Editorial: BookRix
Is the legend real? Are Giants still walking the earth amongst us, unnoticed by most common folk? According to some accounts, they still are, especially in places way up north such as Greenland where solitude and peace prevail.
Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance and Other Stories is Tobias S. Buckell's seventh short fiction collection and is comprised of 15 stories, several of which are original to the collection or were previously only available through his Patreon. This collection ranges from galactic adventures to intimate explorations of humanity—sometimes in the same story—rich with a sense of wonder and deft storytelling.Ver libro
What brought you here? A spark of curiosity? A whisper? Or something you can’t quite name? And what if it wasn’t by chance—that detail that made you stop? Some stories aren’t meant to be stumbled upon. They find you. They wait for you. They take you where you didn’t want to go… but where you needed to be. Campfire Stories to Tell in the Dark is a whispered invitation to step into the cracks, where appearances crumble, and normality quietly breaks, making room for the unexpected. It’s a slow, silent descent into the shadowy corners of psychological horror, where fear doesn’t scream, but slips in. Where every story starts with something familiar… then twists, silently shedding its skin before your eyes. And just when you think you’ve figured it out… The ending will take you by surprise. What you’ll find inside: 🕯️ 7 original tales filled with unease, mystery, and mounting tension 🕯️ Final twists that turn everything you thought you knew upside down 🕯️ Short but intense stories, crafted to be read in low light 🕯️ A perfect balance of atmosphere and shock 🕯️ Subtle storytelling, where the real threat often hides in plain sight 🕯️ Themes like trauma, isolation, guilt, the inescapable—and unspeakable secrets Turn off the noise. Keep just a little light with you. The stories you’re about to listen demand it. Let Stories to Tell in the Dark call you in. Let the journey begin. But don’t look back… if you hear something moving behind you.Ver libro
A US destroyer is torpedoed by an Iranian submarine and Captain Murray Wilson of the USS Michigan is flown to the Pentagon to meet with the Secretary of the Navy (SecNav). There Wilson learns that the Iranian submarine is just a cover story. One of the United States' own fully automated unmanned underwater vehicles has gone rogue, its programing corrupted in some way. Murray is charged with hunting it down and taking it out before the virus that's infected its operating system can infect the rest of the fleet. At the same time, the head of the SEAL detachment aboard the USS Michigan is killed and Lonnie Mixell, a former US operative, now assassin for hire, is responsible. And that is only the first SEAL to be hunted down and killed. Jake Harrison, fellow SEAL, discovers that these SEALs had one mission in common—they were all on the team that killed Bin Laden. Or so the world was told. As Wilson discovers that his mission is actually meant to cover up dangerous acts of corruption, even treason, Harrison discovers that the assassin is out to protect the same forces. Forces too powerful for either of them to take on alone.Ver libro
"Narrator Katharine Chin nails the dark humor and flat tone of this bizarre and fascinating short story collection."- AudioFile A new creation by the author of Severance, Bliss Montage crashes through our carefully built mirages.What happens when fantasy tears the screen of the everyday to wake us up? Could that waking be our end?In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma brings us eight wildly different tales of people making their way through the madness and reality of our collective delusions: love and loneliness, connection and possession, friendship, motherhood, the idea of home. A woman lives in a house with all her ex-boyfriends. A toxic friendship grows up around a drug that makes you invisible. An ancient ritual might heal you of anything—if you bury yourself alive. These and other scenarios investigate the ways that the outlandish and the ordinary are shockingly, deceptively, heartbreakingly alike.A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Ver libro
Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master.Ver libro
A woman gets a cursed tattoo on her hand. A crow. If she does something against "the rules" it pecks at her. At first the rules are easy. Don't eat this food. Can't use that color lighter... But they've gotten worse. So has the pain from the bites.Ver libro
