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Neon Hemlock Press
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[2022]
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In her debut collection, Izzy Wasserstein pries the lid off fourteen different worlds from an already impressive short fiction career. In these pages, you'll meet ne'er-do-wells and orphans, investigators and revolutionaries, diplomats and doctoral students. Wasserstein has a gift for putting her finger on the meaty parts of grief, the catalysts of change, and the pain points of community. This collection contains fourteen stories, two of which have...
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"Valentine Weis is a salvager in the future wastelands of Utah. Wrestling with body dysphoria, he dreams of earning enough money to afford citizenship in Salt Lake City--a utopia where the testosterone and surgery he needs to transition is free, the food is plentiful, and folk are much less likely to be shot full of arrows by salt pirates. But earning that kind of money is a pipe dream, until he meets the exceptionally handsome Osric. Once a powerful...
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When her ex-girlfriend Kay is murdered and everyone in her old commune is a suspect, Dora, while investigating, discovers Kay's death is one of several terrible incidents and is drawn into a twisted conspiracy while trying to stop a potential war between two nefarious companies.
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When a new patron at the library catches Tyler's sights, she doesn't expect the encounter to turn into much. But when she realizes that Clinton Dubsky, a PhD student at the local university, is translating a poem from a prior civilization, she's even more intrigued.
As Tyler works with Clint to translate the poem and find references for a lost world, she also excavates her own history through her grandmother's stories about society, painting with...
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Jenna Kitchener is a hard-working scientist harvesting minerals from the planet Jonquil to make batteries for human and alien alike. She's also a trans woman, still dealing with the ripple effect from her family's exile.
When a member of her crew badmouths her behind her back, she confronts what she always suspected: in spite of her hard work and perseverance, her past will always come back to haunt her. She drinks her sorrows away in a bar on Asteroid...
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Roland Ruiz isn't very good at taking time for himself. When he loses a big intergalactic trafficking case at his legal firm, his boss tells him to take the Vacation Station travel liner and visit the vacation moons of Jupiter. What should be fun ends up feeling more like exile, especially as Roland is left unimpressed by the first moon he visits and is snubbed by the locals. Everything changes when a beautiful scientist working on Io shows him the...
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Fourteen thousand lives, gone in an instant. A ruthless terrorist on the loose. The largest bounty ever posted. IGP Earthstation 1 was the largest police station in the galaxy. Designed to deploy officers anywhere on Earth at a moment's notice, this orbiting fortress was a symbol of protection to all those it defended. The aftermath of its destruction leaves the galaxy in turmoil. Crime rates soar. With the police too understaffed to pursue the woman...
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"An A.I. wages war on a future it doesn't understand. Alice is the last human. Street-smart and bad-ass. After discovering what appears to be an A.I. personality in an antique data core, Alice decides to locate its home somewhere in the stargate network. At the very least she wants to lay him to rest because, as it turns out, she's stumbled upon the sentient control unit of a deadly ancient weapon system. Convincing the ghost of a raging warrior that...
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While this book happens 23 years before the main events of this series, it contains characters, events, and context needed to fully enjoy the rest of the series. This is the preferred reading order, but it can also be read any time before, during, or right after books 1 and 2.
THE RULER IS DEAD.
LONG LIVE THE RULER.
Homaj Rhialden has lived his whole life knowing his older sibling, not himself, will rule his
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What if cyborgs suffered body dysphoria? In his mid-forties, former cop turned career bureaucrat Nolan Rogers is diagnosed with terminal cancer. His best friend Elly Takahara convinces him to undergo the process of body conversion, where his brain is transplanted into a robotic body. The operation is successful, but Nolan quickly finds himself adrift in a body that doesn't eat or physically react to emotion. For the first time in years, he's suffering...
11) Mastery
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Skailore survived the drop from space to earth thanks to rune-crafting Strayer. Now, their friend has a new task.Strayer hands them a travel pack."Time to face your gravity."What do they mean? The only way to know is to leave Strayer's cottage and go on the journey.
12) Schizotopia
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Flora is missing, and I have to find her. She won't answer my calls, and I'm terrified that she doesn't love me anymore. Maybe she's ignoring me because I'm a creep. It's probably not because she's been abducted by lizards in suits; they only exist in my paranoid delusions. Probably.I have to warn you, I might not be the most reliable of narrators. If you come with me to look for Flora, you might help keep me sane. Or you might end up in my world...
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"The Cosmos Don't Know Jack" by Jack Springier weaves an enchanting tale that intertwines legends of forgotten towns and sinister forests. In the forsaken town of Ashbrook, the urban legend of "The Echoing Specter" haunts the locals with its sinister tale of a witchcraft-accused seamstress trapped in a spinning wheel's spirit. Nearby, "Blackthorn Manor" carries a cursed history driven by a dark lord's lust for immortality and dark magic.
Meanwhile,...
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Summer 2079. Paradise, alive in Portugal. An ad claims the beaches are back. What could jumpstart a recent high school graduate's photography career like an opportunity like that?Ry travels to Lisboa for the truth. The fancy hotel, the crowded streets, the promise of adventure and success.Ry finds a bar in the basement of a random building in an unfamiliar part of the city. Time to get to know the locals.Will things go sideways or will it all pan...
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Ellen Mellor's second collection includes all of the stories and essays that she wrote since her transition.
Discover multiple worlds, including further stories of Sindy and The Bitch (first introduced in the story Freeing The Bitch, also included here); explore Venus, a world populated by trans people exiled from Earth; discover the secrets of The Multiverse Box; find out what happens when Captain Grace Morrison is Marooned Off Ceres and more.
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This "thought-provoking and . . . unabashedly entertaining . . . novel defies conventional expectations and exists, brilliantly and defiantly, on its own terms" (Sarah Lotz, New York Times Book Review).
Lake Geneva, 1816. Nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley is inspired to write a story about a scientist who creates a new life-form. In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love with Victor Stein,...
Lake Geneva, 1816. Nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley is inspired to write a story about a scientist who creates a new life-form. In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love with Victor Stein,...
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Robot Dinosaur Press
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2023
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THE POWER TO DESTROY A KINGDOM.
THE POWER TO HEAL A HEART.
Ari's new powers have awakened, threatening to tear apart a kingdom already on the edge. Sent back to Valon to face her father's—and the people's—judgement, Ari must decide how far she'll go to reclaim her former life, if that's even possible anymore.
In the heart of the turmoil, Iata, the reigning ruler, is losing control
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2024
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NOTHING CAN STOP THE COMING STORM.
Dressa trusted the woman she married, the woman she loved, but that woman betrayed her. Imorie thought they could reclaim their life of power, but they gave it up to help a friend. And Rhys, unwitting envoy to the unknowable Kidaa, is navigating uncharted space with no compass. With the ruling family crumbling and the kingdom in an uproar, can these royal siblings navigate the coming storm?
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19) Ready Call Jones
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Grungy space station Suptum One.Ridiculous rumors and a ridiculous bounty lead hunter Redical Jones to a seedy bar.Commotion starts. Jones, caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, makes a move to leave. A voice calls out."Just let me get to the bar a minute!"Can it be? The voice of the bounty? What are the odds?
20) Stars and Dark
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Stars and Dark, a collection of five science-fiction stories, takes you to space in the far-flung future. Silicone-based lifeforms, queer non-binary AI, space stations, and queer trans post-earth humans all populate these pages, each character telling their complex and tangled story of life in a vacuum full of pinpricks of light. Let these hopepunk stories transport you to another time and another place in the great cosmos where love and hope are...
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