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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,...
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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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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".
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Amazing Stories Volume 155 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are four short stories by two different authors: "The Courts Of Jamshyd", "Pilgrim's Project", "Beyond Our Control", all by Robert F. Young and "The Statistomat Pitch", by Chandler Davis.
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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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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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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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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,...
11) 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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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.
15) 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.
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Three Science Fiction stories for the price of one from one of Science Fiction's classic writer, Robert F. Young.
“The Forest of Unreason”— Mortby saw the hoof-marks first. It was the morning Reinman had come up missing, and he and the four other remaining members of the expedition had set out into the Kontawaba Forest in search of him. The hoof-marks were on the opposite bank.
“Impressionist”— Radigan looked at the painting with a collector's...
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For want of a better name, she called them “Obbly-Gobblies.” Thus for, the only evidence of their presence in the house had been an occasional flapping of their wings, but just the same she was certain that the term fitted them. 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...
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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.
20) Collector's Item
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We've often wondered what would happen if Robert Young should cease to be a lyrically intense writer for a story or two, forsaking the bright, poetic worlds of miss katy three and the first sweet sleep of night to become dispassionately analytical on a cosmic scale. Now we know! He'd chill us to the bone by setting two squixes to brooding over a never-to-be born Earth, exactly as he has done here. And thrill us, too-with the liveliest kind of entertainment....
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