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2 B R 0 2 B by Kurt Vonnegut - 0 views

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    2 B R 0 2 B is a satiric short story that imagines life (and death) in a future world where aging has been "cured" and population control is mandated and administered by the government. (Summary by Wikipedia and Laurie Anne Walden)
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EP235: On the Human Plan - 0 views

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    I am called Dog the Digger. I am not mighty, neither am I fearsome. Should you require bravos, there are muscle-boys aplenty among the rat-bars of any lowtown on this raddled world. If it is a wizard you want, follow the powder-trails of crushed silicon and wolf's blood to their dark and winking lairs. Scholars can be found in their libraries, taikonauts in their launch bunkers and ship foundries, priests amid the tallow-gleaming depths of their bone-ribbed cathedrals. What I do is dig. For bodies, for treasure, for the rust-pocked hulks of history, for the sheer pleasure of moving what cannot be moved and finding what rots beneath. You may hire me for an afternoon or a month or the entire turning of the year. It makes me no mind whatsoever. As for you, I know what you want. You want a story.
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Signals in the Deep by Greg Mellor (audio) - 0 views

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  • "Signals in the Deep"
  • read by Kate Baker
  • by Greg Mellor
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    This is one of my favorite stories
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Short story: ILU-486 | Panda-monium - 2 views

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  • But no one had said anything.
  • DON’T WORRY, WE LOVE YOU. EVERY PART OF YOU BELONGS TO YOU.
  • She took the arm band and tucked it into her pocket, where it would wait, until she knew if she was ready for what it wanted her to do.
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Wired 14.11: Very Short Stories - 1 views

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  • For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
  • God said, 'Cancel Program GENESIS.' The universe ceased to exist.
  • Failed SAT. Lost scholarship. Invented rocket. - William Shatner
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  • Computer, did we bring batteries? Computer? - Eileen Gunn
  • Computer, did we bring batteries? Computer?
  • Vacuum collision. Orbits diverge. Farewell, love. - David Brin
  • Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so. - Joss Whedon
  • Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time - Alan Moore
  • Longed for him. Got him. Shit. - Margaret Atwood
  • From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings. - Gregory Maguire
  • With bloody hands, I say good-bye. - Frank Miller
  • Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth. - Vernor Vinge
  • It cost too much, staying human. - Bruce Sterling
  • Lie detector eyeglasses perfected: Civilization collapses. - Richard Powers
  • The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly. - Orson Scott Card
  • To save humankind he died again. - Ben Bova
  • We went solar; sun went nova. - Ken MacLeod
  • Easy. Just touch the match to - Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Epitaph: He shouldn't have fed it. - Brian Herbert
  • Nevertheless, he tried a third time. - James P. Blaylock
  • Help! Trapped in a text adventure! - Marc Laidlaw
  • Thought I was right. I wasn't. - Graeme Gibson
  • Mind of its own. Damn lawnmower. - David Brin
  • Singularity postponed. Datum missing. Query Godoogle? - David Brin
  • Finally, he had no more words. - Gregory Maguire
  • There were only six words left. - Gregory Maguire
  • He read his obituary with confusion. - Steven Meretzky
  • Dorothy: "Fuck it, I'll stay here." - Steven Meretzky
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Basic Science Fiction Library - 0 views

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  • BAXTER, Stephen. This British hard-SF writer won the 1996 Campbell Award for The Time Ships [Amazon|Powell's], a sequel to H.G. Wells' The Time Machine
  • BESTER, Alfred. The Demolished Man [Amazon|Powell's]. Flamboyant novel of murder in a world where telepathy is common. Hugo, 1953.
  • The Stars My Destination (also titled Tiger! Tiger!, 1957) [Amazon|Powell's] is another major novel, the Count of Monte Cristo in a world of teleportation.
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  • For his important short fiction, Starlight (1976) [Amazon|Powell's].
  • CADIGAN, Pat. Synners [Amazon|Powell's] won the 1989 Arthur C. Clarke Award, Fools won the 1994 award for this author who won her first acclaim as the only female cyberpunk author at the time; soon after considered the "Queen of Cyberpunk." Patterns (1988) [Amazon|Powell's] was her first major collection of short works, and Mindplayers (1987) [Amazon|Powell's] was her breakout novel.
  • CAMPBELL, John W. The Best of John W. Campbell (1976) [Amazon|Powell's]. Influential, longtime editor of Astounding/Analog, Campbell began as a writer of space epics and then turned to writing the more subtle psychological, philosophical stories collected here.
  • DOCTOROW, Cory. Doctorow is an SF author, blogger, and technology activist. He co-edits Boing Boing and contributes to many other publications. He was formerly Director of European Affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. His fiction has been nominated for all the major awards and won the Locus Award and the Sunburst Award. Doctorow speaks frequently about copyright, technology, and post-scarcity economics. His Little Brother [Amazon|Powell's] won the 2008 John W. Campbell Award.
  • CHERRYH, C. J. Downbelow Station [Amazon|Powell's]. Hugo, 1982. This former high school Latin teacher writes about carefully designed future civilizations and alien societies, as well as fantasy novels, such as her Rusalka trilogy.
  • CLARKE, Arthur C. Childhood's End [Amazon|Powell's] (1953). A visionary, eschatological novel about Earth's children changing into pure mentality and joining the Overmind. Clarke is one of the three best-known contemporary science-fiction writers of his time (the other two were Asimov and Heinlein) and worth reading in any of his three moods: extrapolative, poetic, philosophical. Other important books: The City and the Stars (1956) [Amazon|Powell's]; Rendezvous with Rama [Amazon|Powell's], Hugo, Nebula, Campbell, 1974; The Fountains of Paradise [Amazon|Powell's], Hugo, Nebula, 1979; and the novelization of the Stanley Kubrick film, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) [Amazon|Powell's].
  • DICK, Philip K. The Man in the High Castle [Amazon|Powell's]. The United States has lost World War II, and Japan and Germany have divided it up, except for the Rocky Mountain states, where a novelist is writing a book in which the United States won the war; one of the best of the alternate-history novels. Hugo, 1963. Dick, who died in 1982, was a prolific author whose books, all of interest, dealt often with the nature of reality: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? [Amazon|Powell's] (upon which the film "Blade Runner" was based, 1968); Ubik [Amazon|Powell's] (1969); Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (Campbell, 1974) [Amazon|Powell's]; and Valis (1981) [Amazon|Powell's].
  • CHARNAS, Suzy McKee. Walk to the End of the World (1974) [Amazon|Powell's] was one of the early post-holocaust feminist dystopias, followed by Motherlines (1978) [Amazon|Powell's], a feminist utopia. "Boobs" won the 1989 Hugo.
  • FARMER, Philip José. To Your Scattered Bodies Go [Amazon|Powell's]. The first novel in Farmer's Riverworld series, in which all past human beings are revived to find themselves living along the banks of a long river. Hugo, 1972. The first had Richard Burton as its hero, the second, The Fabulous Riverboat [Amazon|Powell's] (1971), Mark Twain. Farmer is prolific, and delights in reviving old heroes in fiction or fictionalized biography such as Tarzan Alive [Amazon|Powell's] (1972) and Venus on the Half Shell [Amazon|Powell's] (1975).
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PodCastle » PodCastle 106: Little Gods - 0 views

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  • “I wish I could be a little goddess of cinnamon,”
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Side Jobs - Stories from the Dresden Files - Google eBookstore - 0 views

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    Here, together for the first time, are the shorter works of #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher-a compendium of cases that Harry and his cadre of allies managed to close in record time. The tales range from the deadly serious to the absurdly hilarious. Also included is a new, never-before-published novella that takes place after the cliff-hanger ending of the new April 2010 hardcover, Changes. This is a must-have collection for every devoted Harry Dresden fan as well as a perfect introduction for readers ready to meet Chicago's only professional wizard.
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Wired 14.11: Very Short Stories - 0 views

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  • Failed SAT. Lost scholarship. Invented rocket. - William Shatner
  • Computer, did we bring batteries? Computer? - Eileen Gunn
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  • Vacuum collision. Orbits diverge. Farewell, love. - David Brin
  • Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so. - Joss Whedon
  • Automobile warranty expires. So does engine. - Stan Lee
  • Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time - Alan Moore
  • From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings. - Gregory Maguire
  • Kirby had never eaten toes before. - Kevin Smith
  • “Cellar?” “Gate to, uh … hell, actually.” - Ronald D. Moore
  • Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth. - Vernor Vinge
  • It cost too much, staying human. - Bruce Sterling
  • We kissed. She melted. Mop please! - James Patrick Kelly
  • Lie detector eyeglasses perfected: Civilization collapses. - Richard Powers
  • The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly. - Orson Scott Card
  • With bloody hands, I say good-bye. - Frank Miller
  • Nevertheless, he tried a third time. - James P. Blaylock
  • To save humankind he died again. - Ben Bova
  • We went solar; sun went nova. - Ken MacLeod
  • Epitaph: He shouldn't have fed it. - Brian Herbert
  • Batman Sues Batsignal: Demands Trademark Royalties. - Cory Doctorow
  • Heaven falls. Details at eleven. - Robert Jordan
  • Bush told the truth. Hell froze. - William Gibson
  • whorl. Help! I'm caught in a time - Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel
  • Rained, rained, rained, and never stopped. - Howard Waldrop
  • Help! Trapped in a text adventure! - Marc Laidlaw
  • Thought I was right. I wasn't. - Graeme Gibson
  • Bang postponed. Not Big enough. Reboot. - David Brin
  • Time Avenger's mistaken! It wasn't me... - David Brin
  • Death postponed. Metastasized cells got organized. - David Brin
  • Mind of its own. Damn lawnmower. - David Brin
  • Singularity postponed. Datum missing. Query Godoogle? - David Brin
  • Please, this is everything, I swear. - Orson Scott Card
  • I saw, darling, but do lie. - Orson Scott Card
  • Osama’s time machine: President Gore concerned. - Charles Stross
  • Sum of all fears: AND patented. - Charles Stross
  • Clones demand rights: second Emancipation Proclamation. - Paul Di Filippo
  • We crossed the border; they killed us. - Howard Waldrop
  • H-bombs dropped; we all died. - Howard Waldrop
  • Finally, he had no more words. - Gregory Maguire
  • There were only six words left. - Gregory Maguire
  • Weeping, Bush misheard Cheney’s deathbed advice. - Gregory Maguire
  • Corpse parts missing. Doctor buys yacht. - Margaret Atwood
  • Starlet sex scandal. Giant squid involved. - Margaret Atwood
  • He read his obituary with confusion. - Steven Meretzky
  • Time traveler's thought: "What's the password?" - Steven Meretzky
  • I win lottery. Sun goes nova. - Steven Meretzky
  • Parallel universe. Bush, destitute, joins army. - Steven Meretzky
  • Dorothy: "Fuck it, I'll stay here." - Steven Meretzky
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Daína Chaviano | Biography - 0 views

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  • In 1979 she received the David Prize for Science Fiction for Los mundos que amo ("The Worlds I Love"), a collection of stories she authored between the ages of 15 and 19.
  • established the first science fiction literary workshop in Latin America.
  • Daína Chaviano has received numerous international awards and recognitions: Anna Seghers Award (Berlin Academy of Arts, 1990) for Fábulas de una abuela extraterrestre; Azorín Prize for Best Novel (Spain, 1998) for El hombre, la hembra y el hambre; Goliardos International Award for Fantasy (Mexico, 2003); Guest of Honor at the 25th International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts (Fort Lauderdale, 2004); and Gold Medal for Best Book in Spanish Language (Florida Book Awards, 2006) for La isla de los amores infinitos.
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  • Anna Seghers Award (Berlin Academy of Arts, 1990) for Fábulas de una abuela extraterrestre; Azorín Prize for Best Novel (Spain, 1998) for El hombre, la hembra y el hambre; Goliardos International Award for Fantasy (Mexico, 2003); Guest of Honor at the 25th International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts (Fort Lauderdale, 2004); and Gold Medal for Best Book in Spanish Language (Florida Book Awards, 2006) for La isla de los amores infinitos.
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