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    Short Stories, Found Online
    Short SF Stories, Tales for Technophobes
    Short Stories, Sweet and Sour Fiction
    Ebook series7 titles

    Short Stories for Grown-ups Series

    By Jane Palmer and Jonathan Day

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    About this series

    There are unsuspected solutions to life's conundrums, from the mundane to extraordinary, some reassuring, others terrifying. Existence has its own odd way of balancing out options for the deserving and undeserving, and extraordinary alternatives are just an unguarded glance away. With line illustrations. Paperback version can be found at www.booksfromdodo.uk

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDodo Books
    Release dateMar 20, 2013
    Short Stories, Found Online
    Short SF Stories, Tales for Technophobes
    Short Stories, Sweet and Sour Fiction

    Titles in the series (7)

    • 1

      Short Stories, Sweet and Sour Fiction
      Short Stories, Sweet and Sour Fiction

      Short Stories, Sweet and Sour Fiction

      Jane Palmer
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      The bonds people forge can be glorious, everlasting and filled with devotion. All too often they are problematic and dogged by regrets. Many more are not what they seem. Devotion to a lost partner is one thing, devotion to the long dead quite another, and an orang-utan with a sweet tooth can be more appreciative than the family everything has been sacrificed for.

      The bonds people forge can be glorious, everlasting and filled with devotion. All too often they are problematic and dogged by regrets. Many more are not what they seem. Devotion to a lost partner is one thing, devotion to the long dead quite another, and an orang-utan with a sweet tooth can be more appreciative than the family everything has been sacrificed for.

    • Short Stories, Found Online
      Short Stories, Found Online

      Short Stories, Found Online

      Jonathan Day
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      Aspirations and desires that were once out of reach are now available with a brief word search. Feeling the weight of the world? Float above it in a Body Balloon. Need an angel to rescue you from the purgatory of an offspring? The dog with the smiley face will show you how. Or just want to crochet a different dimension? Click "pay now" and change your life.

      Aspirations and desires that were once out of reach are now available with a brief word search. Feeling the weight of the world? Float above it in a Body Balloon. Need an angel to rescue you from the purgatory of an offspring? The dog with the smiley face will show you how. Or just want to crochet a different dimension? Click "pay now" and change your life.

    • 2

      Short SF Stories, Tales for Technophobes
      Short SF Stories, Tales for Technophobes

      Short SF Stories, Tales for Technophobes

      Jane Palmer
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      Sentient beings who refuse to accept that they could have evolved from such lowly origins as the primeval slime often end up surrendering to their own technology. From supercomputers that control Earth to plasma beings created to protect space museums, there is always that glitch which compels them to think again. And what hope do the electronically dependant, who expect nanobots to clean their fingernails have when confronted by a moon-sized greenhouse occupied by voracious vegetables hunting for new pastures, or a monster munching its way through the fairyland characters around which their lives revolve? Survival does not necessarily depend on the fittest.

      Sentient beings who refuse to accept that they could have evolved from such lowly origins as the primeval slime often end up surrendering to their own technology. From supercomputers that control Earth to plasma beings created to protect space museums, there is always that glitch which compels them to think again. And what hope do the electronically dependant, who expect nanobots to clean their fingernails have when confronted by a moon-sized greenhouse occupied by voracious vegetables hunting for new pastures, or a monster munching its way through the fairyland characters around which their lives revolve? Survival does not necessarily depend on the fittest.

    • Short SF Stories, Dimensions of Dread and Delight
      Short SF Stories, Dimensions of Dread and Delight

      Short SF Stories, Dimensions of Dread and Delight

      Jane Palmer
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      There are unsuspected solutions to life's conundrums, from the mundane to extraordinary, some reassuring, others terrifying. Existence has its own odd way of balancing out options for the deserving and undeserving, and extraordinary alternatives are just an unguarded glance away. With line illustrations. Paperback version can be found at www.booksfromdodo.uk

      There are unsuspected solutions to life's conundrums, from the mundane to extraordinary, some reassuring, others terrifying. Existence has its own odd way of balancing out options for the deserving and undeserving, and extraordinary alternatives are just an unguarded glance away. With line illustrations. Paperback version can be found at www.booksfromdodo.uk

    • Tell the Octopus, and Other Short Stories
      Tell the Octopus, and Other Short Stories

      Tell the Octopus, and Other Short Stories

      Jonathan Day
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      People aspire to make the world a better place in many ways. Some decorate any ugly space that offends the eye, another might take up justice's flaming sword and sally forth to tilt at windmills. All good intentions come at a cost. Some are rewarded, others demand the ultimate price.

      People aspire to make the world a better place in many ways. Some decorate any ugly space that offends the eye, another might take up justice's flaming sword and sally forth to tilt at windmills. All good intentions come at a cost. Some are rewarded, others demand the ultimate price.

    • Short Stories, Crimes, Cults and Curious Cats
      Short Stories, Crimes, Cults and Curious Cats

      Short Stories, Crimes, Cults and Curious Cats

      Jonathan Day
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      Review by Waverley: Worth the money for the cover alone (a stunning combination of colours enhancing an intricate design), but there's more on offer than just a nice cover. The alliterative title gives the clue to the content, although I had the sense that the curious cats were slightly tacked on as an afterthought to the crimes and the cults. Jonathan Day writes sharply and amusingly, with a nice line in wry/snide social comment that will raise more than the occasional smile, but he's also a gifted story-teller - almost too gifted, really, for the chosen format, because so many of these stories feel as if they could (perhaps should) have been developed further - most contain enough material for a novella, if not a full-length novel. Although the style of writing is light and humorous, some of the stories have serious subtexts (on occasion, the subtexts threaten to subvert the actual narrative, as in "Behold, the Face of God", even though the twist in this, possibly one of the less convincing stories, is cleverly managed). The author's art and achievement is to combine fast-moving and entertaining narrative with thought-provoking reflection about a world (or worlds) that can prove to be nastier places than we'd ideally like them to be.

      Review by Waverley: Worth the money for the cover alone (a stunning combination of colours enhancing an intricate design), but there's more on offer than just a nice cover. The alliterative title gives the clue to the content, although I had the sense that the curious cats were slightly tacked on as an afterthought to the crimes and the cults. Jonathan Day writes sharply and amusingly, with a nice line in wry/snide social comment that will raise more than the occasional smile, but he's also a gifted story-teller - almost too gifted, really, for the chosen format, because so many of these stories feel as if they could (perhaps should) have been developed further - most contain enough material for a novella, if not a full-length novel. Although the style of writing is light and humorous, some of the stories have serious subtexts (on occasion, the subtexts threaten to subvert the actual narrative, as in "Behold, the Face of God", even though the twist in this, possibly one of the less convincing stories, is cleverly managed). The author's art and achievement is to combine fast-moving and entertaining narrative with thought-provoking reflection about a world (or worlds) that can prove to be nastier places than we'd ideally like them to be.

    • Road Undermined by Badgers, and Other Short Stories
      Road Undermined by Badgers, and Other Short Stories

      Road Undermined by Badgers, and Other Short Stories

      Jonathan Day
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      Ecology can have unlikely helpers, from the soldier committing the ultimate sabotage, to phantoms from the future foiled in their attempts to save the human race. And corrupt councillors beware the lady with too many cuckoo clocks, the company offering replacement bodies, mirrors reflecting the truth... and always remember that badgers are people, too.

      Ecology can have unlikely helpers, from the soldier committing the ultimate sabotage, to phantoms from the future foiled in their attempts to save the human race. And corrupt councillors beware the lady with too many cuckoo clocks, the company offering replacement bodies, mirrors reflecting the truth... and always remember that badgers are people, too.

    Author

    Jane Palmer

    Jane is interested in psychology, astronomy, history, archaeology, palaeontology, anthropology, photography, publishing, geology, and flying (theoretical) kites - though expert in none; and is a teetotal, vegetarian coeliac.

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