The Cat Lady is a novelette by Damien Graves about a young girl that is scared of the creepy lady in her neighborhood.
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Find out what happens when people start being polite and start getting real — in space.
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"The Elephants of Poznan" is a 2000 science fiction novelette by Orson Scott Card. It is about a man who lives in a post-apocalyptic Polish city and the strange visitors he receives.
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"Mirror Girl" is a 2009 science fiction short story by Paul Carlson. It is about a brilliant girl who begins to question the strange world in which she lives.
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Troublesolving, a novelette by Tim Pratt, is about a man that is down on his luck, and the mysterious woman that offers to help him out.
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"Second Person, Present Tense" is a 2005 science fiction novelette by Daryl Gregory. It is about a young woman who becomes a different person after a rare over-dose on a strange drug.
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"Scales" is a 2009 science fiction short story by Alastair Reynolds. It is about a human who is recruited to fight aliens, and the drastic changes he must go through.
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"Ej-Es" is a 2003 science fiction short story by Nancy Kress. It is about a MedCorps member who desperately wants to help the survivors of a destructive plague on a planet at the edge of the galaxy.
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Cucumber Gravy is a 2001 novelette written by Susan Palwick about a marijuana dealer that also takes care of cucumber shaped aliens.
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Hindsight, In Neon written by Jamie Todd Rubin, is the story of a science fiction writer who is unhappy that he no longer has any readers.
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Spider the Artist is a 2008 short story by Nnedi Okorafor.  It is about a woman who becomes friends with a spider shaped android.
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Alright, I’ll admit it; I have a slight “aversion” to most science fiction stories. It’s not that I don’t find the prospect of galactic politics, artificial intelligence, or time travel fascinating. I just think that a lot of science fiction writers get so caught up in interesting stories or settings that they lose sight of interesting storytelling. Of course, there are works of science fiction that are exceptions to this assertion such as Ryan Harty’s "Why the Sky Turns Red When the Sun Goes Down."
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"The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew" is a 2009 science fiction short story by Catherynne M. Valente. It is about a famous Documentarian who goes to Venus to film strange, sea-dwelling life forms.
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"Turquoise Days" is a 2002 science fiction novella by Alastair Reynolds. It is about a woman whose swim with ocean dwelling aliens causes dramatic changes in her life.
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The Curator is a short story written by Stuart Clark, about a hacker that finds an unusual place inside the network.
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"Diamond Dogs" is a 2001 science fiction novella by Alastair Reynolds. It is about a group of highly specialized people who travel to a deadly alien tower on a remote planet.
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Islands, by Eric Flint, is a 2004 novella about a young soldier that loses his sight in battle, and of his young wife, who is determined to find him.  No, it’s not a love story.
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The Observer by Kristine Kathryn Rusch is a story about a woman that fought in an alien war and the interesting side effects she has because of the type of soldier she was.
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“Attention, People of Earth” is a 2009 science fiction short story by Paul Simms. It is about a strange message to humans from an alien species – letting us know what to expect when they arrive.
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"The Secret Origin of Spin-man" is a 2009 science fiction short story by Andrew Drilon. It is about a pair of young brothers who are fascinated and inspired by American comic book super-heroes.
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