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Alien Artifacts

by Joshua Palmatier, Gini Koch, Seanan McGuire, Patricia Bray, David Farland, C.S. Friedman, Gail Z. Martin, Steve Miller, Sharon Lee, Juliet E. McKenna, Walter H. Hunt, Larry N. Martin, Julie Novakova, Angela Penrose, S.C. Butler, Andrija Popovic, Jacey Bedford, Sofie Bird, James Van Pelt, Anthony Lowe, Jennifer Dunne, Coral Moore, Daniel J. Davis ...

What might we run into as we expand beyond Earth and into the stars? As we explore our own solar system and beyond, it seems inevitable that we’ll run into aliens … and what they’ve left behind. Alien artifacts: what might they reveal about us as we try to unlock their secrets? What might they reveal about the universe?In this anthology, nineteen of today’s leading science fiction and fantasy ... Read more

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What might we run into as we expand beyond Earth and into the stars? As we explore our own solar system and beyond, it seems inevitable that we’ll run into aliens … and what they’ve left behind. Alien artifacts: what might they reveal about us as we try to unlock their secrets? What might they reveal about the universe?In this anthology, nineteen of today’s leading science fiction and fantasy
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Solar Flare

Solarpunk Stories

by Joshua Palmatier, Patricia Bray, David Keener, Anthony W. Eichenlaub, Sarena Ulibarri, Jason Palmatier, Lauren C. Teffeau, S.C. Butler, Devan Barlow, Chaz Brenchley, Liam Hogan, Nicole Givens Kurtz, Christopher R. Muscato, Rhondi Salsitz, Ember Randall, Gail Z. Martin, Larry N. Martin, Sharon Lee, Steve Miller, Kristine Smith, Anthony Lowe ...

Here Comes the Sun!Rising temperatures, melting glaciers, violent storms, and excessive heat. The future seems bleak…but there are signs of hope.In SOLAR FLARE, we ask you to step into a world where we have managed to mitigate or even reverse the disastrous effects of climate change and our own destruction of our world. Race down the depleted waterway of the Mississippi in a solar-, wind-, and ... Read more

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Here Comes the Sun!Rising temperatures, melting glaciers, violent storms, and excessive heat. The future seems bleak…but there are signs of hope.In SOLAR FLARE, we ask you to step into a world where we have managed to mitigate or even reverse the disastrous effects of climate change and our own destruction of our world. Race down the depleted waterway of the Mississippi in a solar-, wind-, and
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When Worlds Collide

by Joshua Palmatier, S.C. Butler, Alan Smale, Stephen Leigh, Esther Friesner, Nancy Holzner, Howard Andrew Jones, Violette Malan, Jordan Chase-Young, Gary Kloster, Louis Evans, Christopher Leapock, Peter S. Drang, Auston Habershaw, Steven Harper ...

What could possibly happen when two cultures meet for the first time?In WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE, anything.WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE presents fourteen original stories where two different societies intersect and deal with the aftermath of that meeting. Will the conflicting cultures merge and adapt and find peace? Or will they clash, unable to either accept their differences or acknowledge their commonalities ... Read more

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What could possibly happen when two cultures meet for the first time?In WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE, anything.WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE presents fourteen original stories where two different societies intersect and deal with the aftermath of that meeting. Will the conflicting cultures merge and adapt and find peace? Or will they clash, unable to either accept their differences or acknowledge their commonalities
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Portals

by Patricia Bray, S.C. Butler, Esther Friesner, Nancy Holzner, Ian Tregillis, Gini Koch, Jacey Bedford, Violette Malan, James Enge, Jaime Lee Moyer, Andrija Popovic, Patrick Hurley, Juliet Kemp, Jason Palmatier, F. Brett Cox, Steven Harper, Kate Hall, John Linwood Grant ...

PORTALS: What mysteries…or horrors…await you on the other side?The lure of an open doorway is hard to resist. What lies beyond? Where will it take you—and how will you be transformed? Will it lead to paradise…or a living hell? You’ll never know, unless you have the courage to take that first step.In this anthology you will find sixteen stories of portals to exotic destinations, whether it’s a ... Read more

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PORTALS: What mysteries…or horrors…await you on the other side?The lure of an open doorway is hard to resist. What lies beyond? Where will it take you—and how will you be transformed? Will it lead to paradise…or a living hell? You’ll never know, unless you have the courage to take that first step.In this anthology you will find sixteen stories of portals to exotic destinations, whether it’s a
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Brave New Worlds

by Jamie M. Boyd, Gini Koch, Mike Jack Stoumbos, Stephen Leigh, A.M. Giddings, Auston Habershaw, Sarah Lyn Eaton, Ian Tregillis, Jack Nicholls, Willa Blythe, Chaz Brenchley, Ari Officer, Eric Choi, Jacey Bedford, Juliet Kemp, S.C. Butler, Joshua Palmatier ...

What happens when a computer glitch sends eighty-nine copies of the same scientist (and no one else) to settle a new planet? Or a privateer gets stranded on a slow ship he tried to hijack that’s still years away from its destination and has no food?BRAVE NEW WORLDS presents fifteen original stories that follow humanity’s long dream of traveling to the stars, from heart-wrenching departures from ... Read more

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What happens when a computer glitch sends eighty-nine copies of the same scientist (and no one else) to settle a new planet? Or a privateer gets stranded on a slow ship he tried to hijack that’s still years away from its destination and has no food?BRAVE NEW WORLDS presents fifteen original stories that follow humanity’s long dream of traveling to the stars, from heart-wrenching departures from
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Ampyrium

by Joshua Palmatier, David B. Coe, Juliet E. McKenna, Patricia Bray, Esther Friesner, Jason Palmatier, S.C. Butler ...

Welcome to Ampyrium, a city of a thousand wonders!May the trading be always in your favor.Powerful magicians called the Magnum have created a massive city contained within eight walls, each with its own portal to another world. Here, eight different magical lands collide. In these streets, all of the races from those worlds come to trade, to politic, to carouse, and to murder. Merchants and ... Read more

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Welcome to Ampyrium, a city of a thousand wonders!May the trading be always in your favor.Powerful magicians called the Magnum have created a massive city contained within eight walls, each with its own portal to another world. Here, eight different magical lands collide. In these streets, all of the races from those worlds come to trade, to politic, to carouse, and to murder. Merchants and
... Read more
Submerged

by Joshua Palmatier, S.C. Butler, Seanan McGuire, Michael Robertson, Esther Friesner, F. Brett Cox, Wendy Nikel, Marsheila Rockwell, Jeffrey J. Mariotte, Jody Lynn Nye, Bill Kte'pi, Jenna Rhodes, J.C. Koch, Susan Jett, James Van Pelt, Misty Massey, A. Merc Rustad, David Farland, Sara M. Harvey, Nicky Drayden ...

Everyone has their eyes set on the black depths of space … but what about the deep abysses of the ocean? What dark monsters swim unseen beneath the waves? What ancient wonders lie hidden, waiting to be discovered? What sirens call, either here on Earth or in the icy waters of a far off planet … or even at the bottom of a wine glass? So much remains to be explored below the surface, where light ... Read more

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Everyone has their eyes set on the black depths of space … but what about the deep abysses of the ocean? What dark monsters swim unseen beneath the waves? What ancient wonders lie hidden, waiting to be discovered? What sirens call, either here on Earth or in the icy waters of a far off planet … or even at the bottom of a wine glass? So much remains to be explored below the surface, where light
... Read more
Guilds & Glaives

by Joshua Palmatier, S.C. Butler, Howard Andrew Jones, Esther Friesner, Gini Koch, Jenna Rhodes, Violette Malan, James Enge, David Farland, D.B. Jackson, Ashley McConnell, Leah Webber, Lawrence Harding, R.K. Nickel, Jason Palmatier, Amelia Sirina ...

Stop right there!If you like your fantasy filled with fellowships and noble quests, this anthology is not for you. And if you love lengthy tales of politics and power, then it won’t be to your taste either. But if you like a little intimacy with your evil, and your vengeance short and sweet, with perhaps a pinch of silliness in the witchcraft, then these fourteen delicious sweetmeats of sword and ... Read more

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Stop right there!If you like your fantasy filled with fellowships and noble quests, this anthology is not for you. And if you love lengthy tales of politics and power, then it won’t be to your taste either. But if you like a little intimacy with your evil, and your vengeance short and sweet, with perhaps a pinch of silliness in the witchcraft, then these fourteen delicious sweetmeats of sword and
... Read more
ZNB Presents: Year Two

by Joshua Palmatier, Daniel Roman, Ty Lazar, L.P. Melling, Nathan W. Toronto, Caias Ward, Jonathan Robbins Leon, Marie Vibbert, Rob Cornell, Mike Jack Stoumbos, J.L. George, Brian Hugenbruch, Andrew Gudgel, Alicia Cay, Elektra Hammond, Derrick Boden, Alma Alexander, Melinda Brasher, Louis Evans, Niall Spain, S.C. Butler, Brian Crenshaw, Sam Robb, Liam Hogan, Christine Lucas ...

Welcome to the second year’s-worth of stories from the online magazine ZNB Presents published by the small press Zombies Need Brains. In these pages, you will find original science fiction and fantasy stories of awe and wonder, darkness and light, ranging through all of the subgenres, including urban fantasy, alternate history, space opera, future fairy tales, and more. They come from the most ... Read more

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Welcome to the second year’s-worth of stories from the online magazine ZNB Presents published by the small press Zombies Need Brains. In these pages, you will find original science fiction and fantasy stories of awe and wonder, darkness and light, ranging through all of the subgenres, including urban fantasy, alternate history, space opera, future fairy tales, and more. They come from the most
... Read more

The Death of All Things

by Laura Anne Gilman, Kat Richardson, Faith Hunter, K.M. Laney, Andrea Mullen, Kendra Leigh Speedling, Jason M. Hough, Juliet E. McKenna, Jim C. Hines, Aliette de Bodard, Julie Pitzel, Shaun Avery, Christie Golden, Leah Cutter, Andrew Dunlop, A. Merc Rustad, Stephen Blackmoore, Ville Meriläinen, Amanda Kespohl, Mack Moyer, Fran Wilde, Kathryn McBride, Andrija Popovic, Kiya Nicoll ...

Lie. Cheat. Bargain. Fight. Accept. Bribe. Conquer. Evade. No matter what humanity tries, Death always wins. Or does it? Discover the answer in The Death of All Things, where twenty-two writers take their shot at the Grim Reaper with explorations of the mythical, fantastical, and futuristic bonds between life and death. Learn the cost of mortality, the perils—and joys... ... Read more

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Lie. Cheat. Bargain. Fight. Accept. Bribe. Conquer. Evade. No matter what humanity tries, Death always wins. Or does it? Discover the answer in The Death of All Things, where twenty-two writers take their shot at the Grim Reaper with explorations of the mythical, fantastical, and futuristic bonds between life and death. Learn the cost of mortality, the perils—and joys...
... Read more
Magic City: Recent Spells

by Paula Guran ...

Bright lights, big city . . . magic spells, witchcraft, wizardry, fairies, devilry, and more. Urban living, at least in fantasy fiction, is full of both magical wonder and dark enchantment. Street kids may have supernatural beings to protect them or have such powers themselves. Brujeria may be part of your way of life. Crimes can be caused (and solved) with occult arts and even a losing sports ... Read more

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Bright lights, big city . . . magic spells, witchcraft, wizardry, fairies, devilry, and more. Urban living, at least in fantasy fiction, is full of both magical wonder and dark enchantment. Street kids may have supernatural beings to protect them or have such powers themselves. Brujeria may be part of your way of life. Crimes can be caused (and solved) with occult arts and even a losing sports
... Read more
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Stories

by Daniel H. Wilson, John Joseph Adams ...

IT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS.You are standing in a room filled with books, faced with a difficult decision. Suddenly, one with a distinctive cover catches your eye. It is a groundbreaking anthology of short stories from award-winning writers and game-industry titans who have embarked on a quest to explore what happens when video games and science fiction collide.From text-based adventures ... Read more

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IT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS.You are standing in a room filled with books, faced with a difficult decision. Suddenly, one with a distinctive cover catches your eye. It is a groundbreaking anthology of short stories from award-winning writers and game-industry titans who have embarked on a quest to explore what happens when video games and science fiction collide.From text-based adventures
... Read more

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