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A Year in the Linear City [MultiFormat]
by Paul Di Filippo
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A moderately modern city, pulsing with music and commerce, seemingly of infinite length, yet only as broad as a wide avenue, flanked on one side by Heaven, on the other by Hell. Such is the milieu intimately familiar to--and mostly unquestioned by--the millions of average humans who inhabit the Linear City. Yet a small band of seekers do indeed ponder their odd lot, the genesis and fate of their strange habitation. Among the speculatively minded are a small group of writers who specialize in wha... more info>> 2002 Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 25119 - Reading Time: 71-100 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Ailoura [MultiFormat]
by Paul Di Filippo
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On a sandy world far in the future, family wealth is accumulated through the mining of buried marble-sized singularities. When the heir to a fortune built on these power spheres is cheated out of his birthright, he finds that a lonely man's best friend is--a chimerical feline servant with plans for revenge? 2002
Words: 10715 - Reading Time: 30-42 min.
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Seeing is Believing [MultiFormat]
by Paul Di Filippo
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The power to cloud men's minds. Once only the Shadow possessed such a gift. Now it's available in digital form, and private investigator Stingo Strine has to track down the mad inventor who's abusing the discovery of how to circumvent that limited entity we call "consciousness." 2003
Words: 10373 - Reading Time: 29-41 min.
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Bare Market [MultiFormat]
by Paul Di Filippo
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Economics has always been referred to as "the dismal science." But that term hardly applies to Adamina Smythe, otherwise known as "the Market." This stunningly beautiful woman is the cybernetic mastermind behind the running of the global economy. But can finance compete with romance? And what happens when the Market begins to feel her hormones? 2003
Words: 5751 - Reading Time: 16-23 min.
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