Youth
by Isaac Asimov
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Added on February 8, 2026
Description
Two young boys find some very unusual new pets in this short story from a Grand Master of Science Fiction.Tagging along while his astronomer father visits an industrialist at his vast estate, young Slim is lucky enough to make fast friends with the industrialist's son, Red, who has recently caught some very strange animals on the property. The animals seem intelligent enough, and Red recruits Slim to help him train the odd creatures to do circus tricks. But the boys are about to discover their playthings aren't exactly animals—and they've allowed themselves to be caught for a reason . . . Youth is a riveting tale from the author of countless classics, including I, Robot and the Foundation Trilogy, which won the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
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ShovelwareFirst of all it's more like five books and all in the public domain. Ray Bradbury has not aged well nor any of the others the Dick stories are probably the best.They didn't put much effort into the project and stuck H G Wells and Verne in to add pages but as they have been public domain they have been free reads since the last 50 yearsThere is a bug that likes to reprint sections of the print on some stories as if they were committed to a word count.
ShovelwareFirst of all it's more like five books and all in the public domain. Ray Bradbury has not aged well nor any of the others the Dick stories are probably the best.They didn't put much effort into the project and stuck H G Wells and Verne in to add pages but as they have been public domain they have been free reads since the last 50 yearsThere is a bug that likes to reprint sections of the print on some stories as if they were committed to a word count.
ShovelwareFirst of all it's more like five books and all in the public domain. Ray Bradbury has not aged well nor any of the others the Dick stories are probably the best.They didn't put much effort into the project and stuck H G Wells and Verne in to add pages but as they have been public domain they have been free reads since the last 50 yearsThere is a bug that likes to reprint sections of the print on some stories as if they were committed to a word count.
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