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The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere
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A Tor.Com Original
John Chu; read by Philip Estrera
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In the near future water falls from the sky whenever someone lies (either a mist or a torrential flood depending on the intensity of the lie). This makes life difficult for Matt as he maneuvers the...
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The Devil in America
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A Tor.Com Original
Kai Ashante Wilson
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Scant years after the Civil War, a mysterious family confronts the legacy that has pursued them across centuries, out of slavery, and finally to the idyllic peace of the town of Rosetree. The shattering...
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The Cartography of Sudden Death
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A Tor.Com Original
Charlie Jane Anders; read by Imani Jade Powers
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Time travel doesn't actually solve problems. It just makes them more complex….
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The President's Brain is Missing
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John Scalzi; read by P. J. Ochlan
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The question is, how can you tell the President's brain is missing? And are we sure we need it back?
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As Good as New
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A Tor.Com Original
Charlie Jane Anders; read by Frankie Corzo
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"A perfect listen for anyone looking for a quick dabble in the author's writing style or in science fiction." -- AudioFile Magazine
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Adult Children of Alien Beings
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Dennis Danvers
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Adult Children of Alien Beings by Dennis Danvers is a science fiction novelette about the emotional journey of a man seeking the truth about his parents, who were always rather ....odd, and...
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Milagroso
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A Tor.Com Original
Isabel Yap
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Marty always believed the lab-grown foods he helped produce were miraculous. But in his childhood home of Lucban, real miracles are occurring: artificial food is being transformed into delicious, sustaining produce. As he visits the home he left behind, the vibrant and colorful festival jerks him into a past he both hungers for and wants to forget.
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The Totally Secret Origin of Foxman: Excerpts from an EPIC Autobiography
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Kelly McCullough
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Before O.S.I.R.I.S, before the betrayal and the drinking and "the Incident at the Tower," before Captain Commanding (that jerk!), before the new powers and the super suit, there was Rand, a...
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In the Cave of the Delicate Singers
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Lucy Taylor
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In the Cave of the Delicate Singers by Lucy Taylor is a horror story about a woman with a rare form of synesthesia who can feel sound waves and the dangerous rescue mission she undertakes in a cave...
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Islands Off the Coast of Capitola, 1978
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A Tor.Com Original
David Herter
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David Herter creates a modern reimagining Gene Wolfe's Island of Doctor Death. Young Ballou lives alone with his mother in an old house on the shore. When the mysterious Wilson arrives, Ballou's...
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The Deepest Rift
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Ruthanna Emrys
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In the deepest canyon in the inhabited worlds, giant mantas soar through the air and leave patterned structures behind. A team of sapiologists seek to prove that these delicate filaments are...
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Fabulous Beasts
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Priya Sharma
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British Fantasy Award-winner: Best Short Fiction
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Waters of Versailles
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Kelly Robson
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Finalist for the World Fantasy Award and Nebula Award, and winner of the Aurora Award
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Elephants and Corpses
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A Tor.Com Original
Kameron Hurley
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The corpse-jumping body mercenary Nev is used to filling other people's shoes. When his assistant Tera recognizes the most recent waterlogged cadaver they bought off the street, though, he...
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At the End of Babel
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Michael Livingston
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Ambiguity Machines: An Examination
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A Tor.Com Original
Vandana Singh
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This tale is an unusual take on an engineering exam that explores new concepts in machine design and function. All new machine discoveries must be investigated and classified. This is the story of...
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The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn
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A Tor.Com Original
Usman T. Malik
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British Fantasy Award-winner: Best Novella
"The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn" by Usman T. Malik is a fantasy novella about a disenchanted young Pakistani professor...
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The Ways of Walls and Words
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A Tor.Com Original
Sabrina Vourvoulias
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Anica and Bienvenida pass prayers and small comforts through the gaps in the prison walls. Incarcerated by the Inquisition for the faith she won't surrender, Anica longs for solace for her...
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The Language of Knives
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Haralambi Markov
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"The Language of Knives" by Haralambi Markov is about the death rituals of this secondary world. A strong-willed daughter is guided by her unloved parent in the customs of how to respect the remains...
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Ballroom Blitz
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Veronica Schanoes
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"Ballroom Blitz" by Veronica Schanoes is a contemporary fairy tale about a young man, who with his eleven brothers, have been cursed to remain in a rock club for their bad behavior. Their only shot...
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The Museum and the Music Box
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Noah Keller
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A neglected museum gradually succumbs to the elements. A music box rusts beneath a bell of glass. Fragmented texts are pieced together which tell the history of a lost love, the destruction of a...
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The Thyme Fiend
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Jeffrey Ford
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The Thyme Fiend by Jeffrey Ford is a dark fantasy novelette about a young man who can only prevent seeing visions by eating or smoking thyme. When he finds the skeleton of a missing man...
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The Shape of My Name
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Nino Cipri
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The Shape of My Name by Nino Cipri is a time travel story about what it means to truly claim yourself.
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The Hell of It
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A Tor.Com Original
Peter Orullian
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Some heroes don't carry blades or go to war. Some heroes are fathers desperately trying not to fail their sons.
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Schrödinger's Gun
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A Tor.Com Original
Ray Wood
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Of all the crime scenes in all the timelines in all the multiverse, Detective O'Harren walks into the basement on West 21st. In every possible universe, Johnny Rivers is dead. But the questions that...
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Acrobatic Duality
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A Tor.Com Original
Tamara Vardomskaya
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At the pinnacle of this demanding sport, artistry and balance is found in two moving as one. Yet the world's best pair of acrobats dare not reveal that their athletic brilliance has come at the price...
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And the Burned Moths Remain
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A Tor.Com Original
Benjanun Sriduangkaew
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The shape of treason is a trunk of thorns, and Jingfei climbs knowing forgiveness waits at the zenith. But for the traitorous Record of Tiansong, who let their planet burn under the guns of the Hegemony,...
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A Beautiful Accident
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A Tor.Com Original
Peter Orullian
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"In a culture where ritualized torture is used to teach its people strength through long-suffering, a foreign sufferer unintentionally teaches them something stronger . . . something gentler."
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Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2014
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Various Authors
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A collection of some of the best original fantasy and science fiction stories published on Tor.com in 2014.
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Father Christmas: A Wonder Tale of the North
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A Tor.Com Original
Charles Vess
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A tale of fatherhood, motherhood, what you'd give, and what you'd become.
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Skin in the Game
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Sabrina Vourvoulias
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Three kinds of people live in Zombie City-La Boca Del Diablo: the zombies, los vivos, and the ghosts. Officer Jimena Villagrán, not truly at home with any of these groups, patrols the barrio for...
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The Tallest Doll in New York City
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A Tor.Com Original
Maria Dahvana Headley
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Nebula Award-nominated author Maria Dahvana Headley has always loved Damon Runyon's stylized faux-reporting on New York City. This is her version of a Runyon tale—this one dealing with the architectural...
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Where the Trains Turn
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A Tor.Com Original
Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen
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Published here for the first time in English, "Where the Trains Turn" won first prize in the Finnish science-fiction magazine Portti's annual short story competition and then went on to win...
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Where the Lost Things Are
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A Tor.Com Original
Rudy Rucker and Terry Bisson
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It's the only alternate universe. Just the one.
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A Kiss With Teeth
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A Tor.Com Original
Max Gladstone
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From the award-winning author Max Gladstone comes a dark fantasy tale, "A Kiss with Teeth, a Tor.com Original short story
Vlad has grown distant from his wife. His son has...
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This Chance Planet
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Elizabeth Bear
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"This Chance Planet" by Elizabeth Bear is a near future science fiction story about a young Russian waitress with ambitions to become an engineer and her musician boyfriend, who wants her to gestate...
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Daughter of Necessity
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A Tor.Com Original
Marie Brennan
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By day she crafts; by night she unmakes. Surely somewhere, in all the myriad crossings of the threads, there is a future in which all will be well. Marie Brennan offers an intriguing new spin on...
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Midway Relics and Dying Breeds
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Seanan McGuire
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"The trouble with wanting to do the right thing is that frequently the right thing today is the wrong thing for tomorrow, or the wrong thing for the people who are standing between... -
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As Good as New
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A Tor.Com Original
Charlie Jane Anders
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From the author of the Hugo-winning "Six Months, Three Days," a new wrinkle on the old story of three wishes, set after the end of the world.
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Tuckitor's Last Swim
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Edith Cohn
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Tuckitor Hatterask had a fierce desire to go for a swim, even though a storm was brewing and he knew it wasn't a good idea to go into the water. But the forces pulling him toward the ocean were much...
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A Cup of Salt Tears
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A Tor.Com Original
Isabel Yap
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Makino's mother taught her caution, showed her how to carve her name into cucumbers, and insisted that she never let a kappa touch her. But when she grows up and her husband Tetsuya falls deathly...
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Seven Commentaries on an Imperfect Land
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Ruthanna Emrys
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Tikanu, land of laws and patterns, magic and wild mint, is not found behind hidden doors. It passes across borders and takes root wherever its people settle. This collection of seven commentaries...
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The Angelus Guns
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Max Gladstone
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Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch
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A Tor.Com Original
Kelly Barnhill
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Kelly Barnhill's Mrs. Sorenson and the Sasquatch, a Tor.com Original, is "a warmhearted tale."--Locus
When Mr. Sorensen - a drab, cipher of a man - passes...
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La Signora
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A Tor.Com Original
Bruce McAllister
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"La Signora", by Bruce McAllister, is a dark fantasy about a teenage American living in an ancient Italian fishing village with his parents. He's invited by his friends to go night-fishing on one...
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In the Sight of Akresa
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A Tor.Com Original
Ray Wood
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Claire's lover has no tongue. A slave liberated from a heathen temple, Aya cannot tell the story of her stolen voice, or of her and Claire's unfolding love. She cannot speak her pain, her joy, or...
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A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Proposed Trade-Offs for the Overhaul of the Barricade
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A Tor.Com Original
John Chu
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Generation after generation, engineers have maintained the barricade, a shield that protects civilization against Turbulence, this strange force that destroys both minds and machines. As Turbulence...
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The Colonel
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A Tor.Com Original
Peter Watts
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From the author of Blindsight comes Peter Watts's sci-fi adventure story "The Colonel," an action-packed Tor.com Original
Colonel Keaton is in trouble. His wife has...
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Sleep Walking Now and Then
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A Tor.Com Original
Richard Bowes
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"Sleep Walking Now and Then", by Richard Bowes, is a weird, futuristic novelette about an interactive theater production in The Big Arena (aka New York City) and the mystery surrounding its inspiration.
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A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon a Star
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A Tor.Com Original
Kathleen Ann Goonan
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"A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon a Star", by Kathleen Ann Goonan, is about the daughter of a rocket scientist in the post 1950s who wants to go to the moon, despite...
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The Devil in the Details
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A Tor.Com Original
Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald
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A new adventure of Peter Crossman, special agent of the Knights Templar — a man prepared to administer last rites with one hand while wielding a flamethrower with the other. Now an ancient manuscript...
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The Color of Paradox
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A Tor.Com Original
A.M. Dellamonica
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"The Color of Paradox", by A.M. Dellamonica, is a science fiction story about one of a series of time travelers sent back to the past in order to buy more time for the human race, which in the future...
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Combustion Hour
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A Tor.Com Original
Yoon Ha Lee
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Combustion Hour by Yoon Ha Lee is a story about the eschatology of shadow puppets.
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Chapter Six
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A Tor.Com Original
Stephen Graham Jones
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"Chapter Six", by Stephen Graham Jones, is an anthropological zombie story about Crain, a grad student, who has a theory of mankind's evolution. As he and his former professor scavenge on bone marrow...
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The Insects of Love
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Genevieve Valentine
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The Insects of Love, by Genevieve Valentine, is a dream-like science fiction/fantasy puzzle about two sisters and several possible realities. The only certainty is that one... -
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The Walking-stick Forest
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A Tor.Com Original
Anna Tambour
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The Walking-Stick Forest, by Anna Tambour, is a dark fantasy about a recluse who creates collectible walking sticks in post WWI Scotland by manipulating the woods somewhat like bonsais....
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Friends 'Til the End
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A Tor.Com Original
Bethany Neal
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In Bethany Neal's "Friends 'Til the End," death isn't the end for Emily Winstead, not even close. She died with a wrong to make right, and she's been given a second chance to set things straight....
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The Mothers of Voorhisville
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Mary Rickert
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From multiple World Fantasy Award winner and Nebula, Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, Sturgeon, and British Science Fiction Award nominated author Mary Rickert comes a gorgeous and terrifying...
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Among the Thorns
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Veronica Schanoes
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Among the Thorns, by Veronica Schanoes, is a dark fantasy taking place in seventeenth century Germany, about a young woman who is intent on avenging the brutal murder of her... -
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The End of the End of Everything
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Dale Bailey
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The End of the End of Everything, by Dale Bailey, is an sf/horror story about a long-married couple invited by an old friend to an exclusive artist's colony. The inhabitants... -
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Something Going Around
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Harry Turtledove
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From the Hugo-winning, bestselling author of The Guns of the South, a tale of love, parasitism, and loss in this Tor.Com Original Something Going Around, by Harry Turtledove.
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The Ugly Woman of Castello di Putti
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A.M. Dellamonica
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Returning to the world of Stormwrack where she set the tor.com story "Among the Silvering Herd," A.M. Dellamonica offers a new story that takes us deeper into this fascinating world, the site of...
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Mad Maudlin
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A Tor.Com Original
Marie Brennan
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For to see mad Tom o'Bedlam, ten thousand miles she's traveled.
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The Anderson Project
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A Tor.Com Original
Ken Liu; Judith Moffett; Kathleen Ann Goonan
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The second in a series of story groupings based upon a pre-existing work of art, in this case a Richard Anderson painting. The first such group, The Palencar Project, was published by Tor.com...
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The Cartography of Sudden Death
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A Tor.Com Original
Charlie Jane Anders
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Time travel doesn't actually solve problems. It just makes them more complex….
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The Eighth-Grade History Class Visits the Hebrew Home for the Aging
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A Tor.Com Original
Harry Turtledove
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Some people will tell you that world-class fame is better than living to a contented old age. Other people disagree. One of those other people might possibly be the protagonist of The Eighth-Grade...
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Ekaterina and the Firebird
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Abra Staffin-Wiebe
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A new take on an old Russian fairy tale: the quest for a blessing from the elusive firebird. In this iteration, young Ekaterina celebrates her fourteenth birthday, and a rare firebird sighting sets...
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The Writ of Years
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A Tor.Com Original
Brit Mandelo
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Few things can be as terrible as to get your heart's desire.
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Friedrich the Snow Man
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Lewis Shiner
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In the Greenwood
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Mari Ness
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Tor.com blogger, fantasy writer, and insatiable reader Mari Ness makes her Tor.com short fiction debut with a beautifully told tale of complicated and conflicted love, a translation and transformation...
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The Christmas Show
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Pat Cadigan
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The Christmas Show, by Pat Cadigan, is the perfect Christmas story about a pair of sisters under a mysterious curse that forces them to travel around the US producing local... -
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Thirteen Steps in the Underworld
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Su-Yee Lin
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Stories about mortals travelling into hell have been omnipresent in our literary canon for almost as long as weve had one, but young writer Su-Yee Lin has still managed to find modern resonance and...
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Feature Development for Social Networking
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A Tor.Com Original
Benjamin Rosenbaum
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Critically acclaimed and Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award nominated author Benjamin Rosenbaum makes his first appearance on Tor.com with an epistolary storyof a sort. Rosenbaum is a software...
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The Oregon Trail Diary of Willa Porter
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Andy Marino
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"The Oregon Trail Diary of Willa Porter" is a collection of diary entries from Willa Porter's journey west with her family, into territory which gets stranger and stranger.
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Some of the Best From Tor.com, 2013 Edition
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A Tor.Com Original
Various
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A collection of some of the best original short fiction published on Tor.com in 2013. Includes stories by Dale Bailey, Leigh Bardugo, Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross, and Genevieve Valentine.
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Brimstone and Marmalade
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Aaron Corwin
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Just in time for Halloween, we have a funny, sweet, and slightly skewed short story by Aaron Corwin, an up-and-coming writer from Seattle.
All Mathilde wanted for her birthday was a pony. Instead,...
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Come Back to the Sea
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Jason Vanhee
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"Come Back to the Sea" is the story of Yukio, who hears the sea singing and sees disturbing visions of the water swallowing everything she knows. Is it all in her head? Or is the sea really coming...
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Wakulla Springs
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A Tor.Com Original
Andy Duncan and Ellen Klages
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Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella
Wakulla Springs, in the deep jungle of the Florida panhandle, is the deepest submerged freshwater cave system in the world....
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A Rumor of Angels
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Dale Bailey
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"A Rumor of Angels", by Dale Bailey, is a fantasy novelette that takes place during the period of the dust bowl in the American Midwest. A teenage boy walks away from his father's wasted farm to...
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Lawful Interception
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Cory Doctorow
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An all-new tale of Marcus Yallow, the hero of the bestselling novels Little Brother and Homeland -- as he deals with the aftermath of a devastating Oakland earthquake, with the...
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Rocket Ship to Hell
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Jeffrey Ford
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The story of a secret, privately funded, late 60's space mission as told by the science fiction writer who was aboard.
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Cayos in the Stream
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Harry Turtledove
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You're the greatest writer of the age, gone to ground and subsiding into drink. You always said you wanted to catch some of those Nazi bastards in the waters around your beloved Cuba. What happens...
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All the Snake Handlers I Know Are Dead
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Dennis Danvers
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"Well-done fantasy. Happy ending without dripping sentiment. Not a lot of big surprises but deftly sprung, and nice dialogue and narrative voices."--Locus
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Contains Multitudes
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Ben Burgis
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Being a teenager is tough. Being part of the first generation of teenagers to share their body and soul with one of the aliens who just barely destroyed the earth: way tougher.
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The Best We Can
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Carrie Vaughn
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First contact was supposed to change the course of human history. But it turns out, you still have to go to work the next morning.
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Old Dead Futures
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Tina Connolly
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In "Old Dead Futures," a young boy's ability to change the future makes him valuable to the government. But that same ability keeps him trapped in a wheelchair and at the mercy of those who would...
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Homecoming
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Susan Palwick
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Homecoming, by Susan Palwick, is a dark fantasy novelette about a young girl on the cusp of womanhood who yearns to leave her village and go to sea with her best friend, a boy about her...
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The Ministry of Changes
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Marissa Lingen
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The War is endless. It's time that's scarce.
A Tor.Com original.
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Burning Girls
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Veronica Schanoes
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Shirley Jackson Award Winner: Novella, 2013
A Nebula Award finalist"Burning Girls", by Veronica Schanoes, is a fascinating dark fantasy...
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Porn & Revolution in the Peaceable Kingdom
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Micaela Morrissette
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In a possible far future animals have taken over and democratized the world where humans once ruled. Tim, a lonely slime mold, is worried about his human pet Mimi and her recent animal urges. He...
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A Visit to the House on Terminal Hill
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Elizabeth Knox
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Tom Teal and Albert Barnes are government employees tasked with visiting a hard-to-reach house and convincing its inhabitant, a member of the Zarene family that controls the whole valley, that a...
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A Window or a Small Box
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Jedediah Berry
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"A Window or a Small Box," by Jedediah Berry, is a charming and weird contemporary novelette of magic realism about a couple about to get married who find themselves on the run from "goons" in an...
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Super Bass
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Kai Ashante Wilson
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Gian returns to Sea-john from the Kingdom's wars certain that he has skills beyond killing, death and destruction. He needs to prove to himself that love is just as strong, if not stronger, than...
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Fire Above, Fire Below
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Garth Nix
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"Fire Above, Fire Below" is a Tor.com Original short story from bestselling fantasy author Garth Nix (Abhorsen Trilogy), concerning the crisis caused by the dying of a dragon living below...
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Jack of Coins
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Christopher Rowe
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Jack of Coins, by Christopher Rowe, is about a strange, amnesiac man who is befriended by a rebellious group of teenagers living in a repressive city.At the...
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We Have Always Lived on Mars
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Cecil Castellucci
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Nina, one of the few descendants of human colony on Mars that was abandoned by Earth, is surprised to discover that she can breathe the toxic atmosphere of the Martian surface. The crew, thinking...
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The Ink Readers of Doi Saket
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Thomas Olde Heuvelt
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People send their dreams and wishes floating down the Mae Ping River with the hope that those dreams will be captured, read and come true. It is a surprise what some wish for and why. One can never...
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Do Not Touch
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Prudence Shen
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Lane doesn't understand why people have such a hard time following directions. All these paintings are clearly marked "DO NOT TOUCH" for a reason.
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Rag and Bone
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Priya Sharma
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Rag and Bone, by Priya Sharma, is about Tom, who buys unwanted household items and scavenges other materials (including bones) and resells them in an alternative 19th century Liverpool in which the...
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Backscatter
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Gregory Benford
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She was cold, hurt, and doomed, but otherwise reasonably cheery.
Life might emerge under the most unlikely conditions...or in the last extremity. From the author of the "Galactic...
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The Running of the Bulls
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Harry Turtledove
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There's what we know...and what we assume.
Running of the Bulls, a Tor.Com Original from fantasy and science fiction master Harry Turtledove.
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The Hanging Game
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Helen Marshall
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Sometimes a game, even a sacred game, can have far-reaching consequences. In bear country young Skye learns just how far she is willing to go to play the game properly in order carry on the traditions...
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The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere
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John Chu
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In the near future water falls from the sky whenever someone lies (either a mist or a torrential flood depending on the intensity of the lie). This makes life difficult for Matt as he maneuvers the...
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Angel Season
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J.T. Petty
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Jeremy's girlfriend is pregnant, and he returns home to the mountains to tell his drunken, ne'er-do-well father. The only thing Jeremy's dad was ever good at was hunting angels, a dangerous pursuit...
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Last Train to Jubilee Bay
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Kali Wallace
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After the sickness and quarantine almost destroyed the city, the traders arrived creeping out from the sea to live off the memories of those people left behind; getting them addicted to the serum...
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Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2012 Edition
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Edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Liz Gorinsky, and David G. Hartwell, with stories by Elizabeth Bear, Adam Troy Castro, Paul Cornell, Kathryn Cramer, Brit Mandelo, Pat Murphy, Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick, Rachel Swirsky, and Gene Wolfe
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A collection of some of the best original short fiction published on Tor.com in 2012. Includes stories by Elizabeth Bear, Adam Troy Castro, Paul Cornell, Kathryn Cramer, Brit Mandelo, Pat...
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Am I Free To Go?
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Kathryn Cramer
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The line between utopia and dystopia...is, often, who you are. Or who your neighbors think you are.
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The Finite Canvas
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Brit Mandelo
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We are marked by what we have been. And erasing either of those can have unpredictable consequences...
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The Ghosts of Christmas
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Paul Cornell
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Which is harder: seeing your own future -- or truly knowing your past? A science fiction tale of Christmases past and yet to come.
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How to Make a Triffid
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Kelly Lagor
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A chilling tale of science, science fiction, and how we break.
"Promising work from this first-time author. The author makes good use of the science in the story."--Locus
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Wild Things
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A.M. Dellamonica
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A tasty tale from the world of the A.M. Dellamonica's Blue Magic series, featuring Astrid Lethewood, to tickle a reader's fancy.
Ah, love. A many splendored thing. Here is a rather...
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Jacks and Queens at the Green Mill
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Marie Rutkoski
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Few know that the Great Chicago Fire was started deliberately, as a genocide of deadly creatures called Shades. Fewer still know that they didn't die, not quite...but one human will confront the...
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The Commonplace Book
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Jacob Clifton
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The first piece of short fiction by popular Television Without Pity writer Jacob Clifton is like nothing we've ever read, a piece of postmodern steampunk encompassing past, present, and future all...
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A Tall Tail
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Charles Stross
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From the author of Rule 34 and Halting State, a tale of deception, engineering, and the most unlikely rocket propulsion technology imaginable.
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Men Who Wish to Drown
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Elizabeth Fama
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From the Falmouth Historical Society Collection
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Portrait of Lisane da Patagnia
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Rachel Swirsky
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The line between art and magic is a treacherous thing.
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Faster Gun
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Elizabeth Bear
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It's hundreds of miles from the nearest ocean, and a hundred times too big to be a ship. It looks like nothing anyone ever saw. And it's crashed just outside Tombstone with something alive inside....
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The Cairn in Slater Woods
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Gina Rosati
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Dylan has just moved to New Hampshire to live in a house his family has inherited from a great aunt he's never met. There he meets his cousin, a bully who resents Dylan's family, and a mysterious...
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Brother. Prince. Snake.
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Cecil Castellucci
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A retelling of the Prince Lindwurm fairy tale, Brother Prince Snake is a story of love, sibling rivalry, and how a monster became King.
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Shadow War of the Night Dragons, Book One: The Dead City: Prologue
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John Scalzi
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Old Man's War author John Scalzi's sendup of the heroic fantasy genre, now a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story.At the Publisher's request, this...
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About Fairies
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Pat Murphy
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Some things happen whether or not you clap your hands.
Enjoy this original short story by author Pat Murphy. In "About Fairies," Jennifer and her co-workers create fairy lands for...
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At the Foot of the Lighthouse
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Erin Hoffman
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I am American. We are all Americans.
The year is 1942. A Japanese-American girl's life is turned upside down by Executive Order 9066, and she... -
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On 20468 Petercook
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Andy Duncan
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To the Fringe…and Beyond.
A Tor.Com Original.
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Mother, Crone, Maiden
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Cat Hellisen
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Knowing the future is not about knowing the future. It's about knowing which path to take.
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The Palencar Project
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David G. Hartwell, ed.
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Five stories inspired by the same painting. Contributors include Gene Wolfe, L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Gregory Benford, Michael Swanwick, and James Morrow.
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Among the Silvering Herd
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A.M. Dellamonica
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For centuries, the island nation of Redcap has been obligated to pay tribute to the powerful nation of Sylvanna. Suffering under the heavy burden of the contract that by rights should be declared...
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If Dragon's Mass Eve Be Cold And Clear
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Ken Scholes
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Do you believe in Santa? And in his terrible swift sword?
A Tor.Com original.
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Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2011 Edition
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Edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Liz Gorinsky, with stories by Charlie Jane Anders, James Alan Gardner, Yoon Ha Lee, Nnedi Okorafor, Paul Park, Matthew Sanborn Smith, Michael Swanwick and Harry Turtledove
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A collection of some of the best original short fiction published on Tor.com in 2011. Includes stories by Charlie Jane Anders, James Allan Gardner, Yoon Ha Lee, Nnedi Okorafor, Paul Park,...
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Uncle Flower's Homecoming Waltz
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Marissa K. Lingen
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Swift, Brutal Retaliation
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Meghan McCarron
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A Clean Sweep With All the Trimmings
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James Alan Gardner
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Award-winning science fiction author James Alan Gardner brings us Damon Runyon-esque tale of courteous guys, bulletproof dolls, and the fedora-clad spacemen that bring them together.
"Entertaining."--Locus
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Ghost Hedgehog
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Nina Kiriki Hoffman
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With all the places ghosts could go, why do they keep hanging around me?
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Hello, Moto
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Nnedi Okorafor
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There is witchcraft in science and a science to witchcraft. Both will conspire against you eventually.
Nnedi Okorafor's "Hello, Moto" has been adapted by C.J. Obasi into the short film...
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Grace Immaculate
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A Tor.Com Original
Gregory Benford
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A Tor.com original, Nebula Award-winning author Gregory Benford's Grace Immaculate is the awe-inspiring story of first contact--and the beginning of something more.
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Lee at the Alamo
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Harry Turtledove
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Harry Turtledove, author of perhaps the most famous alternate-history novel about Robert E. Lee (The Guns of the South, 1992), here returns with Lee at the Alamo, a look...
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A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel
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Yoon Ha Lee
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Among the universe's civilizations, some conceive of the journey between stars as the sailing of bright ships, and others as tunneling through the crevices of night. Some look upon their far-voyaging...
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The Dala Horse
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Michael Swanwick
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Long after the wars, there are things abroad in the world—things more than human. And they have scores to settle with one another.
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Earth Hour
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Ken MacLeod
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Six Months, Three Days
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A Tor.Com Original
Charlie Jane Anders
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Doug and Judy have both had a secret power all their life. Judy can see every possible future, branching out from each moment like infinite trees. Doug can also see the future, but for him, it's...
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Time Considered as a Series of Thermite Burns in No Particular Order
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Damien Broderick
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Time travel, changing history, forestalling atrocities: it's not a job for the weak. For one thing, the things people in the future wear…
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The Iron Shirts
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Michael Flynn
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In a world in which horses survived to flourish in 13th-century America, the wars and rivalries of thirteenth-century Ireland have new players: the mysterious warriors from across the Western Sea,...
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Our Candidate
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Robert Reed
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All politics is local. Even while the world is collapsing.
A Tor.Com original story.
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Shtetl Days
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Harry Turtledove
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Professional actors Veit Harlan and his wife Kristi are happy citizens of the prosperous, triumphant Reich. It's been over a century since the War of Retribution cleaned up Europe, long enough that...
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The Trains That Climb the Winter Tree
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Michael Swanwick and Eileen Gunn
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When the elves come out of the mirrors one Christmas, they send Sasha on a harrowing train trip to get back a brother she never knew she had.
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Six Tor.com Science Fiction & Fantasy Stories from the 2010 Locus Recommended Reading List
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Various Authors
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Tor.com is proud that six of our original offerings from 2010 were included among this year's Locus recommendations, and in commemoration of that, here are all six of those stories....
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Though Smoke Shall Hide the Sun
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Brit Mandelo
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The goverment doesn't usually hire vampires, but they're willing to make an exception for Hilde -- after all, they're already got pyromancer Cal on the payroll. What could go wrong?
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The Ruined Queen of Harvest World
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Damien Broderick
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A story for everyone who ever loved the work of the late, great SF writer Cordwainer Smith.
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Steampunk Quartet
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Eileen Gunn
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Using the winners of a charity auction as characters, Eileen Gunn riffs on four formative steampunk books in this mini-collection comprised of "A Different Engine," "Day After the Cooters," "The...
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Two Stories
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Ken Scholes and Jay Lake
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Charlie is dealing with complicated grief, and even his therabot is out of ideas. But the back-alley grief counsellors might have something to help: it looks like blue asparagus, and it's called...
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The Next Invasion
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Robert Reed
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The next invasion won't be little green men landing their spaceship in the National Mall. It will start somewhere quiet, like a dark road at night…
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Good Night, Moon
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Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling
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Carlo Morse and Jimmy Ganzer pioneered dream-fabbing, but these days people only want to close their eyes to trashy stuff -- not the mention the kids and their fancy imported tech. It's a good thing...
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Clockwork Fairies
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A Tor.Com Original
Cat Rambo
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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?
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Sweetheart
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A Tor.Com Original
Abbi Mei Otis
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Paxton and the neighbor's kid are inseparable—sweethearts, even, and Paxton barely six. He doesn't mind her antennae and clicking mandibles at all.
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The Speed of Time
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A Tor.Com Original
Jay Lake
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Strange things are happening in deep space, and then closer to home, and then closer; someone has pulled the plug on the universe.
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Zeppelin City
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A Tor.Com Original
Michael Swanwick and Eileen Gunn
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Will Radio Jones's invention save the day? Can Amelia Spindizzy outfly all competition and outsmart the brains in jars?
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Preparations
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Mark Mills
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Ronald T. Turner is prepared for anything. And the zombies are prepared for him.
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The Star and the Rockets
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Harry Turtledove
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True story: in 1954, Joe Baumann hit 72 home runs for the Roswell Rockets, the most exciting thing to happen to Roswell since the alien landing. Not to imply a causal relationship. Well, maybe a...
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The Fermi Paradox is Our Business Model
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A Tor.Com Original
Charlie Jane Anders
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A humorous, sci-fi tale from the award-winning author of All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders's "The Fermi Paradox," a Tor.com Original
Jon and Toku travel...
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What Makes a River
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A Tor.Com Original
Deborah Coates
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There's a Thing in Lake Michigan and it's after Beth's roommate. Beth wants someone else to take care of it. But when no one steps up, not even the mysterious Paul, who does this kind of thing for...
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The Strange Case of Mr. Salad Monday
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G.D. Falksen
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Inspector Wilde is a rabid fan of tit-tat, the broadsheet arguments that get printed several times a day; the Chief Inspector thinks he's an idiot, but Wilde's strange reading habits may just crack...
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Farewell Performance
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A Tor.Com Original
Nick Mamatas
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Jaskey has a flashlight, a captive audience, and a story about the end of the world -- what could be better?
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The Horrid Glory of Its Wings
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Elizabeth Bear
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There's a harpy with bronze wings living in the dumpster behind Desiree's building. She's ugly and she eats garbage, but she has a little kingdom back there. Desiree wants something of her own, too...
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The President's Brain is Missing
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John Scalzi
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The question is, how can you tell the President's brain is missing? And are we sure we need it back?
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A Stroke of Dumb Luck
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Shiloh Walker
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When a teenaged girl goes missing, her mother calls Kit Colbana, scion of an ancient line of warriors -- unfortunately, Kit's heritage doesn't impress the local wererats much. They're determined...
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Fare Thee Well
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A Tor.Com Original
Cathy Clamp
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What should be a simple summer internship in the county morgue is transformed into the most unusual experience of Lia Thantos's life when she unthinkingly violates ancient protocols and summons Charon,...
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The Cockroach Hat
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A Tor.Com Original
Terry Bisson
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When Sam Gregory wakes up to find he has turned into a big cockroach, he is understandably dismayed. Luckily, the condition appears to be a little contagious.
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The Courtship of the Queen
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Bruce McAllister
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Some boys play baseball or computer games, but Brian keeps an army of shells in their dresser drawers. And every night, he fights for the honor of the Queen Conch and wears the marks of battle to...
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Four Horsemen, at Their Leisure
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Richard Parks
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What's a horseman of the Apocalypse to do when the Earth has been picked bare, scoured clean, and burned black? Perhaps a spot of...gardening?
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The Final Now
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A Tor.Com Original
Gregory Benford
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Once upon a moment, the One spoke to He and She, and learned that infinity and eternity are slippery concepts. At best. Don't miss Gregory Benford's mindbending short story The Final Now, a...
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Vilcabamba
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A Tor.Com Original
Harry Turtledove
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Harris Moffatt III, President of the Free United States and Prime Minister of Canada, has never seen Washington, D.C.; it belongs to the Krolp now, along with ninety percent of everything. All he...
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Silver Linings
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A Tor.Com Original
Tim Pratt
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Even ordinarily, cloudmining can be dangerous -- those silver linings are heavy and potentially lethal -- but it's nothing compared being a cloudminer on the run.
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The Monster's Million Faces
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Rachel Swirsky
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The mind has an amazing ability to heal itself, especially given the newest therapies, but Aaron's mind just won't cooperate. And neither will… he.
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Making My Entrance Again With My Usual Flair
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Ken Scholes
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When an ex-clown tries to go into the insurance business, he gets into monkey business instead.
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Beauty Belongs to the Flowers
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Matthew Sanborn Smith
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In Miho's world, nanos, plastic surgery, and robot girlfriends can fix just about anything…or break it.
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The Nostalgist
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Daniel H. Wilson
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With EyesTM and EarsTM, everything can look and sound just fine, just like it used to be; it's quite a shock when they break down, though.
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The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles
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Kij Johnson
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When a fire destroys her home and scatters her colony, Small Cat sets out to find the home of her ancestor, the Cat From the North, and to make her own name along the way.
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The House That George Built
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Harry Turtledove
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Harry Turtledove's The House That George Built is an atonishing short story set in an alternative world, a Tor.com Original
One February morning, the famous newspaperman...
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The City Quiet as Death
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Steven Utley and Michael Bishop
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Between the incessant music of the stars and the spectre of a giant squid caught inside a locket ball, it is difficult for Don Horacio to maintain a restful mind.
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Last Son of Tomorrow
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Greg Van Eekhout
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What is there to do, when you have the power to do anything? John can fly, he can see through solid objects, he can take over the world and give it back again, but what he's looking for is something...
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Bugs in the Arroyo
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A Tor.Com Original
Steven Gould
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The bugs eat metal and leave people and animals alone -- unless you crush one, and then they'll swarm and destroy everything they touch. When Kimball comes upon twelve-year-old Thayet, she's been...
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We Haven't Got There Yet
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Harry Turtledove
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William Shakespeare is mightily out of sorts -- every scribbling wagtail cullion in London is shamelessly pilfering his ideas, and this new fellow is the cheekiest of all. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern...
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The Film-makers of Mars
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Geoff Ryman
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The discovery of forty reels of a lost 1911 movie adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars, impossibly well-made and yet ineluctably old, is…weird. But for the journalist...
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Jack and the Aktuals, or, Physical Applications of Transfinite Set Theory
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Rudy Rucker
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Like many other stories and novels by Rudy Rucker, "Jack and the Aktuals" is a wild and wooly dramatization of certain principles of higher mathematics, with added talking animals, sentient pencils,...
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Catch 'Em in the Act
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A Tor.Com Original
Terry Bisson
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Lou has a magic box. It makes people do things they normally wouldn't. And Lou likes to watch.
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The Girl Who Sang Rose Madder
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Elizabeth Bear
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In art as in life, you've got to change in order to live. Even when your audience—and maybe your friends—thinks it would be great if you stayed the same forever. In some cases, literally forever.
The...
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Eros, Philia, Agape
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Rachel Swirsky
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Originally published on Tor.com, Rachel Swirsky's contemporary tale of love in all its forms—and of one robot's quest to know it, and himself, on his own terms—is a finalist for the 2010 Hugo...
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First Flight
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Mary Robinette Kowal
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The past is another country, in Mary Robinette Kowal's Tor.com tale of time travel and aviation history. "First Flight" is a finalist for the 2010 Locus Award.
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A Memory of Wind
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Rachel Swirsky
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The heroes are eager to sail to Troy for war, but the wind is still. To fill their sails and set out, they must sacrifice Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia—and how does a human girl become the wind?...
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