symbolism - What is the significance of the black void in The Dancer . . . Sarah Tolmie's novelette The Dancer on the Stairs is a kind of portal fantasy, with the protagonist whisked away from our world into a strange fantastical one -- except the place she is whisked to is a guarded stairway, where she depends on charity and desperation to survive, and can get out only by growing to learn the strange culture, and
short stories - What is the point of Jos backstory with her daughter . . . Bruce McAllister's novelette "The Girl Who Loved Animals" features a vulnerable young woman, Lissy, who is used as a surrogate for a gorilla baby The main character, Jo, is a social worker who takes Lissy's case and fights to protect her
identification request - Identify a story about time travel with a . . . "The Ugly Little Boy" a k a "Lastborn", a novelette by Isaac Asimov, first published in Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1958, available at the Internet Archive You may have read it in one of these compilations It was adapted to a 1977 TV movie, and in 1991 it was expanded by Asimov and Robert Silverberg into a novel which was published in the U K as Child of Time and in the U S as The
Vision of the future in Max Beerbohms Enoch Soames Max Beerbohm 's 1916 novelette "Enoch Soames" (available e g at Project Gutenberg) is the story of a man who sells his soul to the devil for the privilege of spending an afternoon in a library (the reading room of the British Museum) 100 years in the future, in the year 1997, so that he can see how he is remembered by posterity (It wasn't worth it ) The author and narrator, Beerbohm
identification request - The Interesting Vocation of . . . ? — a . . . Science fiction short story or novelette, 1960 thru 1970s, a mystery about a man with memory loss an evil secret society that lives in mirrors, the conclusion being that the man is an art critic who judges our reality improves it by deleting the evil mirror people
Is William Dunseath Eatons play Iskander still extant? The play was adapted for stage, based on Benjamin Disraeli's novelette The Rise of Iskander, by William Dunseath Eaton in 1897 Does anyone know if such a play exists and where to find it?
The earliest novel with a robot who isnt human enough 1 Isaac Asimov's The Bicentennial Man is a novelette (later expanded into a novel) written for the US Bicentennial in 1976 (Warning: that linked article contains spoilers ) It's one of his better and most memorable stories, about a robot that wants to become human It ends with a happy (with underlying sadness) ending