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(Hard SF) Evan hasn't seen his wife in
six years--ever since she left him and their newborn child. But their son
needs special medical attention, and she's the world's expert.
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(SF) Charles Mann leads a wild,
exciting life, which he shares with millions who join his
"live-link."
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(Time Travel) In 979 AD, the city of
Jinyang stands on the brink of destruction, but someone seems to be trying to
help it with technologies from the future.
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(Fantasy Science) Tuela's people fly
among the remains of their shattered world, stealing water from a neighbor
planet. Tuela presents an argument that things should change.
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(Space Opera) Weihan survives the
meteor strike that destroys his home, but it changes his life forever.
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(Slipstream) As a boy, Peng receives a
paoxiao, a mythical humanoid creature with a great ability for mimicry. As a
man, Peng tries to do research on the creature.
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(SF; Lydia Duluth) The AIs contract
Lydia to check out an unusual planet and the secretive corporation that's
supposed to be developing it.
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Everyone
from Themis Sends Letters Home by Genevieve Valentine
Time: 30m (Novelette) Issue: Clarkesworld 121
(SF) The crew of the Themis colony
write home about their struggles with a mission and a world that seems to be
more than a little off.
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(Military SF Horror) Elliot's squad of
convict-soldiers crash-lands in the middle of a swamp far away from help.
Extracting them doesn't seem to be a priority, but something seems to be
wrong with the swamp.
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(SF) In a rude, career-ending memo to
his boss, Doug recounts a disaster that occurred on a company property in
Indonesia when they tried to evict a group of squatters and their charismatic
leader.
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(SF) Disguised in the body of a dead
little boy, Fox needs to escape from the colony before the revolutionary
leaders find him. But the boy's brother may be a problem.
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(Mind Uploading) Jix tells how her
twin sister left their planet and their god, starting with how they met a
handsome offworlder.
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(SF) Sephine plans to launch
herself up to the Leviathan ship that
has her colony trapped. But she's never done anything like this before.
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(Historical SF) In 1955, Nancy's best
friend Ellen dates a bad boy who introduces her to Bug Town, where aliens
live. Nothing is the same after that.
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(Hard SF) After centuries of solitude
at his post on Pluto, Heimdallr has come to fear that humanity is extinct.
Then he receives a summons from the inner solar system.
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(SF AI) Unbeknownst to most people,
almost everyone in the world is really a robot. Aixia helps keep the system
running, but allows himself to become attached to a human boy he saved.
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(Post-Apocalypse) 22-year-old Eris
flies a cab in the City. A stranger pays her to elude a follower, and she
gets caught up in intrigue.
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(SF) In 2040, Colin gets more than he
bargained for when he asks the AIs at tech giant PinPoint to track down
information about a mysterious great aunt who vanished in 1965.
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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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(SF Robots) Humans left Earth long
ago, but robots still toil endlessly. Wu Kong has acquired intelligence and
goes on a quest to find the humans.
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(SF) As the Peragro approaches
Kepler-726, the AI and the engineer investigate an attempted infection by a
software virus.
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(Near-Future SF) Jesse Is just in the
third grade, but his dad sends him letters telling him about the time-machine
experiment he's working on.
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(SF) The destruction of the new Space
Elevator puts human expansion into space at risk.
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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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(Time Travel) An "illness"
causes a man to wake each morning in the previous day, and as he lives his
life backwards, he sees the mistakes he made.
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And Then,
One Day, The Air Was Full Of Voices by Margaret
Ronald Time: 17m (ShortStory) Issue: Clarkesworld 117
(SF) Dr. Kostia spent thirty years
interpreting broadcasts from the Coronals for other people on Earth. The last
broadcasts have caused a lot of disruption, even in her own family.
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Aphrodite's
Blood, Decanted by Jennifer Campbell-Hicks
Time: 08m (ShortStory) Issue: Clarkesworld 120
(AI Fantasy) The humans disappeared
years ago, but the Factory AI can't accept that they're gone, so he makes a
plan to bring them back.
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Between
Dragons and Their Wrath by An Owomoyela and Rachel Swirsky Time: 15m (ShortStory) Issue: Clarkesworld 113
(Fantasy) Teenage friends Domei and
Hano live in a refugee camp for survivors of a war fought with dragons.
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(Future Fantasy) Tsuyu's color varies
from day to day, but he'd make more money if he were a darker shade of blue
all the time.
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(Hard SF) Deep under the lightless
ocean of an alien planet, you study the only lifeform ever discovered there.
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(Fantasy) Dee, a Coyote in the
mythical sense, seeks her lost lover in the land of the dead, even though she
may not be able to return.
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(Hard SF) Charlie's team has been out
of touch with the Mars mission for a month. While she's attending her
mother's funeral, a mysterious 47-second-long message arrives.
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(Dystopia) After a near-fatal
accident, the narrator gets a chance to return as an AI, but his real brain
has to die first.
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(SF Space) Paddy's a good mechanic on
a spaceship, but she worries when she starts seeing white lines that no one
else can see.
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(Dystopia) You're a girl being raised
to be a slave, but someone sees potential in your musical talent. But
potential for what?
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(SF) Shi handles elderly clients who
are recruited to help steer starships through space. Her job is winding up,
and one of her last clients presents a special challenge.
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(SF) Mabie wins the lottery and
decides to use the money to rescue her family from poverty on planet Hardcase
by moving to a different planet.
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(SF Android) You adopt an android
baby. You name him Ben. He grows amazingly fast.
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(SF) A robot discovers it has artistic
talent and sets out to save the world by tattooing stars on people.
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(SF Horror) An asteroid miner is cast
adrift by a collision. Her suit can preserve her life indefinitely, but not
her sanity.
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(SF Robots) Robots completely transform
Africa, with a few downsides. Up until the solar flare.
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(SF) Badar has a 4-year contract sits
all alone at a salvage site on Kepler-186f.
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(Time Travel) Narrator, in 1983, takes
a job that involves going back to 1945 to do some dirty work, but she becomes
infatuated with her target.
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That Which
Stands Tends Toward Free Fall by Benjanun
Sriduangkaew Time: 18m (ShortStory) Issue: Clarkesworld 113
(Military SF) Rinthira retired from
the Thai military a while back, but her former commander (and ex-lover) has
come to call her back to duty.
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(Fantasy Science) Out on Europa,
Marius has vanished and Kotto has come to rescue his partner, Bolaji.
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(SF) In a future world made rich by
AIs and other technology, wealthy Parchment goes for her morning walk, but a
teenage boy keep annoying her.
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(SF) After an alien terrorist kills
Majd's little brother back on Earth, he struggles to accept it, and starts
making changes to his own life.
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(Hard SF) Seventeen-year-old Allegra's
mad father has trapped them both on 51 PegasiD. They'll both die there unless
she can find a way to get help.
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(Fantasy Science) The starship Rook
returns to the system to mourn her sister starship, who died there 10,000
years ago.
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(SF) An AI trying to establish a human
colony discovers there's an individual it cannot account for.
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The
Governess with a Mechanical Womb by Leena
Likitalo Time: 22m (ShortStory) Issue: Clarkesworld 114
(Post Apocalypse) Agneta and her
little sister, Saga, are among the last human survivors. The invading aliens
have assigned a modified human "governess" to watch over them.
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(Near Future Fantasy Dystopia) In a
2042 Ireland beset by ecological catastrophe, the narrator meets a fairy at a
protest.
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(SF AI) In a world ruled by AIs, the
only work that pays is entertainment.
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(Math SF) Explorers find a wrecked
alien spaceship, a dead alien, and a logbook that suggests he came from a
world with different laws of physics.
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The Sentry
Branch Predictor Spec: A Fairy Tale by John Chu Time: 19m (ShortStory) Issue: Clarkesworld 118
(Fantasy Technology) An account of a
failed design for a superscalar ball-bearing-based computer.
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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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(Military Fantasy) On a remote planet,
the narrator uses a mix of magic and technology to control the drones that
fight his country's enemy.
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(Future Fantasy) Ipsita's husband lost
his mind when he killed the sacred animals, but she thinks there's a way to
get it back.
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(Near-Future SF) Ever since Iris
augmented her eyes with BrainSight, she's dreamed about a strange woman, and
now she's seeing her in real life.
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