Novella
Novelette
(SF) In a future Australia, Irving
sells his memories for ready cash, hoping to put his life back together. To
the extent he still remembers it.
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(SF Apocalypse) The kilometer-wide
asteroid didn't quite destroy civilization, but the things it brought with it
just might finish it off.
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(Slipstream) While fourteen-year-old
Ellie's parents are away, her world starts to change into something very
strange.
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(SF) In a future where most of the
galaxy is run by "the Machine" for the benefit of those lucky
enough to own shares, a young shareholder goes to school to learn how he can
make a difference.
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(Magical Realism) Teenage Leep works
making circuit boards somewhere in the third world. He's so awkward and quiet
that people think he's crazy, but he sees a very different world.
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(SF/Horror) Tom and Sam were
supersonic test pilots in the 1950s before Sam died flying a plane that could
go “sideways.”
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(Hard SF) The Phoenix project aims to
send a group of enhanced children to another star before Earth becomes
uninhabitable. Their mothers have a hard time letting them go.
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(Post Apocalypse) The aliens who
accidentally destroyed the human race employ the few survivors in an effort
to rebuild London.
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(Slipstream) When a house becomes
unlivable, everyone inside dies, and no one can ever go in it again. On Hope
Street, one by one, the houses are becoming unlivable.
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Short Story
(SF) A woman spends the night with a
man who seems like no man she's ever met in this world.
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(Transhuman SF) StateCorp has made a
fortune creating modified humans with animal characteristics. They take care
of failures like Cat, but at a price.
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(SF) When little Alice fell into the
lake, she didn't die; she found herself held captive on a strange world in
the Andromeda galaxy.
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(Dystopia) Gwenna Thirty-Seven would
do anything for the corporation, so it must be an error that her display is
saying she's been rejected.
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(SF Fantasy) When Earth's day changed
to 96 hours, some adapted (with drugs) and some did not (with lights). Now
they hate/fear each other. But two young people are curious.
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(Horror) In 1890's Argentina, Alfonso
and Marcelo try to manufacture a child to call their own, even though it's
illegal.
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(Military SF) Diego flies fighter
missions above planet Olympus, and he's good at it. It's the rest of his life
that sucks.
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(SF) The alien transmission Professor
Lovage detected has made her famous, but it isn’t attracting the kind of
attention she actually wants.
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(Hard SF) On 61 Virginis b, Keller
endures the cold, the two gravities, and the poisonous air at 30-atmospheres
to study the only alien artifact ever found by humans.
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(SF) In three days, the Synthetic
Fleet arrives, and all the colonists on Lazy Susan will die. The narrator and
his partner sell cryobeds to the highest bidders, but one lady has an unusual
offer.
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(SF) Every refugee in the camp has a
lotto number, and if it hits, he/she gets to go to the Mars colony.
Eighteen-year-old William passes the time trying to score with the girls.
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(Psionic) A private detective watches
a woman meeting a strange man at his house in the middle of the night.
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(SF) A woman on death row is offered a
fortune for her children if she'll let another woman take over her body.
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Not Recommended for Guests of a Philosophically Uncertain Disposition by Michelle Ann King Time: 08m (ShortStory) Issue: Interzone 263
(Magical Realism) Just outside Las
Vegas, The Fracture is a place where reality itself seems to be broken.
Damita manages the visitor center and gift shop.
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On The Techno-Erotic Potential Of Donald Trump by Ken
Hinckley Time: 13m (ShortStory) Issue: Interzone 265
(SF Humor) A scientist investigates
the emotional and sexual effect that viewing images of Donald Trump has on
people
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(Fantasy Horror) The narrator resents
being transformed into a monster to fight for her tribe, not least because
she thinks they're screwing it up.
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(Hard SF) A young marine scientist in
a sleepy coastal California town investigates the death of a man apparently
killed by jellyfish--even though the local varieties are all harmless.
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Ten Confessions of Blue Mercury Addicts by Anna Spencer by Alexander Marsh Freed Time: 17m (ShortStory) Issue: Interzone 263
(Science Fantasy) Anna investigates
people addicted to a drug that slows down time so much that they can
experience a year in the time it takes to fall from an airplane.
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The Eye Of Job
by Dan Reade1 Time: 23m (ShortStory) Issue: Interzone 265
(SF) A military psychologist has an
unhealthy obsession with a giant alien artifact that has destroyed the city
of Omaha.
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(SF) Two children play games amid the
wreckage the Company left behind.
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(SF) Jamon and his friends explore an
abandoned neighborhood on the Dyson sphere he and other humans have been
relocated to.
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(Slipstream) They live encased in
mobile towers. The government requires schools to accept them, but the
students and teachers ignore or harass them. Except for Mary.
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(SF) A disfiguring illness drove Lilly
to leave Earth and live in a community of aliens who think she's beautiful. Trouble
is, they like her too much.
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Three Love Letters From an Unrepeatable Garden by Aliya Whiteley
Time: 08m (ShortStory) Issue: Interzone 266
(Modern Fantasy) A gardener writes to
his love about the rare flower he cares for, which no one is allowed to
smell.
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(SF Thriller) The narrator is a con
man in near-future Thailand, and he has a scheme that might net him enough to
retire.
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