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Include books by the same authorFirebirds Soaring: An Anthology of Original Speculative Fiction
Sharyn November · 574 pages
A Gift of Dragons: Illustrated Stories
Anne McCaffrey · 345 pages
For more than thirty years, Pern has conjured visions of brave men and women mounted upon the backs of dragons. As anyone knows who has been touched by the storytelling magic of Anne McCaffrey, to read of the exotic world of Pern is to inhabit it--and to experience its extraordinary dragons is to soar aloft with them and share their dazzling adventures.Now, A Gift of Dragons brings together three
Stars Above
Marissa Meyer · 400 pages
The enchantment continues. . . . The universe of the Lunar Chronicles holds stories - and secrets - that are wondrous, vicious, and romantic. The Keeper: A prequel to the Lunar Chronicles, showing a young Scarlet and how Princess Selene came into the care of Michelle Benoit. Glitches: In this prequel to Cinder, we see the results of the plague play out, and the emotional toll it takes on Cin
Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories
M.T. Anderson, Holly Black, Libba Bray, Shawn Cheng, Cassandra Clare, Cory Doctorow, Dylan Horrocks, Kathleen Jennings, Elizabeth Knox, Garth Nix, Delia Sherman, Ysabeau S. Wilce, Christopher Rowe · 420 pages
A collection of fourteen fantasy stories by well-known authors, set in the age of steam engines and featuring automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never existed.
Pretty Monsters: Stories
Kelly Link · 408 pages
Kelly Link has lit up adult literary publishing—and Viking is honored to publish her first YA story collection. Through the lens of Link’s vivid imagination, nothing is what it seems, and everything deserves a second look. From the multiple award-winning “The Faery Handbag,” in which a teenager’s grandmother carries an entire village (or is it a man-eating dog?) in her handbag, to the near-future
The New Weird
Alistair Rennie · 367 pages
This avant-garde anthology that presents and defines the New Weird—a hip, stylistic fiction that evokes the gritty exuberance of pulp novels and dime-store comic books—creates a new literature that is entirely unprecedented and utterly compelling. Assembling an array of talent, this collection includes contributions from visionaries Michael Moorcock and China Mieville, modern icon Clive Barker, an
Dangerous Women Part I
George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois · 290 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
Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love
Jacqueline Carey, Lisa Tuttle, Linnea Sinclair, Mary Jo Putney, Tanith Lee, Peter S. Beagle, Yasmine Galenorn, Diana Gabaldon, Jo Beverley, Carrie Vaughn, M.L.N. Hanover, Cecelia Holland, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Robin Hobb, Neil Gaiman, Marjorie M. Liu, Jim Butcher · 649 pages
Presents a collection of original tales that explores crossover themes of romance, fantasy, and science fiction, with contributions by such genre authors as Tanith Lee, Jo Beverly, Jim Butcher, and Neil Gaiman.
At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories
Kij Johnson · 297 pages
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
Robert A. Heinlein · 214 pages
SciFi - The novella The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (1942). Short stories are: " -- And He Built a Crooked House"; "They --"; "Our Fair City"; "The Man Who Traveled in Elephants"; and, "-- All You Zombies --".
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
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
Changing Planes
Ursula K. Le Guin · 246 pages
The misery of waiting for a connecting flight at an airport leads to the accidental discovery of alighting on other planes--not airplanes but planes of existence. Ursula Le Guin's premise frames a series of travel accounts by the tourist-narrator who describes bizarre societies and cultures that sometimes mirror our own, and sometimes open puzzling doors into the alien.
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.
Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology
James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel · 320 pages
The Anatomy of Curiosity
Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton, Brenna Yovanoff · 296 pages
In an unassuming corner of Brooklyn, a young woman learns to be ladylike, to love context, and to speak her mind from a very curious sort of tutor. In a faraway land convulsed by war, a young soldier hears the desert's curious hum as he disarms bombs with the person he doesn't know how to love. In a place so shriveled by drought that any drowning is a curiosity, a young writer tries again and
Three Moments of an Explosion
China Mieville · 406 pages
A provocative new collection of short stories by the New York Times best-selling and Hugo Award-winning author of Kraken explores a range of styles and forms to explore an alternate universe where nature provocatively renders the human race an endangered species.
Fast Ships, Black Sails
Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer · 241 pages
Do you love the sound of a peg leg stomping across a quarterdeck? Or maybe you prefer a parrot on your arm, a strong wind at your back? Adventure, treasure, intrigue, humor, romance, danger — and, yes, plunder! Oh, the Devil does love a pirate — and so do readers everywhere! Swashbuckling from the past into the future and space itself, Fast Ships, Black Sails, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, p