Set on two fictitious islands in northern Maine during the 1970s, this first novel by the author of a sparkling story collection, Pilgrims, begins slowly but warms up with smart, sassy humor. Isolated from the mainland by 20 miles of sea, but...
It's late at night when Florida sheriff's deputy Sara Cross arrives at the scene of a roadside shooting along a deserted highway. Another deputy, Billy Flynn, her former partner, who also happens to be her former lover, has fatally shot a...
First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1958
Published in Store of Infinity collection of science fiction short stories by Robert Sheckley in 1960 by Bantam...
A double murder leaves feline sleuth Joe Gray hopping mad as Max Harper, Molena Point's dedicated chief of police, stands framed for murder, and Joe and his sidekick Dulcie are the only creatures who can save him....
Lawyer Dismas Hardy is thrown into a panic when his wife fails to turn up to collect their children from school. He discovers that she is being held in jail for contempt of court because she's refusing to divulge in a grand jury trial a...
In this weird little alternative history novella, acclaimed futurist Charles Stross takes the familiar clashes of the Cold War and stretches and warps them to fit a flattened Earth where the emergence of new continents incites competitive...