Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Anthologies (multiple authors)

"So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy" is an anthology of original new stories by leading African, Asian, South Asian and Aboriginal authors, as well as North American and British writers of color.

Stories of imagined futures abound in Western writing. Writer and editor Nalo Hopkinson notes that the science fiction/fantasy genre speaks so much about the experience of being alienated but contains so little writing by alienated people themselves. It s an oversight that Hopkinson and Mehan aim to correct with this anthology.

The book depicts imagined futures...

Brand-new stories by: Chaim Cigan, Martin Goffa, Irena Hejdova, Michaela Klevisova, Stěpan Kopřiva, Ondrej Neff, Marketa Pilatova, Jiri "Walker" Prochazka, Petra Soukupova, Petr Stančik, Michal Sykora, Petr Sabach, Kateřina Tučkova, and Milos Urban.

While Prague might today be one of the world's top tourist destinations, and a cosmopolitan capital of...

In "Beneath the Earth of Her," acclaimed writer Karen E. Outen delicately probes the life of a loving, passionate married couple at odds over the prospect of having children. In "Gary Garrison's Wedding Vows," novelist Ron Carlson offers a...

JACQUELIN THOMAS
Signs of Light

Businesswoman Lorna Hamilton has always looked down on unemployed single mothers, but she learns a valuable lesson when she befriends devout single mom Brittany Spencer and finds the family she's been praying for.

RESHONDA TATE BILLINGSLEY
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Adolescence. Fortunately it's over with early and once you've finished paying for therapy, there's still a chance to move on with your life.

The Worst Years of Your Life says it all: angst, depression, growing pains, puberty, nasty boys and nastier girls; these are stories of aaawkwardness and embarassment from a stellar list of contributors. Great postmodern classics like John Barth's "Lost in the Funhouse" are paired with newer selections,...

Once upon a time. It's how so many of our most beloved stories start.

Fairy tales have dominated our cultural imagination for centuries. From the Brothers Grimm to the Countess d'Aulnoy, from Charles Perrault to Hans Christian Anderson, storytellers have crafted all sorts of tales that have always found a place in our hearts.

Now a new generation of storytellers has taken up the mantle that the masters created and...