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Who Goes There? and Other Stories

John W. Campbell Jr. - 1948

Contents: "Who Goes There?" "Blindness" "Frictional Losses" "Dead Knowledge" "Elimination" "Twilight" "Night"Note: This is the 1948 collection.

There is a separate entry if you have just the 1938 novella. Also published as 'The Thing and Other Stories'. 'The Thing from Another World' and 'The Thing from Outer Space'. All contained the seven short stories mentioned above.

Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

Margaret Atwood - 2014

A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy.A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband.

An elderly lady with Charles Bonnet syndrome comes to terms with the little people she keeps seeing, while a newly formed populist group gathers to burn down her retirement residence. A woman born with a genetic abnormality is mistaken for a vampire, and a crime committed long ago is revenged in the Arctic via a 1.9 billion-year-old stromatolite.In these nine tales, Margaret Atwood ventures into the shadowland earlier explored by fabulists and concoctors of dark yarns such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Daphne du Maurier and Arthur Conan Doyle - and also by herself, in her award-winning novel Alias Grace. In Stone Mattress, Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful game.

The New Space Opera 2

Gardner DozoisElizabeth Moon - 2009

All-new stories of science fiction adventure from some of the most beloved names in science fiction spin all-new tales of interstellar adventure and wonder.Contents 3 • Utriusque Cosmi • (2009) • novelette by Robert Charles Wilson27 • The Island • (2009) • novelette by Peter Watts63 • Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance • (2009) • novelette by John Kessel93 • To Go Boldly • shortstory by Cory Doctorow113 • The Lost Princess Man • (2009) • novelette by John Barnes139 • Defect • (2009) • novelette by Kristine Kathryn Rusch175 • To Raise a Mutiny Betwixt Yourselves • (2009) • novelette by Jay Lake209 • Shell Game • (2009) • novelette by Neal Asher237 • Punctuality • (2009) • shortstory by Garth Nix245 • Inevitable • (2009) • novelette by Sean Williams273 • Join The Navy and See the Worlds • (2009) • shortstory by Bruce Sterling293 • Fearless Space Pirates of the Outer Rings • (2009) • novelette by Bill Willingham321 • From the Heart • (2009) • novelette by John Meaney353 • Chameleons • (2009) • novella by Elizabeth Moon407 • The Tenth Muse • (2009) • novelette by Tad Williams431 • Cracklegrackle • (2009) • novelette by Justina Robson465 • The Tale of the Wicked • (2009) • novelette by John Scalzi487 • Catastrophe Baker and a Canticle for Leibowitz • (2009) • shortstory by Mike Resnick501 • The Far End of History • (2009) • novelette by John C.

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Thriller: Stories To Keep You Up All Night

James PattersonEric Van Lustbader - 2006

Featuring North America's foremost thriller authors, Thriller is the first collection of pure thriller stories ever published.

Offering up heart-pumping tales of suspense in all its guises are thirty-two of the most critically acclaimed and award-winning names in the business. From the signature characters that made such authors as David Morrell and John Lescroart famous to four of the hottest new voices in the genre, this blockbuster will tantalize and terrify.Lock the doors, draw the shades, pull up the covers and be prepared for Thriller to keep you up all night.

The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag

Robert A. Heinlein - 1959

Every evening, Jonathan Hoag finds a mysterious reddish substance under his fingernails, with no memory of how it got there.

He hires the husband-and-wife detective team of Ted and Cynthia Randall to follow him and find out. But Ted and Cynthia are mystified when they find that their own memories of what happens during their investigation do not match. There is a thirteenth floor to Jonathan's building that does not exist, there are mysterious and threatening beings living inside mirrors, and all of reality is not what they thought it was.Contents...And He Built a Crooked House... (1941)They (1941)The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1942)Our Fair City (1949)The Man Who Traveled in Elephants (1957)...All You Zombies... (1959)

No One Belongs Here More Than You

Miranda July - 2007

Screenwriter, director, and star of the acclaimed film Me and You and Everyone We Know, Miranda July brings her extraordinary talents to the page in a startling, sexy, and tender collection..

Screenwriter, director, and star of the acclaimed film Me and You and Everyone We Know, Miranda July brings her extraordinary talents to the page in a startling, sexy, and tender collection.

Countdown

Jonathan Maberry - 2011

Countdown: A Joe Ledger Prequel Short Story to Patient Zero "I didn't plan to kill anyone.

I wasn't totally against the idea, either. Sometimes things just fall that way, and either you roll with it or it rolls over you. Letting the bad guys win isn't how I roll."Meet Joe Ledger, Baltimore PD, attached to a Homeland task force… who's about to get a serious promotion.

Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories

Hugh Howey - 2017

A new collection of stories, including some that have never before been seen, from the New York Times best-selling author of the Silo trilogy Hugh Howey is known for crafting riveting and immersive page-turners of boundless imagination, spawning millions of fans worldwide, first with his best-selling novel Wool, and then with other enthralling works such as Sand and Beacon 23. Now comes Machine Learning, an impressive collection of Howey’s science fiction and fantasy short fiction, including three stories set in the world of Wool, two never-before-published tales written exclusively for this volume, and fifteen additional stories collected here for the first time.

These stories explore everything from artificial intelligence to parallel universes to video games, and each story is accompanied by an author’s note exploring the background and genesis of each story. Howey’s incisive mind makes Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories a compulsively readable and thought-provoking selection of short works—from a modern master at the top of his game.

Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories

Elizabeth Hand - 2006

Widely praised and widely read, Elizabeth Hand is regarded as one of America's leading literary fantasists.

This new collection (an expansion of the limited-release Bibliomancy, which won the World Fantasy Award in 2005) showcases a wildly inventive author at the height of her powers. Included in this collection are "The Least Trumps," in which a lonely women reaches out to the world through symbols, tattooing, and the Tarot, and "Pavane for a Prince of the Air," where neo-pagan rituals bring a recently departed soul to something very different than eternal rest. Written in the author's characteristic poetic prose and rich with the details of traumatic lives that are luminously transformed, Saffron and Brimstone is a worthy addition to an outstanding career.* Elizabeth Hand's work has been selected as a Washington Post Notable Book and a New York Times Notable Book, and she has been awarded a Nebula Award and two World Fantasy Awards.