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  Short Science Fiction Collection...

  Various

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  Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological and technical speculations based on current or future science or technology.  This is a reader-selected collection of short stories that entered the US public domain when their copyright was not renewed.Summary by Cori Samuel, with Wikipedia input.

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  The Monster Next Door

  Iris Reid

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  Monsters don’t always break in. Sometimes, they’re invited . . .Maddie likes her life orderly. She manages and lives in the block of flats her father owns. Control is how she keeps anxiety at bay. Then, elderly Greta moves in.Greta is quiet, precise, frail, and unsettlingly observant. When Maddie mentions her studies and desire to be a writer, Greta offers something extraordinary: her story. A past shaped by survival in a concentration camp. The kind of story that demands to be heard.Soon, Maddie becomes the keeper of Greta’s history. At the same time, small things start to happen in the building. Objects move. Residents are unsettled. And Ross, Maddie’s ex, turns up again. But Greta knows exactly how this story goes.What to tell. What to leave out. And how to draw Maddie in.As Greta’s wartime accounts grow more disturbing, Maddie begins to realise she isn’t just being confided in. She’s being asked to rewrite a very dark past . . .

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  Lie to Me - A sun-soaked debut...

  Olivia Gavoyannis

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  Under the Greek shimmering sea, deep dark secrets lie just beneath the surface...1960. Shy eighteen-year-old Jean is resigned to yet another long empty summer stretching out before her, working for her father at the stables and dreaming of a life so different from her own.Until one day, Vivienne Fenwick's sleek forest-green motor car squeals onto the dusty yard. With large sunglasses perched on top of a Parisian black bob, Vivienne is the most glamourous woman Jean has ever seen.Along with her dashing husband Robert, Vivienne is a professional racing driver. They drive fast cars and sip champagne on beautiful yachts - and, most importantly, they like to win. When they ask Jean to be their new assistant for the summer, Jean jumps at the chance to leave behind the quiet English countryside for the sparkling azure sea and winding, pine-scented roads of Greece.But the closer she gets to Vivienne and Robert, the more she becomes entrenched in their tempestuous relationship - and their secrets. And as they spend their days competing in ever more perilous mountain races and their nights in a haze of ouzo-drenched seduction, Jean starts to wonder: what price would she pay to keep her new life?

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  The Harbor

  Ernest Poole

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  The Harbor was written in 1915 by Ernest Poole. The novel is considered by many to be one of Poole’s best efforts even though his book, The Family won a Pulitzer Prize. The Harbor is a fictional account of life on a Brooklyn waterfront through the eyes of Billy as he is growing up. The novel starts with Billy the child, living on the harbor with his father, mother, and sister, Sue. During this time he also meets Eleanor who, at that time, he considers to be strange. She later becomes an important character in the novel. His father owns a shipping business, is hard-working, and can think of little else. As a young man, Billy begins to detest the harbor and longs for escape to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a writer and avoiding his father’s business. With his mother’s blessing, he takes flight to Paris to hone his trade. While in Paris, he meets Joe Kramer (J.K.) and a sometimes stormy relationship begins. J.K. forces him to confront human situations that Billy would prefer to close his eyes to. Billy eventually returns to the harbor after some years and recognizes changes are taking place in the harbor, and in his life. The harbor becomes a subject for his writing and his personal relationships. His attitude about the harbor begins to evolve. Throughout the novel, J.K. continues to make appearances in Billy’s life, challenging him to write about things as they really are and not as Billy’s world of comfort shows them to be. Billy’s life is changed when the harbor goes on strike and he becomes involved in the labor movement. What more can be said about a book that starts with the words, “You Chump!”? (Summary by Tom Weiss)

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  Singular Tragedy of the Atkinson...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Craig...

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  You need more Sherlock? You love the stories of The Canon but you want more ... more stories that are similar to the original sixty. You have come to the right place.
  The Singular Tragedy of the Atkinson Brothers at Trincomalee:
  The words of the missionary hymn I had sung as a schoolboy in chapel came to my mind as I stood on the deck of the steamer Redolent, anchored just off the Port of Colombo. They were to prove singularly prescient. Under more usual circumstances, the experience of looking up into the star-studded sky whilst feeling the warm, moist tropical breezes caress one's face is a sensuous joy. Yet on that night, more than twenty years ago now, I had a profound sense of foreboding.

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  The Inheritance of Shadows

  Kuuno Rähn

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  David, a 42-year-old disabled private investigator, returns to his family's dilapidated estate in rural Estonia, a place he escaped years ago to find peace. Haunted by a traumatic childhood marked by abuse and hardship, he is compelled to confront his estranged family, including his manipulative mother, resentful brother, and a host of step-relatives all vying for control of the family's inheritance. The once-grand country house, now a symbol of decay and dysfunction, becomes the stage for a deadly game of deceit and violence. 
  As David delves into the family's dark secrets, he uncovers a web of lies, betrayals, and hidden motives. Each member of his family seems to have something to hide, and the escalating conflict over the inheritance threatens to consume them all. Battling his own physical limitations and psychological scars, David must confront his past trauma and navigate the treacherous landscape of his family's twisted relationships to protect himself and uncover the truth before it's too late. The remote village, steeped in its own history of secrets and grudges, offers no easy answers, and David soon realizes that the greatest danger may come from those he trusts the most.

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