"The Gulf Between" is a 1953 science fiction novella by Tom Godwin. It is about 2 soldiers who after the war compete for control of the world’s most powerful computer.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a novella published in 1886 by Robert Louis Stevenson, is a well known story about a man with a dual personality.
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"The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen’s Window" is a 2010 speculative fiction novella by Rachel Swirsky. It is about a powerful dead woman whose soul is summoned for many years by the living people who seek her knowledge.
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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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"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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“Code Three” is a 1963 science fiction novella by Rick Raphael. It is about 3 officers (and their huge patrol vehicle) who work dangerous jobs as patrolmen on the North American Continental Thruway Patrol.
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The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner is a novella by Stephenie Meyer about a newborn vampire that discovers she is being manipulated by her maker.  But for what purpose?
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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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"The Lifecycle of Software Objects" is a 2010 science fiction novella by Ted Chiang. It is about the hard, and sometimes sad, lives of Artificial Intelligence software objects known as Digients.
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"Farewell to the Master" is a 1940 science fiction novella by Harry Bates. It is about a powerful robot whose master is killed while visiting Earth.
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“The Death of Doctor Island” is a 1973 science fiction novella by Gene Wolfe. It is about a mentally disturbed teenage boy who is sent to a very high tech rehabilitation center.
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“Sublimation Angels” is a 2009 science fiction novella by Jason Sanford. It is about a set of special twins on a frozen world where manipulated humans, overbearing AIs and mysterious energy aliens live in a tenuous harmony.
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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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“Julian: A Christmas Story” is a 2006 science fiction novella by Robert Charles Wilson. It is about a 17 year old boy who gets caught up in the deadly political games of his uncle – the president of the United States.

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“Fountain of Age” is a 2007 science fiction novella by Nancy Kress. It is about a wealthy, reformed criminal who tries to track down his famous long lost lover.

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“The Cauldron” is a 2009 science fiction novella by Rocky Keele. It is about a security officer who sees aliens land on a Spanish island, then tries to track them down before they can harm the people and places that he cares deeply about.

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“Memorare” is a 2007 science fiction novella by Gene Wolfe. It is about a man making a documentary of the dangerous tombs built in asteroids.

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“The Chief Designer” is a 2001 science fiction novella by Andy Duncan. It is a fictionalized account of the man in charge of the Soviet Union’s space program during the “race to the moon.”

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“The Concrete Jungle” is a 2004 science fiction novella by Charles Stross. It is about an agent who works for a secret British intelligence organization handling supernatural cases, and his discovery that someone has hacked into their deadly network.

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