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Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 26 [MultiFormat]
by Gavin J. Grant, Kelly Link
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LCRW 26 · December 2010 · After issue no. 25, NewPages said, "More, more, more please." SF Revu suggested, "If you want to support some very wonderful fiction, than subscribe to Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet." Esubs will be available very soon. And Mr. John Klima declared on Tor.com "The issue is filled with a bunch of names I don't know, but that's always been true. And while I like reading work from my favorite writers, I like uncovering new (either brand-new or new-to-me) writers, ... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 43100 - Reading Time: 123-172 min.
Category: Fantasy/Mainstream
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Magic for Beginners [MultiFormat]
by Kelly Link
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Magic for Beginners is the highly anticipated second collection by Kelly Link (Stranger Things Happen). Link's stories are engaging and funny--call them kitchen-sink magical realism. They riff on haunted convenience stores, husbands and wives, rabbits, zombies, weekly apocalyptic poker parties, witches, superheroes, marriage, and cannons. Link is an original voice--no one else writes stories quite like these. Magic for Beginners includes several new stories as well as work previously published i... more info>> (Published: 2005) Bram Stoker Award Finalist, Locus Poll Award Winner, Nebula Award(R) Winner
Words: 93791 - Reading Time: 267-375 min.
Category: Fantasy/Mainstream
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Meeks [MultiFormat]
by Julia Holmes
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No woman will have Ben without a proper bachelor's suit . . . and the tailor refuses to make him one. Back from war with a nameless enemy, he's just discovered that his mother is dead and that his family home has been reassigned by the state. As if that isn't enough, he must now find a wife, or he'll be made a civil servant and given a permanent spot in one of the city's oppressive factories. Meanwhile, Meeks, a foreigner who lives in the park and imagines he's a member of the police, is hunted... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 54714 - Reading Time: 156-218 min.
Category: Mainstream/Science Fiction
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Mockingbird [MultiFormat]
by Sean Stewart
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Sometimes you have to go back home. The classic Sean Stewart novel, a 2000 New York Times Notable Book and the World Fantasy and Nebula Award Finalist. Elena Beauchamp used magic the way other people used credit cards. Now she's dead, and her daughters Toni and Candy have a debt to pay. Set in modern-day Houston, Texas, this is a funny and moving novel of voodoo, pregnancy, and family ties. While Toni sorts out the mess that Elena left behind, she must also come to terms with her childhood and ... more info>> (Published: 1998) Locus Poll Award Nominee, Nebula Award(R) Finalist, World Fantasy Award Finalist
Words: 82224 - Reading Time: 234-328 min.
Category: Fantasy/Mystery/Crime
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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>> (Published: 2005)
Words: 90757 - Reading Time: 259-363 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Alternate History
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Redemption in Indigo [MultiFormat]
by Karen Lord
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Winner of the Frank Collymore Award, Karen Lord's debut novel is an intricately woven tale of adventure, magic, and the power of the human spirit. Paama's husband is a fool and a glutton. Bad enough that he followed her to her parents' home in the village of Makendha--now he's disgraced himself by murdering livestock and stealing corn. When Paama leaves him for good, she attracts the attention of the undying ones--the djombi-- who present her with a gift: the Chaos Stick, which allows her to man... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 54066 - Reading Time: 154-216 min.
Category: Mainstream/Fantasy
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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>> (Published: 2006)
Words: 70124 - Reading Time: 200-280 min.
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
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Stories of Your Life and Others [MultiFormat]
by Ted Chiang
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A woman learns an alien language that enables her to see her future. A man endures the death of his wife at an angel's hands, but must learn to love God in order to be reunited with her in the afterlife. Students on a college campus make a political statement by disabling their ability to recognize beauty. Combining scientific curiosity and narrative intricacy, Ted Chiang's award-winning collection examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty and constant change, and als... more info>> (Published: 2002) Nebula Award(R) Winner, Sturgeon Award Winner, Seiun Award Winner, Locus Poll Award Winner, Hugo Award Winner
Words: 92649 - Reading Time: 264-370 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy
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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>> (Published: 2001) Firecracker Book Award Nominee, Locus Recommended Reading List, World Fantasy Award Nominee, Locus Poll Award Nominee
Words: 83149 - Reading Time: 237-332 min.
Category: Mainstream/Fantasy
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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>> (Published: 2008) Nebula Award(R) Nominee, Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 62552 - Reading Time: 178-250 min.
Category: Fantasy
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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>> (Published: 2008) Tiptree Award Winner, Nebula Award(R) Winner, Sturgeon Award Winner, Locus Poll Award Winner
Words: 118442 - Reading Time: 338-473 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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The Fires Beneath the Sea [MultiFormat]
by Lydia Millet
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Cara's mother has disappeared. Her father isn't talking about it. Her big brother Max is hiding behind his iPod, and her genius little brother Jackson is busy studying the creatures he collects from the beach. But when a watery specter begins to haunt the family's Cape Cod home, Cara and her brothers realize that their scientist mother may not be who they thought she was--and that the world has much stranger, much older inhabitants than they had imagined. With help from Cara's best friend Hayley... more info>> (Published: 2011)
Words: 58054 - Reading Time: 165-232 min.
Category: Children's Fiction/Fantasy
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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>> (Published: 2008)
Words: 154774 - Reading Time: 442-619 min.
Category: Historical Fiction
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The Monkey's Wedding and Other Stories [MultiFormat]
by Joan Aiken
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Joan Aiken's short stories of the gothic, the uncanny, and the unexpected have captivated readers for fifty years. They're funny, smartly observed, and occasionally very, very scary. The nineteen stories collected here for the first time include two previously published under the pseudonym Nicholas Dee as well as six stories never before published. There are also two introductions: one by Aiken herself, and the other by Lizza Aiken, her daughter. A Monkey's Wedding is a traditional description ... more info>> (Published: 2011)
Words: 62995 - Reading Time: 179-251 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>> (Published: 2002)
Words: 67257 - Reading Time: 192-269 min.
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
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The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories [MultiFormat]
by Joan Aiken, Garth Nix
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Because of a wish made by their mother before they were born, the two Armitage children, Mark and Harriet, lead lives full of magic and strangeness. Every Monday (and sometimes on a Tuesday) "interesting" things happen to the Armitage family: the Board of Incantation tries to take over their house to use as a school for young wizards; the purchase of a golden apple at a bargain price brings a visit from the Furies; Harriet climbs an apple tree and finds herself in the Land of Heroes. In the titl... more info>> (Published: 2008)
Words: 110019 - Reading Time: 314-440 min.
Category: Young Adult
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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>> (Published: 2004) Nebula Award(R) Preliminary Ballot Nominee, Locus Recommended Reading List, Locus Poll Award Nominee
Words: 101902 - Reading Time: 291-407 min.
Category: Fantasy/Mainstream
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Under the Poppy [MultiFormat]
by Kathe Koja
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FROM A WARTIME BROTHEL to the intricate high society of 1870s Brussels, Under the Poppy is a breakout novel of childhood friends, a love triangle, puppet masters, and reluctant spies. Under the Poppy is a brothel owned by Decca and Rupert. Decca is in love with Rupert but he in turn is in love with her brother, Istvan. When Istvan comes to town, louche puppet troupe in tow, the lines of their age-old desires intersect against a backdrop of approaching war. Hearts are broken when old betrayals ... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 149745 - Reading Time: 427-598 min.
Category: Historical Fiction/Mainstream
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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>> (Published: 2007)
Words: 117520 - Reading Time: 335-470 min.
Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction
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What I Didn't See and Other Stories [MultiFormat]
by Karen Joy Fowler
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In New York Times bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler's new collection, the fantastic and the uncanny lurk just below the surface of ordinary lives. In the award-winning title story, the narrator recounts the events of an expedition to the Belgian Congo in 1928 to collect gorillas for the Louisville Museum of Natural History. A mother invents a fairy-tale world for her son in "Halfway People." Twin sisters backpacking through Europe receive a mysterious invitation. A rebellious teenager is sent ... more info>> (Published: 2010) Nebula Award(R) Winner
Words: 63108 - Reading Time: 180-252 min.
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