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Author : Helen Mwanzi
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9966469699
Author : Andrea Barrett
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393347203
1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction. The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, they encompass both past and present as they negotiate the complex territory of ambition, failure, achievement, and shattered dreams. In "Ship Fever," the title novella, a young Canadian doctor finds himself at the center of one of history's most tragic epidemics. In "The English Pupil," Linnaeus, in old age, watches as the world he organized within his head slowly drifts beyond his reach. And in "The Littoral Zone," two marine biologists wonder whether their life-altering affair finally was worth it. In the tradition of Alice Munro and William Trevor, these exquisitely rendered fictions encompass whole lives in a brief space. As they move between interior and exterior journeys, "science is transformed from hard and known fact into malleable, strange and thrilling fictional material" (Boston Globe).
Author : Ken Liu
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781481442541
Presents the author's selection of his best short stories, as well as a new piece, in a collection that includes "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary," "Mono No Aware" and "The Waves."
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Africa, East
ISBN : IND:30000048090595
Author : Jerry L. Watson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595175789
"The Lotto Winners" presents a handsome young man who has squandered his first two year of college and finds himself financially cutoff by his father. Josh’s future looks grim working the night shift at a fleabag hotel. “Out of Rhinehart”: Two Newcomb College girls decide to become pregnant their senior year and select the perfect male to sire their children, thus preventing their families from mating them with some dreadful geek from their inner circle of friends. “A Silver Dime for Sarah”: While feeding the pigeons in Trafalgar Square, the silhouette of a handsome young man turns on Sarah Parker’s memory of her wartime romance. “The Tontine Day”: An elderly woman in an upscale retirement home reminisces and make plans for Tontine Day, when the investment banker takes Alice and her two friends to Commander’s Palace for lunch to review their annuities. “Vincent’s Offerings”: A wife with values firmly planted in the 1960s suspects that her mate of twenty years is being unfaithful. Her true soul mate is her cat Vincent, who each morning leaves an offering for her on the doormat.
Author : Michael Fine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1952521351
Author : Stanislaw Lem
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780262366656
Twelve stories by science fiction master Stanisław Lem, nine of them never before published in English. Of these twelve short stories by science fiction master Stanisław Lem, only three have previously appeared in English, making this the first "new" book of fiction by Lem since the late 1980s. The stories display the full range of Lem's intense curiosity about scientific ideas as well as his sardonic approach to human nature, presenting as multifarious a collection of mad scientists as any reader could wish for. Many of these stories feature artificial intelligences or artificial life forms, long a Lem preoccupation; some feature quite insane theories of cosmology or evolution. All are thought provoking and scathingly funny. Written from 1956 to 1993, the stories are arranged in chronological order. In the title story, "The Truth," a scientist in an insane asylum theorizes that the sun is alive; "The Journal" appears to be an account by an omnipotent being describing the creation of infinite universes--until, in a classic Lem twist, it turns out to be no such thing; in "An Enigma," beings debate whether offspring can be created without advanced degrees and design templates. Other stories feature a computer that can predict the future by 137 seconds, matter-destroying spores, a hunt in which the prey is a robot, and an electronic brain eager to go on the lam. These stories are peak Lem, exploring ideas and themes that resonate throughout his writing.
Author : Katherine McKittrick
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478012573
In Dear Science and Other Stories Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies. Drawing on black studies, studies of race, cultural geography, and black feminism as well as a mix of methods, citational practices, and theoretical frameworks, she positions black storytelling and stories as strategies of invention and collaboration. She analyzes a number of texts from intellectuals and artists ranging from Sylvia Wynter to the electronica band Drexciya to explore how narratives of imprecision and relationality interrupt knowledge systems that seek to observe, index, know, and discipline blackness. Throughout, McKittrick offers curiosity, wonder, citations, numbers, playlists, friendship, poetry, inquiry, song, grooves, and anticolonial chronologies as interdisciplinary codes that entwine with the academic form. Suggesting that black life and black livingness are, in themselves, rebellious methodologies, McKittrick imagines without totally disclosing the ways in which black intellectuals invent ways of living outside prevailing knowledge systems.
Author : David Bezmozgis
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443408585
National Bestseller Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (Canada and Caribbean Region) Winner of the Canadian Jewish Book Award, Fiction Category Winner of the Toronto Book Award Winner of the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize for Fiction Winner of the Danuta Gleed Literary Award Finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction Finalist for CBC’s Canada Reads Finalist for the Guardian First Book Award Finalist for the Borders Books and Music 2004 Original Voices Award Finalist for the LA Times Book Prize The Bermans—Bella, Roman and their son, Mark—are Russian Jews who fled the Riga of Brezhnev for Toronto, the city of their dreams. Natasha and Other Stories is the chronicle of their search for a better life as they struggle to fit into a foreign urban landscape. Told through Mark’s eyes, these are stories filled with heart, verve and consequence. In “Tapka,” six-year-old Mark’s cocky game with a neighbour’s beloved dog turns into a tragi-comedy of life lessons learned. In the title story, a teenage Mark faces a stark, comical and ultimately searing introduction to first love at the experienced hands of his cousin, Natasha, an immigrant from the new Russia. And in “Minyan,” Mark and his grandfather watch as the death of an Odessan cab driver sets off a religious controversy among the residents of a Jewish old-people’s home. Often funny and always wise, this much-celebrated collection captures the immigrant experience with striking wit and deep sympathy.
Author : Greg Hrbek
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780803236448
Contains ten short fiction stories in which Greg Hrbek explores what it means to be human and inhuman.
Author : Tim Wynne-Jones
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0789426234
A collection of short stories in which Canadian young people interact with the eccentric and vivid figures of their communities, schools, and families.
Author : Katherine Vaz
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780822978848
Winner of the 1997 Drue Heinz Literature Prize This collection is filled with narrative and character grounded in the meaning and value the earth gives to human existence. In one story, a woman sleeps with the village priest, trying to gain back the land the church took from her family; in another, relatives in the Azores fight over a plot of land owned by their expatriate American cousin. Even apparently small images are cast in terms of the earth: Milton, one narrator explains, has made apples the object of a misunderstanding by naming them as Eden’s fruit: “In the Bible, no fruit is named in the Garden of Eden - and to this day apples are misunderstood. They were trying to tempt people not into sin but into listening to the earth more closely. . . . their white meal runs wet with the knowledge of the language of the land, but people do not listen.” Vaz’s beautiful, intensely conscious language often delicately slips her stories into the realm of the fado, the Portuguese song about fate and longing. “Listen for the nightingale that presses its breast against the thorns of the rose,” on character sings, “that the song might be more beautiful.” Such a verse might describe Vaz’s own motive behind her willingness to confront her subject’s ambiguities and her characters’ conflicts - the simultaneous joy and sorrow of some of life’s discoveries, the pain sometimes hidden within passion and pleasure.
Author : Brian DiNuzzo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0299334740
Author : Paulo Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1913505189
Author : Julian MortimerSmith
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780253056825
Imagine a world populated by hideous trolls, time-traveling scientists, and intergalactic freighter captains—with smartphones and social media. The World of Dew and Other Stories, chosen by Michelle Pretorius as the 2020 Blue Light Books Prize winner, invites readers into 18 different universes that have unexpected resonances with our own modern life. While these tales are unabashedly sci-fi and fantasy, Julian Mortimer Smith approaches each at a curious angle. Ghosts are cataloged using a Pokémon Go–like app, a soldier has to get enough upvotes on social media before he is allowed to take a shot, and a golden age of cooperation begins as societies around the world prepare for a looming pandemic of blindness. In addition to featuring stories that have appeared in some of the world's top speculative fiction outlets, The World of Dew and Other Stories also includes five new stories published here for the first time. These tales are sometimes terrifying, sometimes touching, sometimes provocative, and occasionally very silly. They function both as windows through which readers can glimpse vast universes waiting to be explored and as mirrors reflecting our own reality back at us in a strange and unfamiliar light.
