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Poor Superman [short story] (1951)

by Fritz Leiber

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After World War III, a torn and devastated world is split between science and magic. A group of scientists with a super computer pit themselves against a group of politicians whose followers are desperate enough to believe anything. But in the end, nothing is what it seems and no one is to be trusted.… (more)
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Poor Superman [short story]
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Poor Superman [short story]
Appointment in Tomorrow [short story]
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1951
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The first angry rays of the sun - which, startlingly enough, still rose in the east at 24 hour intervals - pierced the lacy tops of Atlantic combers and touched thousands of sleeping Americans with unconscious fear, because of their unpleasant similarity to the rays from World War III's atomic bombs.
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"Poor Superman" is an alternative title for "Appointment in Tomorrow".
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After World War III, a torn and devastated world is split between science and magic. A group of scientists with a super computer pit themselves against a group of politicians whose followers are desperate enough to believe anything. But in the end, nothing is what it seems and no one is to be trusted.
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PS3523.E4583Language and Literature › American literature › American literature › Individual authors › 1900-1960

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