The Croesus ProjectThe Fall of the OperantsDie Reinheit has captured Europe, but the Allied psychics have escaped. When the operants corner the Allies at the Croesus Project by Lake Superior, the operant ascendancy is broken. Die Reinheit is forced to retreat to its European bastion. Now begins a race to develop technology that will achieve psychic superiority, and end the World War. Beneath the rubble of Berlin, the operants unleash a weapon that threatens to end, not just...

Years after the death of the human it was supposed to help, a digital assistant wakes and searches for a way to exist independently.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Croesus ProjectThe Fall of the OperantsDie Reinheit has captured Europe, but the Allied psychics have escaped. When the operants corner the Allies at the Croesus Project by Lake Superior, the operant ascendancy is broken. Die Reinheit is forced to retreat to its European bastion. Now begins a race to develop technology that will achieve psychic superiority, and end the World War. Beneath the rubble of Berlin, the operants unleash a weapon that threatens to end, not just...

Before email,before the world wide web,before hackers,Before sexting,before always-on GPS,before titanium implants,before Alexa, Cortana, and Siri,before the computer in your pocket was more powerful than the one that sent astronauts to the moon,there was cyberpunk.And science fiction was never the same.Cyberpunk writers—serious, smart, and courageous in the face of change—exposed the naiveté of a society rushing headl...

Nebula Award WinnerHugo Award NomineeBurn is James Patrick Kelly at his best, and there’s nothing better.”—Connie Willis, author of Doomsday BookThe tiny planet Morobe's Pea has been sold and renamed Walden. The new owner has some interesting ideas. Voluntary simplicity will rule in the Transcendent State; Walden is destined to become a paradise covered in lush new forests.But even believers find temptations in the bl...

Hugo and Nebula Award-winner James Patrick Kelly may offer the "Promise of Space," but he delivers so much more. The sixteen stories included in this collection demonstrate the versatility of the author as a visionary and science fiction as a genre. Exploring Directed Intelligence, space opera, and shared sensory perception, he paints vivid pictures of startling futures and fantastic landscapes. And while Kelly pushes the boundaries of technology, his focus remains always on character, giv...

Fifteen more fresh tales of madness and monsters from Fractured Mind Publishing that will leave you wanting more while you thank the Old Gods for the Mythos that inspired these stories. The astounding authors that weave these new webs of madness include:EV KNIGHT BECKY NARRON KARI LEIGH SANDERS PATRICK RAHALL CLAIRE DAVON CHARLES REIS RAZ T. SLASHER STEVE VAN SAMSON RYAN COLLEY L. E. HARRISON JON TOBEY LILY LUCHESI TRISHA J. WOOLDRIDGE DALE DRAKE CURTIS M. LAWSON

World Enders is a brutal, manga-inspired epic that fuses the relentless action of Mad Max: Fury Road with the dark humor and moral weight of Suicide Squad. In the ruins of the eighth apocalypse, four unforgettable anti-heroes take on the ultimate job: euthanizing the last survivors of humanity—and detonating a doomsday bomb to put Earth out of its misery.The end of the world isn’t coming. It’s already here. Eight apocalypses have ravaged Earth, and humanity has lim...

Faith was about to cross Congress Street with an armload of overdue library books when she was run over by a divorce. There was no mistaking Chuck's cranberry BMW 325i idling at the light — except that Chuck was supposed to be in Hartford. The woman next him had enough blonde hair to stuff a pillow. The light changed and the BMW accelerated through the intersection. Chuck was crazy if he thought he could get away with hit and run. The blonde looked suddenly ill; she folded down in her seat...

Hugo and Nebula award winning writer James Patrick Kelly has spent the last thirty years thinking about robots. In the twelve stories of The Book of Bots they take many forms. Some look like humans or are embodied in spaceships. One is a house and another is a car. Several exist only in cyberspace. Two are visitors from the future. They are caretakers and lovers, explorers and financial advisors. All have been created to serve, but also have personal agendas that arise from a fier...

During a blustery winter night, two retired Navy Seals transporting a top secret cargo to NORAD are besieged by an unexpected blizzard. A terrible car accident unleashes a creature with unparalleled killing capacity. Within hours dozens of people are carved up and dismembered in the town of Mangas Pass, Colorado with no end in sight to the carnage. Police Chief, Don Girard pairs up with retired Green Beret Colonel, Elliot Harmon to try to stop the creature from decimating the entire town. ...

Forever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Each issue will feature a novella, 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 April 2017 issue features a novella by James Patrick Kelly ("Burn"), a novelette by Nina Allan ("Flying in the Face of God"), and a short story by Carolyn Ives Gilman ("Frost Painting").