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* A story called ''The Cone'', which is about a steel works manager whose disgruntled employee throws him off of a catwalk onto a red hot metal cone on top of a blast furnace. The story then goes on to describe, in the most gruesomely horrific detail imaginable, how the man is roasted to death.

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* A story called ''The Cone'', which is about a steel works manager whose disgruntled employee hired artist is having an affair with his wife. During a tour of the works, the manager throws him the artist off of a catwalk onto a red hot metal the cone on top of a blast furnace. The story then goes on to describe, in the most gruesomely horrific detail imaginable, how the cone opens and the man is roasted to death.
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* "The Country of the Blind" reverses the above example. [[spoiler: The realization that they're better at tracking him blind than he is with both eyes; all he can do is watch. And, of course, why they're tracking him!]]

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* "The Country of the Blind" reverses the above example. [[spoiler: The realization that they're better at tracking him blind than he is with both eyes; all he can do is watch. And, of course, why they're tracking him!]]him!
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* "The Kingdom of the Blind" reverses the above example. [[spoiler: The realization that they're better at tracking him blind than he is with both eyes; all he can do is watch. And, of course, why they're tracking him!]]

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* "The Kingdom Country of the Blind" reverses the above example. [[spoiler: The realization that they're better at tracking him blind than he is with both eyes; all he can do is watch. And, of course, why they're tracking him!]]
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* "The World Set Free" accurately describes nuclear weapons and their effects.

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* "The World Set Free" accurately describes nuclear weapons and their effects. In fact, it ''invented'' the concept of nuclear weapons.
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* "The Empire of the Ants", in which the intelligent ants decimate entire villages, seemingly unstoppable. It's all but said that they will eventually conquer the world.

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* "The Empire of the Ants", in which the intelligent ants decimate entire villages, seemingly unstoppable. It's all but said that they will eventually conquer the world.world.
* "The World Set Free" accurately describes nuclear weapons and their effects.
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* "The Kingdom of the Blind" reverses the above example. [[spoiler: The realization that they're better at tracking him blind than he is with both eyes; all he can do is watch. And, of course, why they're tracking him!]]

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* "The Kingdom of the Blind" reverses the above example. [[spoiler: The realization that they're better at tracking him blind than he is with both eyes; all he can do is watch. And, of course, why they're tracking him!]]him!]]
* "The Empire of the Ants", in which the intelligent ants decimate entire villages, seemingly unstoppable. It's all but said that they will eventually conquer the world.
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* A story called ''The Cone'', which is about a steel works manager whose disgruntled employee throws him off of a catwalk onto a red hot metal cone on top of a blast furnace. The story then goes on to describe, in the most gruesomely horrific detail imaginable, how the man is roasted to death.
* "The Kingdom of the Blind" reverses the above example. [[spoiler: The realization that they're better at tracking him blind than he is with both eyes; all he can do is watch. And, of course, why they're tracking him!]]

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