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Include books by the same authorThe Cyberiad
Stanislaw Lem · 295 pages
OMG I can't believe there's no description for this - but then I can because this book defies description. Stanislaw Lem is a genius and your minds will be expanded to bursting when you begin this journey into a world where machines are the dominant species. It is hugely entertaining, inventive, witty, and above all, laugh out loud funny. The book concerns two "constructors" - Trurl and Klaupaciou
Welcome to the Monkey House
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 308 pages
Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, these superb stories share Vonnegut’s audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision. Includes the following stories: “Where I Live” “Harrison Bergeron” “Who Am I This Time?
A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction
Terry Pratchett · 312 pages
War Fever
J.G. Ballard · 176 pages
A war-ravaged Beirut is the setting for the title story of this visionary collection, a tale in which a young street fighter inadvertently discovers how to bring an end to the bloodshed only to find that his solution is all too effective as far as some supposedly neutral observers are concerned. Other stories feature an assassination plot against an American astronaut, the leader of an authoritari
Salmonella Men on Planet Porno: Stories
Yasutaka Tsutsui · 290 pages
The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain
Mark Twain · 364 pages
Jim Smiley and his jumping frog -- The story of the bad little boy who didn't come to grief -- Cannibalism in the cars -- Journalism in Tennessee -- The story of the good little boy who did not prosper -- How I edited an agricultural paper once -- Political ecoonomy -- A true story, repeated word for word as I heard it -- The facts concerning the recent carnival of crime in Connecticut --
The Country of the Blind
H.G. Wells · 442 pages
"Although best known for his novels, it was in H. G. Wells's early short stories that he first explored the relationship between science and humankind. This collection brings together twenty-three of his short works. In 'The Star, ' a vast comet hurtles towards Earth while humankind looks awestruck to the skies. 'The Cone' is a story of adultery and revenge amid the blast furnaces of industrial En
Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
David Sedaris · 208 pages
In David Sedaris’ world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz, and the National Enquirer, Sedaris’ collection of essays is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad saves money by performing home surgery; a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tries to incite a
Tenth of December
George Saunders · 272 pages
In the taut opener, “Victory Lap,” a boy witnesses the attempted abduction of the girl next door and is faced with a harrowing choice: Does he ignore what he sees, or override years of smothering advice from his parents and act? In “Home,” a combat-damaged soldier moves back in with his mother and struggles to reconcile the world he left with the one to which he has returned. And in the title stor
Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog
Mark Leyner · 225 pages
A collection of humorous stories by the author of Et Tu, Babe. The story, The Illustrated Body Politic, is on tattooing, Hulk Couture is on body building, and Dream Girls, USA is on beauty pageants.
Impossible Things
Connie Willis · 461 pages
Contains: "The Last of the Winnebagos" (1988) (Hugo and Nebula Award winner) "Even the Queen" (1992) (Hugo and Nebula Award winner) "Schwarzschild Radius" (1987) "Ado" (1988) "Spice Pogrom" (1986) "Winter's Tale" (1988) "Chance" (1986) "In the Late Cretaceous" (1991) "Time Out" (1989) "Jack" (1991) "At the Rialto" (1989) (Nebula Award winner)
American Housewife: Stories
Helen Ellis · 198 pages
Meet the women of American Housewife: they wear lipstick, pearls, and sunscreen, even when it's cloudy. They casserole. They pinwheel. They pump the salad spinner like it's a CPR dummy. And then they kill a party crasher, carefully stepping around the body to pull cookies out of the oven. These twelve irresistible stories take us from a haunted prewar Manhattan apartment building to the set of a r
A Load of Hooey: A Collection of New Short Humor Fiction
Bob Odenkirk · 139 pages
Collects humorous and absurd stories, vignettes, and unclassifiable prose pieces.
Bream Gives Me Hiccups
Jesse Eisenberg · 273 pages
"Taking its title from a group of stories that begin the book, Bream Gives Me Hiccups moves from contemporary L.A. to the dorm rooms of an American college to ancient Pompeii, throwing the reader into a universe of social misfits, reimagined scenes from history, and ridiculous overreactions. In one piece, a tense email exchange between a young man and his girlfriend is taken over by his sister, wh