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What do readers say about Exhalation?
deeply thought provoking scifi creative, thought-provoking stories calm and clear highly entertaining and thought-provokingNATIONAL BESTSELLER
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories-two published for the very first time-all from the mind of the incomparable author of Stories of Your Life and Others... More details on Exhalation
It has long been said that air (which others call argon) is the source of life. This is not in fact the case, and I engrave these words to describe how I came to understand the true source of life and...
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What do readers say about The Illustrated Man?
a short story collection circus sideshow freak full of symbolism poetic and evocativeThe Illustrated Man, a seminal work in Ray Bradbury's career, whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time's passage, is available from Simon & Schuster for the first time.
Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. For this peerless Ame... More details on The Illustrated Man
IT was a warm afternoon in early September when I first met the Illustrated Man. Walking along an asphalt road, I was or the final leg of a two weeks’ walking tour of Wisconsin. Late in the afternoon ...
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What do readers say about The Martian Chronicles?
very spontaneous and enthusiastic science fiction and fantasy short story format humanity colonising marsRay Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles is a must-read for any fan of science fiction or fantasy, a crucial precursor to films like Avatar and Alien and books like Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars and Dan Simmons' Hyperion, and a haunting prophesy of hu... More details on The Martian Chronicles
One minute it was Ohio winter, with doors closed, windows locked, the panes blind with frost, icicles fringing every roof, children skiing on slopes, housewives lumbering like great black bears in the...
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What do readers say about Night Shift?
some standout short pieces raw and passionate simple yet horrific plot short story collectionsA collection of tales to invade and paralyse the mind as the safe light of day is infiltrated by the shadows of the night.
As you read, the clutching fingers of terror brush lightly across the nape of the neck, reach round from behind to clutch and ... More details on Night Shift
How good it was to step into the cold, draughty hall here at Chapelwaite, every bone in an ache from that abominable coach, in need of instant relief from my distended bladder—and to see a letter addr...
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What do readers say about Stories of Your Life and Others?
detailed and lucid babylonian science fiction science fiction anthology hard, clinical precisionFrom 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 Y... More details on Stories of Your Life and Others
Were the tower to be laid down across the plain of Shinar, it would be two days’ journey to walk from one end to the other. While the tower stands, it takes a full month and a half to climb from its b...
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What do readers say about Smoke and Mirrors?
haunting and sweet more than fragile things tighter, more cohesive book a great collectionThe astonishing and impressive first collection of short stories from New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman
An elderly widow finds the Holy Grail beneath an old fur coat in a second-hand store . . .
A stray cat fights and refights a night... More details on Smoke and Mirrors
Every Thursday afternoon Mrs Whitaker walked down to the post office to collect her pension, even though her legs were no longer what they were, and on the way back home she would stop in at the Oxfam...
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What do readers say about Her Body and Other Parties?
subtle and brutal literary horror short stories pitch black satire an interest collectionFinalist for the National Book Award for Fiction
"[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange."-Roxane Gay
"In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women's memories... More details on Her Body and Other Parties
In the beginning, I know I want him before he does. This isn’t how things are done, but this is how I am going to do them. I am at a neighbor’s party with my parents, and I am seventeen. I drink half ...
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What do readers say about The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories?
smart, fluid prose short story collections juvenile anti-tech alarmism scifi and fantasyFeatured in the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots
Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his multiple award-winning stories for a groundbreaking collection-including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume.
With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, ... More details on The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
There is no definitive census of all the intelligent species in the universe. Not only are there perennial arguments about what qualifies as intelligence, but each moment and everywhere, civilizations...
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What do readers say about Welcome to the Monkey House?
collection of stories largely forgettable, mostly enjoyable dated and sexist short story collections"[Kurt Vonnegut] strips the flesh from bone and makes you laugh while he does it. . . . There are twenty-five stories here, and each hits a nerve ending."-The Charlotte Observer
Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter w... More details on Welcome to the Monkey House
HERE IT IS, a retrospective exhibition of the shorter works of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.—and Vonnegut is still very much with us, and I am still very much Vonnegut. Somewhere in Germany is a stream called th...
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What do readers say about Interpreter of Maladies?
deep subtle style enjoying the moment simple and spectacular beautiful and evocative throughoutINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD WINNER. With a new foreword by Domenico Starnone, this stunning debut collection flawlessly charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of ... More details on Interpreter of Maladies
THE NOTICE INFORMED THEM that it was a temporary matter: for five days their electricity would be cut off for one hour, beginning at eight P.M. A line had gone down in the last snowstorm, and the repa...
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