Terrific Tales of Scifi and Space Opera

Nine sci-fi stories of space opera, adventure, romance, and humor. None of the stories are intended to be hard sci-fi, though some readers may consider a few to be moderately so.
After a long journey in space an astronaut returns to Earth to find it deserted, except for robots and androids, at war with each other.
The empress of the galaxy offers a space pirate amnesty if he rescues her daughter from rebels.
An alien tries to take over the mind of an Earthman, but is only partially successful.
The fate of planet Earth is in the hands of a small group of deer hunters.
A man learns that the god his people worship is nothing more than an ancient computer, and places his life in peril.
A homeless alcoholic meets a space alien.
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