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The first collection by writer Matthew Hughes, and the perfect companion to his acclaimed novel Black Brillion, The Gist Hunter and Other Stories features nine stories taking place in the universe of The Archonate, as well as four non-series stories. The stories of Henghis Hapthorn, Old Earth's "foremost freelance discriminator", combine mystery and science fantasy while simultaneously recalling the arch irony of Gene Wolfe and the sly fancies of Jack Vance.

Wally K. Daly was a prolific, award-winning dramatist, whose writing credits included Casualty, Juliet Bravo and Doctor Who. He wrote 38 radio plays during his 30-year career, across a range of genres including comedy, horror and science fiction. This collection includes his best-known SF serial, The Scream Trilogy, and three other thrilling sci-fi dramas.

In The Memory Librarian, music, fashion, film and activist icon Janelle Monáe returns to the Afrofuturistic world of her critically acclaimed album, Dirty Computer, to explore how different threads of liberation—queerness, race, gender plurality, love—become tangled in a totalitarian landscape...and to discover costs of unravelling them.

This 1911 collection of thirty-three stories, selected and revised by the author from amongst his huge output of short fiction, includes tales of comedy, horror, monsters, and strange worlds. In his Introduction, Wells writes that the book brings together, “All the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again,” and that, “No short story of mine of the slightest merit is excluded from this volume.”

In the aftermath of the storm, reality sets in for Will Fontenot. Life as he knew it is over. He's battered and bruised from his previous battles but more determined than ever to escape Houston. There's no other choice. Houston is a powered keg ready to blow, and it's only a matter of time before the city falls. When Will, Cayden, and Isabella are again drawn back into the enemy's plan for the nation's final destruction, they'll have to once again fight for their lives against seemingly insurmountable odds as insurgents unleash their attack on Houston.

Crynn Dayholt and her brave group of fighters found an underground compound, a place of safety, until outside forces threaten to take away all they’d fought for. Her thirst for revenge against the mighty city of Soriah has her on the constant hunt for soldiers willing to desert Soriah’s army and fight on the side of the rebellion. Her incessant hunt for others takes a back seat when she is handed the journals of the man who had built the underground compound. A man more evil than the president of Soriah. A man who held secrets to the earth’s destruction.

Theodore Dalrymple, almost singlehandedly, revived the languishing Essay and in so doing became Britain’s answer to Montaigne. In this, his first foray into the Short Story form, he proves himself a rival of Anton Chekhov. His many devoted fans will be delighted. "Some truth can be told only in the form of fiction. That is why I chose to write these stories." -- Theodore Dalrymple

Ryan David Ginsberg bursts onto the literary scene with this hauntingly beautiful collection of stories that cannot be listened to just once and then forgotten. They are stories to be listened to again and again, stories that will stay with the listener long after the book has been put down. Within these stories, you will meet a woman who must auction her unborn baby’s rights away; a twelve-year-old boy who suddenly finds himself in the middle of a war; an extraterrestrial being sent to Earth to determine whether or not humans are worthy of an invitation to the Confederation of the Cosmos.

Take a journey into a lost world. A world of endless wonder and terror. Beyond the everyday known world and into a place very few have traveled. Into the world of The Rave. Follow two wandering travelers of the beat down a path of self-awareness and self-destruction. Climb down the concrete rabbit hole into a sonic world of madness and mayhem. Through the back alleys of the subconscious mind into a man-made psychedelic Eden of tomorrow.

In a post-apocalyptic world where new dangers appear at every moment, Henry is still learning how to survive, and things only grow more complex as the path to his escape grows ever-winding. Abby has become less of a stranger but no less strange and she holds the book with all the answers shut tight in her pack. Henry is still trapped in her nightmarish world, it only makes sense for him to seek it out no matter how much she swears that it would be his undoing. What will he find inside and what will be the cost for his transgressions? It appears he is about to find out.

Захватывающий мрачный детектив, в мире, где человечество полностью ослепло после страшного вируса.

It only takes one drink from the Water of Immortality to kill Evie Woods - halfway. Trapped in undead flesh, the world’s last skin-slider wakens on an island purgatory where a cursed spring bubbles with immortality, and zombie cannibals crave living flesh. Her only hope of escape rests in the hands of the one man who would see her fail. Lord Victor Lowell, the man of her dreams and darkest nightmares. Contrary and intractable, Victor preys on others to maintain his angelic charisma and preternatural prowess.

The Forbidden Tongue by science-fiction author Mary Clare Carley. Immerse yourself in a futuristic world of time travel, artificial intelligence, and human hybrids as you dive into this thrilling dystopian story.

Six short stories. Worlds of possibilities. The future, both near and distant. Alternate and plausible realities. Messages of hope and of doom. Fate, chance, and definitely choices.

Heather hates the Complot - the government party that controls her country - but the Complot loves her. And every citizen in Canuckia. They love everyone so much they're throwing a special end-of-year celebration to honour their Winners; and weed out The Weak. Will Heather survive a Complot New Year? Will anyone? A flash fiction with two other tales.

Embark on a journey through the twisted corridors of a world where: Corporate interviews take on supernatural influences, a workaholic goes to extreme lengths to secure his promotion, a dystopic and brutal contest among Head Hunters who are desperate to meet quota, and more. They say it's a grind.