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Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card
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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.
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
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
The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands
Ursula K. Le Guin · 352 pages
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
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.
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
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
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
Neil Gaiman · 400 pages
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Majipoor Chronicles
Robert Silverberg · 314 pages
E Pluribus Unicorn
Theodore Sturgeon · 211 pages
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Three
Jonathan Strahan, Ted Chiang, Elizabeth Bear · 496 pages
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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,
The Twilight Zone: The Original Stories
Charles G. Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg · 108 pages
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.
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

