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Nine Hard Questions About the Nature of the Universe

Author's Choice Monthly #4 / 29
by Lewis Shiner
Nine Hard Questions About the Nature of the Universe (Author's Choice Monthly #4) by Lewis Shiner
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Contents:

  • Introduction
  • Snowbirds
  • Soldier, Sailor
  • Kings of the Afternoon
  • Tommy and the Talking Dog
  • Omphalos
  • Promises
  • Dancers
  • Plague
  • Nine Hard Questions About the Nature of the Universe
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Category: Science Fiction, Short Stories
Release date: 1990

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Lewis Shiner

Lewis Shiner (born 1950) is an American writer.

Lewis Shiner began his career as a science fiction writer, identified early on with cyberpunk, and later wrote more mainstream novels, albeit often with magical realism and fantasy elements. He was formerly a resident of Texas (and a member of the Turkey City Writer's Workshop), and now lives in North Carolina.

Author's Choice Monthly

Author's Choice Monthly consists of twenty-nine books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

The Old Funny Stuff (Author's Choice Monthly #1)
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Unthreatened by the Morning Light (Author's Choice Monthly #2)
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Daily Voices (Author's Choice Monthly #3)
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Nine Hard Questions About the Nature of the Universe (Author's Choice Monthly #4)
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Into the Eighth Decade (Author's Choice Monthly #5)
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Peripheral Vision (Author's Choice Monthly #6)
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Neon Twilight (Author's Choice Monthly #7)
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Swatting at the Cosmos (Author's Choice Monthly #8)
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Heroines (Author's Choice Monthly #9)
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Tales from a Vanished Country (Author's Choice Monthly #10)
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Skyrocket Steele Conquers the Universe and Other Media Tales (Author's Choice Monthly #11)
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True Minds (Author's Choice Monthly #12)
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Ad Statum Perspicuum (Author's Choice Monthly #13)
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Legacy of Fire (Author's Choice Monthly #14)
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Most Emphatically Not SF, Almost (Author's Choice Monthly #15)
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State of Grace (Author's Choice Monthly #16)
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Ma Qui and Other Phantoms (Author's Choice Monthly #17)
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Stories By Mama Lansdale's Youngest Boy (Author's Choice Monthly #18)
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Two That Came True (Author's Choice Monthly #19)
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A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions (Author's Choice Monthly #20)
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God's Nose (Author's Choice Monthly #21)
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Hedgework and Guessery (Author's Choice Monthly #22)
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It's Been Fun (Author's Choice Monthly #23)
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The Naked Flesh of Feeling (Author's Choice Monthly #24)
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The Alien Heart (Author's Choice Monthly #25)
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Myths, Legends, and True History (Author's Choice Monthly #26)
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Gone to Earth (Author's Choice Monthly #27)
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Wong's Lost and Found Emporium and Other Oddities (Author's Choice Monthly #28)
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Moonstone and Tiger-Eye (Author's Choice Monthly #29)
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