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Barbara Krasnoff

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Barbara Krasnoff has published short stories in Crossed Genres, Electric Velocipede, Space and Time, Apex Magazine, Doorways, Escape Velocity, Sybil's Garage, Behind the Wainscot, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Amazing, Weird Tales, and Descant. She's contributed to the anthologies Clockwork Phoenix 2, Such A Pretty Face: Tales of Power & Abundance, and Memories and Visions: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction. She also published the nonfiction Robots: Reel to Real, which was supposed to head up a young adult series of books called How It Works -- but the publisher was eaten by a larger publisher.

When Barbara isn't making a living as Features & Reviews Editor for Computerworld.com, she's hanging out with the NYC writers group Tabula Ras ...more

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In the 1930s, “mushroom club” = “pop-up club”

I read a lot of 19th and early 20th century novels — not surprising from somebody who became enamored of Sam Weller at the age of 11 (see: Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers). So it’s not surprising that I became familiar…

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	The History of Soul 2065 4.08 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clockwork Phoenix 2: More Tales of Beauty and Strangeness by Mike Allen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Claude Lalumière (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Joanna Galbraith (Contributor) 3.95 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost Signals: A Terran Republic Anthology by Charles E. Gannon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gray Rinehart (Goodreads Author), Barbara Krasnoff (Goodreads Author) 4.39 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2019 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fat Girl in a Strange Land by Kay T. Holt (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Bart R. Leib (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sabrina Vourvoulias (Goodreads Author) 3.63 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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