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• "Exit the Professor" (1947) - a comic masterpiece by Henry Kuttner

  13 May 2018 by Henry Kuttner

  Narrated in the first person in the local dialect by a very uneducated, very unsophisticated and very unusual young man who lives in a remote mountain town in the hills of Kentucky with his equally unusual family, this very funny story relates the adventures of a visiting professor from New (...)

• "Liberation of Earth" (1953) by William Tenn

  1 May 2018 by William Tenn

  First published in the May 1953 issue of the Future Science Fiction monthly magazine, this amusing, insightful and thought-provoking satire of human pretentiousness in a galactic environment – the Earth is invaded by warring very-superior, very-different and very-uncaring aliens, with very (...)

• "The Golden Egg" (1941) by Theodore Sturgeon

  22 April 2017 by Theodore Sturgeon

  This quite wonderful exploration of man-woman relationships by an enormously superior being from another dimension of space-time will for sure have you chuckling and nodding in agreement throughout, and admiring the skill and talent of Theodore Sturgeon in his initial and possibly most creative (...)

• "Mitkey Rides Again" (1950) by Frederic Brown

  19 April 2017 by Frederic Brown

  If you liked Frederic Brown’s superb story The Star Mouse about the rocket scientist Professor Oberburger and his precious and very precocious mouse-assistant Mitkey - and how could you not have liked/loved it? - then you will want to catch up on the later adventures of Mitkey and his Minnie (...)

• "Farewell to the Master (The Day the Earth Stood Still)" (1940) by Harry Bates

  13 April 2017 by Harry Bates

  First published in the splendid October 1940 issue of Astounding Science Fiction , this extremely ambitious 50-page novella became the basis of one of the most highly-regarded science-fiction films of its time and even all time, the quite wonderful "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951), (...)