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Penric And The Shaman by Lois McMaster Bujold Time: 2h:05m (Novella) Issue: Penric And The Shaman 2016
(High Fantasy; Five Gods) Young
Penric, a powerful but fledgling sorcerer, joins the hunt for a fugitive
sorcerer, suspected of killing his own best friend.
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(Military SF) Merlin's starship is one
of the best, but it needs repairs, and a derelict starship may have what he
needs. Or he can try a binary system where an interplanetary war has raged
for centuries.
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The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville Time: 00m (Novella)
Issue: The Last Days of New Paris 2016
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(Post-Apocalypse) At age seven, the
narrator thought he saw his father murder his mother. But did he?
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Novelette
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Alien Stripper Boned From Behind By The T-Rex
by Stix Hiscock Time: 00m (Novelette) Issue: Alien Stripper Boned From Behind By The T-Rex 2016
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The Life and Times of Angel Evans
by Meredith Debonnaire1
Time: 32m (Novelette) Issue: Booksmugglers 09/13/16
(Portal Fantasy) Consumed with guilt
for being the sole survivor from her home dimension collapsed, Angel scrapes
by in our world, living with a ghost, working as a janitor and doing limited
magic on the sly.
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Head, Scales, Tongue, Tail by Leigh Bardugo Time: 00m (Novelette)
Issue: Summer Days and Summer Nights
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In the Ruins of Mohenjo-Daro by Usman Malik Time: 00m (Novelette)
Issue: The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu 2016
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On the Fringes of the Fractal by
Greg van Eekhout Time: 13m (ShortStory)
Issue: 2113: Stories Inspired by the Music of Rush
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(Near-Future SF) A former critic of
the new US president works on a labor camp building a wall. Then the new
government gives him a way to earn his freedom.
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(Horror) Four friends meet for a
writer’s critique group, on a stormy night when a dangerous beast is on the
loose outside.
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(Hard SF) Four Warm Currents leads a
project to drill through the ice at the Roof of the World to finally discover
what’s on the other side, but the closer he gets, the more opposition there
is.
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(Modern Fantasy) Malka is a little
Jewish girl living in Brooklyn in 1920. She likes her new friend, David, even
though he’s older than her, black, Christian, and claims to be dead.
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(Alien Invasion) At night, in the
middle of a terrible snowstorm, Amy and Harry meet an alien on their drive
home.
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43 Responses to "In Memory of Dr. Alexandra
Nako" by Barbara A.
Barnett
Time: 04m (ShortStory) Issue: Daily Science Fiction 02/04/16
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(Fantasy) Three college kids infected
with the plague head off to quarantine, still believing their music can make
a difference.
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(Black Historical Fantasy) In the
closing years of segregation, Emmaline uses her magic to help neighbors and
protect her children, for trouble is coming.
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(Modern Fantasy) A Hatian girl and a
Syrian girl flee their countries but with very different results.
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(African Fantasy) After her father's
death, Tausi needs someone to take her from Epoulu before her aunts marry her
off.
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(Portal Fantasy) Ellie used to travel
freely to the other world, but lately her door doesn’t work. In fact, all the
portals are broken for some reason.
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An Unimaginable Light by John C. Wright Time: 00m (ShortStory) Issue: God, Robot 2016
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(Chinese Post-Apocalyptic Slipstream)
Long after the fall of humanity, a dragon/horse robot wakes up and explores
the ruins of Beijing.
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(Japanese SF) On Shino’s island, women
aren’t allowed to use artificial colors on their nails or skin, but her
friend Tsukiko can change color at will.
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(SF Humor) A mad scientist fights off
builders who want to redevelop the land his lair is on.
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A Non-Hero's Guide to the Road of Monsters
by A.T. Greenblatt Time: 19m (ShortStory)
Issue: Mothership Zeta 3
(Slipstream) Rather than killing the
monsters, Devon would rather negotiate with them and blog about it later.
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(Multiverse) The narrator walks the
worlds while waiting for her husband to get home.
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(SF Humor) The AI vacuum cleaner
didn't mean to suck up the baby, but now what?
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Some Things I Probably Should Have Mentioned Earlier
by Laura Pearlman Time: 05m (ShortStory)
Issue: Mothership Zeta 3
(SF Humor) A man gets a letter from
his wife, explaining a few things. She's not exactly human, but that's not
the worst part.
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(Hard SF) AIs are too expensive to
discard, even after a major disaster, but how do you fix one that seems to
have gone crazy?
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(Modern Fantasy) Teenage Ivan finds a
lot of things confusing, not least of them why the miniatures in his best
friend's basement seem to come to life for them.
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(Modern Fantasy) Charisma, a dragon
disguised as a college student, robs jewelry stores and copes with a
blackmailer.
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(Horror) America has imported
policemen from Nigeria to patrol black neighborhoods, and they’re struggling
to solve cases where people seem to simply explode for no reason.
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No Matter Which Way We Turned by
Brian Evenson Time: 01m (ShortStory)
Issue: People Holding... Spring 2016
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(Slipstream Apocalypse) About the time
botany student Arminae Ganit daydreams about how nice it would be to be a
tree, people around the world start turning into trees for real.
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The Line Between the Devil's Teeth (Murder Ballad No. 10)
by Caitlín R. Kiernan Time: 00m (ShortStory)
Issue: Sirenia Digest 130
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Whisper Road (Murder Ballad No. 9) by Caitlín R. Kiernan Time: 00m (ShortStory)
Issue: Sirenia Digest 125
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(SF) A police detective tries to cope
with an attractive female robot who confesses to murder.
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(Near-Future SF) A dying young black
man writes notes for his future self.
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The Carpenter and the Beast of Teeth
by Micah Dean Hicks Time: 11m (ShortStory)
Issue: Territory Issue 2
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The Magical Properties of Unicorn Ivory
by Carlos Hernandez Time: 15m (ShortStory)
Issue: The Assimilated Cuban's Guide to Quantum Santeria 2016
(Magical SF) Writing a story on
Unicorns in Scotland, Gabby tangles with some poachers.
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(Slipstream Metafiction) Once upon a
time a man’s therapist asked him to write a story about himself, his family,
and the strange world he lived in, with its dragons and lawyers, witches and
doctors, and the darkness closing in.
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(Slipstream Horror) Fifteen-year-old
Cillian finds the love of his life buried in the peat of an old bog where she
died long, long, ago.
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An Advanced Reader's Picture Book of Comparative Cognition
by Ken Liu
Time: 00m (ShortStory) Issue: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
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And Men Will Mine the Mountain for Our Souls
by Seanan McGuire Time: 00m (ShortStory)
Issue: Unfettered II
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The Adventure of the Extraordinary Rendition by Cory Doctorow Time: 00m () Issue: Astro Noise: A Survival Guide for Living Under Total Surveillance
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The Diamond Girl by Courtney Bird1
Time: 00m () Issue: Fairy Tale Review Ochre
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One for the database maybe: Reliable People by Charlie Jane Anders was reprinted in Lightspeed 118 (Mar 2020).
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