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Novelette
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(Historical Fiction) In the 1630s, two
brothers move to the New World to escape religious persecution. This story
covers 50 years of their lives there.
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(Fantasy) On a quest seeking his form,
Sham meets the woman of his dreams, and he pursues her, to her delight.
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(Fantasy) The colony can't tolerate
assault, and it depends on Juvianna's gift of making people forget crime and
motivation alike. But what if she used it preventively?
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(High Fantasy) Trying to serve two
masters, Glass fights her own comrades to try to complete an impossible
mission.
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(SF) Frere-Jones controls the nanobot
"grains" that help protect the ecology in the bit of land she
"anchors." She's come to view the grains as a tyranny, but there
doesn't seem to be much she can do about it.
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(Historical Fantasy) Vasily is a
tightrope walker for the circus. When he thinks no one is around, he walks in
thin air on lines of light only he can see.
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(High Fantasy) After ten years, the
spell that makes Jal En a woman has started to fade. But she's a seeress in
the Temple of Ru, where it's death for a man to be.
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(Military Fantasy) Baekdo, a fox who
wants to become human, needs one more kill to achieve his goal. A collapsing
city in the middle of a civil war seems like a good place to do it but there
are complications.
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George
& Frank Tarr, Boy Avencherers, in 'Beeyon the Shours We Knowe!!!!'
by Thomas M.
Waldroon2 Time: 56m (Novelette) Issue: BCS 207
(Historical Fantasy) In 1879, little
George and his big brother run away from their farm and sail down the river toward
a new life in Pittsburgh
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(Fantasy Steampunk) Ensign Dorial
hoped for a chance to prove himself, but an assignment to track down the
Emperor's wayward niece wasn't what he had in mind.
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(Steampunk Fantasy) Orana needs to
find shelter after her airship goes down in the wastes of the western desert,
but her people know nothing about the place.
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(High Fantasy) Sylva controls the
winds, and she served the old wizard in his floating sky palace. Before she
serves the new one, he has to learn her story.
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(High Fantasy; Birdverse) In a world
that values magic above all else, two creative women with no magic struggle
to get recognition for their inventions.
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(High Fantasy; Stormwrack) Gale's
people summon her home for her "croning" ceremony, with
consequences to Garland, captain of her ship, and a 12-year-old stow away.
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The
Limitless Perspective Of Master Peek, Or, The Luminescence Of Debauchery
by Catherynne M. Valente
Time: 32m (Novelette) Issue: BCS 200
(Historical Fantasy) Perpetua must
pretend to be a man in order to carry on her father's glass business. She
makes a great success from glass eyes, even before she realizes how special
they are.
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(Greek Mythos) The trees in the grove
used to be women, and the Guardian protects them zealously from the men who
still pursue them.
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(Historical Fantasy) In Elizabethan
London, an entrepreneur skilled in identifying legitimate antiquities ends up
with a bottle that happens to have a demon in it.
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Short Story
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(High Fantasy) The mysterious owner of
the best tea house in town has a secret deal with the queen.
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(Space Opera; Xuya) Thuy seeks her
daughter's remains in the twisted parts of unreal space where salvagers pick
over the remains of wrecked starships.
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(High Fantasy; Tasik) A swamp woman
traps a youth who came seeking a love potion, and before she eats him, she
tells him a story.
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(Interstellar Steampunk) Peavey is the
last survivor of a marooned expedition, whose descendants are holding an
annual festival. His grandson is excited, but Peavey dreads it for some
reason.
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Blessed
are Those Who Have Seen and Do Not Believe by D.K.
Thompson Time: 16m (ShortStory) Issue: BCS 191
(Magical Steampunk) Elijah is dying of
tuberculosis in a London where Darwin discovered spirits, not evolution. He
and a vampire friend descend into the underground to look for a cure.
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(High Fantasy) Beatriz seeks a
priceless relic hidden in a tomb. Two popes contend for it, but she has her
own plans.
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(Science Fantasy) Cathay, a Chaos Mage
in the city of Serendib, thrives on randomness. And how better to make the
world more random than gambling?
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(Horror) Perdita lives in the house on
the hill and tends the graveyard. A traveler on a mission disturbs her
solitude, and a thing under the graveyard needs to be killed.
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(Modern Fantasy) The train carrying
Jackson's Unreal Circus and Mobile Marmalade is wrecked, and the three Fates
walk the wreckage.
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(High Fantasy) Having no heir, King
Rulf sends Harlan, his most trusted adviser, to find the son of the king he
overthrew 20 years ago
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(High Fantasy) To defeat the armies of
the Efficate, the Cteri train some of their children to be weapons of mass
destruction.
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(High Fantasy) Rescued from men who
tried to kill her, Merav struggles to understand why and to adjust to life
with her rescuer: a widely feared witch.
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(Fantasy) The Raah dominate the
humans, but Miriam wants to try to be more like a human, incurring her
father's wrath.
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(High Fantasy) In the middle of the
night, the Wild Hunt demands assistance from a sleepless, pregnant woman.
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(Fantasy) Aril knows not to let
rabbits into the garden--no matter how politely they ask. Picket's an awfully
nice rabbit, though, and he needs her help.
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(Fantasy America) Heath leads Dennis
and Mitchell in a crusade across a cursed America, killing mutated people,
but gradually becoming corrupted themselves.
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(High Fantasy) Exiled emperor Ierois
lives alone on the shore of the Sea of Dreams. Then another exile joins
him--a boy who refuses to give up quite so easily.
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(Fantasy) Tamalat has come to a priest
to find out how to restore her friend Brio's shadow, in the hopes it will
restore him to what he once was.
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(Mainstream) In the middle of a storm
on an almost-abandoned island, a midwife finds the greatest threat to a new
mother is her husband.
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(Fantasy) In which a girl named
Everyone finds a ruined garden and a nameless gargoyle repairs it for her.
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(Indian Steampunk) Mr. and Mrs. Coates
came to India to hunt the most difficult prey, and no one can convince them
that hunting the Great Worm is suicide.
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(African Fantasy) The narrator's twin
died in a caisson, but he's sure the foreigner supervising the construction
sacrificed him to the water spirit.
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(Steampunk Horror) Justice Latch
investigates the curious case of a girl who exploded.
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(SF) The narrator's farm is threatened
by a sequence of increasingly irrational demands by the distant emperor.
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(High Fantasy) An old man, a former
imperial soldier, confronts young rebels and his own past.
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The Night
Bazaar For Women Becoming Reptiles by Rachael
K. Jones Time: 16m (ShortStory) Issue: BCS 203
(High Fantasy) Hester sells eggs that
turn you into a reptile if you eat them. It's the only way out of the city,
but they never work on Hester herself.
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(Steampunk) An agent from the
city-state of Montreal lies in prison after unsuccessfully trying to
apprehend a man who stole Montreal's secret immortality treatment.
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(High Fantasy) A Bright Courier
arrives at the Palace of Abandoned Dreams, where many come to collect the
package, but none ever returns.
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(High Fantasy) Gwyn plants a stone
garden beside the house he and Mercher are building for each other. You plant
stone seeds in stone gardens, and they make you remember. But not everything
is good to remember.
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(Chinese Fantasy; Candyman Ao) New to
Chengdu, young Ao doesn't expect the fearsome tiger spirit to ask him for a
favor--to rescue the Guardian of Chengdu. Ao has some magic, but cleverness
may be more important.
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(High Fantasy) Bethenica Morning,
humble, penny-pinching accountant to the wealthy and powerful Nahemiah Froll,
travels abroad to acquire a famous statue for her mistress.
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The True
and Otherworldly Origins of the Name 'Calamity Jane' by Jordan
Kurella1 Time: 11m (ShortStory) Issue: BCS 215
(Old-West Fantasy) Hunting for her old
partner and some missing townspeople, Calamity confronts a pair of fairies.
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(High Fantasy) Despite the rebellion,
the narrator makes friends with a local girl, and she wonders when their
bird-like overlords will come to replace her heart.
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(Historical Fantasy) On the English
border with war coming, the Scotts have never accepted Irish Regan, and they
fear the magic in her songs.
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(Fantasy) To support herself, Jade
makes the dangerous desert crossings that enable trade between the towns.
Ghosts that haunt the desert seem to be after her this trip, as if the desert
knew her secret.
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(Historical Fantasy) In the spring of 1828,
Ada Lovelace, aged 8, wants to learn to fly, with help from a secret woodland
friend: a faerie swan-maiden.
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(High Fantasy) After a long absence,
Melishem returns to Talyut to challenge her rival to single combat. But
Sikata is already dead.
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(Historical Fantasy) In 1880s San
Francisco, little Altair sees that the spirits of whales are trapped in the
whale-oil lamps, and he determines to free them.
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(High Fantasy) A boy and his sister
flee their home city during a crackdown on the underclass, but the soldiers
chasing them are closing in.
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(SF) When his granddaughter doesn't
come home one night, Rhee looks for her at the witch's lair--even though it's
forbidden to approach it.
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