Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Clash of Cultures
    Clash of Cultures
    Clash of Cultures
    Ebook143 pages1 hour

    Clash of Cultures

    By Felix Pleșoianu

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Five stories, five protagonists, a common theme: people from vastly different civilizations suddenly must live together and learn how to survive now that their worlds are touching. Will they find common ground despite starting off the wrong foot, or are they doomed to remain wary and fearful of each other?

    This is my second attempt at a short story collection, containing some of my newer, better works:

    - Peripheral, a cyberpunk epistolary novelette about a rich teenager in hiding on the edges of a near-future society that's falling apart;
    - Parole Planet: a spoiled teenager is sentenced for a crime he commits on a distant planet with strange people and customs... that will slowly change him;
    - Collectivity, where two galactic civilizations based on antithetic principles narrowly avoid mutual destruction, thanks to a young soldier with empathy;
    - Distant Encounters: on a lost colony recently rediscovered, some people will kill to maintain their power now that the starships are returning;
    - Second Contact: the inhabitants of a lost colony in the middle of a civil war meet their distant descendants, who are no longer entirely human by now.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFelix Pleșoianu
    Release dateFeb 6, 2016
    Clash of Cultures
    Author

    Felix Pleșoianu

    Felix is a life-long geek and speculative fiction reader. Always wanted to write as well, which is exactly what he's doing as of late when he's not making videogames or digital art.

    Read more from Felix Pleșoianu

    Related to Clash of Cultures

    Related ebooks

    Science Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Mar 1, 2024

      I was trying to look a little less like myselfand more like other humans, humans who belonged, so I put on a skort.Purchased in another life, when I had a husband and wrote thank-you notes and held dinner parties,the skort even had its own little poc

      6 min read

    • Article

      ‘Starling Days’: Featured Fiction from Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

      Apr 7, 2020

      In today's edition of featured fiction, we present an excerpt from Rowan Hisayo Buchanan's latest novel, Starling Days. The post ‘Starling Days’: Featured Fiction from Rowan Hisayo Buchanan appeared first on The Millions.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Somebody Else Sold The World

      Nov 1, 2020

      & before I knew it, the violet skyflagged with the sun’s violentdemands: for magnolias in bloom,for natural light, anyplace withoutlocks or doors. Different kindsof masks for being & breathing.The antagonists with their vanitytans sang the usual jing

      3 min read

    • Article

      FotoQuick

      Mar 1, 2023

      FotoQuick
      12 min read

    • Article

      The Man I Should Have Married

      Dec 29, 2019

      The Man I Should Have Married
      11 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      Jul 1, 2023

      People let themselves down so hard they took to clappingwhen the plane lands. Sometimes even at the creditsof a movie. Their funerals turned out to be for the livingall along. You wouldn’t know how much they hatedcrowded trains by the way they kept b

      3 min read

    • Article

      Fathead

      Nov 8, 2017

      Fathead
      16 min read

    • Article

      Who Was That Girl?

      Apr 21, 2021

      Who Was That Girl?
      7 min read

    • Article

      Thirteen

      Jan 30, 2020

      Thirteen
      21 min read

    • Article

      Three Poems

      Mar 1, 2019

      War is coming but my neighbors can’t believe it. I ring their doorbells and tell them: maybe not this May, but next June at the latest. They stare straight past me, at the maze of lawns, the sprinklers, a kid on a bike hurling the Globe onto porches.

      3 min read

    • Article

      Speedboat

      Mar 24, 2022

      Nobody died that year. Nobody prospered. There were no births or marriages. Seventeen reverent satires were written – disrupting a cliché and, presumably, creating a genre. That was a dream, of course, but many of the most important things, I fi nd,

      14 min read

    • Article

      The Beyoğlu Municipality Waste Management Orchestra

      Jun 8, 2021

      Selim the half-wit hoarded everything—that was the story they told me my first day in waste management. Selim had lost his wife, and I guess everyone figured he took up hoarding as a way to fill the void. It started out with stuff his wife might have

      24 min read

    • Article

      Walking On TheWild Side…

      Jul 17, 2023

      Walking On TheWild Side…
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Leather Coat

      Apr 4, 2024

      The Leather Coat
      6 min read

    • Article

      Crime Wave

      May 10, 2019

      Crime Wave
      13 min read

    • Article

      Towns Like Ours

      May 3, 2018

      Towns Like Ours
      9 min read

    • Article

      Ghost Girl, Banana

      Aug 21, 2023

      By the time I was 25, there were only two things I remembered about Mumma. The first was that she smelled of watermelons, the second was that we were happy. We’d taken our father’s name of course, but a name is only half a story. The other half exist

      6 min read

    • Article

      Cherubs

      Jul 5, 2023

      Cherubs
      10 min read

    • Article

      It’s Come to This

      Sep 1, 2021

      It’s Come to This
      16 min read

    • Article

      Dive into… HAPPY AS By Larry Emdur

      Jul 31, 2022

      Our Books Editor Wade Sellers gives us his fave pick for the week! It was my twenty-first birthday. Some of my work colleagues took me out for drinks and presented me with a beautiful new suit. They'd all chipped in for this special birthday present.

      3 min read

    • Article

      Strange Season

      Jun 4, 2020

      Strange Season
      14 min read

    • Article

      Lil Spin

      May 17, 2019

      Lil Spin
      8 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Clash of Cultures

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Clash of Cultures - Felix Pleșoianu

      ȧcbook_preview_excerpt.htmluZ˲67wS*x&B}'$"KDE4^vf~ax{VUE̓'O&\R ׯ`soɼ2'ͫ홗|azo0㱉߿Ӛ/?/#Ybǰm'P\(4f>ټ쒟z_6Eyg⯾~sBgl6Nl6q.ع1nY|i5&xm,>ONqg]Ybx(W'll '; úh~aXŵq67EV%).p7? ,KGX '\ sbos.˦\hA-4X,Ŧ:>I]bX+H>8ʩG<dLv05f9kL%tETKQ84 C 7$H5o7Yz}6"tÓl0p5g&Y ud ^kvÉo|h>-){kZF`Gw611voxaN @ɩy@-{b xzaĔbXMį^$!.~ȿHuW=WO_M8 3GS0+.pXߎ_lsVkzHsU71 "@;8umbs&7Xړ+H)ܣw!PS@6LjۖLan/L=yE`\i<(Q,+ `[d1ddZě&6# (N6y* C38 ,Q Ǟ%b#iϝzpp9W%+, (gG \9+M#kdR z͵NxJ`619#Ga_I <&.m2`\.P6ab7N<<xԃ+R? $OE1츝#J J Ӌ]Tt#(GX!]V׍HsG1K S e#!*%ZI7Iy߰ PZ%Q*#U&Dr _JZ0av&WDž/Q2;ϳWS9itL4͚o`+,a ^X39`p>@8o{#z];,BtNfa:n僛nx7Ѵei qc.+*6 5LW\ (aI9'zI0O?!7̚w.p`ԁ3w!wSN8lj_pH2ZCu *9e>, A&pDsR0oL$nq@ I끻C,5x<~Vw(5Wk>+[/ne2P OSid5! U(b{#Ř2(-k/v͓ _IAe|}A"">ED޳j5 &·dQ"X>X `+8MX&f hw[- &Z|Ėu@z t9G|^QlQ (m"= x{NqrS4;1 *jKBTL%8UH)i3fږ`HT iЭW M)2j>K5'1JHr]"DAG7f-"wL25ҝ@!⒏{?TG|KWF{HYZ>egqTp[p=# ]D^гN E^j:WO C7ZJUpjhߩʱ'BZHG5ɶ2&&[q[?S)?ß5bvsFk6 А$RD AtحC= cDV`;i\mwu!HBzo!*)gZ:f0"Iٮ_m:?Tz"lg6X9 -԰};m~}MD__#DP<ǀN:aqioZHݪ t9ԠHO# A2>n oj!w/Y(X󛏀ث4_ $ !pN`W9ٵs"kRٟ&dzoF2qCK7@mhOVI$m `0R*H68q ߳Sw#Z[, H! Lks'x*]%sH5ɶ5(O|S.ҝ\[xԞg`ɦay\]79k82@VV>FTM-Z8߾@~]b$]mWU)``hBAZZwQr:DJ+1d|:6@gnJg"q^j-l޳W94)B|;l#!O֍k3JqϜX$@]`p :T'fY} wYR[nhXX~0IpRE%Nlǰ QT^1BxeSJpf"ڣOԠ't8t<]ݸ~46drfUU'hk8l?mT7{9٤/Z\ N.7RGÝm1II@1ΪVDy;D$Ztޡ4гU!!8B"Uv'*GPg:夤3+rtl3kK,Ga½69mdt#F7A{[Qji0r?j?1w#SqlͰ,u~́jKޕp$فT"go S b I. Vy['}(elnl"Eos{t$j)m؈4{Ly0yNE2k ێ:ӝ:QTG߉w|{{Gp)b A~RZUiHzh#o8t`OU>w^ˑtBk˺rXC>l]%& ,%OjAinؗ\":8} x'ʕbuHB<ȯLK=+d?}@Mv4%$y !L>ao|AzOǠ\}Tt kB$QR9Ո n> [j.dF#TBĆh_m۵1ۖy%@&59j8"6u&g dW+a4'V7cuv^(]@PBvSQsEx[<#t d4ϟ-<_LT``7hR/:ETCT?_^fk9>o8C.vκP*vR! pPQs aKpӑZ~<@Ѣ6p]ʉhte$#
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1