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THE RIBBON CLUES was originally published in the October 1, 1935 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
In this story, The Shadow gets to visit Chinatown, travel through the twisty underground passages, meet with Yat Soon, arbiter of Chinatown, and...
Actor Sam Holt has packed in Packard, the TV detective he played for several years to much acclaim and lots and lots of money. But success has had its downside: Holt is so closely identified with Packard that he can’t get hired to play anyone...
Life on the moon under anything less than optimal conditions had always been a nightmare, and as Joe Kenmore and his colleague, Moreau, drove back to the City On The Moon on that day the Earth shuttle was due to land, the nearby mountain supporting...
Indian mechs meet Lovecraftian cosmological horrors. Steel and mind meet monstrous flesh and doom.
“Messenger”by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne and R.R. Virdi Nominated for Nebula Award's Best...
AMERICA'S SPACE PROGRAM HAS BEEN SABOTAGED.
The Martian and Apollo 13 meet Tom Clancy in this gripping scientific thriller.
Years before NASA planned to travel to Mars, and before the International Space Station ever reached orbit, the...
1945 — With the Soviets preparing to invade Japan's northern islands, a top-secret military installation rushes to erase any sign that it ever existed.
In the present day, a routine close protection assignment in Washington, D.C. for former...
Mankind comes face to face with extraterrestrial life in this short fiction reprint anthology from Clarkesworld publisher Neil Clarke.
They Are Strangers from Far Lands…
Science fiction writers have been using aliens as a metaphor for the...
Le Docteur, the arch-terrorist, founder of the radicalized Islamic movement, NEMESIS, and his companion in life and in crime, are now back in Europe. They are still determined to avenge the maltreatment of Muslims by the enemies of Islam — the...