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On the sanctuary world Hearth Seven, with its world-forest of mile-high trees, Sarah joins a band of troubled women. All have suffered past traumas. While Sarah expects a positive and supportive group, she receives a rather cool welcome; and the only support seems to come through a need to cooperate to survive. In this unbearably hot and humid forest, with almost no supplies, they must continually flee before migrations of hostile insects. And that...
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For Horatio Oberon Twitchgrove, the war had never ended. He fought as a child, as a teenager, as an adult. He fought into his twilight years. War was all he had ever known. Peacetime? Hah, like he could change now. It just meant trading his general's uniform for a crimelord's mantle. He proceeded with the same ruthless abandon as ever. Oh, he might be old now, battle-worn and broken-even wheelchair-bound. But he had his children. His grown children....
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Shortly before Kato Whip was to become Kato Whip, he was waiting in line at a bank. He waited patiently, as he had done so countless times before. There was no hurry. Suddenly a woman crowded in front of him. He let it go. What did it matter? It wasn't that much more of a wait. But the more he thought about it, the more wrong it seemed. She had been rude not only to him but all the people behind him. In fact, by his inaction, he had implicitly condoned...
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Centuries ago, on another planet, a few people took refuge in the swamp. They did so to escape the Five Continent Wars. When the wars ended, the people stayed. The swamp had become their home. And the swamp tolerated their presence-as long as they did not try to change its nature.This is their story. 188 pages.
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The short stories in this collection might best be described as slipstream. Defying genre boundaries, they flirt with the hard and soft of science fiction, veer into playful absurdity, or turn darkly macabre. Often drawing inspiration from surrealism, they go to unexpected places. To paraphrase a line from the first story, "They have a high degree of surprisingness." Collected herein are eighteen stories chosen from a lifetime of writing. A handful...