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In a deathless future, a father must choose who dies so his triplets can live.
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Choice
In a post-Roe America, a breakup and a wave of male pregnancies force two people to confront choice, power, and loss.
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The Just City
Athena builds Plato’s ideal city with time-displaced humans, slave children, robots, and a mortal Apollo among them.
The Visit
In a matriarchal Nigeria, a stay-at-home husband’s careful life is unsettled when an old friend visits.
Why Don't We Just Kill The Kid in the Omelas Hole
A modern, sardonic response to Omelas asks what happens if the city keeps replacing its suffering child.
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Beyond Lies The Wub
A starving space crew debates eating a telepathic alien pig, and the decision turns into a strange moral shock.
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Der neunte Arm des Oktopus
A near-future climate thought experiment: when superpowers unite to save Earth, resistance sparks a global power struggle.
Mr. Spaceship
A wartime experiment puts a human brain in charge of a spaceship, and the ship develops ideas of its own.
The Egg
A dying man meets God and is given a startling explanation of life, identity, and reincarnation.
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Hell is the Absence of God
In a world where angels, Heaven, and Hell are visibly real, one man seeks reunion and faith after tragedy.
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If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light
Seven Korean speculative stories explore space, aliens, and future tech through intimate questions of identity, grief, and connection.
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The Blazing World
A kidnapped English woman reaches an alternate world of animal peoples and becomes empress, exploring science, politics, and faith.
The Weight of Memories
A pregnant woman and a scientist confront the consequences of giving an unborn child access to inherited memories.
To Hold Up the Sky
A 11-story science fiction collection where cosmic-scale ideas collide with Chinese culture, art, time, and humanity.
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The Cleaners
In a world where touch carries memory, a cleaner and two sisters face a choice between erasing pain and keeping it.
Lukkertid
When human time stops but nature keeps moving, six lives are forced to confront birth, death, love, and meaning.
A Song for Lya
Two telepaths investigate a world where humans are joining an alien faith that promises total belonging at a deadly cost.
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The Alteration
In a Catholic-dominated 1970s England, a gifted choirboy faces a forced procedure to preserve his voice.
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
A radiant utopia is revealed to rest on one child's misery, forcing readers to ask what happiness costs.
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The Affinities
A lonely young man joins a near-future compatibility group and discovers a new social order that could remake society.
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The Children's Story
In a postwar classroom, a new teacher swiftly reshapes children’s beliefs, testing the meaning of loyalty, faith, and thought.
The Crystal Egg
An antiques dealer becomes obsessed with a crystal egg that opens a fleeting window onto another world.
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UnWorld
In a near-future world of AI uploads, a grieving mother and three others circle a death that may hide a deeper truth.
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Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
Future historians try to alter Columbus’s voyage to avert catastrophe and reshape humanity’s history.
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