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From boardrooms to befuddled aliens, what if the high-tech absurdities of modern life accelerated to warp speed? The stories in Neil Rackham's debut science fiction collection, Elliptical Billiard Balls, explore the worlds of business and tech - not to mention English-speaking dogs and aliens who communicate via smells - to create strange new futures.

Originally written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and '30s, H. P. Lovecraft's astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction, and cosmic terror that are as powerful today as they were when first published. This tome brings together all of Lovecraft's harrowing stories, including the complete Cthulhu Mythos cycle, just the way they were when first released.

Before Area X, there was Ambergris. Jeff VanderMeer conceived what would become his first cult classic series of speculative works: the Ambergris trilogy. Now, for the first time ever, the story of the sprawling metropolis of Ambergris is collected into a single volume, including City of Saints and Madmen, Shriek: An Afterword, and Finch.

The life and times of Charlie Dane in the 25th century is mixed with good intentions and brushes with the law. He dreams of being the best pilot flying to the Moon and Mars. Falling in love in his early years can't deter him from his dreams. As he settles on an alien planet, he recounts segments of his life after seeing something he shouldn't during a flight to the Moon, his first encounter with a young alien, and the many characters throughout the Domino Sagas.

The world doesn't end all at once. First it started heating up by degrees. Until everyone was forced to stay inside during the day. As crops burned and food became scarce, underground communities began to form. Places people thought were safe. But nothing stays safe for long.

When an impossible disappearance is quietly rewritten as ADMINISTRATIVE TRANSFER, investigator Maya Vale knows the case has not been closed. It has been swallowed. Maya has a gift — objects speak to her in pressure, temperature, emotional residue — and the city she lives in has begun to feel wrong in the way only she can feel. Too smooth. Too managed. As though reality itself has been tidied from the inside. Her investigation leads her to buried files, vanished people, and a boy whose human mask slipped just long enough to reveal something patient and ancient beneath — something that ...

At the heart of a black star, humanity faces the cost of its own defiance. As inescapable forces stir beyond the edge of known space, Aion Tyros is drawn back to Anchor-1, a black star bound in light, long believed to be a doorway to the far reaches of the universe. What begins as observation becomes confrontation when reality itself starts to fracture around it.

The reckoning has begun, and the universe will not look away. Five years after the fall of Talos, humanity dares to believe it has escaped judgment. It hasn’t. When a forbidden signal echoes through the lattice of reality, the Furies answer the call, ancient adjudicators inspired by Greek myth, arriving not in anger, but to close a ledger long left open.

Nancy Hall hat überlebt. Marie Lamar atmet noch. Doch das, was sie in Grunch Road zurückließen, ist ihnen auf den Fersen. In Maries Leib regt sich etwas, geboren aus Albträumen und uraltem Grauen. Während das FBI eine Kette ungeklärter Verbrechen untersucht, deutet alles auf einen obskuren Kult hin – und auf eine Macht, die jenseits menschlicher Vorstellungskraft liegt.

For some, it’s the end of the world. For others, it’s just the beginning. With brilliant imagination, today’s most visionary writers point to the future in a collection curated by bestselling author Blake Crouch. These stories range from darkly comic to deeply chilling, but they all look forward. Featuring stories by Andy Weir, Amor Towles, Veronica Roth, N. K. Jemisin, Paul Tremblay, and Blake Crouch; with narration by Evan Rachel Wood, David Harbour, Jason Isaacs, Rosa Salazar, Steven Strait, and Janina Gavankar.

Adventurers, scientists, artists, workers, and visionaries - these are the men and women you will encounter in the short fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson. In settings ranging from the sunken ruins of Venice to the upper reaches of the Himalayas to the terraformed surface of Mars itself, and through themes of environmental sustainability, social justice, personal responsibility, sports, adventure, and fun, Robinson's protagonists explore a world which stands in sharp contrast to many of the traditional locales and mores of science fiction, presenting instead a world in which Utopia rests within our grasp.

Welcome to Newford: to the music clubs, the waterfront, and the alleyways where ancient myths and magic spill into the modern world. Gemmins live in abandoned cars and skells traverse the tunnels below, while mermaids swim in the gray harbor waters and fill the cold night with their song. Come meet Jilly, painting wonders in the rough city streets; and Geordie, playing fiddle while he dreams of a ghost; and the Angel of Grasso Street gathering the fey and the wild and the poor and the lost.

Punktown is considered by many critics and readers to be one of the new classics of SF short story collections. In the nightmarish city they call Punktown, on a planet where countless sentient species collide, you can become a creator of clones. You can become a piece of performance art. You might even become a library of sorrows...

2057. Humanity has raised exploiting the solar system to an art form. Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclear-powered ship, the Rockhopper, push ice. They mine comets. And they're good at it. The Rockhopper is nearing the end of its current mission cycle, and everyone is desperate for some much-needed R & R, when startling news arrives from Saturn: Janus, one of Saturn's ice moons, has inexplicably left its natural orbit and is now heading out of the solar system at high speed.

An EMP strike shatters the nation. Keith flees biker gangs, his daughter is trapped in mall rubble, and his wife fights through burning streets. Their only hope is Eddie’s off-grid mountain homestead. Survival, family, and chaos collide in this explosive thriller.

In April 2020, the world faced imminent lock-down, so a group of filmmakers started a virtual support group. Once a week, these diverse voices would assemble to do what they do best: tell each other stories. Campfire horror tales, emotional cosmic mysteries, and anything else that either made them take their minds off what was happening to the world, or help them understand it. HAUNTED REELS is the best of those stories.

Bears Discover Fire is the first short-story collection by the most acclaimed science fiction writer of the decade, the author of such brilliant novels as Talking Man and Voyage to the Red Planet. It brings together nineteen of Terry Bisson's finest works for the first time in one volume, among them the darkly comic title story, which garnered some of the field's highest honors, including the Hugo, Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon, and Locus Awards.

The Starship Atlantis takes you on an unforgettable journey through the extraordinary. From alien civilizations and rogue AI to desperate missions on the brink of collapse, these stories will transport you across the stars into the heart of the unknown. This anthology features six never-before-published novellas and short stories, plus two exclusive bonus tales.

Step into the visionary imagination of Ray Bradbury with this powerful collection of classic science fiction and speculative tales that helped define the Golden Age of the genre. The Selected Works of Ray Bradbury brings together seven unforgettable short stories that explore humanity’s hopes, fears, and moral crossroads against the vast backdrop of space, time, and the unknown.

Kitty Norville is everybody's favorite werewolf DJ and out-of-the-closet supernatural creature. Over the course of eight books, she's fought evil vampires, were-creatures, and some serious black magic. She's done it all with a sharp wit and the help of a memorable cast of werewolf hunters, psychics, and if-not-good-then-neutral vampires by her side. Kitty's Greatest Hits not only gives listeners some of Kitty's further adventures, it offers longtime fans a window into the origins of some of their favorite characters.