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Killing the Morrow [MultiFormat]
by Robert Reed
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 It is not the first disembodied voice Harold has ever heard--but this one is different. The Voice instructs him to leave the packing crate he calls home and find the house--and wife--that await him. Harold just barely notices the others, just like him, trudging silently and purposefully to their new homes. The houses are cleaned, the bathtubs converted into makeshift incubators--there is nothing he can do about it, but Harold knows The Voice is preparing his world for an invasion from the future... more info>> 1996 Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 4783 - Reading Time: 13-19 min.
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The Cuckoo's Boys [MultiFormat]
by Robert Reed
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Billionaire bioscientist Phillip Stevens engineers a microbe to carry his DNA, but the synthetic protozoan escapes and spreads an epidemic that infects the reproductive systems of women across the globe. Thirteen years after the arrival of hundreds of thousands of Phillip Stevens clones ... known as the PS boys ... Houston Cross mentors a group of the boy geniuses at their middle school, and defends them against educational and societal aggression. 1998 Locus Poll Award Nominee
Words: 18248 - Reading Time: 52-72 min.
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Chrysalis [MultiFormat]
by Robert Reed
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Near the end of the brutal war that destroyed all life in Earth's solar system, an immense ship escaped into the blackness of space with a small group of humans. Under the protective care of intelligent, shape-shifting robots, the final surviving community of Man has traveled for several million years across the galaxies on an endless mission of learning, offering the hospitality of their ship to any sentient aliens who wish to join their enclosed utopic society. On a routine exploratory mission... more info>> 1996
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A Billion Eves [MultiFormat]
by Robert Reed
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Robert Reed tells us the following tale "is a brutal reworking of a story that I first wrote in my mid-twenties. What remains from that earlier attempt is the flashback sections with the sorority house ... except that I changed the point-of-view and the general tone, and, hopefully, I bring to bear the wisdom of a couple of decades of life experience."Originally published in the October-November 2006 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine. 2006 Hugo Award Winner
Words: 23048 - Reading Time: 65-92 min.
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Eight Episodes [MultiFormat]
by Robert Reed
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Robert Reed's collection of short stories, The Cuckoo's Boys, was recently released by Golden Gryphon Press. It contains several tales that were originally published in Asimov's. In his latest story, he synopsizes a peculiar, and, at times, disquieting TV series that consists of ... Eight Episodes. 2006 Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 3881 - Reading Time: 11-15 min.
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Fable Blue [MultiFormat]
by Robert Reed
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Strun's success as a trapper brings him wealth and respect--even outside his little undersea town. He has an instinct for setting his traps in the shallow water at high tide, and the creatures that live on the land above the water, up in the Blue, would become caught in them at low tide and drown as the water rose once more. When Strun's son Wyll observes his father catching a Twos, one of the creatures with only two arms and legs that communicate with sound up in the Blue, he questions his fath... more info>> 1993
Words: 7899 - Reading Time: 22-31 min.
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Waging Good [MultiFormat]
by Robert Reed
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The powerful colonies of Mars, Mercury, and the Jovian moons have triumphed in a devastating war against Earth, and the vanquished home planet is a wasteland of genetically poisoned refugees and provisional government oppression. As a girl during the conflict, Sitta enjoyed the safety of her privileged community on the far side of the moon--made possible by her father's supply of genetic weapons to the colonies. Later, as a teenager, she is sentenced to three years of involuntary servitude in a ... more info>> 1995 Locus Poll Award Nominee
Words: 15611 - Reading Time: 44-62 min.
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Guest of Honor [MultiFormat]
by Robert Reed
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In a medically advanced future offering humans near-immortality, human clones are created from collections of people--grand and sophisticated averages of a group. Unwilling to risk the possibility of accidental death in deep-space exploration, groups of 'compilation' humans are sent out into the galaxy on world-hopping adventures. Upon their return to Earth, the compilations are ceremonially sacrificed to redistribute the brain back to the group, allowing the sedentary humans to escape the bored... more info>> 1993
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A Place with Shade [MultiFormat]
by Robert Reed
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Provo's World was like thousands of other sunless bodies in the Realm. Born in an unknown solar system, it had been thrown free by a near-collision and now drifts aimlessly through interstellar space. Not counting the mining robots, the population of Provo's World is two: the fabulously wealthy Provo Lei and his adopted daughter Ula. Provo hires Hann Locum, a terraforming expert, to tutor Ula and assist with her project in a cavern dug by her father's mining operations. When Hann learns of the c... more info>> 1995
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The Shape of Everything [MultiFormat]
by Robert Reed
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An elderly astronomer reveals a story from his childhood to an assistant, and how an ancient technology inspired his discovery of the true meaning in the shapes and patterns of the galaxies. 1994
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Mrs. Greasy [MultiFormat]
by Robert Reed
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An 11-year-old boy is enchanted by a woman imprisoned on the island where his family is vacationing. 1995 Year's Best Fantasy Selection, Year's Best Horror Selection
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The Challenger [MultiFormat]
by Robert Reed
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Who's real, and who isn't?--your neighbor, the bartender, or the guy behind you. It's the ultimate game with a big cash payout if you can guess who's human, and who's an AI ... call the 8000 number if you think you've spotted one. You get three votes; good luck. 1999
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