Toccatas and Fugues Stories So Far |
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Author:
| McClain, J. Cameron |
Editor:
| Rousseau, Sonya |
ISBN: | 978-1-4923-0899-7 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2013 |
Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $6.99 |
Book Description:
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Toccatas & Fugues: Stories So Far is a collection of ten Speculative Fiction short stories. From ghosts to robots and many things in-between, this collection includes horror, science fiction, fantasy, ghosts, steampunk, and apocalyptic fiction.-A woman recently widowed receives an unexpected message while doing her "Sunday Puzzles."-Mark Twain was invited to have "A Lay-by at Cottonwood" in 1831. He shouldn't have accepted.-"Lazenby's Aethereolabe" is a bold experiment, but will it...
More DescriptionToccatas & Fugues: Stories So Far is a collection of ten Speculative Fiction short stories. From ghosts to robots and many things in-between, this collection includes horror, science fiction, fantasy, ghosts, steampunk, and apocalyptic fiction.-A woman recently widowed receives an unexpected message while doing her "Sunday Puzzles."-Mark Twain was invited to have "A Lay-by at Cottonwood" in 1831. He shouldn't have accepted.-"Lazenby's Aethereolabe" is a bold experiment, but will it carry our hero to an unfortunate doom?-"White Out" recounts the bitter story of a greedy man who meets something greedier than himself.-A "Bright Star" shines in the night, before falling.-A team of scientists attempt to awaken a sentient robot in "An Experiment with Sublimity."-What do you do when you're required to live in a super-highrise of the future, and you happen to be afraid of clouds? Ask "Jo Nepho."-Perhaps they stayed too long. Long enough, at least, to be trapped in a "Fear Cage."-"Miss Fitzhue" is trapped inside a robot, and the robot consciousness coexisting with her is confused.-A "Locust" plague is not as dangerous as a mother's wrath.