Germany’s master of wit and irony now for the first time in English.
Hinrich takes his existence at face value. His wife, on the other hand, has always been more interested in the after-life. Or so it seemed. When she dies of a stroke,...
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Unable to believe her eyes, Dr Sophie Garcia stares at her patient’s wretched death throes. He’s already bleeding from his ears, nose and eyes, when to her utter horror the skin on his face rips open.
Immediately she notifies the...
PROGRAMMED FOR DESTRUCTION
In a way, they were the same, the man and the machine. Both had been ordered to do one thing - kill.
The robot had been created to wreak revenge on the humans who had brutally conquered its planet.
The man...
In his preface, Davis sheds light on the origins of The Bar Sinister. "In the dog world, the original of the bull-terrier in the story is known as Edgewood Cold Steel and to his intimates as 'Kid'. His father was Lord Minto, a thoroughbred...
The Labyrinth of...
Even in a mystical world where centuries ago animals were magically changed into humans, the land of Makasar is considered strange. Its two major religions are Hatters and Hooters. During the day, Hatters, wearing hats of course, wander about...
I am so dead…
Now, was I supposed to go left or right at the Light?
Seventeen-year-old Amber Borden has a lousy sense of direction — so lousy that she takes a wrong turn when returning from her near-death experience. She ends up in the...
A hurricane sweeps off the Gulf of Mexico and in, the back-country of Alabama, assembles a passenger jet out of old bean-cans and junkyard waste. An eccentric mathematician – last heard of investigating the physics of free will and ranting about...
The Rome...
Introduction
One does not have to read very much of To the Lighthouse before one realizes that Woolf has chosen here a very particular style, a way of telling the story which exerts a strange and compelling effect upon the reader. In this lecture...