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"Unicorn Variation" "Universe"
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"Unicorn Variation"
by Roger Zelazny
First published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1981
Winner of a Hugo for Best Novelette
Preview: A man and a unicorn play chess with the fate of the human species as a prize
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"Universe"
by Robert A. Heinlein
First published in Astounding in May 1941
Collected in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. IIA
This story was later incorporated in the novel Orphans in the Sky
Preview: Hugh Hoyland lives on a multigenerational ship whose inhabitants believe they are living in the known world. Enslaved by the mutie Joe-Jim Gregory, Hoyland leanrs the reality that they live on a ship moving through space. He then attempts to convince others of this truth.
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