Can you recommend books, movies, or short stories that involve academics in supernatural peril?
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posted by zoetrope
on Apr 11, 2013 -
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What are other modern fiction titles with superlatives? I'm thinking of "Everything is Illuminated" and "Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever".
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posted by whimsicalnymph
on Oct 31, 2012 -
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Dear Metafilter: can you suggest any short stories that fit a general theme of post-apocalyptic stories, but which are out of copyright/public domain?
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posted by reynir
on Jan 22, 2012 -
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I'm looking for fiction that is short(ish) and has happiness as a theme. By happiness, I mean any of the following: factors influencing happiness, someone gaining/losing happiness, pondering the meaning of happiness, money causing/preventing happiness, thinking something will make you happier and it does or doesn't, etc. Snowflake details inside.
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posted by guster4lovers
on Aug 19, 2011 -
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I like short fiction with a strong sense of place. I particularly like reading said fiction while visiting its setting. I'm going to be in Kentucky soon. What might I want to read while I'm there?
posted by .kobayashi.
on May 15, 2011 -
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What is the single best short story you've read in the last ten years?
Preferrably published in the last ten years, bonus points if the writer is doing something innovative or exciting.
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posted by surenoproblem
on Aug 28, 2010 -
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I want to read new crime fiction and/or mystery short stories. Where should I look?
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posted by dersins
on Aug 18, 2010 -
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I'd like recommendations for short stories that are strange, humorous, or have a surprising twist.
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posted by Rinku
on Mar 8, 2009 -
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Short Story Filter. I remember a short story that I read in a sci-fi story anthology back in the mid 90's that I haven't been able to find since.
There are a group of three boys, one of them substantially younger, who play out in a big field. One of the older boys tells the younger boy, as a joke, that if you look through the hole in the middle of a stone, you can see into another world of some kind. Mysterious circumstances then occur.
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posted by lockle
on Oct 23, 2008 -
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What's the process by which published fiction gets adapted into comic book form?
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posted by overglow
on May 25, 2008 -
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What is your favorite book or DVD series about Mexico? Particularly historical fiction or contemporary fiction. Preferably in English, but if you have a great recommendation in Spanish, I'd take that too! My grandmother thanks you!
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posted by barnone
on Nov 27, 2007 -
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Can you name short stories, preferably from the classics, about a birthday?
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posted by dov
on Apr 13, 2006 -
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a short story by a continental european writer that directly addresses or suggests conflicts within human nature-- the desire to perform "good" acts vs. our tendency (the temptation) to commit "evil" ones?
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posted by ronv
on Mar 8, 2006 -
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