Short Stories

By Desmond Hogan

By George R. R. Martin, Cory Ench, Catska Ench

Telepaths examine the newly stumbled on international of Shkea, the place each local inhabitant, and increasingly more human colonists, worships a mysterious and lethal parasite. Winner of the 1975 Hugo Award for most sensible Novella.

By Rebecca Lee

By Neil Gaiman

Master storyteller Neil Gaiman provides a panoramic selection of stories for more youthful readers which can relax or amuse, yet that usually embody the unexpected:

• Humpty Dumpty's sister hires a personal detective to enquire her brother's death.
• A teenage boy who has difficulty chatting with ladies reveals himself at a slightly strange party.
• A boy raised in a graveyard makes a discovery, and confronts the even more troubling international of the living.

Imaginez un monde uniquement peuplé de femmes, où les hommes ne sont plus qu'une légende... Imaginez un monde où il est interdit de se keepsake du passé, où les gens n'ont qu'un seul intérêt : le cinéma... Futurs possibles, passés probables... Histoires sous forme de contes, légendes ou fables. Histoires où les horizons nouveaux côtoient les secrets and techniques enfouis. Histoires fantastiques pour frémir, rêver ou sourire.

Publicamos por primera vez en España todos los cuentos que escribió Luigi Pirandello, Premio Nobel de Literatura 1934. Son l. a. parte menos conocida de su producción literaria, pero es los angeles que él más amaba y en l. a. que trabajó desde su adolescencia hasta el ultimate de su vida. Es en los relatos donde Pirandello se muestra más usual e imaginativo y contienen los angeles clave de su gran capacidad para crear personajes.
Por l. a. diversidad de temas, estilos y estructuras estos cuentos suponen un fresco, lleno de humor y ternura, de l. a. Italia de los angeles época —especialmente de su Sicilia natal—, que nos hace entender los angeles cultura y los angeles sociedad de aquel país, a los angeles vez que representa l. a. condición humana.
Pirandello escribía en una carta a su hermana: «Yo vivo por los angeles alegría de ver narrar los angeles vida desde mis páginas, extrayéndola de mi cuerpo, de mi sangre, de mi carne, de mi cerebro. Es un trabajo constante de destrucción para crear». Se había propuesto escribir 365 cuentos; fueron algunos menos porque una pulmonía se lo llevó de este mundo, como si fuese uno de los personajes de sus relatos.

By William Gibson

Best-known for his seminal sf novel Neuromancer, William Gibson is admittedly most sensible while writing brief fiction. Tautly-written and suspenseful, Burning Chrome collects 10 of his most sensible brief tales with a preface from Bruce Sterling, now to be had for the 1st time in alternate paperback. those tremendous, high-resolution tales express Gibson's characters and intensely-realized worlds at his very best, from the chip-enhanced couriers of "Johnny Mnemonic" to the street-tech depression of "Burning Chrome."

By Hannah Tinti

With bravura storytelling, bold mind's eye, and fierce narrative regulate, this remarkable debut introduces that infrequent author who reveals humanity in our so much unconventional habit, and the humor underneath our darkest impulses.

In those ten unusual, humorous, and unnerving tales, animals develop into the litmus try out of our private fears and longings. within the name tale, an elephant keeper courts probability from his mild cost; in “Miss Waldron’s purple Colobus,” a headstrong younger girl in Africa is lured via the liberty of the monkeys within the bushes; in “Talk Turkey,” a boy has mystery conversations with the turkeys on his friend’s family’s farm; in “Slim’s final Ride,” a baby performs chilling video games along with his puppy rabbit; in “Gallus Gallus,” a pompous husband tasks his anger at his spouse onto her prized rooster.

This clean, artistic debut will introduce Hannah Tinti as essentially the most talented writers of her iteration. input her international at your individual possibility, and you may come away bewitched.

From the Hardcover edition.

By Shirley Jackson

The tales during this variation symbolize the nice range of her paintings, from humor to her stunning explorations of the human psyche. The stories variety, chronologically, from the writings of her university days and place of abode in Greenwich Village within the early Forties, to the unforgettably chilling tales from the interval in advance of her dying. they supply a thrilling evaluate of the evolution of her craft via a development of kinds and kinds, and upload considerably to the physique of her released work.

Just a typical Day is a testomony to how huge a expertise Shirley Jackson had and to the intensity, breadth, and complexity of her writing. although this notable literary lifestyles used to be reduce brief, Jackson sincerely confirmed a different voice that has gained an enduring position within the canon of remarkable American literature, and is still a strong impact on generations of readers and writers.