The Thing in the City had an immense mass of knowledge, and the immense power that stems from vast knowledge. But—it lacked something which, because it was lacking, it could not know it lacked, until it engulfed the...
In the 21st Century war and espionage have been transformed. With the CIA on the ropes, the armed forces stretched thin, and the need for special operations capabilities at an all-time high, the United States government has turned to private...
Lore arrives at the hospital alone — no husband, no partner, no friends. Her birth plan is explicit: she wants no fetal monitor, no IV, no epidural. Franckline, a nurse in the maternity ward — herself on the verge of showing — is patient with...
On an spring afternoon in 1978 in the loft of a church outside Cambridge, England, an organ tuner named Malory loses his virginity to a dyslexic math genius named Louiza. When Louiza disappears, Malory follows her trail to Rome. There, the quest to...
THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD IS AT STAKE!
Terrorists have buried nuclear weapons deep in the massive Antarctic Ross Ice Shelf and threaten to detonate them — causing worldwide tidal waves and a catastrophic rise in the oceans — if the free world...
She’d made it sound as though her husband would be joining them for dinner. She’d made it sound that way on purpose, and then she arrived alone.
Los Angeles, 1934. Mary Frances is young, restlessly married, and returning from her first...
63,000 years ago, an ancient civilization existed far advanced over our own, but it was destroyed by a natural cataclysm. Now that same cataclysm is about to strike our modern world…
When Carl stumbles upon an unknown robot’s head, he...
This, the fifth story about Martin H. Ehrengraf, presents the criminous criminal lawyer with a different sort of problem. He’s engaged to defend a man who anticipates being charged with homicide. But no one has been murdered.
Yet.
In the...
While Greg Feeley is the author of The Oxygen Barons anti numerous essays and short stories, he tells us he has found himself “increasingly drawn to the novella form. My latest, ‘The Weighing of Ayre,’ has just been reprinted in The Year’s...