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The Islington Mystery

by Arthur Machen
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2018

“The Islington Mystery” is a classic horror mystery story by one of the modern masters of supernatural and horror fiction, Arthur Machan. Arthur Machen (1863 – 1947) was a Welsh author and renowned mystic during the 1890s and early 20th century who garnered literary acclaim for his contributions...

Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Delphi Classics)

by Arthur Machen, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The supernatural tales of the Welsh mystic author Arthur Machen have played an instrumental, though in recent times semi-forgotten part in the history of horror fiction. Famous tales such as ‘The Great God Pan’ and ‘The Hill of Dreams’ have intrigued readers for over a hundred years, retaining...

The Shape of Things to Come

by H. G. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016

First published in 1933, “The Shape of Things to Come” is science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells. Within it, world events between 1933 and 2106 are speculated with a single superstate representing the solution to all humanity's problems. A classic example of Wellsian prophesy, this volume...

Hot Flashes of Life: A Collection of Flash Fiction

by Rachel Ellyn
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013

Rachel Ellyn's newest book, Hot Flashes of Life, is a sometimes whimsical, sometimes thought provoking, always entertaining, whirlwind tour of life seen through her globe trotting short stories.This book features two of Rachel’s favorite genres, Creative Non-Fiction and Flash Fiction....

The Best of Connie Willis

Award-Winning Stories

by Connie Willis
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013

Few authors have had careers as successful as that of Connie Willis. Inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and recently awarded the title of Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Willis is still going strong. Her smart, heartfelt fiction runs the gamut from screwball...

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection

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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1993

With stories about consciousness and conscience, about heroes and horrors, this volume offers up two dozen dazzling stories from some of science fiction's greatest writers, including: Neal Barret, Jr., Terry Bisson, Pat Cadigan, Arthur C. Clarke, L. Sprague de Camp, Bradley Denton, Greg Egan, Joe...

Calculations for Science Fiction Writers/Circular Orbits

by William Haloupek
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013

This is one of a planned series called Calculations for Science Fiction Writers. Other chapters will include space travel with constant acceleration, relativistic and nonrelativistic cases, elliptical orbits, rotational dynamics, and more. For those writers who want to get the details right! Circular...

Strange Bedfellows

An Anthology of Political Science Fiction

by Hayden Trenholm, editor
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014

Science Fiction is our conversation with the future; politics are our conversation with each other. Strange Bedfellows - as in 'politics makes strange bedfellows' - contains short fiction from the best writers in the field including including Nebula Award-winner Eugie Foster; writers who are passionate...

Relativity

Stories and Essays

by Robert J. Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017

Robert J. Sawyer established his reputation as a fine novelist when he burst on the science fiction scene with Golden Fleece in 1991. More quietly, he has built an impressive body of short fiction, essays, articles, and speeches. Relativity is his first collection of these. This Aurora Award-winning...

Disorienting Fiction

The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British Novels

by James Buzard
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009

This book gives an ambitious revisionist account of the nineteenth-century British novel and its role in the complex historical process that ultimately gave rise to modern anthropology's concept of culture and its accredited researcher, the Participant Observer. Buzard reads the great nineteenth-century...

Comic Sense

Reading Robert Coover, Stanley Elkin, Philip Roth

by Thomas Pughe
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013

The idea for this study came to me in the course of my reading of innova tive US-American! fiction of the last three decades. I observed that much of it is cast in the comic mode - or, more precisely, that there seems to be in contemporary fiction an affinity between 'innovation' and 'the comic'...

Siren Songs in Deep Time

by Nas Hedron
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012

This story was originally published in issue 34 of Albedo One, Ireland’s foremost magazine of the fantastic, and was recently published again in issue 2 International Speculative Fiction. This new edition of the ebook includes a Facts in the Fiction section that's not available anywhere...

Calculations for Science Fiction Writers/Space Travel with Constant Acceleration: The Nonrelativistic Case

by William Haloupek
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013

This is one of a planned series called Calculations for Science Fiction Writers. Later chapters will include a relativistic version of this one, and others on circular orbits, elliptical orbits rotational dynamics, and more. For those writers who want to get the details right! This article...

Classics of Science Fiction

24 Novels including The Time Machine, Frankenstein, A Princess of Mars, The Lost World, The War of the Worlds, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Metal Monster & More

by H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Robert Louis Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015