Short Stories Nine Hundred Grandmothers
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Nine Hundred Grandmothers
—R. A. Lafferty
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- · 1966
"They were down on the big asteroid Proavitus — a sphere that almost tinkled with the potential profit that might be shaken out of it. And the tough men of the Expedition knew their business. They signed big contracts on the native velvet-like bark scrolls and on their own parallel tapes. They impressed, inveigled and somewhat cowed the slight people of Proavitus. Here was a solid two-way market, enough to make them slaver. And there was a whole world of oddities that could lend themselves to the luxury trade." —R. A. Lafferty
- · 1993 Ursula K. Le Guin & Brian Attebery, The Norton Book of Science Fiction
- · Trent Walters (2015) · Andrew Ferguson (2011) · Don D'Ammassa (2009) · Mulle Kybernetik (2005)
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