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Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

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Get Off the Unicorn

Anne McCaffrey · 318 pages

This is a collection of several short stories by Anne McCaffrey covering sciece fiction, fantasy and other areas. Each story is precluded by her into what her motivation was for the story and a bit about it. For a McCaffrey fan, this is solid entertainment.

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The Essential Ellison: A 35-Year Retrospective

Harlan Ellison · 1,034 pages

"In April of 1949, Harlan Ellison was a lonely little kid living in Painesville, Ohio. A time traveler, observing him from within an invisible bubble, would not have marked him as anything more interesting than an undersized fourteen-year-old, seemingly always in hot water. Lively blue eyes, but basically just another kid.". "But something was stirring, something was wakening in that nexus of ene

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Dreamsongs, Volume I

George R.R. Martin · 991 pages

Dubbed "the American Tolkien" by Time magazine, #1 New York Times bestselling author George R.R. Martin is a giant in the field of fantasy literature and one of the most exciting storytellers of our time. Now he delivers a rare treat for readers: a compendium of his shorter works, all collected into two stunning volumes, that offer fascinating insight into his journey from young writer to award-wi

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The Best of Fritz Leiber

Fritz Leiber · 301 pages

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Firebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction and Fantasy

Sharyn November · 533 pages

Charles de Lint. Alan Dean Foster. Diana Wynne Jones. Kelly Link. Patricia A. McKillip. Tamora Pierce. These are just a few of the acclaimed and bestselling authors who have contributed original stories to Firebirds Rising, the eagerly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning anthology Firebirds.This collection takes readers from deep space to Faerie to just around the corner. It is full of magi

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The Illustrated Man

Ray Bradbury · 222 pages

The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of eighteen science fiction short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. A recurring theme throughout the eighteen stories is the conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the psychology of people. It was nominated for the International Fantasy Award in 1952.

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The Jack Vance Treasury

Jack Vance · 731 pages

Nebula and World Fantasy Grand Master Jack Vance is one of the most admired and cherished writers of science fiction and fantasy in the world, and is one of the truly important and influential storytellers of the 20th century. From his first published story "The World Thinker" in 1945 to his final novel Lurulu in 2004, Vance has shown an astonishing range of inventiveness, versatility and sheer st

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Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show

Edmund R. Schubert · 432 pages

Orson Scott Card's intergalactic medicine show was founded in 2006. This collection showcases the zine's science fiction and fantasy from new talents and well-known writers from the past year. In the eyes of the Empress's cat / Bradley P. Beaulieu Mazer in prison / Orson Scott Card Tabloid reporter to the stars / Eric James Stone Audience / Ty Franck The Mooncalfe / David Farland Chea

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Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Neil Gaiman · 400 pages

This is a duplicate. Please update your lists. See https://openlibrary.org/works/OL679359W.

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Majipoor Chronicles

Robert Silverberg · 314 pages

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E Pluribus Unicorn

Theodore Sturgeon · 211 pages

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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Three

Jonathan Strahan, Ted Chiang, Elizabeth Bear · 496 pages

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The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023

R. F. Kuang, John Joseph Adams · 253 pages

“Short stories have to accomplish a nearly impossible magic trick: to introduce a world often much stranger than our own and make you care about it in a matter of pages,” writes R. F. Kuang in her introduction. “The most important part of this magic trick is just a willingness to get weird.” The stories in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 are brimming with bizarre and otherworldl

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Nightmares and Dreamscapes

Stephen King · 698 pages

From the Flap: A solitary finger pokes out of a drain. Novelty teeth turn predatory. Flies settle and die on an old pair of sneakers in New York, and the Nevada desert swallows a Cadillac. Meanwhile the legend of Castle Rock returns . . . and grows on you. What does it all mean? What else could it mean? First there was Night Shift (1978), then Skeleton Crew (1985), and now Stephen King is back wi

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Other Worlds Than These

Stephen Baxter, Vandana Singh, Paul Melko, Kelly Link, Ian McDonald, Simon McCaffery, E. Catherine Tobler, Alastair Reynolds, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stephen King, David Barr Kirtley, Mercurio D. Rivera, Jeff VanderMeer, George R.R. Martin, Carrie Vaughn, Tim Pratt, Robert Reed, Catherynne M. Valente, Yo · 400 pages

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The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015

Theodora Goss, Neil Gaiman, Susan Palwick, Adam-Troy Castro, Sam J. Miller, Daniel H. Wilson, Nathan Ballingrud, Kelly Link, Jess Row, Kelly Sandoval, T.C. Boyle, A. Merc Rustad, Sofia Samatar, Carmen Maria Machado, Cat Rambo, Karen Russell, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Seanan McGuire, Jo Walton · 345 pages

SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY enjoy a long literary tradition, stretching from Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells, and Jules Verne to Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, and William Gibson. In *The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015* award-winning editors John Joseph Adams and Joe Hill deliver a diverse and vibrant collection of stories published in the previous year. Featuring writers with deep bac

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Dead Man's Hand: An Anthology of the Weird West

Joe R. Lansdale, Hugh Howey, Rajan Khanna, Orson Scott Card, Elizabeth Bear, Ben H. Winters, David Farland, Mike Resnick, Seanan McGuire, Charles Yu, Alan Dean Foster, Beth Revis, Alastair Reynolds, Tad Williams, Jonathan Maberry, Kelley Armstrong, Tobias S. Buckell, Jeffrey Ford, Ken Liu, Laura Ann · 436 pages

The weird, wild west--an American frontier populated by gunslingers, rattlesnakes, outlaws, zombies, aliens, time travelers, and steampunk! Twenty-three of science fiction and fantasy's hottest and most popular authors create all-new tales, written exclusively for this anthology. Aliens and monsters, magic and science are introduced to the old west, with explosive results.

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Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang · 288 pages

Ted Chiang's first published story, "Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent stories have won the Asimov's SF Magazine reader poll, a second Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Sidewise Award for alternate history. He won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992. Story for story, he is the most honored young writer in modern SF. Now, col

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So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy

Nalo Hopkinson, Uppinder Mehan · 270 pages

So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy" is an anthology of original new stories by leading African, Asian, South Asian and Aboriginal authors, as well as North American and British writers of color. Stories of imagined futures abound in Western writing. Writer and editor Nalo Hopkinson notes that the science fiction/fantasy genre "speaks so much about the experience of being

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The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination: Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius

Austin Grossman, Alan Dean Foster, Genevieve Valentine, Theodora Goss, Diana Gabaldon, Carrie Vaughn, Laird Barron, Naomi Novik, Mary Robinette Kowal, Marjorie M. Liu, Harry Turtledove, Jeffrey Ford, Grady Hendrix, Ben H. Winters, Seanan McGuire, David D. Levine, Jeremiah Tolbert, Daniel H. Wilson,

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The Twilight Zone: The Original Stories

Charles G. Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg · 108 pages

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Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora

W.E.B. Du Bois, Kalamu ya Salaam, Samuel R. Delany, Nalo Hopkinson, Akua Lezli Hope, Charles W. Chesnutt, Octavia E. Butler, Linda Addison, Charles R. Saunders, Nisi Shawl, Steven Barnes, Jewelle L. Gomez, Henry Dumas, Tony Medina, Kiini Ibura Salaam, Robert Fleming, Derrick A. Bell, Darryl A. Smith · 427 pages

Dark Matter is the first and only series to bring together the works of black SF and fantasy writers. The first volume was featured in the "New York Times," which named it a Notable Book of the Year.

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Tomorrow's Children: 18 Tales Of Fantasy And Science Fiction

Mark Clifton, Lewis Padgett, Robert Sheckley, Margaret St. Clair, Clifford D. Simak, William Lee, James H. Schmitz, Zenna Henderson, Philip K. Dick, Gertrude Friedberg, Ray Bradbury, Jerome Bixby, Stephen Vincent Benet, Damon Knight, Fritz Leiber, Robert A. Heinlein, Will F. Jenkins · 431 pages

Fantastic anthology of eighteen fantasy and science-fiction short stories, novelettes and novellas that feature adolescent protagonists or are at aimed at adolescent audiences, or both. Contains some true classics as well as as several fun but relatively unknown gems. No Life of Their Own - novella by Clifford D. Simak The Accountant - short story by Robert Sheckley Novice - novelette by Jam

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