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Finding Love in the Dark

Kyle Pollard — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 20:14:32 +0000

by Kyle Pollard To what lengths would you go to find a woman you met in a dream? In "Finding Love in the Dark," the main character forms an immediate and unshakable connection with a woman he meets in a rare bit of deep sleep. He decides to leave everything behind to find "the woman [...]

Beyond the Door

Kyle Pollard — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 17:55:22 +0000

by Philip K Dick "Larry Thomas buys a cuckoo clock for his wife Doris, just like her mother had. He makes clear that he bought it wholesale and otherwise ruins the moment. Doris talks to the cuckoo and becomes convinced that the cuckoo likes her but does not like Larry. Larry is being cuckolded by antique-enthusiast [...]

Shadow out of Time

Kyle Pollard — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 18:43:44 +0000

“The Shadow Out of Time indirectly tells of the Great Race of Yith, an extraterrestrial species with the ability to travel through space and time. The Yithians accomplish this by switching bodies with hosts from the intended spatial or temporal destination. The story implies that the effect when seen from the outside is similar to spiritual possession. The Yithians’ original purpose was to study the history of various times and places, and they have amassed a “library city” that is filled with the past and future history of multiple races, including humans. Ultimately the Yithians use their ability to escape the destruction of their planet in another galaxy by switching bodies with a race of cone-shaped plant beings who lived 250 million years ago on Earth. The cone-shaped entities (subsequently also known as the Great Race of Yith) lived in their vast library city in what would later become Australia’s Great Sandy Desert.” ~ Wikipedia

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The Big Trip Up Yonder

Kyle Pollard — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 23:53:01 +0000

By Kurt Vonnegut "The story is set in 2158 A.D., after the invention of a medicine called Anti-Gerasone, which is made from mud and dandelions and is thus inexpensive and widely available. Anti-Gerasone halts the aging process and prevents people from dying of old age as long as they keep taking it; as a result, [...]

Youth

Kyle Pollard — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 02:34:18 +0000

by Isaac Asimov "Youth" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the May 1952 issue of Space Science Fiction and was reprinted in the 1955 collection The Martian Way and Other Stories. Youth is one of the rare Asimov stories with alien characters. Youth is unusual in that none of [...]