The first book of the definitive three-volume collection of short stories by the prolific Isaac Asimov, whose tales have delighted countless fans for over half a century--a must for every science fiction bookshelf. The first book of the definitive three-volume collection of short stories by the prolific Isaac Asimov, whose tales have delighted countless fans for over half a century--a must for every science fiction bookshelf. Views: 510
This collection of literature attempts to compile many classics that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them. Views: 509
Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury is the fourth novel in the Lucky Starr series, six juvenile science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov that originally appeared under the pseudonym Paul French. The novel was first published by Doubleday & Company in March 1956. Since 1972, reprints have included a foreword by Asimov explaining that advancing knowledge of conditions on Mercury have rendered some of the novel's descriptions of that world inaccurate. Views: 508
A young man runs away from parents he believes do not love or want him. An elderly couple, whose own son has run away, take him in, but he decides that he must help them find their own son. In his quest he is joined by another man who is trying to sort out his own life. In this story three young men learn much about themselves, life, and what love really means.The story begins when a young man, Adam, runs away from home because he believes his impoverished parents do not love him. He is taken in by an elderly couple whose own son, Robin, has run away to seek his fortune. Adam decides that he must try to locate their lost son and convince him to come home. In his quest, he is joined by another young man, David, who has left his own dysfunctional family. Along the way, Adam and David are given guidance in two magical encounters in forests and from a magic mirror. As the quest continues and is eventually resolved, all involved learn much about themselves, society, and, most of all, the meaning of love. Views: 507
A selection of short stories by Michael Bryson, showcasing the author's disparate reach and contemporary voice.After reading a newspaper article about his viciously murdered neighbor, Businessman Carter Lowe becomes inexplicably paranoid that something similar could happen to him or his wife, Tracy. After seeing a masked man armed with a knife frequently across town, he comes face to face with his worst nightmare, and it too, is in a mask. Views: 506
From the second collection of 17 stories in My Other Shorts & Formal Tales. A Sunday country market is livened up by a gate-crashing, old lady. A fiercely independent migrant, Polish WW2 survivor from out of town. She wants to set up to sell a range of memorabilia, home cooking and sweets. Immediately charming the regular stall-holders with stories and skills. She has other skills; unrevealed.A story from the second collection of 17 stories in My Other Shorts & Formal Tales. The Sunday country market stalls are livened up by the gate crashing of an out-of-towner. The aged old lady, a Polish migrant and surviving veteran of WW2, wants to set up her own stall to sell a wide range of Polish memorabilia, bric-a-brac, home cooking and home made sweets. She immediately charms the other regular stall holders with her wonderful cooking, skills and many stories. She has other skills, unrevealed. Views: 501
In Victorian Britain, a group of eminent scientists got together to found a society expressly to prove the existence of ghosts.
The age of Darwin represented the greatest scientific advances known to man. The tension between science and religion was exposed by Darwin's On the Origin of the Species in 1859, which challenged the basic tenets of belief.
Yet many of those in the forefront of the scientific revolution could not give up the idea of a higher reality. Life after death was the unknown frontier. Victorian society was full of mediums claiming they could communicate with the spirits of the dead. Baffling psychic phenomena occurred every day at séances: mysterious rappings were heard, furniture moved, ghostly forms appeared, the mediums spoke in the altered voices of the dead with information only their nearest could possibly know. Pyschometry involving locks of hair and watches and children's toys; telepathy; ouija boards; apparitions; astral projection: all were commonplace.
In 1882 the Society of Psychical Research was founded in London to investigate all these phenomena: it was a group led by some of the greatest scientists of the age but its membership also included Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf's father, John Ruskin, the Reverend Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain). Six months later William James, Professor of Psychology at Harvard, and the brother of Henry James visited London and went on to set up American branch.
Their experiments went on for years. Many mediums, like the notorious Madame Blavatsky, were exposed as charlatans yet there were some mediums who continued to communicate directly with another world, who despite every rigorous scientific test seemed to prove that souls survived death. This is the story of this group of forward thinkers: many of whom were driven to the spirit world by personal tragedy, some whose feeling of loss lead to their own suicides. It is the story of the greatest ghost hunt of any age. Views: 500
Captain Ean Tephe is a man of faith, whose allegiance to his lord and to his ship is uncontested. The Bishopry Militant knows this -- and so, when it needs a ship and crew to undertake a secret, sacred mission to a hidden land, Tephe is the captain to whom the task is given. Tephe knows from the start that his mission will be a test of his skill as a leader of men and as a devout follower of his god. It's what he doesn't know that matters: to what ends his faith and his ship will ultimately be put -- and that the tests he will face will come not only from his god and the Bishopry Militant, but from another, more malevolent source entirely.... Views: 497
When the invincible Zeus is killed, his daughter Athena must rally her chaotic family of gods against a rising darkness, one that will not stop until Greece’s beauty is in ashes.Zeus, the immortal King of Everything, has been ruled by a prophecy that only his firstborn can kill him and take his throne. In spite of his best efforts, Athena – a brilliant warrior – is born. Instead of killing her father, though, Athena loves Zeus as much as she hates the idea of becoming queen. Meanwhile, thousands of feet beneath the world, King Hades of the Dead is jealous of the power his brother Zeus has held over him. Hungry for revenge, Hades tricks Athena into killing her father and assuming the throne. With the royalty of the gods now in chaos, Hades plans an invasion of the world that can only end with him as the supreme god, finally unchallenged. And so, with Zeus imprisoned in the depths of the Underworld, Athena must convince her unruly and suspicious family to cooperate with her, else Zeus and the world they love will become lost forever. Views: 496
It has been weeks since Dia Thorpe met the alien known as Gheid. Her memories are still lost to her but perhaps she should forget about the old ones and create some new. Her day is about to become a little complicated.This is a short story of 2,400 words. It is part five in the 'Origins' series of stories which connect with one another in unexpected ways.The story of Jonathan, head chef at Chez Davide restaurant when he meets Janet, his next-door neighbor. Views: 494
"I mean, so what? Order, chaos, order, chaos. We have real problem here!" exclaims one character in Only a Lower Paradise, the comic, profound, and likely blasphemous story of heartache, emotional crisis, and the fickle quest for meaning in our post-post-modern world. The book begins with Martha, a guardian angel, being late for an assignment. What is going on in heaven?If you do not have the abilities to turn cliché gifts into unique gifts, you do not have achoice but to look for something unique. A unique gift is distinctive and can not bematched. Since it is uncommon, this type of gifts is not simple to forget. We cry when welose them or despise the ones who take them away from us. They enter into us and theirmemories are such that we desire to hold on to for life. We hate it when we see somethingthe same as them, due to the fact that we really do not desire them to be compared. Whenother deems them unimportant, we get harmed. Views: 491
