2001: A Space Odyssey
An ancient alien monolith pulls humanity from prehistory into deep space, where evolution, AI, and destiny collide.
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My Volcano
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Magic for Beginners
Nine surreal, genre-bending stories turn everyday lives into uncanny fairy tales, with magic, dread, and open endings.
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The Coma
After a brutal attack, a man awakens in a strange in-between world and tries to piece together reality before it slips away.
أكتب حتى لا يأكلني الشيطان
A horror author is kidnapped by a mysterious captor and forced to write terrifying stories to survive.
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Nuestro mundo muerto
Eight uncanny stories move between Bolivia, Mars, and the edge of horror, where death, memory, and the supernatural collide.
The Star Rover
A death-row prisoner endures prison torture by escaping into vivid visions of his past lives and an immortal soul.
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World
A 15-story speculative fiction collection mixing experimental, dark, provocative tales with apocalypse, satire, and shock.
The Found Object Society
A guilt-ridden heiress joins a secret society where touching objects lets members relive strangers’ deaths—and becomes addicted.
Foundation
A predictive scientist tries to shorten a coming galactic dark age by seeding a remote colony to preserve knowledge.