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...

The fifth Odd Thomas thriller from the master storyteller. Odd finds refuge at a rundown mansion, but soon discovers a frightening presence.Odd Thomas has seen danger and he has seen death. He lives between two worlds, communicating with the lingering dead.He stands between us and our darkest fears, never failing the tests that confront him, whatever the cost.Now he has found refuge in a crumbling mansion in Santa Barbara, along with his closest friends both living ...

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...

The men who did dangerous work had a special kind of insurance policy. But when somebody wanted to collect on that policy, the claims investigator suddenly became a member of ... THE RISK PROFESSION

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...

The protagonist of the story is Dick Jarvis, a member of the Earth expedition exploring Mars. As the team explores the Martian landscape, they come across an enigmatic and highly intelligent creature called Tweel. Tweel is a bird-like Martian with a long beak, featherless wings, and a bipedal stance.Despite the initial language barrier, Dick Jarvis forms a bond with Tweel and the two embark on a series of adventures together. They encounter various other alien species and marvel at the div...

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 ...

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...

New planet, new problemsJosu and his father trade up for a second chance at life by emigrating from a dead Earth to the Alpha Centauri system.But their new role as planetary pioneers presents its own challenges.One of which is that on this wild, waterlogged world, they always have to watch each other’s backs.How dangerous can a little fishing trip be? Josu is about to find out.Centurion is a post-apocalyptic science fiction ...

"Growing up in Arkham, you hear things. Ghost stories wrapped in magickal moon lore with a heaping helping of elder gods and forbidden books, all swapped between boys and girls over dwindling campfires. We collected alternate histories like kids on TV traded baseball cards. As a child of Arkham, you just took for granted you lived in a special town, but seeing that difference up close and personal, in the place where you gave up evenings and weekends so college admissions might think you w...