Напоминая, что Camel курят бездарные поэты, Salem — конченые алкоголики, а Merit — помешанные на сексе маньяки, писатель Дэвид Седарис рассказывает о том, как бросить курить.

This is a distinguished publishing event. Career in C Major and Other Fiction is the final anthology of previously uncollected short fiction by James M. Cain, the renowned author of Mildred Pierce, The Post matt Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and many other works. Cain died in 1977 at age eighty-five. Cain's novels made him, along with Hammett and Chandler, one of the best-selling American writers of the twentieth century.

This is a book filled with delights. Included are the first hardcover reprint of Career in C Major, the classic Cain comic novel that has been out of print for many years; short fiction from Redbook, Liberty, and Esquire; and dramatic dialogues from The American Mercury.

Career in C Major is just the main course of a feast that includes page after page of marvelously entertaining stories and dialogues. The selections have been chosen and illuminated with insightful commentaries by Roy Hoopes. Career in C Major and Other Fiction will occupy a place on bookshelves for many years to come.

Cat O’Nine Tales, the fifth collection of irresistible short stories from the master storyteller. These yarns are ingeniously plotted, with richly drawn characters and deliciously unexpected conclusions, plus the added bonus of illustrations by the internationally acclaimed artist, Ronald Searle.

Cat Pictures Please is a 2015 science fiction short story by Naomi Kritzer. It was first published in Clarkesworld (issue 100, January 2015).Cat Pictures Please won the the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Short Story and the 2016 Locus Award for Best Short Story.

Five college students on vacationing in England take refuge from a thunderstorm in what looks to be an abandoned church. Once they are safe and dry, they discover the beauty, passion, and power that this sanctuary has to offer, leading to a truly religious experience for all five of them.

Five college students on vacationing in England take refuge from a thunderstorm in what looks to be an abandoned church. Once they are safe and dry, they discover the beauty, passion, and power that this sanctuary has to offer, leading to a truly religious experience for all five of them.

A enchanting new short story from Hugo Award-winning author Will McIntosh.Enter a world of moving cities. The war is over and Hitler is dead, but rumors are flying that Chicago has just attacked Boston. That Moscow has crossed into the US and attacked Chicago. And New York is on the way to chase down the Windy City. Some cities are rumbling that they don’t feel like part of the USA anymore.But what form of energy is giving them the power of locomotion?

Duncan MacLendon’s business career seemed doomed on that seventeenth hole. And instead of his most dependable iron, he found himself wielding that warped, unbalanced monstrosity, the spectral...

Duncan MacLendon’s business career seemed doomed on that seventeenth hole. And instead of his most dependable iron, he found himself wielding that warped, unbalanced monstrosity, the spectral...

Answering the question asked by innumerable readers of the Charlie Jane Anders’s novel All the Birds in the Sky: what happened to Patricia’s cat? Find out in this Tor.com Original, Clover.

This is a near term Science Fiction Dystopian Novella. It is the stories of a group of survivors that live through a species ending series of global catastrophes. They are clustered around the shores of a great Inland Sea above what used to be called the San Joaquin Valley in California.Author’s NoteThis Novella started developing in my head shortly after publishing BB-39. I had planned to complete another long delayed book, but this one, prompted by current events, would not let go. Finally, I gave up and started writing. I hope it is only fiction…

We figured him for a phoney, this guy who was cutting in on my girl. We didn’t plan anything too rough — just rough enough so he’d chicken out on her.

Combustion Hour by Yoon Ha Lee is a story about the eschatology of shadow puppets.

This short story was acquired and edited for Tor.com by Tor Books executive editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Out here on the edge of sector eight, I can be alone with my thoughts.Sometimes, this isn’t a good thing.

Martha Wells is a New York Times best-selling author of 23 works of science fiction and fantasy. This story is a prequel to The Murderbot Diaries, her Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning novella series.

A short story of Murderbot originating from a Wired magazine “Future of Work” anthology.

(https://www.wired.com/story/future-of-work-compulsory-martha-wells/)

A short story by Stephen King.

If you’ve faced shell fire, football’s easy — should be, that is!

How to be famous — in one easy lesson.