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• Mindworks

  An Uncanny Compendium of Short Fiction

  Shusterman, Neal,

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  Explore a world where bats block out the sun, where soup is a trap for your soul, or where the life-force of a glacier can bring back the dead. Journey to a place where the wind can be captured, time can be crafted into infinite attic space, or a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Salt Slow

  Stories

  Armfield, Julia,

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  In her electrifying debut, Julia Armfield explores women's experiences in contemporary society, mapped through their bodies. As urban dwellers' sleeps become disassociated from them, like Peter Pan's shadow, a city turns insomniac. A teenager…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Illustrated Man

  Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012

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  In an ingenious framework to open and close the book, Bradbury presents himself as a nameless narrator who meets the Illustrated Man--a wanderer whose entire body is a living canvas of exotic tattoos. What's even more remarkable, and increasingly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Accidents Happen

  and Other Stories

  Batacan, F. H.,

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  A short story collection as relentlessly intense and darkly compelling as Batacan's debut, the Filipino crime landmark Smaller and Smaller Circles F.H. Batacan's first novel, Smaller and Smaller Circles, was an instant classic when it was published…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Homesick for Another World

  Stories

  Moshfegh, Ottessa,

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  An electrifying first collection of short stories from the author of Eileen

• Tenth of December

  Stories

  Saunders, George, 1958-

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  A collection of stories which includes "Home," a wryly whimsical account of a soldier's return from war; "Victory lap," a tale about an inventive abduction attempt; and the title story, in which a suicidal cancer patient saves the life of a young…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Night Shift

  King, Stephen, 1947-

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  Never trust your heart to the New York Times bestselling master of suspense, Stephen King. Especially with an anthology that features the classic stories "Children of the Corn," "The Lawnmower Man," "Graveyard Shift," "The Mangler," and "Sometimes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Language of Thorns

  Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

  Bardugo, Leigh,

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  Travel to Grishnaverse, a world of dark bargains struck by moonlight, of haunted towns and hungry woods, of talking beasts and gingerbread golems, where a young mermaid's voice can summon deadly storms and where a river might do a lovestruck boy's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I, Robot

  Asimov, Isaac

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  I, Robot, the first and most widely read book in Asimov’s Robot series, forever changed the world’s perception of artificial intelligence. Here are stories of robots gone mad, of mind-reading robots, and robots with a sense of humor. Of robot…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Exhalation

  Chiang, Ted,

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  This much-anticipated second collection of stories is signature Ted Chiang, full of revelatory ideas and deeply sympathetic characters. In "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate," a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to…Read moreRead more of this annotation