by David D. Levine
$0.99 (Short Story) ISBN 978-1-61138-225-9
Gary Shelton hasn’t been seen at the annual gravity hackers’ convention since the accident that destroyed his ship and killed his lover Janet. Now he’s back, facing ten years of unanswered questions from his friends — including Mira, the strong-willed artist who loved both Gary and Janet. When a piece of space junk collides with the orbiting convention hotel, they must all confront their past to ensure they have a future.
“At the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of Uncle Teco’s Homebrew Gravitics Club” is also available as part of Space Magic, an award-winning collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by David D. Levine.
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by David D. Levine
$0.99 (Short Story) ISBN 978-1-61138-226-6
Tony Collina’s brother has just died in a steel factory accident. His friends urge him to take a stand against the factory owners, but it’s 1937 and Tony has a family to support. What he’s forgetting is that brotherhood changes everything, whether it’s the fraternal ties of the union or the undying bonds of blood.
“Brotherhood,” a short story that first appeared in the anthology Haunted Holidays, is also available as part of Space Magic, the award-winning collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by David D. Levine.
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A Fantasy Story
by Deborah J. Ross
$0.99 (Short Story) ISBN 978-1-61138-128-3
“Hamlet” meets “The Arabian Nights” — with a feminist twist! A young princess-scholar returns home to find her grandmother dying and her uncle, the Regent, poised to seize the throne.
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by David D. Levine
$0.99 (Short Story) ISBN 978-1-61138-220-4
Existential angst is tough enough when you’re human. When you’re a purple giraffe in a comic strip, you know you’re being watched, and none of your friends believe you, it’s even harder. A Locus Recommended Reading selection, Charlie the Purple Giraffe Was Acting Strangely also appeared in Year’s Best Fantasy #5.
“Charlie the Purple Giraffe Was Acting Strangely” is also available as part of Space Magic, an award-winning collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by David D. Levine.
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by David D. Levine
$0.99 (Short Story) ISBN 978-1-61138-223-5
Circle of Compassion by David D. Levine (short story) is the tale of a young priestess in an ancient China that never was, who must use a tiny magical charm to defeat a great army. It originally appeared in the anthology Gateways.
“Circle of Compassion” is also available as part of Space Magic, an award-winning collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by David D. Levine.
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And Other Tales
by Pati Nagle
$5.99 (Short Story Collection)
ISBN 978-1-61138-033-0
From the dark depths of the past to the bright hopes of the future, Pati Nagle’s stories range across the palette of human emotion.
Named for her Theodore Sturgeon Award Finalist story, Coyote Ugly includes fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, romance, mystery, and a few surprises.
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by David D. Levine
$0.99 (Short Story) ISBN 978-1-61138-227-3
The Ecology of Fairie by David D. Levine (short story) is the story of a young girl beset by malevolent fairies, who uses her knowledge of ecology to combat them. It first appeared in Realms of Fantasy.
“The Ecology of Faerie” is also available as part of Space Magic, an award-winning collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by David D. Levine.
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by David D. Levine
$0.99 (Short Story) ISBN 978-1-61138-230-3
Fear of Widths by David D. Levine (short story) is a magic realist tale of a man who becomes unmoored from reality in the wake of his parents’ death. It was originally published in Land/Space, an anthology of speculative fiction exploring the prairies.
“Fear of Widths” is also available as part of Space Magic, an award-winning collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by David D. Levine.
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A Fantasy Story
by Deborah J. Ross
$0.99 (Short Story) ISBN 978-1-61138-159-7
Hired to assassinate a renegade wizard, swordswoman Cinnabar resents having to bring the Duke’s son along so he can claim credit for her work. He doesn’t know he’s been infected with treachery spells…and she doesn’t know she’s going to fall in love with him.
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Flash Fiction
by Nancy Jane Moore
$2.99 (Flash Fiction Collection)
ISBN 978-1-61138-099-6
Nancy Jane Moore wrote her first flash fiction many years ago when everyone in her writing group decided to enter a contest for one-page stories. None of them won, but she got hooked and has been writing short-shorts ever since. Her first project for Book View Café was posting a free flash fiction every week for a year. Some were reprints, others older stories that needed one more revision, but quite a few were written in the week they went up. This 52-story collection includes most of those stories and a few new ones as well.
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A Swords of Power story
by Pati Nagle
$2.99 (novella) ISBN 978-1-61138-234-1
This is a novella (a short novel)
Midwinter, a time of darkness, a time to release past sorrows…
Lord Paethor, young and haunted, accepts a mission from his king: to retrieve the enchanted sword Farslayer – or die in the attempt.
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by David D. Levine
$0.99 (Short Story) ISBN 978-1-61138-218-1
Jason Carmelke’s father has decided to make a life-altering change so dramatic that it draws Jason to his father’s bedside, their first encounter since his childhood. There, he discovers just how irrevocable a change is coming, and Jason must decide exactly what love and loyalty really mean. Shortlisted for the Aeon Award, I Hold My Father’s Paws appeared in The Year’s Best Science Fiction #24 and has been translated into Russian.
“I Hold My Father’s Paws” is also available as part of Space Magic, an award-winning collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by David D. Levine.
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And “The Three Veils” – Two Ælven Stories
by Pati Nagle
$2.99 (Short Story Collection) ISBN 978-1-61138-255-6
Felisan, Governor of Alpinon, recalls the battle in which he and Jharan were certain they would be slain.
On their way to Glenhallow, Eliani and her kindred must pass the battlefield at Skyruach, site of the greatest ælven conflict centuries before. As she and her kin listen to her father, Felisan, tell of the battle, she ponders the difficult decisions she must make when they reach the city where Turisan awaits her. Must she accept and use the mindspeech she shares with him?
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by David D. Levine
$0.99 (Short Story) ISBN 978-1-61138-222-8
War divides families, friends, lovers. It takes no prisoners and offers no mercy. So when Theophile Nundaemon faces his former lover in thaumaturgical battle between airships and floating cities, he knows the rules of war still apply. But the rules of love still apply as well. Love in the Balance originally appeared in the critically acclaimed anthology All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories.
“Love in the Balance” is also available as part of Space Magic, an award-winning collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by David D. Levine.
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by David D. Levine
$0.99 (Short Story) ISBN 978-1-61138-216-7
Inspiration, like love, strikes when you least expect it. When Phil goes seeking that creative spark in a junkyard, he discovers not only just the right thing, he discovers a rare and very specific kind of magic. Nucleon first appeared in Interzone, was chosen for Year’s Best Fantasy #2, and won the James White Award.
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Three Stories
by Vonda N. McIntyre
$3.99 (Collection) ISBN 978-1-61138-164-1
“Screwtop,” “Steelcollar Worker,” “The Genius Freaks.”
Kylis believes she can protect herself, but when the commander of the prison Screwtop threatens her lovers, she understands her own vulnerability. Jannine loves the accomplishment she feels in her Virtual Reality job… yet she fears doing it too well, and attracting the attention of her superiors. Lais, the freak, flees from comfort and rewards, knowing too much about herself.
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A Fantasy Story
by Deborah J. Ross
$0.99 (Short Story) ISBN 978-1-61138-158-0
Against all custom, Rayzel is chosen to carry the warrior pearl into battle. Day by day, it sets her apart, transforming her into a soulless killer, until the son of her enemy steps into a sunlit glade, sees her dancing, and changes her world forever.
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A Science Fiction Short Story
by Deborah J. Ross
$0.99 (Short Story) ISBN 978-1-61138-161-0
The crew of the spaceship Juno expect to find a fertile planet ready for colonization. Instead, they discover a fiery grave and a space station filled with corpses. What happened here? A natural disaster… or an alien weapon capable of destroying an entire world? Honorable Mention, Year’s Best SF, 2009.
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A Fantasy Story
by Deborah J. Ross
$0.99 (Short Story) ISBN 978-1-61138-160-3
Their only hope lies across the sea: escaping a brutal witch-hunt and the flaming ruins of the city, Eliane gathers the frightened orphans onboard the last ship. But the ocean holds its own perils… and the secret to Eliane’s past.
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by David D. Levine
$0.99 (Short Story) ISBN 978-1-61138-231-0
Clark Thatcher is one of the elite: a surgically-enhanced soldier carrying in his very bones the Army’s secret weapon. But when he decides that enough is enough, he must decide if he’s willing to pay the price—a price higher than even he, with his unique capabilities and all they cost him, ever imagined. A pulse-pounding chase through a dystopian America, Rewind won the Writers of the Future contest in 2002.
“Rewind” is also available as part of Space Magic, an award-winning collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by David D. Levine.
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by David D. Levine
$5.99 (Collection) ISBN 978-1-61138-215-0
This Endeavour Award-winning collection pulls together 15 critically acclaimed science fiction and fantasy stories that take readers from a technicolor cartoon realm to an ancient China that never was, and from an America gone wrong to the very ends of the universe. Including the Hugo Award-winning “Tk’Tk’Tk,” the Writers of the Future Award winner “Rewind,” “Nucleon,” “The Tale of the Golden Eagle,” and many other highly-praised stories, Space Magic shows David D. Levine’s talents not only as a gifted writer but as a powerful storyteller whose work explores the farthest reaches of space as well as the depths of the human heart.
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by Vonda N. McIntyre
$0.99 (Flash Fiction) ISBN: 978-1-61138-109-2
“In an expected decision today, the United States Supreme Court reaffirmed its definition of Corporations as persons, and redefined organic beings as unpersons.”
A Book View Café original.
by David D. Levine
$0.99 (Short Story) ISBN 978-1-61138-217-4
Legends begin at the nexus of love and and pain and truth. Nerissa Zeebnen-Feersig is an awesome creation to behold: a mechanical, platinum-skinned beauty with a gift for telling stories. Denali Eu is a rogue and a gambler with a dangerous secret. Each takes an incredible journey, and together they give birth to a passionate, impossible story. Nominated for the Hugo and Sturgeon Awards, The Tale of the Golden Eagle has been translated into five languages and appeared in Science Fiction: The Best of 2003.
“The Tale of the Golden Eagle” is also available as part of Space Magic, an award-winning collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by David D. Levine.
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by David D. Levine
$0.99 (Short Story) ISBN 978-1-61138-219-8
Walker’s got a problem. A human salesman on an alien world, he’s got software to sell. But he doesn’t understand the language or the culture, and he’s running out of resources. Sometimes survival means understanding the difference between what’s most valuable and what’s most important. Translated into 7 languages, Tk’Tk’Tk won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 2006.
“Tk’Tk’Tk” is also available as part of Space Magic, an award-winning collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by David D. Levine.
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by David D. Levine
$0.99 (Short Story) ISBN 978-1-61138-229-7
Wind from a Dying Star by David D. Levine (short story) is a far-future tale of humanity’s descendants, struggling to survive in a universe that is running down, and the lone survivor of ancient humanity who helps them to recall their past.
“Wind from a Dying Star” is also available as part of Space Magic, an award-winning collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by David D. Levine.
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by David D. Levine
$0.99 (Short Story) ISBN 978-1-61138-228-0
Zauberschrift by David D. Levine (short story) is the story of a humble scribe who, years after the untimely termination of his apprenticeship to a pair of squabbling wizards, must return to a village now menaced by magic gone wrong. It first appeared in the anthology Apprentice Fantastic.
“Zauberschrift” is also available as part of Space Magic, an award-winning collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by David D. Levine.
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