Last year, we were born of defiance.This year, we are born of rage.In turbulent worlds born from science fiction, fantasy, and the fantastical, find stories of women who rise like the phoenix in flames of fury. The wrath of goddesses, the power of grief and ire, and the strength of women to transform themselves and their worlds.Refusing to settle for just surviving, they choose to build their lives on their own terms, despite whatever may stand in their way....

Born of resistance. Of rebellion. Of defiance.The history of the world and the tapestry of literature has been drawn with the colors of women who chose to buck the status quo, to resist What Was with the dreams of creating What Could Be, even when the rest of the world told them not to. Women who chose not to tolerate injustice. Who chose to stand when they were told to sit. Who chose to lead when they were told to follow.In this anthology...

The future becomes what we make it, and we make what we envision. In darkness, we can envision light. In hard times, we can use the tools we have today to build an easier tomorrow for ourselves and others. The future is about hope.Join us in this anthology of six stories about the future and about how science and technology can help us create that better tomorrow. All profits from the sale of this anthology will go to Laughing at My Nightmare to purchase assistive devices and techn...

Free of the responsibilities that had him running around all over the world, Yuki can finally relax in his dungeon. He spends his time doing everything he’d been putting off for too darn long: testing out his new wings, combat training, and of course, expanding and remodeling his territory!One day, Nell reaches out to him with an urgent message from the royal capital, and he rushes right over. There, he finds the queen of the elves waiting for him—the same one whose people he rescu...

Since 2006, Clarkesworld Magazine has been entertaining science fiction and fantasy fans with their brand of unique science fiction and fantasy stories. Collected here are all of the stories this Hugo Award-winning magazine published during their eighth year. Includes stories by Michael Swanwick, Yoon Ha Lee, Robert Reed, Susan Palwick, Sean Williams, N.K. Jemisin, James Patrick Kelly, E. Lily Yu, Ken Liu, Xia Jia, Seth Dickinson, Juliette Wade, Matthew Kressel, and many more!&nbs...

A teen girl in a test for magical powers. A dangerous encounter in the woods. What will she risk to become a witch?Rosa always dreamed of becoming a witch, and on her thirteenth birthday, she finally has her chance. The Seelie Court sets a test: follow a trail up the mountain to the castle. If she can make it on her own, she’ll be granted magic. The Fae promised her the test wouldn’t be dangerous, so she’s prepared to face anything.As she hikes through the woods, a mysterio...

The fifth and final installment in a series of powerhouse anthologies featuring some of today’s top authors of science fiction and fantasyFrom outer space to inner space, from realms of the never-were to those of the here-and-now and the soon-to-be, the twenty-four authors in this fifth and final collection of science fiction and fantasy by writer featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers plunge readers into fantastic worlds fi...

The Faerie Folk come when the veil between the worlds is thin, spinning their sticky-sweet glamour and stealing children away. The only thing standing in their way: a motorcycle gang made up of broken, lost people who managed to escape from the Faerie Realm after their own abductions. Riding her enchanted steed, sworn to protect children, Alis mourns the loss of her own daughter, taken by the Fae. Abandoned by her husband, shunned by her friends, Alis now knows no family but her fe...

A father and son find magical beings in the strangest setting.Are they seeing intelligent creatures or.................A youth learns to always watch his step.

Stories by Ken Liu, Charlie Jane Anders, Victor LaValle, Elizabeth Bear, and others—guest-edited by the author of the mega–bestselling Outlander series.Today's readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about spaceships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the pl...

Reviewers exhaust superlatives when it comes to the science fiction of Peter F. Hamilton. His complex and engaging novels, which span thousands of years—and light-years—are as intellectually stimulating as they are emotionally fulfilling. Now, with The Dreaming Void, the first volume in a trilogy set in the same far-future as his acclaimed Commonwealth saga, Hamilton has created his most ambitious and gripping space epic yet.The year is 3589, fifteen hundr...

There are many ways to be a heroine.Princess and swordswoman, lawyer and motorcyclist, scholar and barbarian: there are many ways to be a heroine. In this anthology, seventeen authors find new ways to pair one weapon-wielding woman and one whose strengths lie in softer skills.“Which is more powerful, the warrior or the gentlewoman?” these stories ask. And the answer is inevitably, “Both, working together!”Herein, you’ll find duels and smugglers, dan...