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Powers of observation
Powers of observation
I’ve been super-still in a tree for hours as I practise observation. I’m going to be a scientist, so learning to observe is very important. My corder hangs from my neck but I keep a hand near it all the time in case I spy something new. I already sa…
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Powers of observation
These 5 books go 6 feet deep
These 5 books go 6 feet deep
Grave robbery. If you think it’s a relic of gothic novels, think again. Now that the first generation of body-modified tech-bros and computer-implanted one-percenters sleep under tombstones, there’s a ton of gear in the ground. via Pocket
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These 5 books go 6 feet deep
Universal Parking, Inc.
Universal Parking, Inc.
As a physics graduate student at a great technical university, my life was full. One of the things it was most full of was trying to find a parking space. I was not important enough to get a university sticker and not rich enough to afford a pay lot…
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Universal Parking, Inc.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Speak Easy, Suicide Selkies by E. Catherine Tobler
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Speak Easy, Suicide Selkies by E. Catherine Tobler
They say that when you go to the sky-reflected ocean and strip yourself as bare as the day you were born, the water will take you in. It will hurt—don’t fool yourself. The transition between one life and the next is never without pain or grief. via … Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Speak Easy, Suicide Selkies by E. Catherine Tobler via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2w8zqe0
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Speak Easy, Suicide Selkies by E. Catherine Tobler
Meat And Salt And Sparks | Tor.com
Meat And Salt And Sparks | Tor.com
A futuristic murder mystery about detective partners—a human and an enhanced chimpanzee—who are investigating why a woman murdered an apparently random stranger on the subway. “Doesn’t look like a killer, does she,” Huxley remarks. Cu shrugs a hairy… Meat And Salt And Sparks | Tor.com via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2szUw3Z
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Meat And Salt And Sparks | Tor.com
The Cold Flame | Tor.com
The Cold Flame | Tor.com
Here is the whisper in the night, the creak upstairs, that half-remembered ghost story that won’t let you sleep, the sound that raises gooseflesh, the wish you’d checked the lock on the door before it got really, really dark. via Pocket
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The Cold Flame | Tor.com
The Need for Air | Tor.com
The Need for Air | Tor.com
A mother. A son. A virtual world they both share where each could live forever and achieve their fullest potential. Until one of them decides that isn’t enough for life. via Pocket The Need for Air | Tor.com via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2tHgcv2
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The Need for Air | Tor.com
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Sweetness of Honey and Rot by A. Merc Rustad
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Sweetness of Honey and Rot by A. Merc Rustad
It’s the last day of autumn, and Jiteh’s twin brother is dead. He sits on the edge of his cot, thorns popping like seedlings from between his knuckles and poking through his sweaty scalp in a blood-slicked crown. “I’m scared,” he whispers. via Pocket Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Sweetness of Honey and Rot by A. Merc Rustad via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2w2Hnm7
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Sweetness of Honey and Rot by A. Merc Rustad
Reading in Bed | Tor.com
Reading in Bed | Tor.com
Enjoy this reprint from Joan Aiken’s short story collection The Monkey’s Wedding: and Other Stories  from Small Beer Press. Francis Nastrowski was a young Polish officer. He had once been rich, but was so no longer. Some of the habits of his bygone … Reading in Bed | Tor.com via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2L3esmh
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Reading in Bed | Tor.com
Recoveries | Tor.com
Recoveries | Tor.com
Two women who have been friends since they were children—one a recovering alcoholic brought up by parents who believe they’re alien abductees, the other an orphan with an eating disorder—contend with a secret that might doom their friendship. So her… Recoveries | Tor.com via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2MHzBVq
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Recoveries | Tor.com
Black Friday | Tor.com
Black Friday | Tor.com
In a dark future America where consumerism and gun culture are unchecked, a young family teams up to celebrate the first shopping day of the Christmas season in the most patriotic way possible. via Pocket
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Black Friday | Tor.com
Grace’s Family | Tor.com
Grace’s Family | Tor.com
The mission: to survey the galaxy and beyond. An endless stream of probes and starships heading out into the universe, surveying, cataloguing, assaying. Forever. And on board those ships, the intrepid explorers who give it all meaning. We are a way … Grace’s Family | Tor.com via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2rIVDhG
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Grace’s Family | Tor.com
Yiwu | Tor.com
Yiwu | Tor.com
Can dreams come true? They can if you win the lottery, which promises to provide what your heart desires. For a humble shopkeeper in Yiwu, it’s a living, selling lottery tickets. Until a winning ticket opens up mysteries he’d never imagined. via Poc… Yiwu | Tor.com via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2IBq5oa
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Yiwu | Tor.com
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Examination Cloth by Jonathan Edelstein
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Examination Cloth by Jonathan Edelstein
The silent proctors walked beside Ukeme into the examination village, checked him for iron and palm leaves and concealed cloth-patterns, and brought him to a hut. He stood at the threshold for a moment, looking down at the floor just inside. via Poc… Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Examination Cloth by Jonathan Edelstein via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2Iya2XH
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Examination Cloth by Jonathan Edelstein