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Bears Discover Fire [MP3 Audio]
by Terry Bisson
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The title pretty much says it. Whether because of climate change or some even more mysterious cause, bears have discovered fire. This affords the Southern-gentleman narrator opportunities to teach his nephew about life, death, and how, more than ever, "it's best not to alarm bears." This AudioBook is performed by Alec Rowell and is bundled with an afterword read by the author at the 2007 RustyCon. 1990 Nebula Award(R) Winner, Hugo Award Winner
Length: 0 hours, 27 minutes, 35 secs
Category: Fantasy
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Boobs [MultiFormat]
by Suzy McKee Charnas
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Suzy Charnas offers a fresh perspective on alienated youth through a very old fantasy idea. Puberty is tough on anyone, but especially on "well-endowed" girls, who get a lot of unwanted attention in addition to the monthly curse. When you're a werewolf, well, the curse takes on a whole new meaning, and bad things happen to people who hassle you. 1989 Locus Poll Award Nominee, Nebula Award(R) Nominee, Hugo Award Winner
Words: 7869 - Reading Time: 22-31 min.
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No Enemy But Time [MultiFormat]
by Michael Bishop
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John Monegal, a.k.a. Joshua Kampa, is torn between two worlds--the Early Pleistocene Africa of his dreams and the twentieth-century reality of his waking life. These worlds are transposed when a government experiment sends him over a million years back in time. Here, John builds a new life as part of a tribe of protohumans. But the reality of early Africa is much more challenging than his fantasies. With the landscape, the species, and John himself evolving, he reaches a temporal crossroads wher... more info>> 1982 Nebula Award(R) Winner
Words: 124000 - Reading Time: 354-496 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Numbers Don't Lie [MultiFormat]
by Terry Bisson
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For the first time, you can get Terry Bisson's three Wilson Wu novelettes in one place, including the Hugo-nominated "Get Me to the Church on Time." Wilson's been a rock musician, an engineer, and a pastry chef; he graduated law school and passed the bar on the first try. Drawn into adventure by his friend Irv, another lawyer with a talent for stumbling on strange phenomena, Wilson crunches the numbers. Together they find a junkyard dedicated to Volvos that conceals a rift in the space-time cont... more info>> 2001 Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 39212 - Reading Time: 112-156 min.
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In the House of the Worm [MultiFormat]
by George R. R. Martin
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In a crumbling underground city on a dying planet, young Annelyn has lived a life of privilege. When he is humilated at the hands of the crafty groun hunter they call the Meatbringer, he and his high-born friends plot revenge. But Annelyn's plan goes desperately awry, leading him deep into the city's ruins--and to the ugly truth about his forebears' reverence for the mythic White Worm. 1976
Words: 20567 - Reading Time: 58-82 min.
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A Song for Lya [MultiFormat]
by George R. R. Martin
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Two telepaths investigate the newly discovered world of Shkea, where every native inhabitant, and an increasing number of human colonists, worships a mysterious and deadly parasite. Winner of the 1975 Hugo Award for Best Novella. 1974 Hugo Award Winner
Words: 24172 - Reading Time: 69-96 min.
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The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr [MultiFormat]
by George R. R. Martin
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Tired and bloody from her battle with the Seven, Sharra stumbles through the gate onto a pristine planet, the kingdom and prison of a solitary singer doomed to await Sharra's arrival... 1976
Words: 7250 - Reading Time: 20-29 min.
Category: Fantasy
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The Glass Flower [MultiFormat]
by George R. R. Martin
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It's been a lifetime and more since Cyrain has been challenged in the game of mind. When the cyborg arrives, she senses a worthy and dangerous opponent--one that's been dead for 800 years... 1986
Words: 16208 - Reading Time: 46-64 min.
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Suldrun's Garden [Lyonesse Book 1] [MultiFormat]
by Jack Vance
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A monument of fantastic literature to stand beside such classics as Dune and The Lord of the Rings, Lyonesse evokes the Elder Isles, a land of pre-Arthurian myth now lost beneath the Atlantic, where powerful sorcerers, aloof faeries, stalwart champions, and nobles eccentric, magnanimous, and cruel pursue intrigue among their separate worlds. In this first book of the trilogy, Suldrun's Garden, Prince Aillas of Troicinet is betrayed on his first diplomatic voyage and cast into the sea. Before he ... more info>> 1983
Words: 155000 - Reading Time: 442-620 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Farewell to Yesterday's Tomorrow [MultiFormat]
by Alexei Panshin
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An excellent companion to Alexei Panshin's novels, Farewell to Yesterday's Tomorrow collects twelve of his best stories, the last a novella written in collaboration with his wife, Cory. From the universe of the Nebula Award-winning Rite of Passage, where the hegemony of advanced ships over primitive worlds engenders complex moral dilemmas, to the first manned exploration of Neptune, to the interstellar quest of a fair lady and a noble beastman to find a home, these engaging fantasies turn the id... more info>> 1975
Words: 70000 - Reading Time: 200-280 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories [MultiFormat]
by Terry Bisson
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From the gentle fantasies that include the wry title story--winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards--to ecological allegories; a horrific novelette about experimental excursions into the realm of death; and a first-contact mini-epic, this anthology showcases the wide range of Bisson's powerful talent. In every piece, Bisson's characters are just as absurd as their fantastic landscape, yet thoroughly ordinary, recognizable, and authentic. His pack of scientists, artists, rednecks, insurance sal... more info>> 1993 Locus Poll Award Winner, Hugo Award Winner, Sturgeon Award Winner, Nebula Award(R) Winner
Words: 72015 - Reading Time: 205-288 min.
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Green Tea [MultiFormat]
by Richard Wadholm
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A vindictive survivor of an interstellar terrorist attack confronts his nemesis over a tense, but civilized, cup of tea. 1999
Words: 10839 - Reading Time: 30-43 min.
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Rite of Passage [MultiFormat]
by Alexei Panshin
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After the destruction of Earth, humanity has established itself precariously among a hundred planets. Between them roam the vast Ships, doling out scientific knowledge in exchange for raw materials. On one of the Ships lives Mia Havero. Belligerent soccer player, intrepid explorer of ventilation shafts, Mia tests all the boundaries of her insulated world. She will soon be tested in turn. At the age of fourteen all Ship children must endure a month unaided in the wilds of a colony world, and alth... more info>> 1968 Locus Poll Award Nominee, Hugo Award Nominee, Nebula Award(R) Winner
Words: 84740 - Reading Time: 242-338 min.
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Over Flat Mountain [MP3 Audio]
by Terry Bisson
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"CD" is one of those few bold truckers who make the run over Flat Mountain, a gigantic peak that thrusts beyond the atmosphere in what had once been the Appalachians. (Performed by Alec Rowell.) 1990
Length: 0 hours, 34 minutes, 4 secs
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They're Made Out of Meat [MP3 Audio]
by Terry Bisson
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Sure, we're all made of starstuff. But some forms of space dust are, well, absurd. When the not-so-next door neighbors turn out to be too distasteful to contemplate, there's only one solution: pretend no one's home. (Performed by Alec Rowell.) 1991
Length: 0 hours, 6 minutes, 32 secs
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Heirs of the Perisphere [MultiFormat]
by Howard Waldrop
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In a post-apocalyptic future, three theme park robots designed as cartoon characters--a duck, a dog, and a mouse--search for a buried cylinder that will help them learn more about the people from their own time. [This story is also available in Howard Waldrop's collection Dream Factories and Radio Pictures]. 1985 Nebula Award(R) Nominee
Words: 6574 - Reading Time: 18-26 min.
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Grist [MultiFormat]
by Tony Daniel
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The Grist is the goo of life that links humanity with the collective consciousness of every living thing. Andre Sud, itinerant priest and expert rock balancer, searches for the Large Array Personality (LAP) known as Thaddeus Kaye, who threatens the delicate balance of interstellar events with his suspected ability to control the future. 1998 Year's Best Science Fiction Selection
Words: 21910 - Reading Time: 62-87 min.
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Fin de Cycle [MultiFormat]
by Howard Waldrop
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1890s Paris: A group of fringe artists, writers, and musicians--headed by notorious oddball Alfred Jarry--use the new technology of filmmaking to expose hypocrisy within the French Military in a new telling of the infamous Dreyfus Affair. [This story is also available in Howard Waldrop's collection Dream Factories and Radio Pictures]. 1990 Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 15288 - Reading Time: 43-61 min.
Category: Alternate History
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Crocodile Rock [MultiFormat]
by Lucius Shepard
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When Rawley called, Michael had no idea what he would be getting into. He was offered a chance to take on a strange case. There were reports of native "crocodile men" murdering tribesmen. Such reports were not uncommon in the wilds of Africa, but in this case a "crocodile man" has actually confessed to the murders... 1999 International Horror Guild Award Winner, Nebula Award(R) Nominee, World Fantasy Award Nominee
Words: 17945 - Reading Time: 51-71 min.
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Barnacle Bill the Spacer [MultiFormat]
by Lucius Shepard
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Johnny somehow fell into the role of Barnacle Bill's protector and apologist. Barnacle Bill is handicapped and the pariah of the entire space station. But when mutiny breaks out on the station, how can Johnny protect Bill? This is a great work by Shepard which took both the Hugo and Locus awards and is filled with tragedy, irony, and triumph, all at the same time. 1992 Nebula Award(R) Nominee, Locus Poll Award Winner, Hugo Award Winner
Words: 30622 - Reading Time: 87-122 min.
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Astronomy [MultiFormat]
by Richard Wadholm
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At the end of World War II, an American task force investigates a Nazi project to reanimate the dead and summon strange monsters from other dimensions. Deranged by their own studies, the Nazi scientists have been difficult to find, much less talk to. Only the linguist Susan Gilbert has had any luck getting their cooperation. When it turns out that the biggest, most horrific experiment of them all has yet to be completed, she ends up leading the effort to save the world. But she's not a mad geniu... more info>> 2000
Words: 55000 - Reading Time: 157-220 min.
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The Dandelion Girl [MultiFormat]
by Robert F. Young
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While his wife is away, a man meets a beautiful girl in the country who pretends to be from the future. Day after day, they return to the same idyllic spot to chat, and he soon finds himself enamored. However, being committed to his marriage, he's resigned to the loss of his new love and what she represents. Or is he?... 1961
Words: 5500 - Reading Time: 15-22 min.
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What Bleak Land [MultiFormat]
by Robert F. Young
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During the Great Depression, a vagrant makes an extended stay with a struggling family, and wins their hearts with his lessons in decency and generosity. But the wanderer is learning as well as teaching, in ways that the young son of the family comes to understand through a profound and unsettling discovery. 1987
Words: 8000 - Reading Time: 22-32 min.
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Little Red Schoolhouse [MultiFormat]
by Robert F. Young
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A little boy runs away from the bleak city to regain the bucolic countryside of his memory, with its little red schoolhouse and pretty, affectionate teacher. Unfortunately he's intercepted by the authorities, and even more unfortunately, they're willing to grant his wish. (This early story of Young's makes an interesting complement to "What Bleak Land," one of his final pieces.) 1956
Words: 5600 - Reading Time: 16-22 min.
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Portraits of His Children [MultiFormat]
by George R. R. Martin
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Richard Cantling didn't regret the sacrifices he had made for his work, but he had expected his daughter to forgive and forget. When the painting arrives, it seems a gesture of reconciliation--until he's brought face to face with another of his offspring, one he never planned to meet... 1985 Nebula Award(R) Winner
Words: 15258 - Reading Time: 43-61 min.
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