Collected Short Stories by O'brian Patrick

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This collection of short stories are about country life and the open air and were first published in the 1950s. Patrick O'Brien is the author of "Clarissa Oakes", "The Wine-Dark Sea" and "Testimonies".

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Collected Short Stories by O'brian Patrick

Stanley Grauman Weinbaum (1902 -1935) was an American science fiction writer. His career in science fiction was short but influential. His first story, A Martian Odyssey, was published to great acclaim in July 1934; the alien Tweel was arguably the first character to satisfy John W. Campbell's challenge: Write me a creature who thinks as well as a man, or better than a man, but not like a man. Weinbaum wrote more short stories and a few novels, but died from lung cancer less than a year and a half later. Most of the work that was published in his lifetime appeared in either Astounding or Wonder Stories. However, several of Weinbaum's pieces first appeared in the early fanzine Fantasy Magazine in the 1930s.

Patrick O’Brian was born in 1914 and published his first book, Caesar, when he was only fifteen. In the 1960s he began work on the idea that, over the next four decades, evolved into the twenty-novel long Aubrey–Maturin series (with an extra unfinished volume published posthumously). In 1995 he was awarded the CBE, and in 1997 he received an honorary doctorate of letters from Trinity College, Dublin. He died in January 2000 at the age of 85.

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ISBN 13 9780002242066
ISBN 10 0002242060
Title Collected Short Stories
Author O Brian Patrick
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Year published 1994-05-19
Number of pages 256
Prizes Winner of Heywood Hill Literary Prize 1995
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