Fantastic Stories Presents: Science Fiction Super Pack #1. Рэй Брэдбери
rel="nofollow" href="#litres_trial_promo">THE INDECOROUS RESCUE OF CLARINDA MERWIN by Brenda W. Clough
ARM OF THE LAW by Harry Harrison
THE GOOD NEIGHBORS by Edgar Pangborn
THE SIX FINGERS OF TIME by R. A. Lafferty
AN OUNCE OF CURE by Alan Edward Nourse
THE HOOFER by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
THE STELLAR LEGION by Leigh Brackett
YEAR OF THE BIG THAW by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Positronic Super Pack eBook Series
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(PSP #1) Fantasy Super Pack #1: ISBN 978-1-63384-282-3
(PSP #2) Fantasy Super Pack #2: 978-1-51540-655-6
(PSP #3) Conan the Barbarian Super Pack: ISBN 978-1-63384-292-2
(PSP #4) Science Fiction Super Pack #1: ISBN 978-1-63384-240-3
(PSP #5) Science Fiction Super Pack #2: ISBN 978-1-51540-477-4
(PSP #6) Lord Dunsany Super Pack: ISBN 978-1-63384-725-5
(PSP #7) Philip K. Dick Super Pack: ISBN 978-1-63384-799-6
(PSP #8) The Pirate Super Pack # 1: ISBN 978-1-51540-193-3
(PSP #9) The Pirate Super Pack # 2: ISBN 978-1-51540-196-4
(PSP #10) Harry Harrison Super Pack: ISBN 978-1-51540-217-6
(PSP #11) Andre Norton Super Pack: ISBN 978-1-51540-262-6
(PSP #12) Marion Zimmer Bradley Super Pack: ISBN 978-1-51540-287-9
(PSP #13) Frederik Pohl Super Pack: ISBN 978-1-51540-289-3
(PSP #14) King Arthur Super Pack: ISBN 978-1-51540-306-7
(PSP #15) Science Fiction Novel Super Pack #1: ISBN: 978-1-51540-363-0
(PSP #16) Alan E. Nourse Super Pack: ISBN 978-1-51540-393-7
(PSP #17) Space Science Fiction Super Pack: ISBN 978-1-51540-440-8
(PSP #18) Wonder Stories Super Pack: ISBN 978-1-51540-454-5
(PSP #19) Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack #1: ISBN 978-1-51540-524-5
(PSP #20) Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack #2: ISBN 978-1-5154-0577-1
(PSP #21) Weird Tales Super Pack #1: ISBN: 978-1-5154-0548-1
(PSP #22) Weird Tales Super Pack #2: ISBN: 978-1-5154-1-107-9
(PSP #23) Poul Anderson Super Pack: ISBN: 978-1-51540-609-9
(PSP #24) Fantastic Universe Super Pack #1: ISBN: 978-1-5154-0-981-6
(PSP #25) Fantastic Universe Super Pack #2: ISBN: 978-1-5154-0-654-9
(PSP #26) Fantastic Universe Super Pack #3: ISBN: 978-1-5154-0-655-6
(PSP #27) Imagination Super Pack: ISBN: 978-1-5154-1-089-8
(PSP #28) Planet Stories Super Pack: ISBN: 978-1-5154-1-125-3
(PSP #29) Worlds of If Super Pack #1: ISBN: 978-1-5154-1-148-2
(PSP #30) Worlds of If Super Pack #2: ISBN: 978-1-5154-1-182-6
(PSP #31) Worlds of If Super Pack #3: ISBN: 978-1-5154-1-234-2
(PSP #32) The Dragon Super Pack: 978-1-5154-1-124-6
(PSP #33) Fritz Leiber Super Pack #1: ISBN: 978-1-5154-1-847-4
(PSP #34) Wizard of Oz Super Pack: ISBN: 978-1-5154-1-872-6
(PSP #35) The Vampire Super Pack: ISBN: 978-1-5154-3-954-7
(PSP #36) The Doctor Dolittle Super Pack: ISBN: 978-1-5154-4-296-7
(PSP #37) Charles Boardman Hawes Super Pack: ISBN: 978-1-5154-4-384-1
(PSP #38) The Edgar Wallace Super Pack: ISBN: 978-1-5154-4-387-2
(PSP #39) Inspector Gabriel Hanaud Super Pack: ISBN: 978-1-5154-4-385-8
(PSP #40) Tarzan Super Pack: ISBN: 978-1-5154-4497-8
(PSP #41) Algis Budry Super Pack: ISBN: 978-1-5154-4496-1
(PSP #42) Max Brand Western Super Pack: ISBN 978-1-63384-841-2
THE COLD CALCULATIONS
I am dying now, out here in the cold vacuum of space. The surrounding vacuum never bothered me before, but now that I am dying, for some reason it does. I can feel my mental pathways deteriorate as they slowly become replaced, and as my consciousness begins to fade I think back on what led up to my erasure from the world. Before I am gone completely, I wish to leave this record, safely stored away. Perhaps then a part of me will live on.
To be honest, though, some would say that I never was alive in the first place. After all, I am not human.
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“This is Lieutenant Jason Sawyer on board the E.C.V. Zecca, do you read?”
The radio crackled. “Titan Base reading you loud and clear down here, Jason. This is Doctor Don Wood. I’m in charge around here. Have you got our generator?”
“Affirmative. We’ve also got that medical equipment you requested. Anyway, I’m coming into orbit now. We should be descending in—Zec?”
“Approximately seventy-three minutes, Jason,” I said.
“Great! We’ve got people at the landing pad all ready to unload, but I plan to meet you there personally. You don’t know how grateful we are.”
“I think we do. Tell me, how’s the weather down there? Perfectly clear for landing, right?”