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  NO STRESS IN MY NEST - The story...

  Ella Sky

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  Sweetheart, 
  I was stuck just like you in a dead-end situation as a caged bird with no hope for a better future. Every day was the same, and the worst part was that I wasn’t happy. Then I had the brilliant idea to look up the history of humans and search for happiness. 
  I WAS SURPRISED TO FIND THAT HAPPINESS WAS NOT A PRIORITY FOR HUMANS. So a question came up: WHAT IF THE HUMAN RACE COULD START OVER AGAIN? 
  Would you repeat the same history? Well, I had to step in. I had the choice to either sit around and wait for my owner to magically and accidentally become happy one morning, or I could start creating my own happiness and spread it to you and her all at the same time. I chose to create happiness. 
  IS IT REALLY THAT HARD TO HAVE HAPPY THOUGHTS? 
  Who’s in charge of your brain? My brain does what I say, not the other way around. If your brain can fetch an apple from the fridge, imagine what it could accomplish if you asked it for happiness!

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  James P Crow

  Philip K. Dick

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  Eons after the last nuclear war, humans have become the inferior race. Cities have become segregated, and robots rule the world. The robots did have a sense of justice, though. If a human could score high enough on an annual test, he could move up in society. There was a catch, though. The test was so slanted toward robot mentality and knowledge a human didn't have a chance. Then James P. Crow (not his real name) arrives on the scene with his window that sees into the past and the future. 
  Philip K. Dick takes a real shot at a social injustice that existed in America when this short story, read by award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti, appeared in the May 1954 issue of Planet Stories.

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  The Obsidian Eyes of Klief

  Alex Robins

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  Every Truth Has Its Cost. 
  War ravages the troubled lands of the nine Baronies. The once-great cities of Arelium, Kessrin, and Talth are forever scarred by the passage of the greyling tide, their graveyards filled with the corpses of those who fought and died on their blood-stained walls. 
  Surrounded and exhausted, the fragile alliance of men must wager all on a final, daring plan: to find and destroy the creatures’ leader, an enigmatic entity known as the weaver. One of the Twelve, Makara, may hold the key to the weaver’s location, but he too is missing, lost somewhere in the remote Barony of Klief. 
  The tattered remains of the human armies have no choice but to follow Makara’s trail north, pursued by a relentless horde of greylings. At their head rides Zygos, his god-like intellect transferred into the body of the traitor Praxis. 
  The town of Klief beckons, as friend and foe alike are drawn to its dim light. It is here, before its golden gates, that the War of the Twelve will be decided. 
  It is here that an ancient evil will rise … 
  And heroes will fall.

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  The Slave Maiden (STAR COMMANDER...

  Jens Fitscher

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  Altrea is offered as a slave at the singing stones market. This is where Syeel intervenes. The Chron-Bastion sends him to her dream world to stabilize her mind. There he takes her to the flying cities. She soon realizes for herself that the still-functioning social order there is also in danger of disintegrating.

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  Warpath

  Ivan Kal

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  Thirty years after the events in the Solar system, the Empire had entered a time of expansion and advancement. Six hundred light years from Earth, humanity starts again. But, their safety and peace are threatened when a hostile force is detected in one of the systems close to the Empire's border. 
   
   
   
  The Empire needs to prepare for war, and perhaps even strike first in order to protect its people that now include Nel—aliens from the colony world of Nuva. 
   
   
   
  Other races and other events interfere with the plans, and Emperor Tomas Klein is forced to make decisions that could affect millions. 
   
   
   
  Adrian Farkas—now leading one of the six Clans of the Empire—prepares his forces for war. New technologies are put to the test. New discoveries and realizations come to the surface as the Empire goes to war.

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  And the Gods Laughed

  Fredric Brown

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  And the Gods Laughed by Fredric Brown - Hank was spinning quite a space lie—something about earrings wearing their owners. The crew got a boot out of the yarn—until they got to thinking. 
  You know how it is when you're with a work crew on one of the asteroids. You're there, stuck for the month you signed up for, with four other guys and nothing to do but talk. Space on the little tugs that you go in and return in, and live in while you're there, is at such a premium that there isn't room for a book or a magazine nor equipment for games. And you're out of radio range except for the usual once-a-terrestrial-day, system-wide newscasts. 
  So talking is the only indoor sport you can go in for. Talking and listening. You've plenty of time for both because a work-day, in space-suits, is only four hours and that with four fifteen-minute back-to-the-ship rest periods, so you actually work only three hours and spend half that time getting in and out the airlock. But those are union rules, and no asteroid mining outfit tries to chisel on them. 
  Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that talk is cheap on one of those work crews. With most of the day to do nothing else, you listen to some real whoppers, stories that would make the old-time Liars Clubs back on earth seem like Sunday-school meetings. And if your mind runs that way, you've got plenty of time to think up some yourself. 
  Charlie Dean was on our crew, and Charlie could tell some dillies. He'd been on Mars back in the old days when there was still trouble with the bolies, and when living on Mars was a lot like living on Earth back in the days of Indian fighting. The bolies thought and fought a lot like Amerinds, even though they were quadrupeds that looked like alligators on stilts—if you can picture an alligator on stilts—and used blow-guns instead of bows and arrows.

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