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It’s been over twenty years since the last episode of Rotten Little Town, the smash hit occult western that ran for six seasons between 1993 and 1999, plus one two-hour reunion movie released in 2000 that wrapped up most of the dangling storylines in such dramatic fashion that it remains highly debated today.

(18708 words, 94 minutes)
Awards: Nebula Award Winner, Best Novella
Ahab had sailed them into the heart of a typhoon. The sails were in tatters, and the men ran across the deck shouting against the wind and trying to lash the boats down tighter before they were washed away or smashed. Stubb had gotten his left hand caught between one of the boats and the rail; he now held it with his right and grimaced. The mastheads were touched with St. Elmo’s fire. Ahab stood with the lightning rod in his right hand and his right foot planted on the neck of Fedallah, declaiming at the lightning. Fallon held tightly to a shroud to keep from being thrown off his feet. The scene was ludicrous; it was horrible.

(27558 words, 138 minutes)
"All the Flavors: A Tale of Guan Yu, the Chinese God of War, in America" by Ken Liu is a mesmerizing blend of historical fiction and fantasy, exploring the intersection of Chinese mythology and 19th-century American frontier life. Set in Idaho City during the tumultuous times of post-Civil War America, the story follows Logan (Lao Guan), a Chinese immigrant who embodies the legendary Chinese God of War (Guan Yu), as he navigates life in a hostile new land.

(9011 words, 46 minutes)
The dog snarled, and ran on. Katterson watched the two lean, fiery-eyed men speeding in pursuit, while a mounting horror grew in him and rooted him to the spot. The dog suddenly bounded over a heap of rubble and was gone; its pursuers sank limply down, leaning on their clubs, and tried to catch their breath. “It’s going to get much worse than this,” said a small, grubby-looking man who appeared from nowhere next to Katterson.

(942 words, 5 minutes)
Sliding his hands over the clay, Sly relished the moisture oozing around his fingers. The clay matted down the hair on the back of his hands making them look almost human. He turned the potter’s wheel with his prehensile feet as he shaped the vase. Pinching the clay between his fingers he lifted the wall of the vase, spinning it higher.

(9226 words, 47 minutes)
Awards: Featured in Gardner Dozois’s ‘Year’s Best SF’, Twentieth Edition.

(7187 words, 36 minutes)
Awards: Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award winner; Locus Poll winner 1992.

(7164 words, 36 minutes)

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Mind-bending science fiction, steampunk, humor, and so much more can be found in our July, 2023 SciFiwise Magazine! Check it out!

(111 words, 1 minute)
Mind-bending science fiction, steampunk, humor, and so much more can be found in our June, 2023 SciFiwise Magazine! Check it out!