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Years ago, John paid for crimes he committed as a child. Horrible crimes based on alien ritual and intended to help the victims, not hurt them. Now, alienated from his fellow humans, he works as a bounty hunter. But his latest job takes him a little too close to the past he tries to forget. And this...

« Mythe » et « fiction » : deux catégories qui renvoient aux notions d’imagination, de fantaisie et de chimère ; à cette puissance ennemie de la raison raisonnante que Malebranche, dans une réflexion célèbre, appelait la « folle du logis ». « Mythe et fiction », un pléonasme ? Le...

Descendants of Waverley examines contemporary novelists’ combination of historical authority and narrative art to create authentic and accessible depictions of the past. This technique, the “romance of history,” challenges conventional theories that the novel as a genre erased the romance. Individual...

Espionage in British Fiction and Film Since 1900 traces the history and development of the British spy novel from its emergence in the early twentieth century, through its growth as a popular genre during the Cold War, to its resurgence in the early twenty-first century. Using an innovative structure,...

Dieses eBook: "Auf zwei Planeten (Science-Fiction Klassiker)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Kurd Laßwitz (1848-1910) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller. Er publizierte auch unter dem Pseudonym L. Velatus und...

For those of you who are already rabid fans of StarShipSofa, this volume needs no introduction. This foreword is for the rest of you, the yet-to-be-converted. (And man, do I envy you who have yet to experience all the ‘Sofa’s episodes for the first time!) StarShipSofa is not your typical podcast...

Buy five short stories for the price of three! A variety pack of short stories from S. E. Lee spanning a range of moods and genres from horror, literary fiction, to science fiction and the supernatural.   ONE LAST LOOK - Johnny has a paranoid freak for a dad. While other kids play video games,...

ONE LAST LOOK - Johnny has a paranoid freak for a dad. While other kids play video games, Johnny is helping his dad build a bunker that no one's ever going to need...Until the day they do.   A 2600-word short science fiction story of young adult dystopia with a survivalist setting.    ...

Critics of fiction have long been aware that the romantic movement in Europe and America gave a powerful impulse to the art of fiction. The exact nature of that impulse has resisted analysis like so much associated with romanticism. In Fiction as Knowledge John McCormick reaches for precision, proposing...

Science Fiction's Original Classic Magazine! This digitally reproduced full edition replica of Galaxy Science Fiction's ground-breaking magazine issue from February 1951 has been brought back to life for a new generation of fans to enjoy! Stories by Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Fritz Leiber, Theodore...

First off, I'm a storyteller. I always have been since my father encouraged four-year-old me to make up stories from words he found in his nightly newspaper. Secondly, I've written hundreds of stories and told even more. But thirdly, I'm not much of a short-story writer. Quite frankly,...

**Attention Sci -Fi Fans!! Campy! Funny! Thought-Provoking!**This digitally reproduced full edition replica of Galaxy Science Fiction's ground-breaking sci-fi magazine from July 1952 has been brought back to life for a new generation of fans to enjoy! Explore the possibilities of life in the future...

Alien possession meets alternate history, in this communist tale set in 1923 Russia, about a boy named Abraham (Abe), whose parents suddenly disappear one day. Like many of the adults throughout Russia, they are being taken away in the night by a special police force put together by Lenin’s “new”...

The Cutting Edge of Modern Short Fiction A three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up seventeen fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction. No genre limitations, no topic limitations, just great stories. Attitude,...