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Tag Archives: short-fiction

Jury Service

a collaborative fiction by Cory Doctorow and Charlie Stross, is being serialised in weekly installments through this month at scifi.com. The first part is up today… (via Boing Boing, of course)

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Underneath

Underneath A rather lovely and atmospheric graphic novelette – novelette is my word of the day, since checking out the Hugo award site this morning – set in abandoned rail tunnels under the streets of New York, by Emme Stone. … more…

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Watching The K Foundation Burn A Million Quid

Ooo-kay then – I think I’m about ready to welcome visitors into the rest of the site, which now looks… pretty much like the blog, actually. I’ve put up an old piece, Watching The K Foundation Burn A Million Quid, … more…

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0wnz0red

I absolutely refuse to believe that anyone who reads this blog doesn’t also read BoingBoing (so you know all about this already, right?) but just in case you don’t – Cory has had his new novella, “0wnz0red”, published by Salon. … more…

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Looking at Meinhof

A new short story by Don Delillo, Looking at Meinhof. She knew there was someone else in the room. There was no outright noise, just an intimation behind her, a faint displacement of air. She’d been alone for a time, … more…

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“More Barn!”

I’m not sure that I would claim entirely to understand a blog post that begins with a great Neil Young anecdote (attributed to Graham Nash, but you never know) and proceeds into a reminiscence about certain sacred and mystical guitar … more…

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2002: A Palindrome Story

Go and marvel at 2002: A Palindrome Story by Nick Montfort & William Gillespie – a collaboratively composed palindrome of exactly 2002 words. This online version is internally linked so that you can keep track of where you’re up to … more…

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New short story by Haruki Murakami

AIRPLANE – A new short story by Haruki Murakami in the latest New Yorker. (via wood s lot)

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