A very cool flash piece by Ian Li: "The Memory Technician." Enjoy!

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https://smallwondersmag.com/piece/the-memory-technician/

A story with a very cool format that imagines co-working as augmented by neural sharing. Definitely worth your time to check this out. Free click.

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https://www.phano.co/articles/we-are-burnout

This deceptively simple-seeming short story packs a strong emotional punch. It does so by implying the emotion and never showing it, making a truly strong story. Recommended reading. @ThomasHa #AmReadingScienceFiction #Dystopia #AuthorsOfMastodon #WritersOfMastodon #Bookstodon #Clarkesworld #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #AmReadingFiction

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha_04_25/

More Codex2024 reading: Ída Hennessy's RoxysMakeupMoxy6 Gets Real" was very funny. A makeup tips influencer doing her last show before the apocalypse. Strongly recommended flash piece.

https://flashpointsf.com/2024/09/20/roxysmakeupmoxy6-gets-real/

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More Codex 2024 reading: "Eternity is Moments" by RP Sand traces the relationship between a woman and her grandfather with ecological themes as the backdrop. Strongly recommended.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219709480-asimov-s-science-fiction-september-october-2024

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Fiona Moore's "What Happened at The Pony Club" has a cool premise--Y2K knocked out all computers worldwide and the world reverts to depending on smart people. Cool characters--girls at a private high school for these "computers." Cool format--an FBI case file.

https://www.fusionfragment.com/issue-22/

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Continuing with Codex 2024 short fiction catch-up, Angela Liu's "Before We Were Born" uses a near-future, cyberpunky conceit to examine tensions within a modern family. The twist at the end was terrific. Strongly recommended.

https://logicmag.io/issue-21-medicine-and-the-body/before-we-were-born/

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Cécile Cristofari's braided narrative, "Down the Waterfall," uses a time travel conceit to allow her protagonist to examine her life, live out fantasies, and find what is important to her. Very interesting. Strongly recommended.

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/cristofari_01_24/

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Andrew Sayre's "You Look a Lot Like Aton Fuller" is a perspective I haven't seen: an adult clone, grown for spare parts for a rich man, freed when that practice became untenable, musing about this man upon his death. Definitely thought-provoking. Highly recommended.

https://aurealis.com.au/store/aurealis-174/

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Renan Bernardo's "A Theory of Missing Affections" has an Ursula Le Guin vibe. A home planet, a distant planet with the ruins of an ancient civilization, a gate that connects them, and sisters on either side: one a historian, one viewing the ancients as gods.

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/bernardo_09_24/

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