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Analog Science Fiction and Fact, April 2012 [MultiFormat]
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  In recent years there has been much talk and concern about invasive species--and countertalk about whether "invasive" species are necessarily bad. Susan Forest leads off our April issue with a thought-provoking novelette about "The Most Invasive Species" and the elusive relationship between quality of intentions and quality of results. Craig DeLancey also has a novelette, "Ecce Signum," which is the latest (and last?) in his series about "Marrion's Children," bred and raised for a unique and ver... more info>> (Published: 2010)
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Asimov's Science Fiction, March 2012 [MultiFormat]
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The action never lets up in our March lead story by newish author Derek Kanksen. Life may have formed very differently in "The Way of the Needle" than it has on Earth, but the nature of conflict remains the same. It won't be easy to put this fast-paced thriller down. Once you do, though, you can turn to another adventure tale on a distant planet. "Golva's Ascent," a new novelette by Tom Purdom, features intriguing aliens, inscrutable humans, and a desperate flight for survival.
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 2012 [MultiFormat]
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Our March issue offers two novelettes, quite different in some respects yet both dealing with mysteries, things that aren't what they seem, and familiar patterns in very unfamiliar contexts. Craig DeLancey's "The Ediacarian Machine" starts out as archeology, but the archeologists could never guess where it would lead. Kyle Kirkland's "Upon Their Backs" (which you may recognize as part of a familiar saying) also begins with an archeological air (or is it paleontology or anthropology?), this time ... more info>> (Published: 2010)
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Escape Horizon [MultiFormat]
by Michael A. Burstein
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Ilona Carrus and Damon Adlus are the final competitors in the Championship Dive, a contest to get as close to the event horizon of a black hole as possible. But when Ilona comes up with a way to get closer than anyone ever has before, Damon chooses to take the most dangerous risk of them all... (Published: 2000)
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Out of Copyright [MultiFormat]
by Charles Sheffield
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Four groups of experts are competing for a lucrative contract to transform Jupiter's moon Europa into a planet capable of supporting life; each tries to gain an advantage by purchasing, and sometimes trading, the cloning rights to the scientific masters of history. (Published: 1989) Year's Best Science Fiction Selection
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Asimov's Science Fiction, February 2012 [MultiFormat]
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February being the traditional month of romance, we start the issue off with a novellette by Rudy Rucker and Eileen Gunn that treats us to the zany courtship of a lovely Southern California woman and her plugged-in and technologically turned-on "Hive Mind Man." In "Murder Born," Robert Reed's latest novella, an utterly engrossing mystery tale is blended with a remarkable idea. It's a future where murder victims may be returned to their families, but the price is high and mistakes happen.Elsewher... more info>> (Published: 2010)
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January-February 2012 [MultiFormat]
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Our January-February double issue is a big event in several ways: It takes advantage of its extra space to include lots of special treats that wouldn't fit in a regular issue, and it leads off with the opening of a new Robert J. Sawyer serial, Triggers. The title, as you'll see, has more than one meaning, but at the center of it all is memory: What is it, how does it work, and what triggers it? And, beyond all that, what happens if an unforeseen event allows--and forces--people to share memories... more info>> (Published: 2010)
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The Hunt Book 3: Butterfly [MultiFormat]
by Michelle Levigne
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 Beth considers herself a geek, one of the invisible and awkward in her school, too smart for her own good, part of the Gifted and Talented program. During a summer internship at a government weather station, she notices strange weather patterns. The storms remind her of the ones when she was brought to Earth by the Hounds of Hamin. Remembering that she is a member of the Hunt, Beth sets out to remake herself, to be ready when the gathering of the Hunt occurs. When she returns to school in the... more info>> (Published: 2011)
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Second Contact: Chronicle on the Seeds of Orion [MultiFormat]
by Kenneth E. Ingle
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A generation ago, a small group of humans fled Earth to make a new home. Because of a freak laboratory accident, they possess a gene that slows aging, and the rest of Earth would have turned them into lab rats in order to control the inheritable factor. The stars were already occupied, and the settlers from the spaceship Orion fought the aliens to create their own home in the stars--New Earth. Old Earth, under Chinese leadership, is expanding. They attacked the aliens and continue their expandin... more info>>
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Angels In Disguise [MultiFormat]
by Josh Tremino
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At 19, Nick tries to do a good deed and instead ends up with a demon's soul. He has powers and other demons are out to hunt him down. As he struggles to master his new abilities, Nick gets closer to Jenny Morgado, the girl he's long loved. Only now that he sees the world of angels and demons does he realize Jenny is a lot more than the girl he thought he knew. (Published: 2011)
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First Contact: Escape to 55 Cancri [MultiFormat]
by Kenneth E. Ingle
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lab explosion results in a group of scientists who now age very slowly. Long life doesn't seem like a problem, but Maria Presk knows their secret can't be kept forever. When it gets out, every government in the world will be interested and she, along with her associates, will be lucky if they're ever allowed out of a government lab again--or if they're allowed to live. There's no place on Earth where Maria and the others can be safe, so she comes up with an ambitious plan--they'll build a spaces... more info>> (Published: 2009)
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The Riss Gamble [MultiFormat]
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A young girl dreams of seeing the stars and meeting aliens. Her chance comes in the form of a project offering a college education, commissioning in the SAS Fleet, and a partnership with an alien. She successfully qualifies and wins one of the coveted ten positions. Of course everything comes with a price--the alien is a parasite that inhabits the body and mind, and is there for life. Is it a dream or nightmare come true--or maybe both? (Published: 2011)
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Transformations - Chronicles Of Bear: One [MultiFormat]
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The day after Halloween, the world population awakes to a planet with no electricity. Raphael Edmonds, known to his friends as Bear, explores his neighborhood to find that not only is there no electricity, but the atmosphere itself seems to have changed. When he hears the sound of gunfire within his usually peaceful area of the city, he knows the safest place for him and his girlfriend is a small town in the Texas Hill Country named Rollingblock. (Published: 2011)
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A World Lost, A World Gained - Apertures Three [MultiFormat]
by Darrell Bain
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The final book of the Apertures trilogy! The dream of a different alternity where Americans can begin anew has been a goal of Jan and Jani Jenkins almost since the first of the Apertures Era. Now they are working against time and selfish politicians to see it happen before the whole world goes up in flames. They are urgently ferrying colonists and equipment to a new earth that only they can reach, but often it seems as if the fates are conspiring against them and all they hold dear. But when the... more info>> (Published: 2011)
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Asimov's Science Fiction, January 2012 [MultiFormat]
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Elizabeth Bear is well known to Asimov's readers. Two of her previous appearances, "Tideline" and "Shoggoths in Bloom," resulted in Hugo Awards for best short story and novelette. She returns to our pages with a knockout novella set in an exquisitely realized future India. Police Sub-Inspector Ferron and Senior Constable Indrapramit must look for clues both in the real world and the virtual if they are to track down a clever murder. "In the House of Aryaman a Lonely Signal Burns" is a tale you w... more info>> (Published: 2010)
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Interzone Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine #235 [MultiFormat]
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Interzone is a bimonthly, award winning, science fiction and fantasy short story magazine. It contains original fiction and illustrations plus SFF/H related news and reviews of books, movies and DVDs. It is not celebrity oriented. This edition, #235 of July 2011, with stories from Mercurio D Rivera, Gareth Powell, Jon Wallace, Al Robertson & Matthew Cook has the text of the print edition but some of the graphics and advertisements are not present, current printed issue 237, Nov 2011. This issue ... more info>> (Published: 2011) British Fantasy Award Winner, Hugo Award Nominee, Hugo Award Winner
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Winterfair Gifts [Vorkosigan Series Book 15] [MultiFormat]
by Lois McMaster Bujold
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In the festive season of Winterfair on the planet Barrayar, Lord Miles Vorkosigan's long-awaited wedding is the occasion for romance and intrigue for bioengineered space mercenary Sergeant Taura and shy, diffident Armsman Roic. (Published: 2004) Hugo Award Nominee, Romance Readers Anonymous Listserv Award Winner, Fictionwise eBook of the Year (2005)
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 2011 [MultiFormat]
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Our December issue starts off with a spectacular Bob Eggleton cover for Brad R. Torgersen's novelette, "Ray of Light," which is one of the more unusual post-apocalypse stories you're likely to read. Given a catastrophe big enough to force practically everybody into hiding, one of the central and most important questions is, "When can you go back out?" It's especially difficult when your hiding place is as unusual as this one, and when you have to stay there long enough to start forgetting what's... more info>> (Published: 2010)
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 2011 [MultiFormat]
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Andrea Cort, Adam-Troy Castro's prickly but effective troubleshooter, returns to lead off our November issue in "With Unclean Hands," wherein she faces a particularly thorny interspecies problem for which her own past is uniquely relevant. But being especially well qualified does not mean a person will find a task easy. . . . Our science fact article comes from Richard B. Robinson, a researcher on the frontiers of a field that was new to me: "Repairing a Broken Heart: Beyond Electronic Pacemaker... more info>> (Published: 2010)
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Cetaganda [Vorkosigan Series Book 6] [MultiFormat]
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Cetaganda is another installment in the Hugo-award winning adventures of Miles Vorkosigan, in which Miles and Cousin Ivan go to Cetaganda to play the part of sprigs of the nobility doing their diplomatic duty by good old Barrayar. The idea is that they will gain diplomatic polish on this simple mission, but when the Cetagandan empress dies naturally and her lifelong attendant dies unnaturally--apparently a suicide, but there are rumors--Miles and Ivan find themselves in the thick of it. Miles tr... more info>> (Published: 1996) Seiun Award Nominee, HOMer Award Nominee, Locus Poll Award Nominee
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Flicker [MultiFormat]
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When Liz Franklin received an unexpected job offer from the Treehouse, a trans-lunar space station, she had no idea that her new coworkers had sent a deadly retrovirus back to the year 1809. Now people are dying in an outbreak of flu, and Elizabeth must work with physicist Daniel Oakbridge to reverse the effects of a time-travel experiment gone terribly wrong? Time-travel science fiction by E. J. Lake; originally published by Belgrave House (Published: 2012)
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Ashes of Victory [Honor Harrington Series #9] [MultiFormat]
by David Weber
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The People's Republic of Haven made a tiny mistake when it announced the execution of Honor Harrington. It seemed safe enough. After all, they knew she was already dead. Unfortunately, they were wrong. Now Honor has escaped from the prison planet called Hell and returned to the Manticoran Alliance with a few friends. Almost half a million of them, to be precise … including some who know what really happened when the Committee of Public Safety seized power in the PRH. Honor's return from the dead... more info>> (Published: 2000)
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Asimov's Science Fiction, December 2011 [MultiFormat]
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A special holiday issue sporting stories about the winter season has been a semi-annual tradition at Asimov's, and we're delighted that this year the holiday spirit returns to the magazine with a brand new novelette by Connie Willis. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll read this story on the edge of your seat as New York Theater comes alive and an aging Broadway star contends with a very unusual protogeé in "All About Emily." New author Suzanne Palmer makers her Asimov's entrance with ... more info>> (Published: 2010)
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Brothers in Arms [Vorkosigan Series Book 10] [MultiFormat]
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The daring interspace rescue of an entire Cetagandan POW camp by the Dendarii Mercenaries made for some deadly enemies. Having finally outrun the infuriated Cetagandans, Admiral Naismith (a.k.a. Lord Miles Vorkosigan) and the Dendarii arrive on Earth for battle shuttle repair and a well deserved rest. When the Mercenaries' payroll doesn't arrive on time and someone tries to kill Miles, he realizes he's in trouble again. Miles must juggle both his identities at once to unravel the complicated plo... more info>> (Published: 1989)
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Commonwealth Universe: History: The Rebirth: The Order Series Book 1: Undying [MultiFormat]
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Marnya is a novice, traveling to a teaching enclave to expand her healing talents. But her life is changed forever when her traveling party is attacked by brigands. In defending herself and her friends, Marnya is critically injured -- but she does not die. She thinks she has hidden her remarkable healing from everyone, but two of the soldiers who rescue the novices belong to the Order of Kilvordi, and they know her secret. She is one of them, an Undying. Raf and his friend, Danal, give Marnya h... more info>> (Published: 2011)
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