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The stories are autobiographical episodes based on the author's experiences as a Jewish-Italian doctoral-level chemist under the Fascist regime in Italy and afterwards. They include various themes that follow a chronological sequence: his ancestry; his study of chemistry and practising the profession in wartime Italy; a pair of imaginative tales he wrote at that time, [2] and his subsequent ...
This story begins as Ender is made the commander of Dragon Army at Battle School, an institution designed to make young children into military commanders against an unspecified enemy. Armies are groups of students that fight mock battles in the Battle Room, a null gravity environment, and are subdivided into "toons" .
The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 1: 1959 Nyarlathotep (short story) H. P. Lovecraft: The United Amateur: 1920 Old Hundredth (short story) Brian Aldiss: Airs of the Earth 1963 Old MacDonald Had a Farm (short story) Mike Resnick: Asimov's Science Fiction: 2001 Old Man in New World: Olaf Stapledon: 1994 Old Music and the Slave ...
It is the first modern short story to introduce bizarre, odd and grotesque elements in children's literature and thereby anticipates Lewis Carroll's tale, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. [38] There are not only parallels concerning the content (the weird adventures of a young girl in a fantasy land), but also the origin of the tales as both ...
Early examples of short stories were published separately between 1790 and 1810, but the first true collections of short stories appeared between 1810 and 1830 in several countries. [ 17 ] The first short stories in the United Kingdom were gothic tales like Richard Cumberland 's "remarkable narrative", "The Poisoner of Montremos" (1791). [ 18 ]
The stories were commissioned to run on Eileen Gunn's The Infinite Matrix [1] but were published in the Sci Fiction section of SciFi.com, between 2001 and 2003. [2] The stories were published as they were written, about which Swanwick said, "It made the sequence into a kind of performance art, something akin to being a trapeze artist, which is ...
Children's short stories are fiction stories, generally under 100 pages long, written for children. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
William the Good (short story collection) William the Lawless; William the Outlaw; William the Pirate; William's Crowded Hours; William's Television Show; Winnie-the-Pooh (book) The Wonder Book of Bible Stories; The Wonder Smith and His Son; A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys; The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More