The 50th Anniversary Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”Ploughshares showcases the work of “writers who make the shapes they want to mak...

Celebrating the Works of George MacDonaldGeorge MacDonald inspired the imaginative visions of C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, J.R.R. Tolkien, and so many others. He presents the reader with an enchanted world that is richer than the flattened world of materialism that defines reality for so many. Through this volume, we hope to invite the reader into the world of fantasy en route to discovering a true reality.Take a tour of the books of this classic Christian a...

Five stories from top writers of speculative fiction: science fiction, fantasy and the downright strange, stories from the heart, stories to make you think and wonder.The stories in this volume are:"Filming the Making of the Film of the Making of Fitzcarraldo" by Garry Kilworth"Flying to Byzantium" by Lisa Tuttle"Arrhythmia" by Neil Williamson"Dr Vanchovy's Final Case" by Stephen Palmer"The Girl Who Died for Art and Lived" by Eri...

Six months have passed since the onset of the Krenaran war, the E.D.F and their Solarian allies have managed to push back their brutal Krenaran assailants, although at a terrible cost. Many once proud colonies, stations and facilities now lie in ruins due to the ferocity of the fighting, and millions of lives have been lost.Michael Alexander; now a captain, and in full command of the Liberty, has been left a haunted man by the loss of his wife and son, he must now put the past behi...

Five years have passed since the great Krenaran war, and humanity have began to rebuild from the devastation wrought upon them.A love survey ship drops out of plasma drive on the fringes of the far flung Auriga system, searching for potential new colony worlds.As it ventures further in-system, the crew are excited to discover what appears to be an immense alien installation built upon the surface of one of the planets. An installation abandoned for some three hundred years....

They call them the "rat-catchers." They're the crew of the spaceship Daedalus, which an economically destitute Earth has dispatched on a mission to re-establish contact with its far-flung, long-lost space colonies. Alex Alexander, ship's biologist, must help solve the mysteries of human and alien ecosystems that he encounters light-years from home. The planet Floria initially appears to be one of the few Earth colonies that's actually prospered since its initial settlement. But underneath ...

Time travel is one of the staples of science fiction, right up there with aliens, space opera, and robots. Most science fiction authors have written at least one time travel story. This collection samples some of the best.TIME OUT, by Edward M. LernerTHESE STONES WILL REMEMBER, by Reginald BretnorPROJECT MASTODON, by Clifford D. Simak12:01 P.M., by Richard A. LupoffTIME CONSIDERED AS A SERIES OF THERMITE BURNS IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER, by Damien Broderick

"The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack" presents 25 more mind-bending excursions through time and space, with great stories by such authors as Arthur C. Clarke, Nancy Kress, Lawrence Watt-Evans, George Zebrowski, Philip K. Dick, and many more! Included are:OUT OF ALL THEM BRIGHT STARS, by Nancy KressTHE HANGING STRANGER, by Philip K. DickWALKING JOHN AND BIRD, by Neal AsherTHE SYMPHONIC ABDUCTION, by Hannes BokTHE NINE BILLION NAMES OF GOD, by Arthur C. Cla...

As a viper, she's no stranger to death. As a sister, she'll do anything to protect her kin.Kate Richmond has seen it all. The former army ranger and ISS operative has engaged in missions of sabotage, cyber theft, espionage, and assassination on her path to become a viper cyborg. After barely surviving a full-scale incursion by the Merkiaari, she doubts life can hold anymore surprises, until a family mystery lands on her doorstep.Her brother has been linked ...

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**FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE & A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOKWINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZEONE OF THE ATLANTIC’S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS“A book that reads like a prose poem, at once sublime, profane, intimate, philosophical, witty and, eventually, deeply moving.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice“Wow. I can’t remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book. What an inventive and startling wri...

The bestselling, wonderfully unconventional, “warmly conspiratorial…seriously good” (The New York Times) memoir-in-letters from the Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe Award–winning actress that has received fabulous and wide praise. “There is no one else quite like Mary-Louise Parker…Funny, heartbreaking and profound” (ELLE).An extraordinary literary memoir, Dear Mr. You renders the singular arc of a woman’s life through letters Mary-Louise Par...