Novella
Novelette
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(Mainstream) A young Cherokee girl on
probation for hacking is given community service helping a Cherokee elder,
who shows a keen interest in hacking.
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(SF) The end of the world starts when
an ambitious marketing guy gets a cryptic assignment to create an ad campaign
to "make ugly sexy."
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(Military SF) As a rare immigrant
trainee, Percy needs to prove herself to her instructors at the Academy. What
they have in mind for her is challenging indeed.
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(Science Fantasy) A Nigerian program
to develop people who can fly encounters opposition.
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(Near-Future SF) In El Paso, Mary
flees her abusive husband and runs into one of the space aliens who have
destroyed Mexico.
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Sooner or
Later Everything Falls Into the Sea by Sarah
Pinsker Time: 25m (Novelette) Issue: Lightspeed 69
(Near-future SF) Bay lives alone and
subsists off things that wash ashore from cruise ships and such. Then Gabby
washes up, alive, and complicates her life.
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Taste The
Singularity At The Food Truck Circus by Jeremiah Tolbert
Time: 28m (Novelette) Issue: Lightspeed 75
(Near-Future SF) Nico's boring life as
an accountant changes when he meets an old friend who's involved with the
illegal food scene in Kansas City.
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(Portal Fantasy; Dungeonspace) Teenage
Ivan lost his brother in d-Space, but his new friend Domino is eager to
explore a dungeon that's supposed to be safe.
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(Metafiction) A black author
accepts the challenge of writing a
black SF hero, but the police just keep shooting him.
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(SF) The "Heroes" are
gradually destroying Yousra's world, but she finds a way to use a castrated
prisoner to fight back.
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(Hacker SF) Fresh out of prison for
hacking, Aedo gets a request to do an even bigger hack. But why does Energy
Davison want to hack its own systems?
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Short Story
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(YA SF) Two kids get together at a
summer science camp after one tricks the other into eating her "psychic
ice cream" which causes people to read minds.
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(SF) A disabled human veteran takes in
a disabled AI veteran. The AI doesn't talk anymore due to trauma, but Tawn
tries to get through to it, even though his mother thinks it's dangerous.
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(SF Epic) When Raj leaves Earth on the
generation ship, Yatra, someone gives him a recipe to remind him and his
descendants where they came from.
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(Apocalyptic SF) The water keeps
rising, and Johnnyboy and her father flee to higher ground.
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As Long As It Takes To Make The World by Gabriela Santiago2
Time: 19m (ShortStory) Issue: Lightspeed 73
(Slice of Life SF) Somewhere between
the stars, the people from The Whole World that was scratch out a living in a
small place they call The Land.
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(SF) Suzanne's worries about her aging
father are interrupted by her ex-husband, who left her two years ago to go
explore the frontier of the solar system.
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(SF) The narrator describes his life
in exponential steps.
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(SF) Gas leaking from a deep well is
slowly asphyxiating everyone in a community, and two boys discuss what they
can do about it.
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(Science Fantasy) Charlotte is tired
of being a disembodied brain; she wants a real body of her own, as soon as
she can afford it.
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(SF) With nothing to do but wait until
the black hole eats their ship in 628 days, Carlos decides to program the
replicator to create a chocolate milkshake.
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(Fable) A crocodile visits a man whose
ambitions have led him far away from home and family.
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(SF) Stranded in a nebula, Els and Dun
struggle to survive as their remaining fuel gradually runs out. But they're
not alone in the nebula.
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(Near-future SF) A young orphan girl
and her friend dream of escaping from a future Trinidad, ruined by climate
change, where food and water are scarce.
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(Apocalypse) The war between the
governments on Earth and the corporate habitats in orbit isn't going to end
well.
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(Fantasy) She was 15 when a dragon
abducted her. 16 when a prince rescued her and married her. Now she's 55,
returning to the cave where she was held.
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(Slipstream) B's werewolf dad beats
her, but what really gets her down is she hasn't become supernatural like her
friends have.
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Fade To
Red: Three Interviews About Sebold's Mars Trilogy by Stephen
S. Power Time: 14m (ShortStory) Issue: Lightspeed 77
(SF) Across twenty years, a director
made three films about a remarkable discovery on Mars.
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(SF) Jiawen and Richard have a single
hope for their unborn child; they want it to be human.
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(Horror) In Trinidad, a swamp
fisherman finds a pile of dead
animals, all with a thin coating of what looks like gold on them.
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(Slipstream) Jack has been stranded at
summer camp for seven years, since his parents keep forgetting to pick him
up. On the bright side, his dragon egg is about to hatch.
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(Modern Fantasy) After a long absence,
a god descends to earth and begins her program of renewal by evicting the
customers from a restaurant.
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(Urban Fantasy) A virgin girl thinks
she sees a unicorn--and a woman hunting it.
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(SF) Michael and Julie, kids with no
parents, are cared for by a mechanical "mother." Trouble is, the
machine is having problems, and no one will believe them.
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(Magical SF) Derthye is a human who
likes eggs. Her husband is a Barlishya, who is forbidden from eating eggs.
This presents a problem.
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(Horror) In near-future Toronto, a
young Chinese-Canadian girl sneaks out to seek the services of an illegal
underground surgeon.
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Not by
Wardrobe, Tornado, or Looking Glass by Jeremiah Tolbert
Time: 17m (ShortStory) Issue: Lightspeed 69
(Portal Fantasy) Rabbit holes open at
random, summoning people to fairy-tale universes where they are the heroes.
Louisa keeps waiting for one to open for her.
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(Superhero) Mary hasn't seen her
ex-boyfriend in eight years, but when she witnesses super-villain
"Techhunter" robbing a bank, she sees a strong resemblance.
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(SF) Gregor is a dream traveler trying
to get his original body back.
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(SF) Baseline humans on Eris are
fighting modified ones. The natives will accept some refugees, but Gwen is
afraid her family won't pass inspection.
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(Hard SF) In an near future when
everyone has brain implants, a computer virus can be a health issue.
Especially when it turns users into killers.
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(SF) Agatha wants a svelte replacement
for her plump body, but since she can't get one grown in a reasonable time,
she looks into an illegal swap.
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See The
Unseeable, Know The Unknowable by Maria Dahvana Headley Time: 16m (ShortStory) Issue: Lightspeed 76
(Modern Fantasy) A circus comes to
town, but the tickets are for fifty years ago or fifty years from now.
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(Horror) Teenage zombie raises money
by letting his friends shoot him in the chest.
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(Essay) How to make an SF protagonist
interesting.
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(Slipstream) Electricity does strange
things around Arthur, especially when he gets excited. He's excited about
Christina, so their first date is going to be a real adventure.
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(Fantasy) Kim takes a cruise in icy
northern waters to help her recovery, but she can't shake the feeling that
what she really needs is another world entirely.
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(Fantasy Humor) The world's greatest
assassin sits in his lair, waiting for people to come to him to beg his
assistance.
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The Birth
Will Take Place on a Mutually Acceptable Research Vessel by Matthew Bailey1 Time: 17m (ShortStory) Issue: Lightspeed 71
(SF) You're having a baby. The first
Human-Tharkan hybrid. And everyone wants into the act--including both
governments.
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The
Cyborg, the Tinman, the Merchant of Death by Rich
Larson Time: 13m (ShortStory) Issue: Lightspeed 79
(Military SF) Private Berenson is
nervous about serving with the Space Navy's only cybernetic soldier, since
ordinary troops around him die like flies.
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(Slipstream) Johnny Appleseed and Paul
Bunyan broke up years ago, but he still gets called in to answer questions
about his death.
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The Jaws
That Bite, The Claws That Catch by Seanan
McGuire Time: 17m (ShortStory) Issue: Lightspeed 72
(Fantasy) The narrator's sister has
been kidnapped from the Tulgey wood, and she makes a dangerous journey across
Wonderland to try to rescue her and return home alive.
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(Fantasy Horror) Despite her parents'
best efforts, Agatha was born to be a witch, and eventually they turned her
over to St. Medusa's school.
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(Hard SF) Irit wants to do her Ph.D.
thesis on quantum physics and the mind. She lost her girlfriend four months
ago, but she thinks there may be a way to change reality.
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(SF) Riley hacked his personal
teleporter to make illegal copies of himself. The police have found him out,
and he's trying to lead all 17 of him to safety.
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(SF) A woman appears to be helping a
child recover from some form of brain damage. His perceptions and memory are
off, but something is off about her too.
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(Apocalyptic SF) Despite the war, the
peacekeeping robots keep trying to do their jobs. The people responsible--not
so much.
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(Post Apocalypse) An Arab-American
girl and her mother wander the Dakotas while the girl tries to get in touch
with a boy she once knew.
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(Modern Fantasy) In the near future,
Ben uses cryosleep for a side-effect: while he's under, he can meet his dead
wife. Trouble is, he has a new wife.
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(Fantasy) Neal and Killian are young lovers.
Together they think they can keep the dragons from destroying the world.
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(Psionic SF) Ava recounts the visit of
the "Needlers" to Earth and her part in the attempts to communicate
with the aliens.
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(Military SF) On top of fighting
against an anarchist revolution, a soldier copes with what he's sure is a man
pretending to be a woman in the Women's Volunteer Corps.
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(Fairytale Fantasy) A member of a
group of powerful beings who make stories real tells us the truth about
Solomon Grundy and why he had to die.
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Welcome to
the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station | Hours Since the Last
Patient Death: 0 by Caroline M. Yoachim
Time: 07m (ShortStory) Issue: Lightspeed 70
(SF Humor) A choose-your-own-adventure
story in which you navigate the clinic on a space station full of aliens.
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(Dystopian SF) Around 2070, Wilson
prepares to give a speech on the 40th anniversary of the Unity system he
designed, which changed the world forever.
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