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The Game of Rat and Dragon" is a science fiction short story by American author Cordwainer Smith (1913–1966). It was written in 1954 [1] and published in Galaxy Science Fiction in 1955. It is set in the far future, though no date is given.
Come Together: A Fashion Picture in Motion, or simply Come Together, is a 2016 Christmas-themed comedy short film written and directed by Wes Anderson, and was made as a commercial for H&M's "Come Together" clothing line. It stars Adrien Brody and Garth Jennings. On November 27, 2016, it was released on the internet.
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"The Alien Corn" (short story) W. Somerset Maugham: John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale" All the King's Men: Robert Penn Warren: Anon., "Humpty Dumpty" All Passion Spent: Vita Sackville-West: John Milton, Samson Agonistes: Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea: Michael Morpurgo: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ...
"The Fun They Had" is a science fiction story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in a children's newspaper in 1951 and was reprinted in the February 1954 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Earth Is Room Enough (1957), 50 Short Science Fiction Tales (1960), and The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973).
It includes two of his most famous short stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and "For Esmé – with Love and Squalor". (Nine Stories is the U.S. title; the book is published in many other countries as For Esmé - with Love and Squalor, and Other Stories). The stories are: "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut"
“If I were a Rothschild”), [1] a reference to the wealth of the Rothschild family, although the content is different, and its words come partly from passages in Aleichem's 1899 short tale The Bubble Bursts. Monologue and tale both appeared in English in a 1949 collection of stories called Tevye's Daughters. [2]
Illustration of the coins distributed at the end of the story, stamped with the book's catchphrase. The story was adapted into a 39-minute television film as part of the PBS American Short Stories series, directed by Ralph Rosenblum and featuring performances by Robert Preston, Fred Gwynne, and Frances Sternhagen. It first aired on March 17, 1980.