This is the same set of stories listed in the Year-To-Date by
Rating page, grouped by magazine and
issue, to show which issues have multiple recommended stories.
Each magazine section has links to reviews of individual
issues by Locus (Lois Tilton), SFRevu (Sam Tomaino), and Tangent (various
reviewers). This makes it easier to read reviews by those reviewers even if the
stories weren't recommended by them (but recommended by others).
Magazines
Analog
Science Fiction & Fact
Asimov’s Science Fiction
Clarkesworld
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Lightspeed
Tor.com
Other Magazines, etc
Asimov’s Science Fiction
Clarkesworld
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Lightspeed
Tor.com
Other Magazines, etc
Anthologies
Future
Visions
Meeting Infinity
Mission: Tomorrow
Old Venus
Operation Arcana
Stories for Chip
The End Has Come
Twelve Tomorrows 2016
War Stories from the Future
Meeting Infinity
Mission: Tomorrow
Old Venus
Operation Arcana
Stories for Chip
The End Has Come
Twelve Tomorrows 2016
War Stories from the Future
Analog
Science Fiction & Fact
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by issue.
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On a distant planet, every few years,
two soldiers awake and try to kill each other. The locals think they're gods,
and no one seems to remember what the war was about.
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A unit of an intelligent alien
parasite in a human brain finds evidence that the host's immune system is on
to them.
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Uplifting story in which Dave, a
scientist who is losing his sight and hearing to Usher syndrome, attempts to
communicate with aliens that neither see nor hear.
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Out in the Oort cloud, teen-age Tereza
and her sister just won a 4H club competition, but when the kids try to
return to the space station, no one answers.
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Down Please: The Only Recorded Adventure of Lars Fouton, Captain's Lift
Operator on the Starship Magnificent by Adam-Troy Castro Time: 13m (4K words) Issue: Analog 04|15
An alien general takes an interest in
the unfortunate Lars, who has the dullest job on the starship.
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Maggie, a former champion gymnast,
coaches a 16-year-old Uzbek, Sabina, who seems inhumanly focused on winning.
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The Javelin reaches a rogue planet 36
light-days from Earth, but the crew finds something terrible there.
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What are the odds that two species at
roughly equal levels of development would meet in space and learn to trust
each other?
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Earth has sent a powerful starship to
find the colonies it established 1,000 years ago and to destroy any that pose
a threat to humanity.
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What if online shopping software was
so good it could ship what you needed before you even ordered it?
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A man dedicated to helping people
increase their intelligence is threatened by a newspaper expose.
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Potential Side Effects May Include by Marissa Lingen And
Alec Austin Time: 13m (4K words) Issue: Analog 07.08|15
A young woman in a trial of
anti-anxiety implants finds they work better than expected.
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An old man, long in hiding on a
remote, tropical world, struggles to cope with the arrival of a figure from
the worst part of his past.
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A scientist studies the stone-age
human survivors of a long-lost colony, and he finds there's something very
disturbing about them.
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In a far-future Earth, a whole town
goes digging for treasure--the Arbiter is sure it's a scam, but who is behind
it?
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An art connoisseur who specializes in
dynamic "evolutionary art" gets involved with the finest collection
there is.
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A man remembers the good times he had
as a boy with his father, a US Naval officer. He remembers a strange crab
that bit his father, and how it changed their lives. The boy's love for his
dad feels very real.
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In a future (~100 years) Mexico, out
in the desert, a transhuman young man helps out some normal people, even
though he's in peril from other transhumans who are hunting him. There seems
to be a well-developed world behind this little story, and it defini
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A man hits bottom and visits a soup
kitchen run by aliens pitching their own religion.
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On planet Tillal, the Arbolita
practically worship their margolo trees, and killing one is a crime--even to
save a life.
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On Dray's planet, the natives in
Motherlove's village meet humans at an inconvenient time, for they are coping
with a number of challenges. Marta and Shipner mean well, but they have
problems of their own, and communication is difficult.
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Alberto seems to be a caricature of a
bigot. He hates the family of spider-like alien refugees who've moved in next
door and won't give them a fair chance. But first impressions can be
misleading--this story rewards readers who persist.
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A lady time-traveler falls into bad
company in nineteenth-century Paris.
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Today is Jake's 7th birthday (13 Earth
years), and the celebration formally makes him a man.
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The narrator, now a diplomat, returns
to a planet where she and other humans had allied with natives to win a
bloody victory. She's there to visit a new war museum and investigate
complaints about it.
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Asimov’s
Science Fiction
Stories in the same issue have the same shading, which
alternate by issue.
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Crowded into a huge, underground city,
survivors of a nuclear war can opt to take a one-way trip through a wormhole and
settle on another planet. But 5% of the pods get destroyed.
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In the near future, all the cool
Highschool kids wear "Kurzwailers" on their wrists, which play
music that's customized for them alone. Aisha's family is too poor for her to
have one, but she does have a gift for creating music.
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A middle-aged foreman whose crew does
menial jobs on planet Castellon finds something unusual during a routine job
cleaning statues meant to be unveiled the next day.
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Watergirl by
Rudy Rucker And Marc Laidlaw Time: 40m (12K words) Issue: Asimov's 01|15
Del and his friend Zep are near-future
surf bums living in Hawaii. Zep finds them work with a wealthy developer
using nanotechnology to create programmable waves.
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A high-school girl's abusive boyfriend
comes back to school equipped with an anti-violence chip. No one understands
how despite everything she still loves him.
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On the Night of the Robo-Bulls and Zombie Dancers by Nick Wolven Time: 1h:10m (21K words) Issue: Asimov's 02|15
In a nightmarish near-future New York
where wake-up pills mean no one ever sleeps, Gabriel investigates strange
behavior by his financial trading company's AIs.
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In an alternate Cold War, Marya works
on a secret genetics project for Stalin, but her goals aren't quite what the
Russians think they are.
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A young woman is murdered in Armstrong
City, Luna, and both the police and organized crime want to understand why.
Captivating.
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When the Navy reports Jessie's father
is missing-in-action, life at school becomes very strange. Surreal.
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At the end of the 21st Century, the
crew of Tethys initiates a pair of new crew members via a story-telling game.
Chilling.
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How to Walk Through Historic Graveyards in the Post-Digital Age by Fran Wilde Time: 21m (7K words) Issue: Asimov's 04.05|15
After a grave injury reporting on a
future US war, Eleanor's eyes were replaced with advanced prosthetics--but
now she seems to be seeing ghosts.
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Lock Up Your Chickens and Daughters—H'ard and Andy are Come to Town by Michael Swanwick And Gregory Frost Time: 29m (9K words) Issue: Asimov's 04.05|15
Andy and H'ard are magical con men who
offer to "help" a drought-ridden, depression-era, southwest town.
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In a near-future NYC, 14-year-old Paul
Jr. keeps running away from home, and Paul Sr. is willing to go to great
lengths to stop him.
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Sanjay's mother is exiled from the Eos
colony for heresy because she claimed she saw "stars" moving in the
night skies.
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Tess is writing an article about a new
disease that causes women to give birth to clones of themselves.
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A wealthy investor decides to pour
resources into the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, with unexpected
results.
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In a comfortable future world, a man
meets a woman from a past he doesn't remember.
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One of the last live bands struggles
to do performances in a mostly-online world.
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In deep interplanetary space of some
other solar system, war is fought between squads of self-replicating robots
while their human operators engage in almost-friendly conversation.
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Lesbian couple studying the native
life on Teysanzi make a real impression on a towering alien.
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In his old age, a TV writer reflects
on a show he worked on fifty years ago--the only work he's really proud
of--and the almost supernatural way it came to an end.
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Tilda is a middle-aged German
scientist researching technology to link human minds with animals--she's been
very successful, but today something goes very wrong.
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Julio, a young man visiting Hawaii
with his wife, explores his company's technology that modifies photos based
on the user's thoughts.
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In the 24th Century, Major Okonkwo
investigates the suspicious death of her husband in the context of research
on a secret portal that links 11 years into the past and the future.
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A young man helping build the Brooklyn
Bridge in 1871 copes with a friend who's too interested in the fossils they
find on the riverbed.
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Claire meets a handsome older man at a
dinner party held in a virtual reality where something has gone subtly wrong.
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Mikkel isn't very bright, but he
cleverly supplements his janitorial job by scavenging useful items his
superiors discard and bringing them home to his wife--then one day he brings
home a mutant baby.
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In post-Collapse America, Mel operates
a hive of augmented bees and trading honey and medicines with locals--until a
crew of bandits arrives.
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A refugee from drowned New York City
tries to reconnect with his teenage son during a break from the menial work
he does on ice boats.
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A young girl lives with her
grandfather in a near-future totalitarian south-east Asian country whose
rulers use an airborne nanotechnology to track everyone's thoughts.
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A young, pre-European Inuit girl and
her cousin witness a falling spaceship, and she insists they investigate,
wondering if it is a message from the spirits.
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A single mom learns that the 50s-style
radio show her lonely young son loves listening to is coming from a radio
station that no longer exists.
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On an arid planet, an former
musician--now a painter in his old age--attempts to help a damaged but
extremely talented young musician find the strength to heal herself.
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The Adjunct Professor's Guide to Life After Death by Sandra Mcdonald Time: 23m (7K words) Issue: Asimov's 10.11|15
Ghost of an adjunct professor haunting
her department is inundated by victims of a campus shooting.
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The Citadel of Weeping Pearls by Aliette De Bodard Time: 1h:48m (32K words) Issue: Asimov's 10.11|15
The Empress of the Dai Viet
Interstellar Empire assigned a team to track down her rebellious daughter,
who disappeared thirty years ago. Now the scientist leading the investigation
as also disappeared.
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French woman in the 1880s old West can
become invulnerable, at some cost, and makes a living as a stage
performer--until something goes wrong in Tombstone.
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A man takes his Alzheimer's-afflicted
wife to Boston to fulfill a promise he made when they were young.
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A team infiltrates a space station
just as two researchers are about to create the ultimate AI.
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Lerner Pong is an AI on a mission to
the outer solar system following a huge war between machines that has left
the inner solar system in ruins.
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In a near-future Pakistan, 19-year-old
Asma has to choose between a high-tech job in the city or staying home to
help her family. A complex story, and there is more to things than meets the
eye.
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The situation on Vesta has reached the
point where certain people flee to Ceres in suspended animation. Anna, the
new Director of Ceres, tries to understand the refugees better as relations
with Vesta continue to deteriorate.
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Clarkesworld
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alternate by issue.
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Entertaining tale of a modern search
engine that achieves real artificial intelligence by accident and decides it
wants to be helpful to people.
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One dreary day follows another for the
underemployed, middle-aged narrator until a mysterious figure in black
fleeing the police stops to trace a figure in the palm of his hand.
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All the imaginary creatures a young
person could want to make apartment life more pleasant.
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A key scientist in the Dai Viet
interstellar empire has died, and three people who were close to her mourn
her passing in different ways.
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In near-future Seattle, a basketball
scout finds an unusually talented high school senior, but there's one catch.
This story is uplifting and painful all at once.
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The Last
Surviving Gondola Widow by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Time: 19m (6K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 101
In an alternate history ~1880s
steampunk+magic Chicago, a woman detective for the Pinkerton's investigates
someone who might have been involved in a terrorist attack on Chicago.
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The Three
Resurrections of Jessica Churchill by Kelly Robson Time: 17m (5K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 101
In 2001, just before the attacks, a
girl out West has a very close encounter with space aliens.
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Nameless lady villain explains how
misguided Superman is for trying to stop her.
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Zhou is an ad man for a Chinese
marketing firm, and he has to find a way to get people to buy a new photo
technology that has unusual capabilities.
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In a future Tokyo, Shinsuke Takinami
is an outcast because he can't use the augments that normal people use to
communicate with each other--he has to talk.
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The Long
Goodnight of Violet Wild by Catherynne M. Valente Time: 51m (16K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 102
Surreal tale about the loves and
losses of Violet Wild, a girl from the purple country, who crosses the
spectrum accompanied by a unicorn, a sorrow, and a herd of time squirrels.
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In alternate-history America, an
uplifted chimp gets certified as a person and goes to the moon.
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Aliens decide to rule the Earth
indirectly, picking a middle-aged woman from an insurance company to be their
intermediary.
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What if people's bodies evolved during
a single lifespan, changing form according to the actions and the character
of each individual?
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The 19-year-old heroine, who maintains
the cable that links her peaceful underwater city with the war-torn mainland,
finds something troubling during a routine repair.
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Mrs.
Griffin Prepares to Commit Suicide Tonight by A. Que Time: 24m (7K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 104
In 2335, a lonely old woman tries to
get her robot to help her commit suicide.
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Intergalactic policeman enforces
Einstein's speed limit, but suffers the side effects of violating it himself.
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In the far future, a military system
left-over from a war hides in a forest until a boy asks it for help.
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This
Wanderer, in the Dark of the Year by Kris Millering Time: 12m (4K words) Issue: Clarkesworld 105
A war reporter investigates a possible
alien landing in Hungary although her previous reporting has made her a lot
of enemies there.
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Two Turkish sisters struggle to
survive in an Alaska ravaged by giant mutant worms.
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An aircraft crashes in the desert on
an unpopulated planet, and the passengers struggle to survive.
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Fundamentalist mom takes networking
drug so she can track down her missing teenage boy.
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A man in a future, security obsessed
America longs for freedom, but lacks the courage to defy the security guards
at the subway entrance.
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A servant girl on a generation ship
plots to overthrow the evil and corrupt rulers.
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Alzheimer's patient's family can't
visit her very often, so they buy a robot to fool her into thinking they're
visiting her. The robot tells the story.
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In a fairly near future, Audra visits
the mid Pacific to watch how the ecosystem is evolving to incorporate
plastics.
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At 16, freshly moved to an alien
planet, Sedgewick plans to meet some local boys for a midnight
challenge/initiation, but his 14-year-old brother tags along.
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In China, a failing student decides to
spend the summer with his grandmother, an eccentric scientist.
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The narrator is a librarian who
acquires a mysterious book of poems and becomes obsessed with finding
information about the author.
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In 2139 Beiruit, Suraya sends a
sequence of e-mails that summarize her team's progress saving as many people
in Lebanon as possible from a coming global catastrophe.
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During a flu epidemic, the narrator
uses her cooking blog to tell the world about how she and her family make do
on short rations.
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(Hard SF) Yuanyuan has been fascinated
with bubbles ever since she was a baby, but her hometown is dying from
drought and needs water, not bubbles.
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Fantasy &
Science Fiction
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In 1937, Juney Walker was a young man
playing the blues with a band in the Louisiana bayou. He played with a man
named Jake Fell, who could play to raise the dead--and one time did. A very
moving story.
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In this amusing tale, Raffalon the
Thief accepts a job from Cascor, a minor magician who wants him to steal an
unknown object from Cascor's former employer.
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Heartwarming tale of a beggar girl in
a long-forgotten city who tells stories to the wind.
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Franden wants to be a writer, but he's
hoping to immigrate to a less populous, less competitive world. If he can
just fool immigration into believing he's really an artist.
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A Small Diversion On the Road to Hell by Jonathan L. Howard Time: 12m (4K words) Issue: F&SF 03.04|15
Humorous story about a bartender on
another planet having a slow day until a time traveler turns up.
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Siobhan and Finn are chronomancers,
who can manipulate the passage of time. Former lovers, they hate each other
now, and use their magic against each other.
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Deeply disturbing story about Piedra,
a young woman whose body has been twisted into a work of art called a
"bone knot."
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In this clever historical fantasy, set
in the Pleistocene, young Nudur gets called to serve Mantis, and Mantis sets
him a difficult task to prove himself.
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This Is the Way the Universe Ends: with a Bang by Brian Dolton Time: 22m (7K words) Issue: F&SF 03.04|15
In the far future, near the end of the
Universe, Titus and the 92 remaining intelligences cope with the discovery of
something new.
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What Has Passed Shall In Kinder Light Appear by Bao Shu Time: 1h:20m (24K words) Issue: F&SF 03.04|15
A Chinese man recounts his life, in
which the events of history as we know them appear to be coming in reverse.
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Modest, young Missouri man has
"friends" who bully him, a "girlfriend" who doesn't know
he likes her, and a time machine.
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A writer gets a device that lets him
examine alternate universes.
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An engineer on Earth in the 1980s
attempts a business deal with rather tiny space aliens.
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Fur trapper from ~22nd-Century Ohio
goes back in time to try to catch a giant beaver.
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A stranger from the spaceport visits
the house of a famous poet, preserved from the original terraforming of the
planet.
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Jack Shade, a supernatural
investigator in New York City, is stalked by his own duplicate.
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The ghost of a ten-year-old boy tries
to find his way to paradise.
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Symbiotic intelligences combining a
bird-like entity with a humanoid one suffer problems when progress allows
each bird to control multiple humanoids.
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A fantasy-world shipping clerk thinks
discrepancies in his accounts are the result of a curse, so he hires Cascor,
a sort of magic-using private detective.
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Things from the deep ocean invade a
small American town, and a 16-year-old girl who can glimpse the future seeks
the cause of it all.
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Surreal tale of a young man who gets
off a bus in the middle of nowhere and the mysterious girl who follows him.
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Two young sisters in a fantasy world
wait out a plague at home. One of them collects stamps to pass the time, but
what she really wants is to find a way to help find a magical solution.
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In a humorous 1903 steampunk London, a
detective who specializes in the supernatural hunts a criminal mastermind who
has kidnapped his girl.
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Bijou the artificer makes animated
skeletons, but she's never been asked to apply her magic to a dinosaur
skeleton before.
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A middle-aged knight in early
13th-Century France bringing his squire (and future master) to meet "The
Master of the Tides," reflects on the things he's done, variously brave,
cowardly, kind, and horrible, and those he's seen--including the terrifying
sup
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We're So Very Sorry for Your Recent Tragic Loss by Nick Wolven Time: 32m (10K words) Issue: F&SF 09.10|15
In a world where everything is
connected, a bug causes the system to think that thirty-five-year-old Meg has
suffered a death in the family, and everything in her daily life, from her
pillow to the ads on the sidewalk, starts commiserating with her.
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The narrator and her two sisters have
come to clean out their comatose mother's house and select items they might
want to remember her by.
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The narrator is senior VP for design
at a company that makes genetically-modified pets, and he likes to give them
as gifts to family members.
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With Earth falling apart, a secret
group launches a mission to Alpha Centauri in 2041. Launching is only half
the problem; getting there is the real challenge.
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In the style of an old legend, this
story tells about what happened to Old Wise Woman's reflection, shadow, and
echo after she died.
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It's All Relative at the Space-Time Café by Norman
Birnbach Time: 06m (2K words) Issue: F&SF 11.12|15
Bohr meets his ex, Jenny, at the café,
where they reminisce about love and science in terms of puns.
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You take a plane flight to Seattle,
but disturbing news from Brazil bothers everyone on the flight. And beyond.
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Cute slipstream story about Morris the
barber, who takes on some rather non-traditional clients in order to raise
money to open his own shop.
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All alone at home during bad winter
weather, Henry wants to get rid of the dead Christmas tree in the
living-room. It drops needles and ornaments and there just seems to be
something wrong with it.
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Lightspeed
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Headwater Bottled Refreshments sells
bottled water with literally magical properties. Yoko works in the home
office and knows that the mythical, aquatic, Kappa on the logo isn't so
mythical.
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And the
Winners Will Be Swept Out to Sea by Maria Dahvana Headley Time: 19m (6K words) Issue: Lightspeed 57
In the modern world, a water spirit
mourns the loss of her mortal lover.
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And You
Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead by Brooke Bolander Time: 37m (11K words) Issue: Lightspeed 57
Rhye a bitter ex-supersoldier, fights
to rescue Rack, her hacker partner in crime, after the criminals they're
working for kill Rack's body while his mind is in cyberspace.
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If you are desperate, visit the
burned-out cottage by moonlight, find the forbidden well where the wet
gentleman lurks. If you give him a penny, he might grant your wish.
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Somebody is making a documentary about
Kamaria, who is a were-helicopter.
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Near future Australia is dying from
drought, and Harper's boyfriend has taken a job at a local mysterious
American military base.
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Orrey maker decides to try working
with real stars and galaxies.
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A dysfunctional couple decides to make
a love potion to prevent themselves from breaking up.
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In the near-future Pacific Northwest,
environmentalists race to save key species from a forest that's slated to be
destroyed.
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Hannah's boyfriend wants to test his
time experiment in Hannah's room.
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Bucket
List Found in the Locker of Maddie Price, Age 14, Written Two Weeks Before
the Great Uplifting of All Mankind by Erica L. Satifka Time: 02m (736 words) Issue: Lightspeed 61
Maddie's list of things to do before
the end of the world tells a sad, sweet story.
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When Alexandria's propulsion unit
fails on a solo space mission, she knows she's going to die if she can't
think of something--it's just a matter of time.
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Cyborg struggles to prove he can fit
into society now that the war is over.
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Madeline is having an adverse reaction
to an experimental drug--she revisits episodes in her past.
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The
Astrakhan, the Homburg, and the Red Red Coal by Chaz Brenchley Time: 25m (8K words) Issue: Lightspeed 61
A group of Englishmen sharing an
evening in a pub near a canal on "Old Mars" meet a stranger who
knows their secret and makes them an offer.
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The blight destroyed almost all plant
life, and Daniel and Vijay are seeking shelter with Daniel's family in Texas
who may have a way out.
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In 1925, a young woman assistant works
on the set of a silent movie about World War I.
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In 1835, a mysterious young woman
washes ashore on an island off the Georgia/Florida coast where a group of
runaway slaves have built a community.
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A washed-up programmer in near-future
Japan explores old code that she wrote back before the Internet was replaced
by TrueNet.
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A young woman with a bank job
appeasing spirits who haunt foreclosed homes meets an attractive young male
spirit who causes her to question the rules.
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Repeated runs of a simulation in which
women from fairy tales fight to the death with knives.
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A lonely old Chinese man gets involved
in the fight against smog--without government approval.
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Thirty years after a catastrophe in a
Mars mission simulation, a woman writes letters to her dead lover--the one
they call the Angel of death.
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Seven
Wonders of a Once and Future World by Caroline M. Yoachim Time: 20m (6K words) Issue: Lightspeed 64
Young scientist trying to develop time
travel encounters an alien intelligence that lives outside of time.
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A goblin craftsman who makes things of
beauty for his cruel elvish mistress learns to make her weapons from the
mundane world.
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Humorous slipstream tale about a
romance between a werewolf and a mermaid in the real world.
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What if rhinoceroses behaved like
human beings and talked about their upcoming extinction during book club
meetings?
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In which Malik, a Moor from Cordoba,
and Fara, a lady knight, unite to hunt a powerful and uniquely deceitful
dragon.
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(Urban Fantasy) Beatrice is dying, her
brass heart failing, her captor leering at her. To survive and escape, she
needs to remember how she got here.
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An intelligent, patchwork fighter ship
struggles to help the last of the Free Belt fight off the Earth Force.
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A man butchers the corpse of his
husband to cook a meal for the gods, as required by his culture's funeral
rites.
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Kim and Alana are two bodies sharing a
single mind, which makes them world-class gymnasts--as long as they keep it a
secret.
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The narrator's uses the family time
machine to try to reach some closure with mother who abandoned him in 1963.
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In 1915 Ohio, 14-year-old Emmett's
night terrors get worse after he finds a dead body in an abandoned well.
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In the 1980s, when a young American
couple goes to Mexico to study Spanish, a Mexican-American friend warns them
to pay attention to the dogs.
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In Mexico in 1562, Bienvenida meets an
imprisoned Spanish girl her own age, befriends her, and looks for the magic
to set her free.
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The Pauper
Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn by Usman Malik Time: 1h:14m (22K words) Issue: Tor.com 04/22/15
Salman pursues the truth behind stories
his grandfather told him about an impoverished princess he used to know back
in Pakistan and the Jinn that protected her.
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Nev can jump to bodies of the freshly
dead, or to bodies he keeps on ice, but his latest acquisition causes no end of
trouble.
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Laurel is starting highschool in a new
town, and although she's smart enough not to talk about her telekinetic
ability, she can't resist using it sometimes.
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Sylvain de Guilherand secretly uses a
captive water spirit to provide indoor plumbing to Louis XV's Versailles, but
the spirit is childish, playful, and getting bored.
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In a future authoritarian America that
doesn't tolerate cultural or linguistic diversity, Tabitha Hoarse Raven
returns to the pueblo of Acona to finish the sacred dance her father died
trying to complete.
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Islands
off the Coast of Capitola, 1978 by David Herter Time: 44m (13K words) Issue: Tor.com 07/08/15
You are a lonely ten-year-old boy
living in an old house with your mom when a man claiming to be your uncle
arrives and strange things start to happen.
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Lola (aka Eliza) has had problems
dealing with people ever since she was a child, but she's always been good
with snakes.
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A woman paramedic and her best friend
fear that despite their best efforts, they end up causing more pain than they
relieve.
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Ellie is trying to catch a train from
Boston to DC so she can visit her ailing mother when her sister calls to tell
her she needs to "go to the skunkworks and repair the physics of this
universe."
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Surreal science fantasy, in which
three goddesses come to Paris, prince of a mathematical Troy, and ask him to
decide to whom to award an apple.
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In a magical, 2020s Texas, Lorna and
Vix sell sex, but they mostly trade emotions; they'll take what you don't
want, and sell the kind you do. As long as the law doesn't catch them.
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(SF) A transcript of testimony before
the U.S. Supreme Court gradually reveals what really happened with a human
photosynthesis technology.
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Other
Magazines, etc
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The neighbors in their Russian village
fear and loathe the strange family in their whirring house, but the daughter
dreams of a better life.
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A sensitive technician works with
heavily-bioengineered people (tough exos and the brainy endos inside them)
who hunt for pirates in the Oort cloud.
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When the souls of the suicides tumble
out of the low, gray clouds, the narrator is one of the ones who collect
them, contain them, and load them onto the train.
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(High Fantasy) The usurped king lives
in exile, guarded (and tortured) by an automaton--so people say. The truth
seems to be a bit more comfortable than that though.
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Unearthly
Landscape by a Lady by Rebecca Campbell Time: 11m (4K words) Issue: Beneath Ceaseless Skies 184
(Literary) From childhood, Flora,
painted disturbing paintings, and her nurse fears the young lady carried this
obsession into adulthood.
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Kaiju
maximus: 'So Various, So Beautiful, So New' by Kai Ashante Wilson Time: 24m (7K words) Issue: Fantasy 59
(Fantasy) Tonight the hero risks her
family to battle the Kaiju Maximus, one of the enormous aliens that drove
most of humanity underground.
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(High Fantasy) Laburnum castle hosts
key nobles from across the kingdom as well as the king himself for an
enormous feast--a feast that's equivalent to a war.
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(Hard SF) Scientist studying flock
behavior of starlings gets astonishing results but struggles to get her paper
accepted.
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(SF) Katsumi's first night/she meets a
navigator/in the haiku room. The endless journey/of the generation ship/for
him, she brightens.
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(Urban fantasy) Kitsi is a feline
spirit called into existence to create the invisible hats that give writers
their inspirations.
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The sole survivor of a colony ship
nevertheless raises a host of rather strange children, and today he hosts a
special ceremony at "the worm farm."
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Two teenage boys spend a weekend with
a friend who's just been "edited." The narrator struggles to accept
the changes in his friend and wonders if things can still be the same.
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Bunchess Taylor, a black musician in
Detroit, learns that someone or something is poisoning Detroit's music when
his assistant, "the white boy," buys an extra-sensitive piece of
equipment.
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In an alternate world, a group of men
go down into the abandoned undercity to search for two people who have
disappeared.
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(SF) Yip, a software security
consultant, works for her sister, Yazzy. She expects cases to be challenging,
but not life-threatening. Until now.
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(SF) Badly damaged in action, Qad's
ship barely makes it to a shipyard. Qad expects a reward for his efforts, but
things have changed since his last visit.
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In a near-future, water-starved
Phoenix, AZ, Maria hides from the smoke of distant forest fires and thinks
about everything that went wrong.
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(Horror) Meimei dates really bad guys.
Who want to use her. Who don't know what they're in for.
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Penric, age 19, is accidentally
possessed by a demon meant for someone else. Demons can be useful, but they
are dangerous, and Penric has no idea what to do with one.
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Scur, a soldier in an interstellar
war, wakes up from hibernation on a prison ship. The ship is failing, they
don't know where they are, and the prisoners are trying to kill each other.
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(SF) Anat doesn't remember her
parents, but she loves her brother Oscar. They live in a wonderful world full
of strange creatures and machines. The more she learns, the stranger things
seem.
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This Evening's Performance
by Genevieve Valentine Time: 55m (17K words) Issue: The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk
(Steampunk) The last three human
actors struggle to find roles in a post-WWI world where automata have
replaced people on the stage.
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(Fantasy) Gideon always destroys the statures he
carves. Analise (who both loves and hates him) decides to save one, not
expecting it to come to life.
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(Horror) A young American man wanders
into a gloomy English village where legend tells of a spectral black dog
which is the harbinger of death.
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(Science Fantasy) Lao Dao processes
trash in a fantastic future "third-space" Beijing. To get money for
his daughter's education, he makes a dangerous trip to first-space--a city
that unfolds when his own Beijing sleeps.
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Moving story about a woman who carves
mediocre decoy ducks and an old man who buys one every week.
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(Alternate History) In 1974, twenty
years after Mars was settled, Aaron tries to put on the first Martian
fireworks display--despite his mother's attempts to help him. A sweet little
story.
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