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Five SF Stories Featuring the Sudden Formation of New and Exciting Bodies of Water

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How could a man die in front of Atocha Chief of Police Loren Hawn when that man died twenty years before?

Days of Atonement by Walter Jon Williams

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Nearly two dozen Mythos investigations in many eras from the open-license Cthulhu Eternal tabletop roleplaying game line produced by Cthulhu Reborn.

Compatible with your favorite Lovecraftian percentile-based systems)

Bundle of Holding: Cthulhu Reborn

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2020: Boris Johnson proposes an unbuildable bridge between Scotland and Ireland, Universal Credit successfully sends stress levels soaring, and the Tories handle Covid as skilfully as they did Brexit.

Poll #33767 Clarke Award Finalists 2020

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Which 2020 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?

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The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
1 (2.5%)

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
34 (85.0%)

Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky
4 (10.0%)

The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
12 (30.0%)

The Last Astronaut by David Wellington
1 (2.5%)

The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley
18 (45.0%)

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Which 2020 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
The Last Astronaut by David Wellington
The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley

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The best of Galileo Magazine.

Starry Messenger edited by Charles C. Ryan

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Eight works new to me. Three fantasies, two horror, two SF, and one hard-to-classify RPG. One of the SF books is pretty horrory, so maybe that should be three fantasies, three horror, one SF, and one hard-to-classify RPG.

Books Received, October 18 — October 24

Poll #33761 Books Received, October 18 — October 24

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Which of these look interesting?

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Abyss by Nicholas Binge (May 2026)
6 (12.5%)

Testimony of Mute Things by Lois McMaster Bujold (October 2025)
27 (56.2%)

Morsel by Carter Keane (April 2026)
4 (8.3%)

The Cove by Claire Rose (May 2026)
6 (12.5%)

Outgunned by Riccardo “Rico” Sirignano & Simone Formicola, with art by Daniela Giubellini (December 2024)
6 (12.5%)

And Side by Side They Wander by Molly Tanzer (May 2026)
16 (33.3%)

Lightning Runes by Harry Turtledove (March 2026)
8 (16.7%)

A Long and Speaking Silence by Nghi Vo (May 2026)
24 (50.0%)

Some other option (see comments)
0 (0.0%)

Cats!
37 (77.1%)

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From WOTC: exit their VTT

We have made the difficult decision to end development on Sigil. T

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High school student and semi-professional tarot card reader Danika Dizon assists her PI mother to look for a missing person... a teen who vanished after Danika gave her a tarot card reading.

Death in the Cards by Mia P. Manansala

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The August 2023 Nightmares Underneath Bundle featuring The Nightmares Underneath, the old-school horror-fantasy tabletop roleplaying game from Chthonstone Games.

Bundle of Holding: Nightmares Underneath (from 2023)

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Faraday, Oregon, seems to have a missing persons problem. Its problem is much worse.

Girl in the Creek by Wendy N. Wagner

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A robot muses contentedly on the events that led it to its rapidly approaching doom.

A Thousand Blues by Cheon Seon-Ran

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The story that began the grand tradition of picking on a teenager's work.

The Eye of Argon by Jim Theis

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Since the authors are no longer with us, will we ever get a glimpse?

Five Anticipated Books and Stories That Remain Unpublished

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A bundle for Daniel James Hanley's tabletop roleplaying game of Gothic and Romantic Horror in the decadent, disastrous age of Marie-Antoinette, Napoleon, and Lord Byron.

Bundle of Holding: Ghastly Affair

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The young people wrestle with what is arguably an early example of Cyberpunk.

Young People Read Old Nebula Finalists: True Names by Vernor Vinge

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2019: The Tories somehow find someone worse than May to be Prime Minister, UK pleas to the EU for a Brexit negotiation do-over on the grounds “our negotiators were fucking numpties” fall on deaf ears, and Tory MPs reject multiple Tory Brexit proposals, for which UK voters rebuke the incompetent Tories with a massive majority.

Poll #33744 Clarke Award Finalists 2019

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Which 2019 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?

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Rosewater by Tade Thompson
10 (27.0%)

Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
2 (5.4%)

Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee
29 (78.4%)

Semiosis by Sue Burke
13 (35.1%)

The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag
4 (10.8%)

The Loosening Skin by Aliya Whiteley
1 (2.7%)

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Which 2019 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Rosewater by Tade Thompson
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee
Semiosis by Sue Burke
The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag
The Loosening Skin by Aliya Whiteley

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Mars being unfit for humans, there is no alternative but to make humans--or at least a human--fit for Mars.

Man Plus (Man Plus, volume 1) by Frederik Pohl

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Garden world or nightmarish hellscape?

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james_davis_nicoll - Five SF Stories Featuring the Sudden Formation of New and Exciting Bodies of Water
james_davis_nicoll - Days of Atonement by Walter Jon Williams
james_davis_nicoll - Bundle of Holding: Cthulhu Reborn
james_davis_nicoll - Clarke Award Finalists 2020
james_davis_nicoll - Starry Messenger edited by Charles C. Ryan
mark in dw_maintenance - Database maintenance
james_davis_nicoll - Books Received, October 18 — October 24
james_davis_nicoll - Exit Sigil
james_davis_nicoll - Death in the Cards by Mia P. Manansala
james_davis_nicoll - Bundle of Holding: Nightmares Underneath (from 2023)
james_davis_nicoll - Girl in the Creek by Wendy N. Wagner
james_davis_nicoll - A Thousand Blues by Cheon Seon-Ran
james_davis_nicoll - The Eye of Argon by Jim Theis
james_davis_nicoll - Five Anticipated Books and Stories That Remain Unpublished
james_davis_nicoll - Bundle of Holding: Ghastly Affair
james_davis_nicoll - Young People Read Old Nebula Finalists: True Names by Vernor Vinge
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james_davis_nicoll - Clarke Award Finalists 2019
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Five SF Stories Featuring the Sudden Formation of New and Exciting Bodies of Water

Days of Atonement by Walter Jon Williams

Bundle of Holding: Cthulhu Reborn

Clarke Award Finalists 2020

Starry Messenger edited by Charles C. Ryan

Database maintenance

Books Received, October 18 — October 24

Exit Sigil

Death in the Cards by Mia P. Manansala

Bundle of Holding: Nightmares Underneath (from 2023)

Girl in the Creek by Wendy N. Wagner

A Thousand Blues by Cheon Seon-Ran

The Eye of Argon by Jim Theis

Five Anticipated Books and Stories That Remain Unpublished

Bundle of Holding: Ghastly Affair

Young People Read Old Nebula Finalists: True Names by Vernor Vinge

AWS outage

Clarke Award Finalists 2019

Man Plus (Man Plus, volume 1) by Frederik Pohl

The Climate and Habitability of Teegarden's Star b

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