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It was a big, coffin-shaped plywood box that looked like it weighed a ton. This brawny type just dumped it through the door of the police station and started away. I looked up from the blotter and shouted at the trucker's vanishing back. "What the hell is that?" "How should I know?" he said as he swung up into the cab. "I just deliver, I don't X-ray 'em. It came on the morning rocket from Earth is all I know." He gunned the truck more than he had to and threw up a billowing cloud of red dust.

Harry Harrison was an American science fiction author, best known for his character "The Stainless Steel Rat" and for his novel Make Room! Make Room! The movie, Soylent Green was based on Make Room! Make Room! In addition to his novels, Harrison wrote a number of fascinating and highly imaginative science fiction stories, many including in this audiobook.

"The repairman" - A sci-fi story about a lighthouse, lizard like life forms, the lighthouse repairman, and a robot... "My boss leaned back, wiped his hands on his handkerchief and gave me "Lecture Forty-four on Company Duty and My Troubles". 'This department is officially called Maintenance and Repair, when it really should be called trouble-shooting. Hyperspace beacons are made to last forever - or damn close to it. When one of them breaks down, it is never an accident.

"The Repairman" (1958) is a straight fun science fiction story of a man getting a job done. It is most typical of his later style in series like the Stainless Steel Rat.

The human race has reached the stars, colonized many planets and done amazing things in all areas of scientific progress. But humans are still humans and remain both honorable and not so honorable; some with high ideals and others with very low ones indeed. So why hasn't war occurred in several centuries among the hundreds of planets? Has man really changed? Not on your life it hasn't! Listen to how science has given man peace but at what cost?

In the campy style of 1950s science fiction, this short story seeks to clarify what advancements the Army had made to abolish the need for the Navy. A new and fantastic devise made ships no longer essential to the military operation in America. Would the demand for the abolishment of the Navy?

Jason dinAlt is a professional gambler who travels between different worlds in the universe. Right now, he is gambling on the planet Cassylia. One day, he meets the ambassador of Pyrrus the most hostile world in the universe. Kerk, the ambassador, offers dinAlt money to run a stake up for him. After Jason finally wins the needed amount, he tries to escape with the money, but gets captured.

Arm of the Law is a 1958 story by sci-fi pro Harry Harrison. The cops in a backwater station on Mars get more than they bargained for in the form of a new ROBOT recruit - sent to them from earth in a box... All kinds of complications, danger and even fun ensue!

The universe is at peace, but it is a very sensitive balance. Will the temptation of absolute power drive the universe once again into war?

New York 1999. A l'aube du troisième millénaire, la cité, comme le reste du monde, est au bord du chaos créé par la pollution et la surpopulation, émeutes et pillages sont quotidiens. Parmi ces trente-cinq millions d‘habitants accablés par le chômage, le rationnement d'eau, de nourriture et d'énergie, un jeune policier, Andrew Risch, recherche l'auteur du meurtre de Mike O'Brien, un gros bonnet du marché noir.

"The K-Factor" is a sci-fi story by author Harry Harrison, published in 1960. A K-factor is a so called "war factor", more precisely a name of an atomic file that can be used in two ways, as with an atomic bomb. Neel Sidorak, our hero, and his team has to constantly guard Earth's safety, as Earth had settled quite a few planets... Thought provoking and entertaining in equal measure!

"The gadget was strictly, beyond any question, a toy. Not a real workable device. Except for the way it could work under a man's mental skin."