| 2023-03-10 |
SHORTFICTION |
German |
Anpassung |
Michael Marcus Thurner |
|
|
alien visitation (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 2023-01-13 |
SHORTFICTION |
German |
|
Ilja Bohnet |
|
|
space probe (1), first contact (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 2023-03-10 |
SHORTFICTION |
German |
Moorhuhnjagd, Version 4.0 |
Michael Marcus Thurner |
|
|
gaming (1), bizarro (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 2023-09-22 |
SHORTFICTION |
German |
Uncanny Valley |
Gard Spirlin |
|
|
androids (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 2022-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
German |
Das letzte Ei der Erde |
Horst Pukallus |
|
|
twist ending (1), alien artifact (1), artificial intelligence (1)
|
| 2021-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
German |
|
Michael Marcus Thurner |
|
|
crime (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 2017-02-17 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Long Wait |
|
|
|
short short (1), lesbian (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 2015-03-09 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Death |
Stephen King |
|
|
Old west (1), murder (1), Hanging (1), twist ending (1), Evidence (1), ofearna-2024 (1)
|
| 2015-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Thru the Cat Door |
Terry M. McLeod |
|
|
first person point of view (1), parallel worlds (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 2011-10-27 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Dune |
Stephen King |
|
|
precognition (1), judge (1), lawyer (1), old man (1), messages in the sand (1), last will and testament (1), twist ending (1), island (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), canoe (1), kayak (1)
|
| 1998-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Parameters of Dream Flight |
Arlan Andrews, Sr. |
|
|
twist ending (1), childhood abuse (1), publishing business (1), author (1), recording dreams (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), near future (1), lucid dreaming (1), literary agents (1)
|
| 1997-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
L.T.'s Theory of Pets |
Stephen King |
|
|
twist ending (1), marital strife (1), pets (1), serial murderer (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1997-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Navigational Error |
Steve Tymon |
|
|
twist ending (1), humor (1), intergalactic war (1), war with aliens (1), last man alive (1)
|
| 1995-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Elvis Bearpaw's Luck |
William Sanders |
|
|
bingo (1), Competition (1), fate (1), Indians (1), native americans (1), post-apocalyptic (1), twist ending (1), luck (1), human sacrifice (1)
|
| 1995-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Goatgrass: The Tale of Ree-Yees |
Deborah J. Ross |
|
|
twist ending (1), betrayal (1), drunk (1), assassin (1), Jabba the Hutt (1), star wars (1), Ree-Yees (1)
|
| 1993-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Goddam Time |
Scott Fogel and J. N. Williamson |
|
|
contemporary (1), only human (1), gender identity (1), horror (1), domestic violence (1), twist ending (1), gender (1)
|
| 1993-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Heroes |
Richard Chizmar |
|
|
immortality (1), horror (1), filial devotion (1), first person point of view (1), twist ending (1), contemporary (1), implied vampirism (1), Alzheimer's (1)
|
| 1993-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Mefisto in Onyx |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
horror (2), science fiction (1), telepathy (1), serial killer (1), prison (1), twist endings (1), twist ending (1), possession (1)
|
| 1993-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Slit |
Richard Laymon |
|
|
knife wounds (1), librarians (1), twist ending (1), murder (1), sexual perversion (1), contemporary (1), Band-aids (1)
|
| 1993-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Calligraphy Lesson |
Joyce Harrington |
|
|
first person point of view (1), strong female character (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), radio DJ (1), twist ending (1), crazy former spouse (1)
|
| 1993-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Rubber Smile |
John Shirley |
|
|
horror (2), twist ending (1), sociologist (1), horror movies (1), contemporary (1), just movies (1), slasher movie (1), movies (1)
|
| 1992-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
All Vows |
Esther M. Friesner |
|
|
angels (1), fantasy (1), child protagonist (1), Judaism (1), vietnam (1), murder (1), ghosts (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1989-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Person to Person |
Richard Matheson |
|
|
psychology (1), telepathy (1), contacting the dead (1), twist ending (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1989-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Slasher |
F. Paul Wilson |
|
|
first person point of view (1), vengeance (1), contemporary (1), child murder (1), twist ending (1), Suspense (1)
|
| 1988-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Magician in the Dark |
Robert Sampson |
|
|
sword and sorcery (1), debunking of sorcery (1), curse (1), rational explanation of curse (1), first person point of view (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1988-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Odd Old Bird |
Avram Davidson |
|
|
science fiction (1), alternate history (1), twist ending (1), living fossil (1), archaeopteryx (1)
|
| 1988-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Other Dead Man |
Gene Wolfe |
|
|
zombies (1), horror (1), interplanetary travel (1), damaged spaceship (1), artificial intelligence (1), automated medical technology (1), reanimation (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1988-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Vacuum States |
Geoffrey A. Landis |
|
|
twist ending (1), dilemma (1), second person point of view (1), risk (1), zero point energy (1), hard science (1), contemporary (1), false vacuum (1), vacuum collapse (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1987-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Cheapskate |
Gary L. Raisor |
|
|
blackmail (1), babysitter (1), revenge (1), road rage (1), paternal infidelity (1), roller skates (1), camera (1), child protagonist (1), first person point of view (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1987-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Near Departed |
Richard Matheson |
|
|
twist ending (1), mortician (1)
|
| 1986-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Old Black Hat |
Gary L. Raisor |
|
|
Folk Tale (1), Frosty the snowman (1), twist ending (1), contemporary (1), funeral (1), child protagonist (1), brother and sister (1), reanimation (1)
|
| 1983-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Spring-Fingered Jack |
Susan Casper |
|
|
horror (1), video game (1), serial killer (1), Jack the Ripper (1), contemporary (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1982-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
In the Corn |
Al Sarrantonio |
|
|
twist ending (1), psychopath (1), childhood trauma (1), blind protagonist (1), contemporary (1), dialog style (1)
|
| 1982-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Grab |
Richard Laymon |
|
|
horror (1), contemporary (1), cowboy bar (1), twist ending (1), bar challenge (1)
|
| 1979-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Fear Shouter |
Jay Williams |
|
|
twist ending (1), dangerous animals (1), interstellar travel (1), story within a story (1), space cadets (1), A rose by any other name (1)
|
| 1978-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Heading Home |
Ramsey Campbell |
|
|
genetic engineering (1), mad scientist (1), human experiment (1), horror (1), twist ending (1), husband murder (1), child murder (1), second person point of view (1)
|
| 1977-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Extenuating Circumstances |
Ann M. Orhelein |
|
|
space travel (1), cyborg (1), murder (1), robots (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1977-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Way It Was |
Frederik Pohl |
|
|
economic collapse (1), virtual reality (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), near future (1), organ harvesting (1), betrayal (1), love (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1977-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Tunnel |
Roger Aday |
|
|
only Earth (1), only humans (1), horror (1), contemporary (1), tunnel (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1975-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Visible Man |
Gardner Dozois |
|
|
massachusetts (1), twist ending (1), near future (1), escaped criminal (1), punishment (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), hunting (1), psychological blindness (1)
|
| 1974-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Enjoy, Enjoy |
Frederik Pohl |
|
|
near future (1), Earth (1), aliens (1), memory recording (1), purchased memories (1), twist ending (1), ennui (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1974-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Hardshell |
Dean R. Koontz |
|
|
horror (1), contemporary (1), shapeshifters (1), United States (1), urban (1), police chase (1), twist ending (1), murder (1), detective (1), ofearna-2024 (1)
|
| 1974-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Replacement Part |
Greg Akers |
|
|
twist ending (1), space pirates (1), cybernetics (1), space battle (1)
|
| 1974-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Twice Removed |
R. Michael Rosen |
|
|
interstellar exploration (1), ancient past (1), first contact (1), only humans (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1973-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
For the Good of Society |
Terri E. Pinckard |
|
|
social commentary (1), near future (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), courtroom trial (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1972-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Hung-wu and the Witch's Daughter |
Robert Nye |
|
|
love (1), twist ending (1), Monkey King (1), China (1), three sons (1), daughter (1), trickery (1), evil witch (1), love's labors (1), sacrifice (1)
|
| 1971-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Occam's Scalpel |
Theodore Sturgeon |
|
|
hard sf (1), science fiction (1), pollution (1), twist ending (1), dissection (1), ecocide (1), environment (1), Occam's Razor (1)
|
| 1970-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Tablets of Stone |
Liz Hufford |
|
|
relative morality (1), twist ending (1), interspecies romance (1), interstellar travel (1), stowaway (1)
|
| 1969-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Boy and His Dog |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
underground cities (1), genetic engineering (1), twist ending (1), Kansas (1), rape (1), satire (1), barbarism (1), love (1), uplift (1), alternate history (1), telepathy (1), dogs (1), mutants (1), postapocalyptic (1), sterility (1), sex (1), hunger (1), into-movie (1)
|
| 1969-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Phoenix |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
only humans (1), only Earth (1), first person point of view (1), desert (1), twist ending (1), Atlantis (1), New York City (1), expedition (1), lost continent (1), death (1), physical mass of time (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1967-12-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Quicksand |
John Brunner |
|
|
only humans (1), martial arts (1), jealousy (1), free love (1), low self-esteem (1), mental fantasy (1), anomie (1), england (1), contemporary (1), twist ending (1), psychiatry (1), mental hospital (1), bad marriage (1), stranger from nowhere (1), parallel world (1), time travel (1), explorer (1)
|
| 1964-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Dolphin's Way |
Gordon R. Dickson |
|
|
dolphin (1), twist ending (1), first contact (1), research station (1), dolphins (1), contemporary (1), aliens (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1963-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Rundown |
Robert Lory |
|
|
amnesia (1), lost protagonist (1), bar (1), begging (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1961-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Gentle Dying |
C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl |
|
|
near future (1), dying (1), author (1), twist ending (1), children (1), child study (1)
|
| 1961-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Punch |
Frederik Pohl |
|
|
benevolent aliens (1), twist ending (1), duck hunting (1)
|
| 1961-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Candidate |
Henry Slesar |
|
|
twist ending (1), politicians (1), death wish (1), justice (1), voodoo (1), contemporary (1), business world (1), psychology (1)
|
| 1961-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Quaker Cannon |
C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl |
|
|
science fiction (1), late 20th century (1), world war with communist countries (1), military secrets (1), torture (1), ruse (1), twist ending (1), military plan (1)
|
| 1959-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Make a Prison |
Lawrence Block |
|
|
prisoner (1), twist ending (1), first contact (1)
|
| 1959-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Dreamsman |
Gordon R. Dickson |
|
|
science fiction (1), Earth (1), twist ending (1), interplanetary travel (1), near future (1), psychic powers (1), concealment (1)
|
| 1958-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Big, Wide, Wonderful World |
Charles E. Fritch |
|
|
Merril04 (1), illusion (1), first person point of view (1), post-apocalyptic (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1958-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Examination Day |
Henry Slesar |
|
|
science fiction (1), near future (1), dystopia (1), into-tv (1), equality (1), twist ending (1), eugenics (1), testing (1), 12 year old boy (1), intelligence (1), IQ test (1), intelligence test (1)
|
| 1958-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Nightmare with Zeppelins |
C. M. Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl |
|
|
first person point of view (1), WWI (1), england (1), anti-racism (1), exploring Africa (1), nuclear research (1), critical mass (1), nuclear fission explosion (1), radiation sickness (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1958-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Non-Stop |
Brian W. Aldiss |
|
|
generation starship (1), colonization (1), lost heritage (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), generation ship (1), science fiction (1), Les 100 principaux titres de la science-fiction (1), interstellar travel (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1957-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
I'm in Marsport Without Hilda |
Isaac Asimov |
|
|
sexism (1), humor (1), detective story (1), only humans (1), interstellar travel (1), first person point of view (1), twist ending (1), tryst (1), drugs (1), science fiction (1), mystery (1), mars (1), artificial gravity (1)
|
| 1957-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
S.R.O. |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
twist ending (1), contemporary (1), New York City (1), alien contact (1), show business (1), impresario (1), entrepreneur (1)
|
| 1957-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Small World |
William F. Nolan |
|
|
Librivox (1), twist ending (1), postapocalyptic (1), last human survivor (1), only Earth (1), alien attack (1), near future (1), post apocalypse (1)
|
| 1957-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Winthrop Was Stubborn |
William Tenn |
|
|
Merril03 (1), science fiction (1), time travel (1), hedonism (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1956-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Ceramic Incident |
Theodore L. Thomas |
|
|
interstellar travel (1), space exporation (1), extinct alien society (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1956-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Golden Pyramid |
Sam Moskowitz |
|
|
betrayal (1), alien artifact (1), human explorers (1), alien animal (1), mars (1), twist ending (1), alien animals (1)
|
| 1955-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Burnt Toast |
Mack Reynolds |
|
|
fantasy (1), horror (1), demon (1), contemporary (1), twist ending (1), ironic (1), deals with the devil (1)
|
| 1955-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Homecoming |
J. Harvey Haggard |
|
|
mutation (1), family (1), interstellar trade (1), polymorphism (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1954-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Inferiority |
James Causey |
|
|
pacifism (1), human aggression (1), twist ending (1), social commentary (1), clash of civilizations (1), Martians (1), mars (1), inferiority complex (1)
|
| 1953-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Ring Around the Sun |
Clifford D. Simak |
|
|
surveillance (1), interstellar communication (1), telepathy (1), premonition (1), paranormal abilities (1), Solar power (1), robots (1), antigravity (1), mutants (1), artificial bodies (1), manhunt (1), alternate worlds (1), Illinois (1), Wisconsin (1), nostalgia (1), New York City (1), implanted memories (1), architecture (1), time theory (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), Abebooks: 50 Essential SF Books (1), New Jersey (1), suspended animation (1), pioneers (1), hypnosis (1), twist ending (1), science fiction (1), cars (1), durable goods (1), writer (1), economics (1), genetic memory (1), set in 1980s (1), longevity (1)
|
| 1953-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Other Tiger |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
england (1), infinite universe (1), coincidence (1), science fiction (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1952-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Japanese Tea Set |
Francis J. O'Neil |
|
|
vengeance (1), blindness (1), twist ending (1), jilting (1), psychiatrist (1), Japan (1), tea set (1), haunting (1), American (1), japanese (1), Korean War (1), fantasy (1), suicide (1)
|
| 1951-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Special Aptitude |
Theodore Sturgeon |
|
|
first person point of view (1), interplanetary travel (1), venus (1), moral lesson (1), misfit (1), first contact (1), bullying (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1951-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Biography Project |
H. L. Gold |
|
|
twist ending (1), viewing of past (1), Sir Isaac Newton (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), paranoid psychosis (1)
|
| 1950-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Martian Oddity |
Forrest J. Ackerman |
|
|
space exploration (1), Martians (1), contact with aliens (1), mars (1), humor (1), word play (1), alien point of view (1), twist ending (1), alien contact (1)
|
| 1950-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Last Man |
Seabury Quinn |
|
|
long-lost love (1), last survivor (1), voodoo (1), Haitian (1), New York (1), Spanish-American War veteran (1), seance (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1950-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Swordsmen of Varnis |
Clive Jackson |
|
|
fantasy (1), humor (1), Barsoom (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1950-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
To Serve Man |
Damon Knight |
|
|
into-tv (1), twist ending (1), science fiction (1), Twilight Zone (1), force fields (1), longevity (1), aliens (1), United Nations (1), translation (1), food (1)
|
| 1949-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Country House |
Ewen Whyte |
|
|
contemporary (1), country house (1), pursuit (1), murder (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1949-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Murder Man |
Ewen Whyte |
|
|
murder (1), twist ending (1), psychopath (1), contemporary (1), straight razor (1)
|
| 1948-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Don't Look Now |
Henry Kuttner |
|
|
science fiction (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), alien invasion (1), invisibility (1), unreliable narrator (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1946-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Placet Is a Crazy Place |
Fredric Brown |
|
|
science fiction (1), humorous (1), word play (1), simplicity (1), dense matter (1), altered laws of physics (1), hallucinations (1), interstellar travel (1), first person point of view (1), twist ending (1), romance (1), double star system (1), antimatter (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1945-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Mr. Lupescu |
Anthony Boucher |
|
|
horror (1), twist ending (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1945-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
What You Need |
Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore |
|
|
into-tv (1), Twilight Zone (1), science fiction (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), precognition (1), twist ending (1), shop (1)
|
| 1943-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Exile |
Edmond Hamilton |
|
|
metafiction (1), authors (1), twist ending (1), parallel universe (1)
|
| 1941-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Not Yet the End |
Fredric Brown |
|
|
science fiction (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1941-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Door |
Oliver Saari |
|
|
European explorer (1), interdimensional portal (1), Berber legend (1), Arab sheik (1), desert (1), twist ending (1), irony (1)
|
| 1940-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Unveiling |
Alfred I. Tooke |
|
|
twist ending (1), Russian (1), painter (1), contemporary (1), emotional influence (1)
|
| 1937-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Masquerade |
Mearle Prout |
|
|
horror (1), fantasy (1), soul transfer (1), infatuation (1), masquerade (1), damsel in distress (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1936-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
In the Dark |
Ronal Kayser |
|
|
Librivox (1), twist ending (1), infidelity (1), chemical industry (1), contemporary (1), horror (1), suicide (1), murder (1), blindness (1)
|
| 1935-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
One Chance |
Ethel Helene Coen |
|
|
ship (1), love (1), horror (1), twist ending (1), quarantine (1), plague (1), new orleans (1), casket (1)
|
| 1934-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Late Mourner |
Julius Long |
|
|
funeral (1), twist ending (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1932-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
No Eye-Witnesses |
Henry S. Whitehead |
|
|
subway (1), fantasy (1), twist ending (1), vision of the past (1), woodsman (1), werewolf (1), 1930s (1), New York City (1), forest (1)
|
| 1932-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Death Mist |
Captain George H. Daugherty, Jr. |
|
|
fantasy (1), cowardice (1), American soldier (1), Argonne forest (1), WWI (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1932-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Ring |
J. M. Fry |
|
|
first person point of view (1), Egyptian sarcophagus (1), ring (1), curse (1), twist ending (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1928-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Justice of the Czar |
George Fielding Eliot |
|
|
torture (1), russia (1), Czar's family (1), retribution (1), twist ending (1), executioner (1)
|
| 1927-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Church Stove at Raebrudafisk |
G. Appleby Terrill |
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European country (1), first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), horror (1), stove (1), blindness (1), contemporary (1), murder (1), revenge (1), twist ending (1)
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