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"The Faery Handbag"
© The Faery Reel, ed. E. Datlow, 2003
--short fiction : 2004 British SF award
--/ cool sf story
--/ idea award

"The Girl Detective"
© 2000, Event Horizon
Stranger Things Happen, 2003
--short story : 2000 Locus Poll

"The Hortlak"
© The Dark, ed. E. Datlow, 2003
--novella : 2004 World Fantasy
--novella : 2004 Locus /10


"Louise's Ghost"
© Stranger Things Happen, 2001
--novelette : 2002 Nebula W

"Lull"
© Conjunctions # 39, 2002
Stranger Things Happen, 2003
--novelette : 2003 Locus /6
--/ cool f novella

"Ship, Sea, Mountain, Sky"
(with Gavin J. Grant)
© Altair # 6, 2000
--short story : 2001 Locus Poll
--/ cool f story

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"Two Houses"
© 2012, "Shadow Show: All New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury"
ed. by Sam Weller & Mort Castle

Get in Trouble, 2015
--short story : 2013 Locus Poll
--short story : 2013 Shirley Jackson award
--2016 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Fiction

--/ third place space sf story
--/ wonder award
--/ idea award
--/ style award
--/ emotion award
--/ shock value

from Eugenia Williamson's review in Boston Globe:

"Among the best stories in “Get In Trouble” the new collection from the inimitable Kelly Link, is “Two Houses.” In it, a group of multinational astronauts from the future hurtles toward Proxima Centauri, a journey that will take them hundreds of years, during which the voyagers go to sleep for long lengths of time. Their vessel, a ship called House of Secrets, runs on a vaguely sinister operating system named Maureen. It puts the astronauts to sleep, wakes them up, conjures synthetic food for their meals, and fills their heads with fanciful hallucinations almost indistinguishable from real life... Within this realm — one somewhere between full consciousness and dreaming — she conjures a ridiculously brilliant tale utterly devoid of technical details or anything else that might free the reader from Link’s thrall. The astronauts decide to celebrate their wakefulness by telling ghost stories, one of which involves a terrifying conceptual art installation far creepier than any work as yet to be made in the real world."

Perfect recreation of Ray Bradbury's mood and atmosphere of "Something Wicked This Way Comes" in space / generation spaceship setting.

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