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The Great Automatic Grammatizator (published in the U.S. as The Umbrella Man and Other Stories) [1][2] is a collection of thirteen short stories written by British author Roald Dahl. The stories were selected for teenagers from Dahl's adult works. All the stories included were published elsewhere originally; their sources are noted below.
Franchise. " Question " is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in the March 1955 issue of Computers and Automation (thought to be the first computer magazine), and was reprinted in the April 30, 1957, issue of Science World. It is the first of a loosely connected series of stories concerning a ...
Part 2 has a set of questions and a short conversation between a child and an adult. Children listen to the information in the conversation to answer each of the questions. The answer will be a name or a number. Part 2 tests listening for numbers and spelling. Part 3 has five short conversations between different pairs of people.
The Veldt (short story) " The Veldt " is a science fiction short story by American author Ray Bradbury. Originally appearing as " The World the Children Made " in the September 23, 1950, issue of The Saturday Evening Post, it was republished under its current name in the 1951 anthology The Illustrated Man.
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities. " In Dreams Begin Responsibilities " is a short story by American poet and short story writer Delmore Schwartz. "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" is widely regarded as one of Schwartz's finest stories and is frequently anthologized. Of all of Schwartz's stories, it is probably his best-known and most influential.
Ender's Game series. " Ender's Game " is a science fiction novelette by American writer Orson Scott Card. It first appeared in the August 1977 issue of Analog magazine and was later expanded into the 1985 novel Ender's Game. [1] Although it serves as the foundation of the Ender's Game series, the novelette is not considered to be properly a ...
Jokester. " Jokester " is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the December 1956 issue of Infinity Science Fiction, and was reprinted in the collections Earth Is Room Enough (1957) and Robot Dreams (1986). It is one of a loosely connected series of stories concerning a fictional computer called ...
Youth (Asimov short story) " Youth " is a science fiction novelette by Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the May 1952 issue of Space Science Fiction [1] and was reprinted in the 1955 collection The Martian Way and Other Stories. [2] Youth is one of the rare Asimov stories with alien characters.