The One-Eyed Jack and the Suicide King: personifications of the city of Las Vegas-its history, mystery, mystical power, and heart . . .
When the Suicide King vanishes-possibly killed-in the middle of a magic-rights turf war started by the avatars of Los Angeles, a notorious fictional assassin, and the mutilated ghost of Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, the King's partner, the One-Eyed Jack, must seek the aid of a bizarre band of legendary and undead allies: the ghosts of Doc Holliday and John Henry the steel-driving man; the echoes of several imaginary super spies, decades displaced in time; and a vampire named Tribute, who bears a striking resemblance to a certain long-lost icon of popular music.
All stories are true, but some stories are truer than others.

One Eyed Jack

This is the second annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. Between the announcement of the ballot and the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon, these works often become the center of much attention (and contention) across fandom. But there are more stories loved by the Hugo voters, stories on the longer nomination list that WSFS publishes after the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon. The Long List Anthology Volume 2 collects 18 fiction stories from that nomination list, along with 2 essays from the book Letters to Tiptree that was also on the nomination list, totaling over 500 pages of fiction by writers from all corners of the world. Within these pages you will find a mix of science fiction and fantasy and horror, the dramatic and the lighthearted, from android caretakers to Lovecraftian romances, from adventures to quests and more. There is a wide variety of styles and types of stories here, and something for everyone. The stories included are:"Damage" by David D. Levine "Pockets" by Amal El-Mohtar "Today I Am Paul" by Martin L. Shoemaker "The Women You Didn't See" by Nicola Griffith (a letter from Letters to Tiptree)"Tuesdays With Molakesh the Destroyer" by Megan Grey "Wooden Feathers" by Ursula Vernon "Three Cups of Grief, By Starlight" by Aliette de Bodard "Madeleine" by Amal El-Mohtar "Neat Things" by Seanan McGuire (a letter from Letters To Tiptree) "Pocosin" by Ursula Vernon "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" by Alyssa Wong "So Much Cooking" by Naomi Kritzer "The Deepwater Bride" by Tamsyn Muir "The Heart's Filthy Lesson" by Elizabeth Bear "Grandmother-nai-Leylit's Cloth of Winds" by Rose Lemberg "Another Word For World" by Ann Leckie "The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild" by Catherynne M. Valente "Our Lady of the Open Road" by Sarah Pinsker "The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn" by Usman T. Malik "The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps" by Kai Ashante Wilson

The Long List Anthology Volume 2 - The Long List Anthology, #2

Forever is a new monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Each issue will feature a novella, a brief interview with the novella's author, two short stories, and cover art by Ron Guyatt. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke. Our fourth issue features a novella by Robert Reed ("The Man With the Golden Balloon"), short stories by Juliette Wade ("Cold Words") and Elizabeth Bear ("The Hand is Quicker--"), and a short interview with Robert Reed.

Forever Magazine Issue 4 - Forever Magazine, #4

From Elizabeth Bear comes a near-future tale about a woman who was engineered for combat in a world that's running out of time.
Jenny Casey is a former Canadian special forces warrior living on the hellish streets of Hartford, Connecticut, in the year 2062. Her artificially reconstructed body is failing her, but a government scientist from her old life thinks she is perfect for his high-stakes project.
Suddenly Jenny is a pawn in a battle being waged on the Internet, the streets, and in the complex wirings of her man-made nervous system. And she needs to gain control of the game before a brave new future spins completely out of control.

Hammered

Sometimes the greatest sin is survival.
The generation ship Jacob's Ladder has barely survived cataclysms from without and within. Now, riding the shock wave of a nova blast toward an uncertain destiny, the damaged ship - the only world its inhabitants have ever known - remains a war zone. Even as Perceval, the new captain, struggled to come to terms with the traumas of her past, the remnants of rebellion aboard the ship still threaten the crew's survival.
Yet as Perceval's relatives Tristen and Benedick play a deadly game of cat and mouse in pursuit of a traitor through a cast ship that is renewing itself in strange and dangerous ways, an even more insidious threat is building in a place no one ever thought to look. And this implacable enemy could change the face of the ship forever if a ragtag band of heroes cannot stop it.
Originally published in 2010 as Chill.

Sanction

Les opinions sont comme des chatons ", a-t-il commenté." Les gens les donnent toujours.

Le secret pour s'en tirer avec le mensonge, c'est croire de tout votre cœur. Cela va pour vous mentir encore plus que mentir à un autre.

Vous savez, "a-t-il dit," chaque fois qu'un vampire dit qu'il ne croit pas aux lycanthropes, un loup-garou s'enflamme.

Comme le poète mineur qui connaît la méchanceté de son cadeau, je suis condamné à une vie de frustration: pouvoir comprendre la beauté, mais pas la créer.

La fin du monde était censée être progressive. Il était censé être averti. Une longue diapositive lente. Ce que nous avons obtenu a été ponctué d'équilibre: une bondance majestueuse, puis un point de basculement soudain. Il y avait beaucoup d'avertissement, je suppose. Nous ne faisions tout simplement pas attention.

Si vous pouviez être en désaccord avec les rois, les dieux étaient-ils si loin au-dessus?

Elle a dit: "Tu es un guerrier. Alors, comment tuez-vous sans rage?" "En compassion. À cause de la nécessité." Hrahima a remis le bol d'eau vide dans les mains de Samarkar. "De la même manière que vous portez de l'eau.

Chacun de nous est une tragédie mineure. La plupart d'entre nous apprennent à faire face.

Elle a dit, tu es un guerrier. Alors, comment tuez-vous sans rage? En compassion. À cause de la nécessité. Hrahima a remis le bol d'eau vide dans les mains de Samarkar. De la même manière que vous transportez de l'eau.

BLINDSIGHT est intrépide : un magnifique joyau sombre et brillant d'un livre qui franchit les contradictions inhérentes à la biochimie, à la conscience et au cœur humain sans s'arrêter.

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