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Everyone believes the man is mad. The man asks for passage. He introduces himself as Goodbody, Doctor of Science of Osbaldeston University. He was an assistant of Professor Yeoward, who was lost in the upland jungle beyond the source of the Amer River. He begs to be allowed to leave, to escape the "men without bones".
"Free Men" (1966) is a science fiction short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. It was his only short story known to have been published after " All You Zombies ". [ 1 ] It originally appeared in his collection The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein (1966) and was later collected in Expanded Universe .
All the Sad Young Men is a collection of short fiction by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. The stories originally appeared independently in popular literary journals and were first collected in February 1926 by Charles Scribner's Sons. [1] [2] [3]
The story begins with the protagonist, Dave Sanders, walking home from his job in a cattle farm, irritated with the way he's been treated. He decides to purchase a gun to prove to his co-workers that he is an adult. Instead of going home, he asks to look at the Sears Roebuck catalogue in a local store. The store owner, Fat Joe, asks Dave what ...
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is a short story collection by American writer David Foster Wallace, first published in 1999 by Little, Brown.According to the papers in the David Foster Wallace Archive at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, [1] the book had an estimated gross sales of 28,000 hardcover copies during the first year of its publication.
Young Men in Spats is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 3 April 1936 by Herbert Jenkins, London, then in the United States with a slightly different selection of stories on 24 July 1936 by Doubleday, Doran, New York.
They are the tiny experimental prose volume, in our time (1924), the much expanded In Our Time (1925, with an extra story added in 1930), Men Without Women (1927) and Winner Take Nothing (1933). In addition, four further stories were first published in Hemingway's first omnibus, The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938).
"The Long Rain" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury. This story was originally published in 1950 under a different title in the magazine Planet Stories, and then in the collection The Illustrated Man. The story tells of four men who have crashed on Venus, where it is always raining.