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"Free Live Free," said the newspaper ad, and the out-of-work detective Jim Stubb, the occultist Madame Serpentina, the salesman Ozzie Barnes, and the overweight prostitute Candy Garth are

Gene Wolfe takes us to a future North America at once familiar and utterly strange.

From award-winning author Charlie Jane Anders comes an original space opera short story "If You Take My Meaning." As an ex-smuggler and two-time reluctant revolutionary, Alyssa is used to

In the skies over Oakland, California, a DC-10 and a 747 are on a collision course.

Hailed as "one of the literary giants of SF" by the Denver Post, Gene Wolfe has repeatedly won the field's highest honors, including the Nebula, the Hugo, and the World Fantasy award

A collection of short stories from the Hugo and Nebula award-winning author who "has the imagination of six ordinary science fiction writers" (George R.R. Martin)—John Varley.

A moving and powerful science fiction novel of love, revenge, and identity in a totalitarian world.

Edward Venn-Thomas lives in the twentieth century but has been mysteriously transported to the future, and the apparently idyllic society of New Create, where there is no hunger, no war and no diss

Despite wars with Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as 9/11, the United States' dependence on foreign oil has kept the nation tied to the Middle East.

Created as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, the Just City is a planned community, populated by over ten thousand children and a few hundred adult teachers from all eras of

"New Arcadia is a city-sized oil rig off the coast of the Canadian Maritimes, now owned by one very wealthy, powerful, byzantine family: Lynch Ltd.

For centuries travelling gleeman have told tales of the lost Horn of Valere; the legendary Horn that will raise the dead heroes of the Ages.

The Stone of Tear, fortress of legend, has been taken and Callandor, The Sword that is not a sword, is held.

The Red Dwarf crew arrive on htraE (a version of Earth in a universe where time is running backwards) in order to rescue Lister, who has returned to life and the age of 25 as a result of the crew d

First appeared as a short story in Astounding Magazine, 1926.