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(World War I Horror; No Man's Land) At
the Somme, Robert faces death every day, but something worse than the Germans
is hunting him too.
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(Fantasy/SF) Young Aqib has a bright
future as a noble, but he meets an enchanting foreigner who makes him consider
risking everything.
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(Fantasy Mystery) Alexander Drake
avoids investigations involving the nobility, but he can't resist the
invitation to investigate the mysterious death of Lord Aberdeen.
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(High Fantasy; Varekai) The locals
summoned her to get blood from the Lhian's cauldron, but she has no idea who
that is. Or even who she herself is.
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(Portal Fiction; Wayward Children)
Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children helps kids who passed through a
portal to another world and returned unable to cope with this one.
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Everything
Belongs to the Future by Laurie
Penny1 Time: 1h:13m (Novella) Issue: Tor Novella 10/18/16
(Near-Future SF) The Fix offers a
couple of centuries of youth to anyone who can afford it. By 2098, it has
changed the world. A group of people decide to fix it back.
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(Horror; Persons Non Grata) An
11-year-old asks a private eye to murder his stepdad, because "he's a
monster--and you're a monster too."
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(Modern Fantasy; Sin du Jour) Sin du
Jour, the legendary catering company to the supernatural, has won the
contract for the wedding of the Goblin Prince and Princess. It will be a
wedding feast to remember.
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(Vampires) Since the FBI captured one,
people know vampires are real, but why have they started a killing spree in
the Chicago area?
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(SF/Fantasy) Florrian plans to change
the world with his "Palimpsest" invention--provided no one steals
it first. And it's the kind of thing that's dangerous to steal.
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(Modern Fantasy; Sin du Jour) Sin du
Jour, caterer to the supernatural, gets its first gig in Hollywood, but
fallout from their last few gigs means there's going to be Hell to pay.
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(World War I Fantasy; No Man's Land)
In 1917 Flanders, private Robert Jones lives the daily hell of trench
warfare. But something much worse than Germans is hunting him.
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(Transhuman SF) Marmeg's augments are
illegal and hand-tweaked, but if she can win a race for augmented humans, she
can earn enough money to become licensed and have a real future.
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(Multiverse SF; Genrenauts) The Genrenauts
go to the Space Opera universe to fix a story involving a kidnapped diplomat,
threatening aliens, and the future of the galaxy.
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(Black Lovecraftian Horror) In 1924
Harlem, 20-year-old Tommy Tester plays bad jazz and runs minor scams. When an
old man offers him $500 to play at his house, he knows there's a catch. It's
just not what he expects.
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The
Burning Light by Bradley P. Beaulieu and Rob Ziegler Time: 1h:55m (Novella)
Issue: Tor Novella 11/01/16
(Post Apocalypse) The Light is an
addiction that afflicts telepaths. Colonel Chu hunts Zola, an addict who may
hold the key to the problem.
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(Fantasy) The philosopher Saloninus
makes a deal with the Devil. Except he approaches the Devil, not the other
way around, and the Devil is worried it's a trick.
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(Fantasy) Vellitt Boe teaches math at
a university in the dreamworld. When her star student elopes with a dreamer
from the real world, she goes after them.
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(High Fantasy) Shina books passage to
another island on Captain Tazir's fishing boat without mentioning that she's
caught up in the war between the powerful "Windspeakers" and the
invading Dragon Ships.
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(Zombie Apocalypse; Dreaming Cities)
In Virginia a thousand years after the apocalypse, a boy and his mother make
a dangerous journey with the help of a raggedy knight.
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(Post Apocalypse; Dreaming Cities) A
treacherous "angel" diverts Quinn from his goal to search the ruins
of the Dreaming City of Columbus for the key to continuing his journey west.
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(World War I Horror; No Man's Land)
The three-part series concludes with Robert Jones fighting the Walriders in
the other world.
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(Horror; Lychford) Just before
Christmas, the ghost of a little boy appears in the vicarage and disturbs the
vicar and her two friends.
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(Post Apocalypse) The last person in
the Warren struggles with low supplies and failing hardware and seeks another
person outside.
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(SF) A century or so from now, Katya
sells 20th and 21st-century memorabilia. Walking through the woods after a
purchase, she's kidnapped. But she has no idea why.
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(High Fantasy) Two teenage girls, Lin,
the last Jewel, and Sima, the last Lapidary, struggle to fight the invaders
who've taken the kingdom by treachery.
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