"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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"The Faithful Soldier, Prompted" is a 2010 science fiction short story by Saladin Ahmed. It is about a former soldier who make a dangerous trip to post-apocalyptic Cairo to get medicine for his wife.
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This is a guest post by Timothy Darling.

"Lulungomeena" by Gordon R. Dickson

Page Count: 24

The story

The setting is Frontier Station 563 just beyond Sirius. But the title is named after another place: Lulungomeena on the planet Tarsus, the native home of Clay Harbank.
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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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"The Cassandra Project" is a 2010 science fiction short story by Jack McDevitt. It is about an ancient dome discovered on the far side of the Moon.
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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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"The President’s Brain is Missing" is a 2010 science fiction short story by John Scalzi. It is about a president of the United States whose brain isn’t in his head anymore!
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"The Persistence of Vision" is a 1978 science fiction novella by John Varley. It is about drifter who discovers an amazing commune of blind and deaf people in the New Mexico desert.
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"Standard Loneliness Package" is a 2010 science fiction short story by Charles Yu. It is about a man who will literally feel other people’s pain – for a price.
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"In the Late December" is a 2003 science fiction short story by Greg van Eekhout. It is about how Santa Claus battles the heat death of the universe by giving out gifts to any life form he can find.
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“From The Lost Diary Of TreeFrog7″ is a 2009 science fiction short story by Nnedi Okorafor. It is about a team of jungle explorers who are searching for an ancient computerized plant.
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“Bottom Feeding” is a 2005 science fiction short story by Tim Pratt. It is about a depressed grad student who tries to catch a huge catfish in the pond behind his house.
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“When Thorns Are the Tips of Trees” is a 2008 science fiction short story by Jason Sanford. It is about a boy who is trying to deal with the local ramifications of a deadly, world-wide virus.

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“Evil Robot Monkey” is a 2008 science fiction short story by Mary Robinette Kowal. It is about a clay molding chimp whose implant makes him more than an animal but less than a human.

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“The Crystal Spheres” is a 1984 science fiction short story by David Brin. It is about a man who travels to a distant star system after learning that the inhabitants there have broken out of their crystal shell.

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“Artifice and Intelligence” is a 2007 science fiction short story by Tim Pratt. It is about an unorthodox artificial intelligence designer, a video game programmer and a recently converted pagan woman who are called into action to help an Indian sentient computer network do battle against the world’s malicious software.

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“Burn” is a 2005 science fiction novella by James Patrick Kelly. It is about a farmer-turned-firefighter who accidentally summons the ruler of a distant world to help fight forest fires.

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“After the Coup” is a 2008 science fiction short story by John Scalzi. It is about a space technician coerced into fighting a goodwill exhibition match against a little known alien race.

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“Nightfall” is a 1941 science fiction novella by Isaac Asimov. It is about a newspaperman who witnesses the last hours of sunlight from an observatory on the planet Lagash.

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