"Earth Hour" is a 2011 science fiction short story by Ken MacLeod. It is about a rich, despised man who is being stalked by a futuristic assassin.
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"The Stutterer" is a 1955 science fiction novelette by R. R. Merliss. It is about a strange galactic fugitive who flees to Earth.
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This is a guest post by Sarah Petersen

“Hello,” Said the Gun is a 2011 science fiction short story written by Jay Lake. The story is about a 12 year old girl who finds a talking gun in an old oak tree, it explores the issues of trust and survival.
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"Or We Will All Hang Separately" is a 2010 science fiction novelette by Nancy Jane Moore. It is about a small group of native Americans who travel to a future Los Alamos laboratories to investigate strange readings.
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“Thin Edge” is a 1963 science fiction novelette by Johnathan Blake Mac Kenzie (a.k.a. Randall Garrett). It is about an asteroid miner who comes to Earth to investigate the disappearance of his friend.
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Divided By Infinity is a 1998 short story by Robert Charles Wilson about a man that gets more than he bargains for when he finds some unusual books.
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"Thief of Futures" is a 2011 science fiction short story by D. Thomas Minton. It is about a specialized thief who comes out of retirement for a high paying job.
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The True Darkness is a 2010 short story by Pamela Sargent, about an odd power failure that frightens a couple in their home.
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“Raiders of the Universes” is a 1932 science fiction novelette by Donald A. Wandrei. It is about an astronomer who discovers a vicious, universe-conquering race of aliens headed for Earth!
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Find out what happens when people start being polite and start getting real — in space.
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The Nearest Thing by Genevieve Valentine is a 2011 short story about a man trying to create Artificial Intelligence.
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"Join" is a 2011 science fiction short story by Liz Coleman. It is about a man who has a romantic relationship with some aliens that are invading our solar system!
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The Mad Scientist’s Daughter is a 2010 short story by Theodora Goss about the daughters of several famous madmen we are all familiar with.
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"The Beautiful People" is a 1952 science fiction short story by Charles Beaumont. It is about a normal young woman who refuses to have surgery to make her beautiful, and all the problems that causes!
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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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This is a guest post by Timothy Darling.

Doctor Hugo Pinero invents a device for measuring the length of life and predicting the date and time of death. This leads to the protests of insurance companies and the potential collapse of the industry, not to mention many personal concerns, and the dilemma of a humanity confronted with knowledge that they perhaps should not have.
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Men Are Trouble, a novelette written by James Patrick Kelly, is about a private investigator trying to discover why a woman committed suicide just after she got married.  To another woman.  In a world without men.
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"Time Considered as a Series of Thermite Burns in No Particular Order" is a 2011 science fiction short story by Damien Broderick. It is about a husband and wife team who travel through time to help prevent disastrous events from occurring.
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Gossamer, a 1995 short story by Stephen Baxter, begins when two women crash land on Pluto when the wormhole they were traveling through suddenly collapses.
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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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