What is your favorite Short Story book?
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H.G.Wells' The War of the Worlds
A nightmarish but surprisingly accurate vision of what mechanised warfare could become. He predicted the use of nerve gas, lasers (or flamethrowers, depending on interpretation), laser targeting, 'silent' communication (ie scrambled radio), modular weapons systems, combat aircraft and even dropships, something that still doesn't quite exist today.
He also predicted the one sided nature of modern warfare, where the inferior side striking back usually just means more potent weapons brought against them.
That it's a gripping story in of itself doesn't hurt either.
A nightmarish but surprisingly accurate vision of what mechanised warfare could become. He predicted the use of nerve gas, lasers (or flamethrowers, depending on interpretation), laser targeting, 'silent' communication (ie scrambled radio), modular weapons systems, combat aircraft and even dropships, something that still doesn't quite exist today.
He also predicted the one sided nature of modern warfare, where the inferior side striking back usually just means more potent weapons brought against them.
That it's a gripping story in of itself doesn't hurt either.
Debt Of Bones by Terry Goodkind the precussor to the Sword Of Truth series is my favourite short story.
Poppy Brite's collection of stories: "Wormwood"
or Thomas Mann's amazing novella: "Death in Venice"
or Thomas Mann's amazing novella: "Death in Venice"
Both Books for Blood by Clive Barker, such imaginative and dark stories, and you always know there going to have a gruesome end to them.
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