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Reasons to Be Cheerful [short fiction] (1997)

by Greg Egan

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CW: Cancer, Surgery, Depression, References to Self Harm and Suicide, Child Sniffing Glue

Maybe one day I'll be able to offer something more than sheer awe and a wish it wasn't quite so cisheternormative, but for now this resides alongside Ken Liu's Single-Bit Error and The Paper Menagerie as stories that utterly hollowed me out with their artistry, leaving me barely able to think with the enormity of their effect. (

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Luminous by Greg Egan

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois

The Hard SF Renaissance by David G. Hartwell

Interzone 118 by David Pringle

The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume 2 by Jonathan Strahan

The Best of Greg Egan by Greg Egan

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Seiun Award (Winner – Foreign Short Story – 2002)

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