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Fletcher Batts IV

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Along Comes Fear

Six stories. One creeping certainty: you should have looked away.Along Comes Fear: Volume 01 - Where the Darkness Gathers is a horror fiction anthology that pulls readers through six standalone nightmares, each one built to unsettle in a different way. An astronomer tracking a routine orbital correction discovers a deviation that shouldn't exist - and a threat approaching from beyond Neptune that no one is prepared for. A father barricaded in a shopping ma...

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Fletcher Batts, Lesette M Booker, Heather L Batts

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The Dark Quarter

The dead do not need a bridge.When an outbreak turns a Friday morning on Hilton Head into a fight to stay alive, Sierra Dawson has one destination: Daufuskie Island, where her 11-year-old daughter, Maya, is staying with Sierra's former husband, Eric. Reaching them means finding a boat through the panic. Protecting them will demand far more.Daufuskie has no bridge to the mainland. Its tidal waterways should offer a barrier against the spreading catastrophe. But the dead do n...

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Fletcher Batts, Lesette M Booker, Heather L Batts

Some rooms are empty.Some only look that way.In Along Comes Fear: Volume 02 - Rooms That Remember, one previously opened nightmare continues while five new worlds wait behind doors that should probably remain closed.Within these stories, homes remember what happened inside them. Familiar spaces become traps. Buried guilt refuses to stay buried. Unseen companions linger too close. Disaster arrives without warning, and survival sometimes means confron...

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Fletcher Batts, Lesette M Booker, Heather L Batts

For thirty-two years, Jonah Vale has made a living listening to strangers in the dark. Some came to confess. Some came for company. Some were terrified.He did not treat them all kindly.On the final night of The Long Night, a disconnected telephone rings inside WBLH. The woman on the line calls herself Elena Wren. Twenty years earlier, Jonah mocked her account of a driverless car following her, cut her off, and turned the recording into enduring radio entertainment. By morni...

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Fletcher Batts, Lesette M Booker, Heather L Batts

Everyone in Bellwether knows to blame Witch Habit when something goes missing. Nobody knows what she's keeping out.Odessa Vale enters locked homes, takes ordinary household objects, and disappears before anyone can stop her. With her orange cap, canvas bag, and familiar declaration-"I wanna habit"-she has frightened generations of neighbors. Most people have learned to lock their doors and repeat the stories.15-year-old Micah Polk starts asking questions.Armed with ...

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Fletcher Batts, Lesette M Booker, Heather L Batts

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The Dark Quarter

The woods know the voices you would follow anywhere.Reverend Elijah Vale has spent months planning a mountain retreat for Grace Harbor Community Church. He wants three days away from budget arguments, bruised feelings, and the quiet divisions wearing down his congregation. With his wife Miriam, a handful of outspoken adults, and seven teenagers aboard an aging church bus, he is hoping for a little peace.An overheating engine ends that hope at Morrow's Crown.The remo...

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James S. A. Corey

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The Expanse

From Leviathan Wakes to Leviathan Falls, James S. A. Corey's Hugo Award-winning Expanse series has redefined modern space opera. Now, available in print for the first time comes the complete collection of short fiction set in the Expanse universe, including both a brand-new novella set after the events of Leviathan Falls and author’s notes on each story.On Mars, a scientist experiments with a new engine that will one day become the drive ...

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John Joseph Adams, Veronica Roth

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Best American

The best science fiction and fantasy stories of 2021, selected by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Veronica Roth.This year’s selection of science fiction and fantasy stories, chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and bestselling author of the Divergent series Veronica Roth, showcases a crop of authors that are willing to experiment and tantalize readers with new takes on classic themes and by exchanging the ordinary for the avant-garde. Folktale...

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John Joseph Adams, Nnedi Okorafor

Of science fiction and fantasy, guest editor Nnedi Okorafor writes, “There are times when it feels like a box, but within it, technically, you can expect anything.” The twenty stories in this collection simultaneously fulfill and defy expectations of genre, showcasing boundary-pushing authors at their best. In this year’s Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, a robot will struggle to make friends, a team of auditors determines the financial value of a lifetime, an alien speci...

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Joshua Palmatier, Patricia Bray, Seanan McGuire, Gini Koch, Julie E. Czerneda, Tanya Huff, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Sharon Lee, Steve Miller, Rosemary Edghill, Brandon Daubs, Jason Palmatier, Lauren Fox, Brian Trent, Jez Patterson, Philip Brian Hall, R. Overwater, Helen French

RRRAWRRR!!! ZZZZZZTTTTT!!! ZZZZAAAAPPPPP!!!The robots of the 50s and 60s science fiction movies and novels captured our hearts and our imaginations. Their clunky, bulbous bodies with their clear domed heads, whirling antennae, and randomly flashing lights staggered ponderously across the screen and page and into our souls—whether as a constant companion or as the invading army threatening to exterminate our world. We can never return to that innocent time, where th...

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Jack Goldstein

In this entertaining eBooklet, renowned deep thinkers Jimmy Russell and Jack Goldstein discuss the ten greatest inventions they believe humankind has ever seen, using their own unique perspectives on the world in which we live. The result is an entertaining read, and - being careful to distinguish between inventions and discoveries - many readers may be surprised at what appears on the list and what does not. Informative, fun and vaguely educational, this is a great title which will create...

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Neil Clarke, Susan Palwick, Peter Watts

Clarkesworld is a Hugo Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.Our September 2014 issue contains:Original Fiction by Susan Palwick ("Weather"), JY Yang ("Patterns of a Murmuration, In Billions of Data Points"), and Xia Jia ("Spring Festival: Happiness, Anger, Love, Sorrow, Joy").Classic stories by Brendan DuBois ("Falling Star"), Leigh Kennedy ...