He Bears the Cape of Stars is one of our two paired masquerade-themed anthologies. It features 17 stories exploring wlw relationships developing, growing, and changing while the characters attend or participate in masquerades!Our contributors stretched their imaginations to present innovative stories exploring what a masquerade can be…and, of course, tell rich, engaging tales of wonderful queer folk finding love, companionship, acceptance, the queer platonic relationship of their d...

A grumpy trainer. A rookie goalie. One blizzard, one bed, and way too many Christmas lights.The rookie goalie with the Christmas-movie smile was never supposed to get under my skin.He's loud, relentless, and far too good at seeing through the walls I've spent years building. I only agreed to that damn calendar shoot to shut him up. Now his laughter lives rent-free in my head.When the blizzard hit, I figured I could survive a few days of his cheer. I...

I matched with a stranger on a queer hookup app.He's bold. Filthy. Addictive in a way that makes me forget everything else.I don't know his name. He doesn't know mine.But when I'm at lunch with my girlfriend and see Micah Blackman standing there—my ex-best friend, the boy I kissed and then ruined—the game changes.Micah's back after two years of silence. He's inked, pissed off, and he's back on the team, the one I captain. Which would be fine...

He's my old teammate. My new rival. And the guy I can't stop imagining against the glass.Hockey captain? That's me.Closeted? Also me.Totally losing my mind because my old high school teammate just transferred to my college team and looks way too good in those stupid tight pads? …Yeah, that's me too.Logan Brooks is out and proud now, and apparently, he hates me.The team thinks it's because we both want to lead.But the truth?

"He Bears the Cape of Stars" is one of our two paired masquerade-themed anthologies. It features 17 stories exploring mlm relationships developing, growing, and changing while the characters attend or participate in masquerades!The collected works in "He Bears the Cape of Stars" feature men and masculine-leaning genderqueer characters, with a spectrum of sexualities, and these diverse individuals inhabit worlds ranging from a science fiction setting where everyone must be masked to...

A man who has found his soulmate... A woman determined to forget him...I knew the moment I laid eyes on Selina Grymes she was the girl I was going to marry. We made plans to grow old together, have children, and live the rest of our lives here in Tyson's Creek. But once we graduated high school, she left town and never returned, taking my heart with her.Selina disappeared for fifteen long years without a word, before suddenly reappearing in town and turning...

2015 Best Science Fiction and alien anthology, Publisher's Weekly Science Fiction Best SellerThe future is here…the future is now! Orson Scott Card, Kevin J. Anderson and Larry Niven have seen the future. Now, you can, too.A constellation of the brightest lights in the Science Fiction and Fantasy firmament have judged these authors to be the best, the brightest, the truest emerging stars in the field.From Alien Invasion to Alternate History, from Cyberpunk to Comic ...

Inspired by classic fairy tales, but with a dark and sinister twist, Grim contains short stories from some of the best voices in young adult literature today:Ellen HopkinsAmanda HockingJulie KagawaClaudia GrayRachel HawkinsKimberly DertingMyra McEntireMalinda LoSarah Rees-BrennanJackson PearceChristine JohnsonJeri Smith ReadyShaun David HutchinsonSaundra Mitchell...

Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty) is an anthology of hard and soft science fiction stories that best represent a futuristic view of the sciences and how humanity might be affected (for better or worse) by a reliance in all things technological.The stories contained within the pages of Compostela are a refelction of the world we live in today; where science produces both wonders and horrors; and will leave us with a future that undoubtedly will contain...

This ninth volume of the year’s best science fiction and fantasy features thirty stories by some of the genre’s greatest authors, including Charlie Jane Anders, Steven Barnes, Seth Dickinson, Kameron Hurley, Rich Larson, Ian R. MacLeod, Paul McAuley, Adam Roberts, Lavie Tidhar, Genevieve Valentine, Carrie Vaughn, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Asimov’s, Bridging Infinity, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Lightspeed, and other top venues,

What might we run into as we expand beyond Earth and into the stars? As we explore our own solar system and beyond, it seems inevitable that we’ll run into aliens … and what they’ve left behind. Alien artifacts: what might they reveal about us as we try to unlock their secrets? What might they reveal about the universe?In this anthology, nineteen of today’s leading science fiction and fantasy authors explore how discovering long lost relics of alien civilizations might change human...

This thirteenth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features thirty-four stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Leah Cypess, John Kessel, Yoon Ha Lee, Naomi Kritzer, Sarah Langan, Ken Liu, Annalee Newitz, Sarah Pinsker, Sofia Samatar, Michael Swanwick, Tade Thompson, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Asimov's, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Uncanny, Tor.com, and other top venues, The Year's Best ...