Question: Tomcat in Love is a novel by Tomcat in Love is a novel by best known for a collection of linked short stories called what?

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Noon: 22nd Century: Noon: 22nd Century (Russian: Полдень.  XXII век, "Polden'.  Dvadcat' vtoroy vek") is a 1961 science fiction book by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, expanded in 1962 and further in 1967, translated into English in 1978.  It is sometimes considered an episodic novel, collection of linked short stories or a fix-up as some parts had been published previously as independent short stories.  It relates several stories of the 22nd century, while providing the background "feel" for the style of life which gave birth to the Noon Universe.

A. L. Barker: Audrey Lilian Barker FRSL (13 April 1918 – 21 February 2002) was an English novelist and short story writer.  She was born in St Pauls Cray, Kent and brought up in Beckenham.  During her lifetime, she published ten collections of short stories and eleven novels, one of which - "John Brown's Body" - was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1970.  She was also the winner of the inaugural Somerset Maugham Prize in 1947, with her collection of short stories called "Innocents".

Joseph Polansky: Joseph Polansky is an astrologer who has been practicing since 1974.  His articles have been published in a number of astrological magazines.  His books include 'Sun Sign Success', 'Pendulum Power' (which he co-wrote with Greg Nielsen), "A Technique for Meditation", "The Moving Universe" and "A Spiritual Look at the 12 Signs".  His "Your Personal Horoscope" series has been published yearly since 1994 and has been a best seller.  He has published a novel "The Magic Stone" and a collection of short stories called "The Graduate".  He has three more volumes of stories, all of a spiritual nature, yet to be published.  He also publishes a quarterly esoteric review "Diamond Fire" and a personal newsletter "The Astrologer’s Notebook".

The Heart of Princess Osra: The Heart of Princess Osra is part of Anthony Hope's trilogy of novels set in the fictional country of Ruritania and which spawned the genre of Ruritanian romance.  This collection of linked short stories is a prequel: it was written immediately after the success of "The Prisoner of Zenda" and was published in 1896, but is set in the 1730s, well over a century before the events of "Zenda" and its sequel, "Rupert of Hentzau".  The stories deal with the love life of Princess Osra, younger sister of Rudolf III, the shared ancestor of Rudolf Rassendyll, the English gentleman who acts as political decoy in "The Prisoner of Zenda", and Rudolph V of the House of Elphberg, the absolute monarch of that Germanic kingdom.

Tomcat in Love: Tomcat in Love is a novel by Tim O'Brien, about the misadventures of a womanizing linguistics Professor, Thomas H. Chippering, originally published in hardcover by Broadway Books, in 1998.  Chippering is obsessive about proper use of the English language, and employs many examples of wordplay.  Written in the first person, the tale unfolds with extensive use of flashback (what Chippering would insist be called "analepsis") and foreshadowing.  However, he is an incorrigible liar, an indefatigable flirt, and completely self-centered.  "Tomcat in Love" is more picaresque than "Bildungsroman".

Palo Alto (short story collection): Palo Alto is a collection of linked short stories by American actor and writer James Franco.  The collection was published in 2010 by Scribner's.  The stories are about teenagers and their experiments with vices and their struggles with their families.  The book is named after his home town of Palo Alto, California, and is dedicated to many of the writers he worked with at Brooklyn College.  Inspired by some of Franco's own teenage memories, and memories written and submitted by high school students at Palo Alto Senior High School, the stories describe life in Palo Alto as experienced by a series of teenagers who spend most of their time indulging in driving drunk, using drugs and taking part in unplanned acts of violence.  Each passage is told by a young narrator.

Tim O'Brien (author): William Timothy "Tim" O'Brien (born October 1, 1946) is an American novelist.  He best known for his "The Things They Carried" (1990), a collection of linked short stories.  These semi-autobiographical stories were inspired by O'Brien's experiences in the Vietnam War.  In 2010 the "New York Times" described O'Brien's book as a Vietnam classic.  In addition, he is known for his war novel, "Going After Cacciato" (1978), also about wartime Vietnam, and later novels about postwar lives of veterans.

Larabi's Ox: Stories of Morocco: Larabi's Ox: Stories of Morocco by Tony Ardizzone is a collection of linked short stories.  Published in 1992 by the small press Milkweed Editions, the collection is the Winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, the Friends of Literature's Chicago Foundation Award for Fiction, the Pushcart Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction

Mai Al-Nakib: Mai Al-Nakib is author of "The Hidden Light of Objects", a collection of linked short stories published by Bloomsbury in 2014.  The collection won the Edinburgh International Book Festival's 2014 First Book Award, the first collection of short stories to win.  Her short stories have appeared in "Ninth Letter""," "The First Line", and the anthology "Novel of the World""."  Two of her stories received honorable mention in "Glimmer Train" competitions.  "The Hidden Light of Objects" is her first collection of short stories.

The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde: "The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde" is a classic fairy tale written by Mary de Morgan (1850–1907) in her collection of short stories called "The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde and Other Stories."  This collection of fairy tales originally published in 1880.  Mary de Morgan helped to make the Victorian era prominent in literature.  In her short stories, she is able to use "mystery, pathos, and comedy" to create entertaining and imaginative literature for all to enjoy.  In addition, de Morgan uses both female and male protagonists in her writing exhibiting her belief in equality among the sexes.  In many of her works, Mary de Morgan uses elements from the folk tales of medieval England.

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Answer: "The Things They Carried"