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Everybody thinks that bartenders steal. You know what? They’re right. Maybe there’s an upright barte...

It was quite a party. The women wore gowns. The men wore tuxedos. Anthony Blair wore power armor.

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From the very beginning—which I guess is also the middle and the end if you follow the bent logic in...

The changeling hides in the window seat. On one side of her is glass, gauzy with rain. On the other,...

I came, the hope of my tribe, to the City of Absolutes, in the year of the zero plus two big and a n...

Very quietly, in the dark of night, people began disappearing. Later research showed that they vanis...

.@neiltyson calls them “space diatoms,” but I say “space whales.” They’re beaching themselves on our...

“Push! Push! Damn it, put your backs into it!” Kino Ye’s voice rose to a panicked screech as the fou...

Onyx turned her face up to the sky as she walked with her friend Jasper beside a mule-cart on the ro...

It’s midnight when you and your girlfriend, Elka, have your first fight since you moved in together....

So I guess the story begins, fittingly, with someone handing me a Coma rig and saying, play me. Two ...

No one knows how many airlings there are, most likely not a great many, whatever a great many means....

I hadn’t meant to become an astronaut, but these things happen. I worked hard, because I liked worki...

Monica’s new baby was like a lot of new babies these days in that she was born a cube. She had no ex...

I saw him as soon as I stepped into the room. He was trembling. He was moaning softly. His hands wer...

They opened the box and showed her Bob’s hands, resting side by side on a white pillow. The left one...

I miss you already. But you know that. What you don’t know is just how proud I am of you. You were b...

I fell asleep in Dr. Olga's big room, in the red university building by the Botanical Garden. I had ...

STATEMENT OF INTENT: This is the story of a mother, and a daughter, and the right to life, and the d...

We have a history of missed connections, you and I. Years ago, when you called goodbye from the shut...

I never knew my mother, and I never understood why she did what she did. I ought to be grateful that...

There could be no alternative—but it required a few moments of conditioning for even an EDS pilot to...

Eventually it came to pass that no one ever had to die, unless they ran out of money. When you start...

The tower is a black spire upon a world whose only sun is a million starships wrecked into a mass gr...

He was standing absolutely still by a service port, staring out at the belly of the Orion docking ab...

The slime mould he’d created, a million amoebae aggregated around a drop of cyclic AMP, had been tra...

I sat by the side of the road in the afternoon sun and watched the cranefly struggle. A breeze, hot ...

You think you’re going to get me, don’t you? Well, you’ve got another think coming, ‘cause I’m ready...