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Shadows Beneath: The Writing Excuses Anthology
Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells, Howard Tayler · back to the book
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Robert Silverberg · 436 pages
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
Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance
George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois · 664 pages
An anthology prepared in tribute to the career of Jack Vance features original tales inspired by "The Dying Earth" and includes contributions by such genre masters as Neil Gaiman, Tanith Lee, and Robert Silverberg.
Firebirds Soaring: An Anthology of Original Speculative Fiction
Sharyn November · 574 pages
Sybil's Garage No. 7
Hal Duncan, M.K. Hobson, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Sonya Taaffe, Anil Menon, Amy Sisson, Richard Larson, Kelly Barnhill, E.C. Myers, Kathryn E. Baker, Cheryl Barkauskas, Tom Crosshill, Lindsey Duncan, Amal El-Mohtar, Lyn C. A. Gardner, Juliet Gillies, Swapna Kishore, Avi Kotzer, Terence Kuch, Megan Kur · 206 pages
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.
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
Neil Gaiman · 352 pages
"En las manos maestras de Neil Gaiman, la magia es mucho más que un mero juego de engaños. La destreza y el poder de invención de este gran fabulador transforman el entorno cotidiano en un mundo hechizado por sucesos sombríos y extraños, en el que una anciana puede comprar el Santo Grial en una tienda de segunda mano, unos asesinos se anuncian en los clasificados de un periódico bajo la rúbrica ±C
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
Glitter and Mayhem
John Klima, Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas · 346 pages
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
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
Other Worlds
Shaun Tan, Ray Bradbury, Eric Nylund, Neal Shusterman, Tom Angleberger, Rebecca Stead, Shannon Hale, D.J. MacHale, Eric S. Nylund, Kenneth Oppel · 331 pages
An anthology of original science fiction and fantasy stories.
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
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
The Bane Chronicles
Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson · 520 pages
A collection of eleven short stories, previously published online, that illuminate the life of the enigmatic, flashy, and flamboyant High Warlock of Brooklyn, Magnus Bane, a character in The Mortal Instruments series.
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.
Don't Forget Your Spacesuit, Dear
Ellen Guon, Anne McCaffrey, George Alec Effinger, Laura Anne Gilman, Christopher Stasheff, Terri Beckett, Chris Power, Josepha Sherman, Elizabeth Moon, Mike Resnick, Michael Scott, Diane Duane, Robert Lynn Asprin, Morgan Llywelyn, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, William R. Forstchen, Esther M. Friesner, · 313 pages
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 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
A Glory Of Unicorns
Bruce Coville, Alix Berenzy · 198 pages
Award-winning author Bruce Coville believes in unicorns, and his mission is to make believers out of all of us with this collection of stories by distinguished fantasy writers. The guardian of memory / Bruce Coville Tearing down the unicorns / Janni Lee Simner Beyond the fringe / Gregory Maguire Stealing dreams / Ruth O'Neill The dream-child / Nancy Varian Berberick The ugly unicorn /
The Hidden Doors
Kazu Kibuishi · 128 pages
A bullied boy discovers a door guarded by a sly monster... A painting of a door opens in a forgotten Egyptian tomb... A portal in the park promises to turn you into a much cooler version 2.0—if you can just get the bugs out... Edited by New York Times bestselling comics creator Kazu Kibuishi, who is also a contributor, the third volume in this highly praised series gathers some of the foremost and
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.