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Paradise ICON is an annual writing workshop occurring every year during ICON, Iowa's Oldest Science Fiction Convention. This volume of nine new stories from past participants of the workshop range between Greek, Norse, and Christian myth imaginings, time travel, space travel to both the Moon and Venus, a story of Hell, the Devil, and fairy futures, and these stories range from fantasy to science fiction to horror. The wild locations, compelling characters,...
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Experience "a bold and daring experiment in fantasy storytelling" with the first three books in the bestselling Thieves' World® series (Fantasy-Faction).
Created by the New York Times–bestselling author of the Myth series, as well as the Phule's Company series, Thieves' World® brings together classic fantasy's finest authors to flesh out the shared world with their own unforgettable characters and epic worldbuilding.
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3) Weird Tales of Weird Tails - A Fine Selection of Supernatural Short Stories about Were-Cats and O
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These early works by various authors were originally published in the late 19th century and early 20th century and we are now republishing them with a brand new introduction as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'Weird Tales of Weird Tails' contains a collection of short stories about supernatural felines, and includes 'The King of the Cats' by Thomas Lyttelton (1807), 'The Gray Cat' by Barry Pain (1901), 'Ancient Sorceries' by Algernon Blackwood...
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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first issues of Weird Tales Magazine, 100 Years of Weird is a masterful compendium of new and classic stories, flash fiction, essays, and poems from the giants of speculative fiction, including R. L. Stine, Laurell K. Hamilton, Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Tennessee Williams, and Isaac Asimov.
Marking a century of uniquely peculiar storytelling, each part of this anthology features a different genre from...
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The dead rise in the seventh volume of the shared-world fantasy, co-edited by the New York Times—bestselling author of the Myth Adventures series.
As winter descends on the fractured city of Sanctuary, it's expected that the rainy season will cool the air. But tensions are simmering. The Emperor is dead, and the rightful heir to the throne is in town. The city is a battlefield, and armed factions war for control of the streets. While the Rankan...
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Ever gotten lost in a book? Or on your bicycle? Or both at once, by falling through a portal on the page? Anything is possible in this collection of fifteen very short stories and one comic. Ranging from science fiction to fantasy and traveling in time from a reimagined past to the heat death of the universe, these stories combine the personal and popular power of spokes and words. Meet a young graduate who rides off to become a velo-archivist, a...
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Expand your vision of what a fantasy story can be with tales by Peter S. Beagle, Lucius Shepard, Catherynne M. Valente, Paul Di Filippo, and others.
Inspired by the literary salons of eighteenth-century France, “Salon Fantastique” brings together renowned authors to create and share new tales that show the fantasy form at its best. The resulting stories form a conversation between established and emerging writers, historical and contemporary...
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In this impressive anthology, twenty of today's hottest urban fantasy writers-including Charlaine Harris, Jonathan Maberry, Kelley Armstrong, Seanan Mcguire, and C. E. Murphy-pair together to write ten original stories featuring their favorite series characters.
Worlds collide when two different urban fantasy series meet in each of the ten electrifying stories in this collaborative project, featuring beloved characters such as Peter Octavian and...
9) Kapow!
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Journey to a universe of superheroes-and even a few supervillains. The eighteen international contributors to this anthology offer their creative visions in an unprecedented variety of genres. Their concepts of known and unknown superheroes are presented as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, illustration, and photography, thus displaying a unique view of the vast breadth of characters we know from graphic novels, magazines, books, videos, movies, and TV.
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"Some of the most interesting fantasist-fabulists writing today."
-Los Angeles Times
"A science-fiction symphony of strangeness....The Cabinet of Curiosities will give you a good jolt of wonder."
-Gainesville Times
You'll be astonished by what you'll find in The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities. Editors Ann and Jeff Vandermeer have gathered together a spectacular array of exhibits, oddities, images, and stories by some of the most...
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"Don't be alone, Doctor," Amy Pond tells the Eleventh Doctor in "The Angels Take Manhattan," and of course the irony is that in one sense the Doctor is always alone--a Gallifreyan whose regenerative powers mean he will outlast nearly everyone near and dear to him -- while at the same time he is rarely without one or more trusted companion by his side. This is a book about those companions--those fortunate few who accompany him on his journeys through...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of 1984 tells you what you need to know-before or after you read George Orwell's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of 1984 includes: Historical context • Chapter-by-chapter overviews • Character analysis • Important quotes • Fascinating trivia • Glossary...
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Visually stunning, tactile, and mesmerizing, this graphic novel is a debut at the summit from a self-taught Argentinian visionary.
Lorenzo isn't happy about moving. But in his new room, he finds an old desk with what seems likes hundreds of drawers. Each even has its own smell! Deep inside the desk, he finds a book and begins to read. When he looks up, he sees all kinds of curious things. Has the book come to life? Or is it something else? This is...
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