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Artificially Intelligent machines are here and are already talking to each other. The poems, transactions, programs, and spells collected in this volume explore how AIs might use our language to make their own. It's impossible for the human observer to know if the machine is analyzing or tabulating data, performing a calculation, conducting a negotiation, or making a persuasive appeal. These texts occur in three different modes, each developi...

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Javelin Praecox has one goal--to wash dishes on every inhabited planet in the solar system. His first stop, a mining base on Uranus, promises to be pretty easy, with the native stickies (something like an ant made out of marshmallows) to do all the work. But then more crew members disappear, and a mysterious creature smears feces throughout the base. While tracking the stickies to learn what they do with the leftover food they collect, Javy is...

This book collects poems and texts written using an imaginary language built from the letters of the nonsense phrase "all gonch." The shape and structure of the words offer clues to the culture that might arise after the death of the current American culture and language. These works were originally published in online experimental literary journals, including Otoliths, Utsanga, Brave New Word, and X-Peri. The book includes an afterword descri...

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Welcome to Mondo DC! Come along on an adventure through the Washington, DC, area's most astonishing, inspiring, and unusual places. You'll visit little museums, odd archives, hidden monuments, unusual tours, and roadside art. From the Agnew Room to an insect zoo, castles to catacombs, erotic art to outsider art, gold mines, gargoyles, giants, and ghosts. Plus sex, drugs, guns, anarchy, and much more! These are DC's secret spots, many unknown e...

In the Twenty-second Century, mankind has largely abandoned a toxic earth, spreading out across the solar system, linked by invisible electronic networks broadcast over the vast distances. An epidemic rages from the ice mines of Europa to the massive L5 colonies orbiting the home planet. Pirates, privateers, and hackers throughout the system are ready when PharCom announces the development of a major new vaccine. The broadcast path would run f...

The Clangers want to smuggle screech into Mars. The cops want to stop them. The huggies want to save the Martian environment. The native Paubaubau want to protect their sacred waffle paddies. The waffle gods want to preserve the interdimensional gateway. Javelin Praecox just wants to wash dishes. But first he has to escape the Clangers, avoid the police, deal with the huggies, survive life with the native Martians, and navigate the layers of W...

Heta dances in the royal court at Thebes, where her lover Hatshepsut has taken over as regent. The Queen's power is threatened by Menanau and his four servants, who have arrived to tutor the young pharoah, Thutmose III. This interloping lord draws his power from the underworld, his point of origin, for Menanau is Death himself. Hatshepsut's days on the throne seem numbered, except she has one very powerful ally--a young dancer. For Heta also h...

A dancer in Hatshepsut's court and a self-taught necromancer, Heta discovers she has a twin cousin. When the Death Lord Menanau's servant kills the girl, Heta decides to retrieve her from the underworld. There, she must confront her old enemy Menanau in his home territory, along with his legions of demons. Returning to the world of the living will require all of Heta's magical skills, plus the help of female goddesses Pakhet, Hathor, and Ammit...

Continuing his quest to wash dishes on every inhabited colony in the solar system, Javelin Praecox heads for Venus. There, a small scientific expedition to study weather and extremophile bacteria has encountered the unexpected-a new alien species! The mushroom-shaped Venusians come in a variety of colors and sexes, speak a strange pidgin English, love blueberry pancakes and pickled eggs, and make a magic elixir called lime wine. These new crea...

Hester Featherstone thought she had life on the Ol' Smoke's filthy, dangerous streets all figured out. As a freelance toothpicker, she salvages children's teeth for the viceroy, while keeping her identity as a mutant of the insect-wing class a secret. Hester's luck takes a turn for the worse the day she kills fellow toothpicker Phelan MacHoof in self-defense. Spotted flying from the scene, she soon finds herself caught in the viceroy's plot to...

This collection of short stories follows the young sorceress Heta's early life with her parents through her start dancing in Hatshepsut's court. To protect her friends and lovers, Heta must combat the ghost of a courtier she murdered, put an end to the resurrected Pharaoh Thutmose II, and work with a supernatural being who draws blood by unusual means for her nourishment. Each new challenge allows Heta to further develop her necromantic skills...

Using power granted by the god Amun Ra, the dead pharaoh Thutmose traps Tema's soul in the underworld. To save her lover, Heta must travel to the land of the dead once again, where she faces several formidable obstacles: the demons that guard the Night, a vengeful Thutmose, and the greatest of all gods, Amun Ra himself. Fearing that her magical skills will not be strong enough, Heta releases her old foe Menanau and forms an alliance with him. ...