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In 1915 a young man is hired to shout the words on title cards for silent movies. But his aspirations to edit some of the worst dialog leads him in a weird direction that changes his life.

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In the Before, when the government didn't prohibit large public gatherings, Luce Cannon was on top of the world. One of her songs had just taken off and she was on her way to becoming a star. Now, in the After, terror attacks and deadly viruses have led the government to ban concerts, and Luce's connection to the world--her music, her purpose--is closed off forever. She does what she has to do: she performs in illegal concerts to a small but passionate community, always evading the law.

Rosemary Laws barely remembers the Before times. She spends her days in Hoodspace, helping customers order all of their goods online for drone delivery--no physical contact with humans needed. By lucky chance, she finds a new job and a new calling: discover amazing musicians and bring their concerts to everyone via virtual reality. The only catch is that she'll have to do something she's never done before and go out in public. Find the illegal concerts and bring musicians into the limelight they deserve. But when she sees how the world could actually be, that won't be enough.

Nebula Award nominated short story. It first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March-April 2014. The story can be found in the anthologies Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume Two (2015), edited by Kathe Koja and Michael Kelly and Nebula Awards Showcase 2016, edited by Mercedes Lackey.

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This shot story originally appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Issue 15, March-April 2017. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2018, edited by Rich Horton.

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This short story originally appeared in Lightspeed, August 2015. It can also be found in the anthology Heiresses of Russ 2016: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction (2016), edited by Steve Berman and A. M. Dellamonica.

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This short story originally appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Issue 21, March-April 2018.

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Nebula Award nominated novelette. First appeared at Strange Horizons where it can be read for free.

A half-remembered children's TV show. A hotel that shouldn't exist. A mysterious ballad. A living flag.

Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author Sarah Pinsker's second collection brings together a seemingly eclectic group of stories that unite behind certain themes: her touchstones of music and memory are joined by stories about secret subversions and hidden messages in art. Her stories span and transcend genre labels, looking for the truth in strange situations from possible futures to impossible pasts.

This short story originally appeared in Lightspeed, September 2014. It can also be found in the anthology Year's Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2014 (2016), edited by Julia Rios and Alisa Krasnostein.

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Nebula Awrd winning novelette

Luce and her band are one of the last independent musical groups, traveling and performing and not selling out to the Big Music Corporation. When they lose everything, will they give up their principles to get it all back?

Originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2015. The story can also be found in the anthology Nebula Awards Showcase 2017, edited by Julie E. Czerneda.

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This Nebula-nominated novelette originally appeared in Lightspeed, February 2016. It can also be found in the anthology The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume 2 (2017), edited by Neil Clarke.

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Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea is one of the most anticipated SFF collections of recent years. Pinsker has shot like a star across the firmament with stories multiply nominated for awards as well as Sturgeon and Nebula award wins.

The baker's dozen stories gathered here (including a new, previously unpublished story) turn readers into travelers to the past, the future, and explorers of the weirder points of the present. The journey is the thing as Pinsker weaves music, memory, technology, history, mystery, love, loss, and even multiple selves on generation ships and cruise ships, on highways and high seas, in murder houses and treehouses. They feature runaways, fiddle-playing astronauts, and retired time travelers; they are weird, wired, hopeful, haunting, and deeply human. They are often described as beautiful but Pinsker also knows that the heart wants what the heart wants and that is not always right, or easy.

Table of Contents

• "A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide" (2014) short story
• "And We Were Left Darkling" (2015) short story
• "Remembery Day" (2015) short story
• "Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea" (2016) novelette
• "The Low Hum of Her" (2014) short story
• "Talking with Dead People" (2016) short story
• "The Sewell Home for the Temporally Displaced" (2014) short story
• "In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind" (2013) novelette
• "No Lonely Seafarer" (2014) short story
• "Wind Will Rove" (2017) novelette
• "Our Lady of the Open Road" (2015) novelette
• "The Narwhal" short story
• "And Then There Were (N - One)" (2017) novella

Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-nominated Novelette

This story was originally published in Uncanny Magazine, July-August 2019.

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Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-nominated Short Story

This story originally appeared in Lightspeed, January 2018.

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This short story originally appeared in Lightspeed: Women Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue, June 2014.

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This Novelette was first Published by tor.com in June, 2020.

Stella thought she'd made up a lie on the spot, asking her childhood friend if he remembered the strange public broadcast TV show with the unsettling host she and all the neighborhood kids appeared on years ago. But he does remember. And so does her mom. Why doesn't Stella? The more she investigates the show and the grip it has on her hometown, the eerier the mystery grows.

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This short story originally appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Issue 12, September-October 2016.

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Everybody's getting one.

Val and Julie just want what's best for their kids, David and Sophie. So when teenage son David comes home one day asking for a Pilot, a new brain implant to help with school, they reluctantly agree. This is the future, after all.

Soon, Julie feels mounting pressure at work to get a Pilot to keep pace with her colleagues, leaving Val and Sophie part of the shrinking minority of people without the device.

Before long, the implications are clear, for the family and society: get a Pilot or get left behind. With government subsidies and no downside, why would anyone refuse? And how do you stop a technology once it's everywhere? Those are the questions Sophie and her anti-Pilot movement rise up to answer, even if it puts them up against the Pilot's powerful manufacturer and pits Sophie against the people she loves most.

This short story originally appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Issue Three, March-April 2015.

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This Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award nominated novelette originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, September-October 2017. It can also be found in the anthologies The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 (2018), edited by Neil Clarke and Nebula Awards Showcase 2019, edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

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