Eliot Fintushel lives alone in a working-class neighborhood north of San Francisco, “where my little daughter likes to visit and write and drum and paint goddesses between the rafters of the back porch.” Besides writing novels and short stories...
Of her charming new tale the author says, “ ‘The Stubbornest Broad on Earth’ is the first story I’ve written that doesn’t include my mom as a character—that’s her mom and the farm she grew up on—and I think they’d both have liked...
Walter Jon Williams lives in rural New Mexico, a fact that “compels me to perpetual war with mosquito and tumbleweed, and to lengthy disquisitions on the merits and failings of my tractor, the name of which is Beam.” One of the author’s most...
Captain Verundish has two problems. On campaign with the Adran army and far
from her homeland, she is helpless when the young daughter she left at home is
threatened. To make matters worse, General Tamas has put her lover in command
of a Hope’s...
In The Final Encyclopedia the human race is split into three Splinter cultures: the Friendlies, fanatic in their faith; the truth-seeking Exotics; and the warrior Dorsai. But now humanity is threatened by the power-hungry Others, whose triumph would...
There are many legends on the planet of the Dorsai, the breeding ground for heroes. Here are two of them.
Lost Dorsai: The New Dorsai Companion contains the Hugo Award winning novella, Lost Dorsai, and Dickson's classic short story...
Twenty eight florins a month is a huge price to pay, for a man to stand between you and the Wild.
Twenty eight florins a month is nowhere near enough when a wyvern's jaws snap shut on your helmet in the hot stink of battle, and the beast starts to...