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SF Signal has a mess of good reading listed:
  • “O One” by Chris Roberson
  • “Red Hands, Black Hands” by Chris Roberson
  • “Pictures on a Cafe Wall” by Damian Kilby
  • “The Dog Boys” by Tim Pratt
  • “Bleeding West” by Tim Pratt
  • “The Man Who Wasn’t There” by Gregory Benford
  • “Remade” by Charles Stross
  • “Daydream Nation” by Paul Di Filippo
  • “Angel of Light” by Joe Haldeman
  • “Operation Terror” by Murray Leinster
  • “Goliath” by Neil Gaiman
  • “I, Cthulhu” by Neil Gaiman
  • “The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds” by Neil Gaiman
  • The Spriggan Mirror by Lawrence Watt-Evans (novel)
  • Murder in the Gunroom by H. Beam Piper (a mystery novel)

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