Language: English

Published: 2007

This story examines the obvious connection between aluminum foil, a Manhattan real estate broker approaching his seventies, and the Cold War. Follow Micheal Morzeny on the last sales call he’ll ever make.

Author: Peter Darbyshire

Language: English

Published: 2002

In short, sharp episodes, Please chronicles the life of a young man who drifts through a hallucinatory urban world filled with celebrity wannabes, addictive relationships and jobs that demand he become someone else. The only thing he cares about is finding his ex-wife, who seems to exist only in his memories now. This terse, savage debut fuses the quiet desperation of Raymond Carver with the absurdity and media-savvy irony of Quentin Tarantino. At the same time, Please has a compassionate heart: It's a moving portrait of one man's attempt to embrace something real in his life. Here's an X-ray of our times from a writer of extraordinary restraint, skill and wit.

Author: Paul Ernst

Language: English

Published: 1932

Armed with splinters of steel, two ant-sized men dare the formidable mysteries of a termitary.

Language: English

Published: 2007

Dorian is the head of a lab researching a breakthrough technology for the treatment of those suffering emotional trauma. But one night he decides that this not-quite-ready-yet treatment would be the perfect thing to fix his failing marriage. Mix The Matrix with the set from the original Frankenstein movie, add a dash of couples therapy, stir, then pour into a tall glass made out of old Twilight Zone episodes and you’ll have a sense of some of the flavors this story calls to mind.

Language: English

Published: 2008

Language: English

Published: 2007

True love can develop in a number of ways. Sometimes it happens at first sight. Sometimes it takes warm beer, teenage nights at the beach, misunderstood conversations and a lot of persistence. A little luck never hurt either.

Author: Poul William Anderson

Language: English

Published: 1957

How rarely science-fiction writers succeed in creating a wholly alien culture may be judged from any adequate study of an earthly culture of a time or place which does not form part of our direct heritage. S.F's aliens may have pseudopods or supersdentific gadgets, but rarely so wholly different a frame of reference as man himself has achieved in other eras. Here F&SFs favorite Scandinavian skald takes us to Iceland near the end of the tenth century and convincingly depicts a truly "alien" way of life and teaches us the tragic truth that the role of a twentieth-century timetraveler to a "primitive" culture need not necessarily be that of Prometheus the Fire-Bringer.

Language: English

Published: 1955

The late Howard Roberts created one of the greatest characters in (so his publishers assure us) science-fantasy in his tales of Cronkheit the Barbarian and the Hybolic Age; I do not understand how the following episode, surely the most revelatory of all the chronicles of Cronkheit, has been so far omitted from the collected canon.

Language: English

Published: 2007

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Author: Hal K. Wells

Language: English

Published: 1932

Language: English

Published: 1995

Watchmen is a trademark of DC Comics Inc., copyright 1995. These annotations copyright 1995 by Doug Atkinson. They may be freely copied and distributed, provided the text is not altered.

Author: Aaron Dunlap

Language: English

Published: 2008

Chris leads an entirely normal life until his father, a researcher for the Marine Corps working in Quantico, mysteriously dies and leaves Chris with a suspiciously large life insurance payout. Then, when Chris gets in a fight at school and puts his attackers into the hospital, his principal tries to cover it up. Trying to discover the answers to the compounding mysteries in his life, Chris uses social engineering, high tech espionage, and physical intimidation he never thought he'd be capable of.

Author: Paul Mungo

Language: English

Published: 1993

This book was originally released in hardcover by Random House in 1992. I feel that I should do the community a service and release the book in the medium it should have been first released in... I hope you enjoy the book as much as I did..It provides a fairly complete account of just about everything..... From motherfuckers, to Gail 'The Bitch' Thackeray.....

Author: Clifford Donald Simak

Language: English

Published: 1932

Weird are the conditions of the interdimensional struggle faced by Dr. White's ninety-nine men.

Language: English

Published: 1999

Many of us dream of a universal digital library freely available on the web, i.e. available anywhere and at any time. Thanks to Project Gutenberg, the Internet Archive and others, we are getting there, at least for the books from public domain.

Author: Donald E. Westlake

Language: English

Published: 1961

The men who did dangerous work had a special kind of insurance policy. But when somebody wanted to collect on that policy, the claims investigator suddenly became a member of ... THE RISK PROFESSION

Language: English

Published: 1961

Paper 16, pages 109-133, from CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY United States National Museum BULLETIN 225

Language: English

Published: 1937

Language: French

Published: 2008

Language: French

Published: 1999

Datée de février 1999, cette étude s'articule autour de quatre grands thèmes: le multilinguisme, les ressources linguistiques, la traduction et la recherche. Elle est basée sur de nombreux entretiens.

Language: English

Published: 2008

Language: English

Published: 1999

This study is divided into four parts: Multilingualism, Language Resources, Translation Resources and Language-Related Research. It is based on many interviews.

Language: French

Published: 2007

Daté de septembre 2007, un livre de synthèse de 1971 à nos jours, basé sur le suivi de l'actualité francophone et internationale, et issu des multiples liens tissés sur la toile avec nombre de professionnels du livre au fil des ans.

Language: English

Published: 1999

How does the world of the print media approach this new means of communication that is the Internet? How does the Internet take into account the various parts of the print media? A study written in March 1999 and based on many interviews. With many thanks to Laurie Chamberlain, who kindly edited this paper.

Author: Bradner Buckner

Language: English

Published: 1956

All Dave Miller wanted to do was commit suicide in peace. He tried, but the things that happened after he'd pulled the trigger were all wrong. Like everyone standing around like statues. No St. Peter, no pearly gate, no pitchforks or halos. He might just as well have saved the bullet!

Language: English

Published: 2001

What do they do on the Web? What do they think of the Internet, copyright, multilingualism, the future of paper, the e-book, the information society, etc.? A series of interviews between 1998 and 2001 with writers, journalists, publishers, booksellers, librarians, professors, researchers, linguists, etc.

Language: French

Published: 2006

Language: French

Published: 1999

Comment le monde de l'imprimé accepte-t-il ce nouvel outil d'information et de communication qu'est Internet? De quelle manière Internet prend-il en compte les différents secteurs de l'imprimé? Une étude datée de mars 1999 et basée sur de nombreux entretiens.

Language: French

Published: 2001

Quelle est leur activité sur l'internet? Quelle est leur opinion sur l'avenir du réseau, l'avenir de l'imprimé, le livre électronique, le droit d'auteur, le multilinguisme, le cyberespace, la société de l'information, etc.? Entretiens avec des bibliothécaires-documentalistes, chercheurs, écrivains, éditeurs, gestionnaires, journalistes, libraires, linguistes, professeurs, traducteurs, etc., francophones et non francophones.

Author: Jack G. Huekels

Language: English

Published: 1956

There is a lot of entertainment and also a great deal of truth in this story. We recommend it highly.