The Velvet Glove

Harry Harrison

Illustrated by van Dongen _Some planet in the galaxy must--by definition--be the toughest, meanest, nastiest of all.

Harry Harrison

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Harry Harrison

_It might seem a little careless to lose track of something as big as a battleship ...

Harry Harrison

At one time--this was before the Robot Restriction Laws--they'd even allowed them to make their own decisions....

Jonathan Swift

1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex,...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

Plato

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

Ambrose Bierce

THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988 A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.