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Zeitgeber
Greg Egan - 2019
But if that shared connection was broken, and we each fell under the sway of our own private clock, could we still hold our lives together? One family is about to find out.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Mental Diplopia
Julianna Baggott - 2017
People are getting stuck in the past in mostly happy memories. They are straddling the line between now and then. Although the disease ends in death, the infected seem to go willingly. The epidemiologist seeks the answers to this viral mystery while she is falling in love and yet trying not to get infected.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Schrödinger's Gun
Ray Wood - 2015
In every possible universe, Johnny Rivers is dead. But the questions that need answering--who killed him and why--are still a matter of uncertainty.
Sing
Karin Tidbeck - 2013
He finds comfort in her unusual way of life but soon discovers that a symbiotic relationship can be a blessing or a curse.At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.
Knowledgeable Creatures
Christopher Rowe - 2019
But of course, all is not as it seems.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Guile
Ian McDonald - 2018
in Ian McDonald's Tor.com Original short story The Guile.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Across the Dark Water
Richard Kadrey - 2021
A thief hires a guide to lead him safely through the city’s many dangers to the one person who can give him the travel papers he needs to escape.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Ones Who Look
Katharine Duckett - 2020
By offering custom-built afterlives through full-brain uploads, they answered the needs of a society pushed to the brink by climate change and cascading antibiotic failure. But for Zoe, who works daily to assess the sins of users and decide who's worthy of salvation, heaven is not so simple. Despite the urging of the angels on her shoulder, she is determined to uncover heaven's secrets, no matter the cost.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome
John Scalzi - 2014
Unlocked traces the medical history behind a virus that will sweep the globe and affect the majority of the world’s population, setting the stage for Lock In, the next major novel by John Scalzi.Free to read here:http://www.tor.com/2014/05/13/unlocke...At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.
Breaking Water
Indrapramit Das - 2016
In this story from Indrapramit Das, a journalist strives to understand Krishna's actions and what they say about the rest of society and how we treat our dead.
Water: A History
K.J. Kabza - 2019
Wetness is a concept left back on Earth. That doesn’t stop one elderly woman from stepping outside the safety of the colony whenever she can for the brief opportunity to fully experience the outside world.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Touches
Brenda Peynado - 2019
Brenda Peynado's "The Touches" is a Tor.com Original short story set in a post-apocalyptic world Salipa and Telo have perfect lives in the virtual reality world that humanity has retreated to after bacteria and viruses resistant to all medications take over the outside world.But when the robots that take care of the necessities in the dirty outside world start glitching, Salipa must figure out what it means to truly live if they can never return to the world they once knew.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Situation
Jeff VanderMeer - 2008
“The Situation” is based on a short story by Jeff VanderMeer which Margo Lanagan called “darkly hilarious” and Kevin Brockmeier “a work of surreal humor, bemused sadness, and meticulous artifice...as if the workplace novels of Sinclair Lewis and Joshua Ferris had been inverted, shaken, and diced until they came out looking like a Terry Gilliam creation.”
In Xanadu
Lavie Tidhar - 2019
Security through redundancy. Security through obscurity. How do immortal artificial intelligences defend themselves? With an air gap. With a security force that has no connection to anything that can harm them. With a young woman, trained to fight and to die who, along with her cohort must keep them safe. But In Xanadu things don’t always go as planned…At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Flight
Claire Wrenwood - 2020
Now, years later, she has wings of her own. But an encounter in the woods forces her to reckon with her past—and the painful price her wings demanded.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.