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Old 06-27-2018, 05:42 PM   #72
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Some more obscure stories, but well worth one's time.

#1 - She was a girlygirl and they were true men, the lords of creation, but she pitted her wits against them and she won.

#2 - If I had cared to live, I would have died.

#3 - When the office door opened suddenly I knew the game was up. It had been a money-maker - but it was over.

#4 - Gallegher played by ear, which would have been all right if he had been a musician - but he was a scientist.

#5 - I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker called Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte.
1. The Ballad of Lost C'Mell, Cordwainer Smith

3. The Stainless Steel Rat, Harry Harrison

4. Time Locker, Henry Kuttner writing as Lewis Padgett. I think I have it in a book called Robots Have No Tails but not about to venture into the basement to locate it.
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