Science Fiction Fantasy category: 175005 books

The author says: "The stories in this collection are an outgrowth of my lamentable childhood, as well as a reflection of those things in life which I found fascinating--in that they could mentally take me away from the horror of my daily life, and at least on the level of imagination offer me something...

Now firmly established as the benchmark anthology series of international speculative fiction, volume 4 of The Apex Book of World SF sees debut editor Mahvesh Murad bring fresh new eyes to her selection of stories. From Spanish steampunk and Italian horror to Nigerian science fiction and subverted...

NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. This month, we have original fiction from Sunny Moraine ("Singing with All My Skin and...

Return to the world of the Bloody Sun  Over fifty years ago, master story-teller Marion Zimmer Bradley introduced readers to a compelling new world. Darkover, a distant planet circling a red sun, was home to telepaths and rebels, lovers and rivals, nonhuman races both friendly and deadly,...

The curtain’s rustling on the stage in Bravado’s House of Blues. Behind it, fourteen tales from award-winning author J.A. Pitts wait for their time to shine beneath the lights. Here, you’ll find Roman legions battling druids, G.I.s facing down zombies in Vietnam, buskers in love finding magic...

This is a collection of the 7 best short stories of one of the most innovative and influential fantasy and horror authors ever to have been published, E.T.A. Hoffmann. This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories: The Golden Pot The Sandman Councillor...

The fourth and culminating volume in Julian May's dazzling quartet of science-fiction novels brings to a climax the struggle for the Many-Colored Land—the Earth six million years ago—and completes the series that has become an international best-seller and multiple award nominee. Human...

Bishop Berkeley's famous question about the sound of a falling tree may have no standing in Science. But there is a highly interesting question about "sound" that Science needs to consider. A first-contact story concerning communications with beings who hear and speak, but don't seem to convey information through set words.

Welcome to the new fantasy, sci-fi and supernatural fiction E-Zine Bad Moon #1 - New Moon. We bring you fascinating tales to enthral and amuse you every full moon that rises, writing them in between the changing phases in a flash of inspiration or the attempt to raise mild amusement, at least.We...

A mild-mannered actuary, Fletcher Weschel lives at the crossroads of Bland and Humdrum—or so he thinks until a cosmic contest catapults him into the fantasy world he made up as a boy. Suddenly his childhood bedroom is aswarm with aliens, all bent on discovering the human who best personifies their...

Creatures of the Heart is a collection of sci-fi, supernatural and human nature short stories that blends the realms of fantasy with the inevitable nature of being human. These dark tales are born when wild hearts escape from caged ribs. Drawing from her Malaysian heritage and upbringing, Agnes Ong...

When Maring and her brother Seri, along with their friend Del, watch nine white foxes playing on the barrens, they know the must be careful. Because foxes might not be merely foxes, and Maring and Seri have shapechanger blood. And when it turns out those foxes are indeed Folk, and Folk who don't appreciate...

Though she initially achieved remarkable literary acclaim with romance novel with elements of the supernatural, Marie Corelli later branched out into a number of different genres. The Secret Power is a fascinating foray into fantasy tinged with spirituality and mysticism. In Corelli's vision of the future,...

Roundworld, aka Earth, is under siege. Are three wizards and an orangutan Librarian enough to thwart the Elvish threat? When the wizards of Unseen University first created Roundworld, they were so concerned with discovering the rules of this new universe that they overlooked its inhabitants...