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Speculative Fiction and Sci-Fi


Speculative Fiction and Sci-Fi

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The Last Friend On Earth

There must be other people still alive somewhere. I don’t know where. I don’t know how to find them even… Joy Weimer
November 2021 Books

The Anatomy of Grief

By Dorothy P. Holinger. Yale University Press, 2020. 328 pages. $27.50/hardcover or eBook. I can’t believe it is one’s first…

Reviewed by Brad Sheeks

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In but Not of This World

Introduction to our November issue Annalee Flower Horne and Hilary B. Bisenieks
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Pistachios and Cats

Shoes line the walls of the Grand Bazaar. Yellow shoes. Blue shoes. Black shoes. Red shoes. Lynn Gazis
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Transience Mode

The ship was the Benjamin Lay, a Takahata-class bulk cargo transport hailing from the human world of Jajavrin. Lincoln Alpern
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What A Minute Could Do

The first minute to take effect was minute 2023.12.1b of the Lower Sittingbourne Local Meeting Hospitality Committee: Arrangements for social… Rhiannon Grant
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Honey and Time

The Spirit hadn't moved in Amy Hudson for over 200 years. Joseph Engelhardt
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Peculiar People

The last two men leaving the theater after a midnight showing of Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter zipped jackets against the… Inez Schaechterle
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In Silence Doorways Open

We sat in silence while the stars shone around us. Michelle Goddard
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There Is No “I” in Heavenly Host

What in the name of God is this?” Dawn Vogel
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Something Odd about the Dyers

Mr. Erick Dyer, a Quaker man from an old Quaker family, found the pod in his farm’s back forest on… Mel Stephen Sharpe
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The Conscientious Objector

It was a Friday afternoon demo outside Neotec Labs. Robert Dawson
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