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An empty mansion sitting on a hundred acres of waterfront property. A long lost friend with the deal of a lifetime. A family lost at sea. And an old woman with a memory that may hold the key to it all. Richie and Lisa Craine thought they were going to a high school reunion to laugh together about the Homecoming King’s receding hairline and the Homecoming Queen’s aged skin. They felt good about where they’d ended up in life twenty years after graduation. And then along came Fredrick Patterson.

SENTRY OF THE SKY AND OTHER STORIES is part of the Evelyn E. Smith series published by Unforgotten Books, and includes the stories: NOT FIT FOR CHILDREN, SENTRY OF THE SKY, THE MAN OUTSIDE, and JACK OF NO TRADES. Evelyn E. Smith wrote fabulously witty and imaginative science fiction and satirical stories throughout the 1950's, and this collection is part of a series re-issuing those works and concurrently producing the audiobook editions.

A snowstorm brings a wild and dangerous visitor. A journalist encounters more Indians than he bargained for. A widow is chosen as a companion by a ghost cat. A package is left on a doorstep, a door to alternate universes. These are things you can't predict. They come from places unknown. And the endings. Who knows how it will end? But when the unexpected happens, what choice do we havebut to walk toward it headfirst? Whatever we discover,life moves forward. If it feels strange, so be it.

This anthology explores themes of cyclical traps, inescapable realities, and the dark forces that manipulate human fate. Each story presents a protagonist believing they have found an exit—whether through logic, escape, or discovery—only to realize they are bound deeper within a predetermined, often supernatural, loop.

In den vergangenen dreißig Jahren haben die Menschen die Lokale Blase rund um das Sonnensystem besiedelt. In relativer Nähe zur Erde sind neun Kolonien entstanden. Doch die genetisch angepassten Menschen streben nach Freiheit und Selbstbestimmung. Sie wollen die Unabhängigkeit von der Terranischen Union. Was sie nicht wissen: Vor langer Zeit waren ihre Welten Teil einer gewaltigen Maschine – des Nonagons. Diese Maschine sollte die Milchstraße vor einer furchtbaren Gefahr schützen.

Am Anfang einer neuen Zeit – das 22. Jahrhundert hat gerade erst begonnen: Die Menschheit hat die Planeten und Monde des eigenen Sonnensystems besiedelt. Allerdings wachsen seit einiger Zeit die Spannungen: Die Siedler sind unzufrieden, sie fühlen sich von den Menschen der Erde missverstanden. Im Jahr 2102 droht der Konflikt zu eskalieren.

They had 36 Hours to prepare for the end of the world as they knew it. It wasn’t enough.

In 1972, the "Surprise" signal was dismissed as cosmic noise. Today, the Orbital Spire station corrected that error. Using a revolutionary quantum data bus, we hyper-compressed a payload and fired it toward the red dwarf at System X−9. We didn’t send greetings; we sent the resilience of a baby tardigrade, encoded in starlight. As the beam raced 12 light-years across the void, we ignored the warnings of potential interstellar hunters. We weren't just shouting into the dark anymore.

The future is now. An extremely powerful short story about human emotions and awareness of the climate change effects. A fragile, unique city. A journey through a country in ruins. The complicated relationship 'Father to Son'. What are we really doing to combat the effects of global warming? Make Think.

Il futuro è adesso. Una storia di protesta che fa aprire gli occhi. Gli effetti del cambiamento climatico. Una città fragile e unica al mondo. Il complicato rapporto padre-figlio e un viaggio attraverso un'Italia ormai stravolta. Che cosa stiamo facendo veramente per contrastare gli effetti del riscaldamento globale? "Make Think"

Die Zukunft ist jetzt. Eine wahnsinnig fesselnde Kurzgeschichte über menschliche Emotionen und das Bewusstsein über den Klimawandel. Eine einzigartige aber zerbrechliche Stadt. Die komplizierte Beziehung zwischen "Vater & Sohn". Eine Reise durch ein Land aus Ruinen. Was machen wir wirklich um die globale Erwärmung aufzuhalten? "Make Think"

What if the red light wasn’t stopping traffic but stopping your life? The Red Light Never Changed is a gripping collection of twelve mysterious stories where ordinary people encounter impossible places, frozen moments, forgotten choices, and roads that should not exist. A traffic signal refuses to turn green. A phone call will not end. A train waits at a platform but never departs. A hotel hides a room that should not exist. A single day begins repeating. A town’s clocks stop at the same moment. A strange window reveals yesterday. And beyond one final red light lies a road with no way back.

A chance encounter on a mission of exploration. An expedition to an alien vessel. An outcome that defies explanation... All I wanted was to sleep. No sensorium, no wrabbles washing over me. No drug-induced, pain-tinged hibernation. Just a deep peaceful sleep. Halfway into our mission of exploration, we stumbled upon a petal ship rising from the plumes of a gas giant’s atmosphere. The captain tasked us to explore. We roused, prepared, and landed without expectations, previous visits to these massive alien vessels bearing little fruit.

An emotional grounded sci-fi tale that speaks to the sandwich generation and the role reversal parents and their children grapple with as they age, Raising Father follows an estranged father and son who get a unique opportunity to re-do their relationship when the son elects to raise his father, born anew from a legal yet controversial reboot technology.

A collection of 6 out of this world short stories that incorporate sci fi and the unusual.. This collection of science fiction shorts, explores themes of cosmic indifference, the fragility of reality, and the heavy burden of humanity's attempts to comprehend the unknown. The narratives examine how human curiosity and the drive to control existence often lead to unintended, catastrophic consequences

A bachelor party. A machine that resurrects the dead. And a gift that should never have been opened. It was supposed to be the ultimate gift. Four friends, one last free night, and a private suite at EternaAI where the most advanced technology on earth can summon anyone from the past, breathing and present and real. For the groom, they choose a legend: a silver-screen goddess gone for half a century. They pay for the version that withholds nothing. What they encounter is not the woman from the posters. It's someone far more real...

Everything Feels Like the End of the World is a collection of short speculative fiction exploring possible futures in an Australia not so different from our present day to one thousands of years into an unrecognisable future. Each story is anchored, at its heart, in what it means to be human...

A disrespected ship, exiled to lonely patrol in the dark corners of the solar system. A crew of screw-ups, written off by the entire fleet. They're about to change everything. If they don't blow themselves up first. Join the Endurance's crew - a trigger-happy first officer, a hyperactive...

Here is a stunning collection of short stories by the acclaimed fantasy writer. The distinctive genius of Neil Gaiman has been championed by writers as diverse as Norman Mailer and Stephen King. These stories will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination, and move you to the very depths of your soul. This extraordinary compilation reveals one of the world's most gifted storytellers at the height of his powers.

This definitive collection of Neil Gaiman's short fiction will haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul. An elderly widow finds the Holy Grail beneath an old fur coat. A stray cat fights and refights a terrible nightly battle to protect his unwary adoptive family from unimaginable evil. A young couple receives a wedding gift that reveals a chilling alternative history of their marriage. These tales and much more await in this extraordinary book, revealing one of our most gifted storytellers at the height of his powers.