The French Foreign Legion is one of the most feared combat units of the 22nd century. Taking the rogues, thieves and misfits of Earth and the colonized worlds, and forging them into an elite fighting force through harsh discipline and regimental...
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Winner of the 2018 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction
The 14 stories of The Dogs of Detroit each focus on grief and its many strange permutations. This grief alternately devolves into violence, silence, solitude, and utter isolation....
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A shocking vision of our future that is one part Minority Report and one part Chinatown.
Lazlo Ratesic is 54, a 19-year veteran of the Speculative Service, from a family of law enforcement and in a strange alternate society that values law and...
In the Pacific Ocean a Silicon Valley magnate vacationing on his luxury motor yacht Carpe Diem stumbles across a floating island of pumice.
Two weeks later, their motor yacht returns to its home port in San Diego on autopilot — but when it...
Jeeves describes his concern that Mr Wooster is considering adopting a daughter. Perhaps a timely visit to a school for young ladies may change his master's...
A classic of Mexican literature in the twentieth century, The Hole is a dazzlingly devastating novella
Set in a Mexican prison in the late 1960s, The Hole follows three inmates as they plot to sneak in drugs under the noses of their ape-like...
Future Imperfect is a collection of eight science-fiction short stories set in the near and far future. It includes five tales previously published in anthologies and three new ones exclusive to this SF book.
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In a future society where only female children are born, the birth of a male child promises to create scientific and socio-political chaos, so they determine to destroy the child, until one woman steals him and vows to care for him in defiance of a...
Lights in a Western Sky is a collection of twenty short stories encompassing a wide variety of genres, settings and historical periods. With themes ranging from romance to horror, and with settings in the most exotic of locations, the tales contain...
We all come to a point in our lives where we finally ask the ever-looming question, “Is this all there is?” And most of us coast along afterwards, just accepting that the answer to that question is probably, “Yes, this is it.” Sometimes,...