Böcker av Thomas Fasano

In a distant future, a battle of wills rages between two brothers on opposite sides of a war that could mean the end of humanity. On one side is an augmented faction of Martian colonists, determined to escape from their oppressors. On the other, a powerful military unit whose leader seeks merciless revenge. Can one soldier's peaceful mission to negotiate an end to the violence be an effective counterweight to his brother's aggression? This thrilling novel offers an exciting journey into a transhumanist world where the fate of humanity hangs in the balance.

Featuring 30 of the greatest short stories from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this new anthology begins with Washington Irving's tale "Rip Van Winkle" and ranges across more than one hundred years of storytelling, concluding with F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic, "Winter Dreams." Other selections include Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher," Melville's "Bartleby, The Scrivener," Harte's "The Luck of Roaring Camp," "To Build a Fire," by Jack London, "The Middle Years" by Henry James, plus stories by Mark Twain, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charles Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Ambrose Bierce, Theodore Dreiser, and others. Perfect for classroom use, this outstanding collection of short stories will also prove popular with fiction readers everywhere.