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This eighth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features over thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including John Barnes, Elizabeth Bear, C.C. Finlay, Yoon Ha Lee, Kelly Link, Ian McDonald, Seanan McGuire, Vonda N. McIntyre, Geoff Ryman, Catherynne M. Valente, Genevieve Valentine, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Analog, Asimov's, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Meeting Infinity, and other top venues,...
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Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #20 features the best in contemporary and classic mystery fiction, with a great linup of crimes and columns. This is a special All Sherlock Holmes Fiction issue! Here are:
Features:
From Watson's Notebook, by John H. Watson, M. D.
Ask Mrs Hudson, by (Mrs) Martha Hudson
Non Fiction:
Screen of the Crime, by Kim Newman
Sherlock Holmes for Crown and Country, by Dan Andriacco
Fiction:
The Case of the Burnt Song,...
3) Starlings
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"In her first collection, award-winning novelist Jo Walton delivers both subtle legends and reinvented realities. An ancient coin cyber-spies on lovers and thieves. The magic mirror sees all but can do nothing. A cloned savior solves a fanatically-inspired murder. Three Irish siblings thieve treasures with bad poetry and the aid of the Queen of Cats"--Back cover.
4) The Skull
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In The Skull, a convict is offered his freedom if he agrees to travel back in time and kill someone. He learns that the assassination target was the founder of a religious sect that grew in strength and influence from its inception in 1960. Carrying his target's skull so he can identify the religious leader, the convict comes to learn a terrible secret about why he was chosen to find its owner.
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**A Special Collection of books in the Trident Security series and its multiple spinoff series - Volume IIITickle His Fancy: Trident Security Book 8Last man standing…All around him, Brody Evans's Trident Security teammates have fallen in love. Ironically, they'd always thought their charismatic friend would be the first to fall.Fancy Maguire's world was destroyed when a horrific car accident claimed the lives of her husband and unborn child. Three...
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Throughout his career Kornbluth like many science fiction writers of his generation struggled with the issue of art's role in an increasingly technologized and dehumanized society. Did the creative artist, the individual work, have any role in a culture which was increasingly devoted to replication, to the homogenization of audience, to the suppression of irregularity or individuality? Was art in fact necessary or merely a distraction? Kornbluth was...
7) The Gun
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In The Gun, a group of space explorers are shot down above a deserted planet. While some of the crew work on repairing the ship, the remainder set out to investigate the planet. Otherwise unpopulated, they discover the huge gun that shot them down sitting atop a trove of cultural artifacts from a bygone civilization. What harm could come of dismantling the gun and taking a few of the artifacts home with them?
8) Pythias
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Sure, Larry Connaught saved my life—but it was how he did it that forced me to murder him!
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Henry Harris, an army doctor at a garrison on Earth is puzzled by a case of a soldier who returns from the asteroid Y-3, and claims that he's a plant. When several more men return from Y-3, each thinking they're a plant, Harris travels to the asteroid to solve the puzzle. He soon finds out that the soldiers claim that a certain indigenous people on the asteroid called "Pipers", who live in the woods, made them realize that they're plants. Harris ventures...
10) The Defenders
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In The Defenders, the Soviet and American survivors of a nuclear holocaust have created vast underground tunnels, so as to continue the war on the surface via remote control robots. When a robot from the surface is found not to be radioactive, a team of American scientists returns topside to investigate this anomaly. Expecting to see massive devastation, the scientists are unprepared for the shocking truth that awaits them.
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In The Crystal Crypt, Earth and Mars are poised on the verge of war. On the last spaceship to leave Mars for Earth, law enforcement officials are looking for three fugitives who somehow made a great Martian city disappear. Unable to find the perpetrators, the officials allow the ship to disembark for Earth. A businessman named Thacher strikes up a conversation with a young woman and two men who reveal a very interesting secret to him about the mysterious...
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In the Rue Morgue, the jungles of Tarzan, the fables of Aesop, and outer space, the apes in these seventeen fantastic tales boldly go where humans dare not. Including a foreword from Rupert Wyatt, the director of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, this provocative anthology delves into our fascination with and fear of our simian cousins.
“Evil Robot Monkey" introduces a disgruntled chimp implanted with a chip that makes him cleverer
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A masterpiece of stories by H. G. Wells, masterfully tied together by time and place. First, a shop owner named Mr. Cave, enraptured by a crystal egg, struggles to find a way to keep his magical possession... Then we are, taken to a time when cave people struggled to find their place on the planet and keep their lives. The forward to the far future where, in the place the cave people once camped, a young couple's back are, bowed beneath the tyranny...
14) Hidden Charm
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Uncover the dark secrets of a reclusive mystery author on a private island.
Mystery writer JT has hidden away from the world on his private island since he published his first novel. Many fans believe it's because he's strange or eccentric, but the truth is much darker than everyone knows.
After Emma's very public, very nasty breakup with one of Hollywood's hottest actors, she needs a friend to lean on. After hitting it off with JT while filming...
16) Dare to Love
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Audible:Downpour:Apple:Riley was living the dream. Running her own business, being her own boss, and finally moving into her own place. Things couldn't be any better, well, with the exception of catching Carter Miller's attention. If only the sexy man next door would ever make his move. Maybe she'll just have to nudge him along?Carter was in deep. Holding in his feelings for Riley was becoming too difficult. Especially when his brother's wedding was...
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Romance Short Stories: Alpha Billionaire's Nightclub is a collection of three short stories steaming with an international cast of beautiful people, stunning locations, dark storylines, and hot, hot sensual romance!
These are the stories that you will read inside:
Forced Intimacy: A Forbidden Sitter Short Story
A mission I was sure not to come back from had me making deals I'd never made before...
Being a Marine, I was no stranger to danger.
This...
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Premonition. Passion. Courage.Meagan's admission of all she's done, finally pays off for Zane and Elizabeth and the authorities have all they need to fully prosecute her.That fact doesn't help Elizabeth at all. The hit Meagan called out on her is still a go until Zane can issue a public statement, letting the mafia know he wants the hit called off.Even then, that may not be enough to save Elizabeth's life.In her younger years, Elizabeth had recurring...
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Three sexy short reads to tempt your senses!
The Alpha Billionaire's Network is a collection of 3 romance stories with an international cast of beautiful people, stunning locations, dark storylines, and hot, hot sensual romance!
1 - The In-laws: A Dirty News Extra
I'd met my new brother-in-law, Duke, plenty of times before he and my twin
sister, Lila, tied the knot. I could definitely see what my sister saw in that man.
Duke was tall,...