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Portalmania

Stories

by Debbie Urbanski ...

Longlisted for The Story PrizeFinalist for the Shirley Jackson AwardFinalist for the British Science Fiction Award“Powerfully unique and thoughtfully written, with the ability to carry you to places you’ve yet to imagine and return you to places you’ve tried to escape.” —Chicago Review of Books“Every story in Portalmania is distinctive, vital, and sophisticated; the whole is an almost perfectly ... Read more

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Longlisted for The Story PrizeFinalist for the Shirley Jackson AwardFinalist for the British Science Fiction Award“Powerfully unique and thoughtfully written, with the ability to carry you to places you’ve yet to imagine and return you to places you’ve tried to escape.” —Chicago Review of Books“Every story in Portalmania is distinctive, vital, and sophisticated; the whole is an almost perfectly
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After World

A Novel

by Debbie Urbanski ...

Winner of the 2025 ASLE Creative Writing Book Award and the CNY Book Award for Fiction**A Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Engadget, Strange Horizons, and Booklist Best Book of the YearA Climate Reality Project Book Club PickAn “intelligent, defiant” (San Francisco Chronicle) debut that follows an Artificial Intelligence tasked with writing a novel—only for it to fall in love with the ... Read more

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Winner of the 2025 ASLE Creative Writing Book Award and the CNY Book Award for Fiction**A Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Engadget, Strange Horizons, and Booklist Best Book of the YearA Climate Reality Project Book Club PickAn “intelligent, defiant” (San Francisco Chronicle) debut that follows an Artificial Intelligence tasked with writing a novel—only for it to fall in love with the
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Portalmania

Stories

by Debbie Urbanski ...

Narrated by Joy Osmanski ...

Unabridged

11 hours

Longlisted for The Story PrizeFinalist for the Shirley Jackson AwardFinalist for the British Science Fiction Award“Powerfully unique and thoughtfully written, with the ability to carry you to places you’ve yet to imagine and return you to places you’ve tried to escape.” —Chicago Review of Books“Every story in Portalmania is distinctive, vital, and sophisticated; the whole is an almost perfectly ... Read more

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Longlisted for The Story PrizeFinalist for the Shirley Jackson AwardFinalist for the British Science Fiction Award“Powerfully unique and thoughtfully written, with the ability to carry you to places you’ve yet to imagine and return you to places you’ve tried to escape.” —Chicago Review of Books“Every story in Portalmania is distinctive, vital, and sophisticated; the whole is an almost perfectly
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After World

A Novel

by Debbie Urbanski ...

Narrated by Sura Siu, Emily Tremaine, Cindy Kay, Kevin R. Free ...

Unabridged

10 hours 32 min

Winner of the 2025 ASLE Creative Writing Book Award and the CNY Book Award for Fiction**A Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Engadget, Strange Horizons, and Booklist Best Book of the YearA Climate Reality Project Book Club PickAn “intelligent, defiant” (San Francisco Chronicle) debut that follows an Artificial Intelligence tasked with writing a novel—only for it to fall in love with the ... Read more

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Winner of the 2025 ASLE Creative Writing Book Award and the CNY Book Award for Fiction**A Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Engadget, Strange Horizons, and Booklist Best Book of the YearA Climate Reality Project Book Club PickAn “intelligent, defiant” (San Francisco Chronicle) debut that follows an Artificial Intelligence tasked with writing a novel—only for it to fall in love with the
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Case of the Missing Left Shoe, The

by Debbie Urbanski ...

Narrated by Highlights for Children ...

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6 min

Nina, who runs a detective agency out of her bedroom closet, takes on the mystery of her little brother's missing shoe. After she and Teddy find the shoe, Nina pieces together clues to figure out why the shoe went missing in the first place. ... Read more

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Nina, who runs a detective agency out of her bedroom closet, takes on the mystery of her little brother's missing shoe. After she and Teddy find the shoe, Nina pieces together clues to figure out why the shoe went missing in the first place.
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Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 86 (July 2017)

by John Joseph Adams, John Grant, E. Catherine Tobler, James Tiptree, Jr., A.G. Howard, Carrie Vaughn, Adam-Troy Castro, Laura Anne Gilman, Debbie Urbanski ...

Series Book 86 - Lightspeed Magazine
LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.This month, our cover art is by Reiko Murakami, illustrating a new science fiction ... Read more

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LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.This month, our cover art is by Reiko Murakami, illustrating a new science fiction
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The Great Transition

A Novel

by Nick Fuller Googins ...

Narrated by Stacy Gonzalez, Stacy Carolan ...

Unabridged

11 hours 31 min

This richly imaginative, immersive, and “electrifyingly relevant” (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author) debut novel follows a shocking disappearance amid the climate crisis of our near future—perfect for fans of Station Eleven and The Last Thing He Told Me.Emi Vargas, whose parents helped save the world, is tired of being told how lucky she is to have been born after the ... Read more

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This richly imaginative, immersive, and “electrifyingly relevant” (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author) debut novel follows a shocking disappearance amid the climate crisis of our near future—perfect for fans of Station Eleven and The Last Thing He Told Me.Emi Vargas, whose parents helped save the world, is tired of being told how lucky she is to have been born after the
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Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes

Odes to Being Alive

by James Parker ...

Narrated by Stewart Crank ...

Unabridged

5 hours 17 min

From the vertiginously talented James Parker, a collection of uproarious odes that show how to find gratitude in unexpected places.Our politics are broken; our world is melting; the next catastrophe looms. Enter James Parker, who for years now has been writing odes of appreciation on subjects from the seemingly minor ("Ode to Naps") to the unexpected ("Ode to Giving People Money") to the seemingly ... Read more

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From the vertiginously talented James Parker, a collection of uproarious odes that show how to find gratitude in unexpected places.Our politics are broken; our world is melting; the next catastrophe looms. Enter James Parker, who for years now has been writing odes of appreciation on subjects from the seemingly minor ("Ode to Naps") to the unexpected ("Ode to Giving People Money") to the seemingly
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Life of a Klansman

A Family History in White Supremacy

by Edward Ball ...

Narrated by Edward Ball ...

Unabridged

15 hours 26 min

Named a best book of the summer by Literary HubThe life and times of a militant white supremacist, written by one of his offspring, National Book Award–winner Edward BallLife of a Klansman tells the story of a warrior in the Ku Klux Klan, a carpenter in Louisiana who took up the cause of fanatical racism during the years after the Civil War. Edward Ball, a descendant of the Klansman, paints a ... Read more

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Named a best book of the summer by Literary HubThe life and times of a militant white supremacist, written by one of his offspring, National Book Award–winner Edward BallLife of a Klansman tells the story of a warrior in the Ku Klux Klan, a carpenter in Louisiana who took up the cause of fanatical racism during the years after the Civil War. Edward Ball, a descendant of the Klansman, paints a
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Cold People

by Tom Rob Smith ...

Narrated by Rebecca Lowman ...

Unabridged

12 hours 5 min

* “A zany, wildly gripping, dark futuristic fantasy.” —Vogue, Most Anticipated Books of the Year * “Fascinating…a propulsive ride…through a well-built world.” —The Christian Science Monitor *From the brilliant, bestselling author of Child 44 and creator of the FX series Class of ’09 comes a “cinematic” (The Washington Post), “captivating…[and] “brilliantly conceived postapocalyptic story” ... Read more

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* “A zany, wildly gripping, dark futuristic fantasy.” —Vogue, Most Anticipated Books of the Year * “Fascinating…a propulsive ride…through a well-built world.” —The Christian Science Monitor *From the brilliant, bestselling author of Child 44 and creator of the FX series Class of ’09 comes a “cinematic” (The Washington Post), “captivating…[and] “brilliantly conceived postapocalyptic story”
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Oddbody

Stories

by Rose Keating ...

Narrated by Alana Kerr-Collins ...

Unabridged

5 hours 36 min

“Full of heart and blood, this impressive, wildly imaginative collection heralds the arrival of a compelling new voice in speculative fiction.” —Gabino Iglesias, The New York Times“This is weird girl fiction at its finest.” —Lucy Rose“Compassionate, gross, deeply compelling. A must-read.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Striking, visceral, and brutally honest, Rose Keating’s Od... ... Read more

$18.99 USD

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“Full of heart and blood, this impressive, wildly imaginative collection heralds the arrival of a compelling new voice in speculative fiction.” —Gabino Iglesias, The New York Times“This is weird girl fiction at its finest.” —Lucy Rose“Compassionate, gross, deeply compelling. A must-read.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Striking, visceral, and brutally honest, Rose Keating’s Od...
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School of Shards

A Novel

by Marina & Sergey Dyachenko ...

Narrated by Jessica Ball ...

Series Audiobook 3 - Vita Nostra
Unabridged

10 hours 8 min

The haunting final chapter of the modern classic Vita Nostra trilogy. The Dyachenkos’ magical dark academia novel brings the story of Sasha to a revelatory climax as she learns to take control of her powers and reshape the world...or destroy it forever. Beautifully translated from Russian by Julia Meitov Hersey.The Institute of Special Technologies teaches students just one thing: the magic that ... Read more

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The haunting final chapter of the modern classic Vita Nostra trilogy. The Dyachenkos’ magical dark academia novel brings the story of Sasha to a revelatory climax as she learns to take control of her powers and reshape the world...or destroy it forever. Beautifully translated from Russian by Julia Meitov Hersey.The Institute of Special Technologies teaches students just one thing: the magic that
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