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A young man grieving for his lost sister steps into the world of their favorite board game, in a desperate attempt to find her.

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Once upon a moment, the One spoke to He and She, and learned that infinity and eternity are slippery concepts. At best.

Gregory Benford is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine.

As a science fiction author, Benford is best known for the Galactic Center Saga novels, beginning with In the Ocean of Night (1977). This series postulates a galaxy in which sentient organic life is in constant warfare with sentient mechanical life.

“A Forest, or a Tree” is a nightmarish horror story from author Tegan Moore, a Tor.com Original.

Four friends, May, Piper, Ailey, and Elizabeth, go on a camping trip. Things slowly begin to go wrong.

It was just the four of them, four girls alone in the forest.

About the Author

Tegan Moore spends a lot of time thinking about animals, the inherent weirdness of being, the future, and the end of the world so she tends to read and write fiction about those things as well. She lives in Seattle and is a graduate of Clarion West, class of 2015.

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Being a Lady Astronaut means being twice as dedicated, and twice as good as everyone else. And sometimes, handling a test run that has turned deadly serious. Mary Robinette Kowal visits an off-stage incident in her The Calculating Stars series in this brilliant Tor.com Original, “Articulated Restraint.”

[Lady Astronaut #1.5]

About the Author

Mary Robinette Kowal was the 2008 recipient of the Campbell Award for Best New Writer and her short story “For Want of a Nail” won the 2011 Hugo. Her stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, Asimov’s, and several Year’s Best anthologies. She is the author of Shades of Milk and Honey and Glamour in Glass (Tor 2012). Mary, a professional puppeteer and voice actor, has performed for LazyTown (CBS), the Center for Puppetry Arts, Jim Henson Pictures and founded Other Hand Productions. Her designs have garnered two UNIMA-USA Citations of Excellence, the highest award an American puppeteer can achieve. She also records fiction for authors such as Kage Baker, Cory Doctorow and John Scalzi.

Mary lives in Chicago with her husband Rob and over a dozen manual typewriters.