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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 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 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 20th Century Ghosts?
a haunted movie theater a short story collection originality of thought short story collectionsThis e-short story from the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns now features an excerpt from Joe Hill’s novel The Fireman. Imogene is young and beautiful.
She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made.... More details on 20th Century Ghosts
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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 Nine Stories?
unsettling arhythmic prose third grade reading level non-goodreads friend recommended book sad, yet beautifulThe Stories: A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, Just Before the War with the Eskimos, The Laughing Man, Down at the Dinghy, For Esme - With Love and Squalor, Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period, and... More details on Nine Stories
THERE WERE ninety-seven New York advertising men in the hotel, and, the way they were monopolizing the long-distance lines, the girl in 507 had to wait from noon till almost two-thirty to get her call...
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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 H.P Lovecraft?
good old fashioned horror library of america the book itself weird fiction"The Call of Cthulhu," first published in the magazine Weird Tales in 1928. The creature is described as "a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigio... More details on H.P Lovecraft
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it ...
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What do readers say about Unaccustomed Earth?
incredibly rich collection of stories fluent and insightful it did end there deceptively simpleBeginning in America, and spilling back over memories and generations to India, Unaccustomed Earth explores the heart of family life and the immigrant experience. Eight luminous stories - longer and richer than any Jhumpa Lahiri has yet written - tak... More details on Unaccustomed Earth
After her mother's death, Ruma's father retired from the pharmaceutical company where he had worked for many decades and began traveling in Europe, a continent he'd never seen. In the past year he had...
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