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Generation after generation, engineers have maintained the barricade, a shield that protects civilization against Turbulence, this strange force that destroys both minds and machines. As Turbulence grows ever more intense and the barricade begins to fail, can Ritter live up to the demands of his father, an engineer the equal of any hero in the Five Great Classical Novels, as they struggle to prevent this civilization from falling like every civilization has before it?

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Connor is a food crafter just getting back into the business after his mother's death. To cope with his grief, Connor spends day after day recreating her potstickers, but they are never quite what he remembers. To move on with his life, he will have to confront his past.

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This short story originally appeared in the anthology Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories (2014), edited by Julia Rios and Alisa Krasnostein, and was reprinted in Lightspeed: People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue, June 2016.

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Ellie is on her way to visit her comatose mother when her sister sends her to repair physics. Each universe has skunkworks that generate the universe within it, making this multiverse a set of matryoshka dolls. The skunkworks that generate this universe have become faulty, and the physical constants suddenly... aren't. In order to fix the skunkworks, to make physics self-consistent again, and to make the world work as it's supposed to, Ellie will have to remember everything her mother has taught her.

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A Superhero, who happens to be Queer and from an Asian American background.

First Published by Uncanny Magazine in 2022 & winner of the Nebula for Best Novelette in 2022.

John Chu deftly blends real world anti-Asian racism into a clever story about superheroics. "Tom of Finland Guy," what our narrator calls the handsome, well-built man flying around the city saving the day, is beloved for his bravery... that is until people realize he's not the white American Dream. Chu does not pull his punches (pun intended), delivering an incisive story that deconstructs the contemporary superhero mythos.

This short story originally appeared in Lightspeed, June 2015.

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This story originally appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Issue 16, May-June 2017. It can also be found in the anthology Wilde Stories 2018: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction (2018), edited by Steve Berman.

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This short story originally appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Issue 28, May-June 2019.

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This short story originally appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Issue Four, May-June 2015.

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In the near future water falls from the sky whenever someone lies (either a mist or a torrential flood depending on the intensity of the lie). This makes life difficult for Matt as he maneuvers the marriage question with his lover and how best to "come out" to his traditional Chinese parents.

This story can also be found in the anthology Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction (2018), edited by Irene Gallo.

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