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Walter Mosley's talent knows no bounds. Merge and Disciple are but two of six fragments in the Crosstown to Oblivion short novels in which Mosley entertainingly explores life's cosmic questions. From life's meaning to the nature of good and evil, these tales take us on speculative journeys beyond the reality we have come to know. In each tale someone in our world today is given insight into these long pondered mysteries. But, how would the world really...
22) Totem Poles
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The saucer aliens are here. They're healing the planet. They've got to be stopped.
23) Breakwater
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Breakwater by Simon Bestwick is a science fiction novelette about an engineer, who, with her late, marine biologist husband, designed an underwater research platform, and is caught up in the war between humans and mysterious creatures beneath the seas that are destroying coastal cities around the world.
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"Yellow and the Perception of Reality" by Maureen McHugh is a science fiction story about a woman who delves into the mystery of why and how her twin sister, a physicist, has been brain damaged in a lab accident in which two of her colleagues died.
I wear yellow when I go to see my sister. There's not a lot of yellow at the rehab facility; it's all calm blues and neutrals. I like yellow-it looks good on me-but I wear it because Wanda is smart and...
25) Desuetude
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As a hunter, Val is an elite in her field. The cities need to expand. The wilderness and animals are hostile to human life. Val's job is to go in and eliminate the dangerous beasts.
Technological selection is coming. There is only so much land left. Where there were once vast open spaces, there are now never-ending streets. Where there was once plant life, there are now factories and rows of buildings. Progress knows no mercy.
Val is aware of...
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Excerpt: "One day you were young, and you too wanted to write forecasts; and you too found that to envisage the future was arduous, that old ways of thinking and status quo ante judgments of value imposed themselves upon your mind, and made you despair of the true estimate and the adequate phrase. And you found that, however unclouded your own faculty of prognostication, you searched in vain for the magic touch which would interpret the future for...
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The people of Gaant are telepaths. The people of Enith are not. The two countries have been at war for decades, but now peace has fallen, and Calla of Enith seeks to renew an unlikely friendship with Gaantish officer Valk over an even more unlikely game of chess, in Carrie Vaughn's novella That Game We Played During The War.
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This book presents 37 stories. These pieces may be short, but these stories will excite you, challenge you, and even threaten your current way of thinking as they look into the future of humanity, their lives and future problems. Enter this space and let your imagination run wild. For this edition, the author attempts to answer the fundamental questions of cosmology. Technical words have been kept to a minimum, but essential terms are explained in...
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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year: In a dystopian future New York, a girl's diary chronicles her life as society begins to crumble around her. Until recently, Lola Hart's biggest problem was her annoying little sister. Now the twelve-year-old girl's comfortable life is slowly falling apart. Her mother is a teacher, but she's lost her job. Her father is a writer, but no one is buying his scripts. When the family can no longer afford either...
30) Our Coming World
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The story is set in an Utopia set on a Mars whose long-lived inhabitants, benefiting from a healthy socialist regime much in contrast with the terrible state of post-World War Two Earth, kidnap the crew of a B-29 bomber and teach them things it is good to know.
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Ao Laiei does not know what happened to the great revolutionary war hero Uroie Aei since she resurrected him, but she has long intended to find out. Finally, a clue from an unlikely information source--the confusing art of dream-diving--enables her to be present for a surprising strike against an academic aligned with the revolutionary government. Laiei quickly discovers that it is not the physical target she is concerned with, but his field of study,...
32) Ecdysis
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Our young narrator has many skins. Shedding and taking on new ones help, them to find their way back home after leaving to avoid more tragedies and assaults. But, what price do they have to pay to acquire the one true skin that fits the best?
33) Genesis: A Novel
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A thought-provoking tale of the future set on an isolated island fortress. Anax thinks she knows history. She has studied the stories of the distant twenty-first century very diligently. Her grueling all-day examination has just begun, and if she passes, she'll be admitted into the Academy-the elite governing institution of her utopian society. But Anax is about to discover that for all her learning, the history she's been taught isn't the whole story....
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Dive back into the world of The Institute in this gripping sequel to The Orphan Chronicles: Genesis… Ananya Patel is a young woman with extraordinary abilities. Her keen instincts for sensing danger have been enhanced and honed during her upbringing at The Institute, a clandestine underwater research facility established and funded by billionaire philanthropist, Gregory Cornelius. In The Orphan Chronicles: Evolution, the time has come for Ananya...
35) The Guile
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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...in Ian McDonald's Tor.com Original short story The Guile.
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The stunning conclusion to the saga of a doomed civilization and the heroes who fight to save it. In an empire on the brink of implosion, the Society of the Phoenix is the only alternative to catastrophe, yet it is regarded by the rulers of the Concord as treasonable and a greater threat than the ominous rumblings of a Bond uprising. The Phoenix is led by Alex Ransom, once the first born of the House of DeKoven Woolf, but Commander Ransom now lies...
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"Her Scales Shine Like Music" by Rajnar Vajra is a moving science fiction novelette about an encounter and budding relationship between two aliens, one human, who are the only living creatures occupying a planet in deep space. The human is assigned to guard a valuable find, while his colleagues leave, to file a report with the company that hired them.
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38) The Square
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"You are hereby banished from the North American continent. Should you reenter it, you will be executed upon recognition. Within this facility, you have the right to life and to defend that life, unto your death."
These are the last words spoken to the exiles banished to the Square, a massive penal colony encompassing the western triangle of what was once the state of Texas. Paxton Stephens, a disgraced and exiled scientist, gave the authoritarian...
39) Elom
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Fire from the Goddess and the meat and furs of the mammoth are all that the People need to live. It is a harsh life but a good one and it is one that all cherish.
Young Geerna knows that the time has come for her to become a woman and take up the tasks to keep her people safe. She waits in the Awakening Place, fearful and hopeful as her ordeals come to an end. Then, on the eve of her Womanhood, a shining light descends upon her and her world is torn...
40) Bestowal
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We were created by the Bestower, and placed on the world to rid it of its native life, unpleasing to Him. He gave us the living Bestowed to sustain us and replace what was there before. Thus say the priests, but now that myth is questioned: Native life has evolved; why not ourselves and the Bestowed that came with us? Are not all native, and necessary for survival? The evidence is contentious: Exterminate, or conserve? There is increasing dissension...
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