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Bears Discover Fire [MP3 Audio]
by Terry Bisson
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 The title pretty much says it. Whether because of climate change or some even more mysterious cause, bears have discovered fire. This affords the Southern-gentleman narrator opportunities to teach his nephew about life, death, and how, more than ever, "it's best not to alarm bears." This AudioBook is performed by Alec Rowell and is bundled with an afterword read by the author at the 2007 RustyCon. (Published: 1990) Nebula Award(R) Winner, Hugo Award Winner
Length: 0 hours, 27 minutes, 35 secs
Category: Fantasy
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Beauty and the Opera or The Phantom Beast [MultiFormat]
by Suzy McKee Charnas
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During a performance of Faust, the beautiful young soprano Christine is kidnapped by the hideous "Phantom" of the Paris Opéra and taken to his Gothic lair beneath the city. The phantom's powers are almost supernatural, his tempers often lethal. However, Christine is no victim. Though she must accede to his demands that she become his wife and protégé, she does so on her terms, and the dark romance that follows becomes an enduring legend. (Published: 1996) Locus Poll Award Nominee, Hugo Award Nominee, Sturgeon Award Nominee, World Fantasy Award Nominee
Words: 19823 - Reading Time: 56-79 min.
Category: Fantasy
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A Song for Lya [MultiFormat]
by George R.R. Martin
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Two telepaths investigate the newly discovered world of Shkea, where every native inhabitant, and an increasing number of human colonists, worships a mysterious and deadly parasite. Winner of the 1975 Hugo Award for Best Novella. (Published: 1974) Hugo Award Winner
Words: 24172 - Reading Time: 69-96 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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AEgypt [AEgypt Series Book 1] [MultiFormat]
by John Crowley
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In the 1970s, an historian named Pierce Moffett moves to the country to write a book, driven by an idea he dare not believe. That the physical laws of the universe once changed and may change again. That before science defined the modern age, other powers, wondrous and magical, once governed the universe, their lore perfected within a lost capital of hieroglyphs, wizard-kings, and fabulous monuments. Not in Egypt--but AEgypt. Yet the notion is not his alone. Something waits at the locked estate ... more info>> (Published: 1987)
Words: 146909 - Reading Time: 419-587 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories [MultiFormat]
by Terry Bisson
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From the gentle fantasies that include the wry title story--winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards--to ecological allegories; a horrific novelette about experimental excursions into the realm of death; and a first-contact mini-epic, this anthology showcases the wide range of Bisson's powerful talent. In every piece, Bisson's characters are just as absurd as their fantastic landscape, yet thoroughly ordinary, recognizable, and authentic. His pack of scientists, artists, rednecks, insurance sal... more info>> (Published: 1993) Locus Poll Award Winner, Hugo Award Winner, Sturgeon Award Winner, Nebula Award(R) Winner
Words: 72015 - Reading Time: 205-288 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Boobs [MultiFormat]
by Suzy McKee Charnas
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Suzy Charnas offers a fresh perspective on alienated youth through a very old fantasy idea. Puberty is tough on anyone, but especially on "well-endowed" girls, who get a lot of unwanted attention in addition to the monthly curse. When you're a werewolf, well, the curse takes on a whole new meaning, and bad things happen to people who hassle you. (Published: 1989) Locus Poll Award Nominee, Hugo Award Winner, Nebula Award(R) Nominee
Words: 7869 - Reading Time: 22-31 min.
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Fin de Cycle [MultiFormat]
by Howard Waldrop
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1890s Paris: A group of fringe artists, writers, and musicians--headed by notorious oddball Alfred Jarry--use the new technology of filmmaking to expose hypocrisy within the French Military in a new telling of the infamous Dreyfus Affair. [This story is also available in Howard Waldrop's collection Dream Factories and Radio Pictures]. (Published: 1990) Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 15288 - Reading Time: 43-61 min.
Category: Alternate History
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Imagination Fully Dilated: Science Fiction [Limited MultiFormat: 3 Formats Available]
by Robert Kruger, Patrick Swenson
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Though perhaps best known for his horrific and macabre illustrations, World Fantasy Award-winning artist Alan M. Clark works all areas of speculative fiction. For this anthology, sixteen authors each chose one of Alan's many science fiction paintings to base a story on. Here you'll find strange alien vistas, expansive space battles, and fantastic creatures, and you'll discover the myriad ways that a strong image inspires a piece of writing. As Alan says, "Art is never the product of a single min... more info>>
Category: Science Fiction
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In the House of the Worm [MultiFormat]
by George R.R. Martin
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In a crumbling underground city on a dying planet, young Annelyn has lived a life of privilege. When he is humilated at the hands of the crafty groun hunter they call the Meatbringer, he and his high-born friends plot revenge. But Annelyn's plan goes desperately awry, leading him deep into the city's ruins--and to the ugly truth about his forebears' reverence for the mythic White Worm. (Published: 1976)
Words: 20567 - Reading Time: 58-82 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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New Celebrations: The Adventures of Anthony Villiers [MultiFormat]
by Alexei Panshin
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Many books have been hailed as "in the tradition of" The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Not this one. It came first. It may, however, be something of a precursor. A space-operatic comedy of manners and meditation on life, a cheerful noir thriller, New Celebrations contains the first three, and so far only, novels about the enigmatic Anthony Villiers, a young man who trails both a mysterious past and a six-foot furred toad companion whose papers are not in order. From a space-station gambling ... more info>> (Published: 1968)
Words: 131526 - Reading Time: 375-526 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Numbers Don't Lie [MultiFormat]
by Terry Bisson
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For the first time, you can get Terry Bisson's three Wilson Wu novelettes in one place, including the Hugo-nominated "Get Me to the Church on Time." Wilson's been a rock musician, an engineer, and a pastry chef; he graduated law school and passed the bar on the first try. Drawn into adventure by his friend Irv, another lawyer with a talent for stumbling on strange phenomena, Wilson crunches the numbers. Together they find a junkyard dedicated to Volvos that conceals a rift in the space-time cont... more info>> (Published: 2001) Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 39212 - Reading Time: 112-156 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Over Flat Mountain [MP3 Audio]
by Terry Bisson
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"CD" is one of those few bold truckers who make the run over Flat Mountain, a gigantic peak that thrusts beyond the atmosphere in what had once been the Appalachians. (Performed by Alec Rowell.) (Published: 1990)
Length: 0 hours, 34 minutes, 4 secs
Category: Science Fiction
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Portraits of His Children [MultiFormat]
by George R.R. Martin
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Richard Cantling didn't regret the sacrifices he had made for his work, but he had expected his daughter to forgive and forget. When the painting arrives, it seems a gesture of reconciliation--until he's brought face to face with another of his offspring, one he never planned to meet... (Published: 1985) Nebula Award(R) Winner
Words: 15258 - Reading Time: 43-61 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Radiant Green Star [MultiFormat]
by Lucius Shepard
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When Philip was a very young boy, his mother set him on a mythic course in life, to grow up in exile as a circus performer touring the backwaters of Viet Nam, to slay his evil father, and to win a fantastic inheritance. However, as he studies his legacy with the help of the stoic manager Vang Ky, falls in love with Vang's niece, and contemplates the odd soliloquies of an ancient, disfigured war veteran, he begins to perceive that his life and mission are not what they appear. (Published: 2000) Locus Poll Award Winner, Nebula Award(R) Nominee, Hugo Award Nominee, Sturgeon Award Nominee, Nebula Award(R) Finalist, Asimov's Reader's Choice Award Nominee
Words: 24974 - Reading Time: 71-99 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Suldrun's Garden [Lyonesse Book 1] [MultiFormat]
by Jack Vance
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A monument of fantastic literature to stand beside such classics as Dune and The Lord of the Rings, Lyonesse evokes the Elder Isles, a land of pre-Arthurian myth now lost beneath the Atlantic, where powerful sorcerers, aloof faeries, stalwart champions, and nobles eccentric, magnanimous, and cruel pursue intrigue among their separate worlds. In this first book of the trilogy, Suldrun's Garden, Prince Aillas of Troicinet is betrayed on his first diplomatic voyage and cast into the sea. Before he ... more info>> (Published: 1983)
Words: 155000 - Reading Time: 442-620 min.
Category: Fantasy
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The Vampire Tapestry [MultiFormat]
by Suzy McKee Charnas
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Hailed by Stephen King as "scary and suspenseful" and "unputdownable," and by Peter Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn, as "The best vampire novel I have ever read," The Vampire Tapestry examines the classic monster as a biological, rather than supernatural, predator who awakens from hibernation every few decades needing to relearn human culture. After years of secret effort, the self-styled Edward Weyland has become a respected anthropology professor and director of a sleep research lab. With r... more info>> (Published: 1980)
Words: 90000 - Reading Time: 257-360 min.
Category: Horror
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The World Beyond the Hill: Science Fiction and the Quest for Transcendence [MultiFormat]
by Alexei Panshin, Cory Panshin
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In 1990, Alexei and Cory Panshin's massive history of science fiction, The World Beyond the Hill, won the Hugo award in competition with books by Arthur C. Clarke, Ursula LeGuin, and Harlan Ellison. Isaac Asimov called it, "The best, the BEST, history of science fiction I have ever read." Exploring the genre from its roots in the Romantic Period to the late 20th century, the Panshins make the case for science fiction as modern mythology. The ElectricStory edition includes hyperlinked contents, i... more info>> (Published: 1989) Hugo Award Winner
Words: 299876 - Reading Time: 856-1199 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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They're Made Out of Meat [MP3 Audio]
by Terry Bisson
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Sure, we're all made of starstuff. But some forms of space dust are, well, absurd. When the not-so-next door neighbors turn out to be too distasteful to contemplate, there's only one solution: pretend no one's home. (Performed by Alec Rowell.) (Published: 1991)
Length: 0 hours, 6 minutes, 32 secs
Category: Science Fiction
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Unicorn Mountain [MultiFormat]
by Michael Bishop
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Unicorns roam the uplands of Libby Quarrels' mountain ranch. When Libby takes the AIDS-afflicted Bo Gavin out of exile in Atlanta to live with her in Colorado, she sees no connection between his disease and the fantastic secret she guards. But it so happens the unicorns suffer from a plague of their own, and the alternate world that touches the high country has unleashed magic sinister as well as marvelous. While Libby's Indian ranch hand Sam is stalked by his wife's headless ghost, his estrange... more info>> (Published: 1988)
Words: 156000 - Reading Time: 445-624 min.
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2020 [MultiFormat]
by Robert Onopa
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In 1948, the future was 1984, but in 2002, we don't have to wait as long! Adjust your vision to 2020 as revealed in this collection. On an international highway system of never-pausing traffic, Nomads keep moving from cradle to grave. Bio-engineered kangaroos carry fetuses for busy mothers. And a foundering lunar resort makes a desperate bid to exploit one of humanity's great oversights--we forgot to name the moon! Wry and funny and appallingly probable, 2020 includes several of Robert Onopa's b... more info>> (Published: 2002)
Words: 53177 - Reading Time: 151-212 min.
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Astronomy [MultiFormat]
by Richard Wadholm
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At the end of World War II, an American task force investigates a Nazi project to reanimate the dead and summon strange monsters from other dimensions. Deranged by their own studies, the Nazi scientists have been difficult to find, much less talk to. Only the linguist Susan Gilbert has had any luck getting their cooperation. When it turns out that the biggest, most horrific experiment of them all has yet to be completed, she ends up leading the effort to save the world. But she's not a mad geniu... more info>> (Published: 2000)
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Barnacle Bill the Spacer [MultiFormat]
by Lucius Shepard
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Johnny somehow fell into the role of Barnacle Bill's protector and apologist. Barnacle Bill is handicapped and the pariah of the entire space station. But when mutiny breaks out on the station, how can Johnny protect Bill? This is a great work by Shepard which took both the Hugo and Locus awards and is filled with tragedy, irony, and triumph, all at the same time. (Published: 1992) Nebula Award(R) Nominee, Locus Poll Award Winner, Hugo Award Winner
Words: 30622 - Reading Time: 87-122 min.
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Colonel Rutherford's Colt [MultiFormat]
by Lucius Shepard
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The itinerant gun show draws together many subcultures from the margins of society: survivalists, Aryan brotherhoods, and the team of Rita Whitelaw and Jimmy Roy Guy, dealers in collectible arms. Rita has made Jimmy an exception to her general disdain for whites--"not your typical Caucasian," as she describes him--for Jimmy's got a storytelling ability that borders on mystic vision. When Jimmy makes an agreement with the widow of Aryan martyr Bob Champion to broker her husband's infamous Colt .4... more info>> (Published: 2001)
Words: 56326 - Reading Time: 160-225 min.
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Crocodile Rock [MultiFormat]
by Lucius Shepard
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When Rawley called, Michael had no idea what he would be getting into. He was offered a chance to take on a strange case. There were reports of native "crocodile men" murdering tribesmen. Such reports were not uncommon in the wilds of Africa, but in this case a "crocodile man" has actually confessed to the murders... (Published: 1999) International Horror Guild Award Winner, Nebula Award(R) Nominee, World Fantasy Award Nominee
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Dream Factories and Radio Pictures [MultiFormat]
by Howard Waldrop
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What if the post-apocalyptic world was inherited by the android avatars of a famous duck, mouse, and dog? What if every '50s Bugarama monster-movie nightmare came true at once? What if Cloudbuster pioneers had transformed the arid American Southwest into a subtropical paradise? What do you mean, what if? They're real, they're here, a life-giving downpour in a desert of mundanity, right from the cranium of Howard Waldrop, one of the best, most original writers in America. For the first time, the ... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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