Welcome to a world where the Cold War was fought not with the threat of nuclear destruction, but with Giant Monsters.Watch as the denizens of this Earth that might have been learn to harness the power of these legendary creatures for good and ill. In these seven tales you'll witness first hand as…--A young boy learns the value of sacrifice when the Japanese use a giant monster to attack Pearl Harbor…--An Inuit boy confronts his heritage to harness a frightening crea...

Each year we hand-pick 50 of today's top indie authors and ask them to submit a story. Then we ask a team of ruthless judges to scour that ore and pick out the gems. The result is All These Shiny Worlds II:* a world of today where cosplay and stagecraft are bright lights hiding dark shadows* a world of tomorrow, where kitchen appliances fend for themselves and take solace in each other's arms, refugees from indifferent owners* a world of little cogs in big ma...

Eddie Royce is an up-and-coming science fiction writer with a terrible secret: he cheats.He knew he'd get caught, of course. Eventually. But not like this. When disaster finally strikes, it strikes big, and Eddie is confronted by the worst person imaginable: his idol, the SF master, Chester Blackwood.To Eddie's great surprise, however, Blackwood has secrets of his own, and instead of outing him, the master story-teller quickly embroils Eddie in a real-life mystery of time t...

His android is the perfect woman. Making her human could destroy his life…Brad Barkley has never been lucky in love. Tired of searching for the girl of his dreams, the robotics student engineers her instead. His obsession not only makes her beautiful and innocent but artificially intelligent as well…Tricia is learning all she can to be human, but understanding the irrational human mind can overload her circuits. When her creator volunteers for a sh...

Jason Hurd, a man on the verge of giving up on life altogether, suddenly receives a reprieve when a dead man appears out of thin air. In the dead man’s possession Jason finds an extraordinary device, one that grants its user the ability to travel through time. With this tremendous power in his hands, he discovers a newfound determination to try to rectify the past failures in his life and avert tragedies in the lives of those he loves.But meddling with the past always has future co...

Sam never knew his parents. In fact, he's never met another human—or seen a sunrise, smelled a flower, or eaten a regular meal. All of that is about to change.It's night in the desert, but he doesn't feel the cold. The sky is clear, and the stars twinkle at him. He has never seen the sky from Earth before. Everything looks so strange. So . . . alien. He shakes his head in wonderment and laughs. He can't stop smiling. This is Earth!There is a building ahead. Other people wil...

From the New York Times–bestselling author of the Riverworld series: An alternate history classic in which the American continents never existed.Two Hawks from Earth, an expanded and revised version of Philip José Farmer's The Gate of Time, is the story of an Iroquois pilot in World War II.First Lt. Roger Two Hawks is on a bombing run over Romania when his aircraft is shot down and collides with a German plane midair. Two Hawks ba...

The war with China was over and Lieutenant Shawn 'Calvin' Hobbs just wanted his life to get back to normal. The hero of the war, he had a small ream of paperwork to fill out, a deployment with his Navy F-18 squadron to prepare for and a new girlfriend to spend some quality time with. Life was good.Until the aliens showed up.They had a ship and needed to get to their home planet, but didn't have a crew. They had seen Calvin's unit in action, though, and knew it was the right...

Best job in the world.A lab to die for.What is she missing?As head of her conglomerate-controlled world's R&D labs, Chiara Baschet has everything a brilliant scientist and inventor extraordinaire could ever want. She's free to explore any idea, indulge every innovative whim.But exhilarating as the work is, Chiara rarely sees her family. Separated from them when she was six years old, the only time she gets w...

A very engaging, imaginative, and descriptive story that draws you into the action from the start. It has parallels to life and is an enjoyable read.In this fast-moving, science fiction fantasy, an everyday kid of our Earth finds himself abruptly immersed in a conflict raging in an unsuspected alternative universe. His personal limitations, the pressure of war, his trial for love in an alien world, and the overwhelming new Reality, confront him with the ve...

EVERYONE FEARS DEATH—THE GREAT UNWINDINGA dark fairy tale retelling.What happened to Alice after the Alice books finished? She got married, had children, became a society hostess—and dreamed of Wonderland.Not that Wonderland has any business knocking at her door. She ishappy. And yet, on certain late nights, especially under a full moon, she finds herself standing in front of the painting that the Reverend Charles Dodgson had given...

What if your entire life passed by in just seven days?16-year-old Delaney Archer is always chasing the last minute. Even so, she's the top student in her class and is about to graduate as valedictorian . . . until one morning, when she wakes up in a strange place.Suddenly, she finds herself in graduate school. Seven years of her life have disappeared without a trace since she went to bed last night . . . but how?It takes a while fo...