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Sleeping Beauty ★★★☆☆ A man bequeathed with a strings-attached, small fortune is given an ultimatum by his wife: do something about his snoring or she is leaving. A visit to a scientist results in a potion which will cure him of snoring... but also of sleep. The wife is not happy with her husbands nocturnal wanderings and demands a reversal of the process. An antidote is delivered... with unintended consequences.
— Apr 03, 2026 01:12AM
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Into the Comet ★★★★⯪ I love human ingenuity vs. computer dependency tales. Astronomers aboard a spaceship explore the nucleus of a rare comet. Upon leaving, the onboard computer malfunctions, disabling automatic navigation. The crew risks being stranded in space, until someone suggests using "primitive" technology (a human chain of abacuses) to escape the comet and travel within communication range with Earth.
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🟢Trouble With Time ★★★★☆ An entertaining Martian art heist gone wrong. A thief tries to steal a famous statue in Meridian City, but is caught because he miscalculates the date, falling victim to a time-zone difference between his hotel and the museum. The hotel where he hides out is on a different date than the museum just a few blocks away.
— 16 hours, 56 min ago
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I Remember Babylon ★★⯪☆☆ Clarke accurately predicted the use of mass media and satellite communications to influence society. A communist sympathizer reveals a Chinese plan to weaponize American decadence. By using a Russian satellite for direct-to-home broadcasting, they aim to broadcast pornography and propaganda, using Kinsey Reports as market research to destabilize the USA.
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Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting … ★★⯪☆☆ A story that meanders too much to get to the point - the first human child born off the Earth (i.e. on the Moon).
— Apr 04, 2026 10:23AM
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Who’s There? ★★★★☆ Charming and funny. A Space Station Supervisor doing maintenance in space believes his suit is haunted by a ghost. While spacewalking, he feels taps on his back and hears noises.
— Apr 04, 2026 10:22AM
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A Slight Case of Sunstroke ★★★☆☆ Satire. Macabre. A corrupt referee in South American football is killed by intense heat generated by thousands of spectators focusing sunlight using reflective program cards.
— Apr 04, 2026 10:21AM
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The Songs of Distant Earth ★★★☆☆ Expanded into a novel. A melancholic tale of impossible love set on the ocean planet Thalassa, a woman from the "lost colony" falls in love with an engineer from a damaged starship in need of repair.
— Apr 04, 2026 10:20AM
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🟢Cosmic Casanova ★★★★☆ Hilarious! A deep space explorer with a deprived libido comes across a lost colony and starts a video chat with an attractive philologist/interpreter, with the hopes of arranging a tryst. Only... all is not as it appeared on screen. [/spoiler]
— Apr 04, 2026 10:20AM
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Out of the Sun ★★★★☆ A lovely but poignant story that explores the concept of life existing within extreme environments, such as the plasma of the Sun.
— Apr 03, 2026 11:50PM
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Let There Be Light ★★★⯪☆ A spoof on the "death ray" trope in science fiction, emphasizing how technical expertise can lead to unintended consequences. An astronomer creates a powerful "death ray" to destroy his unfaithful wife's car, with unintended consequences.
— Apr 03, 2026 11:50PM
