One icy winter's evening in Budapest, John Taylor is on his way home from the office when a man runs into him and knocks him over. The man turns to say sorry and John is amazed at what he sees: the man is John's double. The double rushes away but leaves no footprints in the snow. Over the next year it becomes clear to John that the meeting was no accident and that his double has a very important message to give him.
Ex-expatriate Bryson, who chronicled one effort at American reentry in his bestselling A Walk in the Woods, collects another: the whimsical columns on America he wrote weekly, while living in New Hampshire in the mid-to-late 1990s, for a British Sunday newspaper.
As a young writer with neither profession nor money, William Wordsworth committed himself to a career as a poet, embracing what he believed was his destiny. But even the "giant Wordsworth," as his friend and collaborator Samuel Taylor Coleridge called him, had his doubts. In Myself and Some Other Being, Daniel Robinson presents a young Wordsworth, as ambitious and insecure as any writer starting out, who was trying to prove to himself that he could become the great poet he desired to be and that Coleridge, equally brilliant and insecure, believed he already was.
Structural Readers Stage 4. Simplified and abridged by Lewis Jones. Illustrated by Charles Keeping.
For all lovers of science fiction, here are seven stories by some of the best science fiction writers in the world.
A time machine that travels back 110 million years causes a few problems. The greatest machine in the world begins to think like a man. A three-eyed caretaker offers flats at a very cheap price. The “Wondercopy” of a man does not solve marriage problems fter all… These stories – and their fellows – are as unusual as they sound, and will certainly make you wonder what the future holds!
