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clarkesworldmagazine.com - 12/5/2008
A Woman’s Best Friend by Robert Reed
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The gangly man was running up the street, his long legs pushing through the fresh unplowed snow. He was a stranger; or at least that was her initial impression. In ways that Mary couldn't quite define, he acted both lost and at home. His face and manner were confused, yet he [...]
clarkesworldmagazine.com - 12/12/2008
A Woman’s Best Friend by Robert Reed (audio)
— clarkesworldmagazine.com — This month's audio fiction is A Woman's Best Friend written by Robert Reed and read by Mary... Robinette Kowal. (more) A Woman’s Best Friend by Robert Reed (audio)

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SF Signal — ... (Artemis, August 2001) "Tweak" (Baen's Universe, October 2007) [w/ Michael Shara] "Cool Neighbor" (Analog, March 2007) [w/ Michael Shara] "Lighthouse" (Analog, April 2006) Hayford Peirce: "Doing Well While Doing Good" (Analog, August 1975) Tim Pratt: "Artifice and Intelligence" (Strange Horizons, June 2007) Cherie Priest: "Tanglefoot" (Subterranean, Fall 2008) Robert Reed: "A Woman's Best Friend" (Clarkesworld #27, December 2008) Mike Resnick: "For I ...

Robert Reed - "A Woman's Best Friend" (short story, parallel universe, free): Romance across parallel earths!
Variety SF — ... version is far more accessible to international audiences (Pratt's version assumes reader is interested in Hollywood movies.) Also Reed is a better wordsmith - this story has smoother flow. Read this purely for romantic entertainment; not for new ideas or enlightenment. Fact sheet. First published: Clarkesworld, #27 (December 2008). Rating: B. Download full text or 27 minute audio read by Mary Robinette Kowal from Clarkesworld. This post is ...

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