He had a beautiful wife. But the girl he really loved came out of a slot machine – warm and soft and clinging and unalive. Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Galaxy Magazine, and Analog Science Fact & Fiction. ...
In Science Fiction, of the many things an author can do is to take an established trend and carry it on to extremities. Such stories are rarely good prophecy, since they cannot foresee other developments of the future which are most likely to modify the trend with which they are dealing. But such stories make good reading nonetheless, and can be delightfully unpleasant as in the present instance. Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated auth ...
Set in the sensual richness of India, Shobhan Bantwal's gripping new novel asks: Where can a woman turn when her life's greatest blessing is seen as a curse? It's a girl! For most young couples, news of their unborn child's gender brings joyful anticipation. Not so for Isha Tilak and her husband, Nikhil. They already have a beloved daughter, but Nikhil's parents, hard-wired to favor male children above all, coldly reject ...
T. Greenwood's extraordinary novels, deftly combining lyrical prose with heartrending subject matter, have earned her acclaim as a «family-damage specialist» (Kirkus). Now she explores one year in a family poised to implode, and the imperfect love that may be its only salvation.Every family photograph hides a story. Some are suffused with warmth and joy, others reflect the dull ache of disappointed dreams. For thirteen-year-old Trevor Kenne ...
Startling and fresh. . .ripe with originality. – San Diego Union-Tribune Three years after leaving Lake Gormlaith, Vermont, Effie Greer is coming home. The unspoiled lake, surrounded by dense woods and patches of wild blueberries, is the place where she spent idyllic childhood summers at her grandparents' cottage. And it's where Effie's tempestuous relationship with her college boyfriend, Max, culminated in a tragedy she can ...
Set in the heart of Louisiana, Amy Conner’s spellbinding new novel tells of a young woman yearning for a better existence—and of the secret longings that will change the lives of all those around her. Eighteen-year-old Lireinne Hooten has always been on the lowest rung of the ladder. Abandoned by her mother, Lireinne lives with her stepfather in an old trailer on Million Dollar Road. Every day she walks the long mile, through a canopy of live ...
Als Udo Graf Plessentin eines Tages unangekundigt zu dem kleinen Landhaus in der Nahe von Paris fahrt, das er seit einiger Zeit regelma?ig besucht, erlebt er eine schlimme Uberraschung: Er findet Liliane, die Frau, die er uber alles liebt, in den Armen eines anderen Mannes – vertieft in Zartlichkeiten. Der junge Graf sieht rot, und im nachsten Moment kracht ein Schuss. Und dann ist nichts mehr, wie es war. Funf Jahre vergehen, bis Udo und Lilian ...
