The intimate and long-awaited memoir of guitar legend Carlos Santana.In 1967 at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium, a young guitarist played a blistering solo that announced a prodigious talent. Two years later he played a historic set at Woodstock, and the world came to know Carlos Santana by name.THE UNIVERSAL TONE is a tale of musical self-determination and self-discovery. It traces his journey from his teen days playing in Tijuana, and the est...

This issue, we have 9 tales to excite, thrill, and amaze, with original contributions from frequent contributors Ron Miller, Hal Charles, Teel James Glenn, and A.L. Sirois, plus a newcomer to our pages, Sherry Teitelbaum. Plus we have classics from “Carolyn Keene” (pseudonymously written by Mildred Wirt), Harry Harrison, and Gordon MacCreagh.Here’s...

This time, we have a special all-mystery issue. But don’t panic! We have mysteries by science fiction and fantasy writers, too…tales by Phyllis Ann Karr (best known for her fantasy novels, such as Idylls of the Queen and the Frostflower & Thorn series) and Theodore R. Cogswell (author of the 1952 classic “The Specter General,” voted one of the greatest science fiction stories of all time by the Science Fiction Writers of America). We also...

Do you experience frightening, often violent mood swings that make you fear for your sanity? Are you often depressed? Do you engage in self-destructive behaviors such as drug or alcohol abuse, anorexia, compulsive eating, self-cutting, and hair pulling? Do you feel empty inside, or as if you don't know who you are? Do you dread being alone and fear abandonment? Do you have trouble finishing projects, keeping a job, or forming lasting relationships?If you or someone you love answere...

A quiet night becomes the beginning of something far larger when a brilliant and utterly inhuman presence reveals itself beneath a flawless disguise. What begins as personal danger escalates into a threat aimed at the entire planet, as forces beyond human understanding prepare to claim Earth for their own purposes. This is science fiction driven by mounting dread, relentless momentum, and the terrifying idea that humanity might already be too late.The story blends classic alien-inv...

Exciting stuff this time: a new Velda P.I. story from Ron Miller, a new supernatural mystery from Steve Liskow (courtesy of Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken), plus great modern tales from Melodie Johnson Howe (courtesy of Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman) and Anna Tambour.On top of that, we have a mystery novel from Isabel Ostrander and a space opera novel from Edmond Hamilton. (Truly something for every taste.) And did I mention science fiction classics from Nelson S. Bond, Ray Cummi...

Ground by Hal Clement - They were inside the sun, in a temperature of 900 Kelvin. With the refrigerators out there was only one wild chance to pull through.The little ship plunged into the star.If anyone had asked Jack Elder to justify his uneasiness, he could not have obliged. He might even have gone so far as to deny any such feeling; but he would not have been speaking the truth. He had every con- fidence in the refrigerators of the Wraith, untr...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 191 thru 195 - Five Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960sThe Street That Wasn't There by Carl Jacobi and Clifford D. SimakThe Shipshape Miracle by Clifford D. SimakHot Planet by Hal ClementEverest by Isaac AsimovThe Visitor by Ray Bradbury

Hot Planet by Hal Clement is a tense, scientifically grounded adventure set on a dangerously unstable Mercury. The crew of the Albireo arrives expecting research, not catastrophe — yet relentless quakes, rising ash columns, and a growing volcanic threat turn their expedition into a desperate fight for understanding and escape. As the planet reshapes itself under their feet, the team struggles to make sense of the seismic chaos before it seals their fate.Told with ...

Bruce Dixon expected nothing more than fresh air after seventy-two hours locked inside his mountain laboratory. Instead he stepped into a nightmare: a glowing green moon hanging over Arizona and a world where birds, animals, and people lie frozen in a rigid sleep that looks disturbingly like death. The pulse of life still beats faintly in their bodies, but something in that unnatural moonlight has robbed them of movement and will.Within hours Dixon learns the terrible truth. Refuge...

The first comprehensive study of the park, past and present, Death Valley National Park probes the environmental and human history of this most astonishing desert. Established as a national monument in 1933, Death Valley was an anomaly within the national park system. Though many who knew this landscape were convinced that its stark beauty should be preserved, to do so required a reconceptualization of what a park consists of, grassroots and national support for its creation, and ...