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Felicity Shoulders

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	Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine, Issue 669, January/February 2012 3.64 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Kroki w nieznane: Almanach fantastyki 2010 by Mirosław Obarski (Editor), Peter Watts (Goodreads Author), Ian R. MacLeod 3.82 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2010	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
	Haunted Futures by Salomé Jones (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Warren Ellis, Tricia Sullivan 4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2012 by Sheila Williams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Megan Lindholm (Contributor), Robin Hobb (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.56 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2011 by Sheila Williams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mary Robinette Kowal (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Ian R. MacLeod (Contributor) 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2011	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
	Asimov's Science Fiction, October/November 2010 by Sheila Williams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Rick Wilber (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2010	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
	Asimov's Science Fiction, January 2010 by Sheila Williams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Geoffrey A. Landis (Contributor), Robert Reed (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2010	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
	Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2008 by Sheila Williams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ian R. MacLeod (Contributor), Nancy Kress (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2008	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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	Forever Magazine, Issue 54, July 2019 by Neil Clarke (Goodreads Author) (Editor), L.X. Beckett (Contributor), Felicity Shoulders (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2019	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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Elric of Melniboné (The Elric Saga, #1)

by Michael Moorcock

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Jane Austen Embroidery: Regency Patterns Reimagined for Modern Stitchers

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From Hell (From Hell, #1-11)

by Alan Moore (Goodreads Author)

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“Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

tags: art, craft, fiction, reading, writing

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“This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.”
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tags: castle, description, gothic, owl, purple, ruin, tower

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“And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.”
― Isaac Asimov, Murder at the ABA

tags: autograph, convention, fame, science-fiction, self-referential

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