Tales of Telemachus begins with a door closing and finishes with one left open. In between, the reader becomes a partner in a wide-ranging journey, a search, a quest. Expect tight, lyrical, and literate poetry. Expect to laugh and likewise be appalled, to be touched but also challenged. Don't expect to be provided answers but don't be surprised if you find some . . .

In the year 2345, Anslar, a nation ruled by a government bent on dominating global politics, is violently attacked when four blimps collide with three towers—the Anslar Federated Center—representing the financial center of the country. The impact from each blimp and expertly planted explosives inside the towers cause them to collapse, killing hundreds and igniting the fury of Anslar’s people and her government. Joe Stinson, a Cyber Security Engineer for the Anslaran government and a surviv...

26 more short stories that will amaze you.In Stranger in a Strange Land, Jared Talbert, the Marine commander of a deep space mission, is searching for Celestine, a cargo ship loaded with precious metals that never returned to earth. When he and his crew find the cargo vessel it is derelict and orbiting an uncharted planet, with evidence that it had been attacked before losing communication with home.Jared and his crew are soon attacked by weaponized satellites as their ship...

26 short stories that will amaze you.Controversial technology, rumored to be in use by a global shadow government, to weave worlds of a fantastic future.Curiosity rover discovers a locked door in the side of Mount Sharp, on Mars, and three scientists are sent on a mission to discover what lies within the ancient structure. Will they locate the mysterious libraries of a civilization lost, and survive to tell about their discoveries in The Mars Tetrahedron?When Hell is...

The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City, is a collection of scholarly papers which analyze demographic, social, political, and economic trends that are occurring in Brooklyn. Brooklyn, as the context, reflects global forces while also contributing to them. The idea for this volume developed as the editors discovered a group of scholars from different disciplines and various universities studying Brooklyn. Brooklyn has always been legendary a...

WHERE NO ONE KNOWS YOUR NAME...Thanksgiving, 2075. Shadowrunning vampire-mage Rick “Red” Lang used to make his living hunting dangerous insect spirits and twisted mages, but when he awakens after twelve years of involuntary hibernation, he finds the rest of the world has gotten even stranger.Red begins piecing together what had happened during his lost time—and who put him under in the first place. But as he journeys through the neon-drenched ruins of Chica...

THE MEANEST STREETS...James Kincaid is the type of guy who might be described as down on his luck, if only he’d had some luck to begin with. Like so many people in the shadows of Seattle, he’s trying to get by with what he has. In his case, that includes a lively spirit, a sadly diminished magical talent, quick wits, and good knowledge of the twists and turns of the city’s dingy streets and back alleys. He puts all that to the service of whatever clients he can dig...

SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, HUMORThe Unidentified Funny Objects series delivers an annual dose of funny, zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. All-new fiction from the genre's top voices!* Superheroes mired in government bureaucracy.* Cat cat-burglars.* Grandmotherly golems.* Literal-minded self-driving cars.* Evil overlords retired in Florida.* Indifferent aliens.

THE TAROT HAS AWAKENED…The Tarot, a powerful divination artifact, has appeared in the Sixth World. It works its will on anyone who finds one of its mystical cards, from runners surviving on the street to corp executives battling in the boardroom. And not just people’s lives will be changed, for the Awakened Tarot deck is more than just a formidable magic item, it has an agenda all its own, and will use those it comes in contact with to set its pla...

In the tradition of the pulp magazines the Thrilling Wonder Adventure bundle offers you a wide range of short science fiction by some of today's best writers. You will discover alternate realities, strange aliens, meet super humans transformed by aliens, a time traveling oak tree, meet the end of the world head on, attend a baseball game in the far future for the highest stakes ever, meet a space traveller returning to a future and unexpected Earth and much, much more. So strap on your jet...

Arcana means secrets, and these Arcana Chronicles short stories from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole are filled with them. Experience firsthand the beginning of the end and behold the apocalypse through the eyes of characters you only thought you knew.Ashes to ashes . . .Evie Greene’s story of the Flash is just one of many. All over the world, those connected in some way to the lethal Arcana game—like De...

Returning to the entrancing supernatural territory of her popular novels Dream Man and Son of the Morning, New York Times bestselling author Linda Howard has written a sizzling new novel that is her most daring, exciting, and original yet.In 1985, with much fanfare, a time capsule was buried under the front lawn of a small-town county courthouse, to be reopened in 2085. But just twenty years later, in the dead of night, the capsule is dug up, its contents stolen. That same night, o...