A Rose for Ecclesiastes" |
| by Roger Zelazny See the Reading Guide |
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| R.U.R. |
| by Karel Capek 1921; produced on Broadway, 1922 |
Preview: Robots in increasing numbers take over the work of humans and fight wars for humans. As they become more complex, some desire freedom and begin to rebel. R.U.R. stands for Rossum's Universal Robots. The play introduced the word "robot" into the English language; the word comes from the Czech word "robota," meaning worker. |
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