Author: Irene Wittig
Publisher: Irene Wittig
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Eight short tales with a twist of crimes planned, unplanned and misplanned; and ruminations on then, now, and what might be.

Author: Kenneth Spillias
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781884886386
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Thoughts and observations of triumphs, calamities and mysteries born of imagination and the vicissitudes of life.

Author: Lydia Davis
Publisher: Sarabande Books
ISBN: 1932511938
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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With her trademark precision, Davis turns her eye to three beloved cows, capturing them in celebratory, delighted detail.

Author: John Brunner
Publisher: D A W Books, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Science fiction-noveller.

Author: Michael Hodges
Publisher: Pyr
ISBN: 1645060683
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Alone at a remote cabin in the woods . . . attacked by a mysterious force that won’t let him leave . . . but how can he fight an enemy that he can’t even see? Matt Kearns just needed to get away from it all—to grieve for his father and let the rugged wilderness of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula renew him, like it always had. But from the moment he arrives, nothing feels right. Strange happenings shake his confidence and have him questioning his sanity. Even the animals seem to know something is amiss. But each time he tries to leave, something—something truly malicious—violently pulls him back. What could it be? Why him? And what will he have to do to escape with his life? Michael Hodge’s debut supernatural thriller delivers visceral, edge-of-your-seat suspense as one resourceful man desperately fights for his life against a force more savage and relentless than anything the locals here have ever seen.

Author: David Means
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571330142
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315

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At the bitter end of the 1960s, after surviving multiple assassination attempts, President John F. Kennedy has created a vast federal agency, the Psych Corps, dedicated to maintaining the nation's mental hygiene by any means necessary. Soldiers returning from Vietnam have their battlefield traumas "enfolded"-wiped from their memories through drugs and therapy-while veterans too damaged to be enfolded roam at will in Michigan, evading the Psych Corps and reenacting atrocities on civilians. This destabilized, alternate version of American history is the vision of the twenty-two-year-old veteran Eugene Allen, who has returned from Vietnam to write the book at the center of Hystopia, the long-awaited first novel by David Means. In Hystopia, Means brings his full talent to bear on the crazy reality of trauma, both national and personal. Outlandish and tender, funny and violent, timely and historical, Hystopia invites us to consider whether our traumas can ever be truly overcome. The answers it offers are wildly inventive, deeply rooted in its characters, and wrung from the author's own heart.

Author: Leon Rogers, Sr.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 9781413485349
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A Conversation and Other Ruminations Part II is a book of short stories, essays, and poetry told from the perspective of one who looks at the world with amazement for its short sightedness, self-centeredness, and lack of concern for those outside its immediate vision. We should be conversing about love, thinking about want to do about it, and taking action.

Author: Joe Harwell
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781982045159
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Random short stories about growing up in Poteau, Oklahoma in the 1950s, 60s and 7os, life with Becky, my amazing late wife, plus rants and ruminations written between 2010 and early 2018. Plus two previously unpublished fiction stories and four favorite family recipes like chocolate (cocoa) gravy are also included. I invite you to try the recipes, read the stories, laugh, cry, scratch your head and pass it on for someone else to do the same. Fair warning, as I assembled this collection it became obvious many of my childhood memories contain bathroom humor. Printed in large type.

Author: Vandana Singh
Publisher: Small Beer Press
ISBN: 1618731424
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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Philip K. Dick Award finalist Praise for Vandana Singh: “A most promising and original young writer.”—Ursula K. Le Guin “Lovely! What a pleasure this book is . . . full of warmth, compassion, affection, high comedy and low.”—Molly Gloss, author of The Hearts of Horses “Vandana Singh’s radiant protagonist is a planet unto herself.”—Village Voice “Sweeping starscapes and daring cosmology that make Singh a worthy heir to Cordwainer Smith and Arthur C. Clarke.”—Chris Moriarty, Fantasy & Science Fiction “I’m looking forward to the collection . . . everything I’ve read has impressed me—the past and future visions in ‘Delhi’, the intensity of ‘Thirst’, the feeling of escape at the end of ‘The Tetrahedron’...” —Niall Harrison, Vector (British Science Fiction Association) “...the first writer of Indian origin to make a serious mark in the SF world ... she writes with such a beguiling touch of the strange.” —Nilanjana Roy, Business Standard In her first North American collection, Vandana Singh’s deep humanism interplays with her scientific background in stories that explore and celebrate this world and others and characters who are trying to make sense of the people they meet, what they see, and the challenges they face. An eleventh century poet wakes to find he is as an artificially intelligent companion on a starship. A woman of no account has the ability to look into the past. In "Requiem," a major new novella, a woman goes to Alaska to try and make sense of her aunt’s disappearance. Singh's stories have been performed on BBC radio, been finalists for the British SF Association award, selected for the Tiptree award honor list, and oft reprinted in Best of the Year anthologies. Her dives deep into the vast strangeness of the universe without and within and with her unblinking clear vision she explores the ways we move through space and time: together, yet always apart.

Author: Rick Bass
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547349432
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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“Stop-in-your-tracks short stories” of survival, sorrows, and the power of our connection to the earth (Booklist, starred review). A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A Rocky Mountain News Best Book of the Year Finalist for the Story Prize At once expertly crafted and undeniably moving, these ten stories deftly explore our immutable connection with nature. The centerpiece of the collection is the arresting title story, in which a woman alone in her mountain cabin confronts a terminal illness. In the equally remarkable “Her First Elk,” the same character recalls her most memorable and significant hunting experience. Set in locations ranging from Montana to Texas to Mississippi, the remaining stories further illuminate the consequences of our attitudes toward the environment and each other. This masterly collection lays bare the essentials of life with unparalleled passion and grace. “Bass captures quiet human truths amidst his astonishing portraits of life in the wilderness.” —People “Nature is as much a character in this sterling collection . . . .as are any of the oddly off-center but otherwise endearing people who inhabit it.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Digs deeply into the geology of the human condition . . . highly polished gems.” —Seattle Times “One of this country’s most intelligent and sensitive short-story writers.” —The New York Times Book Review