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(Horror) At a crime scene, Yutu and
her boss Nathan both suspect supernatural involvement. Even with her Native
American magic and his voodoo, it will be a challenge.
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(Horror/Humor) From confinement in an
institution the narrator describes the events that put him there. There's
something weird about the Northwest.
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(Planetary SF) Mr. Costello's crackpot
moneymaking scheme promises entertainment to the rural community he sets down
in, but the narrator senses a threat.
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(Horror) Middle-aged bachelor, Greg
Kellog, has a secret knack for making small changes to reality by
"lying." To stop a series of deaths, "small changes" may
not be enough.
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(Alternate History) In 1950s London
after the Nazi's won WWII, a German man tries to find a girl he used to love
in response to her call for help.
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Novelette
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(SF) On an alien world, an 8-tentacled
native adopts an unwilling human.
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(Hard SF) Tacan leads his pod to
capture a load of food from one of the void sharks the Tower people use for
transport. They consider Tacan's people little better than animals, so
getting caught would be a disaster.
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(Historical Fantasy) Louis fights for
the Republic of Québec against the British but the French Revolution is
causing troubles on both sides of the Atlantic.
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(Competence SF) In the 2080s, Humanity
is abandoning Mars, and Steuby and his companions think they can make money
by looting the abandoned settlements at the last minute.
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(Near-Future SF) Lucas does jobs for
backups that their human originals won't agree to. But some backups are more
trouble than others.
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(High Fantasy; Raffalon) Raffalon the
thief's latest contract goes wrong when he's transported to a gray world that
he must figure out how to escape. Entertaining.
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(Modern Fairy Tale) On a rich estate
in 1890s upstate New York, the cook loves serving her famous boss, but hates
feeding his cats.
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(Fantasy/SF) Alaric the minstrel
accompanies a caravan through the desert. When water runs short, they hazard
a visit to a dangerous "city" from a forgotten past.
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(SF) The crew exploring planet
Omega-Alpha are dismayed to see their spaceship take off, leaving them
marooned.
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(Historical Fantasy) The Victorian
England postal service sends Mr. Hewell to investigate some problems with the
mail in Binderwood, where something very strange seems to be happening.
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The Language of the Silent
by Juliette Wade and Sheila Finch Time: 32m (Novelette)
Issue: F&SF 03.04|16
(Hard SF) En route to planet Enikiu,
an accident ruptures Ifigenia's eardrums--a disaster for a translator. She
can get them fixed on Earth, but first she explores Enikiu a little, with
unexpected consequences.
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(Hard SF) A woman in a space ship
illegally tries to bring a baby to term in zero-g to prove it can be done,
and the space station management sends an enforcer to stop her.
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(Fantasy) From prehistoric times, the
stone man crouched on a hill. Every now and then a person would find it and
try to get it to do something. But to succeed was to die.
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(Comic Horror) The author wins the
Bram Stoker Award and finds that the physical award itself is really
haunting.
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(High Fantasy; Raffalon) As a thief,
Raffalon has made a few enemies, but he didn't think anyone was mad enough to
hire an assassin.
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(Ghost Story) A little boy mourning
his mother is sure that he's hearing ghosts in the house.
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(Near-Future SF) The secretive
parthenogenetic women of Colinas Bravas usually don't allow outsiders into
their country, but they invite Ms. Vargas to fix a genetic problem with their
children.
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(Surreal) Audrey, a one-armed country
girl, is fascinated by the murder trial of a talented three-armed man from
the next county.
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Short Story
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(High Fantasy) The stakes on Yildirim
and Ramadami's duels have risen to where they threaten the economies of Onsen
and Dushiq.
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(Historical Fantasy) Boswell recounts
a story of Dr. Johnson that he never revealed before. Involving a country
estate, a scandal, and a ghost.
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An Open Letter To The Person Who Took My Smoothie From The Break Room
Fridge by Oliver
Buckram Time: 02m (ShortStory) Issue: F&SF 07.08|16
(Cartoon Humor) Someone in the
Alliance of Doom has stolen Dr. Nemesis's smoothie, and he e-mails his fellow
super-villains to complain.
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(Near-Future SF) Willem loves Dr.
Isley more than he loves his real life. Even though she's just a character in
a soap opera.
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(Modern Fantasy) When Penny's house
burns, she rebuilds a smaller place on the ashes. She only misses a few of
the contents, and really wishes for a way to get them back.
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(SF) While Andrea struggles to make
progress at the lab, her teenage daughter, Natalie, is getting involved with
people doing spiritual "research."
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(Near-Future) Dolores is a high-paid
city doliente, who dances at funerals. Then the small town she left behind
calls with a request she cannot refuse.
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(Urban Fantasy) Julia hunts for a
mysterious white horse in Central Park, certain it must be a unicorn that can
heal her friend who is dying of cancer.
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(Military SF) Jennifer Balcomb suffers
side-effects from the treatment intended to erase her memories of the torture
she participated in as a Marine Corporal.
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Caspar D.
Luckinbill, What Are You Going to Do? by Nick
Wolven Time: 22m (ShortStory) Issue: F&SF 01.02|16
(SF) When "mediaterrorists"
attack, the disrupt Caspar's comfortable life in a near-future where everyone
is connected.
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(Near-Future SF) Julie had
reservations about using hardware that can make people fall in love, but at
age 35, she let herself get talked into it.
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(Mainstream) A familiar-seeming
major-league baseball player goes up to bat.
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(Alternate History Fantasy) In a
modern San Francisco in a world with super heroes and monsters, a retired
super villain hires a detective to investigate the death of a giant octopus.
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(Christian Fantasy) Betsy and Jesus
team up to beat her two-timing ex-boyfriend in a pro wrestling match.
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(Modern Fantasy) You are a hunter, and
your prey is angels. The city pays a bounty on them. You've got one in your
sights, but for some reason this one isn't trying to get away.
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(Post Apocalypse) Filip is an advanced
AI, and his job is taking care of Ella, who may be the last person left on
Earth.
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(Modern Fantasy) The art director sees
that a famous painting has been replaced with a forgery, but no one but him
can see the difference.
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Merry Christmas from All of Us to All of You by Sandra McDonald
Time: 09m (ShortStory) Issue: F&SF 11.12|16
(Modern Fantasy) High School graduates
in Santa Claus's company town head off to college in the world to the south,
but most of them come back.
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(Tale) Nanabojou, the trickster,
visits Virginia in 1924 to see if he can play a trick on them.
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(SF) When a feral robot steals her
phone, Renee acquires a keen interest in the little robotic ecosystem that
flourishes in the park.
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(SF) About 100 years from now,
eleven-year-old Theodore meets a robot from "the far future" which
demands he find gasoline for it, but Theo isn't even sure what that is.
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(Horror) Helena's mom's a witch, their
small town is blaming them for a missing boy, she and her girlfriend have to
stay in the closet, and to top it off, there are chicken skeletons walking
around.
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(Horror) The Special Collections
section of the library is filled with curious objects and old books, but
people who go in there alone never come out.
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Spells Are Easy If You Have The Right Psychic Energy by Dominica
Phetteplace Time: 10m (ShortStory) Issue: F&SF 07.08|16
(Modern Fantasy) Hruta is a young
American-Norwegian witch. She's great with love spells, but struggling to
figure out how to undo them.
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(SF) In the late 21st Century, Johnny returns
to Squidtown after years of captivity in Texas, and he finds it's all
different.
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(Horror) In modern Louisiana, Sheriff
Chew investigates a problem with a Hollywood film crew who have gone from
being a noise problem to being silent as the grave.
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(Near-Future SF) Gwen and Eliza are
college roommates who start a business making miniature houses that can talk
about the murders committed there.
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(SF) While human beings try to
communicate with extraterrestrial intelligences, parrots wonder why we're not
trying to talk to them.
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(High Fantasy) The old magician rarely
takes students, but young Schmendrick has so much potential--if he could just
make his spells come out right.
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(SF) Noel works at his uncle's company
managing a machine that predicts when old fads will come back into style. He
peeks at historical trends and finds something disturbing.
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(Historical Fantasy) Martin fulfils
his dream of entering the dragonlands via a secret mountain pass in France.
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(Historical Fantasy) Horace was a
celebrated blues player, but he failed to make the move to jazz. Now he's
washed up, and desperate enough to sell his soul, if need be.
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(Japanese Modern Fantasy) Yui Mogi
discovers that old Ms. Moriyama runs a rather unusual business from her home.
A business with a very unusual clientele.
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(Hard SF) Explorers are baffled by
mysterious silver strands on a remote planet of a distant supergiant star.
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(Historical Fantasy) In 1961, Larry
joins the LA mob as an enforcer, keeping the wrong people from fixing the
horses. But does that include an old man who only talks to them?
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(Urban Fantasy) Jimmy and Morrie's "Paranormal
Services" investigates a haunted forest--tree farm, actually.
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The Voice in the Cornfield, the Word Made Flesh by Desirina
Boskovich Time: 17m (ShortStory) Issue: F&SF 09.10|16
(Present-day SF) An alien crash lands
in a cornfield. It tries to get help, but no one can see or hear it. Almost
no one.
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(Fantasy) Hilil weaves and ties the
best knots in Sulik, but a curse causes made things to fall apart at her
touch.
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(Hard SF Humor) Jimmy's first project
as an engineer at a Silicon Valley startup involves crazy bosses, an electron
beam gun and unexpected blue smoke. And that's before things go wrong.
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(Hard SF) The Chinese Mars base asks
old First-Expedition crew members Julia and Viktor for help with a problem
involving Mars's only large native life form.
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