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Mixing Your Own Apotheosis

Mixing Your Own Apotheosis by Brian Hugenbruch You read through the ingredient’s list one more time, just to be certain. You’re not the sort of person who normally does mise-en-place for cocktails, but this was never just about intoxication. Quite … Continue reading

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Eye Record

Eye Record by James Dick For future generations For our children For my grandchildren For my own peace of mind For posterity —E.C. *Transcript—TRANCE team meeting, 05/09/2035* Participants: …………Principal Investigator Dr. Edward Carraway …………………………….Assistant Mission Manager Janet Bishop …………………………….LIZARD Instrument … Continue reading

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Faceless

Faceless by Jim Robb If a wizard is invited to appear before the Council of Mages it is usually a good thing, but if summoned it is invariably bad. Tharnic had been summoned. He stood before the Council, wearing the … Continue reading

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Calling a StarSkipper

Calling a StarSkipper by Ian Li Zet glanced down at the defunct Agana cargo port, a moon-sized graveyard of rusted freighters and discarded shipping containers. It wasn’t hard to find the customer they were looking for—there was only one man … Continue reading

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They Call the Wind Blarga

They Call The Wind Blarga by Matthew Castleman “Blarga blarga blarga blarga blarga blarga blarga blarga blarga blarga blarga blarga.” “That can’t be what it said.” “That’s what it said. That’s an exact quote.” “Blarga.” “Twelve times.” Leclerc, the team … Continue reading

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Blackpowder Demon

Blackpowder Demon by K. D. Julicher The evening breeze kept Miya’s nostrils free of the acrid stench of burned demon-flesh as she sliced into the fresh carcass. The gutted monster hung on a rack outside of Lord Eronall’s hunting camp. … Continue reading

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A&A reviews The Serpents of Eden

The Serpents of Eden (Running Wild Press) by R.W. Goldsmith Artist Clay Middleton lives in a very tiny town in the Southwest USA. After years of living as an eccentric recluse he’s suddenly caring for his grandson, Dylan. Dylan’s dad … Continue reading

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A&A reviews NINE LEVELS by Elana Gomel

Nine Levels (Mirror World Publishing) by Elana Gomel Cleo wakes up, groggy and salt-encrusted, on a Mediterranean beach in Greece after a midnight party. She’s a British-Greek tourist, but slowly realizes she’s not actually in Greece any longer. Or at … Continue reading

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A&A Reviews UNICORN VISIONS by Jo Boone

Unicorn Visions  by Jo Boone Unicorn Visions, a collection by Jo Boone, tells me that Boone is one of those authors who can write in both the short and long form—short stories as well as novels—with equal ease. Each of … Continue reading

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Re Extinction

Ann K. Schwader Re Extinction The mastodons were bad enough. Who thought revisiting the Late Anthropocene would be a good idea? We forgot how long it took to get the planet clean last time, perhaps. But female apes survived, & … Continue reading

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