Astrophobia: the fear of stars and celestial space. Thirteen tales of horror beyond Earth. Ranging from hard sci-fi to space fantasy, there is a story here for every horror loving heart.Featuring:Kay F. Atkinson - ImperativeK.L. Brandt - To the CrustJoe Butler - We Give Our Bodies to the Beautiful DarkFreddie A. Clark - GUDSKOMPLEXCarolina Cruz - Ontology of a Killer Robot; Or, I Think Therefor I Kill

The Little Gay Book is an anthology of short stories that delve into queer romance, moving between universes fantastical and real. It brings together angry and unstable characters alongside sweet and confident ones, each living intensely and unapologetically.As little as it might be, it's not a light read. All the characters involved live their life to the fullest. Their emotions run deep — so deep that you might close this little book one day with a smile, and the next wi...

ADVENTURER WANTED FOR OVERNIGHT HIKEAfter losing her job with the US Forestry Service, Celeste Foster makes a desperate gamble by answering an ad for a job in rural Virginia. What she doesn't anticipate is sliding into an alternate version of the Appalachian mountains.Before Celeste understands what's happening, she agrees to hike up a cursed mountain to save a town from complete annihilation. And in the days leading up to the ritual, she learns that gods a...

An amnesiac man awakens on board a mysterious starship full of monsters in this terrifying sci-fi adventure by a New York Times –bestselling author."A lean, mean, supercharged sense-of-wonder engine." —Alastair ReynoldsA starship hurtles through the emptiness of space. Its destination, unknown. Its purpose, a mystery.Now, one man wakes up. Ripped from a dream of a new home—a new planet and...

She’d left him! And on their wedding day, no less! Stefan Kozlov couldn’t believe that the woman he’d married had disappeared only hours after exchanging their vows! After months of happy courting, interspersed with cold showers as he forced them to wait for their wedding night, Livia had left without explanation. Stefan was angry and confused, but still determined to reunite and consummate their relationship. Even if Livia wouldn’t have him, her mother’s medical emergency still made it cr...

This is the third annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to get them to more readersThe Long List Anthology Volume 3 collects 20 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totaling ov...

Chloe Deems is a plus sized girl with pink hair and an attitude –she owns her curves. Which is one reason she's so upset when she gets abducted by aliens and forced to live in a Smart House designed to make her lose weight. She has to weigh in every day and the smart-aleck talking scale decides what she's allowed to eat which is always lettuce and celery and never the delicious Thin Mints she can see peering tantalizingly out from behind the unbreakable glass cupboard in the kitchen. To Ch...

Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinct, leaving only androids behind to fulfill humanity’s dreams. And, having learned well from their long-dead masters, they’ve established a hierarchical society—one with humanoid aristo rulers at the top and slave-chipped workers at the bottom, performing the lowly tasks all androids were originally created to do.Designed as a concubine for a species that hasn’t existed for two hundred years, femmebot Freya Nakamichi-47—one o...

A 2021 Nebula Award Nominee!One woman will travel to the stars and beyond to save her beloved in this lyrical space opera that reimagines The Little Mermaid.Gene-edited human clans have scattered throughout the galaxy, adapting themselves to environments as severe as the desert and the sea. Atuale, the daughter of a Sea-Clan lord, sparked a war by choosing her land-dwelling love and rejecting her place among her people. Now her husband and his clan ...

Believing Sam Ely was the only one for her, young Annalise Wolff threw herself at him. But he claimed he was too old for her…and that she was too forward. Seven years later, she's still reeling from his words, vowing never to forgive. Then she's offered a job she can't refuse.Although it means working closely with Sam, Annalise is determined to ignore age-old feelings. But then a snowstorm strands them together…without power…without family interference…without inhibitions. And Anna...

Super science. Madness. Transhumanism.This is the dawn of posthumanity. Some things can’t be unlearned.Gleaming labs whir with the hum of servers as scientists unravel the secrets of the universe. But as we peel away mysteries, the universe glances back at us. Even now, terrors rise from the Mariana Trench and drift down from the stars. Scientists are disappearing—or worse. Experiments take on minds of their own. Some fight back against the unknown, some gi...

This fifth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features thirty-three stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Elizabeth Bear, Aliette de Bodard, Ursula K. Le Guin, Jay Lake, Kelly Link, Robert Reed, Lavie Tidhar, Catherynne M. Valente, Genevieve Valentine, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Analog, Asimov's, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Strange Horizons, and other top venues, The Year's Best Scien...