5 book recommendations for Short Fiction Week 2011
My favorite source of great books to read, an innovative digital publishing house 40k Books, is running another exciting event. It’s a Short Fiction Week 2011. You can read fantastic interviews about short fiction… or write your own one – and have a chance to win a collection of six 40k Books’ best titles.
I’m a fan of short fiction of all kinds. Short stories, especially flash fiction, Twitterature, picture stories – all those literary pieces can help us read books in digital times, as you can reach for them without a serious time sacrifice.
To celebrate Short Fiction Week 2011, I’ve prepared a personal list of my favorite short reads. I’m a geek who loves absurd, surreal, technology-related stories. Here’s a selection of top 5 titles to read. Enjoy!
The Polo Match (A story with a lot of clones and some brandy) (Sampietro Mischief)
A city vanishing, a concerned major, a smart detective. Will the city of Calvino be saved?
Palomar, Calvino’s major, is in trouble: just the hydraulic skeleton of the city is left because of an infestation… of Marco Polos. This is a mystery that needs a detective who keeps up with the situation. And Palomar has the right phone number to call.
The absurdity investigator Sampietro Mischief is back. This time he is up against an army of Marco Polos… With minimal help from Chives, his assistant and pet monster, can he prevail against the metafictional obstacles he is sure to encounter? Or not?
A story with a lot of clones and some brandy.
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Cold Silo
Very short and micro-sized stories with a darkly comic tone.
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The Defective Detecive : Murder on the Links
Clint had woken up in some strange places in his time. Narcolepsy is like that. But even he had never woken up on a golf course next to a dead body. Until today.
When one of his friends reveals himself to be a detective Clint jumps at the chance to tag along. But his friend is an idiot. And the police are beginning to suspect that he was involved. The identity of the killer seems obvious but can Clint get to the bottom of the mystery and save his own skin before the stag party catches him?
Murder. Intrigue. Alcohol. Detectives. Clues. Golf. Laxatives. What else do you need?
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World Weary Avengers (All Geeked Up)
The good folks at World Weary Avengers Incorporated had a simple idea – changing the world for the better by talking loudly in public. Seemed simple enough, but even with the help of the most sophisticated hand held device ever invented, some jobs are better not left to amateurs. You never know what kind of hell could break loose.
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Geeks Rule – A Collection of Five Action Packed Short Stories
Five action packed short stories, like the Twilight Zone…with guns.
Geeks Rule: Computer nerd Lewis Puller seemed like an easy target, but when a gang of skinheads come after him they get more than they bargained for…much more.
For Mommy: A father and his young son head to forest, trying to recover from the loss of the beloved wife and mother killed in a DUI accident, stumble across a chance to set things right.
Maggie Rose: Maggie Rose had a boring life, and that’s just the way she liked it. She knew her husband craved more though, when she decides to give it to him things get out of hand.
Harold Blake, Deceased: A case of decades old infidelity leads to a chain of events in which one man dies and survives, neither aware of the other’s existence
Parallel: Eight friends enter a cave in the remote Alaskan wilderness, a seemingly typical adventure like they do every weekend, but a shadow of the unknown is waiting
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