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Science-Fiction Stories for 99 Cents


What's better than 99¢ science-fiction short stories? How about free samples from those stories?! Madness! Click through to any of the featured books — for instance, The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model — and to the right of the cover image, you'll find a link to "Read the sample." You can read a good portion of the book right there, or save the sample to your Google eBooks app and read it later. Try as many samples as you like. Then, you can buy the stories you're into, to read them in full.

Note: The "Read the sample" feature is available for all our other Google eBooks, too, not just these short stories. So, knock yourself out!

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The President's Brain Is Missing: A Tor.com Original
The President's Brain Is Missing: A Tor.com Original
by John Scalzi
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The question is, how can you tell the President's brain is missing? And are we sure we need it back?... (read more)

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Two Stories: A Tor.Com Original
Two Stories: A Tor.Com Original
by Ken Scholes
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Charlie is dealing with complicated grief, and even his therabot is out of ideas. But the back-alley grief counsellors might have something to help: it looks like blue asparagus, and it's called Wild Blue Yonder.... (read more)

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Ponies: A Tor.Com Original
Ponies: A Tor.Com Original
by Kij Johnson
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If you want to be friends with The Other Girls, you're going to have to give something up; this is the way it's always been, as long as there have been Ponies.... (read more)

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The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model: A Tor.com Original
The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model: A Tor.com Original
by Charlie Jane Anders
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Jon and Toku travel the universe suspended in Interdream, only waking up to check up on certain business ventures. Simple. Until one of the business ventures, something called "Earth," objects.... (read more)

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Crazy Me: A Tor.Com Original
Crazy Me: A Tor.Com Original
by James Patrick Kelly
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I share a house with Crazy Me. We get along, except when he sneaksout of the house to pretend to be me. If only itweren’tquite so true.... (read more)

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The Horrid Glory of Its Wings: A Tor.Com Original
The Horrid Glory of Its Wings: A Tor.Com Original
by Elizabeth Bear
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There's a harpy with bronze wings living in the dumpster behind Desiree's building. She's ugly and she eats garbage, but she has a little kingdom back there. Desiree wants something of her own, too -- something all hers. Can that foul old thing possibly... (read more)

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The Cage: A Tor.Com Original
The Cage: A Tor.Com Original
by A.M. Dellamonica
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The eerie thing about Paige Adolpha wasn't how she turned up right when I was reading about her in the paper. It wasn't her fame as the star witness in the local werewolf trial. What brought on the gooseflesh, first time I saw her, was she's the spitting... (read more)

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The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles: A Tor.Com Original
The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles: A Tor.Com Original
by Kij Johnson
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When a fire destroys her home and scatters her colony, Small Cat sets out to find the home of her ancestor, the Cat From the North, and to make her own name along the way.... (read more)

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Ragnarok: A Tor.Com Original
Ragnarok: A Tor.Com Original
by Paul Park
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After the end of the world, there's still love. And revenge. And a particular Glock Nine. A tale of post-apocalyptic Iceland, told in the manner of the ancient verse Eddas, by acclaimed science fiction author Paul Park.... (read more)

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Sacrifice of the First Sheason: A Tor.Com Original
Sacrifice of the First Sheason: A Tor.Com Original
by Peter Orullian
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Palamon was part of the collective that formed the world, made its mountains, its people, its rules. When the fledgling world is threatened, only he will do whatever it takes to save it.... (read more)

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The City Quiet as Death: A Tor.Com Original
The City Quiet as Death: A Tor.Com Original
by Steven Utley
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Between the incessant music of the stars and the spectre of a giant squid caught inside a locket ball, it is difficult for Don Horacio to maintain a restful mind.... (read more)

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Bugs in the Arroyo: A Tor.com Original
Bugs in the Arroyo: A Tor.com Original
by Steven Gould
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The bugs eat metal and leave people and animals alone -- unless you crush one, and then they'll swarm and destroy everything they touch. When Kimball comes upon twelve-year-old Thayet, she's been stuck on a rock in a river of bugs for two days, no food... (read more)

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Lee at the Alamo: A Tor.Com Original
Lee at the Alamo: A Tor.Com Original
by Harry Turtledove
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In the history we know, General Robert E. Lee felt compelled to fight on the Confederate side, because honor (as he saw it) forbade him to take up arms against Virginia, his native state.But what if the demands of honor had led him in the other direction... (read more)

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We Haven't Got There yet: A Tor.Com Original
We Haven't Got There yet: A Tor.Com Original
by Harry Turtledove
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William Shakespeare is mightily out of sorts -- every scribbling wagtail cullion in London is shamelessly pilfering his ideas, and this new fellow is the cheekiest of all. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead? What kind of name is that for a play?... (read more)

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Making My Entrance Again with My Usual Flair: A Tor.com Original
Making My Entrance Again with My Usual Flair: A Tor.com Original
by Ken Scholes
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When an ex-clown tries to go into the insurance business, he gets into monkey business instead.... (read more)

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The Trains That Climb the Winter Tree: A Tor.Com Original
The Trains That Climb the Winter Tree: A Tor.Com Original
by Michael Swanwick
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When the elves come out of the mirrors one Christmas, they send Sasha on a harrowing train trip to get back a brother she never knew she had.... (read more)

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Fare Thee Well: A Tor.Com Original
Fare Thee Well: A Tor.Com Original
by Cathy Clamp
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What should be a simple summer internship in the county morgue is transformed into the most unusual experience of Lia Thantos’s life when she unthinkingly violates ancient protocols and summons Charon, the Ferryman. The dead have never frightened Lia—... (read more)

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A Stroke of Dumb Luck: A Tor.Com Original
A Stroke of Dumb Luck: A Tor.Com Original
by Shiloh Walker
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When a teenaged girl goes missing, her mother calls Kit Colbana, scion of an ancient line of warriors -- unfortunately, Kit's heritage doesn't impress the local wererats much. They're determined to make the girl one of their own, and Kit is going to need... (read more)

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The House That George Built: A Tor.Com Original
The House That George Built: A Tor.Com Original
by Harry Turtledove
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One February morning, H.L. Mencken walked into a Baltimore restaurant to have a bite and talk baseball with the owner, a has-been player named George…... (read more)

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Lightbringers and Rainmakers: A Tor.Com Original
Lightbringers and Rainmakers: A Tor.Com Original
by Felix Gilman
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According to his business cards, Harry Ransom is a "professor" and a "lightbringer" and "licensed"... not that business cards mean much in a town called Disorder.... (read more)

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