Kevin J. Anderson is one of the best-selling novelists working in the field today, but over the course of his long career he has also produced a steady stream of short fiction, ranging from hard science fiction, to fantasy, to horror, dark fantasy, and humor. He has won or been nominated for the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Bram Stoker Award, Shamus Award, Colorado Book Award, Scribe Award, New York Times Notable Book, and many others. This first volume of Anderson’s selected short fiction focuses on his science fiction stories, from flash fiction to novella length, written solo or with collaborators. These stories showcase his writing talent across a range of military science fiction, dystopian fiction, space adventure, humor, alternate timelines, and political and psychological extrapolation.
O Henry's finest stories is a showcase for the sheer varienty of one of America's best-loved short story writers. They are marked by coincidence and surprise endings as well as compassion and high humour.
This volume brings together the best of Munro's stories, from 1968 through to 1994. The second selected volume of her stories, 1995-2009 is also published by Vintage Classics.
"He is most at home in the mode of short fiction," according to J. M. Coetzee in The New York Review of Books. The stories "show him at his dazzling best."
This is a book to read slowly, savouring each story. It deserves a place in every Canadian book-lover’s library.
Introduction by Francine Prose Mavis Gallant. behavior, divided by syntax and tradition; two environments to consider, one becalmed in a long twilight of nineteenth-century religiosity; two codes of social behavior; much practical ...
Bringing together forty-eight stories from After Rain, The Hill Bachelors, A Bit on the Side, and Cheating at Canasta, this second volume of Trevor's collected fiction offers readers "treasures of gorgeous writing, brilliant dialogue, and ...
A collection of short stories that blend love and fantasy to create probing fiction marked by ironic twists
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A selection of short stories by Guy de Maupassant which includes Boule de Suif, The Minuet, Madame Husson's May King, A Vendetta, A Deal, The Model, The Olive Grove, Rose, At Sea, The Capture of Walter Schaffs and The Piece of String.
A story collection drawn from across her career brings into English for the first time the extraordinary stylistic and thematic range of the Mexican writer and MacArthur “genius” Cristina Rivera Garza. “One of Mexico’s greatest ...