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Debbie Urbanski’s first novel, After World, will come out from Simon & Schuster in Spring 2024. Her writing focuses on the intersections of horror, fantasy, science fiction, memoir, and/or the planet. Her stories have been published in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Best American Experimental Writing, The Sun, The Kenyon Review, Nature, Conjunctions, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her writing has also been named notable stories/essays of the year for The Best American Mysteries, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, and the Best American Essays anthologies. In 2019, she received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award. ...more

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	Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn by Brian Merchant (Editor), Claire L. Evans (Editor), Cory Doctorow (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.93 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 2022 — 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
	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January/February 2017 (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, #729) by C.C. Finlay (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rachel Pollack, Nina Kiriki Hoffman 3.72 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
	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2019 (F&SF, #743) by C.C. Finlay (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lavie Tidhar, Kelly Barnhill (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 59 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
	Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 108, May 2019 by John Joseph Adams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rati Mehrotra (Goodreads Author), Kathleen Kayembe 3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings — 2 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
	Interzone 242, September-October 2012 (Interzone, #242) by Andy Cox (Editor), Debbie Urbanski (Goodreads Author), Warwick Fraser-Coombe 3.47 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Lightspeed Magazine, July 2017 by John Joseph Adams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), John Grant (Goodreads Author), E. Catherine Tobler (Goodreads Author) 3.42 avg rating — 19 ratings	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 — 3 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
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	Retro Vol. 1 No. 3 by Brian Joseph Davis (Editor), Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author), Amelia Gray (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013	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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