Margaret Eleanor Atwood è una pluripremiata scrittrice, poetessa e attivista ambientale canadese, nata a Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, il 18 novembre 1939 e tuttora residente nel paese. Atwood ha vinto numerosi premi e riconoscimenti per le sue opere, tra cui il titolo di Umanista dell'anno assegnatole dall'American Humanist Association nel 1987. Ha pubblicato più di sessantacinque libri di narrativa, poesia, saggistica, letteratura per bambini e saggi critici, che sono stati tradotti in oltre 35 paesi.
Atwood è cresciuta nel nord dell'Ontario, in Quebec e a Toronto e ha conseguito la laurea presso il Victoria College dell'Università di Toronto e il master presso il Radcliffe College. Ha ricevuto numerosi premi e lauree honoris causa durante la sua carriera di scrittrice ed è nota soprattutto per i suoi romanzi, tra cui "The Edible Woman", "The Handmaid's Tale", "The Robber Bride", "Alias Grace" e "The Blind Assassin", che ha vinto il prestigioso Booker Prize nel 2000. Ha inoltre ampliato il suo lavoro in altre aree, tra cui sceneggiature per la televisione, poesia, saggistica, letteratura per bambini e saggi critici.
I romanzi di Atwood esplorano spesso temi come il femminismo, il genere e il potere. Il suo lavoro è stato tradotto in più di quaranta lingue, tra cui il persiano, il giapponese, il turco, il finlandese, il coreano, l'islandese e l'estone. È inoltre inventrice e co-inventrice del Long Pen TM. Oltre al suo lavoro di scrittrice, Atwood è stata membro attivo di varie associazioni letterarie. È stata presidente dell'Unione degli Scrittori del Canada da maggio 1981 a maggio 1982, presidente del Centro Canadese dell'Internazionale P.E.N. (parlante inglese) dal 1984 al 1986 ed è attualmente vicepresidente dell'Internazionale PEN. Attualmente vive a Toronto con il collega scrittore Graeme Gibson.
The Handmaid's Tale Books
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The Handmaid's Tale
1986
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The Testaments
2019
Angel Catbird Graphic Novels
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Angel Catbird, Volume 1
2016
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Angel Catbird, Volume 2: To Castle Catula
2017
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To Castle Catula
2017
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Angel Catbird, Volume 3: The Catbird Roars
2017
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The Catbird Roars
2017
MaddAddam Books
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Oryx and Crake
2003
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The Year of the Flood
2009
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MaddAddam
2013
Romanzi singoli
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The Edible Woman
1969
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Surfacing
1972
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Lady Oracle
1976
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Up in the Tree
1978
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Life Before Man
1979
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Bodily Harm
1981
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Cat's Eye
1988
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For the Birds
1990
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The Robber Bride
1993
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Alias Grace
1996
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The Labrador Fiasco
1996
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The Blind Assassin
2000
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The Blind Assassin (With: Michael O'Brien)
2000
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Bottle
2004
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The Heart Goes Last
2015
Racconti brevi/Novelle
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Happy Endings
1983
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Moral Disorder
2014
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The Bad News
2018
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War Bears
2019
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Two Scorched Men
2021
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My Evil Mother
2022
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Cut and Thirst
2024
MaddAddam Books (by with)
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Oryx and Crake
2003
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The Year of the Flood
2009
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MaddAddam
2013
Collezioni
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The Circle Game
1964
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The Animals in that Country
1968
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The Journals of Susanna Moodie (With: Charles Pachter)
1970
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The Journals of Susanna Moodie
1970
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Procedures For Underground
1970
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Power Politics
1971
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You Are Happy
1974
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Selected Poems
1976
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Dancing Girls and Other Stories
1977
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Two-Headed Poems
1978
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True Stories
1981
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Bluebeard's Egg
1983
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Murder in the Dark
1983
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Interlunar
1984
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Selected Poems II
1986
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Wilderness Tips
1991
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Good Bones
1992
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Poems 1976-1986
1992
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Polarities. Selected Stories
1994
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Bones & Murder
1994
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Morning in the Burned House
1995
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Eating Fire
1998
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Moving Targets
2004
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The Tent
2006
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Moral Disorder and Other Stories
2006
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The Door
2007
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The Illustrated Journals of Susanna Moodie
2014
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Margaret Atwood's Poetry
2014
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Stone Mattress
2014
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Freedom
2018
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Dearly
2020
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Old Babes in the Wood
2023
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Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems, 1961-2023
2024
Libri di non-fiction
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Survival
1972
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Days Of The Rebels
1977
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Second Words
1982
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The Canlit Foodbook
1987
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Margaret Atwood Conversations
1990
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Strange Things
1995
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Two Solicitudes
1996
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Story of a Nation
2001
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Negotiating with the Dead / On Writers & Writing
2002
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Curious Pursuits
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Writing With Intent
2005
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Payback
2007
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Glances at Germany, Poland, and the Euxine
2009
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In Other Worlds
2011
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Dire Cartographies
2015
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The Burgess Shale
2017
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Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces
2022
Libri illustrati
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Anna's Pet
1980
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Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut
1995
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Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes
2003
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Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda
2004
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Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery
2011
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A Trio of Tolerable Tales
2017
Fumetti
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The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel
2019
Short Stories
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Moral Disorder
2014
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The Bad News
2018
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War Bears
2019
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Two Scorched Men
2021
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My Evil Mother
2022
Canongate's The Myths Books
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A Short History of Myth
2004
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A Short History of Myth (By: Karen Armstrong)
2004
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Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson (By: David Grossman)
2005
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Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson
2005
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The Penelopiad
2005
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Weight
2005
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Weight (By: Jeanette Winterson)
2005
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The Helmet of Horror (By: Victor Pelevin)
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The Helmet of Horror
2005
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Where Three Roads Meet (By: Salley Vickers)
2005
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Where Three Roads Meet
2005
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Binu and the Great Wall
2006
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Binu and the Great Wall (By: Su Tong)
2006
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Baba Yaga Laid an Egg (By: Dubravka Ugrešić)
2007
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Baba Yaga Laid an Egg
2007
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The Goddess Chronicle (By: Natsuo Kirino)
2013
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The Goddess Chronicle
2013
Hogarth Shakespeare Books
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The Gap of Time ( By: Jeanette Winterson)
2015
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The Gap of Time
2015
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Shylock is My Name
2016
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Shylock is My Name ( By: Howard Jacobson)
2016
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Vinegar Girl
2016
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Vinegar Girl (By: Anne Tyler)
2016
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Hag-Seed
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New Boy
2017
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New Boy (By: Tracy Chevalier)
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Dunbar ( By: Edward St. Aubyn)
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Dunbar
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Macbeth
2018
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Macbeth (By: Jo Nesbø)
2018
European Studies in North American Literature and Culture Books
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Thomas King: Works and Impact (By: Kathleen Flaherty, Helen Hoy, Robin Ridington, Marlene Goldman, James H. Cox, Eva Gruber, Aloys N.M. Fleischmann, Blanca Schorcht, Carter Meland, Doris Wolf, Favel, Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber, Julia Breitbach, Katja Sarkowsky, Linda Warley, Marco Ulm, Mark Shackleton, Marta Dvořák, Martin Kuester, Reingard M. Nischik, Renée Hulan, Stuart Christie, Suzanne Rintoul)
2012
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Gained Ground: Perspectives on Canadian and Comparative North American Studies (With: Aritha van Herk, Linda Hutcheon, Silvia Mergenthal, Marlene Goldman, Eva Gruber, Julia Breitbach, Katja Sarkowsky, Caroline Rosenthal, Michael Hutcheon, Shuli Barzilai, Bettina Mack, Claire Omhovere, Florian Freitag, Jutta Ernst, Sherrill Grace)
2018
Margaret Atwood Anthologies
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Points of View
1956
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Women Writers at Work
1989
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Women Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews
1989
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The Best American Short Stories 1989
1989
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The Faber Book of Contemporary Canadian Short Stories
1990
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Colors of a New Day
1990
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Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spirituality
1991
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Cries of the Spirit
1991
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The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces
1992
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Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories
1992
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Ploughshares Winter 1993-94
1993
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Minding the Body
1994
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First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers
1994
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The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women
1995
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Ten
1996
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Sunrise to Sunset
1997
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Wild Women
1997
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Mistresses of the Dark
1998
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
1998
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Turn of the Story: Canadian Short Fiction on the Eve of the Millennium
1999
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The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
1999
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Ovid Metamorphosed
2000
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When The Wild Comes Leaping Up
2002
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The Common Sky: Canadian Writers Against the War
2003
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The Eloquent Short Story: An Anthology of Narrative Styles
2004
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More Stories We Tell
2004
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The Virago Book of the Joy of Shopping
2007
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The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories
2007
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The Scotiabank Giller Prize 15 Years: An Anthology of Prize-Winning Canadian Fiction.
2008
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Sisters
2009
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First Words: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors
2009
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FIRST WORDS: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors
2009
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Crimespotting
2009
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Half-Minute Horrors
2009
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The Secret History of Science Fiction
2009
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I'm With the Bears
2011
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Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury
2012
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The World Split Open
2014
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Loosed Upon the World
2015
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The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
2015
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First Light: A Celebration of Alan Garner
2016
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Imaginarium 4
2016
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The Secret Loves of Geeks
2018
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Freeman's Power
2018
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Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers