Each of these small ebooks includes a single story. They should sell on Amazon for 99 cents each, but be careful. Every once in a while Amazon changes the price to $9.99, a ridiculous price for even the best short story. Be sure to check the price before you buy – and let me know if Amazon has upped the price to $9.99. I’ll do my best to get it back down to where it should be.
Bones
Winner of the 1990 World Fantasy Award
In late-eighteenth century London, Charlie Bryne was known as the Irish Giant — an enormous country lad with a deep connection to the natural magic of the earth. John Hunter, a man of science and a collector of natural oddities, wanted to add the bones of a giant to his collection. This novella examines what happens when the quest for scientific knowledge meets ancient magic.
A Cartographic Analysis of the Dream State
Traveling across the Martian polar cap, the second TransPolar Expedition is tracing the shape of the hidden lands beneath the ice and snow. Sita, the expedition’s cartographer, knows that maps are black-and-white portraits of a world that exists in shades of gray . Like cartographers before her, she knows that dragons lurk beyond the edges of every map.
Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates
The bombs have fallen, and the world as we know it has ended. In her final days, one robotics engineer works to ensure that life will go on. New times are coming — and the future echoes with the rattle of metal claws.
Rachel in Love
Winner of the World Fantasy Award
Rachel has the mind of a teenage girl, but the body and the innocent heart of a young chimp. Rachel knows that she is a real girl – but she must make her way in a world that treats her as nothing but an animal.
Exploding, Like Fireworks
On the space station known as Moon Talk, engineers and poets work together to prototype and manufacture communications satellites. When Angel, a 20-year-old robotics engineer visiting the station is paralyzed in an accident, the poets and engineers work together to find a way for Angel’s consciousness to escape the confines of the station.
