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Paperback Ten Stories Straight Up Book

ISBN: 1460934520

ISBN13: 9781460934524

Ten Stories Straight Up

Ten short stories on very different subjects, includingE Pluribus Unum - A multi-generational starship finally approaches its destination at Tau Ceti. The people have adapted well to their shipboard environment on the long voyage - perhaps too well.The Case of the Red Herring - The Sherlock Holmes case Conan Doyle forgot to write - the mysterious case of the politician, the lighthouse, and the trained cormorant.The House - A man brings his family back to see the house he grew up in, and finds much changed - but not all.The Luck of the Irish - Three Irishmen, escaped convicts from Port Jackson, capture a schooner and try to slip past a Royal Navy frigate.The Classic - a young actress of the verge of stardom meets a man who seems to know too much about her future career.The Old One - the last mammoth fins release from loneliness.The Dreamer - a man wanders through a strange and beautiful dream, but awakening brings an unexpected surprise.Eternal Flame - a middle-aged man attends a college choral concert and discovers one of the singers is the perfect image of his lost love, still eighteen years old.Coyote - A Navajo medicine man confronts his apprentice who was strayed.Eight East - A young hippie, busted for drugs, spends a week in a mental ward and finds himself both teacher and student.

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