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EPICAC (short story) " EPICAC " is a short story in the book Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut. It was the first story to feature the fictional EPICAC computer later used in Vonnegut's novel Player Piano in 1952. It was published on 25 November 1950, for Collier's Weekly, [1] and reprinted in the February 1983 PC Magazine.
"About Love" (Russian: О любви, romanized: O lyubvi) is an 1898 short story by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. The third and final part of the Little Trilogy, started by " The Man in the Case " and continued by " Gooseberries ".
List of writing genres. Writing genres (more commonly known as literary genres) are categories that distinguish literature (including works of prose, poetry, drama, hybrid forms, etc.) based on some set of stylistic criteria. Sharing literary conventions, they typically consist of similarities in theme/topic, style, tropes, and storytelling ...
Old Love (story) " Old Love " is a short story written by English author Jeffrey Archer. Published in 1980 in Archer's A Quiver Full of Arrows by Hodder & Stoughton, it is the tale of two undergraduates at Oxford in the 1930s and their bitter rivalry that ends in a tragic love story. [ 1][ 2] In 1985, a TV movie titled Love Song directed by ...
Publication date. June 26, 1948. " The Lottery " is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. [a] The story describes a fictional small American community that observes an annual tradition known as "the lottery", which is intended to ensure a good harvest and purge the town of bad omens.
A Short Film About Love (Polish: Krótki film o miłości) is a 1988 Polish romantic drama film directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, starring Grażyna Szapołowska and Olaf Lubaszenko. Written by Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz , the film is about a young post office worker deeply in love with a promiscuous older woman who lives in an ...
List of narrative techniques. A narrative technique (also, in fiction, a fictional device) is any of several specific methods the creator of a narrative uses [1] —in other words, a strategy applied in the delivering of a narrative to relay information to the audience and to make the narrative more complete, complex, or engaging.
Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1948. revised: The Martian Chronicles ('50) comic-strip: Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles Spaceman Special, June '94. "Asleep in Armageddon". alt. title: "Perchance to Dream". Planet Stories, winter 1948. "Touch and Go". alt. title: "The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl".