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Debbie Urbanski

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Debbie Urbanski is the author of the novel After World (S&S, 2023) and the forthcoming short story collection Portalmania (S&S, May 2025). Over the past two decades, she's published widely in such places as The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Best American Experimental Writing, The Sun, Granta, Orion, and Junior Great Books. Her favorite organisms are Green Wood Cups and Pixie Cup Lichens, her favorite forest is Morgan Hill State Forest, and her favorite hike is the Onondaga Branch of the Finger Lakes Trail. She's eternally grateful to the Department of Environmental Conservation’s forest rangers for not only protecting New York’s natural areas but also for airlifting her from Algonquin Mountain after a hiking accident. ...more

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	After World 3.30 avg rating — 1,130 ratings — published 2023 — 7 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
	Portalmania: Stories 3.65 avg rating — 611 ratings — published 2025 — 5 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
	Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn by Brian Merchant (Editor), Claire L. Evans (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Cory Doctorow (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.87 avg rating — 298 ratings — published 2022 — 7 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
	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Issue 729, January/February 2017 by C.C. Finlay (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rachel Pollack, Nina Kiriki Hoffman 3.72 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine, Issue 743, May/June 2019 by C.C. Finlay (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lavie Tidhar, Kelly Barnhill (Goodreads Author) 3.78 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	How To Lose Your Child really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015	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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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

by Ed Yong

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Sixty Stories

by Donald Barthelme

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Debbie Urbanski rated a book it was amazing Other People: Days of the Bagnold Summer & Driving Short Distances by Joff Winterhart	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
These lovely two stories are (to me) about relationships with people who are different from us, whether that be one's mother or one's much older boss. I was especially moved by the portrayal of the mother-son relationships, which get at the complexit ...more
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A nice book to bring with me on a recent trip into the backcountry of the Adirondacks. I particularly enjoyed hearing about what backpacking was like in the 1970s (very heavy sleeping bags!) and what the Adirondacks were like back then too, before Le ...more
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Debbie Urbanski and 1 other person liked Chuck H 's review of Hemlock: A Forest Giant on the Edge: "although now 10 years old, this volume of 12 scientific and historical articles about the Eastern Hemlock is fascinating reading for anyone interested in the future of the forests in the Northeast U.S. "
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This is a book I've already recommended to several people and want to recommend to many more. Though anxiety looks so different from person to person, often the framework is similar, and I think Gemma Correll does a fabulous job showing the awful fee ...more
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“She writes her mother letters in the margins of her notebook, which is against the rules (manual, p. 22). There is no way to send a letter anymore. Also Dana, for sure, by now, is dead. "Mom," Sen writes. "I hear coyotes at night. Some of the animals have stopped considering me human." It is the last letter to a mother anyone will ever write.”
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