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The Things won the 2011 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Story, [1] and was a finalist for the 2011 Hugo Award for Best Short Story, [2] the 2011 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, [3] and the 2011 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction. [4] The audio version was a finalist for the 2010 Parsec Award for short fiction. [5]
An unrelated standalone prequel story, The Thing: The Northman Nightmare, written by Steve Niles, was published as a digital comic in 2011. In 2010, Canadian science fiction writer Peter Watts published a short story in Clarkesworld Magazine titled "The Things" [24] in which the alien entity from Who Goes There? is the first-person narrator ...
The Things They Carried (1990) is a collection of linked short stories by American novelist Tim O'Brien, about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War. His third book about the war, it is based upon his experiences as a soldier in the 23rd Infantry Division .
"The Things They Left Behind" is short story by American writer Stephen King, originally published in the compilation Transgressions: Volume Two edited by Ed McBain and published by Forge Books. It is one of three stories that is also available on audiobook compilation, in the "Transgressions" series, titled Terror's Echo and read by John ...
"Popular Mechanics" is the story of a couple that has been having relationship issues. Raymond Carver uses ambiguity in the story to describe the situation that is going on between the married couple. Although the problems they are having are not stated specifically, it is clear that the couple is moving apart from each other.
Doc Short Contenders Give Voters Plenty to Ponder The 15 films that made the shortlist in the Oscars’ documentary short category are all powerful and thought-provoking, making the competition ...
The Thing Around Your Neck is a short-story collection by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, first published in April 2009 by Fourth Estate in the UK and by Knopf in the US. It received many positive reviews, including: "She makes storytelling seem as easy as birdsong" (Daily Telegraph); [1] "Stunning.
The Lives of Things is a short story collection by Portuguese novelist and Nobel-prize winner Jose Saramago. It was originally published in 1978 in Portuguese under the title Objecto Quasi . This article refers to the English translation by Giovanni Pontiero , published by Verso in 2012.