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Metal tenements jutted up from the land, pointing like fingers at the night sky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy day, a constant stream of drones strove to keep those buildings together. Every bit of scrap metal, every piece of residual wiring was used to keep the landscape of steel and concrete from breaking to pieces. For all its frailty, for all its seeming squalor, there was something dear and familiar about the way the streets met and turned into each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEven if her life was filled with the cosiness of the here and now, she could not shake off the longing that thrummed through her dreams in the same way that the thrum of the equilibrium machine pulsed through this landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTowering above the tenements was the Remembrance Monument. Made of compressed bits and parts, it contained all the memories of those gone before. Each year, the monument reached higher and higher until its apex was lost in the covering of clouds. 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Apex Books has that!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStep behind the velvet rope of these fabulous science fiction and fantasy stories of roller rinks, nightclubs, glam aliens, party monsters, drugs, sex, glitter, and debauchery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDance through nightclubs, roller derby with cryptids and aliens, be seduced by otherworldly creatures, and ingest cocktails that will alter your existence forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoin glittery authors Christopher Barzak (\u003cem\u003eOne for Sorrow\u003c\/em\u003e) and Daryl Gregory (\u003cem\u003ePandemonium\u003c\/em\u003e) on the dance floor, drink cocktails with Maria Dahvana Headley (\u003cem\u003eQueen of Kings: A Novel of Cleopatra, the Vampire\u003c\/em\u003e) and Tim Pratt (Marla Mason series), and skate with Seanan McGuire (InCryptid series), Diana Rowland (Kara Gillian series), and Maurice Broaddus (The Knights of Breton Court series). The fantastic Amber Benson gets the party started with her floor-rattling introduction (Calliope Reaper-Jones series).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe’re waiting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction by Amber Benson\u003cbr\u003e\"Sister Twelve: Confessions of a Party Monster\" by Christopher Barzak (Read for free at \u003cem\u003eApex Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e!)\u003cbr\u003e\"Apex Jump\" by David J. Schwartz\u003cbr\u003e\"With Her Hundred Miles to Hell\" by Kat Howard\u003cbr\u003e\"Star Dancer\" by Jennifer Pelland\u003cbr\u003e\"Of Selkies, Disco Balls, and Anna Plane\" by Cat Rambo\u003cbr\u003e\"Sooner Than Gold\" by Cory Skerry\u003cbr\u003e\"Subterraneans\" by William Shunn \u0026amp; Laura Chavoen\u003cbr\u003e\"The Minotaur Girls\" by Tansy Rayner Roberts\u003cbr\u003e\"Unable to Reach You\" by Alan DeNiro\u003cbr\u003e\"Such \u0026amp; Such Said to So \u0026amp; So\" by Maria Dahvana Headley \u003cbr\u003e\"Revels in the Land of Ice\" by Tim Pratt\u003cbr\u003e\"Bess, the Landlord’s Daughter, Goes for Drinks with the Green Girl\" by Sofia Samatar\u003cbr\u003e\"Blood and Sequins\" by Diana Rowland\u003cbr\u003e\"Two-Minute Warning\" by Vylar Kaftan\u003cbr\u003e\"Inside Hides the Monster\" by Damien Angelica Walters (formerly known as Damien Walters Grintalis)\u003cbr\u003e\"Bad Dream Girl\" by Seanan McGuire\u003cbr\u003e\"A Hollow Play\" by Amal El-Mohtar  \u003cbr\u003e\"Just Another Future Song\" by Daryl Gregory\u003cbr\u003e\"The Electric Spanking of the War Babies\" by Maurice Broaddus \u0026amp; Kyle S. Johnson\u003cbr\u003e\"All That Fairy Tale Crap\" by Rachel Swirsky\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Klima\u003c\/strong\u003e previously worked at \u003cem\u003eAsimov's, Analog\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cem\u003e Tor Books\u003c\/em\u003e before returning to school to earn his master's in Library and Information Science. He now works full time as the assistant director of a large public library. When he is not conquering the world of indexing, John edits and publishes the Hugo Award-winning genre zine \u003cem\u003eElectric Velocipede.\u003c\/em\u003e The magazine is also a four-time nominee for the World Fantasy Award. In 2007 Klima edited an anthology of science fiction and fantasy stories based on spelling-bee winning words called \u003cem\u003eLogorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories.\u003c\/em\u003e In 2011 Klima edited \u003cem\u003eHappily Ever After,\u003c\/em\u003e a reprint anthology of fairytale retellings. He and his family live in the Midwest.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLynne M. Thomas\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Curator of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University. She’s probably best known as the co-editor of the Hugo Award-winning \u003cem\u003eChicks Dig Time Lords\u003c\/em\u003e (2010) with Tara O’Shea, \u003cem\u003eWhedonistas \u003c\/em\u003e(2011) with Deborah Stanish, and the Hugo Award-nominated \u003cem\u003eChicks Dig Comics\u003c\/em\u003e (2012) with Sigrid Ellis, all published by \u003cem\u003eMad Norwegian Press.\u003c\/em\u003e Along with the Geek Girl Chronicles book series, Lynne is the Editor-in-Chief of the Hugo Award-nominated (2012 \u0026amp; 2013) \u003cem\u003eApex Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, an online professional prose and poetry magazine of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and mash-ups of all three. She moderates the Hugo Award-winning SF Squeecast and contributes to the Verity! podcast. Lynne lives in DeKalb with her husband Michael, their daughter Caitlin, and a cat named Marie. Lynne is also a part-time Dancing Queen and grew up at roller rink in the wilds of Massachussetts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Damian Thomas\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Hugo Award-nominated Managing Editor of \u003cem\u003eApex Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e and a former Associate Editor at \u003cem\u003eMad Norwegian Press.\u003c\/em\u003e He’s the co-editor of the Doctor Who essay anthology \u003cem\u003eQueers Dig Time Lords\u003c\/em\u003e with Sigrid Ellis. Michael lives in DeKalb with his wife Lynne, their daughter Caitlin, and a cat named Marie. He can solve most of the world’s problems with a cocktail, some music, and a pair of rollerskates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eExcerpt\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom: \"Sister Twelve: Confessions of a Party Monster\" by Christopher Barzak\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eIt didn't take with me, the world and its rules, the things it expected of me. In the end, that’s the only reason why I find myself still here after all these countless years, and still I refuse to leave the scene. If you drop a beat, I’m on it. If I hear the slightest scratch, I’m ready to spin. If my shoes give out, if I split a sole or break a heel, it doesn’t matter. I kick them off and keep on dancing like the music and my body can’t be put on pause.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe have a date — the music, the dance floor, and I. We’re going to move all night long if we have anything to say about it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf I gave a damn about the world, though, and what it wanted from me, I’d be sitting in a high–backed chair right now with my needlepoint in my lap, collecting a fine layer of dust as I concentrated on a difficult stitch. My father liked seeing us girls do things like that. “Nothing more beautiful than to see a young lady with her head bent over a hoop,” he used to say as he passed through our room, where my sisters would be sitting in that exact position. Then he’d notice me heaped in the corner chair, where I’d pulled my legs under me and sat hunched over the yellowed pages of a novel, and he would tsk. Seriously, he would tsk. Once, he told me, “You are quite fortunate to have been born last of all my daughters.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Why is that?” I asked, placing my finger upon the sentence I was just then reading before looking up into his disappointed face, eyes blinking beneath their furry salt and pepper mantle. The gold crown on his head was tilted a little to the side, as if a beggar or a drunkard had just accosted him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Because the youngest child always gets away with more than his or her older siblings,” was his answer. Then he turned to walk away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Is that luck, Father,” I asked, “or is it just the intelligent observation of others going through life experiences before you have, and then analyzing the results of their conclusions, that leads to smarter decision–making?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Tsk–tsk,” said my father. Looking over his shoulder, he shook his head as if I were a bitter pill his advisor forced him to swallow each night for the sake of his health.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe youngest child is also supposedly the one everyone likes (except the older siblings, of course, because they tend to feel jealous of all the attention diverted to the baby). But whether any of that is true or just psychoanalytical bullshit doesn’t really matter. What matters is that, somehow, that psychoanalytical bullshit sometimes maps on to your life in a real way; and at those times, if you’re a person who’s able to be honest with yourself, you have to sit around and think, Well, okay, maybe I should pay attention to what this is telling me?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn my case, yes, almost everyone liked me, except for my sisters, who I always felt either hated or thought little of me, because of both my prolonged innocence and also because of the way I often stupidly pointed out the flaws in their thinking without realizing how embarrassing that might be for them. Really, my pointing out their flaws was a symptom of my innocence — back then I thought it was a good thing to be honest with people, no matter what — but that explanation doesn’t excuse the hurt I must have caused them. In the end, what matters is that I too often told the truth as if it were as ordinary as the air we breathe, and because of that I could sometimes make my sisters feel like the lowest creatures in existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I told you so.” Those were the words I often found myself using with my sisters in the year after my brother–in–law, the soldier who I’m sure has gone on by now to be king in place of my father, discovered our secret. “I told you so, I told you so,” I would tell my sisters in the eleven months that passed during the year after that man brought a halt to our dancing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI said this so often because I so often realized things that my sisters never noticed, and they always made me feel like a stupid little girl when I said things like, “Shouldn’t we wait to leave until we hear the guard snoring?” or “Shouldn’t we maybe tie him to his chair anyway, just in case he’s fooling? That way, he can’t follow us down into the clubs.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey laughed at me, my sisters. They said, “Oh child, you are always so afraid.” But I wasn’t afraid. I was never afraid. I was just observant and cautious. I knew that soldier had something on us, I just didn’t know what.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTurns out, he had a cloak that could make him invisible, and he had some wisdom from an old crone he’d met in the woods on his way to our castle to solve the secret of our nightly disappearances for our father. The wisdom the old crone gave him was this: Don’t drink the cup of wine they’ll give you at the end of the night, but make them think that you did.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was good advice, really. Old crones know a lot. They’ve seen shit go down that most young people only hear about in songs and movies. The wine that we gave to our nightly guards, to our would– be saviors and suitors, was always drugged. It put them dead asleep within minutes of sipping it twice, and while they were nodding off in the corner, their minds growing black as a bog, my sisters and I — well, the twelve of us would go out dancing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Apex Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Softcover","offer_id":763033373,"sku":"GM-01","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"ebook","offer_id":763033369,"sku":"GMe-01","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0000\/7796\/products\/glittermayhem.jpg?v=1741363889"},{"product_id":"the-apex-book-of-world-sf-3-science-fiction-anthology","title":"The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 3","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Apex Book of World SF: Volume 3\u003c\/em\u003e, editor Lavie Tidhar collects short stories by science fiction and fantasy authors from Africa, Asia, South America, and Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese stories run the gamut from science fiction, to fantasy, and to horror. Some are translations (from German, Chinese, French, Spanish, and Swedish), and some were written in English. The authors herein come from Asia and Europe, Africa, and Latin America. Their stories are all wondrous and wonderful and showcase the vitality and diversity that can be found in the field. They are a conversation, by voices that should be heard. And once again, editor Lavie Tidhar and \u003cem\u003eApex Publications\u003c\/em\u003e are tremendously grateful for the opportunity to bring them to our readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Courtship in the Country of Machine-Gods\" — Benjanun Sriduangkaew (Thailand)\u003cbr\u003e\"A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight\" — Xia Jia (China)\u003cbr\u003e\"Act of Faith\" — Fadzilshah Johanabos (Malaysia)\u003cbr\u003e\"The Foreigner\" — Uko Bendi Udo (Nigeria)\u003cbr\u003e\"The City of Silence\" — Ma Boyong (China)\u003cbr\u003e\"Planetfall\" — Athena Andreadis (Greece)\u003cbr\u003e\"Jungle Fever\" — Ika Koeck (Malaysia)\u003cbr\u003e\"To Follow the Waves\" — Amal El-Mohtar (Lebanon\/Canada)\u003cbr\u003e\"Ahuizotl\" — Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas (Mexico)\u003cbr\u003e\"The Rare Earth\" — Biram Mboob (Gambia)\u003cbr\u003e\"Spider's Nest\" — Myra Çakan (Germany)\u003cbr\u003e\"Waiting with Mortals\" — Crystal Koo (Philippines)\u003cbr\u003e\"Three Little Children\" — Ange (France)\u003cbr\u003e\"Brita's Holiday Village\" — Karin Tidbeck (Sweden)\u003cbr\u003e\"Regressions\" — Swapna Kishore (India)\u003cbr\u003e\"Dancing on the Red Planet\" — Berit Ellingsen (Korea\/Norway)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editor\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLavie Tidhar\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize-winning \u003cem\u003eA Man Lies Dreaming,\u003c\/em\u003e the World Fantasy Award-winning \u003cem\u003eOsama, \u003c\/em\u003eand of the critically-acclaimed \u003cem\u003eThe Violent Century.\u003c\/em\u003e His other works include the Bookman Histories trilogy, several novellas, two collections, and a forthcoming comics mini-series, \u003cem\u003eAdler.\u003c\/em\u003e He currently lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eExcerpt\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom: \"Courtship in the Country of Machine-Gods\" by Benjanun Sriduangkaew\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eIn the shadow of machine–gods I tell wayfarers of a time when my people were a nightmare the color of hemorrhage and glinting teeth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are other narratives, but this is the one they want to hear most, the one they pay with their adoration and bright–eyed want, for they’ve never known us for anything but peace. Conflict juts out from the skein of Pojama’s history, broken glass–shard, rupturing and ruptured.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI smile; I oblige. Though the story is for me, there are parts that I share simply for the reality of speaking it out loud, for the virtue of being heard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy mouth moves, output for one of my cranial chips. My fingers sketch, autopilot, the forms of our heroes and enemies from a continent whose name and life has now been lost. My voice murmurs the tragedies and sings the heroics of Kanrisa and Surada, rising for climax, falling soft for denouement. The visitors’ district is machine–dead. What a thrill it must be to hear the thunderclap notes of my gloves, behold the psychedelic fires that pour from my nails.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnce, they interrupt. The figures of our enemies do not seem real. They are right: with sagging eyes the hues of cheap jades and faces like skulls, even for villains they are too fantastical, too unhuman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“My great–grandmother told of them so,” I say and shrug. “Perhaps she was senile.” With a motion, I turn the figures into shapes more familiar, shapes more like ours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInside the vessel of my thought — a garden of sliding intelligences who whisper to me, childhood mates grown to adults next to my ventricles and lungs — a different story unfolds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI met my betrothed Kanrisa in our second cycle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA garden festooned with lights, on a day of the scythe. I was in academy uniform, narrow skirt and sigil–carved sleeves, surrounded by girl age–mates. I tried to look severe, and mature, and to be taken seriously. I can no longer remember what the gathering was about, albeit I recall that someone was terra–sculpting on the fly. The earth twitched and jolted, forcing us to hover. For an hour or so, I tolerated this, making stiff comments to my age–mates. The ground eventually stilled — I thought the mischief–maker had simply had enough; the hush that fell on everyone told me otherwise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA garden patch smoothed into an impromptu landing pad. The craft touched the grass quietly, which was not extraordinary until I realized that the engine had been off long before it touched the ground. It had shed altitude with nothing save clever maneuvering and air resistance. Brave. Reckless.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIts hatch lifted, and out came echoes in training, each fitted in muted flexskin, their throats metallic with Bodhva implants that’d let them synchronize with machine–gods. The last of them, pilot, stepped out. She stood taller than most.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy age–mates rippled, whispering. “Oh her—” “The prodigy, my sister said.” Breathlessly. “Graduating soon, at our age.” “No she’s a little more senior… look how she moves.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI looked, compulsively. Kanrisa was dressed no differently from the rest, but she set herself apart in the sinuous fluidity of her steps. Where other echoes were soft and pared, she was hard and full– figured.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow I remember why I was there, that day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI moved through the wave of giddy students on tiptoes at the sight of rarely–seen echoes, basking in reflected prestige and exotique. Most of us had been taught the theories of Bodhva training; few saw it in person, and even close observation told little. How did one stretch a mind to accommodate the multi–threading of machines?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“She’s lovely, birthed to echo, I think.” “Oh no you don’t, that’s not legal anymore — the molding matrices, surely not!” Someone sighed. “It was legal when she was made. Is she even entered into the Abacus? I’d guess not, a shame…”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne last line of young ambigendered and I was through. From her angle I must have looked as though I’d materialized out of nowhere, scandalized susurrus given flesh. Kanrisa glanced at me, over her shoulder, over a tight little smile: she wasn’t pleased to be here, preferred to be back in meditative spheres or else out flying. For that was the privilege of Bodhva.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe surprised each other. I didn’t expect to catch her; she didn’t anticipate anyone to touch her at all, let alone to clasp her hand and say, “I’m Jidri. You are to be my wife.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA few heard, her fellow echoes mostly. One or two behind me, part of the academy crowd.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKanrisa’s smile didn’t change, though she didn’t dislodge me or pull away. “You must be mistaken, student. The Abacus doesn’t rattle my name.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It will.” Courage or unreason moved me to draw closer. “Put your name in. It’ll match us.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUntil that day, I had never met her: had no personal knowledge of her, let alone desired her. All she’d been to me was a name, output to me by a modified copy of the predictive algorithm that gave the Abacus its sapience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKanrisa submitted her name, out of either curiosity or an angry impulse to be proven right that the exercise was pointless, and within the week we were declared matrimonial potentiates. We would make a union of two, against the average match of four point five.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Apex Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Softcover","offer_id":823040989,"sku":"WorldSF-03","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"ebook","offer_id":823040993,"sku":"WSF3-e01","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0000\/7796\/files\/ApexWSFBK3.webp?v=1742309798"},{"product_id":"war-stories-anthology","title":"War Stories: New Military Science Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWar Stories: New Military Science Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e features short stories by science fiction and fantasy authors dealing with the effects of war prior, during, and after battle to soldiers and their families. Edited by Andrew Liptak and Jaym Gates.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eDescription\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWar is everywhere. Not only among the firefights, in the sweat dripping from heavy armor and the clenching grip on your weapon, but also wedging itself deep into families, infiltrating our love letters, hovering in the air above our heads. It's in our dreams and our text messages. At times it roars with adrenaline, while at others it slips in silently so it can sit beside you until you forget it's there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoin Joe Haldeman, Linda Nagata, Karin Lowachee, Ken Liu, Jay Posey, and more as they take you on a tour of the battlefields, from those hurtling through space in spaceships and winding along trails deep in the jungle with bullets whizzing overhead, to the ones hiding behind calm smiles, waiting patiently to reveal itself in those quiet moments when we feel safest. \u003cem\u003eWar Stories\u003c\/em\u003e brings us 23 stories of the impacts of war, showcasing the systems, combat, armor, and aftermath without condemnation or glorification.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInstead, \u003cem\u003eWar Stories\u003c\/em\u003e reveals the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWar is what we are.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForeword — Gregory Drobny\u003cbr\u003e\"Graves\" — Joe Haldeman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: Wartime Systems\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In the Loop\" — Ken Liu\u003cbr\u003e\"Ghost Girl\" — Rich Larson\u003cbr\u003e\"The Radio\" — Susan Jane Bigelow\u003cbr\u003e\"Contractual Obligation\" — James L. Cambias\u003cbr\u003e\"The Wasp Keepers\" — Mark Jacobsen\u003cbr\u003e\"Non-Standard Deviation\" — Richard Dansky\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: Combat\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"All You Need\" — Mike Sizemore\u003cbr\u003e\"The Valkyrie\" — Maurice Broaddus\u003cbr\u003e\"One Million Lira\" — Thoraiya Dyer\u003cbr\u003e\"Invincible\" — Jay Posey\u003cbr\u003e\"Light and Shadow\" — Linda Nagata\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3: Armored Force\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Warhosts\" — Yoon Ha Lee\u003cbr\u003e\"Suits\" — James Sutter\u003cbr\u003e\"Mission. Suit. Self.\" — Jake Kerr\u003cbr\u003e\"In Loco\" — Carlos Orsi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 4: Aftermath\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"War Dog\" — Mike Barretta\u003cbr\u003e\"Coming Home\" — Janine Spendlove\u003cbr\u003e\"Where We Would End a War\" — F. Brett Cox\u003cbr\u003e\"Black Butterfly\" — T.C. McCarthy\u003cbr\u003e\"Always the Stars and the Void Between\" — Nerine Dorman\u003cbr\u003e\"Enemy States\" — Karin Lowachee \u003cbr\u003e\"War 3.01\" — Keith Brooke\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAndrew Liptak\u003c\/strong\u003e earned his Master of Arts in Military History from Norwich University, and has written extensively about military science fiction for \u003cem\u003eio9\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSF Signal,\u003c\/em\u003e and has written for such websites as\u003cem\u003e Kirkus Reviews,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eStrange Horizons,\u003c\/em\u003e as well as Military History for magazines such as \u003cem\u003eArmchair General \u003c\/em\u003eand the \u003cem\u003eNorwich Record\u003c\/em\u003e. He is currently an editorial assistant for \u003cem\u003eLightspeed Magazine.\u003c\/em\u003e His first story, 'Fragmented', is set to be published by \u003cem\u003eGalaxy's Edge Magazine.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJaym Gates\u003c\/strong\u003e is the editor of the zombie anthology \u003cem\u003eRigor Amortis, \u003c\/em\u003ewhich was a Barnes and Noble Top 10 pick in 2011, and short fiction author, published in \u003cem\u003eThe Aether Age: Helios, Goldfish Grim \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eHeroes! \u003c\/em\u003eShe has a strong background in organizing, supporting, and launching Kickstarter projects, such as \u003cem\u003eGeek Love,\u003c\/em\u003e the highest-funded anthology in Kickstarter's history. Her fiction has been published in \u003cem\u003eThe Aether Age: Helios, Goldfish Grim,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eM-Brane SF. \u003c\/em\u003eShe is the Communications Director for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eExcerpt\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom: \"In the Loop\" by Ken Liu\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eWhen Kyra was nine, her father turned into a monster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt didn’t happen overnight. He went to work every morning, like always, and when he came in the door in the evening, Kyra would ask him to play catch with her. That used to be her favorite time of the day. But the yesses came less frequently, and then not at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe’d sit at the table and stare. She’d ask him questions and he wouldn’t answer. He used to always have a funny answer for everything, and she’d repeat his jokes to her friends and think he was the cleverest dad in the whole world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe had loved those moments when he’d teach her how to swing a hammer properly, how to measure and saw and chisel. She would tell him that she wanted to be a builder when she grew up, and he’d nod and say that was a good idea. But he stopped taking her to his workshop in the shed to make things together, and there was no explanation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen he started going out in the evenings. At first, Mom would ask him when he’d be back. He’d look at her like she was a stranger before closing the door behind him. By the time he came home, Kyra and her brothers were already in bed, but she would hear shouts and sometimes things breaking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMom began to look at Dad like she was afraid of him, and Kyra tried to help with getting the boys to bed, to make her bed without being asked, to finish her dinner without complaint, to do everything perfectly, hoping that would make things better, back to the way they used to be. But Dad didn’t seem to pay any attention to her or her brothers. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen, one day, he slammed Mom into the wall. Kyra stood there in the kitchen and felt the whole house shake. She didn’t know what to do. He turned around and saw Kyra, and his face scrunched up like he hated her, hated her mother, hated himself most of all. And he fled the house without saying another thing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMom packed a suitcase and took Kyra and her brothers to Grandma’s place that evening, and they stayed there for a month. Kyra thought about calling her father but she didn’t know what she would say. She tried to imagine herself asking the man on the other end of the line what have you done with Daddy?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA policeman came, looking for her mother. Kyra hid in the hall so she could hear what he was telling her. We don’t think it was a homicide. That was how she found out that her father had died.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey moved back to the house, where there was a lot to do: folding up Dad’s uniforms for storage, packing up his regular clothes to give away, cleaning the house so it could be sold, getting ready to move away permanently. She caressed Dad’s medals and badges, shiny and neatly laid out in a box, and that was when she finally cried.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey found a piece of paper at the bottom of Dad’s dresser drawer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“What is it?” she asked Mom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMom read it over. “It’s from your Dad’s commander, at the Army.” Her hands shook. “It shows how many people he had killed.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe showed Kyra the number: one thousand two-hundred and fifty-one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe number lingered in Kyra’s mind. As if that gave his life meaning. 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Feet , she passed through the damper and set herself down on the suspended ceiling, confident the frame would support her weight. She repositioned the damper vane in place, then rolled to her side and opened a tile in the ceiling, peering into the space below. Empty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe lowered herself out of the ceiling and dropped to the floor. Standing on a chair, she repositioned the tile above her, then made her way to the closet at the back of the studio. From the webbing strapped around her waist, she withdrew a tool to remove an embedded floor panel, exposing a dark cavity. She descended feet first into the hole, again mindful of the flexible package of urine, then awkwardly positioned herself face up and dragged the access panel into place above her. In darkness again, she tapped a luminescent patch on her shoulder, shedding a dim light in front of her. Rolling over onto her stomach, she began dragging her way down the crawlspace, scraping her hands, chin, and every other part of her body as she went.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDesigned for maintenance robots, utility crawlspaces could theoretically accommodate human-sized travelers—the theory essentially being: “but they really have to want to be there.” The number of scrapes, abrasions and calluses on Stein’s hands and knees attested to the number of times she’d really wanted to be in such places. Typically for work-related reasons, but she wasn’t working tonight. Stein was one of the enviable few Argosians whose profession—ship’s maintenance—overlapped significantly with her hobby—light burglary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReaching a junction, she checked the identification tag on the wall. L3-UC-3401. The odds of her being in the wrong place were slim, but the next section would be a dead end, and she didn’t want to back in and out of more side passages than she had to. She patted the satchel of urine strapped to her hip for the tenth time since entering the crawlspace, reassured that it was still dry to the touch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe shimmied a few meters down the side passage, counting the number of panel seams above her as she went. When she reached the sixth seam, she stopped. Reaching behind her, she fished a cutter from her tool webbing, then began to roll over. She stopped abruptly, perilously close to wetting herself, shivered, then rolled over the other way, maneuvering her body until she was lying on her back. Exhaling, she tapped the terminal on her other hip and spoke softly, “How we doing?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Still clear,” Bruce replied. “I told you, this guy’s definitely befouling someone’s party right now. Take as long as you want.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Well, just keep watching. I’ve got a shy bladder,” Stein whispered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Just relax and it will come. Imagine you’re in a really crowded room and everyone’s watching—that’s what I do when I need to go.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStein laughed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Or maybe imagine my mom. That sometimes works for me too.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe grinned and adjusted the controls of the cutter. “Okay, here we go,” she whispered. Positioning the tool, she drilled a tiny hole in the panel above her. Applying light pressure to the cutter, she listened to the torch as it cut through the sandwiched materials into the room above. A change in pitch announced the end of the cut, at which point she turned off the tool and tucked it back in her webbing. Her hand returned with a micro-lube gun. Positioning it in the hole she’d just made, she began threading the sturdy tube up until she was confident it had breached the threshold of the floor above. Pausing, she rolled her shoulders, releasing the tension that had crept into her neck. After a deep breath, she reached down to her right hip and delicately detached the sack of urine from the webbing. Carefully, she twisted off the cap of the sack and slid the lube gun’s feed tube into it. She exhaled. Slowly, she depressed the trigger of the lube gun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Ahhhhhhhhhhhh.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe contents of the satchel traveled up the tube at high velocity, ejecting over a small patch of floor in the room above. The donor of the urine was not Stein herself, but a gentleman by the name of Gerald Lehman, a Marker. Lehman had not known he was donating the urine at the time, and indeed would have been impressively paranoid if he had. A small device attached to the trap underneath his toilet had been collecting his urine for days, a trap implanted during a similar subterranean raid a week earlier. 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