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050 4 _aPS
100 1 _aDel Rey, Lester,
_d1915-1993
245 1 0 _aKeepers of the house
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aProduced from Fantastic Universe, January 1956 (Vol. 4, No. 6).
500 _aRelease date is 2025-12-22
508 _aTom Trussel (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _aKeepers of the house by Lester Del Rey is a science fiction short story written in the mid-20th century. It follows a lone dog in a ruined, post-apocalyptic landscape, focusing on memory, loss, and the aftermath of misused technology. An old, intelligent dog named King is drawn by scent and dream back to a ruined university city, where he finds the Promethean Laboratory and discovers his long-lost master, “Doc,” dead beside a tape machine that still plays his voice. Through King’s memories we glimpse the collapse: a hated tower that broadcast a tingling power, failed experiments that revived rats and altered dogs, a plague of rabbits, and desperate rocket launches that carried infants away as civilization died. Chasing a white lab rat, King shelters from a storm in a crashed rocket and gorges on leftover rations; lightning later ignites the wired lab and consumes Doc’s remains. In the morning King returns, confirms the finality of death, gives a single mourning howl from the bridge, and turns south along the river to survive, leaving the last house he kept behind. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: King-Size Publications, Inc., 1955
653 _aScience fiction
653 _aShort stories
653 _aDogs -- Fiction
653 _aApocalyptic fiction
700 1 _aEmshwiller, Ed,
_d1925-1990
830 0 _aProduced from Fantastic Universe, January 1956 (Vol. 4, No. 6).
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Universe_v04n06_1956-01
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77527
999 _c118247
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