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She Was There for Him the Last Time [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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She haunted him through his life and through the ages. She was always there in one manifestation or another, both science fictional and overflowing with the past. [Author comment: This story-poem is like my "Pavane for a Cyber-Princess" (also available from Fictionwise) in that it is dense and full of allusions. In this case, Andrew Joron's afterward, reprinted from the original edition, does much to illuminate its intent. Note that due to the limitations of eBooks, in particular handheld reader... more info>> 2002
Words: 1433 - Reading Time: 4-5 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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The Hippies Go to Sur [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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Joshua had a vision. Without coyness, pretense, or the slightest reservation, he saw all of them going to bed together. In this way they would prove their freedom from the defunct morality and heighten their experience of life. 1975
Words: 2725 - Reading Time: 7-10 min.
Category: Humor
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Sunday Review [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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Juan Luis Obregon was perhaps the greatest Portuguese novelist of the 20th century. If only he hadn't taken a job as a coat tree, there is no telling what masterpieces he might have created. 1978
Words: 933 - Reading Time: 2-3 min.
Category: Humor
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The Skin Trade [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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Daniel Kirby was a true artist, dedicated and single-minded. He would allow nothing to stand in the way of his creations. 1983
Words: 1007 - Reading Time: 2-4 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Length, Breath, and Plot [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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A character, bored and unrealized by the stereotypes it is forced to assume, appeals to an author for something more serious. [Author Comment: This story could be more appropriately categorized as slipstream or experimental than as fantasy.] 1983
Words: 870 - Reading Time: 2-3 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Lovers, Keepers [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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A tale of love lost and memory replayed. 1988
Words: 882 - Reading Time: 2-3 min.
Category: Mainstream
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Etiquette With Your Robot Wife and Thirty More SF/F/H Lists [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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A darkly humorous collection of 31 lists, reprinted from the pages of Asimov's SF Magazine, Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, Talebones, Inhuman, Mythic Delirium, Dreams and Nightmares, Wicked Hollow, and other genre publications. Includes: "Signs Your Parents Are Being Replace by Automatons," "What to Expect and Not from an Interstellar Voyage," "Advice on Dealing with Your Teenage Werewolf Son," "Reasons the Druids Did Not Survive," "Advice on Meeting the Devil in Hell," and more. 2005 Strange Horizons Readers' Choice Award Runner-up, Asimov's Reader's Choice Award Winner
Words: 4272 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
Category: Humor
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We Are The Dark [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston & Marge Simon
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They were nameless and lost in the dark tunnels of an endless maze. They were not sure if it was all a dream, or they had been condemned to this existence for sins they had forgotten. Then it seemed that their rescue could be at hand. [Author Warning: A few readers have found the vision rendered by this story so effectively depressing, they were sorry they read it.) 2002
Words: 1200 - Reading Time: 3-4 min.
Category: Horror
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Sacrificial Blood [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston & Lee Ballantine
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Revan had spent the night killing demons. Fresh demon blood stained the walls and reddened the well of the village. With dawn, as his dream had foretold, the young girl came to him. Revan knew he must sacrifice her and kill again. 2002
Words: 2579 - Reading Time: 7-10 min.
Category: Fantasy
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South Coast [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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Harry hadn't meant to slap the woman hard enough to kill her. Only to shut her up so she would stop insulting him. It was all a terrible mistake. And now the body had disappeared. 1988
Words: 1487 - Reading Time: 4-5 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Masque of Dreams: Tales of Illusion and Identity [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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The masques of 17th century Europe presented dramatic entertainments based on mythic themes and enhanced by lavish costumes and sets. The entertainments in Bruce Boston's Masque of Dreams fashion myths of their own and are enhanced by the voice of a poet, often lyric and at times pyrotechnic. Journey to the depths of a mutant rain forest that strikes back against the encroachments of civilization. Join a Victorian stage magician in his search for real magic. Descend to the depths of an omnivorou... more info>> 2001
Words: 107937 - Reading Time: 308-431 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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The Complete Accursed Wives [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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Reprinted from the pages of Asimov's SF, Amazing Stories, Science Fiction Age, Weird Tales, and other leading genre publications, the five stories and thirty-five poems in this collection portray the plights of the wives of archetypal figures from science fiction, fantasy, and horror, often reflecting contemporary relations at the same time. 2000 Bram Stoker Award Finalist
Words: 15217 - Reading Time: 43-60 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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In an American Vein [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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Christine Leslie was American wealth and American wild, insatiable and unfulfilled no matter how many roads she traveled. [Strong Sexual Content] [Author Comment: "When you become deeply involved in writing a novel, the characters take on a life of their own. You spend day after day in their company, and sometimes they begin to talk back to you, seeking different choices and lives from the ones you had planned for them. "In an American Vein," while standing as a story in itself, presents a varia... more info>> 1992
Words: 4626 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
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Break [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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To escape his incarceration he had to join forces with a man he despised. Once he was free, he planned to leave his vile accomplice far behind. 1974
Words: 1748 - Reading Time: 4-6 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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The Scissors-in-the-Arm Story [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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There was something very strange about the old man in the expensive suit. For starters, he had a scissors in his arm. 1985
Words: 2847 - Reading Time: 8-11 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Sensuous Debris: Selected Poems 1970-1995 [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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Fifty-nine of the best poems by the first Grand Master chosen by the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Reprinted from the pages of Asimov's SF, Amazing Stories, Aboriginal SF, Weird Tales, the Nebula Awards anthology, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and other leading genre publications. This collection includes four Rhysling winners and two Asimov Readers Award winners and one Aboriginal SF Boomerang Award winner. Introduction by t. winter-damon. [NOTE: 5 of the 59 poems also appear in The Com... more info>> 1995 Bram Stoker Award Recommendation, Rhysling Award Winner, Asimov's Reader's Choice Award Winner
Words: 11659 - Reading Time: 33-46 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Have Another Glass [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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Ashton knew he was consuming too much treacly. He needed to cut down on treacly. But the damn stuff was everywhere. And after all, he was only ... human? 1981
Words: 1965 - Reading Time: 5-7 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Silver Bird, Dark Beast [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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After three months of dogging it around their assigned sector and coming up with only six lousy worlds, half of them gas giants, they had finally found what they were looking for by accident. Now all they had to do was make it home and collect their bonus. 1992
Words: 5692 - Reading Time: 16-22 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Pulp Woman Gets Her Man [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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[Strong Adult Content] He had a truck with flames painted up the sides, lots of country music, and a wife that was just plain terrified of him. Then he met Pulp Woman. Oly's days as a redneck-male-chauvinist pig were over. 1988
Words: 1135 - Reading Time: 3-4 min.
Category: Humor
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Death of a Super Anti-Hero [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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Cloakman was more a super anti-hero than a super hero, something of a rogue, a shadowy sort of figure who ended up doing the right thing in spite of himself. Only he had never counted on the chain of command. 2000
Words: 1360 - Reading Time: 3-5 min.
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Complete Artistic Control [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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Lester's state-of-the-art software gave him complete artistic control. He was about to finish his first novel and become a best-selling author. Then he got a call from the Publishers Bureau of Investigation. 2002
Words: 1224 - Reading Time: 3-4 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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A Haven For Dreams [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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Haven was the dream made flesh of every hedonist and rogue who had ever trod the spaceways. It promised to fulfill all of Jarvon's expectations and desires ... if only he could stay sane long enough to get there. 1984
Words: 2742 - Reading Time: 7-10 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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The Epithet [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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Mr. Marsh and his family had a complaint about their domestic robots. It should have been easily solved. Yet it could sometimes be so difficult talking to robots. 1988
Words: 957 - Reading Time: 2-3 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Conditions of Sentient Life [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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A collection of 21 poems, songs, and prose poems by the first SFPA Grand Master. Reprints from Asimov's SF Magazine, Talebones, Dark Regions, The Third Alternative, and other leading genre publications. Includes the Rhysling Award winner, "Future Present." 1996
Words: 4062 - Reading Time: 11-16 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Pavane for a Cyber-Princess [MultiFormat]
by Bruce Boston
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A long narrative poem set in a neodecadent future and embodying shades of the Frankenstein mythos and the eternal enmity of the sexes. [Author Comment: If you are looking for a light entertainment, this story is not for you. Pavane for a Cyber-Princess is dense, surreal, and full of allusions. If you are interested in bizarre and startling imagery and a vision that will continue to reveal itself after several reads, this may be what you are looking for.] 2001
Words: 1347 - Reading Time: 3-5 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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