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"It's a gamble: the cryogenic preservation of heads in the hope that somehow they will survive, somehow they will be revived. And it's a gamble with unknowable consequences."..

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Early, In the Evening by Ian Watson

"the whole history of the world and human evolution reversed within less than 3000 words"..

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The Future of Birds by Mike O’Driscoll

A sex-specific virus that only kills women changes how the unaffected relate to - and exploit - those who were infected...

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Acephalous Dreams by Neal Asher

“AI Geronamid has need of a subject for a scientific trial. This trial may kill you, in which case it would be considered completion of sentence. Should you survive, all charges against yo..

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She Called Me Baby by Vylar Kaftan

Like mother, like daughter?..

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Husbandry by Eugene Fischer

"Gerry ... points out to him the things that make it clear that his bird is dead: the uncoordinated motion, the abandonment of normal behaviors, the lack of interest in water."..

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A Journal of Certain Events… by Helen Keeble

By Divine providence, we captured the mermaid with neither loss of life nor injury to any seaman, nor any harm done to the specimen...

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Deadnauts by Ted Kosmatka

"The first to wake from cryo feels it most."..

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End Game by Nancy Kress

"A researcher seeks to find a way to let humans focus on a particular task without being distracted by the "static" of other thoughts. When he finds it, things don't work out quite as he env..

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Watchcrab by Neal Asher

"For an Australian land crab, which had been intelligent and dangerous when it had been merely the size of a dinner plate, people found other uses, especially when it was grown to the size o..

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Adaptogenic by Neal Asher

"Another murder-louse made its scuttling charge, its trilobite body holding level as a pointer on me as its multitude of legs found purchase on the weed-slippery rocks. "..