What do you do when you have a distressed Amazonian at your doorstep? A tall bronze-skinned man, Mruzel, is confused and wordless when he reaches out to the modern world. When the kind soul Bianca’s expertise did not work, she turned to her daughter to understand his pleading eyes. Niaxa, a Robotics Scientist, could not open his lips but opened his mind to a special Mindmapper. This is how we now know the story of the deep Amazon forest, the people that live there, and the great tragedy th...

The devastatingly romantic fifth novella in the globally bestselling phenomenon Shatter Me: Series One, chronicling the events after Imagine Me, the explosive sixth novel.Juliette and Warner fought hard to take down the Reestablishment once and for all. Life in the aftermath isn’t easy, as they and their friends at the Sanctuary work with their limited resources to stabilize the world.Warner has his sights set on more than just politics. Since he p...

A gleeful and exhilarating tale of global conspiracy, complex code-breaking, high-tech data visualization, young love, rollicking adventure, and the secret to eternal life—mostly set in a hole-in-the-wall San Francisco bookstoreThe Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a San Francisco Web-design drone—and serendipity, sheer curiosity, and the ability to climb a ladder like a monkey has landed him a new gig working the night shift at Mr. Penumb...

"An almost unheard-of diversity of tales absolutely sing in this superlative anthology" with stories by Samuel R. Delaney, Carmen Maria Machado and others ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).The world of science fiction and fantasy is always expanding, and today's authors are producing work that not only pushes boundaries, but also widens the range of voices and styles. These fresh perspectives pair perfectly with the timeless love for spaceships and drago...

Augmented reality becomes world war nightmareThe threat has been identified, the TransDimensional Counterforce assembled. Now the true battle begins.Lynn Raven thought she was fighting for glory and fortune. Instead, she finds she’s fighting for humanity’s very survival. But how do you defeat something you can’t see or understand?The world’s best and brightest have come together to give humanity a fighting chance, and now Lynn has t...

IT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS.You are standing in a room filled with books, faced with a difficult decision. Suddenly, one with a distinctive cover catches your eye. It is a groundbreaking anthology of short stories from award-winning writers and game-industry titans who have embarked on a quest to explore what happens when video games and science fiction collide.From text-based adventures to first-person shooters, dungeon crawlers to horror games, ...

* SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD *'Smart, vivid, engaging' - GUARDIAN'Biting... a dystopian kaleidoscope, hideous and true' - ESQUIRE'Lavanya Lakshminarayan breathes new life into dystopia' - WASHINGTON POST'Impressive' - SFXNOTHING HAS HAPPENED. NOT YET, ANYWAY. THIS IS HOW ALL THINGS BEGIN.W...

*A genre-defining—*and redefining—collection of the boldest, most rebellious, and most prescient speculative fiction, featuring stories from all over the globe.“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”Almost forty years ago, William Gibson wrote the line that began *Neuromancer—*and a movement that would change the face of science fiction.Award-winning anthologist Jared Shurin brings together over a hund...

From the New York Times bestselling author of the horror novels The Only Good Indians and My Heart Is a Chainsaw comes Stephen Graham Jones’s, “The Belle of the Ball,” a Tor.com original short story.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Since 2006, Clarkesworld Magazine has been entertaining science fiction and fantasy fans with their brand of unique science fiction and fantasy stories. Collected here are all thirty-four stories published in the sixth year of this Hugo Award-winning magazine.CONTENTSIntroduction by Neil ClarkeScattered Along the River of Heaven by Aliette de BodardAll the Painted Stars by Gwendolyn ClarePrayer by Robert Reed

The January/February 2018 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Elizabeth Bear, S.B. Divya, Arkady Martine, Marissa Lingen, Sunny Moraine, Vivian Shaw, and R.K. Kalaw, reprinted fiction by Vandana Singh, essays by Fran Wilde, John Wiswell, Iori Kusano, Rebecca Roanhorse, and Sarah Monette, and poetry by Sofia Samatar & Del Samatar, Nitoo Das, Sonya Taaffe, and Ana Hurtado, interviews with S.B. Divya and Sunny Moraine by Caroline M. Yoachim, ...

The January/February 2024 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Mary Robinette Kowal, Jordan Taylor, Jana Bianchi, Natalia Theodoridou, Ana Hurtado, Cheri Kamei, and Angela Liu. Essays by John Scalzi, Alex Jennings, Cecilia Tan, and Amanda Wakaruk and Olav Rokne, poetry by Ali Trota, Ai Jiang, C.S.E. Cooney, and Sodïq Oyèkànmí, interviews with Jordan Taylor and Natalia Theodoridou by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Galen Dara, and an editori...