Return to 2016 Best SF/F Short Fiction
Nebula Awards
Novella
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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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(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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(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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(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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(Horror) Middle-aged bachelor, Greg
Kellog, has a secret knack for making small changes to reality by
"lying." To stop a series of deaths, "small changes" may
not be enough.
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Novelette
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(SF) Frere-Jones controls the nanobot
"grains" that help protect the ecology in the bit of land she
"anchors." She's come to view the grains as a tyranny, but there
doesn't seem to be much she can do about it.
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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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(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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(Hard SF) A woman in a space ship
illegally tries to bring a baby to term in zero-g to prove it can be done,
and the space station management sends an enforcer to stop her.
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(Greek Mythos) The trees in the grove
used to be women, and the Guardian protects them zealously from the men who
still pursue them.
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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 Story
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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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(Horror) The girl he killed was much
more than merely human, and there will be consequences.
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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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(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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(Horror) Following a disaster in
Antarctica, MacReady spends summer 1983 in New York and starts to wonder what
he might have brought back with him.
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BASFF+1
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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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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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Hugo Awards
Novella
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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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(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 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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(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.
Other
Reviews
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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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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
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 Story
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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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Eugie Award
Novella
Novelette
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Ten Poems
for the Mossums, One for the Man by Suzanne
Palmer Time: 24m (Novelette) Issue: Asimov's 07|16
(Hard SF) Davin is spending a year
alone on Ekye to observe the local wildlife and, he hopes, to recover his
lost creativity.
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The
Limitless Perspective Of Master Peek, Or, The Luminescence Of Debauchery
by Catherynne M. Valente
Time: 32m (Novelette) Issue: BCS 200
(Historical Fantasy) Perpetua must
pretend to be a man in order to carry on her father's glass business. She
makes a great success from glass eyes, even before she realizes how special
they are.
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Short Story
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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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(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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(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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Locus Awards
Novella
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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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(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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(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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Not reviewed by Rocket Stack Rank.
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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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Not reviewed by Rocket Stack Rank.
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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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(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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(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) 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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(Military Fantasy) Baekdo, a fox who
wants to become human, needs one more kill to achieve his goal. A collapsing
city in the middle of a civil war seems like a good place to do it but there
are complications.
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(Space Opera; Xuya) Da Trang earned
favor with the Empress because his remora, Pearl, feed him information. He
has lost Pearl, but cannot stop searching for it.
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(Historical Fantasy) In Eastern Europe
between the wars, Klara works as a kitchen maid. One night she admits a woman
she thinks is a lost fairy-tale princesses into the castle.
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(Fairy Tale) Young Miryem supports her
family lending money at interest, but things get difficult when someone from Faerie
makes her an offer she can’t refuse.
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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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(Post Apocalypse) Teenage Tetley lives
in a human settlement (one of the last) built on a miles-wide floating
garbage dump. She explains why everyone hates her now.
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BASFF+2
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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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(Near-Future Hard SF) Lita learned
Rob's obsession with alternate universes in college, but waning interest in
science made it hard for him to explore it.
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(Near-Future SF) The secretive
parthenogenetic women of Colinas Bravas usually don't allow outsiders into
their country, but they invite Ms. Vargas to fix a genetic problem with their
children.
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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 Story
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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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(Space Opera; Xuya) Thuy seeks her
daughter's remains in the twisted parts of unreal space where salvagers pick
over the remains of wrecked starships.
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(SF Humor) Nigerian astronaut Abacha
Tunde has been abandoned in space since 1990 and he would appreciate some
help getting home.
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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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(Far Future SF) Mia marks her
birthdays as powers of 7, which gives her lots of time to work out her issues
with her mother.
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Sixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee by Alastair Reynolds
Time: 14m (ShortStory) Issue: Bridging Infinity 2016
(Far-Future SF) Kamala discovered an
alien artifact inside the sun, and she spent her life finding a way to reach
it.
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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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(Chinese Fantasy) Sometimes a unicorn assisted Judge Kao Yu, and because
he was so just and honest, he never feared its judgment. Until now.
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Sturgeon Award
Novella
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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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(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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Novelette
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(Near-future SF; Project Empathy)
Teenage Bel worked as a host at a Blue Cup restaurant in Concord, CA before
Blue Cup moved her to San Francisco for special training. Very special.
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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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(Post Apocalypse) Teenage Tetley lives
in a human settlement (one of the last) built on a miles-wide floating
garbage dump. She explains why everyone hates her now.
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BASFF+2
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(Near-Future Hard SF) Lita learned
Rob's obsession with alternate universes in college, but waning interest in
science made it hard for him to explore it.
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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.
Other
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Short Story
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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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BASFF+1
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(Horror) Following a disaster in
Antarctica, MacReady spends summer 1983 in New York and starts to wonder what
he might have brought back with him.
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BASFF+1
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Readers Polls
Analog Science Fiction & Fact
Novella
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(SF) On Skipbrudden, each child must
pass four tests to earn the right to become an adult. Arvie is a precocious
kitten, which means he'll face the tests sooner than most.
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(SF; Andrea Cort) On Caithiriin,
murderers get a choice between execution or anti-violence treatment. No human
has had to make that choice before, but it's suspicious that the natives
almost always prefer death.
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The
Journeyman: In The Great North Wood by Michael F.
Flynn Time: 1h:16m (Novella) Issue: Analog 06|16
(SF; The Journeyman) Teodorq and his
friend Sammi agree to organize security for a nobleman's archaeological
expedition. They expect danger from the local tribes, but not from the
artifacts themselves.
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(SF; Andrea Cort) Draiken used to be a
spy, but now he wants revenge on his former masters, and he has a complicated
plan to enlist a former associate.
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(SF) A violent Martian mining town
reconstructs Wyatt Earp to try to restore order.
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Novelette
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Detroit
Hammersmith Zero-Gravity Toilet Repairman (Retired) by Suzanne
Palmer Time: 24m (Novelette) Issue: Analog 09|16
(Hard SF) At the height of diplomatic
meetings, the toilets in the Station start to malfunction, even though
diagnostics say nothing is wrong. So they call for an expert.
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(Time Travel) Light story about a
time-travelling biologist who runs into some problems in Cretaceous
Antarctica.
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(SF) Old Mr. Coanda fans Jimmy's love
for outer space by showing him how to build and launch real rockets.
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(SF Police) In a caste-based future
officer John Blank investigates a serial killer whose victims seem to have
mysterious connection to upper-caste people.
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(Near-Future SF) Benji was an ordinary
terrier until his master decided to have him sentientized.
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Short Story
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(SF Mystery) Six months out from Zeta
Reticuli, someone murders a poet. Jayla isn't a detective, but someone needs
to solve the murder or no one will feel safe.
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In the
Absence of Instructions to the Contrary by Frank Wu Time: 20m (ShortStory) Issue: Analog 11|16
(SF Robot) Karl is a robot exploring
the sea floor. The exploring goes well, but reporting back has problems.
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(Military SF) Amy works doing salvage
in space, and she plans something special to celebrate being certified for
solo work.
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(Hard SF) The narrator recounts from
prison what really went wrong with her team that attempted to build an AI
bomb for the military.
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(Hard SF) Katrina and Jeff operate an
asteroid mining station for the S.P.C. It's not bad work except that the
mining companies are at war, using gravel as missiles.
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The
Continuing Saga of Tom Corbett: Space Cadet by James Van
Pelt Time: 17m (ShortStory) Issue: Analog 12|16
(SF Adventure) Everyone calls Tomika
"Space Cadet," but she really feels she doesn't belong in this world.
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Apex Magazine
Novella
Novelette
Short Story
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(Slipstream) An old man lies dying,
his faithful companion at his side.
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Asimov’s Science Fiction
Novella
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(Mainstream) Violet comes to a resort
town to kill herself. Daisy is shipwrecked with a man she loves. Rose is
shipwrecked with a monster.
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(Alternate History) A private
detective takes a job guarding Albert Einstein as he flees the Nazis on an
ocean-liner-sized airplane.
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(SF) Khifi makes a good living as a
pilot, but she used to be a homeless kid on the Tanduou docks. So she cares
when she gets hints that something bad is happening--something involving
kids, aliens, and more.
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(SF) In 2066 a woman struggles over
continuing life-support for her comatose mother and over what to do with the
things she's leaving behind.
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Where
There is Nothing, There is God by David
Erik Nelson Time: 1h:14m (Novella) Issue: Asimov's 12|16
(Time Travel) Paul finds a job selling
drugs for the mafia in 1770s America.
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Novelette
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(SF Humor) Ruth, a 22-year-old Walmart
cashier, meets a very weird-and-scary-looking alien, who seems down on his
luck, and brings him home with her.
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(Military SF) The enemy are up to
something in "blank" areas of space that sensors can't penetrate.
Devi takes a "single ship" into one to find out what's there, but
her ship has a mind of its own, and it's terrified.
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(Alternate Reality) Old man Rendezvous
tells outrageous stories about Jack Kennedy, and he's hunting an artifact in
the drowned ruins of Cape Canaveral.
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Ten Poems
for the Mossums, One for the Man by Suzanne
Palmer Time: 24m (Novelette) Issue: Asimov's 07|16
(Hard SF) Davin is spending a year
alone on Ekye to observe the local wildlife and, he hopes, to recover his
lost creativity.
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(Post Singularity) James seeks
fulfillment through his sculpture, even though it all seems pointless in a
perfect world run by Ais.
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Short Story
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(Post Apocalypse AI) Carver Seven
spends a lot of time talking to the Human Being and helps him make spears and
things. They each want something from the other, if they can manage to
express it.
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(Alien Invasion) You are building a
home on an alien world, despite the objections of the natives and the
complaints of your wife and children.
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(Hard SF) A radio astronomer comes to
a conference prepared to deliver a shattering paper, but fully expecting to
die before he gets the chance.
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(Superhero) A combination of teenage
hormones, a rare gene, and the right stressful event turns a few kids into
superheroes. Liam wants to be one too.
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(Hard SF) The transmitter sends copies
of people to remote locations, but the copies don't want to do their jobs,
and Margery is in trouble if she can't figure out why.
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Strange Horizons
Novella
Novelette
Short Story
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A Spell to
Retrieve Your Lover from the Bottom of the Sea by Ada Hoffmann Time: 08m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 11/07/16
(Magical Allegory) Your lover has sunk
to the bottom of the sea. You're a witch with tremendous powers, but can you
really save him?
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Applied
Cenotaphics in the Long, Long Longitudes by Vajra Chandrasekera
Time: 21m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 09/05/16
(Near-Future SF) An interview with a
simulation of the dead artist, Satka, who still has a big online following
years after her death.
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(Historical Fantasy) On the eve of the
Nazi takeover, a young German man's first assignment fixing a living statue
becomes more complicated than he expected.
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How the
God Auzh-Aravik Brought Order to the World Outside the World by
Arkady Martine2 Time: 08m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 01/18/16
(Fantasy/Myth) The goddess of order
has been flayed, and without the laws on her skin, the world will fall into
chaos. So she goes beyond the world to look for it.
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Life In
Stone, Glass, And Plastic by José Pablo
Iriarte Time: 14m (ShortStory) Issue: Strange Horizons 06/13/16
(Modern Fantasy) Sergio is called to
remove an offensive mural, but when he touches it, it makes him
"remember" things from other people's lives.
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Uncanny Magazine
Novella
Novelette
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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 Story
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(Horror) The girl he killed was much
more than merely human, and there will be consequences.
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(Horror) What if the Green Knight were
real? What if he were still alive? What if he had his own reality show? And
how does his wife really feel about the whole thing?
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(Fantasy) Every year, Far Island rises
from the sea, and the spirits of the dead return to Near Island, until the
bone horses usher them back on the third day. The horses need a living rider,
and Rowan is sure she can do it and survive.
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(Fairy Tale) A young, newly minted
witch meets an equally green knight, and they go off together in search of
dragons.
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