Fantasy Adventure Short Stories

This collection of Catherine Asaro's show fiction contains five stories, including the Nebula Award-winning novella, Spacetime Pool, the Hugo and Nebula nominated novella Aurora in Four Voices, and an essay on Asaro's use of mathematics in her fiction.

Your favorite award-winning, critically acclaimed, and best-selling authors unite to tell stories set in the Dungeons & Dragons world, filled with desperate dragons and cruel elves, honorable demons and fickle gods, wild magic and the sharpest of steel. You don't want to miss this rarest of opportunities to get a glimpse into the D&D adventures created by some of the most brilliant fantasy writers of our age.

Here, you'll find some glowing fog, mad scientists, tentacled things, booze, dreaming gods, cigarettes, boats of various sizes, a bar or two, stiff upper lips, a ghosthunter, a great detective, and a multitude of universes, among other things.

During a routine oil delivery to the capital planet, a massive starship manned by a skeleton crew mysteriously breaks down. Now the youngest, least experienced crew member, his captain, and his conspiracist of a crew mate seek survival and answers while trying to avoid looming threats on the ship.

James Patrick Kelly rappresenta il lato umano del cyberpunk e "Festa a sorpresa" è la sua prima raccolta di racconti mai pubblicata in doppia lingua, inglese e italiano. Include i seguenti racconti: La casa di Bernardo, Festa a sorpresa, La promessa dello spazio, Dichiarazione, Yukui!, La scimpanzé dei papi, Una sorella, due sorelle, tre. L'autore: James Patrick Kelly ha avuto una carriera eclettica: ha scritto romanzi, racconti, saggi, recensioni, poesie e sceneggiature.

Zeiten ändern sich - Menschen jedoch nur selten. Die Errungenschaften der modernen Wissenschaft scheinen die Tore in eine aufregende Zukunft zu öffnen. Doch alle Technik des Universums kann die Menschen nicht vor ihren Sehnsüchten befreien. Um seine Schwester zu retten, lässt sich ein Polizist auf einen Handel mit einem wortwörtlich "unmenschlichen" Verbrecher ein. Die irrationale Sehnsucht nach einer KI verwischt die Grenzen zwischen Realität und virtueller Welt.

1951. The Day the Earth Stood Still had just taken the world by surprise with Michael Rennie's portrayal of Klaatu. Motion pictures had seen a surge of female protagonists and heroines defying the norms of the time with films such as The Sword of Monte Cristo and Anne of the Indies. 20th Century Fox's subsidiary label, Astrys Pictures, embarks on something new, a Flash Gordon-type duo of movies...except with a female spaceship captain and action heroine.

Mentre l’élite della società umana continua a deviare dalle sue origini biologiche, un uomo cerca una strada alternativa. Il percorso che la fortuna gli mette davanti lo trasformerà un giorno in traditore per alcuni e in salvatore per altri. Nella prima parte incontriamo Ronin, un membro dell’élite che odia la vita ad Upside, sul Disco che circonda la Terra, dove gli umani sono sempre più meccanizzati e meno connessi personalmente, e brama un mondo diverso.

Fantasy fans rejoice! Robert E. Howard may no longer be penning Conan tales but that doesn't mean you have to go without your fix of axe wielding barbarians, lusty wenches, and evil wizards! Literary Rebel is dedicated to bringing you a new crop of monthly fantasy fiction by talented authors.

Welcome to the 1881 Trials, the first in Preserve Number Six. It's a complicated set of Trials in a hastily assembled playing field and overseen personally by the Director. This is when everything changed.

"El experto observador de fantasmas sabe que debe optar por una mirada indiferente, nunca directa, aceptar esa percepción imprecisa, de costado, sin tratar de apropiarse de un significado evanescente que se deshace entre los dedos: textos translúcidos, medusas del sentido." Así arranca este espléndido volumen de micro-relatos de la mano de una de las mejores creadoras del género, la escritora argentina Ana María Shua. Van Gogh y Tarzán, sirenas y pájaros azules, filtros de amor y mapas del tesoro.

A collection of 11 dark fantasy, dystopian, post-apocalyptic, and science fiction stories from award-winning author Scott Nicholson. These stories visit undiscovered countries and shadowy avenues of the heart, lands and times where night never ends and matter doesn't matter. Features the six-story Aeropagan cycle where time is literally money.

The Idaho Territory gold mines and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom come together for a wilderness-dwelling drifter in this tale of the Weird West.

When his deep space mission goes awry, Lieutenant Jehrico Stiles crash-lands on an unknown planet. With breathable air, drinkable water, and a friendly native species, the planet seems almost utopian. The only trouble is, Stiles is starving. The planet’s vegetation is toxic, and there’s nothing else to eat. As his hunger grows and his body weakens, his definition of edible starts to change. He discovers that sometimes survival means doing things you would rather not—and eating things that would rather not be eaten.

Christine is an actress, a breakout star in truth. She never believed in wizards. She never knew of the darkest wizard ever to have existed: Mortem. But Mortem knows of her. Christine is the sole survivor of his assassination of two wizarding journalists that resulted in a destroyed cafe and many dead civilians. Fearful her rising celebrity will bring his great plan to take over the wizarding world into the consciousness of the public, he seeks her out, and Christine is forced on the run.

Dorian Corwin a young graduate student struggling to find work in his homeland, fighting to survive in a hostile social setting, brought on by the ever worsening effects of global warming that has been evolving for centuries on a futuristic planet earth. A desperate Dorian is forced to make a dangerous journey to the Northern Empire. Dorian is recruited into a secret organization called the Aquatic Guardians and goes on a very important mission. A tale based of futuristic drama, with many twists and turns.

At the edge of fatigue on the last vestiges of sight he sees it. Carrying the purest blade ever forged he pursues it. Filth. Vile and wretched creature. He spits. Born out of corruption and slavery. Grass blackening. Uncertainty. Who is he? Does he have what it takes?

The drug and booze-filled streets of New Boston’s spaceport district are no place for the uninitiated. Take a walk down these dirty thoroughfares and slip into their darkened alleys with eight new stories centering on what goes on when the most famous fixer in space is not there to hold things down.

A short story collection, including "John Henry: Man Versus Machine", "Juju Man", "Date Night", "The Nightshift", and "A Nasty Piece of Work". "John Henry: Man Versus Machine": What really happened during the legendary challenge between John Henry and the drill steam engine operator?

Bacchus Than wants nothing more than to return home after what felt like a lifetime in space. His plans are de-railed when he crosses paths with an old rival determined to throw a wrench in his plan. With his ship damaged and his body bruised one question remains. Will Bacchus ever make it home?