Penrose: 117 books

History offers many heroic tales of final battles. And in Last Stand, sixteen courageous authors offer their take on the topic. From a heartwarming tale of not-so-friendly business competition to a battle of the gods—sort of—for the fate of the world to a tale of looking for love in all the wrong...

In this third Fiction River Special Edition, award-winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch proves a master of intrigue with a wide variety of spy stories. Ranging in tone from satire to serious, from touching to brutal, from light to oh-so-very-dark, these fifteen stories illuminate the secret world...

Nothing compares to a good ghost story. And in Haunted, some of the best short fiction writers in the business explore the many different ways to haunt someone: literally, figuratively, happily, angrily… From a man haunted by his wife’s favorite appliance to a possessed building protective of...

Love. An essential and important part of the human experience. And in Feel the Love, editor Mark Leslie takes readers on a journey through the various forms of that powerful emotion. From the heartwarming to the heartbreaking, these eighteen talented writers brilliantly capture the concept of love....

From baking a magical love spell to having the opportunity to rectify a mistake from the past to hunting a serial killer, Debut Writers’ Showcase highlights stories from Fiction River’s first year that marked a first professional sale for these up-and-coming authors. Since first appearing in a...

A few friends go out for some drinks in Tucson. Then Tucson happens, and soon federal law enforcement is required.

What happens when a police state gets so oppressive that the police themselves become targets? Justin and Kalera are homicide detectives trying to solve a grisly crime in the not-so-distant future, but fall afoul of the notorious Department of Social Mores. Before long, they find themselves on the wrong side of the law, hunted by secret police and their own fellow officers.

Descended from one of the most ancient aristocratic families of Europe, Erzsebet Bathory bore the psychotic aberrations of centuries of intermarriage. From adolescence she indulged in sadistic lesbian fantasies, where only the spilling of a woman’s blood could satisfy her urges. By middle age,...

Enjoy the urban fantasy stories of the Uncollected Anthology: Beasties now collected in this bundle. Discover how to deal with raising chickens and feathered serpents or enjoy some tasty ice cream with a side of monsters. Rid your apartment of something small and...blue? Commute with the dogs...

A breathtaking vision of a utopian future on Mars by one of science fiction’s most renowned authors In the middle decades of the twenty-first century, the corporate powers on Earth have established a thriving colony on Mars as an alternative to life on the overpopulated, war-torn, ecologically...

Frank and Ivan have been in Hell for 26 years, but they're doing okay. Then one day an angel shows up and tells them it's time to go to work. Tucson will never be the same.

Enjoyable tale, part of teh Dorothy Dale series by Margaret Penrose.

The Good Reverend Roger just wanted a vacation in exotic lands. He certainly never expected having trouble coming home, and when he goes to an underworld figure for help, things get a little out of hand. A short story about horror and mayhem in New Zealand.

This groundbreaking book presents a new perspective on three of cosmology’s essential questions: What came before the Big Bang? What is the source of order in our universe? And what cosmic future awaits us? Penrose shows how the expected fate of our ever-accelerating and expanding universe—heat...