Mary A. Turzillo
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Bio: Mary Turzillo has upcoming stories in George Scithers' Cat Tales and Tyree Campbell's Aoife's Kiss, plus a novelette, "Zora and the Land Ethic Nomads," in George Mann's Solaris Book of New Science Fiction. Another novelette, Ewaipanoma, will appear as a chapbook from Sam's Dot. "Pride," her bad kitty story, appeared in Lou Anders' Fast Forward 1. “Mars Is no Place for Children” won her a Nebula, and her novel, An Old-Fashioned Martian Girl, was serialized in Analog. Recent books include Dragon Soup, with Marge Simon, and Your Cat & Other Space Aliens, a Pushcart nominee. She is working on a novel, Heart's Journey, Mars Quest. She has a fascinating son, Jack Brizzi, and lives in Ohio with her brilliant Martian husband, writer Geoff Landis.
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Pride [MultiFormat]
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A mysterious animal snatched from a secret cloning research lab is not a cute ball of fur, and not of this era.... 2007 Nebula Award(R) Finalist
Words: 6443 - Reading Time: 18-25 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Alex [MultiFormat]
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A single woman hears the ticking of her biological clock and takes a ill-advised chance with a guy she meets at a dance club. 1992
Words: 1925 - Reading Time: 5-7 min.
Category: Mainstream
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Kill Dance [MultiFormat]
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On the fantasy world of Aeyrrhi, sentient avian creatures live in nesting communties divided against each other over the issue of over-population. Silver, a female of the Skybreaker cult, rejects the advances of her courting male until she completes the destiny denied her as a newborn by the 'enlightened' ones--the barbaric fight to the death between twins known as the Blood Trial. 1990
Words: 6412 - Reading Time: 18-25 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Kraken [MultiFormat]
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Deep in the ocean, a race of sub-aquatic humans flourish in the life-giving warmth and free oxygen emitted by the underwater volcanoes of the Pacific. When an eccentric scientist ventures out into the Dark Cold looking for the mythical Kraken--and doesn't return--her son sets out for the deep ravine where she claims to have seen it. He doesn't know if a Kraken is a giant squid or some other predator, but does know that the large hollow sphere he finds there will finally prove his mother's theori... more info>> 1990
Words: 6195 - Reading Time: 17-24 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Mars Is No Place for Children [MultiFormat]
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Vastitas Borealis, Mars--Summer-January 31, 2202: Diary of Kapera Smythe, a six-year-old girl battling leukemia. Kapera begins recording her diary on an ancient wrist computer when she discovers her parents are arranging cancer treatment for her at an Earth Orbit hospital. Because of the enormous expense, Kapera knows the family can only afford one-way passage for two--she and her mother would never see father, or Mars, again. Kapera, however, has a different plan: to run away to Sagan City at A... more info>> 1999 Nebula Award(R) Winner
Words: 13278 - Reading Time: 37-53 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Kings [MultiFormat]
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King Gunthar's vast kingdom of Greynoble is under siege by the neighboring soldiers of Rhynning, whose king died a year earlier. In a land where each kingdom's sole male occupant is its King, Gunthar knows what is at stake for the two armies of women warriors. When he abdicates into the mountains to bring the fighting to an end, a corrupt outcast King arrives to take his place. Ythaina, Greynoble's brave army general, must then survive the new king's persecution and persuade her sisters in arms ... more info>> 1989
Words: 7303 - Reading Time: 20-29 min.
Category: Fantasy
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