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"Blood's A Rover"
© Astounding, May 1952
--/ cool sf novella

"The Boy Next Door"
© F&SF, Jun 1951
--/ fourth place sf story
--/ wonder award
--/ idea award
--/ style award
--/ shock value
--/ rare find


"Caravans Unlimited: Monitor"
(Caravans series)
© Continuum # 4, 1975

"Field Expedient"
© Astounding, Jan 1955
The Edge Of Forever, 1971
--/ cool space sf novella
--/ wonder award
--/ emotion award


"First To The Stars"
(also as "Stardust")
© Astounding, Jul 1952
--/ cool sf novella

"A Lake Of Summer"
(Bradbury's World series)
© The Bradbury Chronicles, ed. by W. Nolan, 1991

"The Middle Man"
(Caravans series)
© Continuum # 3, 1974
--/ cool sf story

"A Star Above It"
© Another Kind, 1955
A Star Above And Other Stories, 2003
trans to Russian as "Zvezda Nad Nami"
--/ cool sf story

"Stardust"
(also as "First To The Stars")
© Astounding, Jul 1952
--/ cool sf novella

"Technical Advisor"
© F&SF, Feb 1953
--/ cool sf story
--/ humour award

"Unearthy Neighbours" (nv)
© Ballantine, 1960

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"The Winds Of Time" (nv)
© 1956, Ballantine Books

"It tells the story of a vacationing man who comes across a group of aliens who have been sequestered in the Colorado mountains for millenia, sleeping in suspended animation. It's almost two stories: one about the aliens and their purpose for coming to Earth, the other about a man who makes first contact and discovers his own alienation". Unexciting; did not do anything for me. Paperback has nice cover.
review: 26-Jul-06 (read in 1983)

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