Search Worlds Without End

This short story originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1994. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelth Annual Collection (1995), edited by Gardner Dozois.

This novelette originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, April 1995. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection (1996), edited by Gardner Dozois.

David Chen severed his family ties to become a virtual reality artist on the Net. Jewel Martina left an impoverished family in the 'burbs to become a medical aid, on her way to becoming a VR deal-broker in the economic network that spanned the world. When Jewel saves David's partner's life, it becomes clear someone wanted him dead. There is trouble brewing on the Net, and as Jewel and David are caught up in it, they search the Net, the flesh world, and their own unhappy pasts for some answers. Nothing was ever as it seemed on the Net, where illusion was the rule of the game--but for Jewel and David, the difference beween real and virtual was a matter of life and death....

Hugo Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1996. There are no other known publications available at this time.

This novelette originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, April-May 2006. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection (2007), edited by Gardner Dozois, and Year's Best SF 12 (2007), edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Kramer.

Ahni Huang is hunting for her brother's killer. As a class 9 empath with advanced biogenetic augmentations, she has complete mental and physical control of her body, and can read other people's intentions before they can even think them. Ahni soon finds though, that there are deceptions behind deceptions, and in the middle of it lies the fate of her brother.

Earth is in the midst of a political struggle between the World Council, which governs humankind, and the Platforms, which orbit high above Earth. On the Platform New York Up, "upsider" life is different. They have their own culture, values, and ambitions--and now they want their independence from Earth. One upsider leader, Dane Nilson, is determined to accomplish this goal, but he has a secret, one that could condemn him to death.

When Ahni stumbles upon Dane during her quest for vengeance, her fate becomes inextricably linked to his. Together they must delve beyond the intrigue and manipulative schemes to get to the core of truth; a truth that will shape the future of the Platforms and shatter any preconceived notions of what defines the human race.

This novelette originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, January 2009, and was reprinted in Clarkesworld, Issue 118, July 2016. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection (2010), edited by Gardner Dozois.

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This short story originally appeared in the anthology Federations (2009), edited by John Joseph Adams, and was reprinted in Lightspeed, March 2012. It can also be found in Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology (2013), edited by Ellen Datlow.

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Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in the anthology Lace and Blade (2008) edited by Deborah J. Ross. There are no other known publications at this time.

Sturgeon Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1997. There are no other known publications available at this time.

This short story originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September 2005. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection (2006), edited by Gardner Dozois, Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition, edited by Rich Horton, and Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology (2007), edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel.

This short story originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 2004. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection (2005), edited by Gardner Dozois.

A major new talent... one of the strongest debuts in recent science-fiction history, " wrote Lucuis Shepard not long ago about emergent superstar Mary Rosenblum. And just as Shepard himself was the most powerful new short-story writer of the previous decade, so has Ms. Rosenblum come forth as a compelling voice in the 1990s in a sequence of nouvelles, set primarily within the near-future West Coast, exploring the persistence of humanity amid a nightmarish landscape of desiccated ecologies, disintegrating societies, and bewildering techniques.

Table of Contents:

• Water Bringer - (1991)
• Entrada - (1993)
• The Centaur Garden - (1995)
• Second Chance - (1992)
• Bordertown - (1993)
• Synthesis - (1992)
• Flood Tide - (1990)
• The Rain Stone - (1993)
• Stairway - (1993)

With crops failing, refugee camps filling, and riots raging, Carter Voltaire, a Corps officer in charge of rationing what little water is left in the Columbia River-bed Pipeline, must stop a group of desperate farmers from sabotaging the Pipe.

This novelette originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, February 2008, and was reprinted in Clarkesworld Magazine, #90 March 2014. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection (2009), edited by Gardner Dozois, Year's Best SF 14 (2009), edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Kramer, and After the End: Recent Apocalypses (2013), edited by Paula Guran.

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Tiptree nominated story, originally published in Asimov's March 1998, later anthologized in David G. Hartwell's Year's Best SF 4 (1999).

Discovery of the mysterious asteroids called Stones had quickly spawned a new breed of artists: "sculptors" who shaped the Stones into vivid collages of sensation and emotion by layering human experiences into them one by one. Although asteroid-belt miners harvested the Stones from deep space and artists with inborn sensitivity sculpted them, no one was sure what made the Stones so strangely receptive -- or where they came from.

Now Stone sculptors were being brutally murdered, one by one. No one knew why, and no one had more need to know that sculptor Michael Tryon. Famous, burned out, and reclusive, Michael had given up the security of Old Taos to meet Margarita Espinoza, a young artist who claimed to be his daughter -- only to find out that someone was killing off his friends and rivals and framing him for murder. The search for the truth led Margarita and Michael below the sea, onto a dangerous orbital platform, and into the far reaches of space. But the answer lay in the Stones themselves...

This short story originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, April-May 2004, and was reprinted in Lightspeed, January 2017. It can also be found in the anthology Beyond Singularity (2005) edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois.

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