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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 — 1,074 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 3.70 avg rating — 500 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 — 290 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 729, January/February 2017 by C.C. Finlay (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rachel Pollack, Nina Kiriki Hoffman 3.73 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) 3.83 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
	The Child with Your Name it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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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	The Very, Very, Very Long Hike it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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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I really think this is one of those perfectly written and perfectly constructed books (along with The Great Gatsby, Slaughterhouse Five, The Handmaid's Tale, and The Road). Such a balance between the personal and the political - it's like a master cl ...more
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Debbie Urbanski and 3 other people liked Emma Ann's review of The Fold (Threshold, #2): "Recommended for fans of Blake Crouch and Andy Weir. A sci-fi mystery that loses some steam once the mystery is solved three-quarters of the way through, but nevertheless a fun read."
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Wow, the ending....and I suppose the middle too. It's like witnessing an apocalypse, but an animal version (an outbreak of rabies and human development encroaching). It's intense. I miss some of the anthropomorphic techniques of Watership Down - ther ...more
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Debbie Urbanski rated a book it was amazing Man in the Holocene by Max Frisch	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
So glad I stumbled across the name of this book in a round-up review of Marlen Haushofer's novels. It reminded me of Wittengeinstein's Mistress (or, rather, Wittgenstein's Mistress should remind me of this book, as Man in the Holocene came first, tho ...more
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The Wall is my favorite book ever so part of the pleasure of The Loft was finding similarities between the two books with the narrators, the plots, and some of the writing. But The Loft is even more intense and harrowing in a way -- in The Wall, even ...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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“The reality is that we’re living in a culturally diverse world”
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