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Yiwu
Lavie Tidhar - 2018
For a humble shopkeeper in Yiwu, it’s a living, selling lottery tickets. Until a winning ticket opens up mysteries he’d never imagined. Lavie Tidha's Yiwu is a Tor.com Original short story.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Morning Child and Other Stories
Gardner Dozois - 2004
Contentsvii • Introduction (Morning Child and Other Stories) • essay by Gardner Dozois1 • Morning Child • (1984) • shortstory by Gardner Dozois10 • A Special Kind of Morning • (1971) • novelette by Gardner Dozois59 • The Hanging Curve • (2002) • shortstory by Gardner Dozois73 • A Kingdom by the Sea • (1972) • novelette by Gardner Dozois103 • A Dream at Noonday • (1970) • shortstory by Gardner Dozois119 • Ancestral Voices • (1998) • novella by Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick191 • Fairy Tale • (2003) • shortstory by Gardner Dozois210 • The Peacemaker • (1983) • shortstory by Gardner Dozois230 • Machines of Loving Grace • (1972) • shortstory by Gardner Dozois237 • Chains of the Sea • (1973) • novella by Gardner Dozois
The Years of my Birth
Louise Erdrich - 2011
Search for "Tommy Orange Reads Louise Erdrich".
Jealous Husband Returns in the Form of a Parrot
Robert Olen Butler
A man dies suddenly and is reincarnated as a parrot. As a parrot, he struggles to find the words to say when he runs into his human wife.
Apex Magazine Issue 59
Sigrid Ellis - 2014
New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every month. We are a 2013 Hugo Award nominee for Best Semiprozine! FICTION Perfect by Haddayr Copley-Woods Steel Snowflakes in My Skull by Tom Piccirilli The Cultist's Son by Ferrett Steinmetz Repairing the World by John Chu Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary by Pamela Dean (eBook/subscriber exclusive) The Violent Century (extract) by Lavie Tidhar (eBook/subscriber exclusive) POETRY Cogs by Beth Cato Unlabelled Core c. Zanclean (5.33 Ma) by Michele Bannister Tell Me the World is a Forest by Chris Lynch Aristeia by Sonya Taaffe NONFICTION Resolute: Notes from the Editor-in-Chief by Sigrid Ellis Interview with Cover Artist Mehrdad Isvandi by Loraine Sammy Interview with Ferrett Steinmetz by Maggie Slater After Our Bodies Fail by Abra Staffin-Wiebe Cover art by Mehrdad Isvandi Edited by Sigrid Ellis
The Best We Can
Carrie Vaughn - 2013
But it turns out, you still have to go to work the next morning.At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.
The Nine Curves River
R.F. Kuang - 2020
Jonathan Strahan) , which you can listen to [official url]. I love his narration; it’s heart-breaking. I grew up watching Reading Rainbow, so it was pretty awesome to grow up to write words that LeVar Burton read out loud!Reading time: 56:27
Playing Nice with God’s Bowling Ball
N.K. Jemisin - 2008
Jemisin, originally published in the August 2008 issue of Jim Baen’s Universe.In “Playing Nice with God’s Bowling Ball,” a police detective tries to understand how a children’s dispute over a playing card could have led to a mysterious disappearance.
Drones to Ploughshares
Sarah Gailey - 2020
In a near future, a surveillance drone serving an authoritarian state is captured—and offered a new lease on sentience.
Uncanny Magazine Issue 32: January/February 2020
Lynne M. ThomasBonnie Jo Stufflebeam - 2020
Clark, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam Sharon Hsu, and Alex Bledsoe; reprint fiction by E. Lily Yu; essays by Meg Elison, Marissa Lingen, Malka Older, and Katharine Duckett; poems by Ada Hoffmann, Brandon O’Brien, Leah Bobet, and Betsy Aoki; interviews with Eugenia Triantafyllou and Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam by Caroline M. Yoachim; and Nilah Magruder’s Fallen Embers on the cover.
The Collected Tymon the Black
Richard Parks - 2017
Or at least that's his reputation. Some reputations are deserved, some not. Or perhaps Tymon's notoriety is a means toward quite a different end.
Tin House Magazine, Issue 72, Summer 2017
Rob SpillmanMark Waldron - 2017
of Orgueil unknown)• Beatrice Feels a Heart by Anna Koriath• Lost and Found: On Naomi Mitchison's Memoirs of a Spacewoman by Catherine Rockwood• Review: Memoirs of a Spacewoman by Naomi Mitchison by Catherine Rockwood• What Vile by Mark Waldron• A Tree Party by Mark Waldron• Airspace by C. J. Evans• Divorce by C. J. Evans• Blur by Carmen Maria Machado
The Kite of Stars and Other Stories
Dean Francis Alfar - 2007
This book collects sixteen wondrous stories of fantasy, science fiction, horror and things in between from the imagination of award-winning fictionist Dean Francis Alfar.
1000-Year-Old Ghosts
Laura Chow Reeve - 2016
We love the magical realism of the story, with rich imagery that elicits all senses, and a weight that we think many people can relate to.-- Karissa Chen, Fiction & Poetry Editor
Summer Frost
Blake Crouch - 2019
Except the minor non-player character in the world Riley is building makes her own impossible decision—veering wildly off course and exploring the boundaries of the map. When the curious Riley extracts her code for closer examination, an emotional relationship develops between them. Soon Riley has all new plans for her spontaneous AI, including bringing Max into the real world. But what if Max has real-world plans of her own?Blake Crouch’s Summer Frost is part of Forward, a collection of six stories of the near and far future from out-of-this-world authors. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single thought-provoking sitting.