Showing results for "To Love" in Science Fiction

"Take thirty days off or you're fired." To twenty-first-century surgeon Dr. Evie Wortham, her hospital's ultimatum of thirty days' leave in the calming wilderness of the Scottish Highlands so she can get a handle on her anger issues means one thing: unbearable boredom. But she agrees out of pity for her best friend who Human Resources nominated to pass out the punishment. So, she heads to the outskirts of Inverness for a month of hiking, biking, and becoming one with nature. But a climb behind a waterfall to rescue a kitten permanently strikes the word boredom from her vocabulary.

Where do you run when a world is out to get you? AIs, Forged beings, superheroes, angels, and worlds that change in the blink of an eye - here is a richly imagined tale of ordinary redemption in an extraordinary world from one of the most provocative writers working today... Francine is a young runaway looking to find a definition of love she can trust. In Sankhara, she finds a palace where rooms are made of bone, flowers, and the hearts of heroes. She finds a scientist mapping the territory of the human mind. She finds a boyfriend.

Rena has been in love with her best friend for ever, but when he meets The One, she knows something must change. After endless bad dates, Rena is ready for drastic action, so when a dating advert pops up on her screen, she signs up immediately: 24 hours to fall in love. A guaranteed love match by the end of the day or your money back. When Rena wakes up, she goes about her life as normal. But what she doesn't know is that she is bound to repeat this day over and over again, until she finds her perfect match.

This short story is from the anthology Mitigated Futures. Twelve science fiction stories about the oncoming future, each of them representing a possible glimpse of what could be just around the corner... or much further down the corridor. These stories previously appeared in places like Clarkesworld Magazine, The Year's Best SF, Subterranean Magazine, and in various anthologies. They deal with the future of war, our climate, and technology's effect on our lives.

This portal fantasy romance collection includes A Laird for All Time, A Time & Place for Every Laird, Taken, Love in the Time of a Highland Laird, and A Laird to Hold.

Maureen Johnson, the somewhat irregular mother of Lazarus Long, wakes up in bed with a man and a cat. The cat is Pixel, well-known to fans of the New York Times best seller The Cat Who Walks through Walls. The man is a stranger to her, and besides that, he is dead.

Dying again is not enough. Now Rueben must go to another universe with his greatest enemy. Earth-Z is ground zero for the world destroying virus. Too bad Rueben lives on Earth-A.

Dystopie is back! Die Tribute von Panem trifft auf Powerless in Band 1 der tödlichen Fantasy-Romance über eine knallharte Kopfgeldjägerin. Das Leben in Dividium beruht auf einer einzigen Regel: Disziplin oder Tod. Denn in Dividium wird nicht nur jedes Verbrechen mit lebenslanger Haft bestraft, die Bürger der Oberschicht bekommen außerdem die Gelegenheit, die Gefängnisinsassen zu jagen und zu töten. Als der Bruder der 23-jährigen Raven verhaftet wird, schmiedet die Kopfgeldjägerin den Plan, die Haftanstalt Endlock als Insassin zu infiltrieren und eine Ausbruchsaktion zu starten.

I thought he liked me. He's been my only source of company for the past rotation that I've been held captive. But when he rejects me in front of everyone, I get the shrov out, determined to find humans on another satellite far far away from this mess that is my life. Except I don't exactly receive the warm homecoming I expect. Instead this homecoming is more of the dangerous stabby stabby variety . . . and to get out of the new mess I've found myself in, I might just need a space pirate's help. But what will I have to trade him for it?

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