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Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Drawing Lines Between the Stars, by Frank Smith

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[ Clarkesworld ] ★★☆☆☆ (New Age SF) Bexar's life changes when his ship rescues a young woman whose ship was hit by a passing comet. ...

The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex, by Tamsyn Muir

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[ Single ] ★★☆☆☆ (Future Fantasy Mystery) Two young students are attached to a team reopening Dr. Sex’s study after 400 years. But someon...
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Sunday, August 16, 2020

Once More Unto the Breach (But Don’t Worry, the Inflatable Swords Are Latex-Free), by Tina Connolly

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[ Uncanny ] ★★☆☆☆ (Allegory) You are always at a child’s birthday party, but there are monsters next door having their own party. (777 w...
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A Pale Horse, by M. Evan MacGriogair

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[ Uncanny ] ★★☆☆☆ (Eco Apocalypse) A woman mourns the passing of the Scottish Gaelic language just as she mourns the death of the Earth’s...
Thursday, July 16, 2020

A Bridge from Sea to Sky, by Bennett North

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[ F&SF ] ★★☆☆☆ (Hard SF) When a collision almost severs the space elevator, Aoife and her coworkers struggle to try to save it—even t...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

The End of the World Measured in Values of N, by Adam-Troy Castro

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[ Lightspeed ] ★★☆☆☆ (Apocalypse) The world just came to an end N seconds ago. We discuss that for different values of N . (1,959 words...

Power to Yield, by Bogi Takács

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[ Clarkesworld ] ★★☆☆☆ (Psionic Horror) The māwalēni protect the colony of Eren, but to unlock their psychic powers, they have to get im...

Three Stories Conjured from Nothing, by Shakespace

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[ Clarkesworld ] ★★☆☆☆ (SF) Three different stories about how big changes came to three very different worlds. (7,404 words;  Time : 24m...
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Friday, July 10, 2020

The Night Soil Salvagers, by Gregory Norman Bossert

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[ Single ] ★★☆☆☆ (Horror) Night Soil, of course, is human feces, but the salvagers to more than just collect that; they deliver other thi...

Bereft, I Come to a Nameless World, by Benjamin Rosenbaum

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[ Asimov's ] ★★☆☆☆ (Far-Future SF) An ancient transhuman fleeing a disaster of its own making comes to a distant world looking for an...

Imaginary Children, by Janet Stilson

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[ Asimov's ] ★★☆☆☆ (SF Drama) Peta’s rich and powerful, but her biological clock runs out in two months, and she really wants to have...
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Sunday, July 5, 2020

Mars, the Dumping Ground of the Solar System, by Andrew Kozma

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[ Analog ] ★★☆☆☆ (SF Drama) Jonquil works with genetically engineered people who helped terraform the solar system but who, now that they...
Friday, July 3, 2020

The Bee Thing, by Maggie Damken

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[ Strange Horizons ] ★★☆☆☆ (Alternate-History Horror) When her head turns into a beehive, the narrator loses her boyfriend, drops out of s...

Glass Frog, by Remy Reed Pincumbe

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[ Strange Horizons ] ★★☆☆☆ (Horror) Molly and her “friends” explore a haunted house together. (3,733 words;  Time : 12m)
Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Make America Great Again, by Val Nolan

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[ Interzone ] ★★☆☆☆ (UFO Time Travel) A reporter investigates a story of a man abducted by UFOs during World War II who returns to modern...

The Transport of Bodies, by John Possidente

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[ Interzone ] ★★☆☆☆ (SF Thriller; Humboldt Station ) The narrator is a starving journalist on a space station who might just see two big ...
Tuesday, May 26, 2020

We Chased the Sirens, by Suzanne Walker

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[ Uncanny ] ★★☆☆☆ (Mythological) A ship crewed by women pursues the sirens across a winedark sea. (826 words;  Time : 02m)

A Being Together Amongst Strangers, by Arkady Martine

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[ Uncanny ] ★★☆☆☆ (Near-Future SF) In a partly flooded Manhattan, a woman confronts a problem on the subway. (3,079 words;  Time : 10m)

Through the Veil, by Jennifer Marie Brissett

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[ Uncanny ] ★★☆☆☆ (Science Fiction) When her project on interdimensional travel is cancelled, a researcher steals her equipment and conti...
Sunday, May 17, 2020

Hornet and Butterfly, by Tom Cool and Bruce Sterling

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[ F&SF ] ★★☆☆☆ (Dystopia) When a storm destroys his raft city, former supersoldier Hornet struggles to escape with his life, but the ...