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1) Bone Dance
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Back in print, Bone Dance is a classic techno-fantasy from Emma Bull, author of the bestselling Territory
Sparrow's my name. Trader. Deal-maker. Hustler, some call me. I work the Night Fair circuit, buying and selling pre-nuke videos from the world before. I know how to get a high price, especially on Big Bang collectibles. But the hottest ticket of all is information on the Horsemen-the mind-control weapons that tilted the balance in the war between...
2) Desuetude
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As a hunter, Val is an elite in her field. The cities need to expand. The wilderness and animals are hostile to human life. Val's job is to go in and eliminate the dangerous beasts.
Technological selection is coming. There is only so much land left. Where there were once vast open spaces, there are now never-ending streets. Where there was once plant life, there are now factories and rows of buildings. Progress knows no mercy.
Val is aware of...
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Dive back into the world of The Institute in this gripping sequel to The Orphan Chronicles: Genesis… Ananya Patel is a young woman with extraordinary abilities. Her keen instincts for sensing danger have been enhanced and honed during her upbringing at The Institute, a clandestine underwater research facility established and funded by billionaire philanthropist, Gregory Cornelius. In The Orphan Chronicles: Evolution, the time has come for Ananya...
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Petra Wade's older brother, Solomon, has always dreamed of being an actor. Instead, he works grueling shifts in the clockwork city's boiler rooms to help support his large adopted family. When Le Theatre Mecanique holds an open call for their upcoming performance, he decides to audition. However, the only role he is suitable to fill is that of the theater's custodian.
Leaving the well-paying boiler job behind him, Solomon immerses himself in the...
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Welcome to Urban Monad 116. Reaching nearly two miles into the sky, the one thousand stories of this building are home to over eight hundred thousand people living in peace and harmony. In the year 2381 with a world population of over seventy-five billion souls, the massive Urbmon system is humanity's salvation.
Life in Urbmon 116 is highly regulated, life is cherished, and the culture of procreation is seen as the highest pinnacle of god's plan....
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Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.APEX MAGAZINE is a digital dark science fiction and fantasy genre zine that features award-winning short fiction, essays, and interviews. Established in 2009, our fiction has won several Hugo and Nebula Awards.We publish every other month.Issue 143 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews. EDITORIALMusings from Maryland by Lesley Conner ORIGINAL SHORT FICTIONThe Ghost Tenders of Chornobyl...
9) Last Vegas
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Everyone has their place-or so the stories go. As long as you don't look for it, you'll find it. If you try, you may never reach your final destination.Esther doesn't care much for stories-she's just looking for a fresh start. One night, at the end of her journey, she meets three unexpected friends who help her find her way.
10) The Edge
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Mak is a pod pilot on the DreadNought Exeter, a star ship in the Earth allied Unity. The DreadNought's mission is simple. Destroy the enemy, the Kyrzal. A ho-hum war that should have been quick and easy. But not all enemies are obvious. Hidden agendas and betrayals, complicate a mission that is not what it seems at first. Mak's expertise as a pilot in the fighting machines known as Pods will be tested as he is thrust unwillingly into a role he feels...
11) Pandemonium
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USA Today praised Warren Fahy's debut novel, Fragment, as "a rollicking tale [that] will enthrall readers of Jurassic Park and The Ruins." Now Fahy sets off an even more thrilling stampede of action and suspense, bursting forth from the hellish depths of...Pandemonium.
Deep beneath the Ural Mountains, in an underground city carved out by slave labor during the darkest hours of the Cold War, ancient caverns hold exotic and dangerous life-forms that...
12) The Wooden Box
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Tracey's Grandmother was an inventor. She went under the name of George. "After George Elliott. Gran was a bit like that. Always taking the piss. No one would accept a female inventor, so she always called herself George and dressed like a comic book inventor. You Know. Tweed jacket. Plus fours and spats, with a monocle, although her eyes were 20/20. She was even known to wear a false moustache for publicity photos. It was for the benefit of the misogynists...
13) Permanence
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Young Rue Cassels of the Cycler Compact -- a civilization based around remote brown dwarf stars -- is running for her life from her bullying brother, Jentry, who has stolen her family inheritance and threatens to sell her into slavery. Fleeing in a shuttle spacecraft from the sparsely populated and austere comet-mining habitat she has lived in her whole life, she spots a distant, approaching object, and stakes a legal claim to it. It is not the valuable...
14) Trueno Rodante
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Después de un error de cálculo en una caída orbital, dos Leopardos de la Tropa luchan por regresar a líneas amigas. Por supuesto que fue una confusión, pero los Freelanders no lo pensaron cuando tendieron una emboscada a los tanques y ahora están huyendo a través de las montañas para sobrevivir en esta historia corta de ciencia ficción militar."Una lectura divertida." - Usuario de DeviantArt
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En la vastedad del universo, donde la oscuridad cósmica se mezcla con la danza de las estrellas, existe un rincón misterioso que desafía la lógica y estira los límites de nuestra comprensión: el agujero negro. Este fenómeno gravitacional, donde la gravedad se vuelve implacable y la luz se desvanece en la insondable negrura, ha sido el tema de especulación, asombro y fascinación a lo largo de la historia de la astronomía.En este viaje intergaláctico,...
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Imagine waking up and not knowing how, but knowing that you're not 'you' anymore. This is what happened to Lori Segrin. She knows at heart she is an investigative Journalist, but for some reason, can only recall ever being a business tycoon who works with her sister who owns a company called Next Level Advancements. But even though her life should be great, she knows her sister is hiding something sinister within the company. Something that has to...
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The woods surrounding the insular town of Mill Creek, West Virginia, have a habit of taking people and refusing to give them back. The National Parks Service Search and Rescue Team knows this, just like they know when you find a door in the woods, you don't go through it. But park ranger Theo Buchanan has a knack for sticking her nose where it doesn't belong. Determined to find the truth behind her sister Flora's strange disappearance, she boldly...
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How was the world created? How was the universe created? These questions have been asked since mankind uttered its first word. Did God create the world? An explosion of the big bang created the universe with galaxeys, and worlds within them. It could be a science expermint. A science expermint that has been created for years and years has been done on a plant called Praque. The expermint requires students to create a universe inside a glass case...
20) Dragon King
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For decades, dragons held the essence of magic that fueled a wizard's power, but in 1007 AD, evil claims the heart of one such wizard while another seeks to save the magic. Tucker Bolen considers himself a renaissance man of the thirty-first century and balks at society's rigid cultural practices. After purchasing and using a reincarnation reader, he not only connects with his past entities, he also suffers their bid to surface and claim his soul....