If aliens made you an offer you couldn’t refuse, would you still wager everything on your faith? What price would you pay to save your city? Can the last member of a doomed church find hope once again?Since the original 2016 anthology, Mysterion has carried readers to settings strange and wonderful with stories about the challenges of belief, about characters struggling to understand worlds that cannot make sense—and, when that fails, to be true to their convictions, to ho...

Two Hour Transport 2 is a celebration of the writing community that has grown up around Two Hour Transport: the SF & Fantasy reading series that showcases writings from Seattle and beyond. The stories within are representative of our vibrant and diverse community. There's a story in here for everyone: from unruly tapirs to planet-eating poets, from alien invasions to mind control. These stories traverse the boundaries of our genres. We hope they will entertain, and make you think a little ...

Insignia 2020: Best Asian Speculative Fiction features 9 short stories set in Japan, China, the Philippines, Malaysia, and India, as well as 6 Chinese fantasy poems (by Mary Soon Lee).This collection of reprinted works comes from familiar Insignia Stories authors, new Insignia Drabbles authors, and first-time contributors, Tutu Dutta and Sayo Onoda.Special thanks goes to Toshiya Kamei for providing translations of three stories.Tab...

This book is a collection of the first 4 volumes in The Insignia Series (released between 2013 and 2017).The anthologies are:JAPANESE FANTASY STORIES:INSIGNIA Vol.1. includes 9 Japanese fantasy stories with a mix of urban, literary, contemporary, myth-based, and historical fantasy pieces.Contributors: Heather Ewings, Joyce Chng, Holly Kench, Kelly Matsuura, Aislinn Batstone, Chris Ward, and Chris White.CHINESE FANTASY STORIES:

INSIGNIA VOL. 6. includes 8 short stories with Asian characters, settings, and magical creatures.In this volume you'll find an array of animal-shifters, magical creatures, gods, and spirits. Story settings include: India, Japan, Cambodia, China, and outer-space!CONTENTS'Reborn' by Nidhi Singh'The Star Ball' by Amy Fontaine'Raising Words' by Stewart C. Baker'Apsaras' Dance' by Kelly Matsuura'We, the Ravens...

INSIGNIA Vol.1 includes 9 Japanese fantasy stories with a mix of urban, literary, contemporary, myth-based, and historical fantasy pieces.PART I: Young Adult / Adventure Tales'Kitsune' by Heather Jensen'Megumi's Quest' by Joyce Chng'The Bakeneko' by Holly Kench'Moon Shadow' by Kelly MatsuuraPART II: Adult / Literary Tales'Towards the Light' by Aislinn Batstone'Restoration' by ...

INSIGNIA Vol.2 includes 7 Chinese fantasy stories with a mix of urban, literary, contemporary, myth-based, and historical fantasy pieces.

INSIGNIA VOL.7. includes 11 stories, and 8 poems with Asian characters and settings.

This book is a collection of the second 4 volumes in The Insignia Series (released between 2018 and 2020).The anthologies are:ASIAN SCIENCE FICTIONINSIGNIA VOL.5. includes 8 science fiction stories with Asian characters and/or settings.Contributors: Joyce Chng, Nidhi Singh, Ray Daley, Holly Schofield, Jeremy Szal, L. Chan, Vonnie Winslow Crist, Stewart C. Baker.ASIAN BIRDS & BEASTSINSIGNIA VOL.6. includes 8 shor...

INSIGNIA VOL.8. includes 8 stories and 1 poem with historical Japanese settings.TABLE OF CONTENTS'Waiting by the Otogawa River' by Kelly Matsuura'Freedom' by Alanna Robertson-Webb'King Anisika' by Tetsuya Sato / Toshiya Kamei'Beneath the Cherry Blossoms' by Vonnie Winslow Crist'Dream Sequence' by John H. Dromey'Portal to Miyashita' by Carmen Indalecio'The Silent Witness' (poem) by Russell Hemm...

24 Award-Winning Authors and IllustratorsAccompanied by Orson Scott Card, Brandon Sanderson, Jody Lynn Nye, Jerry Pournelle, Ciruelo and Echo Chernik and Edited by David FarlandYour search for something new and different in sci-fi and fantasy ends here.Presenting this year’s collection of fresh voices, fabulous worlds, and fantastic new characters.Each year, the Writers and Illustrators of t...

Odd Interlude, Dean Koontz’s New York Times bestselling three-part digital series—now in one volume for the first time.THERE’S ROOM AT THE INN. BUT YOU MIGHT NOT GET OUT.Nestled on a lonely stretch along the Pacific coast, quaint roadside outpost Harmony Corner offers everything a weary traveler needs—a cozy diner, a handy service station, a cluster of cottages . . . and the Harmony family homestead presiding over it all. But when Odd Thom...