LEAVE BEHIND YOUR MUNDANE TASKS……UNKNOWN REALMS BECKONAre you one of those who love the idea of being dropped in the middle of unlikely adventure? The kind that thinks "no way out" sounds like fun? Maybe uncontrolled powers of nature, alien forces, rogue robots, and unexpected portals are your style of vacation?Don't hesitate. Crack the pages open NOW and hope that by the end you will find your way back to your drab existence...if you even care to. These tales may s...

From the New York Times– bestselling authors of the Bowl of Heaven series, a classic hard science fiction novel about astronauts exploring alien territory.Audacious astronauts encounter bizarre, sometimes deadly life forms, and strange, exotic, cosmic phenomena, including miniature black holes, dense fields of interstellar plasma, powerful gravity-emitters, and spectacularly massive space-based, alien-built labyrinths.

This is How You Lose the Time War meets Ex Machina: Seth Haddon's science fiction debut, Volatile Memory, is a whirlwind novella of sapphic revenge in space."A gorgeously tender exploration of human connection in a post-human universe**."—The Washington Post**A Lambda Literary Award Finalist | An Amazon Editor's Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy Pick...

A collection of nineteen short stories from the Nebula and Hugo Award–winning author of The Iron Dragon's Daughter and Stations of the TideWritten over the course of a decade, Tales from Old Earth contains nineteen masterful pieces of short fiction—including the Hugo Award–winning stories "The Very Pulse of the Machine" and "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur;" the World Fantasy Award–winning novella "Radio Waves;" Hugo Award finalists "The Dead," ...

A brand new e-only standalone story from New York Times bestselling author Lilith Saintcrow.When the world falls apart, Lydia knows all you need is a gun and a dog. Unfortunately, she's going to find out that's not quite enough. . .

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Fifteen Futuristic Tales of Terror from bestselling SF author B. V. Larson! This 60,000 word book is an Anthology of short stories. Most are Science Fiction mixed with Horror. Others might be called Dark Fantasy.... Many have been published previously in various magazines.The first complete story is in the free sample.... Read it now!The Barrier - What does it take to go faster than light?TA96 - Do our genes belong to us?Symptoms of God...

If Project Hail Mary left you wanting more stories built on a lone explorer and an unlikely alien ally, this 1934 classic is one of the earliest - and still one of the sharpest. If you're drawn to Project Hail Mary Book, this book carries related themes and emotional stakes in a distinct story.Dick Jarvis is stranded eight hundred miles from base after his rocket engine fails on a vividly imagined Mars. Walking back alone, he rescues a birdlike Martian called Tweel...

From the award-winning author of The Face in the Frost comes the story of three brothers who rescue a talking gargoyle from their neighborhood junkyardMichael, David, and Alphonsus Jr. (aka Fonsy) are spending the summer trying to blow up the town dock and playing marathon Monopoly games. On the brink of death-by-boredom, they head to the local dump in search of treasures—such as oil cans that Michael can use to build a submarine. But what they find is far ...

The World Fantasy Award–winning collection from the architect of the Well-Built City TrilogyNo matter how far into the realms of space and fantasy Jeffrey Ford's stories may venture, they have one trait in common: They're grounded in the universal. The Fantasy Writer's Assistant, Ford's debut collection, is no exception. "Creation," which received the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story and a nomination for a Nebula Award, relates a boy's attempts to a...

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.This month, we have original science fiction by Jessica Barber ("Coma Kings") and Carrie Vaughn ("Harry and Marlowe and the Intrigues at the Aetherian Exhibition"), alon...

Slenderman is nothing but a myth, a creature born out of a photoshop-contest, who has since been featured in hundreds of stories, games, and vlogs. If only that were the case …You might not believe me, and I can't blame you for doubting my words, but the tall, faceless man is among us. And he is as powerful as the stories make him out to be.The nightmare began on Halloween, with a simple recreation of Slender - The Eight Pages...