255 books tagged "Short Stories"
In a castle adorned with gems, coated in gold, and dusted with luxury, the youngest of the Constantine Family will be introduced to the elite of New York. But the party isn’t all glamor. Villains lurk in dark corners, evil deals are struck, and starcrossed loves are born.
FAIRY TALES INCLUDED:
***The Ugly Duckling*** by CJ Roberts
***<a href="https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41880864W" target="_blank">Beauty and the Beast</a>*** by Willow Winters
***Cinderella*** by Aleatha Romig
***Little Red Riding Hood*** by Karina Halle
***Jack & the Beanstalk*** by Marley Valentine
***Snow White*** by T.M. Frazier
***Rumplestiltskin*** by Celia Aaron
***King Midas*** by Skye Warren
***King Thrushbeard*** by Cora Reilly
***Princess and the Pea*** by Sierra Simone
***Swan Princess*** by Natasha Knight
Attend the ball, wear a red cloak, lose your shoe, spin straw to gold, or fall prey to a witch. In these fairytale retellings from bestselling authors, you will find a prince, but you might choose your happily ever after with the beast.
Enter a world of myth and magic, where gryphons fly, and dragons hoard unbelievable treasures the likes of which you've never seen. Delight in fantastical tales of unicorns, selkies, manticores and kitsunes and more.
Featuring 20 stories by 20 authors.
The first LGBTQA+ anthology for middle-graders featuring stories for every letter of the acronym, including realistic, fantasy, and sci-fi stories by authors like Justina Ireland, Marieke Nijkamp, Alex Gino, and more!
A boyband fandom becomes a conduit to coming out. A former bully becomes a first-kiss prospect. One nonbinary kid searches for an inclusive athletic community after quitting gymnastics. Another nonbinary kid, who happens to be a pirate, makes a wish that comes true--but not how they thought it would. A tween girl navigates a crush on her friend's mom. A young witch turns herself into a puppy to win over a new neighbor. A trans girl empowers her online bestie to come out.
From wind-breathing dragons to first crushes, ***This Is Our Rainbow*** features story after story of joyful, proud LGBTQA+ representation. You will fall in love with this insightful, poignant anthology of queer fantasy, historical, and contemporary stories from authors Eric Bell, Lisa Jenn Bigelow, Ashley Herring Blake, Lisa Bunker, Alex Gino, Justina Ireland, Shing Yin Khor, Katherine Locke, Mariama J. Lockington, Nicole Melleby, Marieke Nijkamp, Claribel A. Ortega, Mark Oshiro, Molly Knox Ostertag, Aisa Salazar, and AJ Sass.
A cutting-edge anthology, published on the 100th anniversary of the word “Robot”, exploring the possibilities and place of robots in society going forwards.
100 years after Karel Capek coined the word, “robots” are an everyday idea, and the inspiration for countless stories in books, film, TV and games.
They are often among the least privileged, most unfairly used of us, and the more robots are like humans, the more interesting they become. This collection of stories is where robots stand in for us, where both we and they are disadvantaged, and where hope and optimism shines through.
Including stories by: Brooke Bolander · John Chu · Daryl Gregory · Peter F. Hamilton · Saad Z. Hossain · Rich Larson · Ken Liu · Ian R. Macleod · Annalee Newitz · Tochi Onyebuchi · Suzanne Palmer · Sarah Pinsker · Vina Jie-Min Prasad · Alastair Reynolds · Sofia Samatar · Peter Watts
"From award-winning author Ken Liu comes his much anticipated second volume of short stories. Ken Liu is one of the most lauded short story writers of our time. This collection includes a selection of his science fiction and fantasy stories from the last five years-sixteen of his best-plus a new novelette. In addition to these seventeen selections, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories also features an excerpt from book three in the Dandelion Dynasty series, The Veiled Throne"--
Black girls, including gender non-conforming individuals, star in this collection of sixteen stories of fantasy, science fiction, and magic.
An anthology of "best of" short science fiction published in 2019.
Elle décolla du quai pour grimper dans le ciel jaune terne. La Ville s’étirait dans toutes les directions. Surtout le haut. Tours gigantesques multicolores, immeubles résidentiels rotatifs, tunnels célestes qui se dépliaient et se repliaient selon la circulation. Eris s’éleva sans hâte à travers un essaim de drones. Par sa caméra ventrale, elle regardait l’upcar couleur argent qui les suivait.
« Les rues basses, j’ai dit. » La voix de l’homme recelait une note d’impatience, désormais. Du code défilait sur ses yeux. Une pellicule de transpiration bordait la naissance de ses cheveux.
« J’ai entendu. » Elle laissa leur poursuivant gagner un peu de terrain. « On ne vomit pas, à l’arrière, d’accord ? »
Rich Larson est né au Niger. Il a vécu aux états-Unis, au Canada et en Espagne, avant de s’installer à Prague. Entre ses débuts en 2011 et aujourd’hui, il a publié un roman et près de deux cents nouvelles, régulièrement reprises dans les plus prestigieux Year’s Best du domaine et saluées par plusieurs prix de lecteurs. À tout juste vingt-huit ans, il est le nouveau prodige de la science-fiction anglo-saxonne, le fer de lance d’une SF post-eganienne qui, distillant les temps présents, synthétise le plus vertigineux des futurs.
Sans équivalent en langue anglaise, élaboré avec exigence, **La Fabrique des lendemains** réunit vingt-huit récits d’une science-fiction proprement éclatante.
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[1]: https://belial.fr/legacy/a/rich-larson/la-fabrique-des-lendemains
**An Iron Hands story**
A tech-priest faces a contagion that affects both organic material and machines – can she – with the aid of the Iron Hands – stop it in time to save an entire world?
**READ IT BECAUSE**
Delve into the wiles of the servants of Nurgle and discover the lengths to which the Adeptus Mechanicus and Iron Hands will go to preserve both machine and flesh in the face of immaterial horror.
**THE STORY**
The tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus eschew the weakness of flesh, preferring to show their faith in the Omnissiah by replacing their organics with machine parts. As well as religious, this is practical – disease can't affect the machine… or can it? On the agri-world of Dundas II, Tech-Priest Viridan Shale is dealing with a deadly outbreak brought to the world by the Death Guard. Nothing is safe as the contagion affects flesh and metal alike. With both biology and machinery under threat, she must find a way to defeat the plague and survive. The arrival of Iron Hands Space Marines – who similarly strive to overcome the weakness of flesh – may prove key to the world's salvation… if they are willing to aid Shale and her allies.
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[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Faith-Iron-Warhammer-40-000-ebook/dp/B083KF4W96/
<p><a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/fritz-leiber">Fritz Leiber</a> is most famous for his “Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser” stories, but he also wrote in many other genres. Between 1950 and 1963 he wrote a number of short stories that appeared in <i>Galaxy</i> magazine, including one in the same universe as <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/fritz-leiber/the-big-time"><i>The Big Time</i></a> and the Change War stories (“No Great Magic”).</p>
"Born from the obsessive and highly idiosyncratic mind of a cult figure of the Japanese underground, these stories borrow themes and subjects familiar to readers of Philip K. Dick and fuses them with a conflicted, tortured, and intense imagination"-- Provided by publisher.
Explore worlds, not quite as you know them.
Alternative Earths, or human-like beings on other planets.
Other times, history has changed.
A forgotten past.
An unreached future.
A dream of places that may, or may not, be.
Various short stories that stir the soul, and grasp at long forgotten details, which beg to be heard again.
Concurrent Earths contains 40 short stories of Earth, or almost Earth, that may, or may not, exist.
These stories reach to us across the stars. They share a thought, a dream, or a hope. Stories that touch the heart and soul.
Whether a single individual, a community, or a society, each story delves into specific situations, and how they might benefit society.
Or, how they might go wrong.
Very wrong.
<p>Though often packed into the genre of science fiction, <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/r-a-lafferty">R. A. Lafferty</a> might fit better into a category of the bizzare. Through a blend of folk storytelling, American tall tales, science fiction, and fantasy, all infused with his devout Catholicism, he has created an inimitable, genre-bending, sui generis style.</p>
<p>Lafferty has received many Hugo and Nebula Award nominations and won the Best Short Story Hugo in 1973.</p>
<p>Collected here are all of his public domain short stories, all of which were originally published in science fiction pulp magazines in the 1960s.</p>
<p><a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ray-bradbury">Ray Bradbury</a> is a giant of science fiction and fantasy. His childlike imagination, yearning for Mars, and love of all that is scary, horrible, and mysterious, reverberate throughout modern speculative fiction and our culture as a whole.</p>
<p>He has received countless awards including the Sir Arthur Clark Award, the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, an Emmy Award, and a National Medal of Arts. Along with terrestrial honorary street names, there are many extraterrestrial locations named in Bradbury’s honor such as Bradbury Landing, the landing site of the Mars <i>Curiosity</i> rover.</p>
<p>Some of his first published stories appear in <i>Futuria Fantasia</i>, a fanzine he created when he was 18 years old. All of his stories published in <i>Futuria Fantasia</i> are included in this collection. This collection also includes stories written well into his career, like “Zero Hour,” a story that was later republished in his famous collection <i>The Illustrated Man</i>.</p>
<p><a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/robert-sheckley">Robert Sheckley</a> was one of science fiction’s most prolific short story writers. Though less known today than he was in his heyday, he was a giant of his time and was nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards.</p>
<p>Even though many of his stories deal with serious topics, they are most widely remembered for their comedic wit. His writing was compared to that of Douglas Adams, who held Sheckley in high regard: “He’s a very, very funny writer. He’s also a stylist. Very few science fiction writers write English well. Robert Sheckley can.” Sheckley was also well-respected by Kingsley Amis who, in his book <i>New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction</i>, included Sheckley in a list with Frederik Pohl and Arthur C. Clarke, and said their volumes should “be reviewed as general fiction, not tucked away, as one writer has put it, in something called ‘Spaceman’s Realm’ between the kiddy section and dog stories.”</p>
<p>Sheckley wrote about and pioneered many science fiction concepts, such as in his story “Watchbird,” where he explores the ability to detect murder before it happens—three years before <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/philip-k-dick">Philip K. Dick’s</a> “The Minority Report.” Or in “Ask a Foolish Question,” a story about an all-knowing Answerer to whom people pose the ultimate question of life—twenty-six years before Douglas Adams’ <i>The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy</i>. Alongside these two stories, this collection includes all of his public domain short fiction ordered by date of first publication.</p>
The Shivering Ground & Other Stories is a National Indie Excellence Awards finalist, a collection of weird fiction with a steampunk aesthetic.
In "The Door at the End of the Path" a young girl discovers her parents' secret in their gothic house with a garden behind it... in "Conditions" a man with Frankenstein-ian aspirations gets a visit from his twin sister, who tells him about the disappearance of her ex-lover.
"The Eternal In-Between" details a narrator's dream during the plague, while "The Mannequin" explains a medical procedure that involves taking out one's heart. "Brianna" retells Sleeping Beauty with a dark twist, and "Noticing" is post-apocalyptic fiction about a man and an alien creature obsessed with extinct birds, stuck on earth during the end of it all.
"Entanglement" tells the story of love between two soldiers, and "The Day Before Tomorrow" tells the story of friendship between two young girls in an ordinary suburb, that is being slowly eaten away by a vastness of char and bones.
"It's Already Too Late" is a fatalistic group of people's response to the changes in their world, and "The Shivering Ground" creates a narrative between a guard and their winged captive in a post-war city, intertwined with music.
"A Universe Akilter," the collection's only novella, a love story in epistolary format, tells of the meetings, through dreams, between a failed playwright and a young painter who live in different dimensions.
