If you do it well, lying is every bit as effective as magic. Conrad Brent has no innate magic, so he bluffs a lot and uses a myriad of magical items to protect Brooklyn from monsters and arcane threats....

40 short stories by Alex Shvartsman, winner of the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction.* An elder god trapped in a pocket dimension turns up in the world's oldest magic pawn shop.* A cybernetically-enhanced...

31 science fiction and fantasy short stories encompassing hard SF, fantasy humor, and everything in-between.  * Refugees with a salvaged mech suit find that family ties are stronger than armor.  * Two...

CURSED BY PROPHECY. CORRUPTED BY POWER.When Eridani's parents are murdered and their kingdom is seized by a traitorous duke, she plans to run. After she suffers yet another unendurable loss, the lure...

H. G. Wells is a Victorian-era James Bond who must defend England and the world against time travelers, alien incursions and interdimensional threats (if he can learn quickly on the job, and survive the...

GUARD BROOKLYN, FIGHT MONSTERS, TAUNT BAD GUYS "With the fast-paced first Conradverse urban fantasy, Shvartsman (Eridani's Crown) delivers a laugh-out-loud, snarky adventure, throwing out pop culture...

A selection of notable science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories, which were translated into and first published in English in 2020. This anthology features the winning entry and the stories shortlisted...

Issue 7 features fiction from Canada, Pakistan, and Sweden.Michèle Laframboise's "Cousin Entropy" is a far-flung space opera reminiscent of Liu Cixin's books."Sunstrewn" by Murtaza Mohsin is another interstellar...

Future SF is a magazine focusing on international science fiction.This issue features stories from Mexico, China, Croatia, and the United States."The Second Celeste" by Alberto Chimal (Mexico), translated...

Contains science fiction stories from across the globe!The Language of Insects by H. Pueyo (Argentina/Brazil)Seven Deadliest Inventions of the New Era; an Itemization by Uchechukwu Nwaka (Nigeria)Let...

Stories from Austria, China, Germany, USA, and Russia. "Old People's Folly" features a cantankerous, disabled old lady protagonist living a difficult life many generations after the collapse of modern...

Today's software can only imitate art, but what about tomorrow?Will true artificial intelligences be able to appreciate or even create art? Explore dystopian societies, where AI generates most of the...

Contents:"Knights of the Phantom Realm" by Wanxiang Fengnian (China) translated by Nathan Faries"The Jellyfish" by K.A. Teryna (Russia) translated by Alex Shvartsman"Artificial Zen at the End of the World"...

Featuring stories from USA, the UK, China, Sweden, and Cuba. "A Friend on the Inside" by Will McIntosh (USA)"Four-Letter Word" by Alexy Dumenigo (Cuba), translated by Toshiya Kamei"Rat's Tongue" by Xing...

A Magazine of Science Fiction and FantasyISSUE 38: May 2019Mike Resnick, EditorTaylor Morris, CopyeditorShahid Mahmud, PublisherStories by: Emily McCosh  James Reinebold  Kristine Kathryn Rusch  D.A....

The Unidentified Funny Objects series delivers an annual dose of funny, zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. All-new fiction from the genre's top voices! In this volume you'll find: *...

Future SF is a magazine focusing on international science fiction.In this oversized issue we've collected stories from the established masters as well as some exciting up-and-comers in China, Japan, and...

Having very little brain can be a blessing. Or a curse! The Hundred Acre Wood has been part of the consciousness of the world for a very long time. For most of the history of the world, it existed on...

Mysterious and looming, towers and tower-like structures pierce the skies and shadow the lands. Hides the Dark Tower includes over two dozen tales of adventure, danger, magic, and trickery from an international...

Now in a single collection by editor Katrina Archer, get all of the short climate fiction published by Little Blue Marble in 2017. M. Darusha Wehm shows us our blue marble as viewed from Mars. Anatoly...

SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, HUMOR The Unidentified Funny Objects series delivers an annual dose of funny, zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. All-new fiction from the genre's top voices! *...

Issue 4 of FUTURE SF is themed Alien Invasion. It features eight stories from the UK, Russia, USA, China, Sweden, and Italy.Table of Contents:"They Are Coming" by Paul R. Hardy"The Building Atop the Hill"...

Coffee plays a major role in each of the stories collected in this book. Brewed from such fine ingredients as magic, wonder, humor, and romance, Coffee serves up a unique blend of the fantastic you won't...

If you love the mission of science fiction, the interchange between cultures, the hopeful and inexorable trajectory of technology and ideas, you'll love this anthology of new stories from Chinese and...

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats. - English proverbCat stories set in ancient Egypt, pre-history Mexico, Victorian England, space stations, grim magical worlds, during the zombie apocalypse,...

Journey with twenty-one speculative fiction authors through the fractured borders of human migration to examine assumptions and catch a glimpse of the dreams, struggles, and triumphs of those who choose...

LTUE Benefit Anthologies, Volume 2.Everyone knows dragon tales make for the best adventure stories. Throw in women who actively seek what they want—a little intrigue, exciting battles, and hard decisions—to...

This anthology collects all 25 original stories from the first two years of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy, with a preference for the weird.  Evangelist Roombas, cybernetic...

Recommended by Publishers Weekly The greatest gift to us is caring.What would the world be like without someone to care for or to care with? Would love survive if we don't care?From the world of twenty-three...