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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #154 Peter Darbyshire et al.
Issue #154 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Peter Darbyshire and Stephen V. Ramey.… More
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Turning Money into Rebellion: The Unlikely Story of Denmark’s Revolutionary Bank Robbers Gabriel Kuhn
Blekingegade is a quiet Copenhagen street. It is also where, in May 1989, the police discovered an apartment that had served Denmark’s most notorious twentieth-century bank robbers as a hideaway for years. The Blekingegade… More
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Blood Lake Kenneth Wishnia et al.
“The Ecuadorian Andes is one of the few places on earth where you can get a sunburn and freeze to death at the same time.“
When New York City PI Filomena Buscarsela takes her teenaged daughter, Antonia, to see their extended… More
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Sherwood Nation Benjamin Parzybok
As drought-stricken Portland, Oregon falls apart, a new city rises from within.
New: the first edition of our new Reader’s Guide and Companion.
In drought-stricken Portland, Oregon, a Robin Hood-esque water… More
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On Spec Magazine – Summer 2014 #97 vol 26 no 5 Diane L. Walton et al.
The Summer 2014 Issue of On Spec Magazine.
This issue features short stories by Mikey Hamm (“Bugzapper”), Jason Fischer (“The Glorious Aerybeth”), Anita Dolman (“Handcrafting”),… More
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Rites of Passage Eric Brown
Rites of Passage gathers four long stories, one of which is original to the collection. “Bartholomew Burns and the Brain Invaders” features a Victorian London facing the threat of alien invasion and the… More
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Black Static #41 Andy Cox et al.
The July–August issue has new horror and dark fantasy fiction by Tim Waggoner, Vajra Chandrasekera, Ralph Robert Moore, Carole Johnstone, Leah Thomas, Ray Cluley, Thersa Matsuura. The cover art is by Richard Wagner,… More
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Cold Turkey Carole Johnstone
New bonus story: The Cold Turkey ebook now includes Carole Johnstone’s 2014 British Fantasy Award-winning short story “Signs of the Times”.
“I saw him Mr Munroe.” A sly look lit up Jimmy’s blinking… More
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Monterra’s Deliciosa and Other Tales and Anna Tambour
A powerfully evocative portrait of an alternative community in the early 1970s, told with a child’s-eye simplicity by a young resident. Short fiction from an author whose work has been described by World Fantasy… More
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Spotted Lily Anna Tambour
"a wicked, thoroughly unpredictable romp" –Locus
Angela Pendergast, escapee from the Australian bush, grew up with the smell of hot mutton fat in her hair, the thought of her teeth crunching a cold… More
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Nocturnes and Other Nocturnes Claude Lalumière
Nocturnes and Other Nocturnes: Twenty-five dark stories that span a daring breadth of genres. In these noir tales that unfold at the edge of realism, mythic nocturnes from impossible pasts, and disquietingly intimate… More
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Approaching Omega Eric Brown
//~Mission to locate Earth-temperate planet for colonisation: failed…
//~1000 years out from Earth base, damage to colony sleeper hangars 1, 3 and 4 sustained … all lives lost … hangars 2 and 5 still… More
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A Writer’s Life Eric Brown
Mid-list writer Daniel Ellis becomes obsessed with the life and work of novelist Vaughan Edwards, who disappeared in mysterious circumstances in 1996. Edwards’ novels, freighted with foreboding tragedy … More
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Blue Shifting Eric Brown
"The blue light thickened, blotting out Janner’s surroundings, and he existed in a displaced void-like limbo. Then the blue light vanished. Christ, he cried to himself, where the hell now?"
It begins… More
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Ghostwriting Eric Brown
Over the course of a career spanning twenty five years, Eric Brown has written just a handful of horror and ghost stories – and all of them are collected here. They range from the gentle, psychological chiller “The… More
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Meridian Days Eric Brown
‘I survive. I live from day to day – a Meridian day which humanity has created from one eternal stretch of daylight.’
Meridian, twenty light years from Earth and with just a tiny scattering of inhabitable… More
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Penumbra Eric Brown
When a young tug pilot’s career is ruined by a collision in Earth orbit he has no choice but to accept a commission to fly an eccentric ship builder to planet far from the trade routes. When they discover alien ruins… More
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Salvage Eric Brown
When Salvageman Ed saves Ella Rodriguez from spider-drones on the pleasure planet of Sinclair’s Landfall, he has no idea what he’s letting himself in for. Ella is not at all what she seems, as he’s… More
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The Angels of Life and Death Eric Brown
The Angels of Life and Death collects ten science fiction stories from two times winner of the BSFA short story award Eric Brown. From cyberpunk visions of post-human futures to traditional tales of alien encounter … More
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The Time-Lapsed Man and other stories Eric Brown
He made a sound of pleasure as the hot water needled his tired skin. Yet he heard nothing. The silence was more absolute than any he had experienced before. After more than fifty shifts, a lifetime among the stars, this … More
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The Emoticon Generation Guy Hasson
Guy Hasson’s The Emoticon Generation features seven stories about life-changes brought about by our new electronic generation: stories that blur the borders between our world and science fiction, stories… More
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On my way to Samarkand: memoirs of a travelling writer Garry Douglas Kilworth
Garry (Douglas) Kilworth is a varied and prolific writer who has travelled widely since childhood, living in a number of countries, especially in the Far East. His books include science fiction and fantasy, historical… More
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The Fabulous Beast Garry Kilworth
A set of beautifully crafted tales of the imagination by a writer who was smitten by the magic of the speculative short story at the age of twelve and has remained under its spell ever since.
These few stories cover three… More
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Nowhere To Go Iain Rowan
An ordinary man who finds himself caught up in a bank raid gone wrong. A murder caught on security camera where the victim doesn’t exist. A man with just months to live, who is already living in hell but decides to … More