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WFA and Sturgeon Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 2006. The story can aslo be found in the anthologies Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition (2007), edited by Rich Horton, The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One (2007), edited by Jonathan Strahan, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twentieth Annual Collection (2007), edited by Ellen Datlow, Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link, and Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology (2013), edited by Ellen Datlow. It is included in the collection Telling the Map: Stories (2017).

A dog detective is hired by a female human to investigate a murder that she committed. But of course, all is not as it seems in this strange, mysterious world rendered wonderfully by speculative fiction author Christopher Rowe

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There are ten stories here including one readers have waited ten long years for: in new novel-la The Border State Rowe revisits the world of his much-lauded story The Voluntary State. Competitive cyclists twins Michael and Maggie have trained all their lives to race internationally. One thing holds them back: their mother who years before crossed the border ... into Tennessee.

Table of Contents:

• The Contrary Gardener
• Another Word For Map is Faith
• Jack of Coins
• The Unveiling
• Nowhere Fast
• Two Figures in a Landscape Between Storms
• Gather
• The Force Acting On the Displaced Body
• The Border State
• The Voluntary State

This short story originally appeared in Eclipse Online, October 8, 2012. It can also be found in the anthologies The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven (2013), edited by Jonathan Strahan, and The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2013, edited by Rich Horton. The story is included in the collection Telling the Map: Stories (2017).

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Jack of Coins, by Christopher Rowe, is about a strange, amnesiac man who is befriended by a rebellious group of teenagers living in a repressive city.

This story originally appeared on Tor.com, May 1, 2013, It is included in the collection Telling the Map: Stories (2017).

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Quintus Shu'al, the world's only navigating fox, is in disgrace after guiding an expedition to its doom, leaving no survivors. One year later, Quintus is offered the chance to redeem himself: he will need to lead a motley, fractious team -- both human and animal -- all the way to the gates of Hell.

Sturgeon, Hugo and Nebula Award nominated Novelette. It originally appeard on Sci Fiction, May 5, 2004. The story can also be found in the anthologies Science Fiction: The Best of 2004 (2005), edited by Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection (2005), edited by Gardner Dozois, Beyond Singularity (2005) edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois, Nebula Awards Showcase 2006, edited by Gardner Dozois and Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology (2007), edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel. It is included in the collection Telling the Map: Stories (2017).

Deallocate all implications,
Fortran harrows all the nations.

In a long-ago war, the all-powerful A.I. ruler of the Voluntary State of Tennessee--Athena Parthenus, Queen of Reason--invaded and decimated the American Southeast. Possessing the ability to infect and corrupt the surrounding environment with nanotechnology, she transformed flora, fauna, and the very ground itself into bio-mechanical weapons of war.

Marcia, a former captain from Kentucky, experienced first-hand the terrifying, mind-twisting capabilities of Athena's creatures. Now back in the Commonwealth, her retirement is cut short by the arrival of federal troops in her tiny, isolated town. One of Athena's most powerful weapons may still be buried nearby. And they need Marcia's help to find it.

A hero rises from the ranks of slaves!

The genasi control almost all of Calimshan for their djinn overlords--all but a few outposts like the floating Island of the Free, where escaped slaves from Calimport's coliseum run their own brutal games. There, Cephas, a genasi with no memories of his past has spent his entire life fighting But one day a circus of misfits, lead by the crowlike Corvus Nightfeather appear and free Cephas--and for the first time Cephas can harness his inborn powers and control the stones and dirt beneath his feet.