A child who falls through the cracks in a world run by machines and politics, might be the savior of all humanity…At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

“A wildly inventive, funny, and ultimately quite heartfelt novel, The Unraveling is a chaotic romp of gender deconstruction packaged up in a groovy science-fictional coming-of-age tale.” —Chicago Review of BooksIn a society where biotechnology has revolutionized gender, young Fift must decide whether to conform or carve a new path.In the distant future, somewhere in the galaxy, a Staid-gendered youth with three bodies is j...

In the distant future, somewhere in the galaxy, a world has evolved where each person has multiple bodies, cybernetics has abolished privacy, and individual and family success are reliant upon instantaneous evaluations of how well each member conforms to the rigid social system.Young Fift is an only child of the Staid gender, struggling to maintain zir position in the system while developing a friendship with the acclaimed bioengineer Shria: a controversial and int...

Critically acclaimed and Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award nominated author Benjamin Rosenbaum makes his first appearance on Tor.com with an epistolary storyof a sort. Rosenbaum is a software developer by trade, which gives him precisely the right background to think through the implications of how fantastical tropes might alter a familiar technology that many of us use every day. Not to mention the fact that he and his family play a ton of Pandemic, and that all of his friends had alr...

—Debut collection by one of science fiction's brightest stars. —"Orphans," originally published in McSweeney's, Issue 15, was honorably mentioned in The Best American Short Stories 2006. —Rosenbaum has a story on the current Hugo Award ballot. —Part of the collection is free online licensed under the Creative Commons license. —Rosenbaum's collection of short-shorts, Other Cities, was published by Small Beer Press (2003). —Selections from Other Cities reprinted in the debut issue of the Mic...

Le collectif Angle Mort est composé d’éditeurs, d’écrivains, de traducteurs et de scientifiques partageant une même conception de la science-fiction ; celle d’une méthode d’exploration de soi et de notre environnement. La revue numérique Angle Mort publie des nouvelles contemporaines, françaises ou traduites de l’anglais, qui font la science-fiction d’aujourd’hui, offrent un nouveau regard sur le monde et – c'est notre conviction – nous permet de mieux préparer demain.Pour ce numér...

One of the anesthesiologist’s greatest challenges is managing high-risk patients with acute or severe conditions. This issue brings the anesthesiologist up to date on the most important and latest approaches to management of the sickest of patients. Topics covered include managing the patient with sepsis or septic shock; anesthetic considerations for patients in respiratory failure; anesthetic concerns in patients presenting with renal failure; perioperative management of patients with liv...

Social Networking and Impression Management: Self-Presentation in the Digital Age, edited by Carolyn Cunningham, offers critical inquiry into how identity is constructed, deconstructed, performed, and perceived on social networking sites (SNSs), such as Facebook, and LinkedIn. The presentation of identity is key to success or failure in the Information Age, especially because SNSs are becoming the dominant form of communication among Internet users. The architecture of SNSs provide opportu...

Eleven authors with one thing in common: the Clarion West Workshop for Science Fiction and Fantasy class of 2001. Other than that, we're about as diverse as you can get. This anthology is one of the broadest samples you can find of up and coming science fiction and fantasy talent.Our instructors: Octavia Butler, Bradley Denton, Nalo Hopkinson, Connie Willis, Ellen Datlow, & Jack Womack.Table of Contents:The Worry Doctor by Linda DeMeulemeesterAngelfall (novel ...