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Agribusiness companies tightly control all food production - calories - with their patented engineered patented crops. One man had the knowledge that could break their monopoly...

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Awards: Theodore Sturgeon Award

Pocketful of Dharma by Paolo Bacigalupi

In future Chengdu, Tibetan beggar Wang Jun stumbles on a treasure. ..

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The People of Sand and Slag by Paulo Bacigalupi

Future humans discover the last dog on Earth. ..

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Understanding Human Behavior by Thomas M. Disch

He wondered, as all erasees do, why he'd decided to wipe out his past."..

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Ishmael in Love by Robert Silverberg

Ishmael the dolphin pleads his love for a human woman...

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Start the Clock by Benjamin Rosenbaum

In a future where a virus has arrested development, what might happen when it becomes possible to restart aging?..

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Hybrid by Keith Laumer

Humans meet conscious trees with an unusual reproductive cycle...

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Like the Gentle Rain by Lewis Shiner

"Brains in boxes poke fun at philosopher J.D. Bernal."..

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Till Human Voices Wake Us by Lewis Shiner

"A mad scientist, a Caribbean island, a mermaid."..

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Perfect Stranger by Amy Sterling Casil

The touching story of a man and his genetically enhanced son...

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Chromosome Circus by Amy Sterling Casil

A mysterious virus has produced a lower-class subculture of genetically defective humans who live out their bitter lives in group homes, or as freaks in the circus..