Humorous genre lists. In addition to the title piece, includes: Our Robot President: The First Hundred Days, Rules for Dealing with Your Teenage Werewolf Son, Excuses Why Your Monster Husband Cannot Come to the Phone, Things Not to Say at a Witch Burning, Signs You Could Be Living in a Virtual Reality,and twenty-five more.Reprints from Asimov's SF, Strange Horizons, Dreams and Nightmares, etc."It is witty, wise, and hysterically funny." -J. L. Comeau, Creature Feature

Five novelettes, 23 short stories, 16 poems!--the best of Bruce Boston's fiction collected through 2001!The masques of 17th century Europe presented dramatic entertainments based on mythic themes and enhanced by lavish costumes and sets. The entertainments in Masque of Dreams fashion myths of their own and are enhanced by the voice of a poet, often lyric and at times pyrotechnic. Journey to the depths of a mutated rain forest that strikes back against civilization. Join a Victorian...

"This book is a beautifully written, streetwise evocation of the '60s, told with uncommon grace and clarity of vision. Author Bruce Boston writes with the voice of a poet, the heart of a bodhisattva, and the unblinking eye of an investigative reporter. He creates a realistic, unsentimental rendering of an era slipping rapidly into the mists of history.Set against the backdrop of the East Village poetry scene circa 1965, Stained Glass Rain chronicles the confluence and divergence of...

Over one hundred of Boston’s best short poems (under fifty lines) from more than forty years of publishing, including fifteen award-winning poems.Boston’s poetry has received the Bram Stoker Award, the Asimov’s Readers Award, and the Rhysling and Grandmaster Awards of the Science Fiction Poetry Association.“Boston forces us to make eye contact with alchemists, angels, ghosts, werewolves, demagogues, monsters, demons, spacers, robots, berser...

Chapbook of eight poems portraying the life of a medieval alchemist by SFPA Grandmaster Poet Bruce Boston. First published by Ocean View Books, 1985. The author's second speculative poetry collection. Includes reprints from Asimov's S F Magazine, Star*Line, and the legendary speculative poetry magazine Velocities.Bruce Boston lives in Ocala, Florida, once known as the City of Trees, with his wife, writer-artist Marge Simon, and the ghosts of two cats. He is the author of fifty book...

The Legend Continues…In the spirit of popular Dark Fiction and Horror anthologies such as Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories and Behold: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders, and the best of Stephen King's short fiction, comes the Tales from The Lake anthologies.This 5th and final volume includes:"Always After Three" by Gemma Files - A young couple discovers that in a downtown condo you almost never kn...

Speculatief is een viermaandelijks speculatief magazine, eerst gepubliceerd in 2022. Elk nummer bevat enkele vertaalde kortverhalen en gedichten, meestal bekroonde werken of van grote internationale namen. Onze uitgaven zijn ook beschikbaar als ebook edities en audio podcasts.Speculatief is een nieuw magazine met als doel om meer mensen kennis te laten maken met speculatieve literatuur. Al onze verhalen en poëzie kennen hun eerste Nederlandstalige verschijning in onze numm...

Bram Stoker Award Winners Bruce Boston and Alessandro Manzetti combine their poetic and narrative talents in a poetry novella that blends the genres of horror, surrealism, crime, and noir. Set in a large America city, Sacrificial Nights follows the lives of some of those who inhabit its late-night streets: prostitutes, pimps, a thief, an arsonist, a police detective, a psychotic killer, and more. Their tales and the tale of the city itself are richly complemented by British artist Ben Bald...

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With two street gangs on the brink of war, Detective Michael Kelly must solve a murder before the entire town goes up in flames.Boston Homicide Detective Michael Kelly just took his latest case. It seemed simple enough: a convenience store clerk gunned down in cold blood.There’s just one catch...the store was under the protection of the Irish mob.Now the city is a powder-keg, and Kelly must solve the murders before it explodes in further bloodshed.

Coming off a World Series win, one of the last things starting pitcher Will Anderson anticipates is being traded to the Boston Blues.That and the fact he isn't being traded alone. Over the past year, his catcher's little sister was simply that—his teammate's sister. She was never someone Will should have felt a need to take care of, but with her fiery personality, Will finds himself caught in her blaze.When Callie Reyer showed up on her brother's doorstep, ...

Boston & Maine Locomotives is a fascinating history of the locomotives that powered New England's most dominant railway line.The Boston & Maine Railroad has long captured the hearts of rail enthusiasts, and its locomotives are models of the majesty, power, and romance of American rail. The Boston & Maine was a railroad dynasty running through Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine, and many still remember hearing the whistle blow as a Boston & Maine locomotive spewing smoke and steam pull...