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The Hogben Chronicles
''The Hogben Chronicles'' is a 2013 collection of the Hogben series stories, published by Borderlands Books with an introduction by Neil Gaiman. The Hogben series consists of five stories of the comic science fiction genre, attributed in some cases to Henry Kuttner alone (as in this collection) and in others acknowledging the co-authorship of his wife, C. L. Moore. The couple wrote various works in collaboration, sometimes using the joint pseudonym Lewis Padgett. Three Hogben stories have been given both Kuttner and Padgett attributions. ''ISFDb'' The works of the series are: * "The Old Army Game", in the November 1941 issue of '''' f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hogben Chronicles
''The Hogben Chronicles'' is a 2013 collection of the Hogben series stories, published by Borderlands Books with an introduction by Neil Gaiman. The Hogben series consists of five stories of the comic science fiction genre, attributed in some cases to Henry Kuttner alone (as in this collection) and in others acknowledging the co-authorship of his wife, C. L. Moore. The couple wrote various works in collaboration, sometimes using the joint pseudonym Lewis Padgett. Three Hogben stories have been given both Kuttner and Padgett attributions. ''ISFDb'' The works of the series are: * "The Old Army Game", in the November 1941 issue of '''' f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borderlands Books
Borderlands Books is a San Francisco independent bookstore specializing exclusively in science fiction, fantasy and horror. History In 1997 Alan Beatts opened Borderlands in Hayes Valley as a used-only bookstore consisting of his personal collection and a selection of books from Know Knew Books in Palo Alto. In 2001 the store moved to 866 Valencia in the heart of the Mission District where it is currently located. Shortly after opening in the new location, Borderlands Books was awarded the "Best Sign Of De-Gentrification in the Mission" from the SF Bay Guardian. On February 2, 2015, in an open letter posted on the store's website, the owners Alan Beatts and Jude Feldman, announced they would close the store on March 31, 2015, explaining they could not afford to pay San Francisco's recently enacted $15 minimum wage (a minimum wage that they support). The store later announced a plan to remain open by relying on 300 private sponsors at $100 apiece, and this goal was soon surpass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Gaiman
Neil Richard MacKinnon GaimanBorn as Neil Richard Gaiman, with "MacKinnon" added on the occasion of his marriage to Amanda Palmer. ; ( Neil Richard Gaiman; born 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, nonfiction, audio theatre, and films. His works include the comic book series '' The Sandman'' and novels '' Stardust'', '' American Gods'', ''Coraline'', and '' The Graveyard Book''. He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, ''The Graveyard Book'' (2008). In 2013, ''The Ocean at the End of the Lane'' was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards. It was later adapted into a critically acclaimed stage play at the Royal National Theatre in London, England that ''The Independent'' called "...theatre at its best". Early life Gaiman's f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ISFDb
The Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) is a database of bibliographic information on genres considered speculative fiction, including science fiction and related genres such as fantasy, alternate history, and horror fiction. The ISFDB is a volunteer effort, with the database being open for moderated editing and user contributions, and a wiki that allows the database editors to coordinate with each other. the site had catalogued 2,002,324 story titles from 232,816 authors. The code for the site has been used in books and tutorials as examples of database schema and organizing content. The ISFDB database and code are available under Creative Commons licensing. The site won the Wooden Rocket Award in the Best Directory Site category in 2005. Purpose The ISFDB database indexes speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror, and alternate history) authors, novels, short fiction, essays, publishers, awards, and magazines in print, electronic, and audio formats. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Story
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest types of literature and has existed in the form of legends, mythic tales, folk tales, fairy tales, tall tales, fables and anecdotes in various ancient communities around the world. The modern short story developed in the early 19th century. Definition The short story is a crafted form in its own right. Short stories make use of plot, resonance, and other dynamic components as in a novel, but typically to a lesser degree. While the short story is largely distinct from the novel or novella/short novel, authors generally draw from a common pool of literary techniques. The short story is sometimes referred to as a genre. Determining what exactly defines a short story has been recurrently problematic. A classic definition of a short story ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comic Science Fiction
Science fiction comedy (sci-fi comedy) or comic science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction or science fantasy that exploits the science-fiction (SF) genre's conventions for comedic effect. Comic science fiction often mocks or satirizes standard SF conventions – such as alien invasion of Earth, interstellar travel, or futuristic technology. It can also satirize and criticize present-day society. An early example was the '' Pete Manx'' series by Henry Kuttner and Arthur K. Barnes (sometimes writing together and sometimes separately, under the house pen-name of Kelvin Kent). Published in ''Thrilling Wonder Stories'' in the late 1930s and early 1940s, the series featured a time-traveling carnival barker who uses his con-man abilities to get out of trouble. Two later series cemented Kuttner's reputation as one of the most popular early writers of comic science fiction: the ''Gallegher'' series (about a drunken inventor and his narcissistic robot) and the ''Hogben'' series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Kuttner
Henry Kuttner (April 7, 1915 – February 3, 1958) was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and horror. Early life Henry Kuttner was born in Los Angeles, California in 1915. Kuttner (1829–1903) and Amelia Bush (c. 1834–1911), the parents of his father, the bookseller Henry Kuttner (1863–1920), had come from Leszno in Prussia and lived in San Francisco since 1859; the parents of his mother, Annie Levy (1875–1954), were from Great Britain. Henry Kuttner's great-grandfather was the scholar Josua Heschel Kuttner. Kuttner grew up in relative poverty following the death of his father. As a young man he worked in his spare time for the literary agency of his uncle, Laurence D'Orsay (in fact his first cousin by marriage), in Los Angeles before selling his first story, "The Graveyard Rats", to ''Weird Tales'' in early 1936. It was while working for the d'Orsay agency that Kuttner picked Leigh Brackett's early manuscripts off the slush pile; it was under his tutelage th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Padgett
Lewis Padgett was the joint pseudonym of the science fiction authors and spouses Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore,Nicholls 1979, p. 445. taken from their mothers' maiden names. They also used the pseudonyms Lawrence O'Donnell and C. H. Liddell, as well as collaborating under their own names. Writing as 'Lewis Padgett' they were the author of many humorous short stories of science fiction in the 1940s and 1950s. Among the most famous were: * The "Gallegher" series of stories, collected in ''Robots Have No Tails'' (Gnome, 1952): ** "The Proud Robot" ** "Gallegher Plus" ** "The World Is Mine" ** "Ex Machina" ** "Time Locker" * " Mimsy Were the Borogoves" * "The Twonky" * "What You Need" Adaptations * "The Twonky" was the inspiration for a radio show recording and a full-length film by the same name. * Episodes of ''Tales of Tomorrow'' and ''The Twilight Zone'' were based on the short story "What You Need". * In 1976, Caedmon Records released a spoken word album of the short story (TC 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thrilling Adventures
''Thrilling Adventures'' was a monthly American pulp magazine published from 1931 to 1943.Doug Ellis, John Locke, John Gunnison, ''The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps''. Adventure House, 2000, (p. 270). History ''Thrilling Adventures'' was created in 1931 by editor Leo Margulies and was patterned after the pulp ''Adventure''. It was one of 16 pulps that Margulies founded that incorporated the adjective "Thrilling" in the title. (The company that published the ''Thrilling'' titles eventually changed its name to Thrilling Publications.) The first edition of ''Thrilling Adventures'' was published in December 1931. ''Thrilling Adventures'' published fictional stories, mostly of the adventure and sports genres. Edgar Rice Burroughs published both Tarzan stories and westerns in ''Thrilling Adventures''. Louis L'Amour and Allan R. Bosworth contributed sports stories to ''Thrilling Adventures''. Robert E. Howard published two Afghanistan-set stories in ''Thrilling Adventures'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thrilling Wonder Stories
''Wonder Stories'' was an early American science fiction magazine which was published under several titles from 1929 to 1955. It was founded by Hugo Gernsback in 1929 after he had lost control of his first science fiction magazine, ''Amazing Stories'', when his media company Experimenter Publishing went bankrupt. Within a few months of the bankruptcy, Gernsback launched three new magazines: ''Air Wonder Stories'', ''Science Wonder Stories'', and ''Science Wonder Quarterly''. ''Air Wonder Stories'' and ''Science Wonder Stories'' were merged in 1930 as ''Wonder Stories'', and the quarterly was renamed ''Wonder Stories Quarterly''. The magazines were not financially successful, and in 1936 Gernsback sold ''Wonder Stories'' to Ned Pines at Beacon Publications, where, retitled ''Thrilling Wonder Stories'', it continued for nearly 20 years. The last issue was dated Winter 1955, and the title was then merged with ''Startling Stories'', another of Pines' science fiction magazines. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 Short Story Collections
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American Short Story Collections
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