Magic, mystery, and the macabre collide in Pick Your Potion, a mesmerising collection of genre-blending fantasy, science-fiction, and horror stories from award-winning Australian author Ephiny Gale.The 26 weird tales in Pick Your Potion are female-centric, mostly queer, and always intriguing.Within these pages, you'll find:A deadly and addictive magical board game.A time-loop demon apocalypse.A dimension-jumping cruise ship....

In 2020, the world was tipped upside down and shaken in ways we could barely have imagined, except perhaps in the post-apocalyptic and dystopic worlds of story. Amidst pandemic illness and death, political machinations and despair, one of the casualties has been, at least in a financial sense, the Arts. Governments across the world have slashed funding, galleries, theatres and entertainment venues have closed amid lockdown restrictions, money is being carefully metered with jobs more uncer...

Jack and Jill build an indeterminate time machine.Madalyn Walker returns from fairy land, 3 times.Nine people search for a reason to hold them down to Earth.Illia struggles to direct from within a human body.Two burn to death; one burns others.King Santino unleashes his powers of cut-to.A magic-free world questions its devotion to fairy tale rules.Full of speculative tales, queer ladies, and dark, lush storyte...

An otherworldly banquet of contemporary fantasy, dark fairy tales, and soft science fiction, Next Curious Thing collects some of Gale's best short fiction from 2013 to 2018, including Best of the Net winner 'In the Beginning, All Our Hands Are Cold'. Known for her ability to mix the extraordinary with the relatable, darkness with splendour, and heartache with hope, Gale showcases a wide cast of fascinating female and queer characters in the most curious of situations. In addition to its pr...

The new collection of beautiful, strange and disarming short stories from the award-winning Aliya Whiteley, deftly unpeels the strangeness of everyday life with her trademark wit. Witness the future of farming in a new Ice Age, or the artist bringing life to glass; the many-eyed monsters we carry and the secret cities inside our bodies.Fascinating, and unlike any other writer working today.

This thirteenth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features thirty-four stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Leah Cypess, John Kessel, Yoon Ha Lee, Naomi Kritzer, Sarah Langan, Ken Liu, Annalee Newitz, Sarah Pinsker, Sofia Samatar, Michael Swanwick, Tade Thompson, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Asimov's, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Uncanny, Tor.com, and other top venues, The Year's Best ...

Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Rebecca Roanhorse and series editor John Joseph Adams select twenty pieces that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year and explore the ever-expanding and changing world of SFF today.Today’s readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pus...

A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret AtwoodIn Dearly, Margaret Atwood’s first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and - zombies. Her new poetry is introspective and personal in tone, but wide-ranging in topic. In poem after poem, she casts her unique imagination and unyielding, observant eye over the landscape of a life carefully and...

“Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction belongs on every Canadian reader’s bookshelf.” - Amazing StoriesThe World Fantasy Award finalist and two-time Aurora Award-winning series is back with an all-new volume!Step into worlds of wonder with the definitive showcase of the best Canadian fantasy and science fiction of the year.Discover the magic woven by more than three dozen of Canada’s most celebrated authors and rising st...

A collection of short parodies, excerpted from the award-winning Henry Potty and the Pet Rock, An Unexpected Parody: The Unauthorized Spoof of The Hobbit, How Game of Thrones Will End, and new side-splitting material for readers young and old. A delightful romp through the world's favorite franchises.

Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine. Fifty-two great science fiction and fantasy stories. All the stories we published in 2018.ContentsFrom the EditorJanuaryThe Seer at Sunset Hills Shopping Plaza — Katherine PerdueJewel/Gem Offering — Emily McIntyreThis Side of the Wall — Michael GardnerMemory is a Rumor — Yaroslav BarsukovFebruaryLove in its Heart — David Z. MorrisChe...

The astonishing and impressive first collection of short stories from New York Times bestselling author Neil GaimanAn elderly widow finds the Holy Grail beneath an old fur coat in a second-hand store . . .A stray cat fights and refights a nightly battle to protect his adoptive family from an unimagiable evil . . .A young couple receives a wedding gift that will reveal a chilling alternate history of their marriage . . .Beneath a bridge by the railroad tracks...