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From the title story's fantastical inter-dimensional assassins to
the steampunk dystopia of "Grey Rabbit, Crimson Mare, Coal Leopard"
burrowing through the ruins of a civilisation destroyed by a
plague, from Black Mirror-esque tales of blockchain cryptography
("Byzantine Empathy") and Internet trolling ("Thoughts and
Prayers") to a three-story hard-SF arc about artificial
intelligence and the singularity ("The Gods Will Not Be Chained",
"The Gods Will Not Be Slain" and "The Gods Have Not Died In Vain"),
here are 17 interlinking visions that explore what it is to be
human, and what it is like to abandon or transcend that. This
collection confirms Ken Liu, author of the astonishing and
multi-award winning The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, as one
of speculative fiction's greatest short story writers. Contents
include: Ghost Days, Maxwell's Demon,The Reborn, Thoughts and
Prayers, Byzantine Empathy, The Gods Will Not Be Chained, Staying
Behind, Real Artists, The Gods Will Not Be Slain, Altogether
Elsewhere Vast Herds of Reindeer, The Gods Have Not Died in Vain,
Memories of My Mother, Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit -
Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts, Grey Rabbit, Crimson
Mare, Coal Leopard, A Chase Beyond the Storms (an excerpt from The
Veiled Throne, Book 3 of the Dandelion Dynasty), The Hidden Girl,
Seven Birthdays, The Message, Cutting.
Dead bodies aren't unusual in the alleyways of Fenest. Muggings, brawls gone bad, debts collected—Detective Cora Gorderheim has seen it all. Until she finds a Wayward man with his mouth sewn shut. As Detective Gorderheim pieces together the dead man's story, she's drawn into the most dangerous story in the Union of Realms: the election. Gorderheim just wants to find a killer but nothing's that simple in an election year. Dark forces conspire against the Union and Gorderheim finds herself at the rotten core of it all. She'll find the killer, but at what cost?
Suzy is surprised to find a grumpy troll building a railway through
her house - especially when a gigantic steam train crashes into her
hallway! This is the Impossible Postal Express, the trusty delivery
service of the Union of Impossible Places, and Suzy becomes its
newest recruit. And with her cursed first package, an Impossible
adventure begins. Welcome to the Impossible Places Where there's
fuzzics not physics, where adventure meets magic and where the
journey will never, ever take you where you expect it to.
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