Dacey's Patent Automatic Nanny
By: Ted Chiang
3.03
Format: 15 pages, None
The story concentrates on different emotional relationships that humans develop with machines. Regi…
Want to Read"The behaviorist psychologist B. F. Skinner designed a special crib for his daughter, and there’s a persistent myth that she grew up psychologically damaged and eventually committed suicide. It’s completely false; she grew up healthy and happy. On the other hand, consider the psychologist John B. Watson, known as the founder of behaviorism. He advised parents, “When you are tempted to pet your child, remember that mother love is a dangerous instrument,"-Ted Chiang, Dacey's Patent Automatic Nanny
"The behaviorist psychologist B. F. Skinner designed a special crib for his daughter, and there’s a persistent myth that she grew up psychologically damaged and eventually committed suicide. It’s completely false; she grew up healthy and happy. On the other hand, consider the psychologist John B. Watson, known as the founder of behaviorism. He advised parents, “When you are tempted to pet your child, remember that mother love is a dangerous instrument,"-Ted Chiang, Dacey's Patent Automatic Nanny
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2.97
Format: 49 pages, ebook
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"Разумът търси пътя към истината чрез поставяне на очебийното над обичайното."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (C. Auguste Dupin, #2)
"Целта на нашите вестници е по-скоро да правят сензации, отколкото да помагат за откриване на истината."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (C. Auguste Dupin, #2)
"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (C. Auguste Dupin, #2)
"..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (C. Auguste Dupin, #2)
2. The Premature Burial
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.76
Format: 32 pages,
The Premature Burial is a horror classic written by Edgar Allan Poe. This is a horror short story o… read more
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"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial
"There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial
"I looked; and the unseen figure, which still grasped me by the wrist, bad caused to be thrown open the graves of all mankind; and from each issued the faint phosphoric radiance of decay; so that I co…"-Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial
3. The Oval Portrait
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.94
Format: None pages,
In this story of artistic obsession, a wounded man finds shelter in an abandoned chteau in the Appe… read more
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4. The Egg
By: Andy Weir
3.41
Format: None pages, ebook
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5. Berenice
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.00
Format: 12 pages, Paperback
Bereniceis a horror short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The tale is centered on the death of a young gi… read more
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7. The Island of the Fay
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.84
Format: 352 pages,
Edgar Allan Poe's short story about an unnamed narrator who wanders in solitude and comes across an… read more
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8. The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales (C. Auguste Dupin, #1-3)
By: Edgar Allan Poe , Matthew Pearl
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Edited and with an Introduction by Matthew Pearl Includes "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Mys… read more
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9. Unsong
By: Scott Alexander
4.29
Format: None pages, ebook
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10. Morella
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.55
Format: 160 pages,
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11. The Devil in the Belfry
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.83
Format: None pages,
In an isolated town called Vondervotteimittis (wonder-what-time-it-is), the punctilious inhabitants… read more
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12. Lionizing
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.91
Format: 631 pages, Paperback
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14. Silence: A Fable
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15. The Last Question
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3.78
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The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when human… read more
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16. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
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3.66
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17. The Domain of Arnheim
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4.35
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Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for this tale by the master prose writer. read more
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3.51
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"You're a writer, so I thought you must be interested in patterns of human behavior. Writers are supposed to appreciate something for what it is, before they hand down a judgment."-Haruki Murakami, Barn Burning
20. Dacey's Patent Automatic Nanny
By: Ted Chiang
3.03
Format: 15 pages, None
The story concentrates on different emotional relationships that humans develop with machines. Regi… read more
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21. The Sentinel
By: Arthur C. Clarke
3.79
Format: 6 pages, Paperback
Written in 1948 and first published in 1951 as Sentinel of eternity, this is the short story on whi… read more
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