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An unabridged collection spotlighting the best hard science fiction stories and novellas published in 2024 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster. ""Antyesti for a Dead Ganesa"" by Ashok K. Banker - An old-school cop is resurrected from deadsleep to solve the murder of a god clone in a future Mumbai. ""Places You Have Never Been"" by David Cleden - A city is threatened by invisible bubbles that take whatever is trapped inside them when they inexplicably collapse. ""The Icy Wasteland at Her Feet"" by Deborah L. Davitt - The sole survivor of a team of astronauts on Saturn's moon, Enceladus, struggles to keep sane. ""The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea"" by Naomi Kritzer - A contentious married couple, both scientists, move to a town overlooking Cape Cod Bay where men mysteriously disappear. ""Barbarians"" by Rich Larson - A rogue and a disembodied head are hired to take twins to explore a dead, planet-sized organism. ""The Dark at the End of the Tunnel"" by Edward M. Lerner - A graduate student investigates the disappearance of a distant galaxy. ""Western Approaches"" by Ian McDonald - A pilot is sent on a mission to explore a spinning storm approaching Scotland. ""Mirrorstar"" by Sean McMullen - A forensic pathologist investigates the death of a scientist in the focus cage of a space telescope. ""There's Nothing in the Attic"" by Faith Merino - The women in a man's life carry out physics experiments in his home. ""Luminous Glass, Vibrant Seeds"" by D.A. Xiaolin Spires - A glass artist and her bot are tasked with delivering a rare, viable seedling to its proper environ on a climate-damaged world. ""Encore"" by Wole Talabi - Twin AIs, created by now extinct humans, travel between star systems to make art for those who share its world of digital data.

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