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The Subtle Art of Folding Space

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**The Subtle Art of Folding Space is the exhilarating debut science fiction novel from Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author John Chu which channels unhinged physics, generational trauma, and the comfort of really good dim sum. This isn't your usual jaunt through quantum physics.Most Ancipated Books of 2026—Esquire**Best New Science Fiction of 2026— New ScientistSci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Look ... Read more

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**The Subtle Art of Folding Space is the exhilarating debut science fiction novel from Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author John Chu which channels unhinged physics, generational trauma, and the comfort of really good dim sum. This isn't your usual jaunt through quantum physics.Most Ancipated Books of 2026—Esquire**Best New Science Fiction of 2026— New ScientistSci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Look
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The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere

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by John Chu ...

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**John Chu's sci-fi tale, "**The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere" won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story.In the near future water falls from the sky whenever someone lies (either a mist or a torrential flood depending on the intensity of the lie). This makes life difficult for Matt as he maneuvers the marriage question with his lover and how best to "come out" to his traditional Chinese ... Read more

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**John Chu's sci-fi tale, "**The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere" won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story.In the near future water falls from the sky whenever someone lies (either a mist or a torrential flood depending on the intensity of the lie). This makes life difficult for Matt as he maneuvers the marriage question with his lover and how best to "come out" to his traditional Chinese
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The Subtle Art of Folding Space

by John Chu ...

Narrated by Katharine Chin ...

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The Subtle Art of Folding Space, is the exhilarating debut science fiction novel from Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author John Chu channels unhinged physics, generational trauma, and the comfort of really good dim sum. This isn't your usual jaunt through quantum physics.“[Katharine Chin's] narration is a steady throughline as the story veers from quantum wackiness to family trauma and back again. ... Read more

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The Subtle Art of Folding Space, is the exhilarating debut science fiction novel from Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author John Chu channels unhinged physics, generational trauma, and the comfort of really good dim sum. This isn't your usual jaunt through quantum physics.“[Katharine Chin's] narration is a steady throughline as the story veers from quantum wackiness to family trauma and back again.
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A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Proposed Trade-Offs for the Overhaul of the Barricade

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by John Chu ...

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Generation after generation, engineers have maintained the barricade, a shield that protects civilization against Turbulence, this strange force that destroys both minds and machines. As Turbulence grows ever more intense and the barricade begins to fail, can Ritter live up to the demands of his father, an engineer the equal of any hero in the Five Great Classical Novels, as they struggle to ... Read more

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Generation after generation, engineers have maintained the barricade, a shield that protects civilization against Turbulence, this strange force that destroys both minds and machines. As Turbulence grows ever more intense and the barricade begins to fail, can Ritter live up to the demands of his father, an engineer the equal of any hero in the Five Great Classical Novels, as they struggle to
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Hold-Time Violations

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by John Chu ...

Ellie is on her way to visit her comatose mother when her sister sends her to repair physics. Each universe has skunkworks that generate the universe within it, making this multiverse a set of matryoshka dolls. The skunkworks that generate this universe have become faulty, and the physical constants suddenly...aren't. In order to fix the skunkworks, to make physics self-consistent again, and to ... Read more

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Ellie is on her way to visit her comatose mother when her sister sends her to repair physics. Each universe has skunkworks that generate the universe within it, making this multiverse a set of matryoshka dolls. The skunkworks that generate this universe have become faulty, and the physical constants suddenly...aren't. In order to fix the skunkworks, to make physics self-consistent again, and to
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The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere

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by John Chu ...

Narrated by Philip Estrera ...

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**John Chu's Hugo Award-winning short story, "**The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere", is now available for listenersIn the near future water falls from the sky whenever someone lies (either a mist or a torrential flood depending on the intensity of the lie). This makes life difficult for Matt as he maneuvers the marriage question with his lover and how best to "come out" to his traditional ... Read more

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**John Chu's Hugo Award-winning short story, "**The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere", is now available for listenersIn the near future water falls from the sky whenever someone lies (either a mist or a torrential flood depending on the intensity of the lie). This makes life difficult for Matt as he maneuvers the marriage question with his lover and how best to "come out" to his traditional
... Read more

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The Long List Anthology Volume 6

More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List

by David Steffen, Elizabeth Bear, Yoon Ha Lee, Ellen Klages, Aimee Ogden, John Chu, Fonda Lee, Brooke Bolander, A.T. Greenblatt, T. Kingfisher, Mary Robinette Kowal, Sam J. Miller, Karen Osborne, A.C. Wise, Mimi Mondal, JY Neon Yang, G.V. Anderson, M. Evan MacGriogair, Suzanne Palmer ...

Series Book 6 - The Long List Anthology Series
This is the sixth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to get them to more readersThe Long List Anthology Volume 5 collects ... Read more

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This is the sixth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to get them to more readersThe Long List Anthology Volume 5 collects
... Read more
Made to Order

Robots and Revolution

by Annalee Newitz, John Chu, Daryl Gregory, Alice Sola Kim, Rich Larson, Ken Liu, Carmen Maria Machado, Ian R. Macleod, Suzanne Palmer ...

100 years after Karel Capek coined the word, “robots” are an everyday idea, and the inspiration for countless stories in books, film, TV and games.They are often among the least privileged, most unfairly used of us, and the more robots are like humans, the more interesting they become. This collection of stories is where robots stand in for us, where both we and they are disadvantaged, and where ... Read more

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100 years after Karel Capek coined the word, “robots” are an everyday idea, and the inspiration for countless stories in books, film, TV and games.They are often among the least privileged, most unfairly used of us, and the more robots are like humans, the more interesting they become. This collection of stories is where robots stand in for us, where both we and they are disadvantaged, and where
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The Mythic Dream

by John Chu, Leah Cypess, Indrapramit Das, Amal El-Mohtar, Jeffrey Ford, Sarah Gailey, Carlos Hernandez, Kat Howard, Stephen Graham Jones, T. Kingfisher, Ann Leckie, Carmen Maria Machado, Arkady Martine, Seanan McGuire, Naomi Novik, Rebecca Roanhorse, Alyssa Wong, J.Y. Yang ...

An all-new anthology of eighteen classic myth retellings featuring an all-star lineup of award-winning and critically acclaimed writers.Madeleine L’Engle once said, “When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.” The Mythic Dream gathers together eighteen stories that reclaim the myths that shaped our collective past, and use them to explore our present and future. From Hades and ... Read more

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An all-new anthology of eighteen classic myth retellings featuring an all-star lineup of award-winning and critically acclaimed writers.Madeleine L’Engle once said, “When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.” The Mythic Dream gathers together eighteen stories that reclaim the myths that shaped our collective past, and use them to explore our present and future. From Hades and
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New Suns 2

Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

by Daniel H. Wilson, K. Tempest Bradford, Darcie Little Badger, Geetanjali Vandemark, John Chu, Nghi Vo, Tananarive Due, Alex Jennings, Karin Lowachee, Saad Hossain, Hiromi Goto, Minsoo Kang, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Malka Older, Kathleen Alcalá, Christopher Caldwell, Jaymee Goh, Dr. Grace Dillon ...

Octavia E. Butler said, “There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”New Suns 2 brings you fresh visions of the strange, the unexpected, the shocking—breakthrough stories, stories shining with emerging truths, stories that pierce stale preconceptions with their beauty and bravery. Like the first New Suns anthology (winner of the World Fantasy, Locus, IGNYTE, and British Fantasy ... Read more

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Octavia E. Butler said, “There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”New Suns 2 brings you fresh visions of the strange, the unexpected, the shocking—breakthrough stories, stories shining with emerging truths, stories that pierce stale preconceptions with their beauty and bravery. Like the first New Suns anthology (winner of the World Fantasy, Locus, IGNYTE, and British Fantasy
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Uncanny Magazine Issue 28

May/June 2019

by Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas, Ellen Klages, John Chu, Emma Osborne, Elizabeth Bear, Brit E.B. Hvide, Christopher Caldwell, Kameron Hurley, Tananarive Due ...

Series Book 28 - Uncanny Magazine
The May/June 2019 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Ellen Klages, John Chu, Emma Osborne, Elizabeth Bear, Brit E. B. Hvide, and Christopher Caldwell. Reprinted fiction by Kameron Hurley, essays by Tananarive Due, Arkady Martine, Gwenda Bond, and Nicasio Andres Reed, poetry by Theodora Goss, Nicasio Andres Reed, S. Qiouyi Lu, Ali Trotta, and Brandon O'Brien, ... Read more

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The May/June 2019 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Ellen Klages, John Chu, Emma Osborne, Elizabeth Bear, Brit E. B. Hvide, and Christopher Caldwell. Reprinted fiction by Kameron Hurley, essays by Tananarive Due, Arkady Martine, Gwenda Bond, and Nicasio Andres Reed, poetry by Theodora Goss, Nicasio Andres Reed, S. Qiouyi Lu, Ali Trotta, and Brandon O'Brien,
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Uncanny Magazine Issue 59

July/August 2024

by Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas, Sarah Pinsker, Greg van Eekhout, Sunwoo Jeong, John Chu, AnaMaria Curtis, Eleanna Castroianni, Megan Chee, John Scalzi ...

Series Book 59 - Uncanny Magazine
The July/August 2024 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Sarah Pinsker, Greg van Eekhout, Sunwoo Jeong, John Chu, AnaMaria Curtis, Eleanna Castroianni, and Megan Chee. Essays by John Scalzi, Marissa Lingen, Del Sandeen, and Natania Barron, poetry by Terese Mason Pierre, Natasha King, Roshani Chokshi, and Abdulkareem Abdulkareem, interviews with Greg van Eekhout ... Read more

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The July/August 2024 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Sarah Pinsker, Greg van Eekhout, Sunwoo Jeong, John Chu, AnaMaria Curtis, Eleanna Castroianni, and Megan Chee. Essays by John Scalzi, Marissa Lingen, Del Sandeen, and Natania Barron, poetry by Terese Mason Pierre, Natasha King, Roshani Chokshi, and Abdulkareem Abdulkareem, interviews with Greg van Eekhout
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