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If you had the power to raise the dead for helping and protecting others, would you use it? Even if that power comes from a macabre and twisted source? John, Andrew, and Kate planned for a relaxing catch-up during a weekend stay in the countryside. However, by chance, they discover a horrifying secret that allows them to raise the dead! If most people knew about this recently discovered ability, they would think it repulsive. But as their power grows, so does the sinister and unwanted attention of others.

The Crawlers is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. Submitted under the title Foundling Home, it was first published as The Crawlers in Imagination magazine, July 1954. The story starts out from the point of view of a crawler constructing one of its curious hives. The crawler seems sentient and to genuinely enjoy building its odd dwelling. The story is set in a small Midwestern town, with references later in the story to mysterious "pools" which seem to cause mutations.

In Mr. Spaceship, humans in the distant future are at war with alien life forms known as Yuks. Using outdated mechanical machines to wage war against the life-based weapons of the advanced Yuks, a research team decides to build a spaceship powered by a human brain. Enlisting a dying professor who agrees to donate his brain to the project, the humans believe they have turned the tables on the Yuks. But the spaceship has other plans.

A house inches 800 miles to confess its horrible crime. The last resident of a mental institution discovers he's not alone. A middle-schooler performs an experiment to determine how much time we fit in dreams. Boys looking for wonder find more than they're expecting in the Adirondacks with Charles Fort. A detective learns everything he's ever wanted to know...and some things he hasn't. In Will Ludwigsen's short stories of strangeness and mystery, the universe has a way of being weird in just the ways we need it to be.

Charles Dickens once again gathers his favourite storytellers around him and 'conducts' the story of 'The Wreck of the Golden Mary'. Dickens leads, Percy Fitzgerald, Harriet Parr, Adelaide Anne Procter, and others follow....

Tony and the Beetles takes place far in the future when Earth's enormous colonial empire is well established but the question is, how long can it last? Ten-year-old Tony grows up fast when history catches up with the human race. A sobering look at human history - and our probable future.

David Joseph's "The Great Hijacking", "Putin's Shoot-Down", and "The Bully" all bundled into one book titled Putin and MH370/MH17. A Boeing 777 takes off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport and rendezvouses behind an American tanker refueling fighters, thus falling in its radar. Chinese military computer hackers break into a key defense satellite, a North Korean cargo ship drops a black box into the Indian Ocean, and a home flight simulator has traces of island landings in the Indian Ocean. All the events combine to produce a perfect storm for "The Great Hijacking".

For Kimberly Campbell life has finally begun. The events that follow her graduation from College leave her with little room to breathe, but that is how Kim likes it. In love and carrying a new confidence that makes her feel invincible. Kim is ready to build a new business, this time for herself. But tragedy strikes too soon. Kim and her family are left wondering whether it will be possible to carry on.

After moving to California in search of a fresh start, Kimberly is determined to keep an open mind to make the most of it. Although things start out a little rough, Kimberly soon finds her footing in a local real estate business working alongside the man that will soon become the love of her life. Together Brandon and Kimberly deal with their relationship and work together, but a problem arises when she takes him back to England to a family that does not see him as an equal. Kimberly is, therefore, left to contemplate what is most important to her.

Kimberly Louise Campbell is trying her best to figure out where she fits in. Coming from a family famous for making a fortune in their estates grounds, Kimberly feels as if she should have more to offer. From questionable life choices to an epiphany that seems to set her off onto a better path, Kim continues to struggle to gain her fathers approval and maintain her sanity at the same time.

As curator of the Twentieth Century Exhibit, George Miller felt that to do a good job, he had to live his work. Then, one day, somebody got into his exhibit, and he went to investigate.

"Beyond Lies the Wub" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was his first published genre story, originally appearing in Planet Stories in July 1952. It was first collected in The Preserving Machine in 1969, and was included in The Best of Philip K. Dick in 1977. It was the title story for the first volume of the original edition of Dick's collected stories. Translations of "Beyond Lies the Wub" have appeared in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish and Spanish; and the story has been included in more than a dozen anthologies.

These 25 new stories mark Graham Swift's return to the short form after seven acclaimed novels and confirm him as a master storyteller. They unite into a richly peopled vision of a country that is both a crucible of history and a maze of contemporary confusions.

Ten-year old Tony Rossi, an Earthman growing up on Betelgeuse, becomes aware that the natives, known as the "Pas-Udeti", are driving out the Earthmen colonists on nearby Orion. His father, a staunch believer in the superiority of Earthmen, describes Tony's native friends as "Beetles". A trip into town to meet his native friends leads to awkward encounters with a Pas-Udeti cab driver and a fellow bus passenger.

The fate of the Campbell Family fortune has suddenly been put in the hands of the youngest and only remaining child Kimberly Campbell. Kimberly is not sure she can take on a business that has been passed down in her family for generations, but she is left with little choice. She either steps up to the plate or watches as everything falls apart. While fighting to save the family business, Kim must also struggle with trouble in her new marriage. To complicate matters further, family secrets make her question whether or not she is making the right decision at all.

Ludwig hat sich verliebt! Und das ausgerechnet in dem Sommer, in dem er an einem Klavierwettbewerb teilnehmen soll. Eigentlich müsste er ständig üben und sich auf die Beethoven-Sonaten konzentrieren. Aber Ludwig denkt nur noch an eines: Wie sagt er Katarina, dem Mädchen mit dem knallroten Badeanzug und dem goldenen Herzen, auf die schönste Weise: Ich will mit dir zusammen sein? Mit Musik von Thalia Darkow. Ein Benefiz-Hörbuch von Bücherpiraten audio.

This 1953 science fiction short story takes place somewhere in the future. The Cold War has turned into a hot war, and the Soviets are engaged in a war with the Americans. The war has become so hot that the surface of the world is no longer habitable by humans. The surface of the earth has become a radioactive nuclear wasteland, but the war must go on and it is being conducted by highly intelligent robots.

Welcome to my compendium! I have collated some of my short stories and poems into this audiobook. Some of the poems have been taken from various other books I have written such as There's More to Life and The Adventures of Fluffy Monkey: Friends. Included also is a factual piece on my time as a male childminder. I hope you get as much enjoyment listening to my work as I did writing them.

This is a collection of flash fiction stories and experiences revolving around the conventions that we all know and love. If you have ever attended a convention, especially a fandom convention, then you know that anything is possible.

The telepathic beings on Mars know that Earth is sending a probe to their planet and anxiously await its arrival. For you see, only 900 of them are left, and Earth is their only means of survival. They have much to offer Earth in return. But will the connection be made? Listen and find out.