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One Across is a humorous fantasy short story by Arthur Sellings. It describes what happens to a crossword enthusiast who becomes too engrossed in the hobby. It was first published in Galaxy Science Fiction in May 1956. Plot. Norman Woods is a crossword enthusiast.
"I, Cthulhu" is a short humorous story by fantasy author Neil Gaiman featuring H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu, who is dictating an autobiography to a human slave named Whateley. The story reveals much about Cthulhu's 'birth' and early life.
Free short story online. (Winner of 2012 World Fantasy Award for best novella). [1] "Let Maps to Others". Subterranean Online. Summer 2012. Archived from the original on 9 July 2012 "The Sun and I". Subterranean Online. Summer 2013. Archived from the original on 10 September 2014. "Illuminated". Subterranean Online. Summer 2013.
The Magic Goes Away is a fantasy short story written by Larry Niven in 1976, and later expanded to a novella of the same name which was published in 1978. While these works were not the first in the "Magic Universe" or "Warlock" series, they marked a turning point after the 1973 oil crisis and Niven's subsequent transformation of the series into an allegory for a modern-day energy crisis.
Jordan wrote two short stories within the franchise in the late 1990s. The first, "The Strike at Shayol Ghul", predates the main series by several thousand years. It was made available on the Internet and was later published in The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time . [ 102 ]
Liane the Wayfarer is a science fantasy short story by American writer Jack Vance, the fourth in his The Dying Earth series. It first appeared in the December 1950 issue of the magazine Worlds Beyond. It is sometimes published under the alternate title "The Loom of Darkness". [1]
The story was twice adapted by Hollywood, first in 1990 as a short film, and again in 1993 as a television movie. Lupoff appeared in both films as an extra. [1] The major plot device is a time loop or time bounce, and bears great similarity to that of 1993's Groundhog Day. Lupoff and Jonathan Heap, director of the 1990 film, were "outraged" by ...
"A Cabin on the Coast" is a science fantasy short story by American writer Gene Wolfe, initially published in the February 1984 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and collected in Endangered Species (1989) and The Best Of Gene Wolfe (2009). [1] It was nominated for the 1985 Nebula Award for Best Short Story as well as the 1985 ...