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Couch [MultiFormat]
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  An exuberant and hilarious debut in which an episode of furniture moving gone awry becomes an impromptu quest of self-discovery, secret histories, and unexpected revelations. Thom is a computer geek whose hacking of a certain Washington-based software giant has won him a little fame but few job prospects. Erik is a smalltime con man, a fast-talker who is never quite quick enough on his feet. Their roommate, Tree, is a confused clairvoyant whose dreams and prophecies may not be completely off bas... more info>> 2008
Words: 98840 - Reading Time: 282-395 min.
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The Mount [MultiFormat]
by Carol Emshwiller
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Charley is an athlete. He wants to grow up to be the fastest runner in the world, like his father. He wants to be painted crossing the finishing line, in his racing silks, with a medal around his neck. Charley lives in a stable. He isn't a runner, he's a mount. He belongs to a Hoot: The Hoots are alien invaders. Charley hasn't seen his mother for years, and his father is hiding out in the mountains somewhere, with the other Free Humans. The Hoots own the world, but the humans want it back. Charl... more info>> 2002
Words: 67257 - Reading Time: 192-269 min.
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Mothers & Other Monsters [MultiFormat]
by Maureen McHugh
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In her luminous, long-awaited debut collection, award-winning novelist Maureen F. McHugh wryly and delicately examines the impacts of social and technological shifts on families. Using beautiful, deceptively simple prose, she illuminates the relationship between parents and children and the expected and unexpected chasms that open between generations., A woman introduces her new lover to her late brother; A teenager is interviewed about her peer group's attitudes toward sex and baby boomers; A m... more info>> 2005
Words: 90757 - Reading Time: 259-363 min.
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Carmen Dog [MultiFormat]
by Carol Emshwiller
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In this dangerous and sharp-eyed look at men, women, and the world we live in, everything is changing: women are turning into animals, and animals are turning into women. Pooch, a golden setter, is turning into a beautiful woman--although she still has some of her canine traits: she just can't shuck that loyalty thing--and her former owner has turned into a snapping turtle. When the turtle tries to take a bite of her own baby, Pooch snatches the baby and runs. Meanwhile, there's a dangerous wolv... more info>> 1990
Words: 56754 - Reading Time: 162-227 min.
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The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories [MultiFormat]
by John Kessel
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An ex-con finds himself falling, once more, under a seductive, amoral woman's spell. A hidden door in a summer house leads to a land of plenty. An inventor's life converges with the pulp fiction he reads. In "Pride and Prometheus," the Bennett sisters encounter Dr. Frankenstein and his monster. And, in his acclaimed and award-winning Lunar Quartet, Kessel explores the gender dynamics, politics, and long-term sustainability of a matriarchal lunar colony. This astonishing collection ranges from sc... more info>> 2008 Tiptree Award Winner, Nebula Award(R) Winner, Sturgeon Award Winner, Locus Poll Award Winner
Words: 118442 - Reading Time: 338-473 min.
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Howard Who? [MultiFormat]
by Howard Waldrop & George R. R. Martin
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A twentieth-anniversary celebration edition of Howard Waldrop's erudite, gonzo, wistful, funny, and beautifully written debut collection of short stories. Waldrop has a capacious, encyclopedic knowledge of superheroes, baseball players, Mexican wrestlers, world wars, long-dead film stars, oddball television shows, pulp serials, radio plays, fairy tales, scientific expeditions, extinct species, and knock-knock jokes. What if the dodo wasn't extinct after all? What if sumo wrestlers could defeat t... more info>> 2006 World Fantasy Award Winner, Nebula Award(R) Winner
Words: 78321 - Reading Time: 223-313 min.
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The Ant King and Other Stories [MultiFormat]
by Benjamin Rosenbaum
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A dazzling postmodern debut collection of pulp and surreal fictions spanning the weirdest corners of literature and science fiction. The skill and strangeness on display in The Ant King and Other Stories are comparable to the debuts of Ted Chiang, Kelly Link, and Jonathan Lethem. These are stories that explore family, loyalty, power, and memory: a writer of alternate histories defends his patron's zeppelin against assassins and pirates; a woman transforms into hundreds of gumballs; an emancipate... more info>> 2008 Hugo Award Nominee, Nebula Award(R) Nominee
Words: 62552 - Reading Time: 178-250 min.
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The King's Last Song [MultiFormat]
by Geoff Ryman
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An immersive novel of epic proportions that interweaves two Cambodian stories: Archeologist Luc Andrade discovers an ancient manuscript inscribed on gold leaves but is kidnapped--and the manuscript stolen--by a faction still loyal to the ideals of the brutal Pol Pot regime. Andrade's friends, an ex-Khmer Rouge agent and a young motoboy, embark on a trek across Cambodia to rescue him. Meanwhile, Andrade, bargaining for his life, translates the lost manuscript for his captors. The result is a glim... more info>> 2008
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Category: Historical Fiction
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Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing [MultiFormat]
by Delia Sherman & Theodora Goss
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Nineteen writers dig into the imaginative spaces between conventional genres--realistic and fantastical, scholarly and poetic, personal and political--and bring up gems of a new type of fiction: interstitial fiction. This is the literary mode of the new century, a reflection of the complex, ambiguous, and challenging world we live in. To illustrate the broad range of interest in this style of fiction, the editors gathered stories from new and established authors in the USA, Canada, Australia, an... more info>> 2007
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Water Logic [Elemental Logic Series Book 3] [MultiFormat]
by Laurie J. Marks
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Amid assassinations, rebellions, and the pyres of too many dead, a new government forms in the land of Shaftal--a government of soldiers and farmers, scholars and elemental talents, all weary of war and longing for peace. But some cannot forget their losses, and some cannot imagine a place for themselves in an enemy land. Before memory, before recorded history, something happened that now must be remembered. Zanja na'Tarwein, the crosser of boundaries, born in fire and wedded to earth, has falle... more info>> 2007
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Stranger Things Happen [MultiFormat]
by Kelly Link
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Award-winning author Kelly Link's debut collection takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and readers alike, on a voyage into new, strange, and wonderful territory. The girl detective must go to the underworld to solve the case of the tap-dancing bank robbers. A librarian falls in love with a girl whose father collects artificial noses. A dead man posts letters home to his estranged wife. Two women named Louise begin a serie... more info>> 2001 Locus Recommended Reading List, Firecracker Book Award Nominee, World Fantasy Award Nominee, Locus Poll Award Nominee
Words: 83149 - Reading Time: 237-332 min.
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Generation Loss [MultiFormat]
by Elizabeth Hand
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Shirley Jackson Award Winner. Cass Neary made her name in the 1970s as a photographer embedded in the burgeoning punk movement in New York City. Her pictures of the musicians and hangers on, the infamous, the damned, and the dead, got her into art galleries and a book deal. But thirty years later she is adrift, on her way down, and almost out. Then an old acquaintance sends her on a mercy gig to interview a famously reclusive photographer who lives on an island in Maine. When she arrives Downea... more info>> 2007
Words: 87480 - Reading Time: 249-349 min.
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Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead: Stories [MultiFormat]
by Alan DeNiro
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A MAN LOSES his leg in a war, and a field doctor sews on a fairy tale in its place. A woman excavates her living room in order to discover what has become of her marriage. The Byzantine army invades a small college town. Giants move in next door. A boy in a town called Suddenly falls in love with a girl who lives in the Lake of the Dead. The secret history of Erie--past, present, and future--is revealed. These stories skitter sideways across literary and genre fiction categories, using the toolb... more info>> 2006
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Trash Sex Magic [MultiFormat]
by Jennifer Stevenson
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Raedawn Somershoe lives in a trailer on the banks of the Fox River. She likes men and men like her. It runs in the family: her mother, Gelia, can seduce a man just by walking across a road. When they set their sights on a man, something magical happens. Alexander Caebeau drives a bucketloader for a construction company. He's lonely, homesick, tired of cutting down trees and putting up ugly buildings. He dreams of going back to the Bahamas, but when Alexander meets Raedawn Somershoe, something ma... more info>> 2004 Locus Recommended Reading List, Nebula Award(R) Preliminary Ballot Nominee, Locus Poll Award Nominee
Words: 101902 - Reading Time: 291-407 min.
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Endless Things: A Part of AEgypt [MultiFormat]
by John Crowley
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This is the fourth novel--and much-anticipated conclusion--of John Crowley's astonishing and lauded AEgypt sequence: a dense, lyrical meditation on history, alchemy, and memory. Spanning three centuries, and weaving together the stories of Renaissance magician John Dee, philosopher Giordano Bruno, and present-day itinerant historian and writer Pierce Moffett, the AEgypt sequence is as richly significant as Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet or Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time. Crow... more info>> 2007
Words: 132255 - Reading Time: 377-529 min.
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Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 21 [MultiFormat]
by Gavin Grant & Kelly Link
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Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet is a twice-yearly zine of eclectic fiction and so on. No. 21 is the first issue to be made available on Fictionwise and features amazing stories from Alice Sola Kim, Matthew Cheney, Kirstin Allio, Brian Conn, Benjamin Parzybok, Carol Emshwiller, and others. Of course the real reason to read it is for Dear Aunt Gwenda's advice column (or perhaps Abby Denson's comic?) wherein you too can learn the secrets of the universe. 2007 Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 41372 - Reading Time: 118-165 min.
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Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 22 [MultiFormat]
by Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link
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Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet is a twice-yearly zine of eclectic fiction, poetry, comics, etc. No. 22 features amazing stories from Carol Emshwiller, Maureen F. McHugh, David J. Schwartz, Charlie Anders, and others. Aunt Gwenda weighs in with some writing tips, and Abby Denson's comic reveals the secrets of snake-slaying. Will the blind camera find aquatic love? Will the children of Winter undo their mother's great work? Where has Satan been tending bar these days? All this and more within. 2008 Hugo Award Nominee, Locus Poll Award Nominee
Words: 37657 - Reading Time: 107-150 min.
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