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Arena (short story) Fredric Brown: Analog Science Fiction: 1944 Armaments Race: Arthur C. Clarke: Adventure: 1954 Arvies: Adam-Troy Castro: Lightspeed Magazine: 2010 Auto-da-Fé (short story) Roger Zelazny: Dangerous Visions: 1967 Azathoth (short story) H. P. Lovecraft: Leaves 1938 Baby, You Were Great: Kate Wilhelm: Orbit 2: 1968 Backstage ...
The Liaden universe ( / liːˈeɪdɛn / lee-AY-den or / liːˈeɪdən /) is the setting for an ongoing series of science fiction stories written by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. The series covers a considerable time period, some thousands of years in all, although since it also covers more than one universe the exact chronology is unclear.
Her stories have been said to "embed more than announce, reveal more than parade". Munro was seen as a pioneer in short story telling, with the Swedish Academy calling her a "master of the contemporary short story" who could "accommodate the entire epic complexity of the novel in just a few short pages".
82 = The Moons of Jupiter – 1982. 86 = The Progress of Love – 1986. 90 = Friend of My Youth – 1990. 94 = Open Secrets – 1994. 98 = The Love of a Good Woman. 01 = Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage – 2001. 04 = Runaway – 2004. 06 = The View from Castle Rock – 2006. 09 = Too Much Happiness – 2009.
Harrison Bergeron is the fourteen-year-old son of George Bergeron and Hazel Bergeron, who is 7 feet (2.1 m) tall, a genius, and an extraordinarily handsome, athletic, strong, and brave person. George Bergeron is Harrison's father and Hazel's husband. A very smart and sensitive character, he is handicapped artificially by the government.
Fairy tales are stories that range from those in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monograph in German, is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale" in that it is written by "a single ...
Nightfall and Other Stories. The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov. The Complete Stories, Volume 1. Star Science Fiction Stories No.3 (Ballantine Books, January 1955) "The Singing Bell". 1955. Asimov's Mysteries. The Complete Stories, Volume 2. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1955.
Somerset Maugham thought that the short story "must have a definite design, which includes a point of departure, a climax and a point of test; in other words, it must have a plot". Hugh Walpole had a similar view: "A story should be a story; a record of things happening full of incidents, swift movements, unexpected development, leading through ...