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There's also the Annotated 2016 Nebula Awards Nominees.
Novellas
Total Stories: 6
(6 reviewed by RSR)
Estimated Time for RSR-reviewed Stories: 11h:40m (210K words)
Estimated Time for RSR-reviewed Stories: 11h:40m (210K words)
(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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(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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Penric And The Shaman by Lois McMaster Bujold Time: 2h:05m (Novella) Issue: Penric And The Shaman 06/24/16
(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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(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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(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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(Post-Apocalypse) At age seven, the
narrator thought he saw his father murder his mother. But did he?
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Novelettes
Total Stories: 6
(5 reviewed by RSR)
Estimated Time for RSR-reviewed Stories: 3h:37m (65K words)
Estimated Time for RSR-reviewed Stories: 3h:37m (65K words)
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
Not reviewed by Rocket Stack Rank.
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(SF/Mainstream) The crew of the new
Mars mission are coming to the hotel where Emily works, and her mom is
starting to say strange things about her involvement with the last Mars
mission.
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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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(Fantasy) Someone (or something) is
taking Grandma Harken's tomatoes, but finding the thief leads to a real
mystery--and danger.
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(SF) Months after mysterious aliens
scattered their spacecraft across North America, no one has a clue what they
want. Avery knows what one of them wants, though: it wants a tour.
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(Historical Fantasy) In a magical Old
West, young Ellis has a love for the desert and an affinity for dead things.
Both of these attract unwelcome attention from strangers visiting from back
East.
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Short Stories
Total Stories: 6
(5 reviewed by RSR)
Estimated Time for RSR-reviewed Stories: 1h:15m (23K words)
Estimated Time for RSR-reviewed Stories: 1h:15m (23K words)
A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers
by Alyssa Wong Time: 11m (ShortStory)
Issue: Tor.com 03/02/16
(Magical Realism) Hannah watched her
sister Melanie die, incinerated with her own magic. Hannah can't accept that
and sets out to use her own magic to put things right.
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An Unimaginable Light by John C. Wright Time: 00m (ShortStory) Issue: God, Robot 2016
Not reviewed by Rocket Stack Rank.
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(Horror) The girl he killed was much
more than merely human, and there will be consequences.
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(Fairy Tale) Tabitha has been walking
a long time, trying to wear out seven pairs of iron shoes; Amira has been
sitting alone on a glass hill that suitors try to climb.
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(SF) Despite not being a telepath,
Calla worked out a way to play chess with her captor, Major Larn, during the
recent war. Now they're going to finish their game.
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(Modern Fantasy) A young hustler
discovers that he's supposed to play a big role in transforming New York from
a city to a City. If he can survive it.
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