WPaD presents: Strange Adventures in a Deviant Universe…- A scientist struggles to find a cure for Alzheimer's before the disease takes his mind…- Dolphins and whales work with their human trainers to terraform a new planet…- Artificial intelligence backfires on humanity when sex robots become sentient and demand rights…- A lost reptilian tries to find her way home…- Random items are disappearing in a small town and cats may be responsible…- ...

Dr. Hana Tūhoe has spent ten years building a career in London - marine ecology publications, a position at UCL, a flat in Hackney, a life that is professionally successful and personally managed. When the Waitematā Harbour Ecological Restoration Initiative offers her the lead ecologist role, she tells herself it's a career opportunity. Twelve months. A properly resourced, co-governed, mātauranga-integrated project. The kind of work she's been training for.She doesn't mention that ...

St. Aldhelm's Church, Redcliffe, was deconsecrated in 2019 and converted into residential flats. The developer called it sympathetic conversion. The planning documents called it adaptive reuse. The building, apparently, had other ideas.

The fire begins as a small column of smoke over the Canfield drainage.Within hours it becomes something far more dangerous.As record heat grips the region and winds begin to shift, a wildfire ignites the dry chaparral outside the small community of Ridder. What begins as a routine incident quickly escalates into a crisis that threatens thousands of lives.County Fire Chief Dana Morales sees the danger before anyone else.Volunteer firefighter

A coastal town enjoys the calmest season in living memory.No storms. No waves. No wind.At first, it feels like a gift.Meteorologist Lena Ortega returns home to Harbor Point expecting a quiet visit with her estranged father. Instead, she finds an ocean that has stopped moving - and a town that doesn't want to ask why.The deeper she looks, the worse it gets.Dead deep-sea creatures wash ashore. Navigation systems fail offshore. Entire sections of ocean ...

The warped minds of WPaD are proud to present this tribute to the bizarre:- People who eat Tide Pods turn into detergent-craving zombies- A gift of a fishing bobber turns deadly- A woman lost in the desert makes friends with an ancient creature- A hole inside a closet holds unknown mysteries- A grieving father consults a psychic to solve his daughter's murder- Two friends embark on a fantastic adventure during a game of Dungeons and Dragons

A bloodthirsty refrigerator…A murderous pothole…Legends of mysterious monsters…Ghosts and magic…And much more!Chilling stories from the twisted minds of Writers, Poets and Deviants:Volume 3 of WPaD's popular Creepies series.

ITS THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT...For decades, the apocalypse and its aftermath have yielded some of the most exciting short stories of all time. From David Brin's seminal The Postman to Hugh Howey's Deep Blood Kettle and Tananarive Due's prescient Patient Zero, the end of the world continues to thrill.This companion volume to the critically acclaimed WASTELANDS offers thirty of the finest examples of post-apocalyptic short fiction, with works by:Ann Aguirre

In her short story collection, Even Greater Mistakes, Charlie Jane Anders upends genre cliches and revitalizes classic tropes with heartfelt and pants-wettingly funny social commentary.The woman who can see all possible futures is dating the man who can see the one and only foreordained future.A wildly popular slapstick filmmaker is drawn, against his better judgment, into working with a fascist militia, against a background of social collapse....

Harlan Ellison, Richard Christian Matheson, Connie Willis, and many more contribute to a compelling psychological exploration of the many shades of love.World Fantasy Award–Winning EditorAn incubus disguised as a high school girl puts a disturbing spin on the teacher/student fantasy. An engineer creates a robot with unexpected consequences during the end of the world. A man becomes the pet of alien invaders. From stories of aliens in other ...

18 short stories take us to the end of the world in this anthology of post-apocalyptic fiction featuring bestselling authors like Emily St. John Mandel, China Miéville, Samuel R. Delaney, Clive Barker, and more!In the moments when it all comes crashing down, what will we value the most, and how will we save it? Featuring new and exclusive post-apocalyptic short stories, as well as classics of the genre, editor Preston Grassmann takes us through the fall and beyond—...

The depth and breadth of what science fiction and fantasy fiction is changes with every passing year. The two dozen stories chosen for this book by award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan carefully maps this evolution, giving readers a captivating and always-entertaining look at the very best the genre has to offer.