Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happiness.The story "Omelas" was first published in New Dimensions 3, a hard-cover science fiction anthology edited by Robert Silverberg, in October 1973, and the following year it won Le Guin the prestigious Hugo Award for best short story.It was subsequently printed in her short story collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters in 1975.

    There is no better anthology that captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field. Published in 1973 to honor stories that had come before the institution of the Nebula Awards, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame introduced tens of thousands of young readers to the wonders of science fiction and was a favorite of libraries across the country. This volume contains novellas by: Ray Bradbury, James Blish, Algis Budrys, Theodore Cogswell, E. M. Forster, Frederik Pohl, James H. Schmitz, T. L. Sherred, Wilmar H. Shiras, Clifford D. Simak, and Jack Vance.Contents: Introduction · Ben Bova · in · Call Me Joe · Poul Anderson · nv Astounding Apr ’57 · Who Goes There? [as by Don A. Stuart] · John W. Campbell, Jr. · na Astounding Aug ’38 · Nerves · Lester del Rey · na Astounding Sep ’42 · Universe [Hugh Hoyland] · Robert A. Heinlein · na Astounding May ’41 · The Marching Morons · C. M. Kornbluth · nv Galaxy Apr ’51 · Vintage Season [as by Lawrence O’Donnell] · Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore · na Astounding Sep ’46 · ...And Then There Were None · Eric Frank Russell · na Astounding Jun ’51 · The Ballad of Lost C’Mell · Cordwainer Smith · nv Galaxy Oct ’62 · Baby Is Three · Theodore Sturgeon · na Galaxy Oct ’52 · The Time Machine [Time Machine] · H. G. Wells · na The New Review Jan, 1895 (+4) · With Folded Hands... [Humanoids] · Jack Williamson · nv Astounding Jul ’47

    There is no better anthology that captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field.Published in 1973 to honor stories that had come before the institution of the Nebula Awards, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame introduced tens of thousands of young readers to the wonders of science fiction and was a favorite of libraries across the country.Eleven more classic novellas by the most honored authors of science fiction. Companion to Volume IIA.Introduction · Ben BovaThe Martian Way · Isaac Asimov · na Galaxy Nov ’52 Earthman, Come Home [Okie] · James Blish · nv Astounding Nov ’53 Rogue Moon · Algis Budrys · na F&SF Dec ’60 The Specter General · Theodore R. Cogswell · na Astounding Jun ’52 The Machine Stops · E. M. Forster · nv Oxford and Cambridge Review Nov ’09 The Midas Plague · Frederik Pohl · na Galaxy Apr ’54 The Witches of Karres · James H. Schmitz · nv Astounding Dec ’49 E for Effort · T. L. Sherred · nv Astounding May ’47 In Hiding · Wilmar H. Shiras · nv Astounding Nov ’48 The Big Front Yard · Clifford D. Simak · na Astounding Oct ’58 The Moon Moth · Jack Vance · na Galaxy Aug ’61

    a midnight caller keeping his promise ... forests where Nature is deliberate and malefic ... enchanted houses ... these are the beings and ideas that flood through this collection of ghost stories by Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951). Altogether 13 stories, gathered from the entire corpus of Blackwood's work, are included; stories of such sheer power and imagination that it is easy to see why he has been considered the foremost British supernaturalist of the twentieth century.Blackwood's ability to create an atmosphere of unrelieved horror and sustain it to the end of the story is almost unsurpassed. “The Willows” — which has been called by H.P. Lovecraft the finest supernatural story — is a typical example of Blackwood's art: slowly and surely Blackwood draws the reader into a world of shadows, nuances and unearthly terror.Blackwood was also a master at evoking feelings of mysticism and cosmic experience; dealing with such ideas as interpenetrating levels of existence and pantheistic elemental powers, he expanded the content of supernatural literature enormously. But even the more traditional elements of horror stories such as ghosts and haunted houses are handled with such energy and feeling that they rise far above their predecessors.Drawing on serious Oriental thought, modern psychology and philosophy, Algernon Blackwood introduced a sophistication to the horror story that — with a few exceptions — it was devoid of before. The results are stories that are not only guaranteed to chill, but stories that have something to say to the intelligent reader.Contents:- The Willows (1907)- Secret Worship (1908)- Ancient Sorceries (1908)- The Glamour of the Snow (1911)- The Wendigo (1910)- The Other Wing (1915)- The Transfer (1911)- Ancient Lights (1914)- The Listener (1907)- The Empty House (1906)- Accessory before the Fact (1914)- Keeping His Promise (1906)- Max Hensig (1945)

    First published in Britain the previous year. STORIES: Marooned Off Vesta (1939); Nightfall (1941); The C-Chute (1951); The Martian Way (1952); The Deep (1952); The Fun They Had (1951); The Last Question (1956); The Dead Past (1956); The Dying Night (1956); Anniversary (1959); The Billiard Ball (1967); Mirror Image (1972).

    It constitutes a series of anecdotal snippets and short stories including 'The Picnic', a laugh-out-loud account of an ill-fated Durrell family excursion, which should have been a relaxing, jolly affair. But with the Durrells things are seldom straightforward and on this occasion all that could go wrong did go wrong - except Gerald Durrell's sense of humour in recounting the tale. Other hilarious and surreal Roald Dahlesque stories ensue, including the critically acclaimed Gothic horror story 'The Entrance'.

    Taken as a whole, their stories form an enlightening, disturbing view of life in the South.

    Lore Segal and Maurice Sendak jointly culled 27 from the 210 in the complete collection, and their contents page presents a fascinating critical statement. The translations are another distinguishing quality of the Segal/Sendak edition. Both translators have been painstakingly faithful to the German texts; they have not cut, "retold," or bowdlerized. In addition, Segal and Jarrell bring to their renderings of Grimm the grace and precision that are characteristic of their own original prose.· One of the most acclaimed Grimm collections published in English, available again· An elegant, must-have edition for every home library· New lower-price of $19.99, formerly $28.00· Includes standards such as "Hansel and Gretel," "The Fisherman and His Wife," and "The Frog King" as well as lesser-known masterpieces such as the title story and "The Goblins"· Each story contains a full-page picture by Maurice Sendak· Four stories translated by Jarrell, the rest by Segal

    In addition to the title story, this compilation includes "Three Deaths," "The Three Hermits," "The Devil," "Father Sergius," and "Master and Man."

    The original two-volume edition of this work was published by Eerdmans in 1973. In the present volume all twenty of MacDonald's stories have been retained and the short story "Stephen Archer" has been added. Also included are the illustrations of MacDonald's stories by Arthur Hughes and others."

    

    CONTENTS:Life-Line The Roads Must Roll '--And He Built a Crooked House--' The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag The Green Hills of Earth The Long Watch The Man Who Sold the Moon '--All You Zombies--'

    Jacques Derrida writes (in Deconstruction and Criticism) of The Madness of the Day that it is "a story whose title runs wild and drives the reader mad.la folie du jour, the madness of today, of the day today, which leads to the madness that comes from the day, is born of it, as well as the madness of the day itself, itself mad..La folie du jour is a story of madness, of that madness that consists in seeing the light, vision or visibility, to see beyond what is visible, is not merely 'to have a vision' in the usual sense of the word, but to see-beyond-sight, to see-sight-beyond-sight..The story obscures the sun.with a blinding light."

    The skill of the legendary master of the twist ending in short stories is perhaps nowhere better exemplified than in his 'After Twenty Years.'

    Including authors such as Clifford Simak, Harry Harrison, Bruce Sterling, A. E. Van Vogt and Brian Aldiss himself, these stories portray struggles against machines, epic journeys, genetic experiments, time travellers and alien races. From stories set on Earth, to uncanny far distant worlds and ancient burnt-out suns, the one constant is humanity itself, compelled by an often fatal curiosity to explore the boundless frontiers of time, space and probability.Thirty short stories and a novella, first published in Penguin Modern Classics November 2007 with a cover illustration by Jim Burns. The new stories are:• James Tiptree, Jr : And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side• Bruce Sterling : Swarm• Greg Bear : Blood Music• Fredric Brown : Answer• Kim Stanley Robinson : Sexual Dimorphism• Eliza Blair : Friends in Need• James Inglis : Night Watch• Ted Chiang : Story of Your Life• Garry Kilworth : Alien Embassy• John Crowley : Great Work of Time

    Infused with Elkin's signature wit and richly drawn characters, The Bailbondsman, The Making of Ashenden, and The Condominium, are the creations of a literary virtuoso at the pinnacle of his craft.

    46 original stories edited with introductions by Harlan Ellison. Contents: Again, Dangerous Visions • (1972) • interior artwork by Ed Emshwillerix • An Assault of New Dreamers • (1972) • essay by Harlan Ellison1 • The Counterpoint of View • (1972) • shortstory by John Heidenry7 • Ching Witch! • (1972) • shortstory by Ross Rocklynne31 • The Word for World Is Forest • [Hainish] • (1972) • novella by Ursula K. Le Guin127 • For Value Received • (1972) • shortstory by Andrew J. Offutt145 • Mathoms from the Time Closet • (1972) • shortfiction by Gene Wolfe157 • Time Travel for Pedestrians • (1972) • shortstory by Ray Nelson188 • Christ, Old Student in a New School • (1972) • poem by Ray Bradbury197 • King of the Hill • (1972) • shortstory by Chad Oliver217 • The 10:00 Report is Brought to You By ... • (1972) • shortstory by Edward Bryant233 • The Funeral • (1972) • novelette by Kate Wilhelm261 • Harry the Hare • (1972) • shortstory by James B. Hemesath266 • When It Changed • (1972) • shortstory by Joanna Russ282 • The Big Space Fuck • (1972) • shortstory by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.293 • Bounty • (1972) • shortstory by T. L. Sherred300 • Still-Life • (1972) • shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg [as by K. M. O'Donnell ]315 • Stoned Counsel • (1972) • shortstory by H. H. Hollis331 • Monitored Dreams and Strategic Cremations • (1972) • shortfiction by Bernard Wolfe398 • With a Finger in My I • (1972) • shortstory by David Gerrold413 • In the Barn • (1972) • novelette by Piers Anthony

    Alexander wrote a collection of short tales about the land of Prydain. These stories revisit familiar characters and reveal more about the history of this magical land. Here readers will find Dallben, destined to be an enchanter; Angharad, Princess of the House of Lyr; Kadwyr, the rascal crow; and Medwyn, the mystical protector of all animals. They'll learn the grim history of the sword Dyrnwyn and even find out how Fflewdur Fflam came by his enchanted harp. In The Foundling, Lloyd Alexander's land of fantasy and adventure lives on.

    

    - H.P. LovecraftTable of Contents: "The Magic of Atlantis: An Introduction" (Editor)Poseidonis * Editor's Note * "The Muse of Atlantis" (prose poem) * "The Last Incantation" * "The Death of Malygris" * "Tolometh" (poem) * "The Double Shadow" * "A Voyage to Sfanomoë" * "A Vintage from Atlantis" * "Atlantis: a poem" (poem)Lemuria * Editor's Note * In Lemuria (poem) * An Offering to the Moon * The Uncharted Isle * Lemurienne (poem)Ptolemides * Editor's Note * The Epiphany of DeathOther Realms * Editor's Note * In Cocaigne (prose poem) * Symposium of the Gorgon * The Venus of Azombeii * The Isle of Saturn (poem) * The Root of Ampoi * The Invisible City * Amithaine (poem) * The Willow Landscape * The Shadows (prose poem)Cover art by Gervasio Gallardo

    • (1959)Specialist • (1953)Bad Medicine • (1956) • Robert Sheckley as Finn O'DonnevanPilgrimage to Earth • (1956)Ask a Foolish Question • (1953)A Ticket to Tranai • (1955)The Battle • (1954)Hands Off • (1954)The Prize of Peril • (1958)Hunting Problem • (1955)Ghost V • [AAA Ace] • (1954)Something for Nothing • (1954)The Store of the Worlds • (1959)

    Twenty-eight stories and two poems, selected from hundreds of stories and dozens of magazines - the cream of almost half a century of fantasy writing. 3000 copies printed

    Always the perceptive observer, Allingham fills these stories with astute characterisations, brilliant humour, and her classic wit.With a tribute by Agatha Christie, this Golden Age collection is sure to dazzle and delight fans of this master of detective fiction.The Allingham Minibus was first published in 1973 and has also been published as Mr Campion’s Lucky Day and Other Stories.

    Includes the following short story collections:- May We Borrow Your Husband?- A Sense of Reality- Twenty-One Stories

    

    Anthology edited by Isaac Asimov.

    You are a true karmachari. A collection of unforgettable short stories about ordinary people, Karmachari is a mirror held up to society. Set in suburban Mumbai of the 1970s, yet universal, it is peopled by characters we might meet in real life. They come alive under V.P. Kale's sharp but compassionate gaze, and prod us gently towards a world of greater kindness and understanding.

     "The Ugliest Pilgrim" takes you into the adventures and into the heart of a disfigured young woman who has run away from her life in search of a better one. This award-winning story is the basis for the musical Violet, which won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. In "Hitchhiker," a wary secretary hitches a ride in a boat with a man hell-bent on saving fish; instead he saves her from the river -- and herself. And in the title story, Betts brilliantly captures the inner life of a teacher and writer struggling to control her classroom, her household, and her life.

    Her use of quilting as a metaphor for the creative legacy that African Americans inherited from their maternal ancestors changed the way we define art, women's culture, and African American lives. By putting African American women's voices at the center of the narrative for the first time, "Everyday Use" anticipated the focus of an entire generation of black women writers. This casebook includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of Walker's life, an authoritative text of "Everyday Use" and of "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens," an interview with Walker, six critical essays, and a bibliography. The contributors are Charlotte Pierce-Baker, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Thadious M. Davis, Margot Anne Kelley, John O'Brien, Elaine Showalter, and Mary Helen Washington.

    Henry: "The Gift of the Magi," "The Ransom of Red Chief," "The Last Leaf," and eight other short stories.

    Soviet short stories series.

    

    / Pablo Neruda --As I am ... as I was / Lino Novás-Calvo --The drum dance / Arturo Uslar Pietri --The third bank of the river / João Guimarães Rosa --Jacob and the other / Juan Carlos Onetti --The beautiful soul of Don Damian / Juan Bosch --The tree / María-Luisa Bombal --Tarciso / Dinah Silveira de Queiroz --Warma Kuyay / José María Arguedas --How Porciúncula the Mulatto got the corpse off his back / Jorge Amado --End of the game / Julio Cortázar --My life with the wave / Octavio Paz --Miracles cannot be recovered / Adolfo Bioy-Casares --Encounter with the traitor / Augusto Roa Bastos --Marcario / Juan Rulfo --Madness / Armonía Somers --The switchman / Juan José Arreola --Concerning señor de la Peña / Eliseo Diego --The dogs / Abelardo Díaz Alfaro --The smallest woman in the world ; Marmosets / Clarice Lispector --In the beginning / Humberto Costantini --Paseo / JosACe Donoso --The handsomest drowned man in the world / Gabriel García Márquez --A nest of sparrows on the awning / Guillermo Cabrera Infante --The two Elenas / Carlos Fuentes --Weight-reducing diet / Jorge Edwards --Sunday, Sunday / Mario Vargas Llosa

    While all but one or two of the longer tales seem to the modern reader formless and quite unworthy of comparison with the Iliad and the Odyssey, many of the briefer prose narratives pack a whole gamut of emotions into two or three thousand words.

    This English edition contains 27 short stories and novellas, a literary reimagining which spans 400 years of the history of his old world home, Buczacz:“This is the chronicle of the city of Buczacz, which I have written in my pain and anguish so that our descendants should know that our city was full of Torah, wisdom, love, piety, life, grace, kindness and charity,” begins this epic literary memorial which Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon devoted to his Galician city (in today’s western Ukraine). In the last years of his life, Agnon returned in his fiction to his ancestral hometown in order to re-imagine Buczacz in the days of its greatness. This new collection contains annotated translations of the major stories of A City in Its Fullness, a nuanced and complex picture of the past of one Jewish community.

    "The working life, the war, politics, love affairs, and marriage seem to be the waters in which my boats set sail," Just writes. Here is a generous selection of the work that has earned Just his reputation as "one of the most astute writers of American fiction."

    . . comes in the end to seem like paradise.“ The Orchid Stories presents us with interwoven stories as delicate and exquisite as the flowers for which they’re named, conveying an almost otherworldly beauty. Images, moods, and characters recur with the clarity of a dream: Phil, the little boy gigolo; Mummers and Mummy, who “adopt” him; the alluring Diana Vienna; and the eccentric Dr. Schmidlapp, who plans to capture the rare “Native Innards” orchid precisely at the stroke of midnight.

    For the most part ironic in tone, these stories are, as Bernice Slote observes, bound by the geometrics of urban life—streets and offices, workers and firms, the business world of New York and Pittsburgh, the cities which by 1929 Willa Cather had known well for over thirty years." In her introduction, Slote discusses their biographical elements, connections with earlier and later work, and the intricate patterns that lie below the lucid, shimmering surface of Willa Cather's prose.

    comprising:The Lost Machine (1932)The Man from Beyond (1934)The Perfect Creature (1937)The Trojan Beam (1939)Vengeance by Proxy (1940)Adaptation (1949)Pawley's Peepholes (1951)The Red Stuff (1951)And the Walls Came Tumbling Down (1951)Dumb Martian (1952)Close Behind Him (1952)The Emptiness of Space (1960)

    From the front cover: "One dozen original new science-fiction stories of other life on other worlds."

    

    Fafhrd and the Mouser had served him well and in vastly more varied fashion the the Mad Duke.-"The Sadness of the Executioner"by Fritz LeiberMorreion made a furious motion; as his hand swept the air, it left a trail of sparks. "Magic derives from personal force! My passion alone will defeat the archveults! I glory in the forthcoming confrontation. Ah, but they will regret their deeds!"-"Morreion" by Jack VanceStunned, beaten, naked, with hardly a tool or weapon among them, the merfolk followed their lord. Tauno hung, fists clenched on harpoon, until they were out of sight. The last stones of the royal hall toppled, and Liri was a ruin.-"The Merman's Children" by Poul AndersonThree goblins were entangled in the webs. They kicked and struggled furiously, spittling like cats, but only managed to become more tightly and completely enmeshed in the sticky green stuff. The six other goblins came flying, howling, at him.-"The Higher Heresies of Oolimar" by Lin Carter (Amalrik the Mangod)

    Wind Shifting West, The, by Grau, Shirley Ann

    

    There are six thematic units of four selections each; within these, arrangement of the material is chronological, to show the changing styles in the genre over the period. The final stories in each unit are original to this volume, each written by then- rising young writers relatively new to the genre.

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    DischDio by Damon KnightEastward ho! by William TennJudas danced by Brian W. AldissAngel's egg by Edgar PangbornIn his image by Terry CarrAll pieces of a river shore by R.A. LaffertyWe all die naked by James BlishCarcinoma angels by Norman SpinrodMother by Philip Jose Farmer5,271,009 by Alfred Bester

    "This drowsy denison of the realms of the Pharaohs will do us no harm." And he remained by the tank. What is more, he took his glove and began tickling the crocodile's nose with it, wishing, as he said afterwards, to induce him to snort.Fyodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky is best known for his exploration of the human dark side of the psyche, but this collection shows he is equally adept at sarcastic and absurdist commentary.

    First published in 1973 in "Universe 3: Seven Great Original Science Fiction Stories", an anthology of original SF short stories edited by Terry Carr.

    All his books deal with the strange, supernatural, terror, macabre, other-worldly. He is at his best in his shorter tales & this selection of them was compiled by the author himself at his best. Stories include: The Man who the Trees LovedThe Sea FitThe Glamour of the SnowThe TrystTransitionThe Occupant of the RoomThe Wings of HorusBy WaterMalahide and FordenAlexander AlexanderThe Man who was MilliganThe Little BeggarThe Pikestaffe CaseAccessory before the FactThe Deferred AppointmentAncient LightsYou May Telephone from HereThe Goblin's CollectionRunning WolfThe Valley of the BeastsThe DecoyConfessionA Descent into Egypt

    Set among the tenements and bedsits of Glasgow, they shine a light on the exploits of young and old. James Kelman had been writing since 1967 and by 1971 had enough stories for a book. In 1973, An Old Pub Near the Angel was published and the rest is history. The US edition has never been out of print.

    Chameleon. Vanka. The grasshopper. The house with the mansard. The man who lived in a shell. Gooseberries. Yonich. The lady with the dog. In the gully. The bride.The volume opens with Maxim Gorky's reminiscences about his meetings with Chekhov, and in the afterword Sergei Zalygin (b. 1910), a well-known Soviet author, considers Chekhov's work from the vantage point of 1970s.

    He appears variously as preacher and beggar, porter and petty merchant, thief and honest man, judge and social critic, wise man and fool, jester and charlatan (though never as wealthy man or oppressor). While the subject matter is Arab or otherwise Islamic, the humor transcends national and cultural boundaries to achieve a universality that is instantly recognizable and accessible today.

    

    

    A collection of twelve short stories all based on themes related to the word 'coimheach', meaning foreign, strange, unfamiliar.

    In Which a House Is Built at Pooh Corner for EeyoreIn Which Tigger Comes to the Forest and Has BreakfastIn Which Piglet Does a Very Grand Thing

    Paperback 1st printing. Stories from a science fiction master. Includes an introduction from Brown’s wife, and these stories: Paradox Lost (1943); Puppet Show (1962); The Last Train (1950); It Didn't Happen (1963); Knock (1948); Obedience (1950); Ten Percenter (1963); Aelurophobe (1962); Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (1965, with Carl Onspaugh); Nothing Sirius (1944); The New One (1942); Double Standard (1963); Something Green (1951).

    

    Includes The Speckled Band; Without Words; The Ace of Trouble; The Tell Tale Heart; Wine on the Desert; The Monkey's Paw; The Damned Thing; Miracle of the Fifteen Murderers

    

    H. Davis• The White Powder by Arthur Machen• The New Accelerator by H. G. Wells• The Big Fix by Richard Wilson• The Secret Songs by Fritz Leiber• The Hounds of Tindalos by Frank Belknap Long• Subjectivity by Norman Spinrad• What to Do Until the Analyst Comes by Frederik Pohl• Pipe Dream by Chris Miller