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(Mainstream) Violet comes to a resort
town to kill herself. Daisy is shipwrecked with a man she loves. Rose is
shipwrecked with a monster.
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(Alternate History) A private
detective takes a job guarding Albert Einstein as he flees the Nazis on an
ocean-liner-sized airplane.
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(SF) Khifi makes a good living as a
pilot, but she used to be a homeless kid on the Tanduou docks. So she cares
when she gets hints that something bad is happening--something involving
kids, aliens, and more.
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(High Fantasy) The dead girl
originally fled her homeland over something, and whatever it was, it's making
it hard for Tromvi to return her body.
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(SF) In 2066 a woman struggles over
continuing life-support for her comatose mother and over what to do with the
things she's leaving behind.
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Where
There is Nothing, There is God by David
Erik Nelson Time: 1h:14m (Novella) Issue: Asimov's 12|16
(Time Travel) Paul finds a job selling
drugs for the mafia in 1770s America.
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Novelette
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(SF Ghosts) The narrator meets ghosts
of scientists and discoverers during a nine-course meal all over the world.
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(SF AI) Shelby's friend Vivian faces a
long recovery from a head injury, and she can't bear the loss of her company,
so she starts using an AI surrogate.
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(Fantasy Science) About a thousand
years from now, two powerful AIs struggle to prevent the destruction of the
multiverse.
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(SF Thriller) Every since she leaked
the secret of mind-expanding nanotech, Dyer has been on the run. And they're
getting close.
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(SF Humor) Ruth, a 22-year-old Walmart
cashier, meets a very weird-and-scary-looking alien, who seems down on his
luck, and brings him home with her.
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(SF) Before Mimi dies from
Alzheimer's, Walter gets her an illegal consciousness transfer done in India.
Then all he has to do is sneak the copy back into the US.
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(Military SF) The enemy are up to something
in "blank" areas of space that sensors can't penetrate. Devi takes
a "single ship" into one to find out what's there, but her ship has
a mind of its own, and it's terrified.
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(SF) A former principal muses about
Josh, a space alien who landed in a small US town some years ago and ended up
working at the school.
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(SF) Nawiz has pursued the boy who
ruined her life across the galaxy. Before she can get her vengeance, they're
both swallowed by a gigantic sea creature, and it will be a struggle merely
to survive.
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(near-future SF) At 14, Jeff can get
his first "passion" treatment, which artificially makes you
passionate about something or someone.
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(Dystopia) Casey, a disabled vet in a
cheap, rebuilt body, tries walking to another city to find work, but trouble
is waiting out in the country.
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(Alternate Reality) Old man Rendezvous
tells outrageous stories about Jack Kennedy, and he's hunting an artifact in
the drowned ruins of Cape Canaveral.
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(Near-future SF; Project Empathy)
Teenage Bel worked as a host at a Blue Cup restaurant in Concord, CA before
Blue Cup moved her to San Francisco for special training. Very special.
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(Near-Future SF; Project Empathy)
Angelina struggles with life now that she's lost her chip, and she's not sure
how to get back on track
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(Near-Future SF; Project Empathy)
Akiko wakes up on a ship bound for San Francisco with no memory of who she
is, but with the voice of "God" telling her what to do.
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(Near-future SF; Project Empathy)
Teenage Bel enjoys her prestigious career at Blue Cup, but she's alarmed to
discover her employer has installed an AI in her head to keep tabs on her.
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(Near-future SF; Project Empathy) The
Observator chip helps Angelina navigate her role as "social
curator" (aka hostess) at the Reserve. She doesn't know that the chip
wants to end their partnership.
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Ten Poems
for the Mossums, One for the Man by Suzanne
Palmer Time: 24m (Novelette) Issue: Asimov's 07|16
(Hard SF) Davin is spending a year
alone on Ekye to observe the local wildlife and, he hopes, to recover his
lost creativity.
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(Hard SF) Caitlin does data mining for
a presidential campaign, but her analysis is resulting in unusually precise
and downright strange predictions.
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(SF) In a colony on an almost
uninhabitable planet, the technologically-superior Su share power with the
humans, but some humans want independence.
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(Mainstream) In 1983 Florida,
10-year-old Scotty believes a defective lead figure of Lincoln is cursed.
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(Hard SF) Mitchell was a navigator on
the Francis Drake, but something terrible happened. The doctors tell him he's
losing his mind, but he doesn't believe them. If only he could remember what
happened.
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(Horror) Twenty-five years ago, at the
end of the summer after high-school, something terrible happened to Cliff and
his friends in the water ride at the local amusement park. Today they're
going back there.
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(Near-Future Hard SF) Lita learned
Rob's obsession with alternate universes in college, but waning interest in
science made it hard for him to explore it.
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(Fantasy Math) A strange student give
Professor Dunn a math problem whose solution will change the world.
Literally.
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(Post Singularity) James seeks
fulfillment through his sculpture, even though it all seems pointless in a
perfect world run by Ais.
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(Post Apocalypse) Hanger lives in a
canvas bag on the outside of the Empire State Building, but the secrets to
survival are hidden in the deadly mist far below.
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(Horror Humor) When he's not stalking
his ex, Richard earn extra cash scattering the ashes of dead people.
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(Military SF) Rachael flees Mars for
Hanah. She'll be safe there if she can find a job. Unfortunately the only
aliens who seem interested are a species she still has PTSD over.
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A Partial List of Lists I Have Lost Over Time by Sunil Patel2
Time: 02m (ShortStory) Issue: Asimov's 03|16
(SF Short-Short) Entirely via lists,
the narrator tells a story about fighting his duplicate from another
dimension.
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(Time Travel) Kate is sure Marzano
stole the paper she spent a year writing, but he somehow submitted his for
publication eighteen months ago.
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(Post Apocalypse AI) Carver Seven
spends a lot of time talking to the Human Being and helps him make spears and
things. They each want something from the other, if they can manage to
express it.
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(SF) A young man who just lost his arm
in an accident struggles to adjust to his loss. And something funny is
happening to the stump.
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(SF, ~2060) A man reviews drawings and
descriptions of animals he knew and loved during his life, updating them to
reflect recent changes. Very moving.
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(Hard SF) Adia pursues a herd of
resurrected mammoths in Alaska. She seems to admire them greatly, so why is
she bringing a gun?
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(Slipstream) A mother tries to find
something for her teenage daughter at a beach resort where four different
worlds seem to intersect.
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(Military SF) Constanza flies a
stealthed warplane for the US in a near-future war, and she's picked for a
series of special missions carrying a single, silent, soldier up to the front
and back.
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(Tale) In the style of the Arabian
Nights, this story tells the tale Batyr related to his wife after an evening
with a great poet.
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(Alien Invasion) You are building a
home on an alien world, despite the objections of the natives and the
complaints of your wife and children.
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(Modern Fantasy) Abused by his father,
Rafi leaves his small town, but he sends his best friend Becca a gift that
will change both their lives.
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(Hard SF) A radio astronomer comes to
a conference prepared to deliver a shattering paper, but fully expecting to
die before he gets the chance.
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(Near-Future SF) Steve has written a
very important article, but his boss won't agree to run it because the web
content filters won't let it through.
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(Near-future SF) Chi lives in a future
Australia and suffers from PTSD. His doctor offers to erase the bad memories,
but he refuses without explaining why.
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(Fantasy) Shipwrecked with a giant
spider, threatened by a pirate ship, the narrator has some concerns.
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(Near-future SF) A thirteen-year-old
orphan gets an offer from foster parents in a wealthy, walled community.
There has to be a catch, but what could it be? Moving.
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(Near-future SF) A gene designer and
her husband visit the tomb of Charlemagne and think about how they're about
to turn the world upside down.
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KIT: Some Assembly Required
by Kathe
Koja and Carter Scholz Time: 15m (ShortStory) Issue: Asimov's 08|16
(SF AI) Christopher Marlowe thinks
he's been reincarnated as a 21st Century AI.
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(Christian Fantasy) Andrew obsesses
over a used soul he picked up in the gift shop during a tour of Hell.
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(SF) Teenage Bess and Aline go to
comfort their friend Vera after a computer virus disabled her online
"Face."
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(Hard SF) Human colonists arrive at a
new world but debate how cautious they need to be, given that there's no
animal life.
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(SF) Fourth-grade Emma lives in
Florida with her grandparents. Emma doesn't fit in at school, and Grandma
doesn't help by saying the family is from outer space and aliens are coming
for them soon.
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(SF) A science writer describes the
events that turned a rat experiment into a space-time disaster in downtown
London.
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(Military SF) After some
"desperate" medical procedure, the narrator awakes in an abandoned
hospital. He can't even remember his name, but there's something very
important he needs to do.
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(SF) The narrator visits an alien
world to negotiate a trade deal with a race of alien predators who have a bad
reputation.
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(Mainstream) Two women mourn the death
of a childhood friend and try to make peace with themselves by returning the
mysterious skeleton that tore them apart as teenagers.
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(Near-future SF) Although the world of
2032 has deep problems, the Carson-Able family live comfortably--until the
grandchildren start dying.
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The Grocer's Wife: Enhanced Transcription by Michael Libling
Time: 18m (ShortStory) Issue: Asimov's 02|16
(SF) Thomas is in the early stages of
Alzheimer's, and his wife, Lynn, is trying to support him. Andy is spying on
him, and wondering why the government is interested in a retired grocer.
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(Horror) There was a monster hurricane
in South Florida in 1928, but the narrator tells about "Tulu," a
different kind of monster, and what happened when they met.
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(Superhero) A combination of teenage
hormones, a rare gene, and the right stressful event turns a few kids into
superheroes. Liam wants to be one too.
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(Horror) As people arrive at the
office for work, no one knows the people on the second floor are all dead.
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(SF) John Crawford lost his wife in a
terrorist attack. He blames God, and envisions a biological weapon to stop
people from believing in him.
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(SF) The Giordano Bruno investigates a
black dwarf (which shouldn't exist). The narrator has a special rapport with
the ship's AI, and he's sure it's trying to tell him something is wrong.
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(SF) In hopes of learning more about
the mysterious gis, an ethnomusicologist comes to their homeworld to hear
them sing.
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(SF) Vincent is a famous painter, but
he fears he's grown stale. He has a wild plan to reinvigorate his painting,
which starts with making a backup copy of himself.
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(SF Horror) EncelaCorp
"streams" the consciousness of explorers to distant parts of the
galaxy. Jonathan worries that the experience may have changed his wife somehow.
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(Colony Ship SF) Grayson, the
caretaker on the Sirius needs to awaken one of the sleeping crew to take his
place. Which means explaining what went wrong.
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(SF) Noel's mom is trying to raise an
alien child. Noel, age 10, hates this alien "brother" but can't
seem to get that across to him.
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(SF) On Ariel, some people have
modified themselves to fly. Other people can't accept that. Anna is going to
need to choose sides.
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(Navajo Fantasy) An old Navajo myth
intersects the modern world unexpectedly.
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(Hard SF) The transmitter sends copies
of people to remote locations, but the copies don't want to do their jobs,
and Margery is in trouble if she can't figure out why.
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(Mythological Fantasy) In biblical
Egypt, a Hebrew woman driven mad by the loss of her son finds a baby in the
bulrushes.
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