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Holiday Free Fiction: Visions of Gingerbread
At this year's party, as usual, everyone from my executive VP to the mail clerk steered clear of me. An hour into...
 
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Holiday Free Fiction: R3
Damn right we're Christmas—a holiday all about the foolish belief in the impossible. Flying reindeer are perfect for...
 
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Holiday Free Fiction: The Christmas Count
The sky over the river is already light and I’m still six miles from his house -- ten more minutes. Provided I don’t get...
 
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Silurian Tales
"Here about the beach I wander, Nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, And the long results of...
 
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Empire of the Ants
In a few miles of this forest there must be more ants than there are men in the whole world! This seemed to Holroyd a perfectly...
 
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Empire of the Ants
In a few miles of this forest there must be more ants than there are men in the whole world! This seemed to Holroyd a perfectly...
 
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When it Changed - Science Into Fiction
UK publisher Comma Press has just released When it Changed, a cool-sounding new anthology where writers and scientists have...
 
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ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT...
" . . . relay this information to Earth. Tsien destroyed three hours ago. I'm only survivor. Using my suit radio – no idea...
 
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Hugo Award Winner: Kress's Erdmann Nexus
Nancy Kress's novella "The Erdmann Nexus" won a Hugo yesterday. It's basis is a combination of the philosophical and...
 
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Hugo Nominee: Pride and Prometheus
Mary Shelly's 1831 classic, Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, is considered by many to have been one of the earliest...
 
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Summer and Science Fiction
Wow, the summer is really flying by. I've been having a very nice bit of a holiday, topped by an excellent 4th of July BBQ:...