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Who can come up with a dozen or more different ways to end the world? We can! This collection of apocalyptic short stories explores the myriad ways in which life as we know it could end. From the traditional nuclear apocalypse to cosmic events, zombies, mysterious alien substances, evil corporations...

Aaren's fingers slid over the tile, scrabbling against the wet, the slick. He prayed. As hard as he could to the gods he knew weren't there, weren't real, didn't care. The slide stopped. He scrambled back to the rooftop, haul intact. But his feet still felt the slippery tile, his stomach...

Iseul leaped past Chikondi, flinging himself into the deepest part of the pool. Laughter sounded above him as he sank under the churning surface of the water. Beautiful. The peace enticed him to stay until his lungs burned and a tiny gold fish darted close. Until he left the water and...

The Shoggoths attack: "They had been so horrible before that I dare not say that they were any MORE horrible when they came again.... They were still unspeakable, still unthinkable--but whether I could speak or think of them or not, they were HERE." Auguste Dupin is one of the few persons who can identify...

Contents From the Editor January 2016 “The Demon in the Page”, Joshua Phillip Johnson “Cat Play”, Mari Ness “... and now He erases”, Rhoads Brazos “The Machinery”, Julia Warner “In the Belly of the Angel”, Henry Szabranski February 2016 “Heard”, Elise Forier Edie “Rowboat”,...

IM * PACT (noun) One object colliding with another An impinging of something upon something else An influence or effect on something or someone The force of a new idea, concept, technology or ideology Four definitions to inspire writers around the world,...

Get set for interstellar adventure with this action-packed novel from groundbreaking SF writer Murray Leinster. In an amazingly prescient plot that resonates with today's reality TV-obsessed culture, the space flight project of the book's title is a television show that helps fund humanity's first foray into the cosmos.

Adventure Tales salutes classic Weird Tales authors, including Robert E. Howard, Seabury Quinn, E. Hoffmann Price, John D. Swain, Edwin Baird, and many more!

The September/October 2016 issue of the Hugo Award Winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Carmen Maria Machado, Tim Pratt, Sarah Pinsker, E. Lily Yu, and Ferrett Steinmetz, reprinted fiction by Sofia Samatar, essays by Mary Anne Mohanraj, Una McCormack, Aidan Moher, and Dominik...

In the tradition of Divergent comes a novel about a world where negative emotions are stolen ... and only those with fury can stand up and fight. Eighteen-year-old Josephine Luquet wakes up naked and covered in blood on the same day every year—when the blood moon is full. Josi has not responded...

Perfect for fans of Divergent**, this series is about a civilization where negative emotions have been erased, creating a world of mindless drones where only those with fury can survive.** Eighteen-year-old Josephine Luquet wakes up naked and covered in blood on the same day every year—when...

The sharp, tangy scent of rusted steel is in my nose. Bales of hay are bright yellow, like spun gold, shimmering in the light of the fire. There's more yellow—long tendrils of hair that belong to a child. I can smell her, can smell her fear. It makes me hungry. It's not rusted steel...

I also have no idea how long it will be until Josi changes. But the reality hits as the sound of the raging guns go quiet and everything within this room goes still. We're locked inside a room with a ticking time bomb. She is worse than everything we just escaped. The night of...

Like four of my previous books, these are collected tales of the Spirits. These stories are shared with me by the Spirits to be, in turn, shared with any and all. Other than being short stories, they have no framework, no rack upon which to hang a hat. They are inter-dimensional, timeless, real and...