If You Take My Meaning

by Charlie Jane Anders

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Fiction. Science Fiction. HTML: From award-winning author Charlie Jane Anders comes an original space opera short story "If You Take My Meaning" As an ex-smuggler and two-time reluctant revolutionary, Alyssa is used to staring into the razor-sharp jaws of death. But now she's embarking on the most terrifying adventure of her life�??journeying into the darkness to become a new type of being, one who can help humanity to survive. And deep at the heart of the city in the middle of the night, the price of transformation could be higher, and more terrible, than Alyssa ever expected. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.… (more)

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Kind of wish this had been included in The City In the Middle of the Night. The book ended so abruptly, leaving me with some kind of sick feelings about the future, but this story wrapped everything up, gave us insight into one of my favorite characters, and left us with hope. (

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books-n-pickles | Oct 29, 2021 |

Why would someone want to undergo a process which turns them into a hybrid of their own race and an alien one? What would the experience of transformation be like, and how would it feel afterward? These are the questions asked and answered by this short story.

The vignette stands alone, but it's also clear that it's part of an already-developed world. If you like it, you may, like me, want to seek out the larger book: The City in the Middle of the Night. I haven't read it yet, but I expect it to be good. (

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Tor.com Originals

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Tor.com Short Fiction: Winter 2020 by Tor.com

Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2020 Edition: A Tor.com Original by Tor.com

We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020 by Charles Payseur

The Year's Best Science Fiction Vol. 2: The Saga Anthology of Science Fiction 2021 by Jonathan Strahan

Even Greater Mistakes by Charlie Jane Anders

The Long List Anthology Volume 7: More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List by David Steffen

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Fiction. Science Fiction. HTML:

From award-winning author Charlie Jane Anders comes an original space opera short story "If You Take My Meaning"
As an ex-smuggler and two-time reluctant revolutionary, Alyssa is used to staring into the razor-sharp jaws of death. But now she's embarking on the most terrifying adventure of her life�??journeying into the darkness to become a new type of being, one who can help humanity to survive. And deep at the heart of the city in the middle of the night, the price of transformation could be higher, and more terrible, than Alyssa ever expected.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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