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John P. Murphy

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Engineer and writer living in New England.

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New Short Fiction for 2025

I had two short stories come out this fall, both very fun projects that I’m very excited to finally get to share.

Encounter at Ákroterra

The first needs some explaining: it’s part of the Proxima Kosmos Life Otherwise project, spearheaded by Dr. Claire Webb at the Berggruen Institute. In that project, a number of scientists from a wide variety of backgrounds were asked to envision strange and ext

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	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction March/April 2016 (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Book 130) by C.C. Finlay (Goodreads Author) (editor), Marc Laidlaw (Goodreads Author), Cat Rambo (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2016 — 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 Liar 4.15 avg rating — 13 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
	Alembical 3: A Distillation of Three Novellas by Matthew S. Rotundo (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Lawrence M. Schoen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kam Oi Lee (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Crossed Genres Quarterly 2 by Bart R. Leib (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kay T. Holt (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kelly Jennings (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	Death in a Tin Can 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2014	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
	InterGalactic Medicine Show, Issue 36 (InterGalactic Medicine Show, #36) by Edmund R. Schubert (Editor), Ian Creasey (Contributor), K.C. Norton (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 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
	Forever Magazine, Issue 15, April 2016 by Neil Clarke (Goodreads Author) (Editor), John P. Murphy (Goodreads Author), Cat Rambo (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Crossed Genres Issue 29: Mystery by Bart R. Leib (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kay T. Holt (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Barbara Krasnoff (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	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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