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Water: A History

Wed Oct 9, 2019 9:00am

Original Fiction

The planet of Quányuán is arid to the point of being uninhabitable. 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.

Lev Grossman Is Adapting His Short Story “The Map of Tiny Perfect Things” Into a Movie

Stubby the Rocket

Tue Oct 1, 2019 10:41am

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The Guile

Ian McDonald

Tue May 22, 2018 10:00am

Original Fiction

Edited by: Ellen Datlow

33 Favorites [+]

When an AI that monitors casino gambling in Reno taunts a magician by revealing all his tricks, the magician is determined to exact his revenge.

You Know How the Story Goes

Thomas Olde Heuvelt

Wed Feb 21, 2018 9:00am

Original Fiction

Edited by: Ann VanderMeer

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Horror || It’s the same old story. Take a chance and pick up a hitchhiker...

A Moment in a Life: Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Day Before the Revolution”

Jo Walton

Thu Sep 7, 2017 9:00am

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The Library of Lost Things

Matthew Bright

Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:00am

Original Fiction

Edited by: Ann VanderMeer

57 Favorites [+]

Fantasy || Welcome to the Library of Lost Things, where the shelves are stuffed with books that have fallen through the cracks—from volumes of lovelorn teenage poetry to famous works of literature long destroyed or lost. They’re all here, pulled from history and watched over by the Librarian, curated by the Collectors, nibbled on by the rats. Filed away, never to be read. At least, until Thomas, the boy with the secret, comes to the Library.

These Deathless Bones

Cassandra Khaw

Wed Jul 26, 2017 9:00am

Original Fiction

Edited by: Ellen Datlow

78 Favorites [+]

Horror || A horror tale about the Witch Bride, second wife of a King, and the discord between her and her young stepson.

The Martian Obelisk

Linda Nagata

Wed Jul 19, 2017 9:00am

Original Fiction

Edited by: Ellen Datlow

66 Favorites [+]

Science Fiction || A powerful science fiction story about an architect on Earth commissioned to create (via long distance) a masterwork with materials from the last abandoned Martian colony, a monument that will last thousands of years longer than Earth, which is dying.

The White-Throated Transmigrant

E. Lily Yu

Wed Jun 21, 2017 9:00am

Original Fiction

Edited by: Marco Palmieri

26 Favorites [+]

Dark Fantasy, Fantasy || After a bird fatally collides with her car, a troubled young woman's life changes irrevocably.

eyes I dare not meet in dreams

Sunny Moraine

Wed Jun 14, 2017 9:00am

Original Fiction

Edited by: Marco Palmieri

44 Favorites [+]

Dark Fantasy, Fantasy || Undead girls begin re-entering the world of the living, emerging from refrigerators.

Shape Without Form, Shade Without Color

Sunny Moraine

Wed May 31, 2017 9:00am

Original Fiction

Edited by: Marco Palmieri

11 Favorites [+]

Dark Fantasy, Fantasy || Haunted by starlings in the dark, a young woman spirals into an altered state of consciousness.

Red

Ramsey Shehadeh

Wed May 24, 2017 9:00am

Original Fiction

Edited by: Ann VanderMeer

9 Favorites [+]

Contemporary Fantasy, Fantasy || A young man grieving for his lost sister steps into the world of their favorite board game, in a desperate attempt to find her.

Sanctuary

Allen Steele

Wed May 17, 2017 9:00am

Original Fiction

Edited by: Jonathan Strahan

32 Favorites [+]

Hard Science Fiction, Science Fiction || An edge of your seat hard SF adventure as colonists on a new world find that nothing is what they expected and that travelling to a distant star is far more dangerous than they’d ever imagined...