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Nominated for an NAACP Image Award!Named one of The LA Times Best Books of 2015!"In these extraordinary tales, American Book Award-winner Due (My Soul to Take) uses a clear-eyed view of history to explain (but never excuse) the present." - Publishers Weekly (Starred)Stephen King says, "Ms. Due accomplishes the hardest thing of all with deceptive ease, creating characters we care about on their most human level." Whether weaving family life and history into dark fiction or writing speculative Afrofuturism, American Book Award winner and Essence bestselling author Tananarive Due's work is both riveting and enlightening. In her debut collection of short fiction, Due takes us to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghost; into future scenarios that seem all too real; and provides empathetic portraits of those whose lives are touched by Otherness. Featuring an award-winning novella and fifteen stories-one of which has never been published before-GHOST SUMMER: STORIES, is sure to both haunt and delight.The title novella, Ghost Summer, won a Kindred Award from the Carl Brandon Society (originally published in The Ancestors). This collection includes Patient Zero, The Lake, The Knowing, Herd Immunity, and many other stories. With an Introduction by Nalo Hopkinson and an Afterword by Steven Barnes.

More than five-hundred pages, over one-quarter of a million words...Space Opera spans a vast range of epic interstellar adventure stories toldagainst a limitless cosmos filled with exotic aliens, heroic characters, andincredible settings. A truly stellar compilation of tales from one of thedefining streams of science fiction, old and new, written by a supernova ofgenre talent.

An earlier, very much shorter version of this book was published as VULTURES OF THE VOID in 1992 by Borgo Press, along with a companion bibliographic volume, BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION PAPERBACKS AND MAGAZINES 1949-1956. Now the compiler and editor of those books, Philip Harbottle, here presents the result of his further and ongoing researches into British science fiction publishing history. This greatly expanded version includes entirely new coverage of the generic hardcover titles that briefly and paradoxically flourished alongside the indigenous British paperbacks of the early 1950's, spearheaded by an influx of outstanding American science fiction by such authors as Isaac Asimov, Fredric Brown, Edmond Hamilton, Robert Heinlein, Jack Williamson and A. E. van Vogt. VULTURES OF THE VOID: THE LEGACY also deals in fascinating detail with related shaping events both before and after the notorious postwar 'mushroom' decade. In particular it describes how many of the original founders of the pre-war British Interplanetary Society - including fledgling young science fiction writers such as Arthur C.Clarke and Eric Frank Russell - were to become giants and shapers of their field after the war. And how pioneer editors such as Walter Gillings and John Carnell struggled against overwhelming odds to establish British science fiction magazines both before and after the Second World War. In this new book Harbottle also reveals the astonishing latter-day legacy of the turbulent postwar decade for himself and some of the most prolific authors such as John Russell Fearn, E. C. Tubb and others, whose work he has been instrumental in returning to print.

Mattie, an intelligent automaton skilled in the use of alchemy, findsherself caught in the middle of a conflict between gargoyles, the Mechanics, andthe Alchemists. With the old order quickly giving way to the new, Mattiediscovers powerful and dangerous secrets — secrets that can completelyalter the balance of power in the city of Ayona. This doesn't sit well withLoharri, the Mechanic who created Mattie and still has the key to her heart— literally.

These thirteen stories are our own lives, inside out. A boy’s summerromance doesn’t end in that good kind of heartbreak, but in blood. A girlon a fishing trip makes a friend in the woods who’s exactly what sheneeds, except then that friend follows her back to the city. A father hears avoice through his baby monitor that shouldn’t be possible, but now hecan’t stop listening. A woman finds out that the shipwreck wasn’tthe disaster, but who she’s shipwrecked with. A big brother learns justwhat he will, and won’t, trade for one night of sleep. From prison guardsmaking unholy alliances to snake-oil men in the Old West doling out justice,these stories carve down into the body of the mind, into our most base fears andcertainties, and there’s no anesthetic. Turn the light on if you want, butthat just makes for more shadows.

Kyle Murchison Booth is the unlikeliest of characters to gain a cultfollowing, yet he has. Eccentric, socially awkward Booth is an introvertedmuseum archivist, descended from a most unusual family, who frequently findshimself in the midst of the most unsettling supernatural experiences and strangenecromantic mysteries. A gentleman and a scholar, the unwilling hero perseveredthrough The Bone Key, a series of interconnected short stories, to winreaders' hearts (and possibly their souls). This new edition, with a "puzzle" cover and a new introduction by one ofBooth's "successors" at the Samuel Mather Parrington Museum, will delightcurrent fans and allow even more to discover its dark charms.

This is the first non-themed collection of critically acclaimed author Sarah Monette's best short fiction. To paraphrase Hugo-award winner Elizabeth Bear's introduction: "Monette's prose is lapidary, her ideas are fantastical and chilling. She has studied the craft of fantastic fiction from the pens of masters and mistresses of the genre. She is a poet of the awkward and the uncertain, exalter of the outcast, the outre, and the downright weird. There is nothing else quite like Sarah Monette's fiction".

Kabu kabu—unregistered illegal Nigerian taxis—generally get you where you need to go. Nnedi Okorafor’s Kabu Kabu, however, takes the reader to exciting, fantastic, magical, occasionally dangerous, and always imaginative locations you didn’t know you needed. This debut short story collection by an award-winning author includes notable previously published material, a new novella co-written with New York Times-bestselling author Alan Dean Foster, six additional original stories, and a brief foreword by Whoopi Goldberg.

Features over thirty stories .

“Kowal's short works are difficult toclassify, often poignant or tragic, and always spectacularly written . . .[sending] readers off on a breathless trip to the stars.” - PublishersWeekly (STARRED)Celebrated as theauthor of five acclaimed historical fantasy novels in the Glamourist series,Mary Robinette Kowal is also well known as an award-winning author of shortscience fiction and fantasy. Her stories encompass a wide range of themes, acovey of indelible characters, and settings that span from Earth's past to itsnear and far futures as well as even farther futures beyond. Alternativehistory, fairy tales, adventure, fables, science fiction (both hard and soft),fantasy (both epic and cozy)-nothing is beyond the reach of her unique talent.WORD PUPPETS-the first comprehensive collection of Kowal's extraordinaryfiction-includes her two Hugo-winning stories, a Hugo nominee, an original storyset in the world of “The Lady Astronaut of Mars,” and fourteen othershow-stopping tales.

Portals to all the knowledge in the world, libraries are also createduniverses of a multitude of imaginations. Librarians guide us to enlightenmentas well as serving as the captains, mages, and gatekeepers who open the doors todelight, speculation, wonder, and terror. Both inspire writers of speculativefiction to pen wonderful tales woven around them. This captivatingcompilation of science fiction and fantasy short fiction showcases stories oflibrarians-mysterious curators, heroic bibliognosts, arcane archivists,catalogers of very special collections-and libraries-repositories of arcanewisdom, storehouses of signals from other galaxies, bastions of culture, thelast outposts of civilization in a post-apocalyptic world . . . grand adventuresand small sagas of the magical places we call libraries and the wizards whostaff them!