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In a near-future San Francisco where the gig economy has made work more precarious than ever, Edwina is an average twenty-something scrambling to hold down her job with a major skin care brand. Until her awful boss does something you should never do--angers the fae on social media--and the struggles of her job take on an even nastier shade.

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Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating cheap scrips for poor people who can't otherwise afford them. But her latest drug hack has left a trail of lethal overdoses as people become addicted to their work, doing repetitive tasks until they become unsafe or insane.

Hot on her trail, an unlikely pair: Eliasz, a brooding military agent, and his robotic partner, Paladin. As they race to stop information about the sinister origins of Jack's drug from getting out, they begin to form an uncommonly close bond that neither of them fully understand.

And underlying it all is one fundamental question: Is freedom possible in a culture where everything, even people, can be owned?

This short story originally appeared in Lightspeed, November 2014. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2015, edtied by Rich Horton.

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The story of a freed slave and a robot professor, trying to figure out what it means to be in love while they watch old anime from the 21st century.

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"Do you remember when we had the vote?"

In a world that's just a step away from our own, time travel is possible. But war is brewing - a secret group is trying to destroy women's rights, and their access to the timeline. If they succeed, only a small elite will have the power to shape the past, present, and future.

Our only hope lies with an unlikely group of allies, from riot grrls to revolutionaries, their lives separated by centuries, battling for a world where anyone can change the future. A final confrontation is coming.

Destry's life is dedicated to terraforming Sask-E. As part of the Environmental Rescue Team, she cares for the planet and its burgeoning eco-systems as her parents and their parents did before her.

But the bright, clean future they're building comes under threat when Destry discovers a city full of people that shouldn't exist, hidden inside a massive volcano.

As she uncovers more about their past, Destry begins to question the mission she's devoted her life to, and must make a choice that will reverberate through Sask-E's future for generations to come.

This Sturgeon Award-winning short story, about a disease surveillance robot whose social programming gets put to the test, originally appeared on Slate, December 19, 2018, and was later anthologized in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 edited by Carmen Maria Machado and John Joseph Adams and Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow (2019) from Unnamed Press.

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