Robert F Young
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She came off the Androids, Inc., production line in September, 2241. She was five feet, seven inches tall, weighed 135 pounds, had flaxen hair and pale blue eyes. Her built-in batteries were guaranteed for ten years, her tapes were authentic Kirsten Flagstad, and her name was Isolde. Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy,...
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The fey Mr. Young continues his scholarly researches in the scientific origins of our myth and legend with this tale of an agile-and avaricious-one-man. Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.
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Hubbard had seen queegy birds before, but this was the first time he had ever seen a lame one. Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.
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All peoples have their myths of wanderers through time who, though they may not end their own sufferings, have the power to help others save themselves. Such a one was the gaunt man.
Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.
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We doubt if the real television people will ever go as far as the fictional ones in this story. But if they do-wow!
Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.
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In Science Fiction, of the many things an author can do is to take an established trend and carry it on to extremities. Such stories are rarely good prophecy, since they cannot foresee other developments of the future which are most likely to modify the trend with which they are dealing. But such stories make good reading nonetheless, and can be delightfully unpleasant as in the present instance.
Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known...
10) Jupiter Found
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Godhead can be more than a guilt complex growing out of the knowledge of good and evil. It can also be a sense of fulfillment that comes from the ability to create.
Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.
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Anybody might think that she wanted to be a witch. And anyone thinking so would be correct. Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.
12) The Magic Window
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By what strange magic could an ordinary window reflect the beauty in the soul of a lonely girl!
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Great collection of action short stories by Robert F. Young from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here: "Star Mother", "The Servant Problem", "Collector's Item", "A Knyght Ther Was", "Sweet Tooth", "The Girl in His Mind", and "The Girls from Fieu Dayol".
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Amazing Stories Volume 169 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are five short stories by different authors: "I Bring Fresh Flowers", by Robert F. Young, "The Small Bears", by Gene L. Henderson, "Down To Earth", by Harry Harrison, "The Smart Ones" by Jack Sharkey and "War In Heaven" by Fletcher Pratt.
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Robert Franklin Young (1915-1986) was an American science fiction writer born in Silver Creek, New York. Except for the three and a half years he served in the Pacific during World War II, he spent most of his life in New York State. Although his career spanned more than thirty years, and he wrote fiction until he died, he remained little known by the public, in the United States as well as abroad. He started publishing in 1953 in Startling Stories,...
16) Doll-Friend
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He had a beautiful wife. But the girl he really loved came out of a slot machine - warm and soft and clinging and unalive.
Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.
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Men have fought and died, sung and cried, stolen and lied for love. Christopher Stark did all of these-and more. Over his life loomed two gigantic images: that of the beautiful Priscilla, and that of the mysterious fisher-figure in the reaches of space.
Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post,...
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Looking for a bluebird in that perfectly laid-out utopian suburb was not always quite as easy as the blueprints had provided—in fact it was rather the reverse! Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.
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This is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are six stories by Robert F. Young: "Jupiter Found", "The Blonde From Barsoom, "Boy Meets Dyevitza", "Boarding Party", "The Deep Space Rolls", and "Redemption".
20) Robot Son
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These were shocking things she said—shocking in their strangeness—contradicting everything ... Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction.