To the Stars and Other Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook To the Stars and Other Stories write by . This book was released on 2023-02-28. To the Stars and Other Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A boy who feels persecuted by the banality of everyday life yearns to ascend to the cold and majestic plane of the stars. A seamstress finds liberation of a sort in “becoming” a dog and howling at the moon. A club of young girls masquerade as the grieving fiancées of strange men. This book brings together these and other remarkable short stories by the Russian Symbolist Fyodor Sologub that explore the lengths to which people will go to transcend the mundane. Renowned as one of late imperial Russia’s finest stylists, Sologub bridges the great nineteenth-century novel and the fin-de-siècle avant-garde. He stands out for his masterful command of both realist and fantastic storytelling; his play with language evinces a belief in its capacity to access other worlds and other levels of meaning. Many of Sologub’s stories are set among children whose alienation from the adult world has lent them imagination and curiosity, enabling them to create an alternative reality. At the same time, he bluntly examines the sordid realities of late imperial Russian society and frankly presents sometimes unconventional sexuality. The book also features a selection of Sologub’s “little fairy tales,” ambiguous parables couched in childlike language whose ingenuity anticipates the miniatures and “incidents” of Daniil Kharms. Susanne Fusso’s elegant translation offers these artful tales to an English-speaking audience.
Beyond The Stars
Beyond The Stars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond The Stars write by Sarah Webb. This book was released on 2014-10-09. Beyond The Stars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 12 tales of adventure, magic and wonder from a stellar author and illustrator line-up – the perfect gift for all story-lovers
Beyond the Stars & Other Stories
Beyond the Stars & Other Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Stars & Other Stories write by . This book was released on 2021. Beyond the Stars & Other Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Navigating the Stars
Navigating the Stars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Navigating the Stars write by Maria V. Snyder. This book was released on 2018-12-01. Navigating the Stars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 2019 PRISM Award Winner! “The answer is no, Lyra,” my mother utters her favorite—I swear—phrase. No means I have to travel with them to another planet—again. No means leaving all my friends fifty years in the past. Thanks, Einstein. Seventeen-year-old Lyra Daniels can’t truly blame Einstein or her parents for their impending move across the Milky Way Galaxy. It’s all due to the invention of the Q-net, which made traveling the vast distances in space possible—with one big caveat: the time dilation. But that never stopped Lyra's ancestors from exploring the Milky Way, searching for resources and exoplanets to colonize. What they didn’t expect to find is life-sized terracotta Warriors buried on twenty-one different exoplanets. ... Make that twenty-two. As the Galaxy’s leading experts on the Warriors, Lyra's parents are thrilled by the new discovery, sending them—and her—fifty years into the future. Her social life in ruins, she fills her lonely days by illegally worming into the Q-net. The only person close to her age is the annoyingly irresistible security officer who threatens to throw her into the brig. After the planet they just left goes silent—meaning no communications from them at all—security has bigger problems to deal with than Lyra, especially when vital data files go missing. But that's just the beginning, because they’re not as alone as they thought on their new planet... and suddenly time isn't the only thing working against them.
BEYOND: The Stars
BEYOND: The Stars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook BEYOND: The Stars write by Scott Overton. This book was released on 2018-06-13. BEYOND: The Stars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Three thrilling short stories of adventure among the stars: A solo pilot in deep space risks losing his sanity when his ship is invaded by disembodied thoughts. A marathon runner on a dangerous desert planet discovers that it may not be uninhabited after all. The crew of a survey ship encounters a powerful being with an injury that will test their every belief. Node Of Thought A spaceship pilot on a solo mission between the stars begins to see visions of other people. Are they trace thoughts from others who’ve passed that way? It’s not just an academic question when the ship’s computer starts to obey commands that aren’t his. Marathon of the Devil In a death-defying marathon on a desert planet, Eli Marone has managed to get lost. It’s now a race for survival, especially when the barren world might not be so lifeless after all. The Rift Twenty-seven years after a reckless experiment created a vast rift across the galaxy, a survey ship’s crew encounters a being with strange abilities and an even stranger disability. What they learn will test every belief they’ve ever had.
