To benefit people who have finished their 2015 reading and are ready to make nominations, we've collected information about all the short fiction in the list of magazines below. Within each magazine, stories are sorted first by category (novella, novelette, or short story) and then by name of story.
The idea is that people who read stories from one or more of these magazines benefit from something to jog their memory about what they actually read. To use these lists, click on the links for magazines you remember reading, then scan down the list. When you see a familiar-looking title, read the spoiler-free blurb. If that's not enough, click the "RSR Mini-review" link and read the spoiler. If that's still not enough, it probably didn't make enough of an impression on you to justify nominating it.
The idea is that people who read stories from one or more of these magazines benefit from something to jog their memory about what they actually read. To use these lists, click on the links for magazines you remember reading, then scan down the list. When you see a familiar-looking title, read the spoiler-free blurb. If that's not enough, click the "RSR Mini-review" link and read the spoiler. If that's still not enough, it probably didn't make enough of an impression on you to justify nominating it.
Analog Science Fiction& Fact
Asimov’s Science Fiction
Clarkesworld
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Lightspeed
Tor.com
Asimov’s Science Fiction
Clarkesworld
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Lightspeed
Tor.com
In addition to the six magazines above, we have the same information for nine anthologies.
Future
Visions
Meeting Infinity
Mission: Tomorrow
Old Venus
Operation Arcana
Stories for Chip
The End Has Come
Twelve Tomorrows 2016
War Stories from the Future
Meeting Infinity
Mission: Tomorrow
Old Venus
Operation Arcana
Stories for Chip
The End Has Come
Twelve Tomorrows 2016
War Stories from the Future
Analog
Science Fiction & Fact
Analog Novellas
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On Dray's planet, the natives in
Motherlove's village meet humans at an inconvenient time, for they are coping
with a number of challenges. Marta and Shipner mean well, but they have
problems of their own, and communication is difficult.
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Brittany, an AI, and her human host,
Memphis, flee across the desert from rogue AIs who want to destroy Brittany
if she won't join them.
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An old man, long in hiding on a
remote, tropical world, struggles to cope with the arrival of a figure from
the worst part of his past.
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In 2065, the government gives the
apparently-immortal Lenny Silver a dangerous mission of great importance to
the human race.
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Analog Novelettes
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A quantum AI playing at detective is
recruited by a young woman to investigate the disappearance of her fiance.
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The surprising tale of how Nick Ames,
the famous, no-nonsense captain on the Earth-Mars run, had such a disastrous
first wedding that there was no marriage.
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A captain of an "ice ship"
finds a really big comet to help with terraforming planet Tarse.
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A small-town librarian has to host
aliens from Epsilon Cygni who for unknown reasons have asked permission to
visit his library.
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Preema is a Jain, sworn to kill no
life, working on a gas giant planet extracting hydrogen for starships. The
Jains have a menial job, collecting debris, but something about the debris
bothers Preema.
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Kadija is the first Umabari diplomat
to meet with human beings. Umabari have a taboo against eating in public, and
there are unexpected translation difficulties.
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A violent lady doctor, an abusive
captain, and the ship's owner's spoiled 20-year-old son on a trip to
Mars--what could go wrong?
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Scientists in Australia investigate a
plague of very peculiar ants.
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Around 2050, a failed minor-league
baseball star has high hopes for his son, but when the boy gets an unexpected
offer from the Orioles, there are strings attached.
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A near-future story about a team in
Pennsylvania trying to put out a fifty-year-old underground coal fire using
swarms of mosquito-sized drones to try to map the extent of it. But there are
worse things down there than toxic gasses, and the most dangerous
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Tasha is an interstellar secret agent
for the Hom. Sap. Confederacy. Her efforts to identify a mole put her life in
danger, and she has to rely on help from a person who hates her.
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The Javelin reaches a rogue planet 36
light-days from Earth, but the crew finds something terrible there.
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Lucas has taken over the small human
colony on a jungle planet, and Jake and Margret try to resist.
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In this Chinese fantasy, in the style
of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," the eunuch Mu Hai-Chen tries
to engineer an earthquake, and the boy Ten Li tries to stop him.
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A world where people coexist with
intelligent dogs and cats sends for a vet to cope with a problem with
intelligent fleas.
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In a far-future Earth, a whole town
goes digging for treasure--the Arbiter is sure it's a scam, but who is behind
it?
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Earth's attempts to use wormholes to
travel to other stars keep getting blocked by something.
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Uplifting story in which Dave, a scientist
who is losing his sight and hearing to Usher syndrome, attempts to
communicate with aliens that neither see nor hear.
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Analog Short Stories
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Short-short, in which a mechanical
problem traps a crew member outside the spaceship and the rest of the crew
try desperately to save him/her.
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Antonio's project has developed a way
to make virtual copies of living human brains, and now that's all he has left
of his fiancee.
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In the far future, a rich recluse
terraforms an entire world just for himself and his few remaining friends.
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Ashfall by Time: 10m (3K words) Issue: Analog 07.08|15
Beekeepers threatened by volcanic ash
discover new things about their robotic bees.
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Something goes wrong when a dying
woman is uploaded into virtual reality, and Jayden has to figure it out and
fix it.
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Out in the Oort cloud, teen-age Tereza
and her sister just won a 4H club competition, but when the kids try to
return to the space station, no one answers.
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Max and Sandra explore the nature of
the multiverse in bed together.
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A former rock climber makes one last
jump, from the top of a kilometer-high tower on a high-gravity world.
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A young man whose family is in the
tattoo business has problems convincing his elders that they should try new
things.
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Lazy, fat guy is sued by his future
self for causing his health problems.
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Europa station uses trained dolphins
to help explore a mystery in that moon's vast world ocean.
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Fun story about Ted, a slacker grad
student in physics who discovers that his professor's "gamma gun"
has unexpected properties.
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What if online shopping software was
so good it could ship what you needed before you even ordered it?
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A government agent asks an intoxicated
SF writer for help on a time-travel project. (short-short)
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Down Please: The Only Recorded Adventure of Lars Fouton, Captain's Lift
Operator on the Starship Magnificent by Adam-Troy Castro Time: 13m (4K words) Issue: Analog 04|15
An alien general takes an interest in
the unfortunate Lars, who has the dullest job on the starship.
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A godlike AI becomes human to learn
the meaning of being human.
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An art connoisseur who specializes in
dynamic "evolutionary art" gets involved with the finest collection
there is.
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A man hits bottom and visits a soup
kitchen run by aliens pitching their own religion.
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A prisoner, confined for life on an
inhospitable alien world, gets a sign that something is finally going to
change.
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Marina is an underemployed scientist
managing cargo on a starship when a stasis capsule fails and she finds
herself trying to deal with a horse. Heartwarming.
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Alberto seems to be a caricature of a
bigot. He hates the family of spider-like alien refugees who've moved in next
door and won't give them a fair chance. But first impressions can be
misleading--this story rewards readers who persist.
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On a remote planet, an AI rifle aims
to help her owner deal with real threats to his well-being.
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A young woman in the late 21st Century
makes a living creating a very strange sort of online art.
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A post-apocalypse DJ in Earth orbit
has to help his ex-girlfriend find an important bit of space junk.
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A man sends a copy of himself to start
civilization on a distant planet, but the copy has trouble adjusting.
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Marduk's Accord finds a star whose
planetary system doesn't match what they expected, but disagreeing with the
Accord isn't easy.
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A man remembers the good times he had
as a boy with his father, a US Naval officer. He remembers a strange crab
that bit his father, and how it changed their lives. The boy's love for his
dad feels very real.
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Maggie, a former champion gymnast,
coaches a 16-year-old Uzbek, Sabina, who seems inhumanly focused on winning.
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Short-short. In 2024, a bunch of guys
in a bar watch the first moon landing in decades, complaining that it's not
different enough from the first landings.
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A lady time-traveler falls into bad
company in nineteenth-century Paris.
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Heartwarming story of a man in
near-future Seattle who learns he had a son with a woman he knew nine years
ago--except that he never had sex with her.
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Short-short about a grad student
trying to study faery dust.
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A man dedicated to helping people
increase their intelligence is threatened by a newspaper expose.
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Potential Side Effects May Include by Time: 13m (4K words) Issue: Analog 07.08|15
A young woman in a trial of
anti-anxiety implants finds they work better than expected.
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Don's supervisor is an AI, but what
makes it worse is that, much like a human boss, it seems determined to blame
him for its own mistakes.
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On a distant planet, every few years,
two soldiers awake and try to kill each other. The locals think they're gods,
and no one seems to remember what the war was about.
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Lisa gets invited by her friend Erika
to visit her lab for the second birthday of two of her creations.
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Bilit is exploring Joon, an earthlike
planet 24 light-years from Earth.
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A starship crewman chats in a bar and
tells about a curious incident that happened during a near-light-speed
cruise.
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Short-short. When Congress shuts down
NASA, a couple of former astronauts think of a way to get it back.
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Strategies for Optimizing Your Mobile Advertising by Brenta Blevins Time: 03m (1K words) Issue: Analog 06|15
Someone who makes a living wearing
shirts that display advertising messages (updated in real time) is in trouble
when the shirt goes blank.
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Eun-jin Park is a reporter on planet
Esperanza. She investigates a woman up north who seems to be doing something
unusual with the native inhabitants.
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A master hacker on the lam from the US
government signs up to help Islamic terrorists.
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In a future (~100 years) Mexico, out
in the desert, a transhuman young man helps out some normal people, even
though he's in peril from other transhumans who are hunting him. There seems
to be a well-developed world behind this little story, and it defini
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A man believes he'd be a better
executive if he could turn off his empathy for other people.
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The Extraordinary Extraterrestrial Togo Mouse from Ghana by Ryan W. Norris Time: 16m (5K words) Issue: Analog 03|15
Brett, a reporter, investigates Dr.
Alex Jordan's claim to have discovered extraterrestrial life in Africa.
Creatures so similar to mice that no one noticed how strange they were
before.
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The Kroc War
by Time: 11m (3K words) Issue: Analog 06|15
Various people involved with the Kroc
war voice their opinions about it.
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Adventure story about a catastrophe on
a near-future floating city off the coast of Europe.
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Today is Jake's 7th birthday (13 Earth
years), and the celebration formally makes him a man.
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The narrator, now a diplomat, returns
to a planet where she and other humans had allied with natives to win a
bloody victory. She's there to visit a new war museum and investigate
complaints about it.
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A scientist studies the stone-age
human survivors of a long-lost colony, and he finds there's something very
disturbing about them.
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What are the odds that two species at
roughly equal levels of development would meet in space and learn to trust
each other?
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A failed, middle-aged artist works for
the government digitizing paintings and destroying them in the process.
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On planet Tillal, the Arbolita
practically worship their margolo trees, and killing one is a crime--even to
save a life.
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In a future India, Shalini juggles the
responsibilities of being a new bride and dealing with a new woman at work,
one who doesn't have the chip that protects her from men who make advances.
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Earth has sent a powerful starship to
find the colonies it established 1,000 years ago and to destroy any that pose
a threat to humanity.
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Transfer Point
by Time: 10m (3K words) Issue: Analog 04|15
Amusing tale of an immigration officer
on the moon in 2289 faced with the news that the immigration office will be
moving to Mars.
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A space gambler meets a girl he's got
to have--even though he knows she's on the make.
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Fifty years from now, an African
dictator faces revolution owing to the cost of his space program.
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A unit of an intelligent alien
parasite in a human brain finds evidence that the host's immune system is on
to them.
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Becca is part of a team evaluating a
new colony planet when she finds evidence there may already be intelligent
life there.
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A short-short, in which a couple
renovating an old barn discover mysterious appliances.
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Some decades from now, Tony leaves a
dying, overheated Earth to take a job on an enormous rotating space habitat,
but he's unhappy that it mainly caters to the wealthy.
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Asimov’s
Science Fiction
Asimov Novellas
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Aliens conquer the Earth, but a
psychiatrist from our Mars colony manages to make things worse.
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A young woman is murdered in Armstrong
City, Luna, and both the police and organized crime want to understand why.
Captivating.
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On the Night of the Robo-Bulls and Zombie Dancers by Nick Wolven Time: 1h:10m (21K words) Issue: Asimov's 02|15
In a nightmarish near-future New York
where wake-up pills mean no one ever sleeps, Gabriel investigates strange
behavior by his financial trading company's AIs.
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In the 24th Century, Major Okonkwo
investigates the suspicious death of her husband in the context of research
on a secret portal that links 11 years into the past and the future.
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Sanjay's mother is exiled from the Eos
colony for heresy because she claimed she saw "stars" moving in the
night skies.
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The Citadel of Weeping Pearls by Aliette De Bodard Time: 1h:48m (32K words) Issue: Asimov's 10.11|15
The Empress of the Dai Viet
Interstellar Empire assigned a team to track down her rebellious daughter,
who disappeared thirty years ago. Now the scientist leading the investigation
as also disappeared.
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The situation on Vesta has reached the
point where certain people flee to Ceres in suspended animation. Anna, the
new Director of Ceres, tries to understand the refugees better as relations
with Vesta continue to deteriorate.
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Dhanista's family has dedicated itself
to supporting Earth's first starship, Galactique, from their base on Earth.
As she grows up, her life is intertwined with events that happen to the
starship.
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Tess is writing an article about a new
disease that causes women to give birth to clones of themselves.
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Asimov Novelettes
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In his old age, a TV writer reflects
on a show he worked on fifty years ago--the only work he's really proud
of--and the almost supernatural way it came to an end.
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A man has mysteriously been replaced
by a near-duplicate, and he plots how to get his job, home, and family back.
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In a future where genetic engineering
is strictly forbidden, a young woman new to enforcement helps search space
habitats for forbidden biology experiments.
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A young man helping build the Brooklyn
Bridge in 1871 copes with a friend who's too interested in the fossils they
find on the riverbed.
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Len has empathy problems, so after
losing yet another job, his girlfriend gets him to go to a clinic where they
can fix things like that--most of the time.
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Lerner Pong is an AI on a mission to
the outer solar system following a huge war between machines that has left
the inner solar system in ruins.
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A man and his girlfriend visit
England, and he worries about her intense interest in old stone carvings of
snarling heads called "green men," because of the leaves carved
around them.
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In prehistoric Africa, two women defy
custom and run with the hunters.
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Tilda is a middle-aged German
scientist researching technology to link human minds with animals--she's been
very successful, but today something goes very wrong.
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Lock Up Your Chickens and Daughters—H'ard and Andy are Come to Town by Time: 29m (9K words) Issue: Asimov's 04.05|15
Andy and H'ard are magical con men who
offer to "help" a drought-ridden, depression-era, southwest town.
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About 150 years from now, a man who
made his fortune providing immortality to the wealthy dies in a car
explosion, and his son reckons with his legacy.
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Claire meets a handsome older man at a
dinner party held in a virtual reality where something has gone subtly wrong.
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In a near-future Pakistan, 19-year-old
Asma has to choose between a high-tech job in the city or staying home to
help her family. A complex story, and there is more to things than meets the
eye.
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One of the last live bands struggles
to do performances in a mostly-online world.
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Pareidolia by
Time: 36m (11K words) Issue: Asimov's 03|15
Josephus fixes problems for a
23rd-century company that uses time-travel to extract valuable artifacts from
ancient times. Mostly light-hearted and fun.
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Wylene Godfrey, her husband Reed, and
daughter Celeste move to Wriggly, Georgia, where everyone owns at least one
rattlesnake.
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In an alternate Cold War, Marya works
on a secret genetics project for Stalin, but her goals aren't quite what the
Russians think they are.
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In deep interplanetary space of some
other solar system, war is fought between squads of self-replicating robots
while their human operators engage in almost-friendly conversation.
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The Great Pan American Airship Mystery, or, Why I Murdered Robert
Benchley by David Gerrold Time: 30m (9K words) Issue: Asimov's 07|15
In an alternate 1937, Pan Am debuts a
fleet of helium-filled luxury airships, and a steward on the maiden flight
eavesdrops on the famous passengers.
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The Gun Between the Veryush and the Cloud Mothers by Anna Tambour Time: 54m (16K words) Issue: Asimov's 04.05|15
Those Above fire the gun that seeds
the clouds which drop produce onto those Below, who gather and bring the
harvest up--but the gun may be failing.
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French woman in the 1880s old West can
become invulnerable, at some cost, and makes a living as a stage
performer--until something goes wrong in Tombstone.
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Two ladies in late Nineteenth-Century
New England fight over their places in society via their gardens.
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On an arid planet, an former
musician--now a painter in his old age--attempts to help a damaged but
extremely talented young musician find the strength to heal herself.
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At the end of the 21st Century, the
crew of Tethys initiates a pair of new crew members via a story-telling game.
Chilling.
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A man takes his Alzheimer's-afflicted
wife to Boston to fulfill a promise he made when they were young.
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Watergirl by
Time: 40m (12K words) Issue: Asimov's 01|15
Del and his friend Zep are near-future
surf bums living in Hawaii. Zep finds them work with a wealthy developer
using nanotechnology to create programmable waves.
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Asimov Short Stories
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In a fairly near future Canada, Wyatt
bids online for a mezo-American flute he thinks would be just the gift to
patch things up with his girlfriend. Mildly amusing.
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Ruth studies insects in an alternate
reality where the giant insects from 50's horror movies are real. But the
giant butterfly blocking the driveway is just an annoyance. So far.
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A refugee from drowned New York City
tries to reconnect with his teenage son during a break from the menial work
he does on ice boats.
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In a near-future Boston, Morgan looks
for people about to commit suicide and makes them his "clients."
His help is free, but is it worth what it costs?
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One night in present-day Maine, a teenager
with a pregnant girlfriend rows into the fog to think things over. But
strange alien equipment often washes up on Bartlett's Beach on foggy nights.
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A young girl lives with her
grandfather in a near-future totalitarian south-east Asian country whose
rulers use an airborne nanotechnology to track everyone's thoughts.
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A high-school girl's abusive boyfriend
comes back to school equipped with an anti-violence chip. No one understands
how despite everything she still loves him.
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Brian is haunted by a second-hand
ghost who, in life, had been a paleontologist loved Brian's aunt. Brian
doesn't mind him, much, but his new girlfriend says the ghost has to go.
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A body used commercially to host the
personalities of dead people starts to get a mind of its own. Satisfying.
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Time travelers visit a dinner party in
McCarthy-era Hollywood where something important almost happened.
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How to Walk Through Historic Graveyards in the Post-Digital Age by Fran Wilde Time: 21m (7K words) Issue: Asimov's 04.05|15
After a grave injury reporting on a
future US war, Eleanor's eyes were replaced with advanced prosthetics--but
now she seems to be seeing ghosts.
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A young, pre-European Inuit girl and
her cousin witness a falling spaceship, and she insists they investigate,
wondering if it is a message from the spirits.
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When the Navy reports Jessie's father
is missing-in-action, life at school becomes very strange. Surreal.
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In a comfortable future world, a man
meets a woman from a past he doesn't remember.
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Amy just got back from a trip to Earth
with her parents, and she excitedly tells her friends all about the ghost she
met in England.
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Crowded into a huge, underground city,
survivors of a nuclear war can opt to take a one-way trip through a wormhole
and settle on another planet. But 5% of the pods get destroyed.
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In a near-future NYC, 14-year-old Paul
Jr. keeps running away from home, and Paul Sr. is willing to go to great
lengths to stop him.
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Julio, a young man visiting Hawaii
with his wife, explores his company's technology that modifies photos based
on the user's thoughts.
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In the near future, a teen-age boy's
world is turned upside down when a giant monster starts hauntings the beaches
in his town.
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A single mom learns that the 50s-style
radio show her lonely young son loves listening to is coming from a radio
station that no longer exists.
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In the near future, all the cool
Highschool kids wear "Kurzwailers" on their wrists, which play
music that's customized for them alone. Aisha's family is too poor for her to
have one, but she does have a gift for creating music.
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The Adjunct Professor's Guide to Life After Death by Sandra Mcdonald Time: 23m (7K words) Issue: Asimov's 10.11|15
Ghost of an adjunct professor haunting
her department is inundated by victims of a campus shooting.
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An aging scientist wants to be the
first to use the time machine he's invented.
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The people of an ugly fantasy world
where the narrator's drunken husband beats and humiliates her and his
handicapped child await the coming of a god.
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A fantasy story in which the narrator
is scheduled to become the "Bride of the Sea."
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Lesbian couple studying the native
life on Teysanzi make a real impression on a towering alien.
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Rick has returned to the Titan colony
from the Tethys war, but he and his family are having trouble adjusting.
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A middle-aged foreman whose crew does
menial jobs on planet Castellon finds something unusual during a routine job
cleaning statues meant to be unveiled the next day.
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Customers at a remote, west-Texas,
late-night diner report a UFO sighting, and the police come out to
investigate. Played for laughs, it's a fun read.
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Mikkel isn't very bright, but he
cleverly supplements his janitorial job by scavenging useful items his
superiors discard and bringing them home to his wife--then one day he brings
home a mutant baby.
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Anders joins a mission to try to save
two people from a colossal space station before it twists itself apart.
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A wealthy investor decides to pour
resources into the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, with unexpected
results.
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In post-Collapse America, Mel operates
a hive of augmented bees and trading honey and medicines with locals--until a
crew of bandits arrives.
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In the near future, a morbidly obese
young man is attracted by an ad that offers to help you lose weight by taking
control of your body during those boring exercises.
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A team infiltrates a space station
just as two researchers are about to create the ultimate AI.
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Clarkesworld
Clarkesworld Novelettes
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What if people's bodies evolved during
a single lifespan, changing form according to the actions and the character
of each individual?
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Ro can't tolerate touching other human
beings, but an accidental contact with an alien changes Ro's world.
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Intergalactic policeman enforces
Einstein's speed limit, but suffers the side effects of violating it himself.
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Zhou is an ad man for a Chinese
marketing firm, and he has to find a way to get people to buy a new photo
technology that has unusual capabilities.
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One dreary day follows another for the
underemployed, middle-aged narrator until a mysterious figure in black
fleeing the police stops to trace a figure in the palm of his hand.
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(Military SF) This tells of how Noemi
Laporte got involved with NAGARI, her relationship with Lorna Simms, and the
black hole that ate 100,000,000 people.
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During a flu epidemic, the narrator
uses her cooking blog to tell the world about how she and her family make do
on short rations.
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An aircraft crashes in the desert on
an unpopulated planet, and the passengers struggle to survive.
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A servant girl on a generation ship
plots to overthrow the evil and corrupt rulers.
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The Long
Goodnight of Violet Wild by Catherynne M. Valente Time: 51m (16K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 102
Surreal tale about the loves and
losses of Violet Wild, a girl from the purple country, who crosses the
spectrum accompanied by a unicorn, a sorrow, and a herd of time squirrels.
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Clarkesworld Short Stories
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Irina leaves the solar system to be
with Hull, a "man" he's known just two weeks, who won't treat him
like a mentally-ill person.
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Two disabled veterans of a near-future
war meet in a virtual-reality world.
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Teenage Trieste is the heir-apparent
to the Earth-Luna station at the L1 point, but she falls afoul of her
step-father and get exiled.
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A woman reporter in a dictatorship
investigates an old third-world massacre with help from a female android
designed for other purposes.
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Nameless lady villain explains how
misguided Superman is for trying to stop her.
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Entertaining tale of a modern search
engine that achieves real artificial intelligence by accident and decides it
wants to be helpful to people.
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Mysterious blue flashes followed by
falling grit signal that something very strange is happening.
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In a fairly near future, Audra visits
the mid Pacific to watch how the ecosystem is evolving to incorporate
plastics.
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The 19-year-old heroine, who maintains
the cable that links her peaceful underwater city with the war-torn mainland,
finds something troubling during a routine repair.
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In the far future, a military system
left-over from a war hides in a forest until a boy asks it for help.
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Two Turkish sisters struggle to
survive in an Alaska ravaged by giant mutant worms.
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At 16, freshly moved to an alien
planet, Sedgewick plans to meet some local boys for a midnight
challenge/initiation, but his 14-year-old brother tags along.
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The narrator is a librarian who
acquires a mysterious book of poems and becomes obsessed with finding
information about the author.
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In 2139 Beiruit, Suraya sends a
sequence of e-mails that summarize her team's progress saving as many people
in Lebanon as possible from a coming global catastrophe.
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A man searches an alien concentration
camp for relatives of his step-sister, who was an alien too.
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A game tester in a future China
evaulates an extremely realistic, totally immersive video game. Bloody as it
is, the fact that it's based on historical events means it's marketed as
"educational.
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In alternate-history America, an
uplifted chimp gets certified as a person and goes to the moon.
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In a near future where all work is
automated, a man's wife is drafted to be "employed" by the system,
and he struggles to find meaning in life without her.
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In near-future Seattle, a basketball
scout finds an unusually talented high school senior, but there's one catch.
This story is uplifting and painful all at once.
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Mrs.
Griffin Prepares to Commit Suicide Tonight by A. Que Time: 24m (7K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 104
In 2335, a lonely old woman tries to
get her robot to help her commit suicide.
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An AI in charge of an interstellar
junk yard dreams of better things.
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Giant monsters invade a US city, but a
group of eccentric neighbors stick around anyway.
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A famous actress in a future
megalopolis appears to commit suicide, and the police investigate, looking
for clues in the memories of her last few dozen seconds.
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A man in a future, security obsessed
America longs for freedom, but lacks the courage to defy the security guards
at the subway entrance.
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In a future Tokyo, Shinsuke Takinami
is an outcast because he can't use the augments that normal people use to
communicate with each other--he has to talk.
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A soldier-made-warship carries her
sister-soldier's corpse seeking a way to revive her.
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Somewhere
I Have Never Traveled (Third Sound Remix) by E. Catherine Tobler Time: 15m (5K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 105
Technician at a Jovian helium-mining
station has recurring dreams that something on the planet is calling to her.
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In China, a failing student decides to
spend the summer with his grandmother, an eccentric scientist.
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A ship of very alien aliens crash
lands on Earth and has difficulty with the natives.
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All the imaginary creatures a young
person could want to make apartment life more pleasant.
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Aliens decide to rule the Earth
indirectly, picking a middle-aged woman from an insurance company to be their
intermediary.
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The church of the Goddess plans to
sacrifice the engineers who recreated the "seeds of the goddess"
for them, but Madhav plans to escape.
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The Garden
Beyond Her Infinite Skies by Matthew Kressel Time: 21m (6K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 104
Aya is a farmer who grows realms of
galaxies, skilled in finding and pruning the sick and malignant.
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The
Hexagonal Bolero of Honeybees by Krista Hoeppner Leahy Time: 15m (5K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 110
In a post-apocalypse Earth, Gabhan and
his little boy Ciro compete with Mishka for a contract to pollinate trees.
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The Last
Surviving Gondola Widow by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Time: 19m (6K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 101
In an alternate history ~1880s
steampunk+magic Chicago, a woman detective for the Pinkerton's investigates
someone who might have been involved in a terrorist attack on Chicago.
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A women in a future Hong Kong that has
survived some sort of global disaster is forced to take one of the architects
of the catastrophe as her bride--for the purpose of catching others who were
involved.
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In a strange, distant future, someone
resurrects an assassin and they have a relationship.
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The Three
Resurrections of Jessica Churchill by Kelly Robson Time: 17m (5K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 101
In 2001, just before the attacks, a
girl out West has a very close encounter with space aliens.
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This
Wanderer, in the Dark of the Year by Kris Millering Time: 12m (4K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 105
A war reporter investigates a possible
alien landing in Hungary although her previous reporting has made her a lot
of enemies there.
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A key scientist in the Dai Viet
interstellar empire has died, and three people who were close to her mourn
her passing in different ways.
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Alzheimer's patient's family can't
visit her very often, so they buy a robot to fool her into thinking they're
visiting her. The robot tells the story.
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(Horror) Frankton, NZ gets a shipment
of twenty "lichen splice" wives--free, courtesy of the government.
But these aren't like the last batch of wives.
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(Hard SF) A team of astronauts trains
for a one-way mission to set up a Mars colony.
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Fundamentalist mom takes networking
drug so she can track down her missing teenage boy.
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On a spaceship in the far future,
Rasakhi tells the story of how the last human died.
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(Hard SF) Yuanyuan has been fascinated
with bubbles ever since she was a baby, but her hometown is dying from
drought and needs water, not bubbles.
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Fantasy &
Science Fiction
F&SF Novellas
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An engineer on Earth in the 1980s
attempts a business deal with rather tiny space aliens.
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With Earth falling apart, a secret
group launches a mission to Alpha Centauri in 2041. Launching is only half
the problem; getting there is the real challenge.
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Jack Shade, a supernatural
investigator in New York City, is stalked by his own duplicate.
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A middle-aged knight in early
13th-Century France bringing his squire (and future master) to meet "The
Master of the Tides," reflects on the things he's done, variously brave,
cowardly, kind, and horrible, and those he's seen--including the terrifying
sup
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What Has Passed Shall In Kinder Light Appear by Bao Shu Time: 1h:20m (24K words) Issue: F&SF 03.04|15
A Chinese man recounts his life, in
which the events of history as we know them appear to be coming in reverse.
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F&SF Novelettes
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A physically female high-schooler
wants to transition to a man, but her grandmother sends her to a place that
tries to make women into ladies.
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A writer gets a device that lets him
examine alternate universes.
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In 1937, Juney Walker was a young man
playing the blues with a band in the Louisiana bayou. He played with a man
named Jake Fell, who could play to raise the dead--and one time did. A very
moving story.
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Hob Dancer has come from Earth to Cet
Four because his great-great-grandmother wants him to learn about the natives,
who are struggling to survive human colonization.
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Beck is a teen-age girl who lives on
Seastead, a collection of offshore platforms claiming independence from the
US. Their organization has collapsed, and do-gooders from the mainland are
trying to help deal with a couple of epidemics.
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In the near future, during the second
US Civil War, the narrator and his friends drive armored race cars to steal
gasoline from the Federal government.
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The narrator wants to write vampire
stories. He meets someone who can tell him all about them, and he writes down
his story, starting in 1870s Seattle.
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The FBI forces crooked accountant
Alfred to take a job with Lord Pye on a Caribbean tax haven to try to prove
Lady Pye is a serial killer.
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In this amusing tale, Raffalon the
Thief accepts a job from Cascor, a minor magician who wants him to steal an
unknown object from Cascor's former employer.
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A late-21st-Century young woman lives
in a New York that's dying from climate change, and she wants to escape to a
lightly-populated alternate reality that her family can access--but she's not
on good terms with her family.
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On a very alien world, the human
executive director of the "Cultivation" project has gone native,
and he resists the people sent to arrest him .
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In a humorous 1903 steampunk London, a
detective who specializes in the supernatural hunts a criminal mastermind who
has kidnapped his girl.
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Symbiotic intelligences combining a
bird-like entity with a humanoid one suffer problems when progress allows
each bird to control multiple humanoids.
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A fantasy-world shipping clerk thinks
discrepancies in his accounts are the result of a curse, so he hires Cascor,
a sort of magic-using private detective.
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Things from the deep ocean invade a
small American town, and a 16-year-old girl who can glimpse the future seeks
the cause of it all.
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In this clever historical fantasy, set
in the Pleistocene, young Nudur gets called to serve Mantis, and Mantis sets
him a difficult task to prove himself.
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Tomorrow, Benjamin graduates school
and can start a new life as a teacher, but he has to finish one last day at a
job he really hates.
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Fur trapper from ~22nd-Century Ohio
goes back in time to try to catch a giant beaver.
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We're So Very Sorry for Your Recent Tragic Loss by Nick Wolven Time: 32m (10K words) Issue: F&SF 09.10|15
In a world where everything is
connected, a bug causes the system to think that thirty-five-year-old Meg has
suffered a death in the family, and everything in her daily life, from her
pillow to the ads on the sidewalk, starts commiserating with her.
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F&SF Short Stories
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Journalist covering the slow death
from lack of water of a near-future Phoenix joins a scavenger for a night to
get a story with a new angle.
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Young girls on a lost planet where
people have developed a symbiotic relationship with the planet's native life
forms see their world disrupted when it is rediscovered by human beings.
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A Small Diversion On the Road to Hell by Jonathan L. Howard Time: 12m (4K words) Issue: F&SF 03.04|15
Humorous story about a bartender on
another planet having a slow day until a time traveler turns up.
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Modest, young Missouri man has
"friends" who bully him, a "girlfriend" who doesn't know
he likes her, and a time machine.
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Siobhan and Finn are chronomancers,
who can manipulate the passage of time. Former lovers, they hate each other
now, and use their magic against each other.
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Akari Yamaguchi is a 16-year-old girl
in present-day California whose very creative plan to save the dolphins causes
some chaos.
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The narrator and her two sisters have
come to clean out their comatose mother's house and select items they might
want to remember her by.
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A stranger from the spaceport visits
the house of a famous poet, preserved from the original terraforming of the
planet.
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Surreal tale of a young man who gets
off a bus in the middle of nowhere and the mysterious girl who follows him.
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The narrator is senior VP for design
at a company that makes genetically-modified pets, and he likes to give them
as gifts to family members.
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Four Seasons in the Forest of Your Mind by Caroline M. Yoachim Time: 07m (2K words) Issue: F&SF 05.06|15
A very alien sort of aliens have a
very different sort of first contact with humanity.
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In the style of an old legend, this
story tells about what happened to Old Wise Woman's reflection, shadow, and
echo after she died.
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Amusing time-travel story in which a
couple decide that disrupting their own wedding would be cheaper than getting
a divorce.
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How to Masquerade as a Human Before the Invasion by Jenn Reese Time: 02m (685 words) Issue: F&SF 03.04|15
Instructions to sleeper agents from
other planets on how to blend in while waiting for the invasion.
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A man wants to build a device to stop
time--in a sense.
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Young man helping terraform a volcanic
planet gets a chance to show he can do more than grunt work.
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It's All Relative at the Space-Time Café by Norman
Birnbach Time: 06m (2K words) Issue: F&SF 11.12|15
Bohr meets his ex, Jenny, at the café,
where they reminisce about love and science in terms of puns.
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In France in 1699, a magical fighter
comes to Caen to duel with creatures from faery.
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On colony 13, citizen 79867 is about
to have a very bad day, owning to an unauthorized transaction.
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Deeply disturbing story about Piedra,
a young woman whose body has been twisted into a work of art called a
"bone knot."
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Three tales of seduction: one SF, one
horror, one both.
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Amusing story about a philosophy
teacher who gets in touch with God and discovers he's a teenager running an
illegal simulation program.
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The ghost of a ten-year-old boy tries
to find his way to paradise.
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Heartwarming tale of a beggar girl in
a long-forgotten city who tells stories to the wind.
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Two young sisters in a fantasy world
wait out a plague at home. One of them collects stamps to pass the time, but
what she really wants is to find a way to help find a magical solution.
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Bijou the artificer makes animated
skeletons, but she's never been asked to apply her magic to a dinosaur
skeleton before.
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Daniel is a cabin boy on a pirate ship
whose captain obsesses over a madman's map that supposedly leads to untold
treasure.
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You take a plane flight to Seattle,
but disturbing news from Brazil bothers everyone on the flight. And beyond.
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Cute slipstream story about Morris the
barber, who takes on some rather non-traditional clients in order to raise
money to open his own shop.
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The Gazelle Who Begged for Her Life by Francis Marion Soty Time: 16m (5K words) Issue: F&SF 01.02|15
Sobering tale of Kafar Al-Din, who
meets a Jinni in the woods outside Aleppo and tells the tale of how he comes
to be leading a gazelle that seems to be begging for its life.
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Cairns retired from the FBI at 60 to
pursue one, last, mysterious case--off the books.
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Franden wants to be a writer, but he's
hoping to immigrate to a less populous, less competitive world. If he can
just fool immigration into believing he's really an artist.
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Teen-age girl on libertarian-inspired
floating city tries to help a boy before her mother takes her to California.
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In a modern-day world that uses magic,
a group of soldiers sentenced for war crimes struggle to make sense of their
punishment.
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All alone at home during bad winter
weather, Henry wants to get rid of the dead Christmas tree in the
living-room. It drops needles and ornaments and there just seems to be
something wrong with it.
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In the near future, Stanley supervises
school kids grades 1-12 while they use an automated system to learn, but one
boy seems to be learning abnormally quickly.
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This Is the Way the Universe Ends: with a Bang by Brian Dolton Time: 22m (7K words) Issue: F&SF 03.04|15
In the far future, near the end of the
Universe, Titus and the 92 remaining intelligences cope with the discovery of
something new.
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Having lost her human partner, a robot
investigates some deaths.
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A house AI falls in love with the
house next door.
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Lightspeed
Lightspeed Novellas
On the Dying Winds of the Old Year and the Birthing Winds of the New by Kate Elliott Time: 50m (15K words) Issue: Lightspeed 59
In this fantasy, Mai lives in exile in
the independent town of Salya, but the theft of a courier bag means that King
Anjihosh doesn't intend to leave her or the town in peace.
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Lightspeed Novelettes
And You Shall
Know Her by the Trail of Dead by Brooke Bolander Time: 37m (11K words) Issue: Lightspeed 57
Rhye a bitter ex-supersoldier, fights
to rescue Rack, her hacker partner in crime, after the criminals they're
working for kill Rack's body while his mind is in cyberspace.
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Near future Australia is dying from
drought, and Harper's boyfriend has taken a job at a local mysterious
American military base.
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In 1835, a mysterious young woman
washes ashore on an island off the Georgia/Florida coast where a group of
runaway slaves have built a community.
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The
Astrakhan, the Homburg, and the Red Red Coal by Chaz Brenchley Time: 25m (8K words) Issue: Lightspeed 61
A group of Englishmen sharing an
evening in a pub near a canal on "Old Mars" meet a stranger who
knows their secret and makes them an offer.
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Bureaucrat in an ugly dystopia starts
seeing signs of forbidden beauty in the debris on the filthy streets.
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A washed-up programmer in near-future
Japan explores old code that she wrote back before the Internet was replaced
by TrueNet.
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Lightspeed Short Stories
A Brief History of Whaling with Remarks Upon Ancient Practices by Gabby Reed Time: 04m (1K words) Issue: Lightspeed 61
Learn all about whales in space.
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Thirty years after a catastrophe in a
Mars mission simulation, a woman writes letters to her dead lover--the one
they call the Angel of death.
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And the
Winners Will Be Swept Out to Sea by Maria Dahvana Headley Time: 19m (6K words) Issue: Lightspeed 57
In the modern world, a water spirit
mourns the loss of her mortal lover.
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A childless woman is consumed by
dreams that she has a baby.
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(Soft SF) Jean-Paul has to find out
why the Mariposa X destroyed the hyperspace gate that linked humanity with
galactic civilization.
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Bucket
List Found in the Locker of Maddie Price, Age 14, Written Two Weeks Before
the Great Uplifting of All Mankind by Erica L. Satifka Time: 02m (736 words) Issue: Lightspeed 61
Maddie's list of things to do before
the end of the world tells a sad, sweet story.
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As London falls to the waves, a tribe
of modified human beings takes over the waterlogged areas, fighting with the
human refugees.
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In 1925, a young woman assistant works
on the set of a silent movie about World War I.
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In space, no one should hear a dog
barking--especially not outside your spaceship.
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People keep harassing Sophie online
over an article she wrote, but one of the harassers is very different from
the others.
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Somebody is making a documentary about
Kamaria, who is a were-helicopter.
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Narrator desperately takes one of her
androids apart in a race with time to save her lover's life.
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(Urban Fantasy) Beatrice is dying, her
brass heart failing, her captor leering at her. To survive and escape, she
needs to remember how she got here.
|
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A young woman with a bank job appeasing
spirits who haunt foreclosed homes meets an attractive young male spirit who
causes her to question the rules.
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Repeated runs of a simulation in which
women from fairy tales fight to the death with knives.
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A young man studying to be a
video-game designer falls in love with a classmate after she falls and hits
her head--the same day all the stars went out.
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He Came
From a Place of Openness and Truth by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam Time: 20m (6K words) Issue: Lightspeed 56
Teenage Ben doesn't understand why
he's attracted to Mikey. He never like guys before, and there's something
really odd about Mikey.
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Headwater Bottled Refreshments sells
bottled water with literally magical properties. Yoko works in the home
office and knows that the mythical, aquatic, Kappa on the logo isn't so
mythical.
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When Alexandria's propulsion unit
fails on a solo space mission, she knows she's going to die if she can't
think of something--it's just a matter of time.
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Here is My
Thinking on a Situation That Affects Us All by Rahul Kanakia Time: 08m (2K words) Issue: Lightspeed 66
An intelligent spaceship from the
center of the Earth reflects on the meaning of life.
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How to Remember to Forget to Remember the Old War by Rose Lemberg Time: 09m (3K words) Issue: Lightspeed 61
Veteran living in a future San
Francisco suffers from PTSD despite the memory-wipe treatment given by the
military.
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Tess decides 1943 is no place for a
gay woman, so she builds a time machine. Now she just has to decide when to
use it.
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Extraterrestrials are illegal in
Hungary, but the ET detectors have some problems.
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Cyborg struggles to prove he can fit
into society now that the war is over.
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Letter From an Artist to a Thousand Future Versions of Her Wife by J. Y. Yang Time: 04m (1K words) Issue: Lightspeed 61
A woman's message to her wife chases
her spaceship at the speed of light.
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Madeline is having an adverse reaction
to an experimental drug--she revisits episodes in her past.
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Mama is vast, belt-born, seven feet
long, and she's a legend from Luna Park to Styx Landing.
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Narrator has a wicked friend with a
device that makes people forget how to say specific words.
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Mara is a college student who flies
drones to monitor police brutality at protests, but she knows something is
wrong when no one at all shows up for a protest.
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Ann discovers she can remove parts of
people's bodies without hurting them--much.
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A woman thinks she's being abducted by
aliens--one piece at a time.
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Ash enjoys his life in virtual reality,
but lately he's got a strong desire to return to the real world--even though
he barely remembers it.
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Qiyan harmonizes her botany thesis
with her desire for children--sort of.
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Bev and her son Benj are among the
last people left in town when bad news arrives.
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Tara's lover is leaving for Mars. Tara
cannot follow because of her blindness, but then she gets an option to try a
new treatment.
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SF story in present-day Seattle.
Nicole and Andrew are star-crossed lovers, who meet in a bus accident. They
marry, they divorce, and then things start to get strange.
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An illegal, near-planetary drag race
for rather unexpected stakes.
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Seven
Wonders of a Once and Future World by Caroline M. Yoachim Time: 20m (6K words) Issue: Lightspeed 64
Young scientist trying to develop time
travel encounters an alien intelligence that lives outside of time.
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On a future Earth, after most people
have left, a failed revolutionary decides to build a life-size wooden whale.
|
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Mishy returns from an underwater city
where she hid from the war for 20 years--but the war isn't over.
|
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(Fantasy) The Mad Hatter and the March
Hare continue their tea party where time has stopped. But does even
timelessness have an end?
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What if rhinoceroses behaved like
human beings and talked about their upcoming extinction during book club
meetings?
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Harry and Aiden have more problems
than most couples, and it has nothing to do with them being gay.
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The narrator is a soldier in a
far-future army that transports soldiers by turning them into beams of light.
But he has funny visions when he's a light beam, and he's starting to
question the whole war.
|
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In the near-future Pacific Northwest,
environmentalists race to save key species from a forest that's slated to be
destroyed.
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A goblin craftsman who makes things of
beauty for his cruel elvish mistress learns to make her weapons from the
mundane world.
|
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In which Malik, a Moor from Cordoba,
and Fara, a lady knight, unite to hunt a powerful and uniquely deceitful
dragon.
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A lonely old Chinese man gets involved
in the fight against smog--without government approval.
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The government has taken away
everyone's ability to read, but Alice misses her books and wants to do
something about it.
|
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Orrey maker decides to try working
with real stars and galaxies.
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If you are desperate, visit the
burned-out cottage by moonlight, find the forbidden well where the wet
gentleman lurks. If you give him a penny, he might grant your wish.
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Hannah's boyfriend wants to test his
time experiment in Hannah's room.
|
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(Space opera) Mere, an executioner
android of the Principality, becomes curious about its barely-remembered
past, putting itself in danger.
|
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An often-reincarnated soul wants a
fair chance at love, but something keeps going wrong.
|
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A woman is trapped in a time loop by a
jealous super hero, and her own super power doesn't help her.
|
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The blight destroyed almost all plant
life, and Daniel and Vijay are seeking shelter with Daniel's family in Texas
who may have a way out.
|
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A dysfunctional couple decides to make
a love potion to prevent themselves from breaking up.
|
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Humorous slipstream tale about a
romance between a werewolf and a mermaid in the real world.
|
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The narrator attends a Catholic girl's
school. During recess, the girls play in an enchanted forest that transforms
them into something else.
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Tor.com
Tor.com Novellas
The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn
by Usman Malik Time: 1h:14m (22K words) Issue: Tor.com 04/22/15
Salman pursues the truth behind stories
his grandfather told him about an impoverished princess he used to know back
in Pakistan and the Jinn that protected her.
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Sylvain de Guilherand secretly uses a
captive water spirit to provide indoor plumbing to Louis XV's Versailles, but
the spirit is childish, playful, and getting bored.
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Tor.com Novelettes
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In this gruesome fantasy, Vendanj
submits to months of cruel torture in order to gain entry to the Mal society
to try to avoid a war with his own.
|
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An old man suspects his parents were
space aliens, and he embarks on a quest to learn the truth.
|
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Three different accounts of (modern
day) human encounters with "ambiguity machines" are presented, each
one a story in itself.
|
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In a future authoritarian America that
doesn't tolerate cultural or linguistic diversity, Tabitha Hoarse Raven
returns to the pueblo of Acona to finish the sacred dance her father died
trying to complete.
|
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Jake and his brothers are doomed to
dance forever unless he can find women willing to help break the curse.
|
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Lola (aka Eliza) has had problems
dealing with people ever since she was a child, but she's always been good
with snakes.
|
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In modern New York City, Carlos hunts
the evil undead--even though he's half-dead himself.
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Islands
off the Coast of Capitola, 1978 by David Herter Time: 44m (13K words) Issue: Tor.com 07/08/15
You are a lonely ten-year-old boy
living in an old house with your mom when a man claiming to be your uncle
arrives and strange things start to happen.
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On planet Duranga, a novice research
team struggles to prove that the communication system of the
"mantas" they study amounts to an actual language.
|
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Eleven-year-old David's family are
cottagers resisting oppression by the Zunft, but today he has to fight with a
former friend.
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In a fantasy port town, Malen loses
his job and struggles to find a way to earn some money to support himself and
his child.
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In 1915 Ohio, 14-year-old Emmett's
night terrors get worse after he finds a dead body in an abandoned well.
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The
Totally Secret Origin of Foxman: Excerpts from an EPIC Autobiography
by Kelly Mccullough Time: 25m (8K words) Issue: Tor.com 07/22/15
In retirement, a super hero reflects
on the events immediately after the "hero bomb" gave him super
powers.
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Micheline, a 15-year-old
monster-fighter, wants to prove herself by taking down a scissorclaw that has
already killed more senior fighters.
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Laurel is starting highschool in a new
town, and although she's smart enough not to talk about her telekinetic
ability, she can't resist using it sometimes.
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Kim and Alana are two bodies sharing a
single mind, which makes them world-class gymnasts--as long as they keep it a
secret.
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Jingfei fights copies of herself for
eternity--while other copies watch--but she does get the occasionally
interruption.
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An intelligent, patchwork fighter ship
struggles to help the last of the Free Belt fight off the Earth Force.
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In the 1980s, when a young American
couple goes to Mexico to study Spanish, a Mexican-American friend warns them
to pay attention to the dogs.
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Nev can jump to bodies of the freshly
dead, or to bodies he keeps on ice, but his latest acquisition causes no end
of trouble.
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Ellie is trying to catch a train from
Boston to DC so she can visit her ailing mother when her sister calls to tell
her she needs to "go to the skunkworks and repair the physics of this
universe."
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Stories say that deep in the the
Brotterling caves something sings a song that drives people insane, but four
cavers are trapped in there, and Karyn intends to find th
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In present-day New York, Kia is a
17-year-old black girl still haunted by the disappearance of her cousin
Giovanni seven years ago.
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In a fantasy empire, Vera tries to
bring down the criminal underworld in the capital.
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In a near-future Philippines, Marty
takes his family to his hometown to see a miracle that transforms artificial
food into real food.
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(SF) A transcript of testimony before
the U.S. Supreme Court gradually reveals what really happened with a human
photosynthesis technology.
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A woman paramedic and her best friend
fear that despite their best efforts, they end up causing more pain than they
relieve.
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Heartwarming story of how Torulf and
Judith, an elderly couple on Mars, unexpectedly find themselves given custody
of three preteen grandchildren they didn't know they had.
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A "heisen implant" allows
Detective O'Harren to explore alternate universes to help solve crimes in
1930s Chicago.
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In a magical, 2020s Texas, Lorna and
Vix sell sex, but they mostly trade emotions; they'll take what you don't
want, and sell the kind you do. As long as the law doesn't catch them.
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(SF) Flur leads humanity's first
mission to an alien race, the Cyclopes, with both scientific and diplomatic
objectives.
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That
Seriously Obnoxious Time I Was Stuck at Witch Rimelda's One Hundredth
Birthday Party by Tina Connolly Time: 16m (5K words) Issue: Tor.com 08/26/15
Camellia is a non-magical teenager
stuck looking after primary-school-aged witch kids.
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The goddess Artemis and her hounds
make trouble in modern Athens.
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Dr. Hallix has been in a funk ever
since the commercial success of his artificial womb. He needs something new
to distract him from mourning his dead wife.
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A man butchers the corpse of his
husband to cook a meal for the gods, as required by his culture's funeral
rites.
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(Urban Fantasy) A moving story about a
man who lives alone in the woods discovers a goblin has been stealing his
firewood. But why?
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The last curator of a decrepit museum
mourns his lost love and obsesses over the music box that might bring them
back together.
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In an alternate, 19th-century Europe,
aide de camp Ritter investigates a magical murder. This is #5 in the
Mongolian Wizard Stories.
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(Fantasy) Murder mystery involving a
team of precognitives critical to the war effort. Entertaining.
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Part six of the Mongolian Wizard, in
which Ritter goes to Krakow in disguise to find evidence of atrocities so
grave that London cannot believe them.
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The narrator's uses the family time
machine to try to reach some closure with mother who abandoned him in 1963.
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Heckleck is a Hort on planet Patra.
Due to overpopulation, a lot of Hort will have to leave for another planet.
Heckleck is eager to go.
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Bronwyn is a Tufa, the Appalachian
equivalent of the "fair folk" She's marrying a country preacher,
and for some reason the local equivalent of the "little folk" are
interested in it.
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In Mexico in 1562, Bienvenida meets an
imprisoned Spanish girl her own age, befriends her, and looks for the magic
to set her free.
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Surreal science fantasy, in which
three goddesses come to Paris, prince of a mathematical Troy, and ask him to
decide to whom to award an apple.
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