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X Minus One premiered in April 1955 on NBC and ran until January 1958. Like its predecessor series, Dimension X, X Minus One featured stories by the greatest names in modern science fiction: Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Robert Bloch, and many more.

1872. Marguerite has fled to London, leaving behind a traumatic past in Paris. When she is offered work as a cook for mysterious French widow Madame Riel, she seizes the chance to start afresh. But as soon as Marguerite arrives, she is stifled by the tension in the house and before long she comes to resent her stingy and volatile employer, as well as her unfriendly housemaid. Just as Marguerite is about to resign, Madame Riel’s beautiful actress daughter Julie returns to the house and charms her into staying.

Meadow Sweeney’s future is entirely mapped out. Her younger brother Jonah will continue their family legacy, and Meadow will rule the ruthless Ruxton Springs, Colorado, cluster. That is, it was until Jonah goes missing. Now, Meadow will do anything to get her brother back, including sacrificing the two pawns her mother brought from Fissure’s Whipp to track him down.

True story about growing up during the 90s and early 2000s in Florida surrounded by drugs, crime, violence, and computer fraud. This story will leave you speechless as misconceptions about normal life depicted through media and film slip away, and the reality of what happens in many small towns and suburbs is revealed in gut wrenching honesty. A candid autobiography that follows one life in a story crazier than most fiction novels.

X Minus One premiered in April 1955 on NBC and ran until January 1958. Like its predecessor series, Dimension X, X Minus One featured stories by the greatest names in modern science fiction: Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Robert Bloch, and many more.

X Minus One premiered in April 1955 on NBC and ran until January 1958. Like its predecessor series, Dimension X, X Minus One featured stories by the greatest names in modern science fiction: Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Robert Bloch, and many more.

X Minus One premiered in April 1955 on NBC and ran until January 1958. Like its predecessor series, Dimension X, X Minus One featured stories by the greatest names in modern science fiction: Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Robert Bloch, and many more.

Andrew Birch is a Company Man - a spy, a soldier, a saboteur... a corporate terrorist by any other name. He is one of the top operatives for Astradyne, one of the giant corporations that now rule the irradiated world he lives in. Among his peers, his ruthless efficiency and his love for the company are legendary. Then, on a routine mission, a chance encounter puts an all-too-human face on the consequences of corporate rule. As Birch begins to question the world he has helped build, corporate war breaks out - and he finds himself a pawn in a game that goes deeper than he imagined.

Lulu the computer terrorizes her ship's crew because she's in love! Based on a story by Clifford Simak, this episode of X Minus One originally aired on Halloween 1957.

After killing the hunter who held her captive for her blood, Allie wants nothing more than to leave her resurrectionist abilities behind and settle into normalcy with Ploy, the boy she thinks she loves but isn’t entirely sure she should trust. Before she can pass down her leadership responsibilities, though, Allie’s stab at a new life fades as she uncovers a direct threat to the resurrectionists of Fissure’s Whipp that thrusts her into an ever-tightening snare of enemies. And some are closer than she thinks.

"The World That Couldn't Be" is a science fiction tale about a plantation owner on an alien world, who tracks the strange animal, Cytha, and gets a lesson in xeno-ecology. Excerpt: He plodded back across the field toward the house. Not much of a house as yet. Not a great deal better than a native shack. But someday it would be, he told himself. Let him sell a crop or two and he'd build a house that would really be a house. It would have a bar and swimming pool and a garden filled with flowers, and at last, after years of wandering, he'd have a home and broad acres and everyone, not just one lousy tribe, would call him mister.

Bucksburg is a rousing yarn set in a fictional gold rush town of Nevada in the late 1800s. It begins as a tried and true Western, but deviates into a powerful sci-fi/fantasy-style tale. Epic characters abound in this book, including three main role players: Ronan O’Sullivan, Abigail O’Sullivan, and Lee Mulligan. They all are devout adherents of the Divine Creator, a powerful deity that watches over His subjects on this other Earth. Opposed against them is the vile Dark Lord of Chaos and his evil servants.

Benny tries to ignore the payment-overdue messages he keeps getting from "Forget What?" a memory removal company. Benny's a slacker, after all, and couldn't pay them even if he wanted to. Then people start trying to kill him, and his life suddenly depends on finding out what memories he has forgotten.

Three years have passed since estate-clearing handyman Jay Porter almost lost his life following a devastating accident on the thin ice of Echo Lake. His investigative work uncovering a kids-for-cash scandal may have made his hometown of Ashton, New Hampshire, a safer place, but nothing comes without a price. The traumatic, uncredited events cost Jay his wife and his son, and left him with a permanent leg injury. Jay is just putting his life back together when a mysterious stranger stops by with an offer too good to be true.

Jamal Weathers is a Black FBI agent and one of the bureau’s top behavioral experts. He has followed the suspect across three states, trying to stop the assassin’s next attack. When Jamal discovers that all of the slain cops bear the names of Black victims of police shootings, it is clear that the killer is a vigilante dedicated to revenge. And in the inner cities, the killer’s sigil appears with his name “Kifo”, the Swahili word for death.

Clifford Stumme invites you to join him investigating hobbies and lifestyles that inspire obsession! He interviews the obsessed and tries out the obsessions for himself to see if he can figure out why people love them so much! OBSESSED has high production value and is storytelling for listeners who like to meet passionate people or who want to find their own next big passion.

At an AA meeting, handyman and part-time investigator Jay Porter meets a recovering addict who needs his help. In the midst of another grueling northern New Hampshire winter, Amy Lupus’ younger sister, Emily, has gone missing from the Coos County Center, the newly opened rehab run by Jay’s old nemeses, Adam and Michael Lombardi. As Jay begins looking into Emily’s disappearance, he finds that all who knew Emily swear that she’s never used drugs. She’s a straight shooter and an intern at a newspaper investigating the Center and the horrendous secret hidden in it - or beneath it.

"The World That Couldn't Be" is a sci-fi story by Clifford D. Simak, published in 1958. Our hero Duncan is a farm owner on an alien planet, very alien, in fact, since no one, absolutely no living creature or plant has sex, for instance... But that's not the least of Duncan's troubles, as some alien life form is attacking his crops, the hunt is on. And what a hunt!

¡Descubre cómo hacer que la Ley de la Atracción funcione para ti! Imagina atraer amor, riqueza y éxito con facilidad al comprender los principios que moldean tu realidad. Esta guía revela los secretos de la manifestación y te enseña a aplicar su poder en tus relaciones, finanzas, bienestar y felicidad. Ya sea que estés comenzando o quieras profundizar en este conocimiento, este libro te dará las herramientas necesarias para transformar tu vida.

Bob is no ordinary Minecraft villager. Programmed with a Google AI algorithm, he is getting smarter, but still cannot be convinced he is inside a game. When he learns the truth, he starts on a journey that only "friendly AI" can make. How far can you follow Bob as his life gradually becomes more complex and his growing understanding of "reality" makes him question his place in the universe?