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Sly Mongoose [Secure Mobipocket]
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  Welcome to Chilo, a planet with corrosive rain, crushing pressure, and deadly heat. Fortunately, fourteen-year-old Timas lives in one of the domed cities that float 100,000 feet above the surface, circling near the edge of a monstrous perpetual storm. Above the acidic clouds the temperature and pressure are normal. But to make a living, Timas like many other young men, is lowered to the surface in an armored suit to scavenge what he can. Timas's life is turned upside down when a strange man cras... more info>>
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Trinkets [MultiFormat]
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New England, early 1800s: At the harbor near his jewelry shop, George Petros receives a package from the Haitian merchant ship Toussaint--a sinister link that follows him from a brief stay on the Caribbean island of dark magic. 2001 Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Honorable Mention
Words: 2885 - Reading Time: 8-11 min.
Category: Horror
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Spurn Babylon [MultiFormat]
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In the aftermath of a hurricane, an ancient slave ship and its chained skeletal cargo lay marooned in St. Thomas's Charlotte Amalie harbor. Caught between visions of modern and traditional values, an aerospace engineer of mixed ethnicity joins the residents of the tiny island to restore the ship--and acknowledge the truth of their roots. 2000 Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Honorable Mention
Words: 3203 - Reading Time: 9-12 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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A Green Thumb [MultiFormat]
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It's a very different USA, where necessity has provoked a very profound change in technology. And yet many things are still the same. Being a teenager is always tough, and there are many choices ahead. One of which is "how and where do you grow your very first car?" 2002
Words: 2568 - Reading Time: 7-10 min.
Category: Alternate History
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All Her Children Fought... [MultiFormat]
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When you fire something into space the cost of that launch is per pound. When you go to war with someone in space, you need to keep the cost down. So you use the smallest available pilot you can. A child. 2001
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Nord's Gambit [MultiFormat]
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Teachers are special. Some teachers are somewhat weird. We all know that. Or do we? What if teachers were more special, more gifted, than we ever suspected? What if the reason that English class seemed to last longer than 45 minutes was because it actually did last longer than 45 minutes. And what would you do if you found out? 2002
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Waiting for the Zephyr [MultiFormat]
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When the fuel went, Mara's town turned to windpower. They struggled on as the lights left, as the cities fell fallow, and plastic became a memory. Their only link to the outside world is the Zephyr, and now it too has not shown up. 2000
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Death's Dreadlocks [MultiFormat]
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Kuabi is coming of age in a war-torn country where the law of gun rules in the dusty deserts. Death and starvation is all around them. But of all the people around him only Kuabi and his brothers can truly see Death everywhere, for his physical presence manifests itself to them in long locks throughout the country. To make things better, Kuabi has decided he must follow Death's Dreadlocks back to Death's lair. And kill him. 2003
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Smooth Talking [MultiFormat]
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Marcus is having a long day. He wasn't actually able to fire Roger, his best real estate salesman, for going crazy and running up into the woods claiming he heard voices. No, he just gave him a vacation and required Roger get some counseling. But now Marcus is hearing hose
same voices. From Roger's desk... 2003
Words: 5847 - Reading Time: 16-23 min.
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Her [MultiFormat]
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They all live on the 6,500 mile long corpse of a giant naked woman in space: our hero, trying to prevent schemes by the local clergy to cloth her while maintaining development rights, and cultural anthropologist Jo Anderson, who is off to study the wild natives of the pubic region. Civilization moves forward ... on Her. 2004
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A Green Thumb [MP3 Audio]
by Tobias S. Buckell
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It's a very different USA, where necessity has provoked a very profound change in technology. And yet many things are still the same. Being a teenager is always tough, and there are many choices ahead. One of which is "how and where do you grow your very first car?" Read by Alex Wilson 2002
Length: 0 hours, 15 minutes, 21 secs
Category: Alternate History
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Four Eyes [MultiFormat]
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Manny is a St. Thomas cab driver with an odd secret. Jimiti is an old obeah-man who has come home to pass on his knowledge of the spirit world to a protege. And only the spirits of the departed can help both of them down the right path of their lives' journeys. 2003
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In the Heart of Kalikuata [MultiFormat]
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What is home? A place? A family? A community? Andrea must find out where she fits within Kalikuata, the giant orbiting station in which she pulls rich customers around in a pedicab, or put her life in jeopardy. 2003
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Category: Science Fiction
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Necahual [MultiFormat]
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Kiyoshi's part of a team dropping out of orbit to protect a world that's under threat of alien invasion. But nothing's quite what it seems. The locals don't necessarily want his help, and there's this problem with the Aztecs... 2004
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Crystal Rain [Secure Mobipocket]
by Tobias S. Buckell
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John deBrun, an amnesia victim with a hook instead of a left hand, must save his adopted society on the planet Nanaganda by recovering a lost technological artifact, the Ma Wi Jung, in Buckell's at times overly violent but enjoyable SF debut. John, living happily with his wife and son, has suppressed the memories of everything before his rescue from a watery grave 27 years earlier. When one group of native humans along with alien beings invade John's town, he winds up captured by the planet's ot... more info>>
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The Fish Merchant [MultiFormat]
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Li Hao-Chang struggles to stay one step ahead of starvation or stabbing, selling fish on the brutal docks of Macau. He's too busy to read the headlines in the newspapers that wrap his wares--rumors of non-random signals from deep space. When a gangster named Pepper is gunned down in front of Li's stand, the fish seller finds a computer disk stolen from the Chinese government. Maybe, just maybe, the biggest news in history is enough to make Li's dearest dream a reality: escape to safety in Americ... more info>> 2000
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In Orbite Medievali [MultiFormat]
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"The rim of the earth flashed past them as they fell." It is the end of the fifteenth century. An ambitious Spanish-Italian entrepreneur named Columbus finds out he was wrong about the shape of the world. His three little ships and their crews have fallen off the face of the earth--literally. Swirling in a dimension with physical forces different from any they know, the admiral's frightened men transform one ship from a floating craft to a gliding one. 2000 Writers of the Future Contest Winner
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