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Books & documents
- FAREWELL TO THE MASTER By Harry Bates - The short story that inspired THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (Twentieth Century-Fox, 1951), with a surprise ending that the movie should have used. — Unknown Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- The great science fiction stories. Vol.5, 1943 (1981) — Unknown Read at the Internet Archive Internet Archive [Internet Archive — see item page]
- A gnome there was (1950) — Lewis Padgett Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- The Science Fiction Hall of Fame -- Volume One (1970) — Robert Silverberg, Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- The Golden Years of Science Fiction -- Third Series (1984) — Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, P. Schuyler Miller, Leigh Brackett, Lewis Padgett, Anthony Boucher, Lawrence O'Donnell, Edmond Hamilton, Fredric Brown, C. L. Moore, A. E. van Vogt, Eric Frank Russell, Clifford D. Simak, Lester del Rey, Theodore Sturgeon Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- Analog's Children of the future (1982) — Stanley Schmidt Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
- A gnome there was (1950) — Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore Details at Open Library Open Library [metadata only — rights vary, see Open Library]
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