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Austin Beeman

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The Best Science Fiction Short Stories I Read in 2024 ... and where you can read them.
Dec 29

Dec 29 The Best Science Fiction Short Stories I Read in 2024 ... and where you can read them.

Austin Beeman

An A.I. locked room mystery. The ethics of art repatriation. Time travel lovers both evil and sublime. Comedic small-town alien invasion. A Second Holocaust. Space Tombs. Sex Robots. Sentient beings of alien tech and garbage.

The Best Science Fiction Short Stories I Read in 2023 ... and where you can read them.
Dec 27

Dec 27 The Best Science Fiction Short Stories I Read in 2023 ... and where you can read them.

Austin Beeman

A euthanasia amusement park for children. Twins experiment to find God. A rockstar spirals out of control. Adventure on planets connected by giant trees. A poetic rebellion on a world of water channels. Only young girls mask for a pandemic. Robotic ambition in an icy earth.

The Best Science Fiction Short Stories I Read in 2022 ... and where you can read them.
Dec 27

Dec 27 The Best Science Fiction Short Stories I Read in 2022 ... and where you can read them.

Austin Beeman

Sexual obsession with aliens. A cloned hockey player. Alien birth from human men. Frenetic biopunk on-the-run adventure. Classic 1940s tale that predicts the internet. Cozy robot and monk. Preserving humanity with clones. Contemplating family in an observatory.

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