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* Space orc diplomats
* Hapless necromancers
* Gamification of everything
* Plumbing problems at an evil wizard's castle
* Get-rich-quick schemes gone wrong
* Seussian cyberpunk
No AI! Written by organic, locally-sourced human authors.
This anthology contains the following stories:
"How to Make Everything Better for Everyone" - Jane Espenson
"Hort0n" - Mark S. Bailen
"A Draining Affair" - Caitlin Rozakis
"The Shank of the Evening" - Nick Mamatas
"Disaster Recovery" - Arthur H. Manners
"War Economy" - Will Brege
"I Hate This Planet" - Alan Dean Foster
"Love or Lizard Island" - Jackie Rogoff
"Stupid Cupid" - Zach Shephard
"Boracle's Four" - Kit Gadgitar
"Opacity" - Leo Kaganov, translated by Alex Shvartsman
"Passengers" - Simon R. Green
"Nicky's Sea Goat" - Nathaniel Mumau
"Back to School Guidelines (Tentaculon-Approved)" - Tina Connolly
"One More Night" - Esther Friesner
"My Counsel of Bugs" - John Butterworth III
"Intruders at the Party on Pluto IV" - Agatha Grimke
"The Cat Lady Cometh" - Gini Koch
"The Brightest of Futures" - Brad Preslar
"Bruiser's Breakout" - David Hankins
"A Peaceful Country Sojourn" - C. Flynt
"The Sixth Stage of Grief is Necromancy" - Rachel Meresman
"Cold Case" - Jody Lynn Nye
"Humanities" - Desmond Warzel
Alan Dean Foster
Alan Dean Foster’s work to date includes excursions into hard science fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He has also written numerous nonfiction articles on film, science, and scuba diving and produced the novel versions of many films, including such well-known productions as Star Wars, the first three Alien films, Alien Nation, and The Chronicles of Riddick. Other works include scripts for talking records, radio, computer games, and the story for the first Star Trek movie. His novel Shadowkeep was the first ever book adaptation of an original computer game. In addition to publication in English his work has been translated into more than fifty languages and has won awards in Spain and Russia. His novel Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first work of science fiction ever to do so.
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