| Ignore All Previous Instructions by Ada HoffmannKelli Reynolds, a script supervisor for an AI conglomerate that controls what stories are told, is caught between the security of her current life and the world she wishes for when her ex-boyfriend asks for her help with a black market trade to pay for his gender confirmation surgery. Fans of autistic and LGBTQIA+ representation in science fiction and hopeful depictions of the future during massive upheaval will also enjoy Key Lime Sky by Al Hess and Ode to the Half-Broken by Suzanne Palmer. |
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The Iron Garden Sutra
by A. D. Sui
Vessel Iris has devoted himself to the Starlit Order, performing funeral rites for the dead across the galaxy, guiding souls back into the Infinite Light. Despite the meaning he finds in his work and the comfort of AI companionship, his relationships with the living leave him longing for deeper connection. The spaceship Counsel of Nicaea has been lost for more than a thousand years, its passengers reduced to dust and bone. A relic of Earth's dying past, its sudden appearance has attracted a team of academics eager to investigate its archeological history. And Iris has been assigned to bring peace to the crew's long departed souls. Carpeted in moss and intertwined with vines, Nicaea is more forest than ship. Iris's religious rituals are met with bemusement by the scientists--and outright hostility by engineer Yan Fukui. But the plant life isn't the only sentience to have survived in the past millennia.
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The Whole Enchilada
by Daniela Quirke
Charlie is a Gen X bartender living in pre-gentrified Austin, Texas. There's something missing in her life and she doesn't know what it is...until she meets an extraterrestrial who convinces her to go on a road trip across the Lone Star State.
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Secondhand Luck
by Kim Harrison
It's been months since Petra Grady bonded with the shadow Pluck. With the help of researcher Benedict Strom, she has made a place for herself at St. Unoc University as the first weaver to use shadow magic in a thousand years. But some are not happy to acknowledge the new shadow/weaver pair, and Petra and Pluck aren't surprised when they're blamed for every recent trouble. When a new weaver is drawn to St. Unoc, Pluck quickly realizes the novice magic user has not come alone.
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