Dystopian Short Story where Logan's Run meets The Matrix Faith. Hate. Love. Loss... Will it be enough to save him from death? It is Kel Darnon's 20th birthday and he has been called for Judgement in the Theatre of Death. There he must give the performance of his life, the performance he has been perfecting since he was born. Because the machines have won. And we are their slaves. Kept alive for just one thing... Our ability to entertain.? The Master Algorithms have the power to grant his freedom, but they must be satisfied. Sara, his forbidden love, has already sat upon the Chair of Judgement and the AI's judged her worthy.? Will his faith that he and Sarah will be reunited save him?? Can he use his hate for the machines to his advantage?? Can their forbidden love reunite them?? And can he make the machines understand losing her?? Will it be enough to save him from death? Or will the Theatre of Death claim another token for the Chair of Judgement? Theatre of Death ?is a Dystopian Science Fiction short story about a world where we are enslaved by Artificial Intelligence, and our freedom is dictated by the will of the machines. AN ACID SUITE STORY The Acid Suite is a set of independent short stories that all share one thing in common, fiction that will corrode your mind.?

This collection of Japanese fairy tales is the outcome of a suggestion made to me indirectly through a friend by Mr. Andrew Lang. They have been translated from the modern version written by Sadanami Sanjin. These stories are not literal translations, and though the Japanese story and all quaint Japanese expressions have been faithfully preserved, they have been told more with the view to interest young readers of the West than the technical student of folk-lore. Grateful acknowledgment is due to Mr. Y. Yasuoka, Miss Fusa Okamoto, my brother Nobumori Ozaki, Dr. Yoshihiro Takaki, and Miss Kameko Yamao, who have helped me with translations. The story which I have named "The Story of the Man who did not Wish to Die" is taken from a little book written a hundred years ago by one Shinsui Tamenaga. It is named Chosei Furo, or "Longevity." "The Bamboo-cutter and the Moon-child" is taken from the classic "Taketari Monogatari," and is NOT classed by the Japanese among their fairy tales, though it really belongs to this class of literature. ? In telling these stories in English I have followed my fancy in adding such touches of local color or description as they seemed to need or as pleased me, and in one or two instances I have gathered in an incident from another version. At all times, among my friends, both young and old, English or American, I have always found eager listeners to the beautiful legends and fairy tales of Japan, and in telling them I have also found that they were still unknown to the vast majority, and this has encouraged me to write them for the children of the West. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Y. T. O. ? MY LORD BAG OF RICE ? "Long, long ago there lived, in Japan a brave warrior known to all as Tawara Toda, or "My Lord Bag of Rice." His true name was Fujiwara Hidesato, and there is a very interesting story of how he came to change his name. One day he sallied forth in search of adventures, for he had the nature of a warrior and could not bear to be idle. So he buckled on his two swords, took his huge bow, much taller than himself, in his hand, and slinging his quiver on his back started out. He had not gone far when he came to the bridge of Seta-no-Karashi spanning one end of the beautiful Lake Biwa. No sooner had he set foot on the bridge than he saw lying right across his path a huge serpent-dragon. Its body was so big that it looked like the trunk of a large pine tree and it took up the whole width of the bridge. One of its huge claws rested on the parapet of one side of the bridge, while its tail lay right against the other. The monster seemed to be asleep, and as it breathed, fire and smoke came out of its nostrils. ? At first Hidesato could not help feeling alarmed at the sight of this horrible reptile lying in his path, for he must either turn back or walk right over its body. He was a brave man, however, and putting aside all fear went forward dauntlessly. Crunch, crunch! he stepped now on the dragon's body, now between its coils, and without even one glance backward he went on his way. .."

This novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States, so much in the latter case that the novel intensified the sectional conflict leading to the American Civil War.Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century, and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold in the United States alone.?This is probably one of the most beautiful digital version ever made of this story, containing over 90 gorgeous illustrations.?

Titus Andronicus, with line numbers

Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking

A Book of Operas

The Standard Operas

Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery

The Complete Works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Twice-Told Tales

The Complete Tradesman

Vailima Letters

Disruption: Lifelong Learning in the Knowledge Economy

The Queen's Cup

A Pluralistic Universe

In Search of the Castaways

The Scarlet Plague

Haydn

Dracula's Guest

Sons and Lovers

Women in Love