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12.28.05
The Dope Fiend
by Lavie Tidhar


12.21.05
The Great Wall of Mexico
by John Sladek
 

12.21.05
Boz
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
   

12.14.05
The Emperor
by Lucius Shepard


12.07.05
Star Light, Star Bright
by Alfred Bester
 

12.07.05
The King of Where-I-Go
by Howard Waldrop
   

11.30.05
The Man Who Would be Kong
by Andrew Fox


11.23.05
The Man Who Never Forgot
by Robert Silverberg
 

11.23.05
Stu
by Bruce McAllister
   

11.16.05
Different Flesh
by Claude Lalumière


11.09.05
The Beautiful People
by Robert Bloch
 

11.09.05
Man for the Job
by Robert Reed
   

11.02.05
The Horse of a Different Color (That You Rode in On)
by Howard Waldrop
   

10.26.05
Bears Discover Smut
by Michael Bishop


10.12.05
Painwise
by James Tiptree, Jr.
   
   

10.05.05
The Serial Murders
by Kim Newman


09.28.05
The Water Sculptor
by George Zebrowski
 

09.28.05
The Canadian Who Came
Almost All the Way Home From the Stars

by Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold
   

09.21.05
Long Cold Day
by Elizabeth Bear


09.14.05
Under the Hollywood Sign
by Tom Reamy
 

09.14.05
Panacea
by Jason Stoddard
   

09.07.05
Parallax
by Laird Barron
   

08.24.05
Anyway
by M. Rickert


08.17.05
To Be Continued...
by Robert Silverberg
 

08.17.05
Is There Life After Rehab?
by Pat Cadigan


08.03.05
A Life in the Day of...
by Frank M. Robinson
 

08.03.05
Abimagique
by Lucius Shepard
   

07.27.05
The Christmas Count
by David B. Coe


07.20.05
The Tenants
by William Tenn
 

07.20.05
Gauging Moonlight
by E. Catherine Tobler
   

07.13.05
Calypso In Berlin
by Elizabeth Hand


07.06.05
Come On, Wagon
by Zenna Henderson
 

07.06.05
Heavy Lifting
by Suzy McKee Charnas
   

06.22.05
The Starry Night
by Barry N. Malzberg and Jack Dann


06.15.05
Mouse
by Fredric Brown
 

06.15.05
There's a Hole in the City
by Richard Bowes
   

06.08.05
Diamond Girls
by Louise Marley


06.01.05
Transformer
by Chad Oliver
 

06.01.05
The Being of It All
by Carol Emshwiller
   

05.25.05
The Scribble Mind
by Jeffrey Ford


05.18.05
The White King's Dream
by Elizabeth A. Lynn
 

05.18.05
Song of the Black Dog
by Kit Reed
   

05.11.05
The Girl in the Fabrilon
by Marly Youmans
 

05.04.05
And the Deep Blue Sea
by Elizabeth Bear
   

04.27.05
Heads Down, Thumbs Up
by Gavin J. Grant


04.20.05
Brown Robert
by Terry Carr
 

04.20.05
Passing of the Minotaurs
by Rjurik Davidson
   

04.13.05
Guys Day Out
by Ellen Klages


04.06.05
The Sea Was Wet as Wet Can Be
by Gahan Wilson
 

04.06.05
Rocket Fall
by David Prill
   

03.23.05
Vanishing Act
by E. Catherine Tobler
   

03.16.05
Hidden Paradise
by Robert Reed
   

03.09.05
The Spear Carrier
by A.M. Dellamonica


03.02.05
They Don't Make Life Like They Used To
by Alfred Bester
 

03.02.05
Invisible
by Steve Rasnic Tem
   

02.23.05
Little Faces
by Vonda N. McIntyre


02.16.05
The Yellow Pill
by Rog Phillips
 

02.16.05
Jane
by Marc Laidlaw
   

02.09.05
Hell Notes
by M.K. Hobson


02.02.05
Familiar Pattern
by W. Bertram Chandler
 

02.02.05
Matricide
by Lucy Sussex
   

01.26.05
A Man of Light
by Jeffrey Ford


01.19.05
Beam Us Home
by James Tiptree, Jr.
 

01.19.05
The Five Cigars Of Abu Ali
by Eric Schaller
   

01.12.05
Follow Me Light
by Elizabeth Bear


01.05.05
Gather Blue Roses
by Pamela Sargent
 

01.05.05
Nocturne
by J.R. Dunn
   

12.22.04
Luciferase
by Bruce Sterling


12.15.04
Tranfer
by Barry N. Malzberg
 

12.15.04
Clownette
by Terry Dowling
   

12.08.04
Changing the Guard
by Matthew Claxton


12.01.04
Two Weeks in August
Frank M. Robinson
 

12.01.04
The Dragons of Summer Gulch
by Robert Reed
   

11.24.04
Super 8
by Terry Bisson
   

11.17.04
All of Us Can Almost...
by Carol Emshwiller


 
 

11.10.04
Of Imaginary Airships and Minuscule Matter
by Gary W. Shockley


11.03.04
Bagatelle
by John Varley
 

11.03.04
Hula Ville
by James P. Blaylock


 
 

10.27.04
We Have Always Spoken Panglish
by Suzette Haden Elgin


10.20.04
A Kingdom by the Sea
by Gardner Dozois
 

10.20.04
Q
by John Grant
   

10.13.04
Soho Golem
by Kim Newman


10.06.04
View from a Height
by Joan D. Vinge
 

10.06.04
Ruby, in the Storm
by A.M. Dellamonica
  

09.22.04
The Wolf-man of Alcatraz
by Howard Waldrop


9.15.04
Allamagoosa
by Eric Frank Russell
   


09.01.04
Can These Bones Live?
by Manly Wade Wellman
 

09.01.04
Left of the Dial
by Paul Witcover
  

08.25.04
Bulldozer
by Laird Barron


08.18.04
God's Hooks!
by Howard Waldrop
 

08.18.04
Beautiful Stuff
by Susan Palwick
  

08.11.04
The Key
by Ilsa J. Bick


08.04.04
A Crowd of Shadows
by Charles L. Grant
 

08.04.04
The Tang Dynasty Underwater Pyramid
by Walter Jon Williams
  

07.28.04
Volunteers
by Alex Irvine


07.21.04
Among the Dead
by Edward Bryant
 

07.21.04
Jumpers
by Mary Rosenblum
  

07.14.04
The Anatomist's Apprentice
by Matthew Claxton


07.07.04
Aye, and Gomorrah
by Samuel R. Delany
 

07.07.04
Leviathan Wept
by Daniel Abraham
  

06.09.04
Shadow Twin
by Gardner Dozois, George RR Martin and Daniel Abraham


06.02.04
The Girl Had Guts
by Theodore Sturgeon
 

06.02.04
Gliders Though They Be
by Carol Emshwiller
  

05.26.04
The Best Christmas Ever
by James Patrick Kelly


05.19.04
Paul's Treehouse
by Gene Wolfe
 

05.19.04
The First Commandment
by Gregory Benford
  

05.12.04
Family Bed
by Kit Reed


05.05.04
Un Bel Di
by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
 

05.05.04
The Voluntary State
by Christopher Rowe
  

04.28.04
Elvis in the Attic
by Catherine M. Morrison


04.21.04
The Dandelion Girl
by Robert F. Young
 

04.21.04
Flight Risk
by Marc Laidlaw
  

04.14.04
On Display Among the Lesser
by Carol Emshwiller


04.07.04
Sin's Doorway
by Manly Wade Wellman
 

04.07.04
This Tragic Glass
by Elizabeth Bear
  

03.24.04
The Baum Plan For Financial Independence
by John Kessel


03.17.04
The Little Lamb
by Fredric Brown
   


03.03.04
King Solomon's Ring
by Roger Zelazny
 

03.03.04
The Three Unknowns
by Severna Park
  

02.23.04
Five Guys Named Moe
by Sean Klein


02.18.04
Ballenger's People
by Kris Neville
 

02.18.04
Articles of a Personal Nature
by Deborah Coates
  

02.11.04
Inappropriate Behavior
by Pat Murphy


02.04.04
Twilla
by Tom Reamy
 

02.04.04
Zora and the Zombie
by Andy Duncan
  

01.28.04
Scout's Honor
by Terry Bisson


01.21.04
The Stare
by John Wyndham
 

01.21.04
Inside Outside
by Michaela Roessner
  

01.14.04
House of the Future
by Richard Butner


01.07.04
The Prize of Peril
by Robert Sheckley
 

01.07.04
Peregrines
by Suzy McKee Charnas
  

12.24.03
Nutball Season
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch


12.17.03
Minnesota Gothic
by Thomas M. Disch
   


12.03.03
The Keepers of the House
by Lester Del Rey
 

12.03.03
Liar's House
by Lucius Shepard
  

11.26.03
My Father's Club
by Michael Libling
   

11.19.03
And The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon
by Paul Di Filippo
  

11.14.03
The Periodic Table of Science Fiction
by Michael Swanwick
  

11.12.03
Child of the Stones
by Paul McAuley


11.05.03
The Golem
by Avram Davidson
 

11.05.03
2004 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-nominated Story
It's All True
by John Kessel
  

10.22.03
D = R x T
by Howard Waldrop


10.15.03
The Fellow who Married the Maxill Girl
by Ward Moore
 

10.15.03
The Woman in the Cherry-Red Convertible by the Platinum Sea
by Ilsa J. Bick
  

10.07.03
At the Mouth of the River of Bees
by Kij Johnson


10.01.03
The Transcendent Tigers
by R.A. Lafferty
 

10.01.03
2004 World Fantasy Award-nominated Story
Ancestor Money
by Maureen F. McHugh


09.17.03
Caught in the Organ Draft
by Robert Silverberg
   


09.03.03
It Walks in Beauty
by Chan Davis
 

09.03.03
Greetings
by Terry Bisson
  

08.27.03
Like, Need, Deserve
by Robert Reed


08.20.03
The View from Endless Scarp
by Marta Randall
 

08.20.03
A Walk in the Garden
by Lucius Shepard
  

08.13.03
Threads
by Jessica Reisman


08.06.03
Thirty Days Had September
by Robert F. Young
 

08.06.03
Flowers on Their Bridles, Hooves in the Air
by Glen Hirshberg
  

07.23.03
Daughter of the Monkey God
by M.K. Hobson


07.16.03
What Now, Little Man?
by Mark Clifton
 

07.16.03
You Go Where It Takes You
by Nathan Ballingrud
  

07.09.03
Big House on the Prairie
by David Prill


07.02.03
David's Daddy
by Rosel George Brown
 

07.02.03
Angels and You Dogs
by Kathleen Ann Goonan


06.18.03
A Full Member of the Club
by Bob Shaw
   


06.04.03
Touchstone
by Terry Carr
 

06.04.03
Jailwise
by Lucius Shepard
  

05.28.03
The Man Who Counts
by William Barton


05.21.03
When I Was Miss Dow
by Sonya Dorman
 

05.21.03
The Book of Martha
by Octavia E. Butler
  

05.14.03
The Fate of Nations
by James Morrow


05.07.03
High Weir
by Samuel R. Delany
 

05.07.03
2003 Sidewise Award-nominated Story
The Eyes of America
by Geoffrey A. Landis
  

04.23.03
The Third Part
by Barry N. Malzberg


04.16.03
Temperature Days on Hawthorne Street
by Charles L. Grant
 

04.16.03
In The Blood
by Ilsa J. Bick
  

04.09.03
Unsportsmanlike Conduct
by Scott Westerfeld


04.02.03
Frog Pond
by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
 

04.02.03
Frankenstein's Daughter
by Maureen F. McHugh
     


03.05.03
Humpty Dumpty had a Great Fall
by Frank Belknap Long
 

03.05.03
For Keeps
by J. R. Dunn
  

02.26.03
2003 Nebula Award-winning Story
2004 World Fantasy Award-nominated Story
2004 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-nominated Story
2004 Hugo Award-nominated Story
The Empire of Ice Cream
by Jeffrey Ford


02.19.03
Casablanca
by Thomas M. Disch
 

02.19.03
Death Penalty
by Leslie What
  

02.12.03
Señor Volto
by Lucius Shepard


02.05.03
The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World
by Philip José Farmer
 

02.05.03
Castaway
by Gene Wolfe
  

01.28.03
Boys
by Carol Emshwiller


01.22.03
Let's Be Frank
by Brian W. Aldiss
 

01.22.03
Amnesty
by Octavia E. Butler
  

01.15.03
Fairy Tale
by Gardner Dozois


01.08.03
Party of the Two Parts
by William Tenn
 

01.08.03
Midnight at the Ichnologist's Ball
by Greg Beatty


12.25.02
More Spinned Against …
by John Wyndham
   


12.11.02
Protection
by Robert Sheckley
   
  

12.03.02
Jury Service
by Charles Stross and Cory Doctorow


11.20.02
Waiting for Billy Star
by Tom Reamy
 

11.20.02
Intruders
by J.R. Dunn
  

11.13.02
Winters are Hard
by Steven Popkes


11.06.02
The Queen of Pig Island
by Gerald Kersh
 

11.06.02
On Bookstores, Burners, and Origami
by Jason Wittman


10.23.02
Flash Point
by Gardner Dozois
 

10.23.02
Godfather Death
by Richard Bowes
  

10.16.02
2003 Nebula Award-nominated Story
The Wages of Syntax
by Ray Vukcevich


10.09.02
The Screwfly Solution
by Raccoona Sheldon
 

10.09.02
Shipbreaker
by Paul Di Filippo
  

10.02.02
I Saw the Light
by Terry Bisson


09.25.02
Mrs. Pigafetta Swims Well
by Reginald Bretnor
   


09.11.02
It Becomes Necessary
by Ward Moore
 

09.11.02
Doctor Pretorius and the Lost Temple
by Paul McAuley
  

08.28.02
A Flock of Birds
by James Van Pelt


08.21.02
The Women Men Don't See
by James Tiptree, Jr.
 

08.21.02
2003 Fantastyka Magazine Reader's Poll-nominated Story
2002 British Science Fiction Assn. Award-nominated Story
Voice of Steel
by Sean McMullen
  

08.14.02
What Mattered Was Sleep
by Patrick O'Leary
   

08.07.02
Melodies Played upon Cold, Dark Worlds
by Robert Reed
  

07.31.02
Fear of Strangers
by Dave Hutchinson


07.24.02
Cordle To Onion To Carrot
by Robert Sheckley
 

07.24.02
The Names of All the Spirits
by J. R. Dunn
  

07.17.02
Some Other Time
by Ray Vukcevich
   

07.10.02
2003 Nebula Award-winning Story
What I Didn't See
by Karen Joy Fowler


06.17.02
Clerical Error
by Mark Clifton
   


06.05.02
Hop-Friend
by Terry Carr
 

06.05.02
In Green's Dominion
by Dale Bailey
  

05.22.02
The Last Big Sin
by Kit Reed
   

05.15.02
Josephine
by Carol Emshwiller
  

05.08.02
The Most Famous Little Girl in the World
by Nancy Kress
   

05.01.02
Jemima
by A. R. Morlan
  

04.24.02
The Children's Crusade
by Robert Reed


04.17.02
The Geezenstacks
by Fredric Brown
 

04.17.02
Scuffle
by Dave Hutchinson
  

04.10.02
Jimmy Guang's House of Gladmech
by Alex Irvine


04.03.02
Carcinoma Angels
by Norman Spinrad
 

04.03.02
Swiftly
by Adam Roberts
  

03.27.02
Emerald Street Expansions
by Lucius Shepard


03.19.02
The Funeral
by Kate Wilhelm
 

03.19.02
The Disinterred
by Mark W. Tiedemann
  

03.13.02
Thanksgiving
by Leslie What
   

03.06.02
Around the Curve of a Cosmos
by Gregory Benford
  

02.27.02
Three Times over the Falls
by A.M. Dellamonica
   

02.20.02
In for a Penny
or
The Man Who Believed in Himself

by James P. Blaylock
  

02.13.02
The Discharge
by Christopher Priest


02.06.02
Outside
by Brian W. Aldiss
 

02.06.02
Water Master
by Carol Emshwiller


01.16.02
Auto-da-Fé
by Roger Zelazny
   


01.02.02
The Thousand Cuts
by Ian Watson
 

01.02.02
2003 Theodore Sturgeon Award-winning Story
Over Yonder
by Lucius Shepard
  

12.19.01
Life on Earth
by Pat Cadigan


12.12.01
The Heat Death of The Universe
by Pamela Zoline
 

12.12.01
Grandmother Mist
by William R. Eakin
  

12.05.01
Brink
by Gregory Benford
   

11.28.01
2002 World Fantasy Award-nominated Story
Struwwelpeter
by Glen Hirshberg
  

11.14.01
Days Red and Green
by Richard Bowes


11.07.01
Bad Medicine
by Robert Sheckley
 

11.07.01
The Girl Who Ate Garbage
by Jessica Reisman & A.M. Dellamonica
  

10.24.01
The Dread and Fear of Kings
by Richard Paul Russo


10.17.01
Men without Bones
by Gerald Kersh
 

10.17.01
From the Walls of Irezumi
by A.R. Morlan
  

10.10.01
Small Houses
by James P. Blaylock


10.03.01
How Beautiful With Banners
by James Blish
 

10.03.01
Non-Disclosure Agreement
by Scott Westerfeld


09.19.01
Light of Other Days
by Bob Shaw
   
   

09.11.01
SF authors write about September 11th.
by Neil Gaiman, David Brin, Bruce Sterling, Gardner Dozois and many others.
   

09.05.01
AZTECHS
by Lucius Shepard


08.22.01
The Market in Aliens
by Barry N. Malzberg
 

08.22.01
Neutrino Drag
by Paul Di Filippo
  

08.15.01
Charlie's Angels
by Terry Bisson


08.08.01
Consider Her Ways
by John Wyndham
 

08.08.01
The Black Heart
by Patrick O'Leary
  

08.01.01
Shooting the Moon
by Geoffrey A. Landis
   

07.25.01
Standing in His Light
by Kage Baker
  

07.18.01
The Other Real World
by Howard Waldrop


07.11.01
Bernie the Faust
by William Tenn
 

07.11.01
2002 World Fantasy Award-nominated Story
His Own Back Yard
by James P. Blaylock
  

06.27.01
Discreet Phenomena
by Dave Hutchinson


06.20.01
Tomb Tapper
by James Blish
 

06.20.01
Beyond the End of Time
by Michael Cassutt
  

06.13.01
Floating In Lindrethool
by Jeffrey Ford
   

06.06.01
Russian Vine
by Simon Ings


05.16.01
The Hat Trick
by Fredric Brown
   
   

05.02.01
2002 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-nominated Story
New Light on the Drake Equation
by Ian R. MacLeod
  

04.25.01
Copperhead
by Gene Wolfe
   

04.18.01
Refugees from Nulongwe
by M. Shayne Bell
  

04.11.01
2001 Aurealis Award-nominated Story
The Lagan Fishers
by Terry Dowling
   

04.04.01
Bad Animals
by John W. Randal
  

03.28.01
Cat in the Box
by A.R. Morlan
   

03.21.01
Five Miles from Pavement
by Steven Utley
  

03.14.01
One Horse Town
by Howard Waldrop and Leigh Kennedy
   

03.07.01
Editing for Content
by Gavin J. Grant
   

02.07.01
Silent Her
by Barry B. Longyear
   

01.24.01
Cucumber Gravy
by Susan Palwick
  

01.17.01
The Quicksilver Kid
by Richard Bowes
   

01.10.01
More Adventures on Other Planets
by Michael Cassutt
  

01.03.01
The Scab's Progress
by Paul Di Filippo and Bruce Sterling
   


12.13.00
The Meaning of the Word
by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
   
  

12.6.00
Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol
by Elizabeth Hand


11.29.00
The Dance of the Changer and the Three
by Terry Carr
 

11.29.00
A Cold Dish
by Lisa Tuttle
  

11.22.00
The Despoblado
by Steven Utley


11.15.00
When It Changed
by Joanna Russ
 

11.15.00
Tomorrow Town
by Kim Newman
  

11.08.00
The Flyers of Gy
An Interplanary Tale

by Ursula K. Le Guin


11.01.00
Belling Martha
by Leigh Kennedy
 

11.01.00
2001 World Fantasy Award-winning Story
2001 Nebula Award-nominated Story
The Pottawatomie Giant
by Andy Duncan
  

10.25.00
The Far Oasis
by Jeffrey Ford


10.18.00
Corona
by Samuel R. Delany
 

10.18.00
The Other Side
by James P. Blaylock
  

10.11.00
Nevada
by A. M. Dellamonica


10.04.00
The Man Who Loved the Faioli
by Roger Zelazny
 

10.04.00
The Origin of Truth
by Tim Lebbon
  

09.27.00
Wetlands Preserve
by Nancy Kress


09.20.00
Descending
by Thomas M. Disch
 

09.20.00
Birdy Girl
by Robert Reed


09.06.00
To Bell The Cat
by Joan D. Vinge
 

09.06.00
From the Files of the Time Rangers
by Richard Bowes
  

08.30.00
The Real World
by Steven Utley


08.23.00
A Wind Is Rising
by Robert Sheckley
 

08.23.00
Tir-na-nOg
by Dave Hutchinson
  

08.16.00
Ciné Rimettato
by A. R. Morlan
   

08.09.00
2003 Seiun Award-nominated Story
Partial Eclipse
by Graham Joyce
  

08.02.00
Winter Quarters
by Howard Waldrop
  

07.05.00
2000 Nebula Award-winning Story
Goddesses
by Linda Nagata
   

06.28.00
Dune: Nighttime Shadows on Open Sand
by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
  

06.22.00
2001 Nebula Award-winning Story
The Cure for Everything
by Severna Park
   

06.14.00
Castle in the Desert
Anno Dracula 1977

by Kim Newman
  

06.07.00
Chimera
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch


05.31.00
The Ugly Chickens
by Howard Waldrop
 

05.31.00
Malthusian's Zombie
by Jeffrey Ford
   

05.24.00
The War of the Worlds
by James P. Blaylock
   

05.19.00
Freeing the Angels
by Pat Cadigan and Chris Fowler