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Date Type Language Title Authors Parent Title Parent Authors Tags
2023-03-10 SHORTFICTION German Anpassung Michael Marcus Thurner     alien visitation (1), twist ending (1)
2023-01-13 SHORTFICTION German
Einer für alle?Einer fuer alle
Ilja Bohnet     space probe (1), first contact (1), twist ending (1)
2023-03-10 SHORTFICTION German Moorhuhnjagd, Version 4.0 Michael Marcus Thurner     gaming (1), bizarro (1), twist ending (1)
2023-09-22 SHORTFICTION German Uncanny Valley Gard Spirlin     androids (1), twist ending (1)
2022-12-00 SHORTFICTION German Das letzte Ei der Erde Horst Pukallus     twist ending (1), alien artifact (1), artificial intelligence (1)
2021-00-00 SHORTFICTION German
Bar-Ablöse?Bar-Abloese
Michael Marcus Thurner     crime (1), twist ending (1)
2017-02-17 SHORTFICTION English The Long Wait
Cécile Cristofari?Cecile Cristofari
    short short (1), lesbian (1), twist ending (1)
2015-03-09 SHORTFICTION English A Death Stephen King     Old west (1), murder (1), Hanging (1), twist ending (1), Evidence (1)
2015-09-00 SHORTFICTION English Thru the Cat Door Terry M. McLeod     first person point of view (1), parallel worlds (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), twist ending (1)
2011-10-27 SHORTFICTION English The Dune Stephen King     precognition (1), judge (1), lawyer (1), old man (1), messages in the sand (1), last will and testament (1), twist ending (1), island (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), canoe (1), kayak (1)
1998-02-00 SHORTFICTION English Parameters of Dream Flight Arlan Andrews, Sr.     twist ending (1), childhood abuse (1), publishing business (1), author (1), recording dreams (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), near future (1), lucid dreaming (1), literary agents (1)
1997-00-00 SHORTFICTION English L.T.'s Theory of Pets Stephen King     twist ending (1), marital strife (1), pets (1), serial murderer (1), contemporary (1)
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)
1995-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Elvis Bearpaw's Luck William Sanders     bingo (1), Competition (1), fate (1), Indians (1), native americans (1), post-apocalyptic (1), twist ending (1), luck (1), human sacrifice (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)
1993-02-00 SHORTFICTION English Goddam Time Scott Fogel and J. N. Williamson     contemporary (1), only human (1), gender identity (1), horror (1), domestic violence (1), twist ending (1), gender (1)
1993-02-00 SHORTFICTION English Heroes Richard Chizmar     immortality (1), horror (1), filial devotion (1), first person point of view (1), twist ending (1), contemporary (1), implied vampirism (1), Alzheimer's (1)
1993-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Slit Richard Laymon     knife wounds (1), librarians (1), twist ending (1), murder (1), sexual perversion (1), contemporary (1), Band-aids (1)
1993-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Calligraphy Lesson Joyce Harrington     first person point of view (1), strong female character (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), radio DJ (1), twist ending (1), crazy former spouse (1)
1993-02-00 SHORTFICTION English The Rubber Smile John Shirley     twist ending (1), sociologist (1), horror (1), horror movies (1), contemporary (1), just movies (1), slasher movie (1), movies (1)
1989-04-00 SHORTFICTION English Person to Person Richard Matheson     psychology (1), telepathy (1), contacting the dead (1), twist ending (1), contemporary (1)
1989-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Slasher F. Paul Wilson     first person point of view (1), vengeance (1), contemporary (1), child murder (1), twist ending (1), Suspense (1)
1988-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Magician in the Dark Robert Sampson     sword and sorcery (1), debunking of sorcery (1), curse (1), rational explanation of curse (1), first person point of view (1), twist ending (1)
1988-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Other Dead Man Gene Wolfe     zombies (1), horror (1), interplanetary travel (1), damaged spaceship (1), artificial intelligence (1), automated medical technology (1), reanimation (1), twist ending (1)
1988-07-00 SHORTFICTION English Vacuum States Geoffrey A. Landis     twist ending (1), dilemma (1), second person point of view (1), risk (1), zero point energy (1), hard science (1), contemporary (1), false vacuum (1), vacuum collapse (1), science fiction (1)
1987-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Cheapskate Gary L. Raisor     blackmail (1), babysitter (1), revenge (1), road rage (1), paternal infidelity (1), roller skates (1), camera (1), child protagonist (1), first person point of view (1), twist ending (1)
1987-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Near Departed Richard Matheson     twist ending (1), mortician (1)
1986-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Old Black Hat Gary L. Raisor     Folk Tale (1), Frosty the snowman (1), twist ending (1), contemporary (1), funeral (1), child protagonist (1), brother and sister (1), reanimation (1)
1983-05-00 SHORTFICTION English Spring-Fingered Jack Susan Casper     horror (1), video game (1), serial killer (1), Jack the Ripper (1), contemporary (1), twist ending (1)
1982-02-00 SHORTFICTION English In the Corn Al Sarrantonio     twist ending (1), psychopath (1), childhood trauma (1), blind protagonist (1), contemporary (1), dialog style (1)
1982-01-00 SHORTFICTION English The Grab Richard Laymon     horror (1), contemporary (1), cowboy bar (1), twist ending (1), bar challenge (1)
1979-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Fear Shouter Jay Williams     twist ending (1), dangerous animals (1), interstellar travel (1), story within a story (1), space cadets (1), A rose by any other name (1)
1978-10-00 SHORTFICTION English Heading Home Ramsey Campbell     genetic engineering (1), mad scientist (1), human experiment (1), horror (1), twist ending (1), husband murder (1), child murder (1), second person point of view (1)
1977-02-00 SHORTFICTION English Extenuating Circumstances Ann M. Orhelein     space travel (1), cyborg (1), murder (1), robots (1), twist ending (1)
1977-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Way It Was Frederik Pohl     economic collapse (1), virtual reality (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), near future (1), organ harvesting (1), betrayal (1), love (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 Enjoy, Enjoy Frederik Pohl     near future (1), Earth (1), aliens (1), memory recording (1), purchased memories (1), twist ending (1), ennui (1), science fiction (1)
1974-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Hardshell Dean R. Koontz     horror (1), contemporary (1), shapeshifters (1), United States (1), urban (1), police chase (1), twist ending (1), murder (1), detective (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)
1972-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Hung-wu and the Witch's Daughter Robert Nye     love (1), twist ending (1), Monkey King (1), China (1), three sons (1), daughter (1), trickery (1), evil witch (1), love's labors (1), sacrifice (1)
1971-07-00 SHORTFICTION English Occam's Scalpel Theodore Sturgeon     hard sf (1), science fiction (1), pollution (1), twist ending (1), dissection (1), ecocide (1), environment (1), Occam's Razor (1)
1970-12-00 SHORTFICTION English Tablets of Stone Liz Hufford     relative morality (1), twist ending (1), interspecies romance (1), interstellar travel (1), stowaway (1)
1969-04-00 SHORTFICTION English A Boy and His Dog Harlan Ellison     underground cities (1), genetic engineering (1), twist ending (1), Kansas (1), rape (1), satire (1), barbarism (1), love (1), uplift (1), alternate history (1), telepathy (1), dogs (1), mutants (1), postapocalyptic (1), sterility (1), sex (1), hunger (1), into-movie (1)
1969-03-00 SHORTFICTION English Phoenix Harlan Ellison     only humans (1), only Earth (1), first person point of view (1), desert (1), twist ending (1), Atlantis (1), New York City (1), expedition (1), lost continent (1), death (1), physical mass of time (1)
1967-12-00 NOVEL English Quicksand John Brunner     only humans (1), martial arts (1), jealousy (1), free love (1), low self-esteem (1), mental fantasy (1), anomie (1), england (1), contemporary (1), twist ending (1), psychiatry (1), mental hospital (1), bad marriage (1), stranger from nowhere (1), parallel world (1), time travel (1), explorer (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), aliens (1), science fiction (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 A Gentle Dying C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl     near future (1), dying (1), author (1), twist ending (1), children (1), child study (1)
1961-06-00 SHORTFICTION English Punch Frederik Pohl     benevolent aliens (1), twist ending (1), duck hunting (1)
1961-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Candidate Henry Slesar     twist ending (1), politicians (1), death wish (1), justice (1), voodoo (1), contemporary (1), business world (1), psychology (1)
1961-08-00 SHORTFICTION English The Quaker Cannon C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl     science fiction (1), late 20th century (1), world war with communist countries (1), military secrets (1), torture (1), ruse (1), twist ending (1), military plan (1)
1959-01-00 SHORTFICTION English Make a Prison Lawrence Block     prisoner (1), twist ending (1), first contact (1)
1959-12-00 SHORTFICTION English The Dreamsman Gordon R. Dickson     science fiction (1), Earth (1), twist ending (1), interplanetary travel (1), near future (1), psychic powers (1), concealment (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)
1958-02-00 SHORTFICTION English Examination Day Henry Slesar     near future (1), science fiction (1), dystopia (1), into-tv (1), equality (1), twist ending (1), eugenics (1), testing (1), 12 year old boy (1)
1958-12-00 SHORTFICTION English Nightmare with Zeppelins C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl     first person point of view (1), WWI (1), england (1), anti-racism (1), exploring Africa (1), nuclear research (1), critical mass (1), nuclear fission explosion (1), radiation sickness (1), twist ending (1)
1958-00-00 NOVEL English Non-Stop Brian W. Aldiss     generation starship (1), colonization (1), lost heritage (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), generation ship (1), science fiction (1), Les 100 principaux titres de la science-fiction (1), interstellar travel (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), drugs (1), science fiction (1), mystery (1), mars (1), artificial gravity (1)
1957-03-00 SHORTFICTION English S.R.O. Harlan Ellison     twist ending (1), contemporary (1), New York City (1), alien contact (1), show business (1), impresario (1), entrepreneur (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)
1957-08-00 SHORTFICTION English Winthrop Was Stubborn William Tenn     Merril03 (1), science fiction (1), time travel (1), hedonism (1), twist ending (1)
1956-10-00 SHORTFICTION English Ceramic Incident Theodore L. Thomas     interstellar travel (1), space exporation (1), extinct alien society (1), twist ending (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), alien animals (1)
1955-11-00 SHORTFICTION English Burnt Toast Mack Reynolds     fantasy (1), horror (1), demon (1), contemporary (1), twist ending (1), ironic (1), deals with the devil (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)
1953-00-00 NOVEL English Ring Around the Sun Clifford D. Simak     surveillance (1), interstellar communication (1), telepathy (1), premonition (1), paranormal abilities (1), Solar power (1), robots (1), antigravity (1), mutants (1), artificial bodies (1), manhunt (1), alternate worlds (1), Illinois (1), Wisconsin (1), nostalgia (1), New York City (1), implanted memories (1), architecture (1), time theory (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), New Jersey (1), suspended animation (1), pioneers (1), hypnosis (1), twist ending (1), science fiction (1), cars (1), durable goods (1), writer (1), economics (1), genetic memory (1), set in 1980s (1), longevity (1)
1953-06-00 SHORTFICTION English The Other Tiger Arthur C. Clarke     england (1), infinite universe (1), coincidence (1), science fiction (1), twist ending (1)
1952-11-00 SHORTFICTION English The Japanese Tea Set Francis J. O'Neil     vengeance (1), blindness (1), twist ending (1), jilting (1), psychiatrist (1), Japan (1), tea set (1), haunting (1), American (1), japanese (1), Korean War (1), fantasy (1), suicide (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), contact with aliens (1), mars (1), humor (1), word play (1), alien point of view (1), twist ending (1), alien contact (1)
1950-05-00 SHORTFICTION English The Last Man Seabury Quinn     long-lost love (1), last survivor (1), voodoo (1), Haitian (1), New York (1), Spanish-American War veteran (1), seance (1), twist ending (1)
1950-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Swordsmen of Varnis Clive Jackson     fantasy (1), humor (1), Barsoom (1), twist ending (1)
1950-11-00 SHORTFICTION English To Serve Man Damon Knight     into-tv (1), twist ending (1), science fiction (1), Twilight Zone (1), force fields (1), longevity (1), aliens (1), United Nations (1), translation (1), food (1)
1949-09-00 SHORTFICTION English Country House Ewen Whyte     contemporary (1), country house (1), pursuit (1), murder (1), twist ending (1)
1949-11-00 SHORTFICTION English Murder Man Ewen Whyte     murder (1), twist ending (1), psychopath (1), contemporary (1), straight razor (1)
1948-03-00 SHORTFICTION English Don't Look Now Henry Kuttner     science fiction (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), alien invasion (1), invisibility (1), unreliable narrator (1), twist ending (1)
1946-05-00 SHORTFICTION English Placet Is a Crazy Place Fredric Brown     science fiction (1), humorous (1), word play (1), simplicity (1), dense matter (1), altered laws of physics (1), hallucinations (1), interstellar travel (1), first person point of view (1), twist ending (1), romance (1), double star system (1), antimatter (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
1945-09-00 SHORTFICTION English Mr. Lupescu Anthony Boucher     horror (1), twist ending (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
1945-10-00 SHORTFICTION English What You Need Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore     into-tv (1), Twilight Zone (1), science fiction (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), precognition (1), twist ending (1)
1943-05-00 SHORTFICTION English Exile Edmond Hamilton     metafiction (1), authors (1), twist ending (1), parallel universe (1)
1941-01-00 SHORTFICTION English Not Yet the End Fredric Brown     science fiction (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)
1940-01-00 SHORTFICTION English The Unveiling Alfred I. Tooke     twist ending (1), Russian (1), painter (1), contemporary (1), emotional influence (1)
1937-02-00 SHORTFICTION English Masquerade Mearle Prout     horror (1), fantasy (1), soul transfer (1), infatuation (1), masquerade (1), damsel in distress (1), twist ending (1)
1936-08-00 SHORTFICTION English In the Dark Ronal Kayser     Librivox (1), twist ending (1), infidelity (1), chemical industry (1), contemporary (1), horror (1), suicide (1), murder (1), blindness (1)
1935-09-00 SHORTFICTION English One Chance Ethel Helene Coen     ship (1), love (1), horror (1), twist ending (1), quarantine (1), plague (1), new orleans (1), casket (1)
1934-03-00 SHORTFICTION English The Late Mourner Julius Long     funeral (1), twist ending (1), contemporary (1)
1932-08-00 SHORTFICTION English No Eye-Witnesses Henry S. Whitehead     subway (1), fantasy (1), twist ending (1), vision of the past (1), woodsman (1), werewolf (1), 1930s (1), New York City (1), forest (1)
1932-09-00 SHORTFICTION English The Death Mist Captain George H. Daugherty, Jr.     fantasy (1), cowardice (1), American soldier (1), Argonne forest (1), WWI (1), twist ending (1)
1932-01-00 SHORTFICTION English The Ring J. M. Fry     first person point of view (1), Egyptian sarcophagus (1), ring (1), curse (1), twist ending (1), contemporary (1)
1928-08-00 SHORTFICTION English The Justice of the Czar George Fielding Eliot     torture (1), russia (1), Czar's family (1), retribution (1), twist ending (1), executioner (1)
1927-02-00 SHORTFICTION English The Church Stove at Raebrudafisk G. Appleby Terrill     European country (1), first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), horror (1), stove (1), blindness (1), contemporary (1), murder (1), revenge (1), twist ending (1)
1927-12-00 SHORTFICTION English The Witch-Baiter Anthony M. Rud     Spanish Netherlands (1), Inquisition (1), judge (1), witchcraft accusations (1), torture (1), executions (1), irony (1), revenge (1), justice (1), twist ending (1)
1926-12-00 SHORTFICTION English The Step E. F. Benson     twist ending (1), horror (1), Arabs (1), curse (1), eviction (1), colonialism (1), egypt (1)
1925-07-00 SHORTFICTION English The Stranger from Kurdistan E. Hoffmann Price     Black Sabbath (1), Satan (1), jesus (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), good vs evil (1), twist ending (1)
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