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A Green Thumb [MultiFormat]
by Tobias 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?" (Published: 2002)
Words: 2568 - Reading Time: 7-10 min.
Category: Alternate History
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All Her Children Fought... [MultiFormat]
by Tobias Buckell
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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. (Published: 2001)
Words: 1915 - Reading Time: 5-7 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Her [MultiFormat]
by Tobias Buckell
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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. (Published: 2004)
Words: 2084 - Reading Time: 5-8 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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In the Heart of Kalikuata [MultiFormat]
by Tobias Buckell
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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. (Published: 2003)
Words: 3021 - Reading Time: 8-12 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Necahual [MultiFormat]
by Tobias Buckell
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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... (Published: 2004)
Words: 5892 - Reading Time: 16-23 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Nord's Gambit [MultiFormat]
by Tobias Buckell
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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? (Published: 2002)
Words: 3801 - Reading Time: 10-15 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Smooth Talking [MultiFormat]
by Tobias Buckell
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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... (Published: 2003)
Words: 5847 - Reading Time: 16-23 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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The Fish Merchant [MultiFormat]
by Tobias Buckell
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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>> (Published: 2000)
Words: 5201 - Reading Time: 14-20 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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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. (Published: 2000)
Words: 2021 - Reading Time: 5-8 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Death's Dreadlocks [MultiFormat]
by Tobias Buckell
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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. (Published: 2003)
Words: 7841 - Reading Time: 22-31 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Four Eyes [MultiFormat]
by Tobias Buckell
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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. (Published: 2003)
Words: 4971 - Reading Time: 14-19 min.
Category: Fantasy
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In Orbite Medievali [MultiFormat]
by Tobias Buckell
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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. (Published: 2000) Writers of the Future Contest Winner
Words: 6088 - Reading Time: 17-24 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Ragamuffin [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF/Adobe EPUB]
by Tobias Buckell
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The Benevolent Satrapy rule an empire of forty-eight worlds, linked by thousands of wormholes strung throughout the galaxy. Human beings, while technically ?free," mostly skulk around the fringes of the Satrapy, struggling to get by. The secretive alien S
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Spurn Babylon [MultiFormat]
by Tobias Buckell
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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. (Published: 2000) Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Honorable Mention
Words: 3203 - Reading Time: 9-12 min.
Category: Dark Fantasy
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Trinkets [MultiFormat]
by Tobias Buckell
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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. (Published: 2001) Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Honorable Mention
Words: 2885 - Reading Time: 8-11 min.
Category: Horror
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