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The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade by Edgar Allen Poe:
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"WHEN we realize that this story was written nearly 100 years ago [this reprint of Poe's work appeared 100 years ago!], we must marvel at the extraordinary fertile imagination of Poe. Poe was probably the inventor of "Scientifiction" as we know it today, and just because the story was written almost a century ago, certainly does not make it less valuable. On the contrary, it becomes more valuable as time passes. It is just as applicable to the modern man, who is mostly in the fog about what goes on around him in science today, as his predecessors were a century ago."

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