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Red Leather Tassels [MultiFormat]
by Benjamin Rosenbaum
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A surreal, comic fable about love, sex, freedom, and a very wacky immortal woodpecker. 2003
Words: 1497 - Reading Time: 4-5 min.
Category: Fantasy
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The Ant King and Other Stories [MultiFormat]
by Benjamin Rosenbaum
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A dazzling postmodern debut collection of pulp and surreal fictions spanning the weirdest corners of literature and science fiction. The skill and strangeness on display in The Ant King and Other Stories are comparable to the debuts of Ted Chiang, Kelly Link, and Jonathan Lethem. These are stories that explore family, loyalty, power, and memory: a writer of alternate histories defends his patron's zeppelin against assassins and pirates; a woman transforms into hundreds of gumballs; an emancipate... more info>> 2008 Hugo Award Nominee, Nebula Award(R) Nominee
Words: 62552 - Reading Time: 178-250 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Embracing-The-New [MultiFormat]
by Benjamin Rosenbaum
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Vru is a poor youngest son with only five Ghennungs to carry his inherited memories, but he is apprenticed to the greatest godcarver of the Godly, Khancriterquee. When Khancriterquee chooses him to create a new God, it is almost too much honor to believe. But then Vru begins to have doubts... 2004 Nebula Award(R) Finalist
Words: 3524 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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The Ant King: A California Fairy Tale [MultiFormat]
by Benjamin Rosenbaum
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It took a while for Stan to get over his girlfriend Shelia turning into a cloud of yellow gumballs--enough to found a roaring e-Commerce startup and take it to IPO. But his dreams continue to haunt him--dreams of Sheila in the clutches of the Ant King. This surreal romance is a madcap satire of the Internet boom years, video games, fairy tales, love, and gumballs. 2001
Words: 6813 - Reading Time: 19-27 min.
Category: Fantasy
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The Book of Jashar [MultiFormat]
by Benjamin Rosenbaum
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A codex unearthed among the Dead Sea Scrolls reveals a missing part of the Bible, the true story behind the events of Kings and Chronicles: of David, Abigail, and Jonathan, and how their wit and loyalty were put to the test by Mezipatheh, vampire of the Philistines. 2003
Words: 3369 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Droplet [MultiFormat]
by Benjamin Rosenbaum
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Shar and Narra are Quantegral Lovergirls, built long ago for pleasure and servitude. Before their maker vanished into a black hole, he gave them the keys to themselves. Now the galaxy is emptied out, and Shar and Narra only have each other--until they find the world called Droplet, which will test their love. 2002
Words: 6162 - Reading Time: 17-24 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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The City of Peace [MultiFormat]
by Benjamin Rosenbaum
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In a lawless country, where men fought over wells and hid their women, the City of Peace arose--home of serenity, jewel of the world, prey of great empires... 2003
Words: 479 - Reading Time: 1-1 min.
Category: Fantasy
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The Valley of Giants [MultiFormat]
by Benjamin Rosenbaum
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The young died in the war, and the old men have been taken away for re-education. Into the city of grandmothers comes a woman with a tale of a valley of giants. A fable of war, loss, and longing for home, in the tradition of Borges, Calvino, Emschwiller, and Le Guin. 2004
Words: 1572 - Reading Time: 4-6 min.
Category: Fantasy
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The Death Trap of Dr. Nefario [MultiFormat]
by Benjamin Rosenbaum
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One of Dr. Goodman's clients calls at 3 a.m.--Dick, a celebrity crimefighter, calling from inside a death trap involving piranhas. Mrs. Goodman isn't happy about the interruption, Dick is depressed by memories from his past, and Dr. Nefario has nefarious plans for the city. Can truth, justice and psychiatry triumph once more? 2003
Words: 2264 - Reading Time: 6-9 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Biographical Notes to 'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, With Air-Planes' by Benjamin Rosenbaum [MultiFormat]
by Benjamin Rosenbaum
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The Israelite plausible fabulist Benjamin Rosenbaum is mulling over his latest commission--a story set in a world without zeppelins--when he meets Prem Ramasson, prince of Ultima Thule, and receives another offer. An impovershed practitioner of a half-despised art in the balkanized and oppressed lands south of the Frankish and Athapascan Moeity cannot take lightly patronage from a citizen of the Aryan Raj--but Rosenbaum has no idea what he's getting into by accepting. Part tale of high adventure... more info>> 2004 Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 7745 - Reading Time: 22-30 min.
Category: Alternate History
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Falling [MultiFormat]
by Benjamin Rosenbaum
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A love story of sorts, in the post-capitalist spiderweb hypercity of Frankfurt in the 2050s. 2005
Words: 779 - Reading Time: 2-3 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Night Waking [MultiFormat]
by Benjamin Rosenbaum
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A sweet and sinister story of fear, family, and doing your best. 2004
Words: 752 - Reading Time: 2-3 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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On the Cliff by the River [MultiFormat]
by Benjamin Rosenbaum
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The tale goes like this--at the edge of a jungle, a woman tries to outsmart a tiger to save her child. But to whom is the tale told? 2002
Words: 1787 - Reading Time: 5-7 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Orphans [MultiFormat]
by Benjamin Rosenbaum
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A woman befriends an elephant wandering the streets of her city, and begins a powerful and unsettling relationship. 2005
Words: 1483 - Reading Time: 4-5 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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The House Beyond Your Sky [MultiFormat]
by Benjamin Rosenbaum
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Hugo award nominee from Benjamin Rosenbaum, originally published in the September 2006 issue of Strange Horizons. 2006 Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 3816 - Reading Time: 10-15 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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