Название: Clarkesworld: The Complete Fiction 2006-2023 / Полная коллекция произведений из журнала "Clarkesworld" 2006-2023 Год выпуска: 2023 Издательство: Jerry eBooks ISBN: отсутствует Формат: EPUB Качество: eBook Язык: английский
Описание: Антология, составленная из художественных произведений, опубликованных в журнале "Clarkesworld" с октября 2006 по март 2023 годю "Clarkesworld" - один из крупнейших современных англоязычных журналов фантастики, который издаётся Нилом Кларком с октября 2006 года. Среди авторов: Lavie Tidhar, Elizabeth Bear, Jeff VanderMeer, Cat Rambo, Nnedi Okorafor, N.K. Jemisin, Ken Liu, Aliette de Bodard, Michael Swanwick, Joe Haldeman, Ursula K. Le Guin, Naomi Novik, Alastair Reynolds, Robert Silverberg ...
Love in the Season of New Dance by Bo Balder The Spoil Heap by Fiona Moore Failure to Convert by Shih-Li Kow AI Aboard the Golden Parrot by Louise Hughes Pinocchio Photography by Angela Liu Bek, Ascendant by Shari Paul Zeta-Epsilon by Isabel J. Kim Love is a Process of Unbecoming by Jonathan Kincade
The Portrait of a Survivor, Observed from the Water by Yukimi Ogawa Larva Pupa Imago by Eric Schwitzgebel Introduction to 2181 Overture, Second Edition by Gu Shi Going Time by Amal Singh Somewhere, It's About to Be Spring by Samantha Murray An Ode to Stardust by R. P. Sand Silo, Sweet Silo by James Castles
Symbiosis by D.A. Xiaolin Spires The Fortunate Isles by Gregory Feeley Anais Gets a Turn by R.T. Ester Zhuangzi's Dream by Cao Baiyu, translated by Stella Jiayue Zhu Sharp Undoing by Natasha King Pearl by Felix Rose Kawitzky
Law of Tongue by Naim Kabir The Resting Place of Trees by Ben Berman Ghan Upstart by Lu Ban To Exorcise Mechanical Ghosts by Laney Gaughan Keiki's Pitcher Plant by Bri Castagnozzi Murder by Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness by S.L. Huang Left to Die by Vandana Singh The Lightness by Alex Sobel
The Rhythm of the Soul by Michelle Julia John Calf Cleaving in the Benthic Black by Isabel J. Kim Hummingbird, Resting on Honeysuckles by Yang Wanqing The Whelk by Samara Aumen Accountability, and Other Myths of Old Earth by Aimee Ogden The Lonely Time Traveler of Kentish Town by Nadia Afifi The Transfiguration of the Gardener Irene by the Dead Planet Hipea by Ann LeBlanc
Junk Hounds by Lavie Tidhar Sweetbaby by Thomas Ha Fly Free / Вы летите, как хотите! by Alan Kubatiev The Secret Strength of Things by Gregory Feeley Coding Van Gogh by Elaine Gao Lost and Found by M. L. Clark Giant Fish by Chu Shifan Rondo for Strings and Lasergun by Jared Oliver Adams
The Slow Deaths of Automobiles by Fiona Moore Sub-son by Amal Singh Live Update by Lettie Prell Border Run by Octavia Cade Shining Bursa and the Listening Post by Sarah Pauling Timekeepers’ Symphony by Ken Liu Rivers Bend by James Sallis
Tender, Tether, Shell by M. J. Pettit Pollatomish by Finbarr O’Reilly Slight Forms by R.T. Ester Migratory Patterns of the Modern American Skyscraper by Derrick Boden The Pirate’s Consigliere by Bo Balder Polly and (Not) Charles Conquer the Solar System by Carrie Vaughn The Scene of the Crime by Leonard Richardson
The Forgotten by Eliane Boey Carapace by David Goodman The Strange Girl by Xiu Xinyu To Be by Ahmed Asi The Sadness Box by Suzanne Palme Termination Stories for the Cyberpunk Dystopia Protagonist by Isabel J. Kim
Company Town by Aimee Ogden Manjar dos Deuses by Anna Martino Inhuman Lovers by Chen Qian Marsbodies by Adele Gardner The Art of Navigating an Affair in a Time Rift by Nika Murphy The Odyssey Problem by Chris Willrich We Built This City by Marie Vibbert
Wants Pawn Term by Rich Larson Hatching by Bo Balder The Possibly Brief Life of Guang Hansheng by Liang Qingsan Gamma by Oskar Källner Tea Parties around Nebula-55 by Adriana C. Grigore Kora Is Life by David D. Levine A Manual on Different Options of How to Bring A Loved One to Life by Oyedotun Damilola Muees
Doc Luckless and the Stationmistress by Thoraiya Dyer Dream Factory by Greg Egan An Expression of Silence by Beth Goder The Carrion Droid, Zoe, and a Small Flame by Parker Ragland Two Spacesuits by Leonard Richardson Hanuman the Monkey King by Pan Haitian An Urge To Create Honey by Martin Cahill
The Dragon Project by Naomi Kritzer Rain of Days by Ray Nayler Wanting Things by Cal Ritterhoff Meddling Fields by R.T. Ester Saturn Devouring His Son by EA Mylonas The Memory of Water by Tegan Moore It Takes a Village by Priya Chand Commencement Address by Arthur Liu
The Massage Lady at Munjeong Road Bathhouse by Isabel J. Kim You’re Not the Only One by Octavia Cade The Old Moon by John McNeil Babirusa by Arula Ratnakar The Plasticity of Youth by Marissa Lingen Informed Consent Logs from the Soul Swap Clinic by Sarah Pauling The Direction of Clocks by Jess Levine
The Uncurling of Samsara by Koji A. Dae The Five Rules of Supernova Surfing or A For Real Solution to the Fermi Paradox, Bro by Geoffrey W. Cole No One at the Wild Dock by Gu Shi For Whom the Psychopomp Calls by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko The Lion and the Virgin by Megan J. Kerr Bishop’s Opening by R.S.A. Garcia Learning to Hate Yourself as a Self-Defense Mechanism by Andrea Kriz
The Cold Calculations by Aimee Ogden Vegvísir by David Goodman Other Stories by Wang Yuan A Series of Endings by Amal Singh Beneath the Earth Where the Nymphs Sleep by Meghan Feldman You Are Born Exploding by Rich Larson Just One Step, and Then the Next by E.N. Díaz
Mom Heart by Will McIntosh This Stitch, This Time by Anna Martino The Language Birds Speak by Rebecca Campbell The Death Haiku of the Azure Five by L Chan Dark Waters Still Flow by Alice Towey City of Eternity by Pan Haitian Between Zero and One There is Infinity by Shari Paul
Paper of Elephants by Brenda Cooper Legend of the Giant by Fei Dao Rain Falling in the Pines by Lavie Tidhar A Well-Worn Path by AnaMaria Curtis The Answer Was Snails by Bo Balder Love Unflinching, at Low- to Zero-G by M.L. Clark Through by Eric Fomley and Rich Larson
Yesterday’s Wolf by Ray Nayler Xiaolongbao: Soup Dumplings by D.A. Xiaolin Spires The Winter Garden by Regina Kanyu Wang Excerpts from the Text of an Explanatory Stele Erected for Our Edification by the Scholars of the Outer Orion Tendril by Timons Esaias It is a Pleasure to Receive You by Ziggy Schutz Dog and Pony Show by Robert Jeschonek In a Net I Seek to Hold the Wind by Gregory Feeley
Candide; Life- by Beth Goder The Clock, Having Seen Its Face in the Mirror, Still Knows Not the Hour by Adam Stemple A Heist in Fifteen Products from the Orion Spur’s Longest-Running Catalog by Andrea M. Pawley Resistance in a Drop of DNA by Andrea Kriz A Thousand Tiny Gods by Nadia Afifi The Serpentine Band by Congyun ’Mu Ming’ Gu An Instance by Mlok 5
Promises We Made Under A Brick-Dark Sky by Karen Osborne When the Sheaves Are Gathered by Nick Wolven I’m Feeling Lucky / Мне повезёт by Leonid Kaganov Last Nice Day by Rich Larson He Leaps for the Stars, He Leaps for the Stars by Grace Chan Preserved in Amber by Samantha Murray The Falling by M V Melcer
Little Animals by Nancy Kress Poubelle by Robert Reed Bots of the Lost Ark by Suzanne Palmer Face Changing by Jiang Bo The Shroud for the Mourners by Yukimi Ogawa Our Fate, Told in Photons by K.W. Colyard Embracing the Movement by Cristina Jurado
Best-Laid Plans by David D. Levine A Home for Mrs. Biswas by Amal Singh The Force Exerted on the Mass of a Body by Bo Balder Vanishing Point by Robert V.S. Redick Dancing with Ereshkigal by Sameem Siddiqui Spore by Tang Fei A Star for Every Word Unspoken by Kai Hudson
Sarcophagus by Ray Nayler The Field Tiger by Endria Isa Richardson Ouroboros by Dean-Paul Stephens The Sheen of Her Carapace by Richard Webb Catching the K Beast by Chen Qian Communist Computer Rap God by Andrea Kriz A House Is Not a Home by L Chan
Mamaborg’s Milk and the Brilliance of Gems by D.A. Xiaolin Spires Homecoming is Just Another Word for the Sublimation of the Self by Isabel J. Kim The Orbiting Guan Erye by Wang Zhenzhen Submergence by Arula Ratnakar 55 Plaque by Isabel Lee Comments on Your Provisional Patent Application for an Eternal Spirit Core by Wole Talabi To Study the Old Masters in the Prado at the End of the World by Sarah Pauling
The Failed Dianas by Monique Laban Terra Rasa by Anastasia Bookreyeva Obelisker Adrift in the Desert by K.H. Meridian Mercy and the Mollusc by M.L. Clark "Remember The Washington," They Said as They Fed the Ugoxli by Jeff Reynolds We’ll Always Have Two Versions of Pteros by Dominica Phetteplace History in Pieces by Beth Goder
Intentionalities by Aimee Ogden Deep Music by Elly Bangs Philia, Eros, Storge, Agápe, Pragma by R.S.A. Garcia The Last Civilian by R.P. Sand Aster’s Partialities: Vitri’s Best Store for Sundry Antiques by Tovah Strong Leaving Room for the Moon by P H Lee
The Island of Misfit Toys by Fiona Moore Things That Happen When You Date Your Ex’s Accidentally Restored Backup from Before the Divorce by Lisa Nohealani Morton The Last Days of Old Night by Michael Swanwick Conversations in the Dark by Robert Reed No Way Back by Chi Hui Forward Momentum and a Parallel Toss by AnaMaria Curtis Songs of Activation by Andy Dudak
The Land of Eternal Jackfruits by Rupsa Dey Death Is for Those Who Die by Jana Bianchi To Sail the Black by A.C. Wise Lost in Darkness and Distance by Clara Madrigano Niuniu by Baoshu The Murders of Jason Hartman by Brady Nelson and Jamie Wahls The Love Life of John Doe by K. Raghasudhan
Callme and Mink by Brenda Cooper To Set at Twilight In a Land of Reeds by Natalia Theodoridou Wandering Rocks by Gregory Feeley You and Whose Army? / Бегство by Greg Egan Last Wishes by D.A. Xiaolin Spires All Living Creation by Xiu Xinyu Ashes Under Uricon by Adrastos Omissi
Blue And Blue And Blue And Pink by Lavie Tidhar What Remains of Maya Sankovy by G.D. Angier Lone Puppeteer of a Sleeping City by Arula Ratnakar Certainty by Isabel Lee Ask the Fireflies by R.P. Sand Every Plumage, Every Beak by Nin Harris The Book Reader by Keishi Kajifune
The Lori by Fiona Moore Drawing Lines Between the Stars by Frank Smith The Plague by Yan Leisheng An Important Failure by Rebecca Campbell The Immolation of Kev Magee by L.X. Beckett Nameless He by Robert Reed
Artificial People by Michael Swanwick One Time, a Reluctant Traveler by A.T. Greenblatt Three Stories Conjured from Nothing by ShakeSpace Power to Yield by Bogi Takács Strange Comfort by Tegan Moore The Oddish Gesture of Humans by Gabriel Calácia The House That Leapt into Forever by Beth Goder
The Iridescent Lake by D.A. Xiaolin Spires How Long the Shadows Cast by Kenji Yanagawa Nine Words for Loneliness in the Language of the Uma’u by M.L. Clark Optimizing the Path to Enlightenment by Priya Chand Own Goal by Dennard Dayle
What Happens in Solarium Square 21 by Ashleigh Shears Albedo Season by Ray Nayler A Stick of Clay, in the Hands of God, is Infinite Potential by JY Neon Yang Quantum Fish by Bo Balder The Language Sheath by Regina Kanyu Wang The Translator, at Low Tide by Vajra Chandrasekera
Distant Stars by P.H. Lee AirBody by Sameem Siddiqui A System for Investigating Recapitulation and Evolutionary Novelty by Kyle E. Miller The ThoughtBox by Tlotlo Tsamaase Debtless by Chen Qiufan Angel Pattern by Henry Szabranski
Time Reveals the Heart by Derek Künsken Coffee Boom: Decoctions, Micronized by D.A. Xiaolin Spires Leave-Taking by M.L. Clark The Amusement Dark by Mike Buckley Grayer Than Lead, Heavier Than Snow by Yukimi Ogawa The Whale Fall at the End of the Universe by Cameron Van Sant
Outer by Hollis Joel Henry Eyes of the Crocodile by Malena Salazar Maciá Mandorla by Cooper Shrivastava The Host by Neal Asher Jigsaw Children by Grace Chan Generation Gap by Thoraiya Dyer
I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter by Isabel Fall Monster by Naomi Kritzer The AI That Looked at the Sun by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko The Last to Die by Rita Chang-Eppig The Perfect Sail by I-Hyeong Yun The Ancestral Temple in a Box by Chen Qiufan
Such Thoughts Are Unproductive by Rebecca Campbell Witch of the Weave by Henry Szabranski Annotated Setlist of the Mikaela Cole Jazz Quintet by Catherine George Eclipse our Sins by Tlotlo Tsamaase Appointment in Vienna by Gabriel Murray Symbiosis Theory by Choyeop Kim
Your Future is Pending by Matthew Kressel Antarctica by D.A. Xiaolin Spires Cloud-Born by Gregory Feeley Sentinel by Chang-Gyu Kim Operation Spring Dawn by Mo Xiong Perfect Gun by Elizabeth Bear
All Electric Ghosts by Rich Larson The Scrapyard by Tomas Furby An Arc of Lightning Across the Eye of God by P H Lee National Center for the Preservation of Human Dignity by Youha Nam Song Xiuyun by A Que How Alike Are We by Bo-young Kim
Dave’s Head by Suzanne Palmer Amorville by Bella Han To Catch All Sorts of Flying Things by M.L. Clark Lapis by Sara Saab Malinche by Gabriela Santiago
Entangled by Beston Barnett Onyx Woods and the Grains of Deception by D.A. Xiaolin Spires Your Face by Rachel Swirsky The Yorkshire Mammoth by Harry Turtledove In This Moment, We Are Happy by Chen Qiufan The Second Nanny by Djuna
The Visible Frontier by Grace Seybold Xingzhou by Ng Yi-Sheng Shattered Sidewalks of the Human Heart by Sam J. Miller Wu Ding’s Journey to the West by Tang Fei Flowers on My Face by Geo-il Bok One in a Million by Rodrigo Juri The Weapons of Wonderland by Thoraiya Dyer
The Painter of Trees / Рисовальщик на деревьях by Suzanne Palmer Erdenweh by Bo Balder The Peppers of GreenScallion by Myung-hoon Bae Said of Angels by Eric Del Carlo Bonobo by Robert Reed Field Mice by Andy Dudak Two Sisters in Exile by Aliette de Bodard
Tick-Tock by Xia Jia Move Forward, Disappear, Transcend by A.T. Greenblatt Empress in Glass by Cory Skerry Insaan Hain, Farishte Nahin by Arula Ratnakar The Sun from Both Sides by R.S.A. Garcia Bad Day on Boscobel by Alexander Jablokov
The Last Eagle by Natalia Theodoridou Ripen by Yukimi Ogawa Gaze of Robot, Gaze of Bird by Eric Schwitzgebel The Flowering by Soyeon Jeong Social Darwinism by Priya Chand In Search of Your Memories by Nian Yu Skyscrapers in the Sand by Y.M. Pang Confessions of a Con Girl by Nick Wolven
But, Still, I Smile by D.A. Xiaolin Spires When Home, No Need to Cry by Erin K. Wagner Death of an Air Salesman by Rich Larson Dreams Strung like Pearls Between War and Peace by Nin Harris Treasure Diving by Kai Hudson The Thing With the Helmets by Emily C. Skaftun 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss / 26 обезьян и бездна by Kij Johnson The Future is Blue by Catherynne M. Valente
East of the Sun, West of the Stars by Brit E. B. Hvide Painwise by Robert Reed The Final Ascent by Ian Creasey Give the Family My Love by A.T. Greenblatt The Face of God by Bo Balder The Butcher of New Tasmania by Suo Hefu Mother Tongues by S. Qiouyi Lu Digging / Земляные работы by Ian McDonald
Eater of Worlds by Jamie Wahls One’s Burden, Again by Natalia Theodoridou Fire in the Bone by Ray Nayler The Ghosts of Ganymede by Derek Künsken Venus in Bloom by Lavie Tidhar Left to Take the Lead by Marissa Lingen They Have All One Breath by Karl Bunker
Marshmallows by D.A. Xiaolin Spires Bringing Down the Sky by Alan Bao When We Find Our Voices by Eleanna Castroianni The Names and Motions by Sheldon J. Pacotti Master Zhao: The Tale of an Ordinary Time Traveler by Zhang Ran Two-Year Man by Kelly Robson
Octo-Heist in Progress by Rich Larson What the South Wind Whispers by H. Pueyo Ghost Island by E.E. King The Gift of Angels: an introduction by Nina Allan The Love Letters by Peng Simeng Death on Mars by Madeline Ashby A Catalogue of Sunlight at the End of the World by A.C. Wise
The Miracle Lambs of Minane by Finbarr O’Reilly Sparrow by Yilin Wang When We Were Starless by Simone Heller The Facecrafter by Anna Wu Thirty-Three Percent Joe by Suzanne Palmer In Everlasting Wisdom by Aliette de Bodard The Falls: A Luna Story by Ian McDonald
A Study in Oils by Kelly Robson Waves of Influence by D.A. Xiaolin Spires Dandelion by Elly Bangs The Foodie Federation’s Dinosaur Farm by Luo Longxiang The Mighty Slinger by Karen Lord and Tobias S. Buckell Mayfly / Подёнка by Peter Watts and Derryl Murphy
The Veilonaut’s Dream by Henry Szabranski The Anchorite Wakes by R.S.A. Garcia Kingfisher by Robert Reed The Privilege of the Happy Ending by Kij Johnson The Loneliest Ward by Hao Jingfang Yukui! by James Patrick Kelly Othermother (Annex Excerpt) by Rich Larson
Gubbinal by Lavie Tidhar A Gaze of Faces by Mike Buckley The James Machine by Kate Osias For What are Delusions if Not Dreams? by Osahon Ize-Iyamu To Fly Like a Fallen Angel by Qi Yue Swift as a Dream and Fleeting as a Sigh / Быстро, как сон; мимолетно, как вдох by John Barnes Last Gods by Sam J. Miller
A Space of One’s Own by Steve Rasnic Tem Vault by D.A. Xiaolin Spires The Cosmonaut’s Caretaker by Dora Klindžić Your Multicolored Life by Xing He Heron of Earth by Vajra Chandrasekera The Deeps of the Sky / В глубинах неба by Elizabeth Bear Meridian by Karin Lowachee
A Vastness by Bo Balder Not Now by Chelsea Muzar Fleeing Oslyge by Sally Gwylan Farewell, Doraemon by A Que Cold Comfort by Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty In Panic Town, on the Backward Moon / В Паниктауне, на захолустной луне by Michael F. Flynn
Carouseling by Rich Larson Without Exile by Eleanna Castroianni Violets on the Tongue by Nin Harris Logistics by A.J. Fitzwater The Wings of Earth by Jiang Bo The Baby Eaters by Ian McHugh KIT: Some Assembly Required by Kathe Koja and Carter Scholz
Tool-Using Mimics by Kij Johnson The Persistence of Blood by Juliette Wade Unplaces: An Atlas of Non-existence by Izzy Wasserstein Farewell, Adam by Xiu Xinyu The No-One Girl and the Flower of the Farther Shore by E. Lily Yu Are You Afflicted with Dragons? / Что, задолбали драконы? by Kage Baker God Decay by Rich Larson
Deep Down in the Cloud by Julie Novakova Obliteration by Robert Reed Umbernight by Carolyn Ives Gilman The Power is Out by A Que Soldierin’ / Солдатское житьё by Joe R. Lansdale The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi / Рыбёха-дурёха, подавшаяся в суши by Pat Cadigan
A World to Die For by Tobias S. Buckell Say it Low, then Loud by Osahon Ize-Iyamu Sour Milk Girls by Erin Roberts A Cigarette Burn In Your Memory by Bo Balder The Lighthouse Girl by Bao Shu Her Smoke Rose Up Forever / Дым её восходил во веки веков by James Tiptree Jr. For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I’ll Not Be Back Again / Камень одиночества by Michael Swanwick
The Rains on Mars by Natalia Theodoridou Crossing LaSalle by Lettie Prell Falling in Love with Martians and Machines by Josh Pearce Darkness, Our Mother by Eleanna Castroianni Landmark by Cassandra Khaw Who’s Afraid of Wolf 359 by Ken MacLeod Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan / Botanica Veneris: Тринадцать бумажных узоров Иды, графини Ратангана by Ian McDonald
Prasetyo Plastics by D.A. Xiaolin Spires Retrieval by Suzanne Walker Dead Heroes by Mike Buckley Who Won the Battle of Arsia Mons? by Sue Burke The Catalog of Virgins by Nicoletta Vallorani Second Person, Present Tense / Второе лицо, настоящее время by Daryl Gregory Martian Blood / Марсианская кровь by Allen M. Steele
The Sum of Her Expectations by Jack Skillingstead The Nightingales in Plaires by Natalia Theodoridou The Last Boat-Builder in Ballyvoloon by Finbarr O’Reilly The Psychology Game by Xia Jia Intro to Prom by Genevieve Valentine Shiomah’s Land by Nisi Shawl Red Lights, and Rain by Gareth L. Powell
Antarctic Birds by A. Brym Little /^^^\&- by Eric Schwitzgebel The Secret Lives of Bots by Suzanne Palmer Pan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics by Jesse Barber and Sarah Saab Möbius Continuum by Gu Shi Bonding with Morry / Привязанности Морри by Tom Purdom Warmth by Geoff Ryman
Twisted Knots by D.A. Xiaolin Spires Reversion by Nin Harris The Stone Weta by Octavia Cade In the Blind by Sunny Moraine A Man Out of Fashion by Chen Quifan Fleet by Sandra McDonald Venice Drowned / Венеция под водой by Kim Stanley Robinson
An Age of Ice by Zhang Ran Travelers by Rich Larson The Significance of Significance by Robert Reed The Bridgegroom by Bo Balder Last Chance by Nicole Kornher-Stace Forever Bound / Вечные узы by Joe Haldeman The Oracle / Оракул by Lavie Tidhar
Fool’s Cap by Andy Dudak My Dear, Like the Sky and Stars and Sun by Julia K. Patt Neptune’s Trident by Nina Allan The Ways Out by Sam J. Miller An Account of the Sky Whales by A Que Human Error by Jay Lake The Waiting Stars by Aliette de Bodard
Streams and Mountains by Nick Wolven We Who Live in the Heart by Kelly Robson Baroness by E. Catherine Tobler The Person Who Saw Cetus by Tang Fei Running the Snake by Kage Baker The Man Who Walked Home / Человек, который шёл домой by James Tiptree Jr.
Conglomerate by Robert Price Some Remarks on the Reproductive Strategy of the Common Octopus by Bogi Takács Left of Bang: Preemptive Self-Actualization for Autonomous Systems by Vajra Chandrasekera Sunwake, in the Lands of Teeth by Juliette Wade The Robot Who Liked to Tell Tall Tales / Робот, который любил рассказывать небылицы by Fei Dao Thing and Sick by Adam Roberts Ancient Engines / Древние механизмы by Michael Swanwick
Two Ways of Living by Robert Price Real Ghosts by J.B. Park Waiting Out the End of the World in Patty’s Place Cafe by Naomi Kritzer Crown of Thorns by Octavia Cade Goodnight, Melancholy / Спокойной ночи, меланхолия by Xia Jia The Discovered Country by Ian R. MacLeod At the Cross-Time Jaunter’s Ball by Alexander Jablokov
Assassins by Jack Skillingstead and Burt Courtier Prosthetic Daughter by Nin Harris How Bees Fly by Simone Heller Rain Ship by Chi Hui Dragon’s Deep / Драконья пучина by Cecelia Holland The Dragonslayer of Merebarton by K.J. Parker
The Ghost Ship Anastasia by Rich Larson A Series of Steaks by Vina Jie-Min Prasad Justice Systems in Quantum Parallel Probabilities by Lettie Prell Interchange by Gary Kloster Milla by Lorenzo Crescentini and Emanuela Valentini Events Preceding the Helvetican Renaissance / События, предшествовавшие возрождению Гельветики by John Kessel The Shipmaker / Корабельный мастер by Aliette de Bodard
A Tower for the Coming World by Maggie Clark Painter of Stars by Wang Yuan Checkerboard Planet by Eleanor Arnason Blue Grey Blue by Yukimi Ogawa A Future Far Too Bright by Yosef Lindell A Soldier of the City / Городской солдат by David Moles The Most Famous Little Girl in the World / Самая знаменитая девочка в мире by Nancy Kress
What The Stories Steal by Nin Harris Where Water Joins by Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas Of Sight, of Mind, of Heart by Samantha Murray Follow the White Line by Bo Balder Western Heaven by Chen Hongyu Afrofuturist 419 by Nnedi Okorafor An Eligible Boy / Достойный юноша by Ian McDonald Reef / Риф by Paul McAuley
The Next Scene by Robert Reed One Sister, Two Sisters, Three by James Patrick Kelly The Calculations of Artificials by Chi Hui Everyone from Themis Sends Letters Home by Genevieve Valentine Rusties by Nnedi Okorafor and Wanuri Kahiu Old Domes by JY Yang The Very Pulse of the Machine / Машины бьется пульс by Michael Swanwick
The Despoilers by Jack Skillingstead Aphrodite’s Blood, Decanted by Jennifer Campbell-Hicks The Green Man Cometh by Rich Larson The Opposite and the Adjacent by Liu Yang Toward the Luminous Towers by Bogi Takács The House of Half Mirrors by Thoraiya Dyer The Dark City Luminous by Tom Crosshill No Placeholder for You My Love by Nick Wolven
First Light at Mistaken Point by Kali Wallace Teenagers from Outer Space by Dale Bailey Now is the Hour by Emily Devenport The Engine’s Imperial by Sean Bensinger Reclamation by Ryan Row Alone, on the Wind by Karla Schmidt The Fish Merchant by Tobias S. Buckell A Stopped Clock by Madeline Ashby
Helio Music by Mike Buckley Fish Dance by Eric Schwitzgebel The Sentry Branch Predictor Spec: A Fairy Tale by John Chu Sephine and the Leviathan by Jack Schouten Against the Stream by A Que Nahiku West by Linda Nagata Lion Walk / Походка льва by Mary Rosenblum
And Then, One Day, the Air was Full of Voices by Margaret Ronald Things With Beards by Sam J. Miller .identity by E. Catherine Tobler The Snow of Jinyang / Снегопад в Цзиньяне by Zhang Ran The Promise of God by Michael Flynn Pathways by Nancy Kress
Left Behind by Cat Rambo The Universal Museum of Sagacity by Robert Reed Breathe by Cassandra Khaw Jonas and the Fox by Rich Larson Away from Home by Luo Longxiang Tough Times All Over / Жить всё труднее by Joe Abercrombie A Heap of Broken Images by Sunny Moraine
Touring with the Alien by Carolyn Ives Gilman Balin by Chen Qiufan The Bridge of Dreams by Gregory Feeley The Cedar Grid by Sara Saab Old Friends / Старые друзья by Garth Nix Winter’s Wife / Жена Зимы by Elizabeth Hand
Salvage Opportunity by Jack Skillingstead Seven Cups of Coffee by A.C. Wise The Governess with a Mechanical Womb by Leena Likitalo Coyote Invents the Land of the Dead by Kij Johnson Chimera by Gu Shi The King of Norway / Король Норвегии by Cecelia Holland Gray Wings by Karl Bunker
The Ficer by Paul McAuley That Which Stands Tends Toward Free Fall by Benjanun Srisduangkaew In the Midst of Life by Nick Wolven Between Dragons and Their Wrath by An Owomoyela and Rachel Swirsky Blood Dauber / Красная оса by Ted Kosmatka and Michael Poore Mercurial by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Algorithms of Value by Robert Reed The Abduction of Europa by E. Catherine Tobler Extraction Request by Rich Larson Everybody Loves Charles by Bao Shu The True Vintage of Erzuine Thale / Истинное вино Эрзуина Тейла by Robert Silverberg Old Paint / Старая Краска by Megan Lindholm
Yuanyuan’s Bubbles by Liu Cixin Union by Tamsyn Muir Morrigan in Shadow by Seth Dickinson When We Die on Mars by Cassandra Khaw Technarion by Sean McMullen Daddy’s World / Мир папочки by Walter Jon Williams
So Much Cooking by Naomi Kritzer Your Right Arm by Nin Harris In the Queue for the Worldship Munawwer by Sara Saab The Hexagonal Bolero of Honeybees by Krista Hoeppner Leahy If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Xia Jia Way Down East by Tim Sullivan One Last, Great Adventure by Ellen Kushner & Ysabeau S. Wilce
And If the Body Were Not the Soul by A.C. Wise Ice by Rich Larson The Father by Kola Heyward-Rotimi Egg Island by Karen Heuler Summer at Grandma’s House by Hao Jinfang War, Ice, Egg, Universe / Лёд, война и яйцо вселенной by G. David Nordley The Peacock Cloak / Павлиний плащ by Chris Beckett
Cremulator by Robert Reed Loving Grace by Erica L. Satifka Preserve Her Memory by Bao Shu The Algebra of Events by Elizabeth Bourne The Occidental Bride by Benjanun Sriduangkaew Canary Land by Tom Purdom Sea Change / Море by Una McCormack
Today I am Paul by Martin L. Shoemaker It Was Educational by J.B. Park Security Check by Han Song The Servant by Emily Devenport Dying Young / Умереть молодым by Peter M. Ball Softly Spoke the Gabbleduck / Тихий говор уткотрёпа by Neal Asher
When Your Child Strays From God by Sam J. Miller Further North by Kay Chronister Android Whores Can’t Cry by Natalia Theodoridou The Hunger Tower by Pan Haitian Snakes by Yoon Ha Lee The Accord / Согласие by Keith Brooke Hair / Волосы by Adam Roberts
Somewhere I Have Never Traveled (Third Sound Remix) by E. Catherine Tobler Asymptotic by Sam J. Miller This Wanderer, in the Dark of the Year by Kris Inhering Forestspirit, Forestspirit by Bogi Tackás The Hole in the Hole / Дыра в дыре by Terry Bisson Riding the White Bull / Скачка на белом быке by Caitlín R. Kiernan
The Garden Beyond Her Infinite Skies by Matthew Kressel For the Love of Sylvia City by Andrea M. Pawley Miss Griffin Prepares to Commit Suicide Tonight by A Que Ossuary by Ian Muneshwar An Evolutionary Myth by Bo-Young Kim Solace / Утешение by James Van Pelt Tyche and the Ants / Тихея и муравьи by Hannu Rajaniemi
The Empress in Her Glory by Robert Reed Let Baser Things Devise by Berrien C. Henderson The Petals Abide by Benjanun Sriduangkaew Postcards From Monster Island by Emily Devenport Noble Mold by Kage Baker Weep For Day / Оплачь День by Indrapramit Das
Slowly Builds An Empire by Naim Kabir Cassandra by Ken Liu The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild (Part 2) by Catherynne M. Valente All Original Brightness by Mike Buckley Coming of the Light / Свет, сходящий с небес by Chen Qiufan The Clear Blue Seas of Luna by Gregory Benford The Book Seller / Книготорговец by Lavie Tidhar
The Last Surviving Gondola Widow by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Indelible by Gwendolyn Clare The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill by Kelly Robson Meshed by Rich Larson The Osteomancer’s Son by Greg van Eekhout It Takes Two / Требуются двое by Nicola Griffith
Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight by Aliette de Bodard A Universal Elegy by Tang Fei Cat Pictures Please / Ещё кошек, пожалуйста by Naomi Kritzer The Apartment Dweller’s Bestiary by Kij Johnson Ether by Zhang Ran The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild (Part 1) by Catherynne M. Valente An Exile of the Heart by Jay Lake This Wind Blowing, and This Tide / С ветром тем и с той волной by Damien Broderick Laika’s Ghost / Призрак Лайки by Karl Schroeder
Fatima’s Wound by Kali Wallace The Magician and Laplace’s Demon by Tom Crosshill Now Dress Me in my Finest Suit and Lay Me in My Casket by M. Bennardo No Vera There by Dominica Phetteplace The Emperor of Mars / Император Марса by Allen M. Steele The Sledge-Maker’s Daughter / Дочь санника by Alastair Reynolds Tongtong’s Summer / Лето Тунтун by Xia Jia
Cameron Rhyder’s Legs by Matthew Kressel Pernicious Romance by Robert Reed The Long Haul by Ken Liu Cody / Коди by Pat Cadigan The Vorkuta Event / Случай в Воркуте by Ken MacLeod
Taxidermist in the Underworld by Maria Dahvana Headley Lovecraft by Helena Bell Seeking boarder for rm w/ attached bathroom by Rahul Kanakia Pithing Needle by E. Catherine Tobler A Rich, Full Week / Полная рабочая неделя by K.J. Parker Wizard’s Six by Alex Irvine
Weather by Susan Palwick Patterns of a Murmuration, in Billions of Data Points by JY Yang Spring Festival: Happiness, Anger, Love, Sorrow, Joy by Xia Jia Falling Star / Падающая звезда by Brendan DuBois Her Furry Face / Её мохнатое личико by Leigh Kennedy Giants / Гиганты by Peter Watts
Five Stages of Grief After the Alien Invasion by Caroline M. Yoachim Bonfires in Anacostia by Joseph Tomaras The Saint of the Sidewalks by Kat Howard The Rose Witch by James Patrick Kelly Seven Years from Home / В семи годах от дома by Naomi Novik Nevermore by Ian R. MacLeod
The Contemporary Foxwife by Yoon Ha Lee Stone Hunger by N. K. Jemisin Soul’s Bargain by Juliette Wade The Halfway House at the Heart of Darkness / Дом на полпути из тьмы by William Browning Spencer Gold Mountain / Золотая гора by Chris Roberson
wHole by Robert Reed Pepe by Tang Fei Communion by Mary Anne Mohanraj Lambing Season / Встреча by Molly Gloss Have Not Have by Geoff Ryman
The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye by Matthew Kressel A Gift in Time by Maggie Clark Migratory Patterns of Underground Birds by E. Catherine Tobler Night of the Cooters by Howard Waldrop Beluthahatchie by Andy Duncan
Passage of Earth / Остановка на Земле by Michael Swanwick Autodidact by Benjanun Sriduangkaew Water in Springtime by Kali Wallace The Cuckoo by Sean Williams Going After Bobo by Susan Palwick Shining Armor / Сияющая броня by Dominic Green
Morrigan in the Sunglare by Seth Dickinson Human Strandings and the Role of the Xenobiologist by Thoraiya Dyer Suteta Mono de wa Nai by Juliette Wade The Egg Man / Поставщик яиц by Mary Rosenblum Mountain Ways / Законы гор by Ursula K. Le Guin
Tortoiseshell Cats Are Not Refundable by Cat Rambo The Eleven Holy Numbers of the Mechanical Soul by Natalia Theodoridou And Wash Out by Tides of War by An Owomoyela Infinities / Бесконечности by Vandana Singh Martian Heart / Марсианское сердце by John Barnes
The Clockwork Soldier by Ken Liu Grave of the Fireflies / Могила светлячков by Cheng Jingbo Wine by Yoon Ha Lee Ship’s Brother / Брат корабля by Aliette de Bodard Utriusque Cosmi by Robert Charles Wilson
Daedalum, the Devil’s Wheel by E. Lily Yu Of Alternate Adventures and Memory by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz Silent Bridge, Pale Cascade by Benjanun Sriduangkaew 10^16 to 1 by James Patrick Kelly The Pure Product by John Kessel
Mystic Falls by Robert Reed The Aftermath by Maggie Clark Never Dreaming (In Four Burns) by Seth Dickinson Manifest Destiny by Joe Haldeman Special Economics / Экстремальная экономика by Maureen F. McHugh
The Symphony of Ice and Dust by Julie Novakova Bits by Naomi Kritzer The Creature Recants by Dale Bailey The Ki-anna by Gwyneth Jones A Night at the Tarn House / Ночь в гостинице «У озера» by George R.R. Martin
Mar Pacifico by Greg Mellor The Promise of Space by James Patrick Kelly One Flesh by Mark Bourne and Elizabeth Bourne Out of Copyright / Незаконная копия by Charles Sheffield First Principle by Nancy Kress
Cry of the Kharchal by Vandana Singh Shepherds by Greg Kurzawa Found by Alex Dally MacFarlane The Lovers / Влюблённые by Eleanor Arnason Cilia-of-Gold / Золотые Реснички by Stephen Baxter
Pockets Full of Stones by Vajra Chandrasekera I Tell Thee All, I Can No More by Sunny Moraine Across the Terminator by David Tallerman The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm / Иллюстрированная биография лорда Гримма by Daryl Gregory The Dust Assassin by Ian McDonald
The Urashima Effect / Эффект Урасимы by E. Lily Yu This Is Why We Jump by Jacob Clifton Free-Fall by Graham Templeton Mongoose / Мангуст by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear Dead Men Walking / Мертвецы идут by Paul McAuley
Soulcatcher by James Patrick Kelly Tachy Psyche by Andy Dudak (R + D) /I = M by E. Catherine Tobler The Banquet of the Lords of Night by Liz Williams From Babel’s Fall’n Glory We Fled ... / И бежали мы от падшей славы вавилонской by Michael Swanwick
Annex by Benjanun Sriduangkaew No Portraits on the Sky by Kali Wallace Melt With You by Emily C. Skaftun Spar (The Bacon Remix) / Спасательный челнок (беконовый ремикс) by Kij Johnson Guest of Honor / Почётный гость by Robert Reed Finisterra / Финистерра by David Moles
The Weight of a Blessing by Aliette de Bodard The Last Survivor of the Great Sexbot Revolution by A.C. Wise 86, 87, 88, 89 by Genevieve Valentine
Gravity by Erzebet YellowBoy The Wanderers by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam Vacant Spaces by Greg Kurzawa
Driftings by Ian McDonald Variations on Bluebeard and Dalton’s Law Along the Event Horizon by Helena Bell Effigy Nights by Yoon Ha Lee
Your Final Apocalypse by Sandra McDonald The Wisdom of Ants by Thoraiya Dyer Sweet Subtleties by Lisa L Hannett
(To See the Other) Whole Against the Sky by E. Catherine Tobler Aquatica by Maggie Clark Everything Must Go by Brooke Wonders
A Bead of Jasper, Four Small Stones by Genevieve Valentine England under the White Witch by Theodora Goss The Battle of Candle Arc by Yoon Ha Lee
The Found Girl by David Klecha and Tobias S. Buckell Robot by Helena Bell muo-ka’s Child by Indrapramit Das
Mantis Wives by Kij Johnson Honey Bear by Sofia Samatar Fade to White by Catherynne M. Valente
Astrophilia / Астрофилия by Carrie Vaughn The Switch by Sarah Stanton Iron Ladies, Iron Tigers by Sunny Moraine
Immersion / Погружение by Aliette de Bodard If The Mountain Comes by An Owomoyela You Were She Who Abode by E. Catherine Tobler
Prayer by Robert Reed Synch Me, Kiss Me, Drop by Suzanne Church All the Things the Moon Is Not by Alexander Lumans
Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes by Tom Crosshill Draftyhouse by Erik Amundsen The Womb Factory by Peter M. Ferenczi
Sunlight Society by Margaret Ronald The Bells of Subsidence by Michael John Grist From Their Paws, We Shall Inherit by Gary Kloster
And the Hollow Space Inside by Mari Ness A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight by Xia Jia All the Young Kirks and Their Good Intentions by Helena Bell
Scattered Along the River of Heaven by Aliette de Bodard What Everyone Remembers by Rahul Kanakia All the Painted Stars by Gwendolyn Clare
Sirius by Ben Peek In Which Faster-Than-Light Travel Solves All of Our Problems by Chris Stabback Silently and Very Fast (Conclusion) / Молча, быстро и легко by Catherynne M. Valente
A Militant Peace / Воинственный мир by David Klecha and Tobias S. Buckell The Smell of Orange Groves / Запах апельсиновых рощ by Lavie Tidhar Silently and Very Fast (Part Two) / Молча, быстро и легко by Catherynne M. Valente
Staying Behind / Остаться позади by Ken Liu Pony by Erik Amundsen Silently and Very Fast (Part One) / Молча, быстро и легко by Catherynne M. Valente
Pack by Robert Reed Signals in the Deep by Greg Mellor
Conservation of Shadows by Yoon Ha Lee The Fish of Lijiang / Лицзянские рыбы by Ken Liu
Trois morceaux en forme de mechanika by Gord Sellar Frozen Voice by An Owomoyela
Semiramis by Genevieve Valentine Trickster by Mari Ness
Whose Face This Is I Do Not Know by Cat Rambo The Architect of Heaven by Jason K. Chapman
The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees / Осы-картографы и пчёлы-анархисты by E. Lily Yu Matchmaker by Erin M. Hartshorn
The Book of Phoenix (Excerpted from The Great Book) by Nnedi Okorafor Perfect Lies by Gwendolyn Clare
Diving After the Moon by Rachel Swirsky Three Oranges by D. Elizabeth Wasden
Ghostweight / Призрачный спутник by Yoon Ha Lee Tying Knots by Ken Liu
The Taxidermist’s Other Wife by Kelly Barnhill The Children of Main Street by A. C. Wise
On the Banks of the River Lex by N. K. Jemisin Seeing by Genevieve Valentine
Laying the Ghost by Eric Brown Salvaging Gods by Jacques Barcia
The Cull by Robert Reed Paper Cradle by Stephen Gaskell
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time by Catherynne M. Valente Messenger by J.M. Sidorova
Beach Blanket Spaceship by Sandra McDonald The Association of the Dead by Rahul Kanakia
Futures in the Memories Market by Nina Kiriki Hoffman My Father’s Singularity / Сингулярность моего отца by Brenda Cooper
A Jar of Goodwill by Tobias S. Buckell A Sweet Calling by Tony Pi
Between Two Dragons by Yoon Ha Lee January by Becca De La Rosa
Alone with Gandhari by Gord Sellar The History Within Us by Matthew Kressel
Torquing Vacuum by Jay Lake The Language of the Whirlwind by Lavie Tidhar
The Things / Ничтожества by Peter Watts All the King’s Monsters by Megan Arkenberg
Night, in Dark Perfection by Richard Parks The Grandmother-Granddaughter Conspiracy by Marissa Lingen
The Mermaids Singing Each to Each by Cat Rambo Brief Candle by Jason K. Chapman
Spar / Спасательный челнок by Kij Johnson Of Melei, of Ulthar by Gord Sellar
White Charles by Sarah Monette Non-Zero Probabilities by N.K. Jemisin
The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew by Catherynne M. Valente Advection by Genevieve Valentine
Placa del Fuego by Tobias S. Buckell On the Lot and In the Air by Lisa L Hannett
Walking with a Ghost by Nick Mamatas The Giving Heart by Corie Ralston
From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7 by Nnedi Okorafor The Devonshire Arms by Alex Dally MacFarlane
Rolling Steel: A Pre-Apocalyptic Love Story by Jake Lake and Shannon Page The Dying World by Lavie Tidhar
Herding Vegetable Sheep by Ekaterina Sedia The Loyalty of Birds by Rachel Sobel
The Second Gift Given by Ken Scholes The Jisei of Mark VIII by Berrien C. Henderson
Celadon by Desirina Boskovich Teaching Bigfoot to Read by Geoffrey W. Cole
A Woman’s Best Friend by Robert Reed Episode 72 by Don Webb The Completely Rechargeable Man by Karen Heuler
Idle Roomer by Mike Resnick and Lezli Robyn batch 39 and the deadman’s switch by Simon DeDeo
Gift of the Kites by Jim C. Hines Passwords by John A. McDermott
Worm Within by Cat Rambo Can You See Me Now? by Eric M. Witchey
Blue Ink by Yoon Ha Lee Tetris Dooms Itself by Meghan McCarron Her Mother’s Ghosts by Theodora Goss
When the Gentlemen Go By / Джентльменам вслед by Margaret Ronald The Glory of the World by Sergey Gerasimov
Clockwork Chickadee by Mary Robinette Kowal The Secret in the House of Smiles by Paul Jessup
A Buyer’s Guide to Maps of Antartica by Catherynne M. Valente Birdwatcher by Garth Upshaw
After Moreau by Jeffrey Ford Flight by Jeremiah Sturgill
Teeth by Stephen Dedman The Sky that Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and into the Black / Голубое небо, обнимающее Землю и уходящее во тьму by Jay Lake
Captain’s Lament by Stephen Graham Jones The Human Moments by Alexander Lumans
The River Boy by Tim Pratt Debris Ensuing from a Vortex by Brian Ames
Curse by Samantha Henderson The Buried Years by Loreen Heneghan Threads of Red and White by Lisa Mantchev
Summer in Paris, Light from the Sky by Ken Scholes Acid and Stoned Reindeer by Rebecca Ore
A Dance Across Embers by Lisa Mantchev Excerpt from a Letter by a Social-realist Aswang by Kristin Mandigma
The Ape’s Wife by Caitlín R. Kiernan Lost Soul by M P Ericson
The Taste of Wheat by Ekaterina Sedia The Beacon by Darja Malcolm-Clarke
I’ll Gnaw Your Bones, the Manticore Said by Cat Rambo Transtexting Pose by Darren Speegle
The Oracle Spoke by Holly Phillips The Moon Over Yodok by David Charlton
There’s No Light Between Floors by Paul G. Tremblay Qubit Conflicts by Jetse De Vries
The Third Bear / Третий Медведь by Jeff VanderMeer The First Female President by Michael De Kler
Clockmaker’s Requiem by Barth Anderson Something in the Mermaid Way by Carrie Laben
Chewing Up the Innocent by Jay Lake Attar of Roses by Sharon Mock
Orm the Beautiful / Орм Прекрасный by Elizabeth Bear Automatic by Erica L. Satifka
Urchins, While Swimming / Мальчишки видели в воде by Catherynne M. Valente The Other Amazon by Jenny Davidson
The Moby Clitoris of His Beloved by Ian Watson and Roberto Quaglia Lydia’s Body by Vylar Kaftan
A Light in Troy by Sarah Monette 304 Adolf Hitler Strasse by Lavie Tidhar
MercurialKim Stanley Robinson
“She rules all of Oz,” said Dorothy, “and so she rules your city and you, because you are in the Winkie Country, which is part of the Land of Oz.” “It may be” returned the High Coco-Lorum, “for we do not study geography and have never inquired whether we live in the Land of Oz or not. And any Ruler who rules us from a distance, and unknown to us, is welcome to the job.” —L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz
I am not, despite the appearances, fond of crime detection. In the past, it is true, I occasionally accompanied my friend Freya Grindavik as she solved her cases, and admittedly this watsoning gave me some good material for the little tales I have written for the not-very-discriminating markets on Mars and Titan. But after the “Case of the Golden Sphere of the Lion of Mercury,” in which I ended up hanged by the feet from the clear dome of Terminator, two hundred meters above the rooftops of the city, my native lack of enthusiasm rose to the fore. And following the unfortunate “Adventure of the Vulcan Accelerator,” when Freya’s arch-foe Jan Johannsen tied us to a pile of hay under a large magnifying glass in a survival tent, there to await Mercury’s fierce dawn, I put my foot down: no more detecting. That, so to speak, was the last straw. So when I agreed to accompany Freya to the Solday party of Heidi van Seegeren, it was against my better judgment. But Freya assured me there would be no business involved; and despite the obvious excesses, I enjoy a Solday party as much as the next esthete. So when she came by my villa, I was ready. ...
