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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 moving and heart-warming short story from the collection, BEYOND THE STARS, written by 14-year-old competition winner and illustrated by one of Ireland's best loved and award-winning book creators. Ruka is different from all the other ten-year-olds in the village, lacking the magical powers needed to begin training as, a young sorcerer. Lonely and insecure, she runs away into the forest in despair. But, escaping the familiar presents new challenges...
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Rory loved listening to stories and he always remembered the ones that Daddy read to him at bedtime.
He wanted to know where stories came from. And he told Daddy that one day he would like to write stories.
And that was why he couldn't wait to start reading himself.
Rory didn't think that he would ever get tired of stories!
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A dramatic short story taken from the collection, BEYOND THE STARS, written by a number-one bestselling author When Fleece, one of the foot soldiers of the valiant Hibernian Army, is sent to battle the demons of the Fomorian Empire, he becomes the accidental Hero of Drumree. Much to his surprise. Derek Landy's action-packed tale is perfectly complemented by Alan Clarke's brilliantly dramatic artwork. Look out for the other eleven stories - also available...
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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…...
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Each of the nine short stories collected here feature two types of people - the troubled and the troublemakers. In "The Guest," a homeless man gleefully takes credit for a robbery he did not commit. "In the Alley" tells the story of a terminally ill man who begrudgingly outlives his initial prognosis. And the satiric "I Look Out for Ed Wolfe" features a charismatic salesman auctioning off his life's possessions in order to determine his value in the...
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¡Prepárate para un viaje literario como ningún otro con Cuentos cortos para viajes largos 5! En esta entrega, el autor detalla un mundo de fantasía donde el pasado se mezcla con el presente, la ciencia ficción se abraza con el terror, el romanticismo coquetea con lo espiritual y los policiales bailan al ritmo de cualquier tema que la imaginación pueda concebir.
Este compendio de doce relatos cortos te llevará en un paseo emocionante por historias...
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Dans ce recueil de 15 nouvelles, Guy Bélizaire fait appel à sa mémoire pour nous raconter des histoires qui nous transportent dans différentes villes à travers le monde. Les personnages de Mémoire vagabonde traversent des situations qui nous obligent à nous pencher sur la condition humaine et les vicissitudes de la vie tout en nous invitant à repenser l'humain au cœur de la société.
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¿Te sentiste perdido alguna vez? ¿No quisiste parar? ¿No te sentiste ajeno a vos mismo?
Mi yo, yo y esta sombra también es mía, es una antologia de cuentos que crece con uno, encontrándote en cada una de estas historias de una u otra manera: Vinculos ancestrales, amistad, amor y encuentros en todas sus facetas y colores.
Relatos divertidos y perspicaces, con ese aire de cotidianidad que te harán viajar junto a los protagonistas por este camino...
14) Righter
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Righter is a collection of stories about people putting their world right… in their own way… They can't escape reality but they can certainly bend it to suit them… because reality is always and only our own reality and is rarely suited to most…Who can ever find Alana Love again ?Where is the Astronaut travelling to ?A Woman In Disappearing's world in coming to her endFedelma – A tale of hope and success for a woman who just wouldn't give...
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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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‘ Staggering and unforgettable storytelling' Mel Giedroyc In his retirement at the Vatican, emeritus pope Benedict XVI is hard at work on his magnum opus: a high-school comedy screenplay. At a grimy pub in North London, a doctoral researcher is abducted by gangsters peddling William Wordsworth' s handwritten account of drug-fuelled sex orgies.In the West African state of Benin, a politician' ...
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Everything Natalie said seemed, to herself, to have been said better by him. He was less fond of speaking, however, than he was of hitting people in the face, which seemed a more likely source of her love to those of us who knew him," begins Jason Brown's linked collection of beautifully haunted, violent, and wry stories set in the densely forested lands of northern New England. In these tales of forbidden love, runaway children, patrimony, alcohol,...
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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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'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...
20) 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.
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