"The trouble with cat people is that they cater and spoil the little beasts. You have to be firm. Set limits." Or so Dylan, a deaf writer in Ohio, believes when he accepts an invitation to cat-sit for a friend in Brooklyn in return for a week's free lodging. Soon enough he realizes Milord's no ordinary cat. Not only does he need extraordinary catering to his every whim, but he's very adept at making his displeasure known if Dylan doesn't obey. Soon the two are at war--and only one can win....

The end is nearer than you think. The world to come is full of bleak humor, sketchy survivors, and bittersweet nostalgia for what was lost. This collection of short stories from award-winning author Sandra McDonald includes zombies, robots, nuclear submarines, galactic dangers, Hollywood snark, transgender heroines, and gay cowboy robots. Indulge your sweet tooth for poignant disaster. For fans of Stephen King's The Stand or movies such The Day After Tomorrow and San Andreas.

Chief Terry Myell and Lieutenant Commander Jodenny Scott are in that most precarious of military situations, a mixed marriage. Enlisted and officer. It's unnatural.Terry and Jodenny have been assigned to duty on the planet Fortune, away from the huge ships that carry colonists from the wreckage of polluted Earth to clean new worlds across the galaxy.But there's another way besides spaceships to travel from world to world. A group within Team Space is exploring the Wondjina Sp...

Chief Terry Myell died and became a god. Now he's back to life, careening around space and time at the behest of a voice that told him to save all of mankind. Helping and hindering this quest are his elderly wife, his young wife, grandchildren who haven't been born yet, romantic rivals he hasn't even met, a descendant from two thousand years in the future, and an alien nemesis who calls itself the Flying Doctor. Life in the military has never been so complicated.Commander Jodenny Sc...

Lieutenant Jodenny Scott is a hero. She has the medals and the scars to prove it.She's cooling her heels on Kookaburra, recovering from injuries sustained during the fiery loss of her last ship, the Yangtze, and she's bored -- so bored, in fact, that she takes a berth on the next ship out. That's a mistake. The Aral Sea isn't anyone's idea of a get-well tour.Jodenny's handed a division full of misfits, incompetents, and criminals. She's a squared-away office...

One of the most powerful ways we can care for our future is to create a Power of Attorney. This simple document allows an appointed person to make decisions for us in the case that we can no longer do so ourselves. But what does it mean to be someone's attorney? And how can it be set up?This book is designed to offer clear, practical advice for anyone making this decision, or needing to exercise their rights. Drawing on over two decades of professional and personal experience, Sand...

For Isa Howard, a transgendered woman on Guam, life after the apocalypse is filled with family, fishing, and waiting for the return of civilization. When a trip across the island goes wrong, she must choose between saving herself and serving her community. It's no choice at all. Reprinted in the Year's Best Science Fiction.

Tom Carter wants to go home. He's a 25th century pilot stranded far from Earth, out of luck and out of money. On the orbiting space station Boomerang World, his only chance hinges on rescuing a runaway sea princess. With the help of Nona Tiare, a military officer with plans of her own, Tom just might succeed. Or find true love. Or perhaps just start an interstellar war...

Transgender.Transvestite. Bisexual. These four groundbreaking stories center on people whose sexuality and gender don't fit into tidy boxes. From a WWII battleship to the lunar landscape, they struggle with identity, intimacy, and romance in a world that rejects who they are or want to be. Includes the James Tiptree award honor list story "Drag Queen Astronaut" and "Sea of Cortez" from the anthology "Take Me There," winner of the Lambda Literary Award.

Ettie Ruiz is the History and Science Officer for her spaceship, but she never imagined she'd get stranded in 19th century China with famous adventurer Isabella Bird. Now she's sailing down the Yangtze River, visiting the fabled city of Shanghai, and trying to save the planet from a rogue comet. With the help of her friends and the girl she'd like to kiss, Ettie's on a mission to rescue the past before the future itself ceases to exist.

Four short stories of whimsy and mystery set in Revere, Massachusetts by award-winning author Sandra McDonald. Includes:Mrs. Gillingham's Constitutional - a walk up Winthrop Ave, with a twist.Constituent Work - magic at City Hall.Recipe for Survival - cooking up tragedy on Bellingham Ave.Life Sentence - a murderer on Charger Street.

A whimsical tale of a woman, an apocalypse, and the sexy ice-skating cowboy robots she spends the rest of her life with.A short story by the award-winning author of Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories. Originally published in Strange Horizons. James A. Tiptree Award Honor List 2012