“We can fight them, Asher. They think they’re untouchable, but they’re not. We can get to them and we can make them pay for everything they did to us!”
Five years after it was born in a patch of mud, the town of Steadfall is slowly...
Every 10 years or so, John Oldman has to move on. No matter what he’s doing. No matter who he’s with. He has
to pack up and leave, or there will be talk of him not aging.
John was born 14,000 years ago. He has not aged a day since he was...
After his mother’s death and his consequent expulsion from the Soviet Space Program, a young Russian soldier has no choice but to join his sister in Berlin in the hopes of a better life. There he will meet a mysterious Soviet scientist with access...
Eight years ago and eight light years away, a supermassive star died.
Tonight, a supernova tsunami of high energy will finally reach Earth. Dark skies will shine bright as a new star blooms in the heavens and within a year everyone over the age...
They were raised for one chilling purpose....
A loner, an ex-cop, Jack Randall is the dangerous veteran of a savage war. All he's held dear has long been destroyed. For the last five years, he's been hiding out on a Spares Farm, guarding those...
Gideon the Ninth is the most fun you’ll ever have with a skeleton.
The Emperor needs necromancers.
The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.
Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.
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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...
In the second decade of the twenty-first century the world is struck by two catastrophes, a new mini-ice age and, nearly simultaneously, a plague to dwarf all previous experiences. Rising out of the disaster is the character known to history as...
A mind-opening collection of short science fiction from one of the genre's most revered Grand Masters. Twelve tales of the unknown from the Nebula Award–winning author of Way Station.
Clifford D. Simak had a sublime ability to evoke a...