I like the number 13. Why? I don’t know, probably because so many people dislike it that I feel the need to be contrary. Anyway, I decided to rummage through the archives at AntipodeanSF and take a look at their 13th issue – I’m glad I did!
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Today we journey back to an issue of Antipodean SF so old it came from last century! Gasp!
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This is a guest post by Raz Greenberg.

“Snow, Glass, Apples” is a 1994 short fantasy story by Neil Gaiman. It tells the all-too familiar fairy tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves from a fresh perspective – that of the Snow White’s stepmother.
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“Orphans of The Helix” is a 1991 science fiction novella by Dan Simmons. It is about a group of deep space settlers who drop out of hyper-space to help some aliens protect their orbital forest ring.

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“Approaching Perimelasma” is a 1998 science fiction novelette by Geoffrey A. Landis. It is about a tiny downloaded human who agrees to take his spaceship into a black hole and hopes that an untested scientific trick can pull him back out again.

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“Tower of Babylon” is a 1990 science fiction novelette by Ted Chiang. It is about the journey of a young miner who ascends the great tower of Babylon to help break through the vault of heaven.

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“The Planck Dive” is a 1998 science fiction novelette by Greg Egan. It is about a group of beings who are sending cloned copies of themselves on a scientific journey into a black hole.

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“The Color of Sunfire” is a 1993 science fiction short story by Larry Niven. It is about a man who tells the story of discovering the elusive Puppeteer home world.

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“Understand” is a 1991 science fiction novelette by Ted Chiang. It is about a man whose use of an experimental drug makes him super intelligent.

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“Relay” is a 1991 science fiction short story by Lewis Shiner. It is about a man who claims to have traveled to the future while on a relay station in orbit above the Earth.

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“Oceanic” is a 1998 science fiction novella by Greg Egan. It is about an ocean dwelling man living on the planet Covenant, and how the events of his life take him from religious zealot to non-believing academic.

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“Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge” is a 1994 science fiction novella by Mike Resnick. It is set in the far future when a group of anthropological aliens are studying the long and brutal empire of mankind.

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“Radiant Doors” is a 1998 science fiction short story by Michael Swanwick. It is about a woman who receives a mysterious gadget from the tyrannical leaders of the future.

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“They’re Made Out of Meat” is a 1991 science fiction short story by Terry Bisson. It is about a couple of alien scouts who discuss the new race they have discovered.

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“Wild Minds” is a 1998 science fiction short story by Michael Swanwick. It is about a man who refuses to be like everyone else and get his brain optimized.

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“Second Skin” is a 1997 science fiction novelette by Paul J. McAuley. It is about a man who visits Proteus as a secret spy of a trade delegation.
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“The Dead” is a 1996 science fiction short story by Michael Swanwick. It is about a company that re-animates dead people – using zombies as a cheap form of labor.
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“A Dry, Quiet War” is a 1996 science fiction novelette by Tony Daniel. It is about a hero from the war at the end of time who returns to his home planet only to find more trouble.
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“Wang’s Carpets” is a 1995 science fiction novelette by Greg Egan. It is about a group of cloned beings who discover an amazing life form on a planet orbiting Vega.

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“Mortimer Gray’s History of Death” is a 1995 science fiction novella by Brian Stableford. It is about a nearly immortal man, living in a far future Earth, who writes a life defining Magnum Opus about – you guessed it – death.

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