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James Blish’s ‘One-Shot’ explores limits of technology

Institutions fail us. Destruction awaits us around every corner. These fears are as true today as in the 1950s, when James Blish wrote his short story “One-Shot.”

The Spinning Circle

An old wives’ tale about love and violence.

The Inverness Soliloquies

Horror in an undersea refuge with an acrostic and deliberate reference to Shakespeare thrown in for good measure.

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