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Welcome back to Las Anclas, a frontier town in the post-apocalyptic Wild West. In this perilous landscape, a schoolboy can create earthquakes, poisonous cloud vipers flock in the desert skies, and the beaches are stalked by giant mind-controlling lobsters. The tyrant king Voske has been defeated,...

Encounter the alien, in six science fiction stories from the imagination of Jeffrey A. Carver! Wrestle a shapeshifter in the intragalactic IIMAWL amateur wrestling games. Make love between the stars. Make a last stand against the aliens who’ve destroyed Earth. Duel an interstellar dragon. These...

Forget perfect princesses, handsome princes, and "happily ever after." In this collection of thirteen flash-length fairy tale retellings, award-winning author Marie Brennan introduces you to a world of manipulative mirrors, treacherous pigs, and candy houses that will eat you right up. Each...

Manifestation was only the beginning. The Otherworld has returned -- bringing with it the sidhe, the source of humanity's psychic powers. Some mortals welcome these creatures of legend, some fear them . . . and no one is ready for the change their presence will bring. Last autumn Kim...

Seven tales of supernatural horror . . . A maiden in a tower. A grandmother in a cottage. A stranger at a ball. None of them are what they seem, in this collection of very brief stories from fantasy author Marie Brennan. The dark forest of fairy tales hides things more perilous than wolves...

ABOVE It is the seventeenth century. For twenty years, the City of London has been torn apart: by war, by plague, by fire. BELOW The Onyx Court is London's faerie shadow. Dedicated to co-existence with mortals, it struggles to survive against rival courts who oppose everything it stands for. BETWEEN Now,...

It’s all groovy, mellow fun on the back-to-the-land commune…until the monster shows up. Strange things begin happening on the back-to-the-land commune. Yet the adults, busy grooving out with easy drugs and free love, shrug off each tragedy. Only the ten-year-old Princess understands what’s...

Aren't you tired of doing everything right? Wouldn't you like a second chance to go back and do it wrong? Coed Demon Sluts. Always room on the team. ____________________________________________ Only a few years ago, Jee was a slave in a Bangkok whorehouse. When her rageful teenage rebellion...

Aren't you tired of doing everything right? Wouldn't you like a second chance to go back and do it wrong? Coed Demon Sluts: There's always room on the team. _________________________________________________ This series of five feminist women's fiction novels features shoes and shopping, massive...

Aren't you tired of doing everything right? Wouldn't you like a second chance to go back and do it wrong? Coed Demon Sluts. Always room on the team. _________________________________________________ As a child, Pog (“Person Of Girth”) was her wealthy parents’ little angel until she started...

A sexy, funny duel of wills and wits between a small town preacher’s daughter and a blue-collar prince of the blood. When she witnesses King Dave's humiliation at the hands of his ex-wife, preacher's daughter Nadine gains control of King Dave, and becomes his target. King Dave, son...

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and prophecy. Kim never had to wonder what to major in at college. Her talent for divination made her future clear in more ways than one. But there are limits to what even a gifted seer can predict, and no card reading or prophetic dream can...

Follow the map to another world . . . Two cities joined by their reflections. A realm of feathered serpents and jaguar-men. A desert where a former goddess seeks the ultimate truth. In this collection, award-winning author Marie Brennan takes you to ten different fantastical lands, including...

The past is prologue . . . Kit Marlowe. Guy Fawkes. Ada Lovelace. Kings and sailors and sainted nuns populate these seven stories of historical fantasy by award-winning author Marie Brennan. They span the ages from the second century B.C.E. to the nineteenth century C.E., from ancient Persia...