Doug and Judy have both had a secret power all their life. Judy can see every possible future, branching out from each moment like infinite trees. Doug can also see the future, but for him, it's a single, locked-in, inexorable sequence of foreordained events. They can't both be right, but over and over again, they are. Obviously these are the last two people in the world who should date. So, naturally, they do.
Великолепный образчик магического реализма, нашумевший рассказ, который впервые в истории получил не только «золотой дубль» (премии Хьюго и Небьюла), но и выиграл Всемирную премию фэнтези. Они живут в США, он и его родители. Его отец — американец, а мать приехала из Гонконга, когда она по-английски могла сказать только пару слов. Мать учила его китайскому и складывала ему чудесные оригами. Но дети взрослеют, а с возрастом с одной стороны они становятся более жестокими, с другой — они хотят быть как все остальные дети.
Ken Liu0.0 A scientific invention makes it possible to virtually travel back in time and witness historical events. It is only possible to witness it once from the same perspective, because the process eats up the record. The inventor and her husband draw attention to the atrocities of Unit 731 during WWII. They hope that eyewitnesses will shut down denialists. But Chinese versus Japanese, and U.S. politics start their own games.
Jake Kerr0.0 A married couple face eight years of separation as the husband goes off on a deep space mission. They knew it would be difficult, but they weren't prepared for the cruelty of the unknown. Coming to terms with new equations and ways of looking at the future is difficult enough, but can any relationship prevail when the only tie to the present starts to break down?
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