Story: Ventures into Unknown Territory 50:70

Dream of a Strange Land by Graham Greene (1963).

Non Spoiler Summary

• Length: fifteen pages


• Genre: Literary fiction, thriller
• Summary: A man with leprosy, in search of his Eden, finds it full of false mirrors and spinning roulette tables.  

Stories "Ventures into Unknown Terreritory" 49:70

Here There Be Tygers by Ray Bradbury (Published in  1951)

Non Spoiler Summary

• Length: 13 pages
• Genre: Science Fiction-Space Exploration

Summary: Space explorers find a planet that is a Utopia in which their dreams may come true. Bradbury asks should they publicize their discovery. Can they profit from a planet that is perfect?

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Impossible Dreams by Tim Pratt  (2007 Hugo Award Winner)

Check this one out and enjoy the pleasure of the unknown universe that might lay right behind a store that exists on another dimension.

Ozymandias

by  Percy Bysshe Shelley  (1792-1822)

I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Stories "Ventures into Unknown Terreritory " 48:70

Isaac Asimov, "I Robot: Catch That Rabbit"(1944)

Length: pages 82-110- (28 pages long.)
Genre: Science Fiction-Robot Adventures

Introduction Summary with No Spoiler

Isaac Asimov shows what happens when a pioneering lead robot named Dave has had too much strain on his leadership network. He commands his sub-robots to dance because he lacks the ability to initiate a proper response in an emergency situation.   In the discovery of the problem, the two engineers find themselves in a cave that has collapsed. Will they get out in time, before the air runs out?

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How to Talk to Girls at Parties by Neil Gaimon (2006)

Length: 11 Pages also available in Audio Download
Genre: Fantasy Hugo Award Finalist

Non Spoiler Introduction

Girls are foreign. Girls are especially foreign when the quest is to hook up with them at parties.  These girls are even more foreign than the confounding Janes who enter into our lives.  

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The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carrol (1874)  

Length: 291-307 in the Oxford Book of Narrative Verse.  

Genre: Nonsense Lyric Poem in a form of an adventure.

 Non Spoiler Summary

This story is a nod to all that travel is, where it is more fun to get lost than to stick to the route.  A blank map leads our way.

The hapless souls out at sea are searching for the snark and avoiding the Jubjub and Boojum that would mark certain discourteous disaster. Will they or will they not find their antediluvian Snark?