Far North is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
My father had an expression for a thing that turned out bad. He’d say it had gone west. But going west always sounded pretty good to me. After all, westwards is the path of...
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Dark Carnival (Тёмный карнавал)
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R Is For Rocket (Р — значит ракета)
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