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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 3.29 avg rating — 978 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 3.84 avg rating — 301 ratings — 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) 3.88 avg rating — 266 ratings — published 2022 — 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
	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Issue 279, January/February 2017 by C.C. Finlay (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rachel Pollack, Nina Kiriki Hoffman 3.73 avg rating — 93 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) 3.87 avg rating — 61 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

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