What if there are other timelines, other histories, other Jews? Would they still have a covenant with the one God, or would they know strange gods? Would they have survived banishment, pogrom and Holocaust? What if the Holocaust had not occurred? Or what if it had succeeded beyond Hitler's darkest dreams?Some of the world's greatest speculative fiction authors explore these roads not taken, and many others, in Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People, the first-eve...

Long before their award-nominated and awarded stories and novels, these two writers word-jammed together, learning the music of story writing and the blood and bones of distinctive prose. And all these early efforts were published! Here they are again, together in one place--ten riveting stories of science fiction--as entertaining as they were fun to write--including the previously unpublished tale, "The Standard Crisis Scenario"!

Stories about legendary creatures of myth and magic!An anthology of extraordinary stories about legendary creatures of myth and magic features works by Tanith Lee, T.H. White, Jane Yolen, and Gene Wolfe“The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule” by Lucius Shepard“Draco, Draco” by Tanith Lee“The Rule of Names” by Ursula K. Le Guin“The Black Horn” by Jack Dann“Walk Like a mountain” by Manly Wade Wellman“Treaty in Tartessos” by Karen Anderson

This is one of a series of anthologies of science fiction and mystery stories by Borgo Press writers that are being distributed at cost as both ebooks and paperback volumes. The first volume in the sequence, Yondering, includes a baker's dozen of original and reprint tales by fourteen writers.In "The Quills of Henry Thomas," W. C. and Aja Bamberger give us a glimpse of a future in which music is composed through DNA computing. "The Gizzard Wizard" is Rory Barnes's delightful sequel...

Thirteen spellbinding tales of magical masters of wizardryTales of magic, illusion, mages, and dark wizards by such talents as Ursula K. LeGuin, Jack Vance, Theodore Sturgeon, Joe Haldeman, and others highlight a collection of fourteen stories about the world of sorcery“The Bleak Shore” by Fritz Leiber“O Ugly Bird!” by Manly Wade Wellman“The Power of the Press” by Richard Kearns“The Finger” by Naomi Mitchison“The Word of Unbinding” by Ursula K. L...

It’s the end of the world—but not as we know it. . .As the new millennium approaches, speculations about Earth's destruction abound. This collection presents twelve world-ending scenarios that are all too frightening -- and all too real.“Fermi and Frost” by Frederik Pohl“A Desperate Calculus” by Gregory Benford“Evolution” by Nancy Kress“A Message to the King of Brobdingnag” by Richard Cowper“. . . The World, As We Know’t” by Howard Waldrop...

In Shadows in the Stone, Jack Dann creates a fully-realized, living, breathing universe, a universe where the Vatican is in Venice, Jehovah is really a lesser god known as the Demiurge, and the magus John Dee's experiments with angels are true and repeatable. Here you'll discover a nun who has the expertise and agility of a Ninja warrior, the reincarnated snake goddess known as the Daughter of Light, the famed Florentine magician Pico Della Mirandola, a young magus who is part sto...

Nine visions of the future of war…In this explosive anthology, ten of science fiction's best new and classic writers imagine the soldiers who will one day fight and die on distant worlds.“The Gardens of Saturn” by Paul J. McAuley“Soldiers Home” by William Barton“Legacies” by Tom Purdom“Mood Duel” by Fritz Leiber“Savior” by Robert Reed“ Galactic North” by Alastair Reynolds“ Masque of the Red Shift” by Fred Saberhagen“Time Piec...

Ten thrilling tales of the marvelous monsters of the deepHere, in one thrilling volume, are 12 tales of the creatures who rule the bottom of the sea, featuring today's finest science fiction and fantasy authors. Their legends live on, portrayed by such masters as Roger Zelazny, Larry Niven, Gordon R. Dickson, and more."Algy" by L. Sprague de Camp"Out of Darkness" by Lillian Steward Carl"Leviathan!" by Larry Niven"The Horses of Lir" by Roger Zelazny

Sixteen magical tales about the most wondrous of all creatures.A collection of tales of fantasy featuring the legendary unicorn."The Spoor of the Unicorn" by Avram Davidson"The Silken-Swift" by Theodore Sturgeon"Eudoric's Unicorn" by L. Sprague de Camp"The Flight of the Horse" by Larry Niven"On the Downhill Side" by Harlan Ellison"The Night of the Unicorn" by Thomas Burnett Swann"Mythological Beast" by Stephen R. Donaldson"Th...

Crime and Punishment—21st century style.An anthology of classic and critically acclaimed stories about the felonies and offenses law enforcement authorities will face in a future that's closer than we realize. High-tech identity theft that carries remarkable consequences... Mutant con men devising an ingenious alien scam... A private detective with headquarters on the moon... A world where being late is punishable by death... A lone cop battling a cyborg Mafia don... Art thieves op...

The future isn’t through with you yet.Featuring stellar contributions from some of today's most masterful practitioners of speculative fiction, Beyond Singularity presents fourteen visions of a tomorrow where rapid technological and genetic breakthroughs have rendered humanity obsolete.“Old Hundredth” by Brian W. Aldiss“Rogue Farm” by Charles Stross“Naturals” by Gregory Benford“Osmund Considers” by Timons Esaias“Coelacanths” by Robert Reed...