Short Stories & Anthologies
epub |eng | 2008-03-01 | Author:H. G. Wells & Alfred Mac Adam [Wells, H. G. & Adam, Alfred Mac]

VII The Unveiling of the Stranger THE STRANGER WENT INTO the little parlour of the Coach and Horses about half-past five in the morning, and there he remained until near ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-06-07 | Author:Heyer, Georgette [Heyer, Georgette]

3 If the Viscount had harboured doubts of his mother's veracity, these were speedily dispelled. His cousin, far from having been kept in seclusion, seemed to him to be acquainted ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-16 | Author:Adam Roberts [Roberts, Adam]

‘No physical pain, it is true,’ replied the machine in its melodious fluting voice. ‘But as sentient and self-aware creatures we are capable of the anxieties attendant on death. Emphasising ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-01-21 | Author:Anne McCaffrey [McCaffrey, Anne]

Torlo arrived with a tray of food just as she was waking up. 'Not as sore today?' 'Not all over but my leg . . .' She pulled the quilt ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 1924-01-01 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

Seven SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE “Sing a Song of Sixpence” was first published in Holly Leaves (published by Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News), 2 December 1929. Sir Edward Palliser, ...
( Category: Murder March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-22 | Author:Theodore Sturgeon [Sturgeon, Theodore]

Back in his office, which seemed three times larger than it had been before the conference, Jones slumped behind his desk and teased himself with the small folded paper, not ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-10 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

Darling Margery (she wrote), I am so glad you have that nice little Mr. Satterthwaite there. He is awfully clever and knows all the big-wig spook people. You must have ...
( Category: Murder March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Theodore Sturgeon [Sturgeon, Theodore]

Poor Yorick IF YOU DON’T want to read an unpleasant story, we are even. Because I didn’t want to write it either. It can be told because it’s doubtful whether ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Yoon Ha Lee [Lee, Yoon Ha]

Counting the Shapes How many shapes of pain are there? Are any topologically equivalent? And is one of them death? Biantha woke to a heavy knocking on the door and ...
( Category: Anthologies March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Vernor Vinge [Vinge, Vernor]

SHE WOULD HAVE FELT IT SOONER IF SHE HAD BEEN WAITING FOR IT, OR IF its mood hadn’t been so different from all that went on about her: a chime ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Hal Clement [Clement, Hal]

“You look bothered,” remarked Thomasian, LaVerne’s department head. “Delayed shock from your narrow escape, or what?” “It wasn’t that narrow,” replied the teacher. “I had hours of air still in ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-29 | Author:Les Johnson [Johnson, Les]

Daedalus evolved as a kid brother to Orion. Instead of using the dramatic thermonuclear-pulse drive, it used a somewhat tamer approach—inertial fusion. Small micropellets of fusion fuel were to be ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 27,2014 )
epub | | 2006-11-27 | Author:Cordwainer Smith [Smith, Cordwainer]

( Category: Adventure March 27,2014 )
epub |por | 2013-07-20 | Author:Philip K. Dick [Dick, Philip K.]

( Category: Anthologies March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2004-10-26 | Author:Jeffery Deaver [Deaver, Jeffery]

“Your father needs some time off. You know how hard he works.” As the creative director of a Madison Avenue ad agency, Alex regularly clocked sixty-and seventy-hour weeks. Sue continued, ...
( Category: Suspense March 27,2014 )