Absalom's Mother and Other Stories

Absalom's Mother and Other Stories

Author: Louise Marley

Publisher:

Published: 2007-04

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780978907839

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Louise Marley's first collection includes ten science fiction and fantasy stories, most with a feminist take. Due to Marley's background as a concert opera singer, many stories have music at their heart.


The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection

Author: Gardner Dozois

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Published: 2008-07-08

Total Pages: 704

ISBN-13: 142998371X

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In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection of short stories brings together award winning authors and masters of the field such as Robert Reed, Ian McDonald, Stephen Baxter, Michael Swanwick, Paolo Bacigalupi, Kage Baker, Walter Jon Williams, Alastair Reynolds, and Charles Stross. And with an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre. "This venerable annual’s twenty-fifth edition represents a milestone for editor Dozois. He has kept faith with the series for a quarter-century without ever shortchanging, or even showing any signs of shortchanging, readers on either quality or abundance of selections."--Booklist


Field of Fantasies

Field of Fantasies

Author: Rick Wilber

Publisher: Start Publishing LLC

Published: 2014-10-14

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1597805653

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Of all the sports played across the globe, none has more curses, superstitions, or supernatural events like baseball, America’s national pastime. While some of these can easily be explained, there are just as many that cannot. Field of Fantasies delves right into that superstition with short stories written by several key authors about baseball and the supernatural. Whether it’s a frozen curveball, a robot pitcher, or fantasy outcomes (the Cubs winning the World Series!), these terrific stories are ones that fans of science fiction will enjoy, while fans of baseball will find strangely believable. Included in this wonderful anthology are stories from such prolific authors as: Stephen King Jack Kerouac Karen Joy Fowler Rod Serling W. P. Kinsella And many more! Never has a book combined the incredible events of baseball and science fiction like Field of Fantasies does. Whether you’re a sport or science fiction fan, these stories will appeal not only to your fandom, but also to your appreciation and acceptance of the unknown taking place on the baseball diamond. If you’ve ever held a bat or glove in your hand (or just watched the game on TV), you’ll be enthralled by these terrific tales that range from the sandlot to the sold-out stadium.


The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge, and Other Stories

The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge, and Other Stories

Author: Mary Noailles Murfree

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-04-25

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13:

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'The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge, and Other Stories' is a collection of fictional stories by author Mary Noailles Murfree, writing under the pen name Charles Egbert Craddock. The stories are set mostly in the early 19th century American countryside. The characters are quirky and set to give the readers quite a few laughs.


Absalom's Daughters

Absalom's Daughters

Author: Suzanne Feldman

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2016-07-05

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1627794530

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Self-educated and brown-skinned, Cassie works full time in her grandmother's laundry in rural Mississippi. Illiterate and white, Judith falls for colored music and dreams of life as a big city radio star. These teenaged girls are half-sisters. And when they catch wind of their wayward father's inheritance coming down in Virginia, they hitch their hopes to a road trip together to claim what's rightly theirs.


Absalom, Absalom!

Absalom, Absalom!

Author: William Faulkner

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-08-01

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.


My Gawd! and Other Stories

My Gawd! and Other Stories

Author: Fairbanks

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2018-03-22

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1543407226

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My Gawd! and Other Stories by Fairbanksjust the one word, like Moses, like Prince. My Gawd! Is that allowed? Can you write that? If it was a film, it would be rated R: adults only. But not rated X by any means; this is not erotica. Thats the fun of the clever writing. Its fiction! It sometimes gets very close to the line, but then it backs off. There are only a couple of jolts in retrospect. Some stories have no sex at all. (Does sex between insects count?) This is a collection of thirteen short stories set out as one per month plus New Years. It is fun to take up the authors suggestion and read the last story first (and then again at the end). This tantalizing New Years story is written as a play, and the other one is a humorous narrative poem. The stories are full of interesting and varied charactersyoung, old, male, female, ordinary, eccentric, naughty, and nice. Settings include the authors backyard, Central Australia, other rural backgrounds, and Canberra. Each short story is different, holding the readers interest and moving along without dragging. There are no boring bits at all. There is poetry in the prose, touching descriptions of setting and character. Two of the stories are longer, giving the reader the chance to follow an interesting plot and the characters more fully. Watch out for the famous Fairbanks twist! Lots of marketing potential with this one! Put it on your bedside table and read one story a night for fun and for titillation. The next Fifty Shades? The naughty outback Aussies version. My gawd!


Of Gods, Humans and Beasts

Of Gods, Humans and Beasts

Author: Arnold Wishman

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2020-06-17

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1532097395

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Bold and irreverent, this is essentially a work of fiction, Arnold’s stories are a blend of humour, cynicism and terror. He extracts episodes from religious texts, personal observations and legends of faith that abound in the sphere of faith and spirituality. The stories project an amplified, yet truthful account of the terrible and the ridiculous. The book does not blaspheme any belief, for nothing he says is a departure from what is already woven into the written texts. Yet this remains a work of fiction with superstitions and reality blended into one disturbing narrative.


New Adam

New Adam

Author: Philip Leroy Culbertson

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9781451416015

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With its deft explanations of male psychology, its profound encounters with five biblical "texts of terror" for men, and its pioneering of new ways in men's prayer and men's groups, Culbertson's book enables men to come to terms wtih issues of justice, friendship, sexuality, and love in their lives. His book will help men to craft a new spirituality, to achieve a new integrity and, ultimately, to create a new identity.