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The Wrong Note Isabella Carter
Rue has had enough. If he wanted to listen to terrible metal bands at top volume all day, he would work in a music store instead of his own shop. Being stuck next door to said music store makes his… More
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Zombie Films on Valentine’s Day Emily Gould
There’s nothing worse than spending Valentine’s Day without a date, or so Alec believes—and all his friends agree. Desperate not to spend the night alone, he tries asking everyone he knows to hang out with him, even going to so… More
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Waiting Erica Kealey
Ten years ago, Rez met the love of his life on Valentine’s day. For ten years he’s waited for phone calls, texts, emails, or the brief visits and stolen moments of time before his lover is taken away again. Ten… More
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Heiresses of Russ 2011: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction JoSelle Vanderhooft et al.
Heiresses of Russ offers readers in one volume the best lesbian-themed tales of the fantastical and otherworldly published during the prior year.
Editors JoSelle Vanderhooft and Steve Berman read countless books, periodicals, and webzines to collect a range of tales—from… More -
Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Stories of the Fantastic Eduardo Jiménez Mayo et al.
This huge anthology of more than thirty all-original Mexican science fiction and fantasy features ghost stories, supernatural folktales, alien incursions, and apocalyptic narratives, as well as science-based chronicles of highly unusual mental states in which the borders of fantasy and… More
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Slant Timothy Wang
James, an Asian boy who likes video games and romantic comedies, realizes he’s gay while attending college in Boston. He begins a whirlwind exploration of the gay world, negotiating its many pitfalls, including the first kiss, his first love and… More
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Eat Your Heart Out: A Novella Danya Ingram
A breakneck tale of kick-ass, wise-ass, sexy-ass lesbians and ZOMBIES, Eat Your Heart Out opens on what promises to be another tediously annoying day at Ashbee’s Furniture Outlet. Then the strip-mall calm of Nowhere, Ohio, is shattered by the sudden,… More
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The Wonderful Day E. C. Tubb et al.
“Then the Devil had smiled. The door of Hell cracked open and, for a while, the churches were full of desperate creatures pleading to the God they had ignored for help and protection. The door of Hell had opened wider… More
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Wildeblood’s Empire Brian Stableford
They call them the “rat-catchers.” They’re the crew of the spaceship Daedalus, which a declining Earth has sent to re-establish contact with its long-lost colonies. Biologist Alex Alexander, together with his staff, must help solve the mysteries of human and… More
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Slaves of Ijax John Russell Fearn et al.
A scientist’s vengeance propels Peter Curzon seven hundred years into the future, where he finds himself in a very mysterious world. Science has banished the need to work in order to earn money, and people only pursue activities as a… More
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The Sword and the Rose V. J. Banis
In all the history of the sun-scorched Holy Land, there’s never been a knight like Sir Kenneth, “The Falcon.” His sword is swift and true, and in battle he fights with a savage intensity that lifts the spirits of all… More
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The World Wrecker Sydney J. Bounds
Strange reports begin arriving from around the world–reports of a bearded man who can walk through solid walls. Business conferences find a stranger listening to their secret plans; military documents and gold reserves are disappearing from impregnable safes; and Miss… More
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The Yellow Wallpaper and “What Diantha Did” Charlotte Perkins Gilman
This volume collects two classic works by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “The Yellow Wallpaper” — a chilling tale of descent into madness — and “What Diantha Did,” an early feminist work. Also included is a rare, brief essay by Gilman on… More
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The City of the Sun Brian Stableford
The fourth landing of the Daedalus Mission confronts Alex and his companions with a colonial culture seemingly modeled on a classic Utopian dream, but all of its inhabitants are infected with a mysterious alien parasite, and they no longer seem… More
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Lightspeed Magazine Issue 21 John Joseph Adams et al.
Lightspeed is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism,… More
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Desert Fire T.T. Kove
Brand is a man adrift: he is wolf shifter and fire mage, a traitor to his people for saving a friend on whom he turned his back long ago, a friend who no longer has need of him. He has… More
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