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Saltwater Sorrows

by Rhonda Parrish, E.E. King, Natalie Cannon, Morgan Melhuish, Laura VanArendonk Baugh, Sarah Van Goethem, Paul A. Hamilton, Adria Laycraft, Dino Parenti, B. Zelkovich, Lisa Carreiro, Lea Storry, Nikoline Kaiser, Elin Olausson, Chandra Fisher, Hayley Stone, V.F. LeSann, Catherine MacLeod, Jennifer R. Donohue ...

Deep, mysterious, beautiful . . . dangerous . . .Women and the sea have been tied together in myth and story from the beginning of time. Tales of women being drawn to the sea or being left on the shore, waiting for their men’s return, have been passed down through the ages.But what mysteries lie beneath the sparkling placid waters? What power drives the wind and waves crashing against the shore? ... Read more

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Deep, mysterious, beautiful . . . dangerous . . .Women and the sea have been tied together in myth and story from the beginning of time. Tales of women being drawn to the sea or being left on the shore, waiting for their men’s return, have been passed down through the ages.But what mysteries lie beneath the sparkling placid waters? What power drives the wind and waves crashing against the shore?
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Life Beyond Us

An Original Anthology of SF Stories and Science Essays

by Stephen Baxter, Mary Robinette Kowal, Premee Mohamed, Peter Watts, Eugen Bacon, Tobias S. Buckell, Eric Choi, Julie E. Czerneda, Julie Nováková, Lucas K. Law, Susan Forest, Gregory Benford, Geoffrey A. Landis, Rich Larson, Malka Older, G. David Nordley, Renan Bernardo, Jana Bianchi, Tessa Fisher, Simone Heller, Valentin D. Ivanov, Lisa Jenny Krieg, Liu Yang, Lucie Lukačovičová, Deji Bryce Olukotun, Tomáš Petrásek, Brian Rappatta, Arula Ratnakar, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Bogi Takács, B. Zelkovich, Jacques Arnould, William Bains, José A. Caballero, Dimitra Demertzi, Martina Dimoska, Dennis Höning, Fabian Klenner, Nina Kopacz, Natuschka Lee, Ania Losiak, Stephen Francis Mann, Connor Martini, Tony Milligan, Philippe Nauny, Erik Persson, Joanna Piotrowska, Giovanni Poggiali, Amedeo Romagnolo, Stefano Sandrelli ...

Series series European Astrobiology Institute Presents
How would first contact—on earth, in space, on another planet—transform our understandings of technology, philosophy, and what it means to be human? What kind of cognitive dissonance would society experience, if we discovered a previously unrecognized sentience on Earth?What would life be like if it originated in a frigid ocean beneath an impenetrable shell of ice? Or on a world whose haze ... Read more

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How would first contact—on earth, in space, on another planet—transform our understandings of technology, philosophy, and what it means to be human? What kind of cognitive dissonance would society experience, if we discovered a previously unrecognized sentience on Earth?What would life be like if it originated in a frigid ocean beneath an impenetrable shell of ice? Or on a world whose haze
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St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

Stories

by Karen Russell ...

Here is the debut short story collection from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Swamplandia! and the New York Times bestselling Vampires in the Lemon Grove.In these ten glittering stories, the award-winning, bestselling author Orange World and Other Stories takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here wolf-like girls are reformed by nuns, a family makes their ... Read more

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Here is the debut short story collection from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Swamplandia! and the New York Times bestselling Vampires in the Lemon Grove.In these ten glittering stories, the award-winning, bestselling author Orange World and Other Stories takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here wolf-like girls are reformed by nuns, a family makes their
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, #7

by Paula Guran ...

Series Book 7 - The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror
Macabre meetings, sinister excursions, and deadly relationships; uncanny encounters; a classic ghost story featuring an American god; a historical murderer revived in a frightening new iteration; innovative Lovecraftian turns; shadowy fairy tales and weird myths; strange children, the unexpected, the supernatural, the surreal, and the all-too real . . . tales of the dark. Such stories have always ... Read more

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Macabre meetings, sinister excursions, and deadly relationships; uncanny encounters; a classic ghost story featuring an American god; a historical murderer revived in a frightening new iteration; innovative Lovecraftian turns; shadowy fairy tales and weird myths; strange children, the unexpected, the supernatural, the surreal, and the all-too real . . . tales of the dark. Such stories have always
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Points of Departure

Stories

by Pat Murphy ...

Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award: Nineteen stories of power and humanity from a science fiction master with otherworldly talentIn a small house in the desert, a chimp named Rachel watches Tarzan on TV. Although her body is an ape's, her mind is something different—a hybrid between those of a chimpanzee and a young girl. When his wife and child died, the doctor who created Rachel implanted his ... Read more

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Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award: Nineteen stories of power and humanity from a science fiction master with otherworldly talentIn a small house in the desert, a chimp named Rachel watches Tarzan on TV. Although her body is an ape's, her mind is something different—a hybrid between those of a chimpanzee and a young girl. When his wife and child died, the doctor who created Rachel implanted his
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Black Juice

by Margo Lanagan ...

Black Juice is a book of breathtaking stories that defy boundaries. They are dazzling, ruthless, tender, fierce, unique - ten deeply moving stories from an exceptional author.'A good short story, a really good one, is deceptively difficult to write. Which is why Black Juice is such an outstanding collection. Because every single story in it is, quite simply, perfect. That's what I said: perfect.' ... Read more

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Black Juice is a book of breathtaking stories that defy boundaries. They are dazzling, ruthless, tender, fierce, unique - ten deeply moving stories from an exceptional author.'A good short story, a really good one, is deceptively difficult to write. Which is why Black Juice is such an outstanding collection. Because every single story in it is, quite simply, perfect. That's what I said: perfect.'
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A Fish with a Wish

A Fish with a Wish

by Ethan Crownberry ...

Series series children books
If you only had one wish to make, would you change your life, or would you change someone else's? Can a Goldfish find happiness in his dreary surroundings? Trapped in a tiny glass tank, a miserable goldfish makes it perfectly clear how disappointed he is with life. A series of wishes granted by a magic star reveal that the grass is not always greener on the other side. Will the fish ever find true ... Read more

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If you only had one wish to make, would you change your life, or would you change someone else's? Can a Goldfish find happiness in his dreary surroundings? Trapped in a tiny glass tank, a miserable goldfish makes it perfectly clear how disappointed he is with life. A series of wishes granted by a magic star reveal that the grass is not always greener on the other side. Will the fish ever find true
... Read more
The Beauty of Death Vol.2 - Death by Water

The Gargantuan Book of Horror Tales

by Lisa Mannetti, Clive Barker, Lucy Snyder, Ramsey Campbell, Edward Lee, Peter Straub, Caitlín R. Kiernan, David J. Schow, John Langan, Dennis Etchison, Brian Evenson, Lucy Taylor, Lisa Morton, Tim Waggoner ...

In each of these stories from some of greatest writers of horror and dark fiction, water plays the dual role of accomplice and executioner. With accidental drownings, irresistible calls of sirens from the deep, strange whisperings from household plumbing, faces of the dead in droplets of water, rabid fish, leviathan monsters, and more, these thirty-nine tales of death by water will make you think ... Read more

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In each of these stories from some of greatest writers of horror and dark fiction, water plays the dual role of accomplice and executioner. With accidental drownings, irresistible calls of sirens from the deep, strange whisperings from household plumbing, faces of the dead in droplets of water, rabid fish, leviathan monsters, and more, these thirty-nine tales of death by water will make you think
... Read more
Heiresses of Russ 2014: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction

Heiresses of Russ: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction, #4

by Melissa Scott, Steve Berman, Redfern Jon Barrett, Zoe Blade, Amanda Fitzwater, Sacchi Green, Claire Humphrey, Alex Jeffers, Meda Kahn, Layla Lawlor, Chanté McCoy, Cat Rambo, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Kenneth Schneyer, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Penny Stirling, Robert E. Stutts, Tori Truslow, Lexy Wealleans, Alberto Yáñez ...

Series Book 4 - Heiresses of Russ: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction
A book such as this spins not only words but also whole worlds: eighteen of them, representing the best lesbian-themed stories of the fantastic or futuristic published the prior year: An artisan who tests the skills and wares of her friends in the hope of finding the ideal housing for an idealized love. A shape-shifting sidekick ensures that the heroine, who might not even be aware of her, saves ... Read more

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A book such as this spins not only words but also whole worlds: eighteen of them, representing the best lesbian-themed stories of the fantastic or futuristic published the prior year: An artisan who tests the skills and wares of her friends in the hope of finding the ideal housing for an idealized love. A shape-shifting sidekick ensures that the heroine, who might not even be aware of her, saves
... Read more
Sharks in the Rivers

by Ada Limón ...

"A wonderful book" from the National Book Award for Poetry finalist that explores themes of dislocation and danger (Bob Hicok, author of Red Rover, Red Rover).The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family's roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion—both toward and away from us ... Read more

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"A wonderful book" from the National Book Award for Poetry finalist that explores themes of dislocation and danger (Bob Hicok, author of Red Rover, Red Rover).The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family's roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion—both toward and away from us
... Read more
Nocturnal

by Wilder Poetry ...

From @wilderpoetry comes a heavily expanded revised edition of Nocturnal, a collection of poetry and beautifully illustrated black-and-white imagery inspired by darkened days and sleepless nights.Poetry meets presentation in each of the four sections ("Dusk," "Northern Lights," "Howl," "Lucid Dreams,"), which trace the author's continuing journey of self-discovery while illuminating a path for ... Read more

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From @wilderpoetry comes a heavily expanded revised edition of Nocturnal, a collection of poetry and beautifully illustrated black-and-white imagery inspired by darkened days and sleepless nights.Poetry meets presentation in each of the four sections ("Dusk," "Northern Lights," "Howl," "Lucid Dreams,"), which trace the author's continuing journey of self-discovery while illuminating a path for
... Read more
Death in the Mouth: Original Horror by People of Color

by Sloane Leong, Cassie Hart ...

What is horror to those living in the margins?Where terror is systematized and in the very air everyone happily breathes?A misheard word.The thud of boots.An impossible color.A foreign growth.Death in the Mouth is a collection of horror stories and art showcasing BIPOC and ethnically marginalized storytellers from around the world. You’ll read stories featuring grotesque manifestations of dread, ... Read more

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What is horror to those living in the margins?Where terror is systematized and in the very air everyone happily breathes?A misheard word.The thud of boots.An impossible color.A foreign growth.Death in the Mouth is a collection of horror stories and art showcasing BIPOC and ethnically marginalized storytellers from around the world. You’ll read stories featuring grotesque manifestations of dread,
... Read more

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