Among the universe’s civilizations, some conceive of the journey between stars as the sailing of bright ships, and others as tunneling through the crevices of night. Some look upon their far-voyaging as a migratory imperative, and name their...
From the start of her career, Elizabeth Bear has been one of the most distinctive voices in modern speculative fiction. Her debut novel, Hammered, won the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 2005, the same year she received the John W. Campbell...
About this story, Knight wrote:
"The Last Word" is one of three stories I have written using orthodox Christian materials - God, the devil, etc. - which proves that my childhood training had some use after...
Famous explorer Captain Richard Francis Burton has been on some amazing adventures. But he is about to embark on his most incredible journey yet as he…
Travels back in Time aboard Captain Nemo’s wondrous Nautilus to discover the frightening...
Dr. Feyrouz Hanafusa is a curator at Yale in the 23rd century. Space exploration is still ongoing, and signs of life have been discovered on a planet near TRAPPIST-1. Signs, Dr. Hanafusa realizes, that suspiciously resemble drawings in the Voynich...
A mission to the Congo starts badly for S-Squad and gets worse fast as they trace a team of captured WHO medics to a lost world in the interior. The Squad are isolated, split up, and face terrors long since thought extinct. Mokele-mbembe walks this...
They wanted a saviour, what they got was a tour guide.
Michael liked his nice, normal life. It was fine. Until aliens arrived on Earth, looking for their holy planet.
But Michael adapted to life on an alien filled Earth. That is, until...
Fast-paced and thought-provoking, Joe Ollinger has written a debut science fiction novel that reads like a thriller and will be loved by fans of Paolo Bacigalupi and Richard Morgan.
On the planet Brink, calcium is cash. The element’s scarcity...
The most Marc Laidlaw stories ever assembled in one book…
Known as co-creator of the blockbuster HALF-LIFE video game series, and veteran writer of the e-sports phenomenon Dota 2, Marc Laidlaw is primarily a writer of short stories—horror,...
Otaku is the debut novel from former NFL player and tech enthusiast Chris Kluwe, with a story reminiscent of Ready Player One and Ender’s Game.
Ditchtown.
A city of skyscrapers, built atop the drowned bones of old Miami. A prison of steel,...