A Selection of Short Stories PDF Download

Author: E W Farnsworth
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244361088
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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E. W. Farnsworth's brainy and visionary short stories in this volume are meant to be read individually as invitations to other of his creations. The uncanny interplay of the writer and his context can be understood by the thoughtful, patient reader capable of perceiving semantic patterns beneath the surface of words. The excerpt from 'Nightworld: A Novel of Virtual Reality' inspired the cover image for this book since the woman with the wolf in the forest is a boundary-crossing Artificial Intelligence. Part of Farnsworth's epic vision for the future of humankind, AIs and robotics, the stories from 'DarkFire' and 'DarkFire Continuum' weave a continuous cosmology as the adventures of the spaceship 'Arcturus' begin. These stories reveal how their many intellectual games open vistas to the author's past and future stories as well as to inventions and discoveries on the far-horizon of human thought. E. W. Farnsworth is currently working on a visionary epic poem, 'Voyage of the Spaceship Arcturus'.

Author: E. W. Farnsworth
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244319103
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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This collection of literary, sometimes melancholy, tales by E. W. Farnsworth invites thoughtful readers to dive right in anywhere for a few minutes or an hour on a subway ride or before bed. Novella 'River Tales' outlines the recruitment of a female CIA agent. 'The Blood Closet' is about a headmistress's perplexity dealing with gender issues in a middle school. Each work of flash fiction is thought-provoking. Some stories are profound and most will reward re-reading - closely; a few link by characters and actions to other works by the author. E. W. Farnsworth lives and writes in Gilbert, Arizona, USA. With over two-hundred and fifty short stories published online and in print, he renders real-world experience in fiction with his own cosmos. One critic sincerely hoped that the incidents in Farnsworth's fiction have no counterparts in real life. In fact, they all are drawn to life. In that sense, his fiction is troubling, intentionally so.

Author: Horrified Press
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244328927
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 94

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Does the afterlife really define a resting place? Do all dearly departed find an existence alongside serenity? Binding the temple of one's soul does not always secure the evil intentions festering and awaiting liberty beyond the shroud. Read to find out what really lies beneath the constraints of merciless cessation.

Author: PILGRIM OFF-FIFTH PRESS
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244045151
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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The buttstock, the trigger and the MACHINE GUN'S smoking barrel. There's a reason why the combatants of war call it "the devil's piano". "The solider above all prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war." General Douglas MacArthur - USA The melodies of the devil's piano can play on in the minds of the living and sometimes even the dead. "If you are going through hell, keep going." Winston Churchill - Prime Minister Great Britain

Author: A Collection of Short Stories
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244511772
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Welcome to the ninth volume of AudioArcadia.com's series entitled AN ECLECTIC MIX. Within these pages are contained ten winning stories by ten different authors whose entries, amongst many others, were submitted to our short story competition which ended on 30th June this year. There are a total of twelve stories in this book which we hope you will find fascinating and intriguing, one way or another. Full details of how to enter our current writing competition can be viewed by clicking the 'Competition' tab on our website.

Author: E W Farnsworth
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244904014
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Since the appearance of E. W. Farnsworth's 'DarkFire at the Edge of Time' in early 2016, the importance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has increased exponentially. From AI to robotics, 2016 was long prophesied as the year when the machines would start "taking over"", Now it is happening, according to Vivek Wadhwa of Crunch Network. Yet AIs and robots have come as our friends and helpmeets to improve our lives. They will become, as Lincoln wrote, the "better angels of our nature." From the 'Sarah Tetralogy' through the journey of Spaceship Arcturus conveying brilliant humans, artificial intelligences and avatars beyond the end of the universe, to 'Renaissance', which recounts the spaceship's successful return to instantiate a new Eden which replaces the black crisp that humans have made of Earth, these stories continue in the vein of DarkFire and his friend, the inimitable Loc Phuket. Science Fiction to some, perhaps, yet, day by day, increasingly part of our current events.

Author: Lindsay Fairgrieve
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244385327
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Lindsay Fairgrieve gave up a lucrative career in London at the age of forty-five to follow her lifelong ambition of obtaining a university degree - at whatever cost. This is not a book about academia - instead, it is a fascinating account of Lindsay's encounters with her fellow classmates, most of whom were teenagers, as well as everyday life in England and China. An avid gourmet, she goes on to describe her eleven month stay in Tianjin as well as her travels to Beijing, the Great Wall, Inner Mongolia, Shanghai, Lhasa, Kathmandu, Mount Everest, Hong Kong - and other interesting destinations. Lindsay also writes about some of the unusual foods she came across as she travelled around. Within this book, which contains some adult language and situations, you will find all manner of intrigue and humour. It is not, however, for readers of a faint-hearted disposition.

Author: E W Farnsworth
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326990977
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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The author's intent in presenting these ten stories early in 2017 is to remind Americans and right-leaning Europeans that there is a cost to attempting to return to a bygone era which was never really a paradise. The stories deal with themes such as the degraded position of women before the advent of birth-control pills; education in an anti-intellectual country; ill-starred youths and ghosts in the Japanese-American community of Los Angeles; ghostly and grisly Chinese traditions; the dark underbelly of the American musical scenes in the 1950s and 20-Naughts. 'The Joys of Trumpery' and 'The Last Trump' provide a caricature vision of the deepest fears of anti-Trump liberals who resent and even resist the Presidency of Donald Trump. The author is decidedly not 'anti-Trump'. Nevertheless, having lived through the 1950s without being lobotomized, imprisoned, wounded in battle or strapped in an electric chair, he is grateful for benefits provided by many who, deservedly or not, suffered and are forgotten.

Author: E W Farnsworth
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244459738
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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E. W. Farnsworth's DarkFire Warrior follows the pattern of the visionary science fiction tales and poems he established in DarkFire and DarkFire Continuum. Humans and intelligent machines cannot coexist peacefully on Earth, so a brave few of each kind escape. The epic Voyage of the Spaceship Arcturus is the enfolding structure for Farnsworth's creations. As Earth is destroyed by inevitable nuclear war, Arcturus slips through the evil space empire to discover that the edge of the universe is the gateway to a new, pristine realm. Meanwhile, the voyagers evolve into symbiotic organisms worthy of inhabiting the New Eden waiting for them at the end of their trek. A surprise reunion of The Avatar and The Dweeb rounds out the spaceship's journey, which starts where it began, but with everything changed. In this third volume, Farnsworth explores the logical backgrounds of the major characters and the execution of their plan for escaping Earth.

Author: Robert Polito
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN: 1598534254
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 964

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An “impressive new volume” of 5 noir novels by the cult-favorite author who stands alongside Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett as a master of American crime writing (The New York Review of Books) Among the pantheon of American crime writers—those masters of noir whose powerful vernacular style and dark and subversive themes transformed American culture and writing—David Goodis was a unique figure. Now, The Library of America and editor Robert Polito team up to celebrate the full scope of Goodis’s signature style with this landmark volume collecting five great novels from the height of his career. Goodis (1917-1967) was a Philadelphia-born pulp expressionist who brought a jazzy style to his spare, passionate novels of mean streets and doomed protagonists: an innocent man railroaded for his wife's murder (Dark Passage); an artist whose life turns nightmarish because of a cache of stolen money (Nightfall); a dockworker seeking to comprehend his sister's brutal death (The Moon in the Gutter); a petty criminal derailed by irresistible passion (The Burglar); and a famous crooner scarred by violence and descending into dereliction (Street of No Return). Long a cult favorite, Goodis now takes his place alongside Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett in the pantheon of classic American crime writers.