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(SF) A wealthy man leaves everything
to his android companion, and she has to defend her claim to be human.
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(Fantasy Science) Carlos is
second-in-Command of a submersible city, and he has to cope with a sequence
of failures that threatens to destroy them.
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(AI SF) Zerith is a new AI, and he’s
required to spend some time in a class of human students.
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(SF Adventure) The last robot in the
solar system uses his creator’s death as an excuse to escape from the museum
he’s been imprisoned in for forty years.
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(SF) A Loonguni travelling box can
safely carry thousands of passengers, but the ever-changing architecture
makes it uncomfortable for the first human passengers.
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What's a Few Years When You Get Money and Friends in
High Places? by R.R. Angell Time: 28m (Novelette) Issue: CompellingSF 06.07|17
(Near-Future SF) A young body builder
gets an offer from a rich old man to swap bodies.
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The Sacrifice of the Hanged Monkey
by Minsoo Kang Time: 14m (ShortStory)
Issue: Fantastic Stories 06/28/17
(Epic Fantasy) In which we learn how
the priests of the Hanged Monkey whose name was Bob resisted the Sublime
Empire’s conquest of their realm.
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(Near-Future SF) Mishima is a spy who
suffers from narrative disorder. This causes her to see everything that
happens as if it were part of an organized story.
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(Modern Fantasy) Claudio tends his
farm alone down at the tip of the Italian peninsula until a young woman and a
pregnant unicorn disturb his tranquility.
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(High Fantasy; Five Gods) Gravely
injured, out of money, and pursued by the imperial government, Penric needs
to get himself and his two companions out of the country, despite them being
so recognizable.
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(High Fantasy; Five Gods) Penric helps
investigate the murder of another sorcerer, whose demon must still be
somewhere near the scene of the crime.
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(Time Travel) Victor wants a
Lamborghini, but a strange man offers him money not to buy it.
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(Horror) David takes his family for a
weekend visit to the manor house of an old friend. He worries about a “tall
man” who seems to be taking too much of an interest in his children.
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The Prisoner of Limnos by Lois McMaster Bujold Time: 2h:28m (Novella) Issue: The Prisoner of Limnos 2017
(Fantasy Adventure; Five Gods) When
Nikys asks for Penric’s help rescuing her mother from an imperial prison, he
jumps at the chance to win her affections back. It’s obviously a trap, and he
doesn’t know anything about the place, but he does have a demon
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The Strange Bird: A Borne Story
by Jeff VanderMeer Time: 1h:27m (Novella)
Issue: The Strange Bird 2017
(Post-Apocalypse SF Horror; Bourne)
The Strange Bird escapes the ruins of the laboratory that created her,
compelled by an inbuilt imperative to go southeast. But for what?
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(SF Horror) A crew on planet Manka has
disappeared, possibly eaten by the natives. We read the transcripts to try to
decide what happened.
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Wednesday, January 3, 2018
2017 Miscellaneous Stories
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