Rachel Swirsky

• Oct-2008
• / General Fiction
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Do you love the sound of a peg leg stomping across a quarterdeck? Or maybe you prefer a parrot on your arm, a strong wind at your back? Adventure, treasure, intrigue, humor, romance, danger -- and, yes, plunder. Oh, the Devil does love a pirate -- an...

• Jun-2010
• / Science Fiction
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Originally published on Tor.com, Rachel Swirsky's contemporary tale of love in all its forms -- and of one robot's quest to know it, and himself, on his own terms -- is a finalist for the 2010 Hugo Award and the 2010 Locus Award. Rachel Swirsky's sho...

• Jun-2010
• / Science Fiction
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The heroes are eager to sail to Troy for war, but the wind is still. To fill their sails and set out, they must sacrifice Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia -- and how does a human girl become the wind? The starkness and psychological insight of Rachel S...

• Dec-2010
• / Science Fiction
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• From Sholom Aleichem to Avram Davidson, Isaac Bashevis Singer to Tony Kushner, the Jewish literary tradition has always been one rich in the supernatural and the fantastic. In these pages, gathered from the best short fiction of the last ten...

• Feb-2011
• / Science Fiction
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The mind has an amazing ability to heal itself, especially given the newest therapies, but Aaron's mind just won't cooperate. And neither will… he....

• Mar-2012
• / Science Fiction
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• From Kapek's biotech machines of R.U.R. to Kuttner's Proud Robot to the fictional assortment of mechanical sex toys, rebels, grandmothers, servants, and masters, these machines have represented our dreams as well as our anxieties. We love th...

• Aug-2012
• / Fantasy
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The line between art and magic is a treacherous thing....

• Oct-2013
• / Science Fiction
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After a powerful sorceress is murdered, she's summoned over the centuries to witness devastating changes to the land where she was born. A woman who lives by scavenging corpses in the Japanese suicide forest is haunted by her dead lover. A man search...

• Oct-2020
• / Science Fiction
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From Nebula Award-winning author Rachel Swirsky comes a time traveling adventure Placed into Abyss (Mise en Abyse), a Tor.com Original short story.Chris would rather be anywhere but here, cleaning out his deceased, hateful grandparents’ house with ...

• Jun-2022
• / Science Fiction
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“One of the best speculative writers of the last decade.” -- John ScalziA Philip K. Dick Award nominee!January Fifteenth -- the day all Americans receive their annual Universal Basic Income payment.For Hannah, a middle-aged mother, today is the a...

• Jan-2024
• / Fantasy
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Even death is no match for a trio of elderly, stubborn, ever-sparring sisters, who refuse to rest in peace while their grudges live on...At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied....