Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy...
In Athena, Mississippi, librarian Charlie Harris is known for his good nature—and for his Maine coon cat Diesel that he walks on a leash. Charlie returned to his hometown to immerse himself in books, but taking the plunge into a recent acquisition...
Yoshio Kita’s hopelessness and lack of faith in his future crystallizes into a decision to commit suicide by what he calls ‘capital punishment at free will’, meaning his only pressing problem now is how to spend both his remaining...
James Patrick Kelly tells us he has “wanted to write a story that examined gender roles for a long time, and had notes about a three-sexed alien species that date back to 1990. I finally started the story because I needed something to bring to the...
Onion Songs is a collection of 42 short stories spanning the writing career of Steve Rasnic Tem, with an emphasis on the bizarre, the off-beat and the meditative. Here Tem confronts the big questions of human experience (ageing, death, identity,...
When Iran finally develops nuclear weapons it triggers the Last World War, and it will forever change the surface of the Earth.
A president impeached. A vice president murdered. A relatively unknown Speaker of the House… A mere congressman...
The Summer of Blood explodes. The U.S. is under siege from foreign jihadists and domestic terrorists. When a brilliant exploit strikes at the heart of the National Security Agency's own network, former NSA operative Lana Elkins discovers that it...
Uppsala, Sweden. Inspector Ann Lindell has little time to enjoy her new relationship with journalist Anders Brant before he leaves on an assignment, and she is called upon to investigate the disappearance of a young woman, Klara Lovisa Bolinder....
Some will be kings, some will be sorcerers, and some pawns in the real lives of
those who live the magical chess game on True Life. But one child is wreaking
havoc; he can be any player he likes and threatens to destroy the game...