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Linda
Nagata
- Hooks,
Nets and Time. Zayder runs a shark farm in the South China Sea.
But he soon finds out that the owner has other uses for the shark
station... [Size:
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Vera
Nazarian
- Dreams
of the Compass Rose: The Miracles of Ris. Ris: the Bringer
of Stillness and Water, the Bright-Eyed Liberator, the Mad Sovereign
of Wisdom. But it is unknown whether Ris is god or demon, messiah
or trickster, man or woman or child... [Size: 62Kb]
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Kim
Newman
- Coppola's
Dracula. It's the 1970s and the first ever movie of Stoker's Dracula
is being filmed in Romania. But what do the vampires think? A quick-firing
and intelligent novella set in the alternate history of Newman's Anno
Dracula. [Size:
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- The
McCarthy Witch Hunt ...quite literally. The McCarthy era may have
singled out the entertainment industry, but its effects were far wider.
An everyday story of Manhattan witches, the Second World War and gun-toting
churchmen. [Size:
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- The
Pierce-Arrow Stalled, and.... A history Twentieth Century cinema
... as it might easily have been. Short fiction with an afterword
by the author. [Size:
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Stan
Nicholls
- Bodyguard
of Lightning. An extract from the novel. Queen Jennesta is waiting,
and she's not the patient type. So she has to entertain herself...
(not for the faint-hearted). [Size:
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- Throwing
a Wobbly. Well, hello, big boy. A dark and funny story
about a world where everything has changed for the bigger. [Size:
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Scott
Nicholson
- The
Harvest. Had its instincts failed it? No: there were bacteria,
protozoa, amino acids. Life. Food. An extract from the novel.
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- Metabolism.
The city had eyes. It watched Elise from the glass squares set into
its walls... No one ever escaped. [Size:
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Mike
O'Driscoll
- The
Future of Birds. Life in paradise is Estela's reward; it is the
way she profits from the disease. But the price of paradise can be
high... Disturbing, explicit and very, very good. [Size:
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- A
Soldier's Things. "Some, like Joe ... even when they run
they have no choice: I seek them out and return them to the fold."
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Patrick
O'Leary
- Bat
Boy. Until the day the boy brought home the bat, he had never
surprised his father... A short and moving story about the awful weight
of parental expectations. [Size:
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- Whensday.
Opposites, time's direction and spelling. Another masterful, original
miniature from Patrick O'Leary. [Size: 18Kb]
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Gene
O'Neill
- The
Burden Of Indigo. The boy was all alone now, excited by his first
trip outside the Shield, but also apprehensive. The night held much
to fear... An extract from the novel. [Size:
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Jessica
Palmer
- Heavenly
Bodies. 'Get a virgin,' the angel Gabriel had been told. But they're
not so easy to find these days... [Size:
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Stephen
Palmer
- Flowercrash.
How long will the cyborgs sleep? A thousand years, and when they wake
they will re-mould society. An extract from the novel. [Size:
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- Hallucinating.
The music has mutated over the last twenty years ... it has become
something else. An extract from the novel. [Size:
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- Muezzinland:
prelude. Two friends seeking a runaway sister ... but the Empress
and her transputer shaman are after them and there agents could be
anywhere. An extract from the novel. [Size:
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- Muezzinland:
Ouagadougou. A Ghanaian princess follows her runaway sister through
an exotically transformed future Africa. A second extract from the
novel. [Size: 34Kb]
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- Tales from
the Spired Inn: The
Green Realm Below. Kytanquil is a drifter, a misfit, but she's
harmless nonetheless. So why do the mysterious inhabitants of the
Garden want to see her? Destiny and gardening for post-humans. [Size:
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Paul
Park
- The
Tourist.
Everybody wants to see the future, but of course they can't. They
get turned back at the border. Time travel sf from the author of Celestis
and Soldiers of Paradise. [Size:
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Daniel
Pearlman
- Flies.
She lay flat on her belly in a heap of decaying corpses -- a lucky
survivor, some might say. And then, at night, she heard the voices...
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- The
Heart of the Overchild. Cheri is pretty sure that her parents
will win the appeal. They've assured her of that much. But it's Cheri's
legal right to undergo the surgery if she chooses. [Size:
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Ursula
Pflug
- Python.
While Faith is in New Orleans, for three weeks, she is black. It's
only later she learns this is impossible. [Size: 43Kb]
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- Trading
Polaris. "You were gone. I was afraid I'd never see you again,
for you'd disappeared into that yellow fog as though into a cloud
that might carry you away..." [Size: 42Kb]
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Holly
Phillips
- A
Woman's Bones. They came to dig up the bones, not to listen to
words of warning... [Size: 57Kb]
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Paul
Pinn
- Backlash.
The Torquoins are extinct, all apart from Blueflame, a 'servicer'
in the shabbiest town on the planet. At least, so everyone thinks
until the stranger comes to town. [Size: 39Kb]
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- Phlon
Xi. In Phlon Xi the survivors of the epidemic make their home.
In Phlon Xi the intelligence agencies' high tech surveillance technologies
fail. And so Major Choy is sent in... [Size: 33Kb]
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Marianne
Plumridge
- Wormhole
Magic. Unexpected visitors.... [Size:
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Gareth
L Powell
- Distant
Galaxies Colliding. She will never again see the light of distant
galaxies... [Size:
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- Six
Lights off Green Scar. Sal Dervish, master of an old roulette
ship, trying to forget. Always, trying to forget... [Size:
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Sue
Rann
- Looking
for Mr Nobody. If he'd done it properly he'd have had back-up,
an escape plan, at least. But now ... there was no way out. Except
feet first, maybe. An extract from the sf/crime novel. [Size:
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Kit
Reed
- The
Baby Merchant. You don't really want to know what Tom Starbird
does. You don't care what he does, as long as he can help you. Starbird
is your last hope... Novel extract. [Size:
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- Bronze.
On the surface, the Benedict place is picture-perfect Old South, but
look beneath that surface and you'll find that things are much darker...
Novel extract. [Size:
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- Freezing
Geezers. Everybody wants to live forever, but in order to do this
well you should always pre-die while still young and good looking.
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- The
New You. The adverts promise all kinds of things, but can they
promise happiness? A story from Kit's collection, Weird Women,
Wired Women. [Size:
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- Old
Soldiers. In the room across the hall the old soldier shouts,
just as he has done for years... [Size:
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- Pilots
of the Purple Twilight. The wives spent every day by the pool
-- this was where the men had left them, after all. [Size:
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- Playmate.
The little boy who plays with Danny is just so good. In fact, he's
pretty much perfect. And he has a strangely powerful influence on
Danny. [Size: 31Kb]
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- Thinner
Than Thou. The Reverend Earl promised salvation and JM Devlin
bit... welcome to Sylphania, AZ.
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Alastair
Reynolds
- A
Spy in Europa. To get to Europa you either had to be sickeningly
rich or sickeningly poor. Vargovic's cover was the former... [Size:
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- Chasm
City. Sky had never been in the freight bay before, and it could
mean only one thing: they were going outside. An extract from Alastair
Reynolds' second novel.. [Size:
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- Spirey
and the Queen. There's a war going on -- a war that spans a galaxy
and has lasted centuries. Spirey and Yarrow are on a mission: track
down and destroy a rebel starship. Only things are never so simple
in war... [Size:
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Chris
Roberson
- Red
Hands, Black Hands. The skin around the stranger's eyes and mouth
was pale in comparison to his sun-darkened cheeks and forehead. He
must have been out on the high plains, where the air was still thin
and where breather-masks and goggles were still a necessity. [Size:
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- Here,
There and Everywhere. Neither belonged in this era, but she at
least was welcome. She was a traveller, but he was a castaway, or
worse, an invader. An extract from the novel. [Size:
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Adam
Roberts
- Balancing.
An offer from the Devil with no strings attached? Pur-lease... [Size:
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- The
Ice Submarine. Deep in the Antarctic ice, even their heat might
give them away to Satanic Western satellites. The Captain must be
cautious, even as the submarine's systems start to malfunction...
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- Salt.
Shall I tell you the intimacy of living during the year of acceleration?
The constant presence of other people, the lack of privacy such that
privacy became a distantly remembered concept... An extract from a
striking debut novel. [Size:
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- The
Time Telephone.
'This is your mother, Marianne.' It's an expensive call ... a call
from the past. [Size:
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- War
of Another World. Pro-war or anti? Even the Martians aren't all
behind the war effort... [Size:
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Mark
Roberts
- Sand
in the Nanotech. He reached into the Assembler's guts and found
only sand. The nanomachines were failing... [Size:
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Al
Robertson
- Golden.
Broken relationship, the dotcom crash... Life could have been so different.
Perhaps it still could.... [Size:
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Kim
Stanley Robinson
- A
History of the Twentieth Century, with Illustrations. The Twentieth
Century: an age of mass destruction and suffering. Frank Churchill:
a historian, an author charged with summing up this period. A powerful
reflection on what we have been, what we are and what we might become
by one of SF's finest authors. [Size:
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Warren
Rochelle
- The
Wild Boy. The tribal elders claimed they needed Lindauzi-speakers,
but no-one dared speak it aloud. It was the speech of nightmares,
of the furred monster aliens, the Human-killers. An extract from a
debut novel. [Size:
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Bruce
Holland Rogers
- Don
Ysidro. Some people put everything into their work. [Size:
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- Half
of the Empire. Lost in a strange town, all he wanted was a place
to spend the night. [Size:
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- Recovering
the Body. He has to fetch the body. That's what his mother told
him. [Size: 15Kb]
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- Visions
of Gingerbread. 'Tis the season to be jolly. And enlightened...
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Nicholas
Royle
- Flying
into Naples. An old flame, a holiday in Naples ... dark passion
in the shadow of Vesuvius. [Size:
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- The
Cast. Weird happenings on -- and off -- the football pitch. [Size:
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Kristine
Kathryn Rusch
- Millennium
Babies. The message was addressed to her by her former name, sent
with unusually strict security... And it had something to do with
the time of her birth: five minutes into the year 2000. An extract
from the Hugo-shortlisted novelette. [Size:
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Richard
Paul Russo
- Just
Drive, She Said. When she's holding a gun to your head, what else
can you do? [Size:
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Geoff
Ryman
- Air.
Mae lived in the last village in the world to go online. After that,
everyone else went on Air. An extract from the novel. [Size:
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Richard
Salsbury
- The
Aspirant. She wants to be just like the Rhymer, Artemis. And she'll
go to any lengths... [Size:
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- Panaphasia.
He called it the Panaphasia - a plague of silence. But why had he
and Nathan been spared? [Size:
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Ron
Savage
- Nuns
in Love. Sister Angelica has a pet raven and a thing about Edgar
Allan Poe... A story that's both weird and oh-so-dark. [Size:
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Steven
Savile
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Darrell
Schweitzer
- A
Servant of Satan: a Gothic tale. Young Cunningham did it to prove
his love for the beautiful Sophie-Marie Devereaux. He didn't think
to wonder what stealing the skull may lead to... An essay about the
writing of this novelette, The
Story of a Revision, is available elsewhere on this site. [Size:
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Harry
Shannon
- Echo.
The first time he heard it, the plaintive cry sounded like the wail
of a tortured prisoner. [Size:
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Lucius
Shepard
- The
Jaguar Hunter. Esteban has a debt, or rather, his wife has a debt.
But there is a way to pay... [Size:
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William
Shunn
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Luís
Filipe Silva
- The
Rodney King Global Mass Media Artwork. One day, suddenly, they
were there, all over town, billboards bearing a single sentence: "Remember
when we were free?" Science fiction from a Portuguese master of the
peculiar. [Size:
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William
P Simmons
- Telling
Stories in the Dark. He raced through the house, locking and bolting
the doors and windows, drawing the shades ... but the night would
not be denied. [Size:
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Sims (and LH Maynard)
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Alison
Sinclair
- Assassin.
Most cops would have dismissed it as just another suicide, but the
evidence doesn't quite add up: is someone using the Net for murder?
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Sarah
Singleton
- Cassilago's
Wife. All the hiker wanted was a place to pitch his tent for the
night. But Cassilago's wife might have more to offer... [Size:
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- The
Ravelling. Sometimes death is a release, but sometimes the dead
themselves must be released. [Size:
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Martin
Sketchley
- The
Destiny Mask. She had to look into the future, whatever the consequences...
An extract from the novel. [Size:
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- The
Liberty Gun. Captured by the Serriatts... how much to tell them
and how much do they know? [Size:
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David
Alexander Smith
- Dying
in Hull. The city is sinking, but Ethel Endicott Cobb hangs on.
How could she possibly leave? With an afterword by the author. [Size:
49Kb]
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Douglas
Smith
- The
Boys Are Back in Town. The quiet little tavern served harpies,
centaurs, fawns, cyclops and even the occasional twentieth century
humans. Keeping it a quiet little tavern, and not a news feature,
required special measures. [Size:
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- Going
Harvey in the Big House. Big G's new cube was too big: he was
used to sleeping in a drawer... And worse: he was starting his shift
with a Harvey. [Size:
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- New
Year's Eve. The Millennium Bug as it might well have happened.
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- The
Red Bird. Asai was chosen by the Red Bird on the night the soldiers
burnt his village. He was to be its thousandth defender. [Size:
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- Spirit
Dance. Protests against loggers take a dark turn when innocents
are killed and ancient spirits involved. Award-winning fantasy from
a John W Campbell Award shortlisted author. [Size:
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Matt
Spencer
- The
Face in the Flame. It was worth taking a detour through the woods
to avoid being bust along with the local dealer... [Size:
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Brian
Stableford
- In
the Flesh. It's Jennifer's birthday, so why should her mother
worry when a strange boy brings her a present? A boy who seems to
know Jennifer so well... [Size:
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- An
Oasis of Horror. Charles Baudelaire took a deep breath and pressed
the blade into his chest, prepared as it is possible to be for his
own undeath. [Size:
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Charles
Stross
- A
Colder War. Roger isn't a soldier. He's not much of a patriot,
either. He's just scared when 20 pages of sheer terror land on his
CIA desk. [Size:
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Tricia
Sullivan
- The
Question Eaters. When you think in another language, the thoughts
themselves are different. When the language belongs to another species
the effect is more extreme... [Size:
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Anna
Tambour
- The
Emperor's Backscratcher. At last: history has been defeated, all
that could be done is done. But one problem remains... [Size:
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- Me-Too.
Edward was an only -- 'Scientific Subclassification: Creative
Diverse'. His parents should have known better... [Size:
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- Travels
with Robert Louis Stevenson in the Cévennes.
Words of wisdom come from the unlikeliest sources, if only we thought
to listen. [Size:
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- Temptation
of the Seven Scientists. Seven scientists in search of a Great
Theory - a magical tale of discovery. [Size:
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- The
Wages of Food-Play.
Some people just won't appreciate the fruits of God's kitchen. [Size:
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Jeffrey
Thomas
- The
Hate Machines. Cardiff owned two similar hate receptacles: his
Whipping Boy at home and a newly purchased Scapegoat... A new Punktown
story. [Size: 32Kb]
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- The
Library of Sorrows. Nothing a murderer could tell MacDiaz in interview
revealed so much as the decor of their apartment, he had found. Nothing
could help him forget, either... [Size:
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Scott
Thomas
- Marcy
Waters. Growing up in 19th century Massachusetts, they discover
themselves and each other (and more) over what's left of the Indian
graves. [Size:
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- The
Wreck at Wickhampton. They found them beneath the cliffs: six
corpses, washed up in a storm. But one of them ... she was the most
beautiful woman he had ever seen. [Size:
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Sue
Thomas
- Correspondence.
People often turn away from you in the street, but you can understand
that. The aspects of your difference are incomprehensible to them,
despite the fact that they are really very apparent. An extract from
the Clarke Award-shortlisted novel. [Size:
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CS
Thompson
- Mercy.
The tombstone reads, "Mercy Bonham. We Remember You." That's where
they went wrong.
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Lavie
Tidhar
- Alienation
and Love in the Hebrew Alphabet. Footsteps in the wet earth. Strange
footsteps. She knows she shouldn't follow them...
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Mikal
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Jack
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- Dradin,
in Love. He saw her in a window, by accident, and he fell in love
immediately. But how could he, a penniless ex-missionary, ever hope
to woo her? A major feature to mark publication of City of Saints
and Madmen: a complete novella plus a non-fiction piece on one
of the inspirations for the Ambergris stories. [Size:
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- Flight
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in the Machine. Living on, ghosts in the machine, they should
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Powerless. Almost... With a foreword explaining the story's connection
to the novel, Veniss Underground. [Size:
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- Quin's
Shanghai Circus. He always had artistic dreams. And in a world
where children play with genetic playdoh, creating creatures that
move and breathe, all is malleable, all is art. Far-future sf meets
dark fantasy, mediated by VanderMeer's vivid, poetic imagination;
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Court of the Midnight King. Despite the protection of the Motherlodge,
Katherine would have to take a husband. There could be no alternative...
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the Undead. An extract from a novel written in tribute to mark
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- Pagan
Moon. Eirian is an ordinary girl, on the brink of womanhood; but
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enemies... An extract from Freda's 12th novel. [Size:
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Ian
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It's a gamble: the cryogenic preservation of heads in the hope that
somehow they will survive, somehow they will be revived. And it's
a gamble with unknowable consequences. With a foreword written by
the author. [Size:
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- Early,
in the Evening. The whole history of the world and human evolution
reversed within less than 3000 words, but with a sense of place and
characters. Plus a specially written foreword. [Size:
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- Mockymen.
The aliens give us fusion, desalination, food factories, and what
do they want in return? The works of Plato or Mozart or Leonardo?
No, they want our nematodes. An extract from the novel. [Size:
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Beth
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Never Dun It! Slagbellies always like a laugh, especially if they
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Patrich
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Cynnador, home of the fabled bazaar. A city with magic running through
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- Statue
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probably impossible. They wanted him to steal the Weeping Nun. [Size:
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- Usurper.
You don't jump fifteen stories and walk away. But where do
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- Westchester
Station: The Attendant. Brought here by someone he did not know
for a purpose he was yet to discover... at least the Station had a
men's room where he could freshen up. But what about the attendant?
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Conrad
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- London
Revenant. How long since she'd set foot outside the flat...? An
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- The
Scalding Rooms. When Rhind Shallows lost his footing and pitched
into a vat of boiling pig fat, Junko Caine just wished it had been
him instead... An extract from the novella. [Size:
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Neil
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Happy Gang. You'd think the trenches would be the worst it could
be, wouldn't you? But you haven't met the Happy Gang...
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- Harrowfield.
What had Harrowfield's recently-deceased owner been dabbling in, and
just what would they find in the house's impressive library?
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Connie
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Watch. Sent back in time, stranded in the middle of the Blitz,
a period of history he doesn't know... what is he doing here, and
how will he survive? Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards for
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Andrew
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Demons. A motorcycle race to hell and back... With an afterword
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David
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- Assimilation.
Cricket on the village green, polite dinner parties ... it's all so
terribly civilised. And, of course, there has to be something sinister
behind it all. A tale of the far future, published here for the first
time. [Size: 25Kb]
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Ken
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"In March of 1998, I was accidentally exposed to a powerful chemical
substance that opened the door to my unconscious..." Extracts from
the fiction/non-fiction hybrid, Eden.
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Paul
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Summer. The old lighthouse on Cape Henlopen exercised an irresistible
allure. Young Mark just couldn't stay away...
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Gene
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Arimaspian Legacy. Boyhood friends, they were accustomed to sharing
tall tales, but David's tallest tale was saved to the last...
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Nick
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Shadows. The astronaut who'd lost his soul was cold to the touch
and there seemed to be nothing the old man could do for him.
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Sean
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- Wicked
Or What? With the thing in Layla's pocket she could do anything
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Jonathan
Wylie
- Magister.
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novel's inspiration by half a Wylie. [Size:
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Tamar
Yellin
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know what to expect.
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- Mr
Applewick. It would be a big--and expensive--job, and one beset
by unexpected developments.
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George
Zebrowksi
- The
Word Sweep. The words on the floor were as thick as leaves when
Felix arrived at the party, but he had a job to do: someone has to
police the yak ration. [Size: 40Kb]
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David
Zindell
- Shanidar.
A story of restoration and resurrection, of how the philosophers of
this doomed city were both right and wrong. A major early novelette.
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Zoran
Zivkovic
- Fingernails.
Mr Prohaska had collected his fingernail clippings since the age of
eight. That was the easy part.... [Size:
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- Hidden
Camera. "How could I, a person who looks death in the face
every day, be afraid of something in the dark, like a child left alone
in a room without a light?" An extract from the novel. [Size:
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- Words.
The collector of words finds beautiful things. [Size:
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