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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 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 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 Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate?
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O mighty Caliph and Commander of the Faithful, I am humbled to be in the splendor of your presence; a man can hope for no greater blessing as long as he lives. The story I have to tell is truly a stra...
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What do readers say about The Lifecycle of Software Objects?
bittersweet and thought provoking short story anthology humans raising digital pets a half-finished abandoned novellaWhat's the best way to create artificial intelligence? In 1950, Alan Turing wrote, 'Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess, would be best. It can also be maintained that it is best to provide the machine with the b... More details on The Lifecycle of Software Objects
HER NAME IS ANA ALVARADO, and she’s having a bad day. She spent all week preparing for a job interview, the first one in months to reach the videoconference stage, but the recruiter’s face barely appe...
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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 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 Ficciones?
dense and labyrinthine elaborately paradoxical, postmodern delicate and ingenious style it's spectacularly good"Pensé en un laberinto de laberintos, en un sinuoso laberinto creciente que abarcara el pasado y el porvenir y que implicara de algún modo los astros". -Jorge Luis Borges
Ficciones es quizá el libro más reconocido de Jorge Luis Borges, compuesto por ... More details on Ficciones
I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia. The unnerving mirror hung at the end of a corridor in a villa on Calle Goana, in Ramos Mejía; the misleading encycloped...
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What do readers say about How Long 'til Black Future Month??
variety in the stories short story collection these stories are fabulous there were multiple narratorsThree-time Hugo Award winner and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption that sharply examine modern society in her first collection of short ficti... More details on How Long 'til Black Future Month?
It’s the Day of Good Birds in the city of Um-Helat! The Day is a local custom, silly and random as so many local customs can be, and yet beautiful by the same token. It has little to do with birds—a f...
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What do readers say about Axiomatic?
fairly accessible and smooth humanity's possible future synthetic beliefs short fiction"Wonderful, mind-expanding stuff, and well written too."-The Guardian
Axiomatic is a wonderful collection of eighteen short stories by Hugo Award-winning author Greg Egan. The stories in this collection have appeared in such science fiction magazines... More details on Axiomatic
Why? They tell me I’m stable. Reliable. Dependable. After each debriefing, The Company’s psychologists (complete strangers, every time) shake their heads in astonishment at their printouts, and tell m...
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