The year is 1427. The Great Revolution has been raging for eight long years, effecting every aspect of life in the Isobellian Empire. Countless are dead, and thousands of families have been, torn apart. But, the Empire still has hope to be freed. Andreas Bellbrook is the Kingslayer, a prophesied hero destined by fate to steal the legendary sword Excelsior from the Black King Tiberius. With it, Andre will end the war by killing the Black King despite...

Confined to a wheelchair, 11-year-old Finn looks forward to the visits of his Uncle Henry and the unbelievable stories of his adventures. When Henry goes to the Arctic to look for his father's lost ship, the stories become increasingly fantastical, strain

A dazzling, postmodern debut collection of pulp and surreal fictions: a writer of alternate histories defends his patron's zeppelin against assassins and pirates; a woman transforms into hundreds of gumballs; an emancipated children's collective goes house hunting.

More than a hundred years from now, an arborist fighting to save the last remaining forest on Earth discovers a secret about the trees-one that changes not only her life, but also the fate of our world. Inspired by the real-life "Future Library," a long-term environmental and literary public art project currently underway in the Norwegian wilderness. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software...

Justine wakes to her android digital companion, DANA, attuned to her breath, heartbeat, and every emotion 365 days of the year. The year is 2410, and technology runs every facet of human life. Convinced humans have sacrificed their autonomy, Justine wants to unplug from the digital world. When she learns of the off-the-grid community of Merrick, she believes these people have the right idea. But after Justine's boss goes missing, strange events begin...

In the high-octane conclusion of the Alex Pella novels, the brilliant doctor and inventor finds himself racing against the unstoppable ambition of Jules Windsor who now leads The New Reality. When Jules begins to uncover the powerful, long-forgotten technology behind the world's massive megalithic structures, he sets into motion the same cascade of events that once destroyed the ancient civilization that built them. As the planet heads toward an apocalyptical...

He begins trembling violently, turning this way and that, knowing he cannot find the truck, knowing that if he did it would not make any difference, it would not stop the ground from rolling or the terrorists from coming or Tiangong-1 falling or Mt. Kilauea from erupting. It would not stop the transmission from bleeding or the windshield from cracking. It would not stop the projector from burning out, from leaving them all in blackness, to shiver...

This original collection of short stories references original/classic themes and explores the added dimensions of speculative fiction. The 'Little Mermaid' introduces us to 'Koo-arsh'-an alien human-like inhabitant of an immense lake on an exo-planet. The 'Princess and the Pea' becomes a young woman afflicted by a strange intolerance to pea soup. The 'President's New Clothes' reveals a future President Chester Trump wearing the image of clothing projected...

Ghosts, murder, demonic possession, and psychological torment: these are just some of the subjects taken up by the unparalleled writers in this superb collection. Lovers of the supernatural will discover the true masters of the genre, and readers of classic literature will discover another side of their favorite Victorian, French, and American authors. In "La Grande Bretèche" by the great French nineteenth-century writer Honoré de Balzac, a doctor...

Light years from Earth. Can a woman desperate to get home thwart intergalactic traffickers before losing everyone she loves? Immunity should have been a good thing. But to escape the captors holding her and her family hostage for immunity testing, she didn't just jump out of the facility, but off the planet. Now she's light years from Earth and escaping aliens but getting back home means ending an intergalactic trafficking ring. Can she do it before...