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Rag and Bone


Priya Sharma - 2013
    Colorful, disturbing, and moving as Tom maneuvers warily between the masters he serves and the poor from whom he scavenges.At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.

Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams


Sunny Moraine - 2015
    At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Sultana's Dream


Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain - 1905
    In this utopian world, women rule and men are content with their places in the kitchen. The queen of this kingdom explains how women won and kept their peace against men and their war-like ways.This edition of a feminist utopian classic is a conversation across time; Durga Bai, a contemporary tribal woman artist from Central India, brings her own vision to bear on a Muslim gentlewoman’s radical tale.

Come See the Living Dryad


Theodora Goss - 2017
    "Come See the Living Dryad" by Theodora Goss is a fantasy about a contemporary woman investigating the murder of an ancestor suffering from a rare disease who was a famous sideshow attraction in the nineteenth century.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Future of Work: Compulsory


NOT A BOOK - 2018
    “My risk-assessment module predicts a 53 percent chance of a human-on-human massacre before the end of the contract.”A short story published in Wired.com magazine as part of a series "The Future of Work" on December 17, 2018.

Clockwork Fairies


Cat Rambo - 2011
    Desiree feels the most at home with her clockwork creations, but Claude worries about all this science and Darwinist nonsense—after all, where do clockwork fairies fall in the Great Chain of Being?

This World is Full of Monsters


Jeff VanderMeer - 2017
    An alien invasion comes to one man’s doorstep in the form of a story-creature, followed by death and rebirth in a transformed Earth.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Worth Her Weight in Gold


Sarah Gailey - 2018
    "Worth Her Weight in Gold" is another slyly funny, raucous adventure in the alternate America of Sarah Gailey's River of Teeth and Taste of Marrow.

The Devil in America


Kai Ashante Wilson - 2014
    The shattering consequences of this confrontation echo backwards and forwards in time, even to the present day.At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.

St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid


C.L. Polk - 2020
    A girl with witchcraft, no friends, and only her mother’s bees to confide in will pay whatever’s necessary to keep the girl she loves safe.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Sand


Jasmin Kirkbride - 2021
    When Suzy was born, her parents filled her mouth with sand. But this is normal and natural and the way things are always done. And if she finds it uncomfortable to keep it there, to eat with it there, to talk with it there, she's just going to have to learn to live with it.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 100


Neil ClarkeCatherynne M. Valente - 2015
    Valente“An Exile of the Heart” by Jay Lake“This Wind Blowing, and This Tide” by Damien Broderick“Laika's Ghost” by Karl SchroederNON-FICTION“Song for a City-Universe: Lucius Shepard's Abandoned Vermillion” by Jason Heller“Exploring the Frontier: A Conversation with Xia Jia” by Ken Liu“Another Word: #PurpleSF” by Cat Rambo“Editor's Desk: On the Road to One Hundred” by Neil Clarke

Waiting on a Bright Moon


J.Y. Yang - 2017
    When a dead body comes through her portal at a time of growing rebellion, Xin is drawn deep into a station-wide conspiracy along with Ouyang Suqing, one of the station’s mysterious, high-ranking starmages.

The City Born Great


N.K. Jemisin - 2016
    K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season, the winner of this year's Hugo Award for Best Novel, New York City is about to go through a few changes.Like all great metropolises before it, when a city gets big enough, old enough, it must be born; but there are ancient enemies who cannot tolerate new life. Thus New York will live or die by the efforts of a reluctant midwife...and how well he can learn to sing the city's mighty song.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Microbiota and the Masses


S.B. Divya - 2017
    But when she meets Rahul, a beautiful man working to clean up his city, her need for him draws her into danger. She will risk her health and her work to satisfy her lust for Rahul, and may find love along the way.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.