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Frederik Pohl, the bestselling author of The Boy Who Would Live Forever, is famous for his novels, but first and foremost, he is a master of the science fiction short story.
For more than fifty years he has been writing incisive, entertaining SF stories, several hundred in all. Even while writing his bestselling triple-crown (Hugo, Nebula, Campbell Award) novel Gateway and the other Heechee Saga novels, he has always written short fiction.
Now,...
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A pile of sensational bizarre blood cases, a cold silent body, what kind of crimes and secrets are hidden? A calm and wise female forensic doctor, an experienced criminal investigation captain, in the face of a paper forensic identification, one by one, the blood, violence and terror behind the dissection of the body, everything seems to have no trace, but in the bizarre doomed to the curse of the murderer
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Way down in Penguin Land lived two best friends, Clutch and Haiven. While Haiven was serious and studious, Clutch was imaginative and playful. As Clutch always imagined himself as a mighty warrior penguin, he did not always pay attention to his teacher in the classroom. One day, this got him in very serious trouble when he was out playing. The question was, could Haiven arrive in time to save his friend?
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A small book of short stories written by Abdulla Qadiri
This book contains two short stories:
• The Party of Demons
• In The Ulak
In the first story, O'sar tells his family about the party of demons he saw at night.
In the next one, Toorghon tells the story of the game of Ulak which he went to.
Ulak - is one of the traditional, national games of Central Asian peoples. The judges throw the goat (a goat or calf with its head, legs, and...
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Rabbit lived with his parents in a city called Joyland. He was the only child in the family. He liked to play with his parents at home with his toys. Mummy Rabbit started to look for a nursery for Rabbit and can be happy when he plays with other children. On Rabbit's first day at nursery, he did not want to leave his mummy as nursery was new for him. It was circle time and a story to follow. The rabbit was asked to hand out snacks to his class…...
7) Jasmine
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A retired college instructor and former teacher in India meet online and decide to meet in person during COVID. They form a pact to be together forever.
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Meet Ramone, a stoic and ruggedly handsome man searching for his destiny. Though sparing with words, Ramone's magnetic presence and insatiable thirst for life's vibrancy hints at deeper complexities within. His visionary sight is fixed on the horizon, compelled by a mysterious force to continue seeking something unknown before anyone else discovers it first.
The encounters upon Ramone's ominous journey are unspeakably chilling, enough to make one's...
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Charlie Peach's Pumpkins and other stories' is Jenny Sanders' second collection of six humorous tales. Once again, she treats her readers to quirky characters and another abundance of welcome nonsense. This time, you'll be taken from a disastrous garden experiment which finds success from an unlikely source, to the new ambassador's attempts to solve an international crisis in Carletia, and to a crumbling castle which threatens to wipe out the fortunes...
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he line between sin and faith can be very narrow indeed. Then there is the perennial question: Why are we here? The answer may be a surprise. Also surprising is the real story behind Area 51. The human need for companionship can show up in strange places, while a 2,000-year-old dead bird can cost a school teacher her job. Plus, will a community go so far as to resort to human sacrifice to stop an unwelcome commercial development? How about the advantages...
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La Historia de MaríaUna obra literaria escrita por:Carlos Rafael Fernández MorilloCarfer Relato ficticio de como pudo ser la historia que unió a María y José en la época donde un hombre no se podía casar con una mujer si esta no era virgen y menos si estaba embarazada ya que las leyes así lo prohibían
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'This collection blends candid and personal worlds, short stories, allegories and vignettes. The warmth of "Knight in Shining Chain Mail" moves to the chilling short story "Undertow", with its secrets, to heart-rending "The Broken Windmill". Decima does not shy away from reality, with all its twists and turns of family angst, defiant love, jealousy, betrayal, blackmail and the ache of the road not taken, balanced by the humour of light-hearted stories...
13) Anonymous
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The pursuit of the vain hopes of success and the total invisibility of entire segments of the population are the two complementary visions that characterize the protagonists of this novel.Seven stories, separated in places and environments, meet only on a chronological level, leaving each immersed in anonymity, the only possible solution between an unattainable affirmation and a tragedy not consonant with the characteristics of contemporary society....
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Mientras el mundo cambia es una compilación de relatos escritos con una precisión exquisita. J. M. Aguilera perfila cada una de los personajes protagonistas de estas historias con un cincel diestro, con el que ilumina las complejas aristas psicológicas de todo ser humano ubicándolos en situaciones comprometidas, inquietantes o meramente desapacibles mientras el mundo alrededor sigue su curso, «mientras el mundo cambia».
Entre otros, conoceremos...
16) Rock and Sea
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The sixteen short stories in Rock and Sea span an extraordinary range of mood and style. There are tales of tragedy, of mischief, of mystery and of gothic horror. Rock and Sea contains stories written by Jeanell Buckley over more than a decade, beginning in the late 1990s.
17) Lost Reflection
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In Dennis Callaci's third book, Lost Reflection, the author has assembled seven short stories that are sewn together with characters whose reflections on the past are not to be trusted. Tug at the seams of the book to find the connective tissue-a clone of a character in one story appearing with an assumed name in the next, a reinterpretation of previous events here and again there. Or pay no mind to the lost echo searching eternally.
18) Presto
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Presto chronicles the adventures of an employee for a temp agency as he goes out on what often seem like absurd assignments for which he occasionally has to make up the rules as he goes along, improvise. As the sequence deepens, we see this unidentified character in later work situations. His attitude seems unchanged as he deals with the absurdities life throws his way.
19) Platinum data
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The body was wearing a bright blue halter top that covered her large breasts, but because she had no bottoms, she was naked from the waist down. The neck was cluttered by a navy blue scarf, and the upper part of the scarf turned red and black. Any qualified searcher would have seen right away that this was the killer's freehand work
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This book has been split into three separate parts. You can read each part as a separate book. They can also be read in any order.
These parts share characters and events, so after reading one part, you will find additional insights and perspectives in the other parts. The order you choose to read the parts will produce slightly different results regarding how you will feel about the events that unfold.
The book is designed to be an easy entertaining...
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