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"The Cold Equations" is a science fiction short story by American writer Tom Godwin (1915–1980), first published in Astounding Magazine in August 1954. In 1970, the Science Fiction Writers of America selected it as one of the best science-fiction short stories published before 1965, and it was therefore included in The Science Fiction Hall of ...
The fictional ship in the story, the Independence, sinks near Cape Hatteras in North Carolina on the Atlantic coast (pictured). The story opens with the unnamed narrator recounting a summer sea voyage from Charleston, South Carolina, to New York City aboard the ship Independence. The narrator learns that his old college friend Cornelius Wyatt ...
"The Final Problem" is a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring his detective character Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom, and McClure's in the United States, under the title "The Adventure of the Final Problem" in December 1893.
12. Jason After Jason gets Joy in trouble for chewing gum, Joy puts her chewing gum on Jason's chair, so that Jason gets stuck. After several unsuccessful attempts to get Jason unstuck from his chair (hanging him upside down and pouring ice water to freeze the gum), Mrs. Jewls decides that the only solution is to cut Jason's pants off.
The Screwfly Solution – The sterile insect technique for exterminating insect populations. The story gave three examples – the screwfly, the "spruce budworm", and the "canefly". These 3 examples do not all operate the same way: Female screwflies mate only once, so a sterile male must successfully "mate" to eliminate a female.
In 1958, the story was adapted for television by Alfred Hitchcock for his anthology program Alfred Hitchcock Presents. [2] The Daily Telegraph called the adaptation "another wickedly gleeful Dahl tale of death and fatuity". [3] The story was also adapted for a 1979 episode of Tales of the Unexpected. [4] [Note 1]
"The Three Questions" is a 1903 short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy as part of the collection What Men Live By, and Other Tales. The story takes the form of a parable, and it concerns a king who wants to find the answers to what he considers the three most important questions in life.
A short story is a piece of prose fiction.It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood.