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Weird Science-Fantasy (Spring 1954), #23

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The Children

Storyline: When colonists on a new world give birth, their babies are taken away from them by the government. This is to assure the children are raised properly. Originally it was intended for a short time but the time period kept getting extended. The mothers on the colony get fed up with not being able to see their children and form a mob to storm the government building. It is then revealed that the babies are born mutants due to the environment of the world. Despite their physical deformities, the mothers reclaim their children and love them anyway.

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Fish Story

Storyline: Humanoid fish beings on a distant aquatic planet are trying to find a way to leave their doomed world. They then see an Earth vessel approach. They attack it by filling it with water and drowning the crew inside. They take the ship for themselves so they can take it back to Earth in hopes that the water areas on it will provide a new home for their people. Once they land in one of Earth's oceans they die. Why? Because the oceans of Earth are salt water and they are beings from a world of fresh water.

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Ninth Wonder

Storyline: A man creates a tree that can grow money. Unfortunately for him, it only grows obsolete confederate money.

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The Flying Machine

Storyline: In 5th century China, Emperor Yuan discovers that a villager has learned how to create a flying machine; A large kite with functioning wings. Worried that an invention like that could fall into the hands of an enemy allowing them to fly over the Great Wall of China that protects the kingdom, he has the inventor executed and his creation destroyed.

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Fair Trade

Storyline: After a nuclear holocaust, a tribe of cavemen (who descended from the humans before the cataclysm destroyed the world) encounter spacemen who offer to buy their land with beads and blankets. The cavemen agree and trade what was once Manhattan Island to the spacemen. The spacemen vow to either destroy the cavemen or put them on reservations once they begin to take over the area.

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