An unabridged collection showcasing the best science fiction stories and novellas published in 2025 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster.· “Low-Tide Salvage” by Matthew Claxton—Rival groups use highly advanced biotech to manipulate their biomes.· “The Robot and the Winding Woods” by Brenda Cooper—Intransigent docents lying low in a shuttered campground are confronted by a government robot.· “I...

Caught up in a space station turf war between gangs and corrupt law, a lone asteroid miner decides to take them all down.When an asteroid miner comes to Station 35 looking to sell her cargo and get back to the solitude she craves, she gets swept up in a three-way standoff with gangs and crooked cops. Faced with either taking sides or cleaning out the Augean Stables, she breaks out the flamethrower.

Franklin D. Roosevelts landslide victory in the USA's 1932 presidential election gave him a mandate to institute a 'New Deal' for US citizens, and by so doing offer them 'a more abundant life'. For a decade between 1933 and 1943 the New Deal art programs marked the largest federal investment in the arts in the history of the country. Tens of thousands of artists and artisans across the country produced some 2,500 murals, 100,000 easel paintings, 17,000 sculptures, and 200,000 prints.

A vibrant and insightful account of the diverse artists and activists who made up the New Deal art programs and the influential legacy of the artwork they left behind.What role should the arts play in a democracy? At the height of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal turned crisis into opportunity. Through unprecedented federal funding for the arts, the New Deal launched the careers of artists such as Philip Guston, Dorothea Lange, Jacob...

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, France underwent a particularly turbulent period during which urban riots in 2005 and labor protests in 2006 galvanized people across the country and brought the question of youth unemployment among its poorer, multiethnic outer cities into the national spotlight.Drawing on more than a year of ethnographic field research in the housing projects of the French city of Limoges, Yearning to Labor chronicles the everyday struggle...

Forever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Each issue will feature a novella, author, two short stories, and cover art by Ron Guyatt. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke.Our fifteenth issue features a novella by John P. Murphy ("Claudius Rex"), a short story by Cat Rambo ("Memories of Moments, Bright as Falling Stars"), and a novelette by Gardner Dozois (...

Max is a cheery xeno-archeologist from Earth, stranded and trying to find a way home.Lahra is a stern warrior of a nearly extinct race searching for her people's heir.Wheel is the couple's cybernetic pilot running from her past and toward an unknown future.On Wheel's ship, the Kettle, the trio traverses the galaxy, dodging Imperial patrols and searching ancient ruins for anything they can sell. The crew of the Kettle are deeply in debt to their home base's most powe...

Terry Clark grew up surrounded by his parent's life's work, the rescue and rehabilitation of cetaceans. Born just after first contact with the Galactic Union, he's never known a time when aliens weren't visiting Earth. At 10 years old, he had a normal life, until a visit from one of the aliens resulted in a ground-breaking discovery. The cetaceans have a developed and complex language…and it can be deciphered by the aliens' translators.When Terry's father begins using alien implant...

Welcome to the story of the greatest interstellar cruise liner disaster of all time (“Titanic in Space” as the Galaxy Express Blog termed it), one small group of survivors and what befell them in later years, as told in three novels. This box set gathers three of Veronica Scott’s award winning science fiction novels into one collection. Please note each novel has been previously published on its own and all can be read as standalone tales.WRECK OF THE NEBULA DREAM: Traveling unexpe...

I never thought I’d have a bounty on my head the size of the Milky Way.Of course, I never thought I’d be able to bend time, either.But hey, life is full of surprises.Don’t get me wrong, feeling like a goddess has its perks, but those perks come with a hefty price. My brain is tapioca. I’m stranded in the middle of dead space. Ratters are using me for target practice, and a giant, cybernetic monster named Oscar is trying to make me h...

It's just a game…or is it?On the heels of his divorce, down-and-out history professor Lee Summerston doesn't have a lot going for him—a nowhere job at a third-rate college with kids who don't care about anything except how to slide through class. All of that changes, though, when Lee leads a team of old friends to virtual glory as the first-ever group to beat Mako Assault, a revolutionary new game that has emerged from nowhere to take the Internet by storm...

When outlaw Suzy Spitfire flies to Venus in search of a vicious serial killer, she's looking for the road to redemption—but instead, instead, she quickly becomes involved in a gang war, a revolution, and a desperate attempt to protect a young girlfrom a violent fate.Join Suzy Spitfire and her friends for another wild ride through the solar system!NOTE: This book contains some profanity.