100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories
Author: Isaac Asimov
Publisher: Pan
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780330261555
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Author: Isaac Asimov
Publisher: Pan
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780330261555
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Author: Isaac Asimov
Publisher: Avon Books
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 324
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Isaac Asimov
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Among the authors represented in this collection of brief tales are Marion Zimmer Bradley, Harlan Ellison, Barry N. Malzberg, Roger Zelazny, H.P. Lovecraft, and Edgar Pangborn.
Author: James Daley
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Published: 2015-02-23
Total Pages: 766
ISBN-13: 0486803287
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This is a wonderful collection of authors from America and around the world. Centuries are covered, making this a great resource for English teachers and any lover of literature." — Life Community Church This treasury of one hundred tales offers students and other readers of short fiction a splendid selection of stories by masters of the form. Contributors from around the world include Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Dickens, Anton Chekhov, Mark Twain, Saki, Luigi Pirandello, Kate Chopin, and Ring Lardner. The stories, which are arranged chronologically, begin with tales by Daniel Defoe ("The Apparition of Mrs. Veal," 1705), Benjamin Franklin ("Alice Addertongue," 1732), and Washington Irving ("The Devil and Tom Walker," 1824). Highlights from the nineteenth century include Ivan Turgenev's "The District Doctor" (1852), Sarah Orne Jewett's "A White Heron" (1886), Thomas Hardy's "Squire Petrick's Lady" (1891), and Rudyard Kipling's "Wee Willie Winkie" (1899). From the twentieth century come James Joyce's "Araby" (1914), Franz Kafka's "The Judgment" (1916), Virginia Woolf's "The Mark on the Wall" (1921), "The Broken Boot" (1923) by John Galsworthy, and many others. "A fabulous collections of stories sure to please any reader! The chronological layout is perfect for those looking to explore the development of stories over time and their relation to society." — Whitchurch-Stouffville Public Library
Author: Larry Botkins
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
Published: 2019-05-30
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 1642375004
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Dark Science Fiction Short Stories is a collection of imaginative cautionary tales, with danger and hardship on center stage. Topics range from hard sci-fi to wartime fantasy, chosen to expand readers' experience far beyond the ordinary. But be warned: there are hard lessons learned, and brutal retribution.
Author: Paul Negri
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-09-20
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 0486114171
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →DIVFirst-rate selections include Hardy's "The Fiddler of the Reels," James' "Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad," Dickens' "The Haunted Hotel," and tales by Saki, Kipling, Lawrence, Trollope, Stevenson, and others. /div
Author: L. Ron Hubbard
Publisher: Galaxy Press LLC
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 159212366X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Chuck Lambert toils for 11 grueling years to scrape together enough money to finally buy a planet of his own. Rather than purchase on legally from the Interior Department of the Outer Galactic Control, he succumbs to the flashy advertising of a galactic swindler named Madman Murphy.
Author: Various
Publisher:
Published: 2015-02-18
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780692385029
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nine short stories from a few of the greatest names in science fiction on the topic of exchange, replacement, upgrade, and masquerade. Ranging from true short story length through novelette and originally published in science fiction magazines in the 1950s, these brief escapes into improbable worlds have it all: humor, suspense, betrayal, mystery, twists, and of course-robots and aliens. THE BIG TRIP UP YONDER by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. THE JUDAS VALLEY by Randall Garrett and Robert Silverberg THE MOON IS GREEN by Fritz Leiber OLD RAMBLING HOUSE by Frank Herbert PIPER IN THE WOODS by Philip K. Dick SENTIMENT, INC. by Poul Anderson THE TUNNEL UNDER THE WORLD by Frederik Pohl YEAR OF THE BIG THAW by Marion Zimmer Bradley YOUTH by Isaac Asimov
Author: Richard Hantula
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Published: 2004-12-15
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780836839524
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Compares what writers over the centuries have written about an imaginary future with the reality revealed by time.