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Dime. Potter. The School of Magic That Isn't Hogwarts. Ichor Falls - A Quiet Community. 365 tomorrows. Last Will and Testament. Author's Note: Cesca: It was a good idea at the time! Cesca: This story was like waking up somewhere drunk and having to get home! Cesca shoves drunk smelly story OFF HER resonant laughs Cesca: We're NOT FRIENDS! Resonant: Put that in your story notes. Cesca: I don't even LIKE you! So this is a flashfiction gone long and wrong; it was started for the Harlequin Challenge (that might have been a clue about the incipient wrongness and longness) and was finished as an act of sheer bloodymindedness.
Preface. "Dr. "Later, Thelma—" "There's a telephone call for you. " "I said later. " "It's your sister. " "Take a number. "It's about your father. The vortex dynamics were no longer visible, and Rodney blinked rapidly, trying not to lose his concentration. "Get the information; find out when the funeral is," Rodney said with deliberately forced patience. Thelma just stared at him, like she was waiting for further instructions. Memorable Tales from the Securemarket Entries. Fiction: The Grammarian's Five Daughters, by Eleanor Arnason. 29 March 2004 Once there was a grammarian who lived in a great city that no longer exists, so we don't have to name it. Although she was learned and industrious and had a house full of books, she did not prosper. To make the situation worse, she had five daughters.
Her husband, a diligent scholar with no head for business, died soon after the fifth daughter was born, and the grammarian had to raise them alone. It was a struggle, but she managed to give each an adequate education, though a dowry -- essential in the grammarian's culture -- was impossible. Then the girl came to her mother and said, "You can't possibly support me, along with my sisters. The mother thought for a while, then produced a bag. The oldest daughter thanked her mother and kissed her sisters and trudged away, the bag of nouns on her back. Time passed. Cory Doctorow's Literary Works. Homeland A few years later, California's economy collapses, but Marcus’s hacktivist past lands him a job as webmaster for a crusading politician who promises reform. Soon his former nemesis Masha emerges from the political underground to gift him with a thumbdrive containing a Wikileaks-style cable-dump of hard evidence of corporate and governmental perfidy.
It’s incendiary stuff—and if Masha goes missing, Marcus is supposed to release it to the world. Then Marcus sees Masha being kidnapped by the same government agents who detained and tortured Marcus years earlier. Pirate Cinema Trent McCauley is sixteen, brilliant, and obsessed with one thing: making movies on his computer by reassembling footage from popular films he downloads from the net. Rapture of the Nerds, with Charles Stross Earth has a population of roughly a billion hominids. For the Win Makers. Peter Watts' Backlist. A Colder War - a novelette by Charles Stross. Red Square Redux Warning The following briefing film is classified SECRET GOLD JULY BOOJUM.
If you do not have SECRET GOLD JULY BOOJUM clearance, leave the auditorium now and report to your unit security officer for debriefing. Failing to observe this notice is an imprisonable offense. You have sixty seconds to comply. Video clip Red Square in springtime. Puzzle Palace Roger isn't a soldier. Most people think spies are afraid of guns, or KGB guards, or barbed wire, but in point of fact the most dangerous thing they face is paper.
After a few minutes, Roger's hand is still. And then there was the hard-to-conceal fiasco in Antarctica. Shit. Roger's spent the past five hours staring at this twenty page report, trying to think of a way of summarizing their drily quantifiable terror in words that will give the reader power over them, the power to think the unthinkable: but it's proving difficult. He stands up, nervously shifts from one foot to the other. Peter Watts' Backlist. Lord Darcy. Lord DarcyCreated by Randall Garrett In a sort of parallel world where magic and ESP, not to mention knights and castles, co-exist peacefully alongside railroads, handguns and various other modern technology, LORD DARCY, who makes his home in Rouen, France, is the private security expert and Chief Investigator for Richard, Duke of Normandy.
Darcy uses magic as an aid to his detective work, in much the same way that Sherlock Holmes used science. Playing Watson to Darcy's Holmes (or Archie to Nero) is Master Sean O Lochlainn, licensed sorceror. Definitely not a hardboiled private eye type of guy, either by temperament or occupation, and yet the stories themselves often display a pulpish energy that more than makes up for it. The series proved popular enough that it was briefly continued after Garrett's 1987 death. LockeBlog - the conspiracy of Titan-Ra. Suburbua Deserta.