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The Great God Pan (1894) is a novella by Arthur Machen. Condemned as decadent and obscene upon publication, The Great God Pan earned praise from Oscar Wilde and H. P. Lovecraft, and is now regarded as one of Victorian literature's finest-and most unsettling-stories of horror and the occult. Throughout the years, it has influenced such figures as Stephen King, Guillermo del Toro, and Josh Malerman with its depiction of the god Pan and unsettling blend...
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My name is Zarra Perez, or at least that is what I am told. I have no recollection of that name or the face in the mirror.
Genetic Corp X is one of the world's premier tissue and organ cloning centers. Medical breakthroughs of all kinds have originated from the work done at the facility. Zarra Perez was their lead research scientist on her way to curing Alzheimer's disease-until a nearly fatal accident left her with no personal memories or sense...
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Mona prefers organic food. Vivid food that tastes of the real world. The shimmering red apple on the table looks suspicious. A genetic scissors product. The pride of her boyfriends science experiments. With her track record of stumbling head first into things she better stayed out of, she stares at the apple. The crossroad of her relationship. How will Mona decide? Read "Coloring an Apple", a story that asks, what might happen if genetic manipulation...
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Meet Daniel and dive into the abyss of his tortured mind. This man, who has been in a mental institution for several months, has been in the grip of an intense depression for years, the result of the loss of a relationship that was dear to him. Since then, he has been reliving what he claims are his countless past lives. The memories and details he recounts to his therapist defy comprehension, awakening unspeakable traumas that seem to belong to a...
5) Off the Rack
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A free groom and a half-price ring bearer with every wedding gown purchase: the perfect solution to Lisa's relationship problem. Now she just has to choose the right groom. Ah, what the heck: why not spring for a custom-made? Because this time, Lisa's getting the best her money can buy. A light-hearted contemporary science fiction for everyone who's ever loved revenge stories. 2500 words / Designer Human Science FictionWelcome to Inklets, a series...
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Parent-teacher interviews: a teacher's worse nightmare.
Especially with a parent like Alison Young.
Can this teacher find a way to solve this problem without getting everyone off side?
A slipstream sci-fi story that reminds us all that we control our own fate.
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A breathtaking journey through a far-future universe in which the adherents of technological bodily enhancements violently clash with believers in genetic manipulation, from one of the godfathers of cyberpunk In the generations since humanity first began to spread itself throughout the universe, schisms have torn the race asunder. In the future, as in the past, extreme ideological differences have set man against man, causing serious tensions and...
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Failure is not an option.Payton likes her elegant and intimidating tactical uniform.She respects the authority it gives her.And is determined to pass her physical final without damaging it.Her career is on the line. Her life too.Because there are no second chances in the Security Directorate.
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She can take him or she can take him.The Security Directorate controls your birth, education, marriage and sometimes your death.Captain Seraphina Robinson is about to marry a man she barely knows. Not that it matters.The eugenics programme matters more.She has nothing to lose and everything to gain.
10) Calling It a Day
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The Security Directorate takes care of its own.Hard-arsed detective Captain Maeryn Prothero is on the case. In a junkyard. With a red phone box.It makes her feel light and bouncy. Disturbing and uncomfortable. Setting her nerves on fire.Battling the fragmented memories of her past, can she save herself?Before the Security Directorate does.
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More stories from the ruthless fascist dictatorship that is the Security Directorate.The Director General oversees the indoctrination and eugenics programmes to ensure only the best and brightest survive to take up postings in the elite enforcementProtection Squad.These are five of their stories.Life in the Security Directorate - Eve struggles to come to terms with life in the Directorate and finds her own way out.Honoris Virilis Respectu - Major...
12) Veni Vidi Vici
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On her first assignment…Second Lieutenant Cora Meadows new to Exploratorem Station.Hears an alarm tone not covered by her induction.Is on her own. Outisde. With noone to give orders.Is it a hazing rutual? Or a rebel attack?Does she have what it takes to deal with whatever it is?
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The Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author delivers a prescient tale that "explores the inanity of conformity with a hopelessly superficial future humankind" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
He was revived, somehow, and thrust into a brand-new world, one in which humans have evolved to breathe underwater, reproduction is quite uncommon, and everyone has standardized their appearance to conform to the presently favored model.
He is a...
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Let Deborah Walker take you to familiar places with unfamiliar realities. Take an hour out of your day with four short stories, and lose yourself in worlds that are stange but very familiar. Sibyl: The ghost of my future smells of ashLooking Good: Beauty's only gene deep. I've got to get me some of that clickable DNA. Slow the Sound of Candle Ice Ringing: Insectoid aliens have feelings,too. A poetic coming of age story. Three Brother City: What...
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A woman walks through a virtual reconstruction of the destroyed streets where she and her lover used to live. A young man trades away his youth, and something of himself, in the plasma extracted from his blood. A clone addresses her dead, doubled 'self' as she tries to understand her personal history. In these uncanny stories of virtual reality, biotech, data surveillance and communications technology, Black Mirror meets M.R. James: unsettling perspectives...
16) Notebooks
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In "Notebooks" by Anne C West, Sarah Watson wakes up with no memory of her identity, except that she's a renowned psychologist who specialized in modifying memories.She discovers she wrote an algorithm to modify her own memories and integrated nanobots into the process. Colleague and friend, Ben Porter warns her that the experiment failed, risking catatonia. But Sarah can't remember which memories she wanted to modify, and Ben refuses to tell her,...
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After being tipped off by a mysterious stranger known only as the Blue Wolf, April Blanchet breaks into LocTech offices at 3 a.m. to find out what they are really hiding down in Sector Seven.
But when she gets busted by the guard on night duty, she must do whatever it takes to convince him to help her get down to the secret lab.
What will she find there? And will she make it out alive?
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A science fiction short story from Jeff Walker, author of The Long Lost War, Your Service Is Required, and The Mysterious World of Professor Darkk and Miss Shadow. Simon Janson died at the end of his life, only to be reborn into a new body and his mind uploaded to it. Now he must live in a world where death is no longer a factor in human beings anymore. Simon travels beyond Earth to find meaning in his life now, stumbling upon a new love and new challenges....
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Professor Buford Doss, never got the respect or credit he deserved. Such prestige went to what he insisted were inferior peers and even mentally dense graduate assistants. But Professor Doss had a plan to remedy all of that. A big plan. A miraculous plan. And he was anxious to set it in motion, even it meant engaging in a bit of deceit. You may say he had no intention on 'dragon' his feet on the matter. No siree. Not Dr. Buford Doss. So he ends up...
20) The Red Kimono
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Reality is merely Perception! Truth is simply ones and zeros!The RED KIMONO is the A.I.'s method of eliciting information, gathering intelligence . . . And this method is very effective!The Kimono can be any color, of course. The color depends upon your perception, your state of mind. The Kimono's natural color is red. That's what the A.I. prefers, and created.And She . . . well, She is something you'll just have to experience for yourself--And you...
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