With powerful and haunting prose, these stories explore the resilience of the human spirit.These science fiction stories will take you on a journey through shattered lives and distorted realities. Dynamic characters are set in dramatic civilizations populated by androids, creatures, and space empires. Each story explores the painful aftermath of loss, trauma, and tragedy.CONTENTS:All Androids Lie- In this gripping legal thriller, two highly skilled lawyers engage in a battle of wits over the accused, Roscoe Travis. William Bennett and Deloris Gayley are both known for their cunning and intellect, but as the trial progresses, William begins to sense that there is something missing from the proceedings. As the lawyers present their complex arguments and analyze data, it becomes clear that all may not be what it seems. As the human jury deliberates, William and Deloris eagerly await the verdict that will determine the future of their profession and...

From the best-selling author of Gratitude, On the Move, and* Musicophilia, * a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience. Oliver Sacks, a scientist and a storyteller, is beloved by readers for the extraordinary neurological case histories (Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars) in which he introduced and explored many now familiar disorders--autism, Tourette's syndrome, face blindness, savant syndrome. He was also a memoirist who wrote with honesty and humor about the remarkable and strange encounters and experiences that shaped him (Uncle Tungsten, On the Move, Gratitude). Sacks, an Oxford-educated polymath, had a deep familiarity not only with literature and medicine but with botany, animal anatomy, chemistry, the history of science, philosophy, and psychology. The River of Consciousness is one of two books Sacks was working on up to his death, and it reveals his ability to make unexpected connections, his sheer joy in knowledge, and his unceasing, timeless project to understand what makes us human.

Ellen had a secret. In all of the world, it was something only she knew. That was how she wanted it. And her worst fear was that somehow, someday, her secret might be exposed. And her most secret desire was that somehow, someday, her secret might become known--and no longer be her secret any more.A professional baseball coach, disillusioned and discouraged, receives new hope in an unexpected form.

Two hundred years after his humiliating defeat at the hands of Earthman Elijah Baley, Keldon Amadiro still dreamed of revenge. Now, finally, he set into motion a plot that would totally destroy the planet Earth. But Amadiro had not counted on the power Baley still exerted long after his death. For Baley's vision continued to guide his robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, and the extraordinarily gifted robot Giskard—and they were the only ones who could save Earth. Fortunately for Amadiro, Daneel and Giskard were restrained by the Three Laws of Robotics. Or were they?

This eBook is a collection of original student writing crafted by Ms. Amy Balogh's ESOL students at Chattahoochee High School during 2015-2016. This anthology reflects students' efforts in a yearlong writer's workshop integrated into their course. Genres include essays, poetry, short stories, microfiction, plays, memoirs, monologues, and speeches.This eBook is a collection of original student writing crafted by Ms. Amy Balogh's ESOL students at Chattahoochee High School during 2015-2016. This anthology reflects students efforts in a yearlong writer's workshop integrated into their course.

The third volume in an extraordinary collection published shortly after the author's death. There are 23 science fiction stories, ranging from the very surprising heart-tugger "The Ugly Little Boy" to the overwhelming vision of "Nightfall". In these stories, Asimov's vivid awareness of the potential of technology is translated into human dilemmas. The definitive collection of short fiction by Isaac Asimov, supreme master of the science fiction genre continues with Volume Three of the Complete Stories. The Good Doctor was always ahead of his time and his work stands today as the clearest expression of our collective hopes and fears for the future. But the ever-expanding popularity of his stories with young and old readers alike is explained by their wit, zest and human interest. Within this volume are stories often voted among the best science fiction stories of all time. In these stories Asimov's vivid awareness of the potential of technology is translated into human dilemmas that...

George Gibbs was an American writer best known for writing action and adventure novels, as well as spy thrillers in foreign lands. George Gibbs was an American writer best known for writing action and adventure novels, as well as spy thrillers in foreign lands. 

Werik Meets the Sky, is a short story about the siege of Gurneyhill Castle by the tunnel dwelling burrowers or roama people. It is set in the world of Archea. The humans and their allies within the Trade Sea Alliance must defend themselves from the primitive but innumerable burrowers; interested only in seizing the meeting points of ley-lines - the powerful ley-nexus, source of arcane energies.Werik Meets the Sky, is a short story about the siege of Gurneyhill Castle by the tunnel dwelling burrowers or roama people. It is set in the world of Archea, a moonless volcanic planet inhabited by native reptiles and numerous stranded species from other worlds, carried there by arcane forces. These intelligent species must vie for control of their new home and this leads to constant battle, chaos and conflict. The humans and their allies within the Trade Sea Alliance must defend themselves from dozens of alien neighbours who seek to rob them of land and resources. Now a new threat has poured forth from the crust of Archea itself, the primitive but innumerable burrowers; interested only in seizing the meeting points of ley-lines. Each power-filled ley-nexus holds arcane power that is Archea’s ultimate resource. The old and forgotten castle at Gurneyhill guards a pair of great ley-nexus and is deep inside alliance territory, far from threat. Or so it was thought.

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A collection of short stories by a world-renowned naturalist and author of My Family and Other Animals introduces an eccentric cast of characters including a prize-truffling pig in France and an aging Memphis belle.

Almost a century after an asteroid impact and subsequent nuclear exchange almost ended all human life on Earth, a strange artifact is discovered on one of the moons of Saturn. Dr. Varsaad Volhard, an evolutionary-socio-historian, is chosen to investigate an alien civilization that sent an artifact to Mimas some thirty thousand years ago.

"My mom went to Berkeley in the 60s (my main tangential claim to hippiedom), so I'm psyched to see her favorite town get the Akashic noir treatment. San Francisco's hippie silo has long captured the imagination of artists and writers, and I can't wait to read the many stories in this collection, including new works from cult faves such Barry Gifford, Aya de Leon, Summer Brenner, and more."—CrimeReads, included in CrimeReads' Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2020"Berkeley, California: home of a world-class university with a parking lot for Nobel laureates, politically active and correct, volatile, and, yes, a bit seedy, too, if you know where to look. The stories in Akashic's latest noir anthology expose the underbelly of this lovely city...All get their just rewards eventually, and readers will be entertained as they find out how it happens."—Booklist"Readers will be glad that many of these tales are fun in a way that...

What seemed like a simple experiment to figure out how the ancient stones were cut released an ancient horror.

Although small and seemingly helpless, the Foundation had managed to survive against the greed of its neighboring warlords. But could it stand against the mighty power of the Empire, who had created a mutant man with the strength of a dozen battlefleets...?