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Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Century, Number 1, March-April 1995 and was reprinted in Nightmare Magazine, October 2015 (Queers Destroy Horror special edition). The story can also be found in Nebula Awards 31 (1997), edited by Pamela Sargent and the collection Dangerous Space (2007).

Tiptree nominated story originally published in Ellen Datlow's Little Deaths: 24 Tales of Sex and Horror (1994). Included in the collection Dangerous Space (2010) and anthologized in Flying Cups and Saucers: Gender Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy (1998) and Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology (2015).

Read this story for free online at the author's website.

Nebula Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in the collection Dangerous Space (2007).

Read the full novella for free at the author's website (pdf).

Dangerous Space showcases a collection of seven seductive stories by Kelley Eskridge, whose novel Solitaire was a New York Times Notable Book, with an introduction by Geoff Ryman (author of Was and Air).

The opening story, "Strings," takes us to a world that tightly controls musical expression and values faithfulness to the canon above all else. By contrast, in the title novella, "Dangerous Space," we see the full power of music unleashed to sexually enthralling as well as risky effect; original to the volume, this tale features Mars, the intriguing narrator of "And Salome Danced" (short-listed for the Tiptree Award), on tour with an indie rock band on the verge of breaking out. Closing the volume, the moving, edgy "Alien Jane" (a finalist for the Nebula Award and adapted for the SciFi Channel's Welcome to Paradox series) delves into the importance of pain for the human organism and finds hope in the most unlikely of places.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Dangerous Space) - (2007) - essay by Geoff Ryman
• Strings - (1994) - shortstory
• And Salome Danced - (1994) - shortstory
• City Life - (2007) - shortstory
• Eye of the Storm - novelette (variant of The Eye of the Storm 1998)
• Somewhere Down the Diamondback Road - (1993) - shortstory
• Dangerous Space - (2007) - novella
• Alien Jane - (1995) - shortstory

The Nebula-nominated Novella "Dangerous Space" can be read online here. (pdf)

"Strings" can be read online here.

"And Salome Danced" can be read online here.

Ren "Jackal" Segura is a Hope -- a special child, a powerful symbol of a new world government destined for greatness. But two months before she is to assume the role she has been preparing for her entire life, Jackal discovers that everything she believes, everything she is, is a lie. Convicted of a terrible crime, she agrees to participate in a "rehabilitation" experiment: While her body lies comatose for eight months, a computer will convince her mind that she is spending eight long years in solitary confinement. But Jackal's history as a Hope has given her strengths and skills other prisoners lack -- powers she will need to endure the tormenting loneliness, to discover the truth about her betrayal, and to rediscover her life, her love, and her soul in a strange place of shattered hopes and new beginnings called Solitaire.