Lolcats. Salsa dancing. Unrequited love. Tom Crosshill's smart and witty debut teen novel treads a colorful coming-of-age journey from New York City to Havana that will appeal to fans of books by Matthew Quick and Junot Díaz.When Rick Gutiérrez—known as "That Cat Guy" at school—gets dumped on his sixteenth birthday for uploading cat videos from his bedroom instead of experiencing the real world, he realizes it's time for a change. So Rick joins a salsa class . . . because of a girl...

Since 2006, Clarkesworld Magazine has been entertaining science fiction and fantasy fans with their brand of unique science fiction and fantasy stories. Collected here are all of the stories this Hugo Award-winning magazine published during the first half of their ninth year. Includes stories by Aliette de Bodard, Naomi Kritzer, Ken Liu, Robert Reed, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Catherynne M. Valente, Kij Johnson, Jay Lake, Matthew Kressel, Rich Larson, and many more!

This issue of Clarkesworld features the following original stories: "Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes" by Tom Crosshill, "Draftyhouse" by Erik Amundsen and "The Womb Factory" by Peter M. Ferenczi. Non-fiction includes two round table discussions (world-building and speculative fiction in academia), an article on popular music and the end of the world by Brian Francis Slattery, and the launch of our Another Word column, written this month by Daniel Abraham.Clarke...

Eighteen steampunk short stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies, the three-time Hugo Award and five-time World Fantasy Award finalist online magazine that Locus online calls “a premiere venue for fantastic fiction, not just online but for all media.”Authors include Campbell Award finalist Aliette de Bodard, Margaret Ronald, Marissa Lingen, Tony Pi, Nebula Award Finalist Tom Crosshill, and WSFA Small Press Award Finalist Yoon Ha Lee, and more.Their stories take reader...

The Protections for Religious Rights is the first practitioner work to offer a full and systematic treatment of the law as it pertains to religious rights in the UK and abroad. A practical working aid to a sensitive and important area of increasing litigation and public debate, this text examines the applicable legal instruments, considers the current state of the law, and reviews domestic, comparative, and international case law to provide a comprehensive reference resource that informs o...

A True Story of Ultimate Commitment, Undying Love, and Living a Life of Meaning, Passion and Purpose….Dr. Joan Kidd was a respected Physician, who was loved by her patients and respected by her peers. Her husband Tom came into her life in a serendipitous manner, they became soul mates, and they lived life to its fullest measure. But not many years into their idyllic relationship, the universe threw them a curve ball that they never saw coming.Joan would face the battle for ...