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The Star is a science fiction short story by English writer Arthur C. Clarke. It appeared in the science fiction magazine Infinity Science Fiction in 1955 and won the Hugo award in 1956. The story was…

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The Library of Babel

Jorge Luis Borges's famous 1941 meditation on language, alphabets, and the library that contains all knowledge is an allegory of our Universe, and in this edition is complemented and enhanced by the e…

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The Egg

A short story about the universe and your place in it.

"You were on your way home when you died. It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife an…

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The Paper Menagerie

Ken Liu's incredible story "Paper Menagerie" just became the first work of fiction to win all three of SF's major awards: the Hugo, the Nebula and the World Fantasy Award. And we're proud to be able t…

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The Divine Farce (LeapLit)

“A Dante/Beckett reduction of human struggle to its lowest common denominator.”— Michael Mirolla, author of The Formal Logic of Emotion and Berlin

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Franz Escher wartet auf den Elektriker. Seine Steckdose hat einen Wackelkontakt. Um sich die Zeit zu vertreiben, liest er ein Buch über den Mafia-Kronzeugen Elio Russo. Elio sitzt im Gefängnis und war…

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The Last Question

¿Es posible revertir el inevitable final del Universo, o el mundo debe acabar de todas formas? es la pregunta que desde un día del siglo XXI, hasta generaciones y generaciones posteriores en el tiempo…

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The Judgment and other stories

"The judgment" is considered the most autobiographical of Kafka's stories. First, there are Kafka's own commentaries and entries in his diary. When he re-read the story, for instance, he noted that on…

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The Jaunt

"The Jaunt" is a horror short story by Stephen King first published in The Twilight Zone Magazine in 1981, and collected in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew.

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"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman

In a thirtieth anniversary edition of the classic, the Harlequin, a rebel, inhabits a world where conformity and punctuality are top priorities, and the Ticktockman cannot accept the Harlequin's prese…

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Bloodchild

Set on a distant planet, Bloodchild is Octavia E. Butler’s shattering meditation on symbiosis, love, power and tough choices. It won the Hugo, Locus, Nebula and Science Fiction Chronicle awards and is…

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The Sentinel

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They're Made Out of Meat

– "Meat. They're made out of meat."
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Axiomatic

Axiomatic is a collection of Greg Egan's short stories that appeared in various science fiction magazines (mostly Interzone and Asimov's) between 1989 and 1992.

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The Grand Inquisitor

The Grand Inquisitor is a section from The Brothers Karamazov, which is a literary work by Russian author/philosopher Fyodor Dostoevsky. The central character in this work is a Grand Inquisitor who ar…

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Im Schnee

Von der Schönheit und der Härte des einfachen Lebens, von der Gnade der Freundschaft und dem Moment des Verlusts

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There Will Come Soft Rains (Tale Blazers)

First published in Collier's, May 6, 1950.

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Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happiness.

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