Rudy Rucker is a mathematician who writes books of popular science and science fiction. His SF swings widely and freely into the surreal and metaphysical upon occasion. In this story, his future is a fantasy land and his science is transformed by...
Our April 1995 novella from Brian Stableford, “Mortimer Gray’s History of Death,” was a finalist for the 1996 Nebula award. Mr. Stableford’s most recent American publication, The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires, was released by Mark Ziesing...
Torture.
Ghost detainees.
And a massive cover-up that continues even today.
This is the propulsive thriller that only former CIA operative turned bestselling novelist Barry Eisler could write.
Marooned in a Manila jail after a bar fight fatality,...
Keep Your Head Down.
Don't Get Noticed.
Or Else.
I'm Trella. I'm a scrub. A nobody. One of thousands who work the lower levels, keeping Inside clean for the Uppers. I've got one friend, do my job and try to avoid the Pop Cops....
In 1966, Australia and the US signed a treaty that allowed the establishment of a jointly run satellite tracking station, just south of Alice Springs. For more than forty years it has operated in a shroud of secrecy and been the target of much...
“The Mount Rushmore of Adult Entertainment has four heads: John Holmes, Marilyn Chambers, Jenna Jameson, and Seka. That’s it; there ain’t no more.”
— Bill Margold, famed adult film actor, agent, producer, director, and activist
...
Bruno Schulz has foreseen catastrophe and is almost paralysed by fear. His last chance of survival is to leave the home town to which, despite being in his late forties, he clings as if to a comforting blanket. So he retreats into his cellar (and...