About Time: 12 Short Stories
Twelve whimsical, nostalgic stories explore time travel, alternate possibilities, and the lure of better pasts.
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The Mystery Boxes
Seven short graphic stories by different creators explore the surprises, dangers, and wonders hidden inside mysterious boxes.
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Quicker Than the Eye
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The Toynbee Convector
A varied Bradbury short-story collection where time travel, ghosts, and ordinary lives are reshaped by hope, loss, and love.
Axiomatic
A hard-SF short story collection where each tale stress-tests identity, ethics, and consciousness through speculative science.
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The Martian Way and Other Stories
Four classic Asimov SF stories explore Mars, alien contact, and space-age problems through ideas, twists, and hard choices.
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Bears Discover Fire
A collection of brief, funny, unsettling speculative stories where everyday life meets impossible ideas and sharp social satire.
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Button, Button: Uncanny Stories
A short-story collection of uncanny, twist-driven tales about moral dilemmas, strange encounters, and unsettling human behavior.
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A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories
Rediscovered early newspaper stories show Terry Pratchett’s comic imagination taking shape long before Discworld.
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The Complete Cosmicomics
A set of cosmic fables where an immortal witness turns scientific origins into whimsical, human-scale stories.
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Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home
A landmark SF story collection of alien contact, time shifts, and sharp social satire from James Tiptree Jr.