By: Chelsey Johnson

The horses developed complex social networks, animosities and affections.

By: Dave Boerger

I became a “soldier in God’s army.”

By: Gordon Dahlquist

Who — in 1913 — could conceive a capital of Europe being so depopulated, so beset?

By: Joshua Glenn

John Varley’s THE OPHIUCHI HOTLINE

By: Tony Leone

Model building was considered nerdy, but I didn’t care — and I still don’t care.

By: Karl Taro Greenfeld

He became the world’s foremost expert in opium antiquities.

By: Joshua Glenn

Gary Panter’s JIMBO

By: Jason Gilbert

I was no longer purchasing the Hand; the Hand had been entrusted to me.

By: Malcolm Evans

The blue ribband; how the ship would look dwarfing Nelson’s column…

By: Chapell Ellison

She digs past a mix of decorative pins, figurines and trinkets, toward a sound — a distinct jingling.

By: Joshua Glenn

Philip K. Dick’s A SCANNER DARKLY

By: James Parker

“My eyes ache from seeing./My balls ache from being.”

By: Joshua Glenn

From THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL and THE COLOUR OF MAGIC to RONIN.

By: Lynn Peril

“If you don’t know about surfing or don’t like it, you’re too old to go.”

By: Carla Sinclair

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