Content tagged with “anthology”

“This is an anthology of every work of narrative fiction H.P. Lovecraft wrote, in order. (I say ‘narrative fiction’ because he apparently wrote a bunch of poetry that isn’t in this book.) I had always wondered about Lovecraft. I was familiar with ‘Call of Cthulhu,’ the role-playing game. Then a few…”

“I did not get (almost) any of the stories in this book, and I feel badly about that. The book was recommended highly by Kevin Kelly in Recommendo . They are hard sci-fi, with technically plausible scenarios, played out many levels deep in very consistent worlds, explored by a very fertile…”

“A lovely little book of short stories by Tom Hanks. The hook is that every story ‘features’ a typewriter in some way (in quotes, because some appearances are brief – Hanks apparently collects old typewriters). Short stories are interesting because there’s no room for plot. They’re very…serial. They…”