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Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories
Doc Immelman is alombekend vir sy avontuur- en jagverhale. Erns Grundling noem hom “Namibië se eie Hemingway”. Bloed op die duine en ander verhale is ’n keur uit sy kortverhale wat tussen 1955 en 1963 in Die Huisgenoot en Die Brandwag verskyn het. Die bundel sluit verder die novelle “Koms dans, Klaradyn” in, wat oorspronklik in ’n Seisoen vir Romanse (1966) verskyn het.
"Wonderful, mind-expanding stuff, and well written too."-The
Guardian Axiomatic is a wonderful collection of eighteen short
stories by Hugo Award-winning author Greg Egan. The stories in this
collection have appeared in such science fiction magazines as
Interzone and Asimov's between 1989 and 1992. From junkies who
drink at the time-stream to love affairs in time-reversed galaxies;
from gene-altered dolphins that converse only in limericks to the
program that allows you to design your own child; from the brain
implants called axiomatics to the strange attractors that spin off
new religions; from bioengineering to the new physics; and from
cyberpunk to the electronic frontier, Greg Egan's future is
frighteningly close to our own present. Included in this collection
are such wonderful stories as: "Axiomatic" "Into Darkness" "The
Safe-Deposit Box" "Blood Sisters" And many more! Axiomatic is the
perfect collection for any science fiction fan, especially one who
enjoys Greg Egan's work. The stories are imaginative and
insightful, and written only the way that Greg Egan can do so.
Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is
proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in
science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion,
near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery,
contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and
horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and
much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York
Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula
award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a
diverse group of authors.
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Lumbung Stories
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Panashe Chigumadzi; Edited by harreit c. brown; Contributions by Yasnaya Elena Aguilar Gil, Uxue Alberdi, Cristina Judar, …
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Tequio in Mexico, auzolan in Basque Country, lumbung in Indonesia,
ubuntu in South Africa, mutirao in Brazil - all terms used around
the world to describe the concept of collective work. Bringing
together 8 publishing houses and 7 writers, each writing in a
different language, Lumbung Stories is a true product of communal
action. From speculative essays and experimental texts to intimate
stories that portray collective work as something every day and
habitual, each writer presents their unique take on what a "lumbung
story" is. These tales take us from olive groves in Andalusia to
tiger-filled forests in Indonesia; from youths fumbling through
adolescence together in the Basque country, to outsiders uniting
through vibrant rituals in Sao Paulo, and from explorations of
intergenerational and transhistorical struggle in South Africa, to
an academic text from a society rebuilding in a post-Capitalist,
post-climate-crisis future. Blurring the lines between realism and
fiction, the past and the future, this unique and powerful
collection brims with life and is a vital reminder of the ties that
unite us all.
"Curiously enough," said Dr. Manners, "I know a story in which the
detection of a murder turned on the behaviour of a bird: in this
instance a jackdaw." Since the dawn of the crime fiction genre,
animals of all kinds have played a memorable part in countless
mysteries, and in a variety of roles: the perpetrator, the key
witness, the sleuth's trusted companion. This collection of
fourteen stories corrals plots centred around cats, dogs and
insects alongside more exotic incidents involving gorillas,
parakeets and serpents - complete with a customary shoal of red
herrings. From the animal mysteries of Arthur Conan Doyle and F.
Tennyson Jesse through to more modern masterpieces of the sub-genre
from Christianna Brand and Penelope Wallace, this anthology
celebrates one of the liveliest and most imaginative species of
classic crime fiction.
In this exuberantly strange story collection, Flores asks: Whose
reality? What rules? --Jean Chen Ho, author of The New York Times
Book Review These are marvelously unpredictable stories, anchored
by Fernando A. Flores's deadpan prose and his surefooted navigation
of those overlapping territories, the real and the fantastic, where
so much of the best contemporary fiction now lives. --Kelly Link,
author of Get in Trouble Psychedelic, dazzling stories set in the
cracks of the Texas-Mexico borderland, from an iconoclastic
storyteller and the author of Tears of the Trufflepig. No one
captures the border--its history and imagination, its danger,
contradiction, and redemption--like Fernando A. Flores, whose
stories reimagine and reinterpret the region's existence with
peerless style. In his immersive, uncanny borderland, things are
never what they seem: a world where the sun is both rising and
setting, and where conniving possums efficiently take over an
entire town and rewrite its history. The stories in Valleyesque
dance between the fantastical and the hyperreal with dexterous,
often hilarious flair. A dying Frederic Chopin stumbles through
Ciudad Juarez in the aftermath of his mother's death, attempting to
recover his beloved piano that was seized at the border, while a
muralist is taken on a psychedelic journey by an airbrushed
Emiliano Zapata T-shirt. A woman is engulfed by a used-clothing
warehouse with a life of its own, and a grieving mother
breathlessly chronicles the demise of a town decimated by violence.
In two separate stories, queso dip and musical rhythms are bottled
up and sold for mass consumption. And in the final tale, Flores
pieces together the adventures of a young Lee Harvey Oswald as he
starts a music career in Texas. Swinging between satire and
surrealism, grief and joy, Valleyesque is a boundary- and
border-pushing collection from a one-of-a-kind stylist and voice.
With the visceral imagination that made his debut novel, Tears of
the Trufflepig, a cult classic, Flores brings his vision of the
border to life--and beyond.
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