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via FREE Fiction / Raindrop.io https://raindrop.io The New Prometheus | Tor.com via Instapaper http://bit.ly/2KrTwd6 The Arctic wastes stretched wide in every direction, vast and irregular plains of ice which seemed to have no end. At their center, barely visible in the weak light provided by a sliver of sun at the horizon, was a rapidly moving sled. via Pocket

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She slides the ornately embossed door aside and enters the first-class stall. It’s empty but for a man, he barely stirs as he reads aloud from a menu. The train wheels clatter and shake and the man smiles as he cranes his head up to take in a vast u… via FREE Fiction / Raindrop.io https://raindrop.io White Star | 365tomorrows via Instapaper http://bit.ly/2QqP9is

via FREE Fiction / Raindrop.io https://raindrop.io You have heard all the tales about Myrra Ferrinn, I’m sure—she of the ink-dark skies, she of the high places where men may not follow—and, of course, you have heard the tale of her gruesome end. via Pocket Beneath Ceaseless Skies | The Bone Flute Quartet by K.J. Kabza via Instapaper http://bit.ly/2E06ZDP

via FREE Fiction / Raindrop.io https://raindrop.io Even if they did not study history, all the people of Ranzak knew one story older than their grandmother’s time and newer than the legends of the Prophet. Navid had learned it when he was no higher than his mother’s knee, and he was reminded often. … Beneath Ceaseless Skies | The Thirty-Eight-Hundred Bone Coat by R.K. Duncan via Instapaper http://bit.ly/2WC8jEb

via FREE Fiction / Raindrop.io https://raindrop.io For over 25 years, the Wild Cards universe has been entertaining readers with stories of superpowered people in an alternate history. “Long is the Way” by Carrie Vaughn and Sage Walker sheds light on what people will do to escape the sins of their p… Long is the Way | Tor.com via Instapaper http://bit.ly/2VEs3ut

via FREE Fiction / Raindrop.io https://raindrop.io In  this standalone short story by N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season, the winner of this year’s Hugo Award  for Best Novel, New York City is about to go through a few changes. via Pocket The City Born Great | Tor.com via Instapaper http://bit.ly/2wbjbOD

via FREE Fiction / Raindrop.io https://raindrop.io In a cyber-enhanced, futuristic Chicago, Sonata knows near-immortality is achievable through downloading her mind into a cyborg body after death. But this young artist wants to prove that living forever isn’t the same as living a beautiful life. via… The Three Lives of Sonata James | Tor.com via Instapaper http://bit.ly/2x2XemM