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Andy Duncan

In the tales gathered in An Agent of Utopia: New and Selected Stories you will meet a Utopian assassin, an aging UFO contactee, a haunted Mohawk steelworker, a time-traveling prizefighter, a yam-eating Zombie, and a child who loves a frizzled chicken—not to mention Harry Houdini, Zora Neale Hurston, Sir Thomas More, and all their fellow travelers riding the steamer-trunk imagination of a unique twenty-first-century fabulist.From the Florida folktales of the perennial priso...

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Andy Duncan

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Paul Di Filippo Presents

At the turn of the twentieth century, nobody played better banjo than the hermit Daner Johnson, who just might have sold his soul for the privilege. When eleven-year-old Charlie Poole, tired of mill-boy life, seeks apprenticeship, he discovers an occult world of myth and legend and strange premonitions. Will the succeeding years bring glory or sorrow—or equal measures of both?The Paul Di Filippo Presents series showcases modern masterpieces of science fiction and fantasy selected b...

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Andy Duncan, Ellen Klages

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A Tor.Com Original

Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best NovellaWakulla Springs, in the deep jungle of the Florida panhandle, is the deepest submerged freshwater cave system in the world. In its unfathomable depths, a variety of curious creatures have left a record of their coming, of their struggle to survive, and of their eventual end. And that's just the local human beings over the last seventy-five years. Then there are the prehistoric creatures...and, just maybe, something ...

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Andy Duncan, Jared Still

Perl is a very powerful tool for Oracle database administrators, but too few DBAs realize how helpful Perl can be in managing, monitoring, and tuning Oracle databases. Whether you're responsible for Oracle9i, Oracle8i, or earlier databases, you'll find Perl an invaluable addition to your database administration arsenal.You don't need to be a Perl expert to use the excellent applications and scripts described in Perl for Oracle DBAs. The book explains what you need to know about Perl, provi...

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Esther Friesner, Paige L. Christie, Diana A. Hart, A.L. Tompkins, Derrick Boden, Andy Duncan, Chaz Brenchley, Howard Andrew Jones, Mike Jack Stoumbos, R.S. Belcher, Mia Moss, Gini Koch, D.B. Jackson, Jason Palmatier, Gabriela Santiago

Join us for a feast!Step into a roadside diner run by witches. Attend a banquet with aliens who are as crass as they are brutal. Eat oysters on the half shell with a pair of conjurers, or scratch out a meal with warring pilots marooned on a desolate planet. Pity the ghost who must cook her way to freedom, and mourn with the warrior who seeks a final delicacy for his lost love. Search the far reaches of space for sustenance or descend into a hellscape of culinary horrors.In ...

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Andy Duncan

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A Tor.Com Original

To the Fringe…and Beyond.A Tor.Com Original.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Andy Duncan, Reginald Bretnor, A.R. Morlan, John Gregory Betancourt, Frank M. Robinson, Hal Charles, Stephen Marlowe, Adam Meyer, Nicholas Carter, Charles Willing Beale, Frank Lovell Nelson, Ruth Malone

Black Cat Weekly #7 showcases the best new and classic science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, and suspense, with novels and short stories in every weekly issue.Mysteries“Death of a Light-Hearted Lady,” by Ruth Malone [short story]“The Soul of the Blue Bokhara,” by Frank Lovell Nelson [short story, Carl ton Clarke #7]]“Keys to Success,” by Hal Charles [Solve-It-Yourself Mystery]“Mysterious Blues,” by Adam Meyer [Barb Goff man Pres...

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Julie C. Day, Martha Wells, Andy Duncan, C.S.E. Cooney, Nisi Shawl, Mike Allen, Alaya Dawn Johnson, CL Hellisen, Maya Deane, Rocío Rincón Fernández, Theodora Goss, Getty Hesse, Starlene Justice, Amelia Mangan, Michael Yuya Montroy, Marisca Pichette, KT Wagner, Carina Bissett, Craig Laurance Gidney

New award-winning stories from some of today's most renowned authors. All inspired by the master storyteller Tanith Lee.World Fantasy Award Winner. Bram Stoker and Locus Award FinalistDrowning cities and unicorns. Burning deserts and forgotten gods. Golems, elf warriors, and inner-Earthers. Alien lifeforms and museum workers. Ancient plagues and the future of humanity. The familiar and the fantastical. Each story in this anthology is both unique an...

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F. Brett Cox, Andy Duncan

A stellar collection of stories of the fantastic with a distinctly American Southern Literary accent. Magical realism is the dominant mode here, and other styles of fantasy are represented among these tales, which will appeal to a wide audience and especially to readers who appreciate the Southern Literary tradition.As William Faulkner once observed, "The past isn't dead. It isn't even past." And the past of the American South lives on in a long literary tradition w...

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Andy Langford, Ann Langford Duncan

Open your heart to the good news of ChristmasThe Christian year is fundamentally a roadmap for pilgrims, as biblical witnesses lead spiritually hungry people on a journey to receive the full riches of God’s grace. During Advent, we take the first steps.In Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus, Andy Langford and Ann Langford Duncan invite you on an Advent-to-Christmas pilgrimage to draw closer to Jesus and invite others to join you on this journey. Traditi...

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Andy Duncan

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Andy Duncan, Beresford Bennett

Come meet a Utopian assassin, an aging UFO contactee, a haunted Mohawk steelworker, a time-traveling prizefighter, a yameating Zombie, and a child who loves a frizzled chicken—not tomention Harry Houdini, Zora Neale Hurston, and all their fellow travelers riding the steamer-trunk imagination of a unique twentyfirst-century fabulist.From the Florida folktales that inspired “Daddy Mention and the Monday Skull” (first published in Mojo: Conjure Stories, edited by Nalo Hopkinson...

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Neil Clarke, Andy Duncan, Eileen Gunn, John Barnes

Forever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Each issue will feature a novella, two short stories, and cover art by Ron Guyatt. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke.Our September 2016 issue features a novella by Andy Duncan ("The Chief Designer"), a short story by Eileen Gunn ("Stable Strategies for Middle Management"), and a novelette by John Barnes ("Every...