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	Title: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) Series: Science Fiction ISBN: 1-86092-033-0	Scott Fitzgerald's extraordinary fantasy was written in the winter of 1921-1922. John T. Unger, a middle class American boy from a small town on the Mississippi River goes, for his summer holiday, to stay for the first time with an enigmatic school friend, Percy Washington. On the journey out Percy confides with an abrupt remark: "My father is by far the richest man in the world." "The Schnlitzer Murphys had diamonds as big as walnuts - " "That's nothing," Percy had leaned forward and dropped his voice to a low whisper. "That's nothing at all. My father has a diamond bigger than the Ritz-Carlton Hotel."
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	Title: Country of the Blind Author: H.G. Wells (1866-1946) Series: Science Fiction ISBN: 1-86092-002-0	In one of H. G. Wells's most brilliant and haunting stories, Nunez, a hapless mountaineer falls several thousand feet down the side of an Andean mountain to find himself in the Country of the Blind, a sealed-off valley, where, for fifteen generations, a strange community of congenitally blind human beings has been thriving in complete ignorance of the outside world. Nunez gleefully reminds himself of an old proverb: "In the Country of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is King," but, to his dismay, things do not happen quite as he had hoped. The Country of the Blind was written in 1904 and first published, in book form, in 1911.
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