| 2017-02-17 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Long Wait |
Cécile Cristofari |
|
|
short short (1), lesbian (1), twist ending (1)
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| 1997-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Navigational Error |
Steve Tymon |
|
|
twist ending (1), humor (1), intergalactic war (1), war with aliens (1), last man alive (1)
|
| 1995-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Goatgrass: The Tale of Ree-Yees |
Deborah J. Ross |
|
|
twist ending (1), betrayal (1), drunk (1), assassin (1), Jabba the Hutt (1), star wars (1), Ree-Yees (1)
|
| 1989-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Person to Person |
Richard Matheson |
|
|
list NPR Top100 (2011) (1), psychology (1), telepathy (1), contacting the dead (1), twist ending (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1987-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Near Departed |
Richard Matheson |
|
|
list NPR Top100 (2011) (1), twist ending (1), mortician (1)
|
| 1977-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Extenuating Circumstances |
Ann Orhelein |
|
|
space travel (1), cyborg (1), murder (1), robots (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1977-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Tunnel |
Roger Aday |
|
|
only Earth (1), only humans (1), horror (1), contemporary (1), tunnel (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1975-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Visible Man |
Gardner Dozois |
|
|
massachusetts (1), twist ending (1), near future (1), escaped criminal (1), punishment (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), hunting (1), psychological blindness (1)
|
| 1974-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Replacement Part |
Greg Akers |
|
|
twist ending (1), space pirates (1), cybernetics (1), space battle (1)
|
| 1974-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Twice Removed |
R. Michael Rosen |
|
|
interstellar exploration (1), ancient past (1), first contact (1), only humans (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1973-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
For the Good of Society |
Terri E. Pinckard |
|
|
social commentary (1), near future (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), courtroom trial (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1967-12-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Quicksand |
John Brunner |
|
|
twist ending (1), explorer (1), time travel (1), parallel world (1), stranger from nowhere (1), bad marriage (1), mental hospital (1), psychiatry (1), only humans (1), contemporary (1), england (1), anomie (1), mental fantasy (1), low self-esteem (1), free love (1), jealousy (1), martial arts (1)
|
| 1964-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Dolphin's Way |
Gordon R. Dickson |
|
|
dolphin (1), twist ending (1), first contact (1), research station (1), dolphins (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1963-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Rundown |
Robert Lory |
|
|
amnesia (1), lost protagonist (1), bar (1), begging (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1961-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Punch |
Frederik Pohl |
|
|
benevolent aliens (1), twist ending (1), duck hunting (1)
|
| 1958-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Big, Wide, Wonderful World |
Charles E. Fritch |
|
|
Merril04 (1), illusion (1), first person point of view (1), post-apocalyptic (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1957-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
I'm in Marsport Without Hilda |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
sexism (1), humor (1), detective story (1), only humans (1), interstellar travel (1), first person point of view (1), twist ending (1), tryst (1)
|
| 1957-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Small World |
William F. Nolan |
|
|
Librivox (1), twist ending (1), postapocalyptic (1), last human survivor (1), only Earth (1), alien attack (1), near future (1), post apocalypse (1)
|
| 1956-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Golden Pyramid |
Sam Moskowitz |
|
|
betrayal (1), alien artifact (1), human explorers (1), alien animal (1), mars (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1955-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Burnt Toast |
Mack Reynolds |
|
|
fantasy (1), horror (1), demon (1), gambling with the devil (1), contemporary (1), twist ending (1), ironic (1)
|
| 1955-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Homecoming |
J. Harvey Haggard |
|
|
mutation (1), family (1), interstellar trade (1), polymorphism (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1954-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Inferiority |
James Causey |
|
|
pacifism (1), human aggression (1), twist ending (1), social commentary (1), clash of civilizations (1), Martians (1), mars (1), inferiority complex (1)
|
| 1951-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Special Aptitude |
Theodore Sturgeon |
|
|
first person point of view (1), interplanetary travel (1), venus (1), moral lesson (1), misfit (1), first contact (1), bullying (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1951-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Biography Project |
H. L. Gold |
|
|
twist ending (1), viewing of past (1), Sir Isaac Newton (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), paranoid psychosis (1)
|
| 1950-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Martian Oddity |
Forrest J. Ackerman |
|
|
space exploration (1), Martians (1), mars (1), humor (1), word play (1), alien point of view (1), twist ending (1), alien contact (1)
|
| 1950-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Swordsmen of Varnis |
Clive Jackson |
|
|
fantasy (1), humor (1), Barsoom (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1941-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Door |
Oliver Saari |
|
|
European explorer (1), interdimensional portal (1), Berber legend (1), Arab sheik (1), desert (1), twist ending (1), irony (1)
|
| 1904-08-14 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Furnished Room |
O. Henry |
|
|
horror (1), fantasy (1), ghosts (1), New York City (1), lower west side (1), 19th century (1), rooming house (1), fragrance (1), suicide (1), searching for lost lve (1), despair (1), twist ending (1), irony (1), supernatural manifestations (1)
|
| 1887-05-31 |
SHORTFICTION |
French |
La morte |
Guy de Maupassant |
|
|
Librivox (1), first person point of view (1), bereavement (1), social commentary (1), Paris (1), cemetery (1), supernatural vision (1), revenants (1), twist ending (1), irony (1)
|
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