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Delta Wedding Delta Wedding is a 1946 Southern fiction novel by Eudora Welty. Set in 1923, the novel tells of the experiences of the Fairchilds family during a particularly unexceptional year in the Mississippi Delta. The novel's focus on the mundane and social life of the central south, elicited considerable critique from contemporary critics.
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Eudora Welty Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American short story writer and novelist who wrote about the American South. Her novel "The Optimist's Daughter" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous awards including the Order of the South. She was the first living author to have her works published by the Library of America. Her house in Jackson, Mississippi has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and is open to the public as a house museum.
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Drunkboat (short story) Drunkboat is a science fiction short story by American writer Cordwainer Smith. It was first published in the magazine "Amazing Stories" in October 1963. It was included in "Space Lords", a collection of five stories by Cordwainer Smith published in May 1965. It appeared in "The Instrumentality of Mankind", a collection published in May 1979, and it was in "The Rediscovery of Man", a complete collection of his short stories, published in 1993.
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Jayne Anne Phillips Jayne Anne Phillips (born July 19, 1952) is an American novelist and short story writer, born in the small town of Buckhannon, West Virginia.
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Service Call "Service Call" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published in "Science Fiction Stories", July 1955.
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The Man Who Came Early "The Man Who Came Early" is a science fiction short story by Danish-American author Poul Anderson. Similar in some respects to Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", the story is in fact its antithesis; Anderson sharply differs from Twain in his treatment of the "primitive" society in which the time traveller finds himself, and his assessment of a modern person's chances of survival in such a society.
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Frank Dalby Davison Frank Dalby Davison (23 June 1893 - 24 May 1970), also known as F.D. Davison and Freddie Davison, was an Australian novelist and short story writer. Whilst several of his works demonstrated his progressive political philosophy, he is best known as "a writer of animal stories and a sensitive interpreter of Australian bush life in the tradition of Henry Lawson, Joseph Furphy and Vance Palmer." His most popular works were two novels, "Man-shy" and "Dusty", and his short stories.
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Jerry Dennis Jerry Dennis (born 1954) is an American writer of nonfiction and short fiction. He is known for writing about the effect of human culture on the natural environment.
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The Crawling Chaos "The Crawling Chaos" is a short story by American writers H. P. Lovecraft and Winifred V. Jackson (first published April 1921 in the "United Cooperative". As in their other collaboration, "The Green Meadow", the tale was credited to "Elizabeth Berkeley" (Jackson) and "Lewis Theobald, Jun" (Lovecraft). Lovecraft wrote the entire text , but Jackson is also credited since the story was based on a dream she experienced.
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Jan Cox Speas Jan Cox Speas (1925–1971) is a short story writer and novelist born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1925. She studied creative writing with Hiram Haydn at Woman's College (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, or UNCG), from which she graduated in 1945. From 1954 to 1960 she published Bride of the MacHugh, My Lord Monleigh, and My Love, My Enemy. She also published many short stories in magazines, from pulp to slick. She returned to UNC-G and secured her master's degree in Fine Arts in 1964, submitting her fourth novel The Growing Season as her thesis. Her mentor and advisor was noted poet Randall Jarrell. After graduation, she began teaching English and Creative Writing at Guilford College, also in Greensboro. Speas was well known for her historical romances during the 1950s and 1960s. Following her death from a heart attack in 1971, Avon Publications brought out paperback editions of her romances. By 1978 there were more than a million copies of her books in print. The author was married to John Speas; they lived in Greensboro and had two children, Cynthia and Gregory.
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Story of Your Life "Story of Your Life" is a science fiction novella by American writer Ted Chiang, first published in "Starlight 2" in 1998, and in 2002 in Chiang's collection of short stories, "Stories of Your Life and Others". The major themes explored by this tale are language and determinism.
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Harry Bates (author) Hiram Gilmore "Harry" Bates III (October 9, 1900 – September 1981) was an American science fiction editor and writer. His short story "Farewell to the Master" (1940) was the basis of the well-known science fiction movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951).
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The Carnival (short story) "The Carnival" is an American short story written by Michael Fedo.
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Orpheus with Clay Feet Orpheus with Clay Feet is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick originally published in 1964 in "Escapade" magazine. The story has a self referential time travel theme, and was published under the pen name "Jack Dowland".
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N. M. Kelby N. M.Kelby (Nicole Mary Kelby) is an American short-story and novel writer.
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Colony (short story) "Colony" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published in "Galaxy" magazine, June 1953. The plot centers on an expedition to an uncharted planet, on which the dominant, predatory alien life form is capable of precise mimicry of all kinds of objects. The size and complexity of the mimicked object can vary from simple doormats to whole spaceships with the larger objects usually attempting to trap and "absorb" humans similar to carnivorous plants.
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Landing in Luck "Landing in Luck" was William Faulkner's first published short story. Appearing in the November 26, 1919 issue of "The Mississippian", a literary magazine at the University of Mississippi, "Landing in Luck" tells the story of Cadet Thompson, who is sent on a solo flight without adequate instruction. Thompson lands successfully, and his flight instructor, Bessing, takes credit for the fine job he did of teaching the cadet pilot. It is a fictional exaggeration based on Faulkner's experience as a cadet-pilot for the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1918.
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Edwin Charles Tubb Edwin Charles Tubb (15 October 1919 – 10 September 2010) was a British writer of science fiction, fantasy and western novels. The author of over 140 novels and 230 short stories and novellas, Tubb is best known for The Dumarest Saga (US collective title: "Dumarest of Terra"), an epic science-fiction saga set in the far future. Michael Moorcock wrote, "His reputation for fast-moving and colourful SF writing is unmatched by anyone in Britain."
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Sarah Barnwell Elliott Sarah Barnwell Elliott (November 29, 1848 – August 30, 1928) was a novelist, short story writer, and an advocate of women's rights.
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Tk'tk'tk "Tk’tk’tk" is a science fiction short story written in 2005 by David D. Levine.
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How I Met My Husband "How I Met My Husband" is a short story written by Alice Munro, first published in 1974 as a part of her collection "Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You".
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A Matter of Traces "A Matter of Traces" is a short story by science fiction author Frank Herbert which first appeared in "Fantastic Universe" magazine in November 1958 and later in Herbert’s 1985 short story collection "Eye". It is notable for being the first story to mention Herbert's ConSentiency universe, one of his three elaborate fictional universes spanning multiple volumes (the others being the "Dune" universe and the developed with co-author Bill Ransom).