The World-Thinker and Other Stories

The World-Thinker and Other Stories PDF Author: Jack Vance
Publisher: Spatterlight Press
ISBN: 1619470004
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 375

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The World-Thinker and Other Stories

The World-Thinker and Other Stories PDF Author: Jack Vance
Publisher: Spatterlight Press
ISBN: 1619470004
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 375

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The Jack Vance Treasury

The Jack Vance Treasury PDF Author: Jack Vance
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 648

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A massive (over 230,000 words) gathering of fiction by the master of science-fantasy.

Stories of Your Life and Others

Stories of Your Life and Others PDF Author: Ted Chiang
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 1931520895
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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From the author of Exhalation, an award-winning short story collection that blends "absorbing storytelling with meditations on the universe, being, time and space ... raises questions about the nature of reality and what it is to be human" (The New York Times). Stories of Your Life and Others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change—the inevitable rise of automatons or the appearance of aliens—with some sense of normalcy. With sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by beauty and wonder. An award-winning collection from one of today's most lauded writers, Stories of Your Life and Others is a contemporary classic. Includes “Story of Your Life”—the basis for the major motion picture Arrival

Lost Moons

Lost Moons PDF Author: Jack Vance
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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The Invaders and Other Stories

The Invaders and Other Stories PDF Author: graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: New York : T. Y. Crowell
ISBN:
Category : Russian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Lurulu

Lurulu PDF Author: Jack Vance
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312867270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Continues the adventures of Myron Tany, a rebellious member of a wealthy family who tours the galaxy on an interstellar freighter alongside a crew of actors, musicians, thieves, and other questionable characters.

Big Planet

Big Planet PDF Author: Jack Vance
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0575109505
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Big Planet is Jack Vance's first major sf novel, and in the words of the Encyclopedia of SF, "provided an sf model for the planetary romance which has been of significant use for forty years". The huge world of the title is home to a range of colourfully detailed and imaginative human societies, which Vance explores with the zest and humour which are hallmarks of his work. All Jack Vance titles in the SFGateway use the author's preferred texts, as restored for the Vance Integral Edition (VIE), an extensive project masterminded by an international online community of Vance's admirers. In general, we also use the VIE titles, and have adopted the arrangement of short story collections to eliminate overlaps. Big Planet was cut almost in half for its first publication, but sadly the excised pages are lost.

Ports of Call

Ports of Call PDF Author: Jack Vance
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312864743
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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A romantic tale follows a space swashbuckler and conman as he travels from world to world, plying his trade, drinking in wild bars, and flirting with women.

The Raid and Other Stories

The Raid and Other Stories PDF Author: graf Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192838087
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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This collection of Tolstoy's stories includes "Sevastopol," "Two Hussars," "Albert," "What Men Live By," "Master and Man," "How Much Land Does a Man Need?," "The Death of Ivan Ilych," "The Three Hermits," and the title piece.

Whose Song?

Whose Song? PDF Author: Thomas Glave
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
ISBN: 0872866424
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Author Thomas Glave is known for his stylistic brio and courageous explorations into the heavily mined territories of race and sexuality. This searing collection of stories is a stunning debut of a writer the Village Voice has named "One to Watch." “Thomas Glave walks the path of such greats in American literature as Richard Wright and James Baldwin while forging new ground of his own. His voice is strong and his technique dazzling as he cuts to the bone of what it means to be black in America, white in America, gay in America, and human in the world at large. These stories span the globe of the human experience and the human heart. They are brutal in some places, tender in others, but always honestly told. A true talent of the 21st century."—Gloria Naylor "Thomas Glave has a strong talent and courage to take up the right to enter the inner selves of both black and white characters in his stories. This is a creative claim beyond 'authenticity' determined by skin color. He also has that essential writer's ear for the way different people speak within their cultures, and what their idiom gives away of their inhibitions and affirmations."—Nadine Gordimer "What a writer! What a book! Glave is a brilliant writer of startlingly fresh prose . . . His stories are intricate tapestries of life rendered through a triumphant act of the imagination."—Clarence Major "Remarkable stories by a gifted writer who explores the stresses, the split-minds, the implicit grandeurs, the subtleties, and the terrors of emotional desire and obsession."—Wilson Harris "[Glave's] rare insight, boundless courage, and fierce imagination make these stories resound long after you turn the last page."—Village Voice Thomas Glave is the author of Whose Song? and Other Stories, the essay collection Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent (winner of a 2005 Lambda Literary Award) and is editor of the anthology Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles (winner of a 2008 Lambda Literary Award).