If You Take My Meaning, by Charlie Jane Anders

[Single]

★★★★★ Cool Setting, Fun Characters, Interesting Plot

(Colony SF) Alyssa seeks out the aliens who can give her an augment that will let her exchange thoughts and feelings with other humans. But why does she want it, and what is the cost? (8,540 words; Time: 28m)

Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue, by Charlie Jane Anders

[Boston Review]

★★★★☆ Thought-Provoking but Exciting Too

(Dystopia) In a near-future ruled by conservatives, an organization called “Love and Dignity for Everyone,” kidnaps Rachael in order to “fix” her. But she doesn’t want to be “fixed.” (7,410 words; Time: 24m)

Recommended By: GDozois+1 RHorton+2 JStrahan+2

Cake Baby (A Kango and Sharon Adventure), by Charlie Jane Anders

[Lightspeed]

★★★☆☆ Average

(SF Humor; Kango and Sharon) To avoid having their spaceship repossessed, Kango and Sharon go on a dangerous mission to infiltrate a cult and steal DNA from their children. (7,378 words; Time: 24m)

Recommended By: 👍RHorton.r+1 👍STomaino+1 (Q&A)

A Temporary Embarrassment in Spacetime, by Charlie Jane Anders

[Anthology]

★★★★☆ Funny and Full of Surprises

(Space Opera Humor; Kango and Sharon) Sharon and Kango have to go back to their home worlds to capture an ultimate weapon that threatens the galaxy, or else they’ll never achieve their dream of opening a restaurant. (10,600 words; Time: 35m)

Recommended By: 👍BASFF.hm+1 👍GDozois.r+1 👍RHorton.r+1 👍RSR+1 (Q&A)

The Super Ultra Duchess of Fedora Forest, by Charlie Jane Anders

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(Fairy Tale) A mouse, a bird, and a sausage live together happily, but a tyranny arising in the world threatens to disturb their idyll. (3,986 words; Time: 13m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average

Rager in Space, by Charlie Jane Anders

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(SF Humor) Sion and her best friend get invited on the first interstellar flight, which is odd, since they're teenagers, and that kind of technology doesn't really exist. (6,461 words; Time: 21m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average

Recommended By: RHorton:5

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Clover, by Charlie Jane Anders

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(Modern Fantasy) Anwar and Joe get an unexpected cat and a promise of nine years of good luck. Things are great, until nine years later they get another cat. (6,143 words; Time: 20m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average

Recommended By: RHorton:4

Add one star if you already read All the Birds in the Sky, although it does work even if you didn't.

Because Change was the Ocean and We lived by Her Mercy, by Charlie Jane Anders

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(Post-Apocalypse) Pris abandons 22nd-Century Fairbanks and moves to a commune that floats above the ruins of San Francisco. (6,400 words; Time: 21m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆ Average

Recommended By: GDozois:5

The Last Movie Ever Made, by Charlie Jane Anders

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(SF) A weapon malfunction has left the whole world deaf, but teens Rock and Sally are still determined to make another independent movie to post online. (6,200 words; Time: 20m)

Rating: ★★★☆☆, Average