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“Cockroach Love” first appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #41 (October 2009).

“Waves and Smart Magma” first appeared in The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF (August 2009, Running Press).

“To See Infinity Bare” first appeared in The New and Perfect Man (Postscripts #24/25) (April 2011, PS Publishing).

“The End of the Great Continuity” first appeared in Postscripts #13, Winter 2007 (PS Publishing).

“Fjaerland” first appeared in Flurb #12 (September 2011).

“The HPL Commonplace Book” first appeared in A Book of Unspeakable Things: Works Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s Commonplace Book (April 2008).

“Professor Fluvius’s Palace of Many Waters” first appeared in Postscripts #15, Summer 2008 (PS Publishing).

“Yes We Have No Bananas” first appeared in Eclipse Three: New Science Fiction and Fantasy (October 2009, Night Shade Books).

“A Partial and Conjectural History of Dr. Mueller’s Panoptical Cartoon Engine” first appeared in nobrow cartoons (October 2008).

“The New Cyberiad” first appeared in We Think, Therefore We Are (January 2009, DAW Books).

“iCity” first appeared in The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume Two (February 2008, Solaris Books).

“Return to the 20 thCentury” first appeared in Tales of the Shadowmen 3: Danse Macabre (January 2007, Black Coat Press).

“Murder in Geektopia” first appeared in Sideways in Crime (June 2008, Solaris Books).

“The Omniplus Ultra!” first appeared in Nature, Vol. 464 (March 2010).

“Wikiworld” first appeared in Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge (February 2007, Pyr).

Anything is possible: people breed dogs with humans to create a servant class; beneath one great city lies another city, running it surreptitiously; an employee finds that her hair has been stolen by someone intent on getting her job; strange fish fall from trees and birds talk too much; a boy tries to figure out what he can get when the Rapture leaves good stuff behind. Everything is familiar; everything is different. Behind it all, is there some strange kind of design or merely just the chance to adapt? In Karen Heuler’s stories, characters cope with the strange without thinking it’s strange, sometimes invested in what’s going on, sometimes trapped by it, but always finding their own way in.

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A hostile stranger is hunting Dr. Show’s ramshackle travelling circus across 1960s America. His target: the ringmaster himself. The troupe’s unravelling hopes fall on their latest and most promising recruit, Webern Bell, a sixteen-year-old hunchbacked midget devoted obsessively to perfecting the surreal clown performances that come to him in his dreams. But as they travel through a landscape of abandoned amusement parks and rural ghost towns, Webern’s bizarre past starts to pursue him, as well.

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Only men are allowed into the wells of vision. But Cara’s mother defies this edict and is killed, but not before returning with a vision of terrible and wonderful things that are to come… and all because of five-year-old Cara. Years later, evil destroys the rest of Cara’s family. In a rage, Cara uses magic to transform herself into a male warrior. But she finds that to defeat her enemies, she must break the cycle of violence, not continue it. As Cara’s mother’s vision of destiny is fulfilled, the wonderful follows the terrible, and a quest for revenge becomes a quest for eternal life.

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In a PERFECT world where everyone DESTROYS everything and eats HUMAN FLESH, one ZOMBIE has had enough: BUCK BURGER. When he rebels at the natural DISORDER, his marriage starts DETERIORATING and a doctor prescribes him an ANTI-DEPRESSANT. Buck meets a beautiful GREEN-HAIRED pharmacist fairy named FAIRY_26 and quickly becomes a pawn in a COLD WAR between zombies and SUPERNATURAL CREATURES. Does sixteen-year-old SPIRITUAL LEADER and pirate GUY BOY MAN make an appearance? Of course! Are there MIND-CONTROLLING ALBINOS? Obviously! Is there hot ZOMBIE-ON-FAIRY action? Maybe! WHY AREN’T YOU READING THIS YET?

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For thousands of years, Cross has wandered the earth, a mortal soul trapped in the undying body left behind by Christ. But now he must play the part of reluctant hero, as an angel comes to him for help finding the Mona Lisa—the real Mona Lisa that inspired the painting. Cross’s quest takes him into a secret world within our own, populated by characters just as strange and wondrous as he is. He’s haunted by memories of Penelope, the only woman he truly loved, and he wants to avenge her death at the hands of his ancient enemy, Judas. The angel promises to deliver Judas to Cross, but nothing is ever what it seems, and when a group of renegade angels looking for a new holy war show up, things truly go to hell.

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When Ann LeSage was a little girl, she had an invisible friend—a poltergeist, that spoke to her with flying knives and howling winds. She called it the Insect. And with a little professional help, she contained it. But the nightmare never truly ended. As Ann grew from girl into young woman, the Insect grew with her, becoming a thing of murder. Now, as she embarks on a new life married to successful young lawyer Michael Voors, Ann believes that she finally has the Insect under control. But there are others vying to take that control away from her. They may not know exactly what they’re dealing with, but they know they want it. They are the ’Geisters. And in pursuing their own perverse dream, they risk spawning the most terrible nightmare of all.

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INTRODUCTION BY TANYA HUFF