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Here are six stories from the January and February 2003 issues of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, at once more current and more human than today's headlines.

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Dr. Gregory Starling's metaverse avatar creation consultancy welcomes a voluptuous and flirtatious new client whose pronounced physical femininity makes it increasingly difficult for the otherwise highly professional Doctor Starling to hide his breast fixation.

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As part of a desperate battle to save an imperiled twenty-fourth-century Earth, four teenagers from the planet’s past join forces on a mission to the edge of the solar system to a small scientific base overrun with cute but dangerous alien pests.

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The evidence is overwhelming: Sports help girls grow into strong women. Both scientific studies and anecdotal evidence confirm that athletic girls not only grow up to be healthier, but they also learn teamwork, gain inner confidence, and grow into society's leaders. Sports help preteen and teenage girls make the right choices in a society that is sending them incredibly mixed messages about who they are supposed to be. Yet no one is speaking directly to these girls.

The story of the Cumbrian witches in the small village of Bleaberry Beck is told in hushed tones and a quiet reverence that speaks of superstition and fear. Richard Henderson, Medieval Studies student at Oxford University, couldn’t be less intrigued. Picking up a ‘poppet’ from the village shop, he happily set off home with this birthday present for his little sister. But the faceless wooden doll holds the secret to a chilling curse.

Christmas holiday indiscretions haunt Stephanie's return to Stonemere Park Girls' Grammar for a term where the school's emphasis on a young lady's use of her breasts has never been more pronounced. Add an ill-advised lie about having a boyfriend, and an exchange trip with a co-educational grammar school in France into the mix, and it looks like Stephanie is in for another rollercoaster ride of a term!

From the first moment single mother Nicolette Winchester held her daughter in her arms, she knew she'd do everything in her power to keep her safe. Now 18 years old, Ella is bright, kind, and a cello prodigy headed for Juilliard. Nicolette can't help but feel proud of the young woman her daughter's become. Then Ella calls home one night. There's been an accident. A classmate is dead. And Ella is the only one on the scene. To protect her daughter, Nicolette makes an unthinkable decision.

The roaring 20s are the perfect time to be tall, slim and wealthy. Felicity Fortnum is all three, but unfortunately in addition to being well-heeled she is also decidedly well-bosomed, which makes her stand out in London society, quite literally. But she's not going to let her soccer-ball-sized appendages spoil her fun. In fact, with the help of the dependable and resourceful family valet Jennings, she's going to do everything she can to make big bosoms fashionable again!

Back in 2009, a group of people came together to try to create a currency that would change the economic system for the better. They called it the Bristol Pound. By 2015 it was one of the world’s most prominent local currencies, featured in the Financial Times and Time Magazine, and even covered by Chinese state television. However, the Bristol Pound stopped circulating in 2021, and in 2023 the organisation finally wound up.

Noah Kendall loves his family but hates his teaching job. Mortgage, bills, and mouths to be fed: He’s stuck in a rut. And with more debts piling up each day, he knows that something has to change. As he opens yet another red letter, he has to get out and clear his head, despite the heavy snow outside. His legs ache as he runs deeper into the forest, until he notices something in the distance - a crashed car, sitting dead still. Inside, a girl sits slumped in the driver’s seat, eyes closed, mouth open, skin gray beneath the winter frost. And then beside her he sees it: a bag of money.

Ethereum is almost just like Bitcoin, but the good news is it is still at the early stage. It is the new upcoming darling of cryptocurrencies for many reasons that will be shared in this audiobook. If you have not heard about Ethereum, this is perhaps the best time to get to know about it and understand why the alphas are silently investing in it, slowly and steadily.

Are you still wondering or clueless about Bitcoin? Do you know Bitcoin has been thriving robustly as a digital currency for more than eight years? Large companies such as Microsoft, Tesla, and other small businesses are accepting Bitcoin as a legit mode of payment for their products. Don't you want to know why? You can't simply ignore this phenomenon. Not anymore. Bitcoin is here to stay and now is the time for you to get familiar with it.

Ralph Drayton, a disgruntled writer in search of Green Man legends in the countryside, comes across the site of a car crash on the isolated Old North Road. The young couple in the car seem unhurt, but strangely, they resist his offers to help them to the nearby village. His chance encounter soon...

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In which the unfashionably top-heavy Miss Fortnum visits the Big Apple, dabbles in the world of contemporary art, and belatedly discovers the strange and fascinating world of manual relief. Lesley Finch's third Felicity Fortnum novella takes the titular heroine away from her comfort zone in roaring-20s London across the Atlantic, to visit her artistic friend Spurgeon "Spunky" Spunkmeyer. As ever, the redoubtable family valet Jennings is never far from his mistress's side, or, indeed, front. Posey Clifford returns to narrate this treat for lovers of breasts and silliness.

These love poems interlink and tell the troubled story of obsessional love. Lyrical and elegiac, they will please poetry lovers and will also interest people who wish to plumb the psychological depths of obsessional passion. Over a mere, few months, the poet Jonathan Finch wrote more than 100 love poems for and to his femme fatale. "Love" Poems for Kathy: Green. Laced. Leaves. is a sequence of interrelating love poems that tell the story of the poet's love and then hate for the woman who infatuated him.