Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Fantasy - Collections & Anthologies

Enter the Fantastic Worlds of L. Jagi Lamplighter…

Sixteen tales of wit and wonder, of mischief and magic, where simple folk and extraordinary individuals wrestle down their own fears to find the courage, cleverness and, occasionally, faith to face life’s dangers and enchantments:

A young man trapped in dreams finds an unexpected way into the waking world.

A technician on a zero-g space station discovers there is more to him than meets the eye.

Time cops must unwind crimes that might not have been committed yet.

A brilliant young...

These short stories are about the journey called life. There are Native American stories, Asian stories, Southern stories, and a collection of others that teach life's lessons.

I have had an interesting journey thus far, growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, and joining the Marines at seventeen. I served three tours in Vietnam and was at the Mayaguez recapture of the ship and crew. I currently live on the Big Island of Hawaii in Kurtistown.

I collected these stories that are viewed through the eyes of different cultures on my journeys throughout the world while in the Marines...

An entire story-cycle in miniature. One thousand years of the remarkable magical history of a secret region of Spain where few people venture even now. AlbarracIn is a rose-red town tucked away in the mountains of Lower Aragon. Once the seat of an independent taifa during the dominance of the Caliphate of Cordoba, it remained saturated with ancient mystery long after the separated kingdoms of the peninsular were forged through conquest into the single nation we know today. In AlbarracIn still lurk the djinn of the wondrous past in their dusty bottles and the ghosts of heroes and...

TEN stories that with tongue firmly in cheek romp along the border of fact and
fantasy dipping into crime, romance, wistful adventure, celebrity spookery and
hospital spoofery.
Each tale is self contained but inhabits the same half-woken dreamscape. Where a
Tudor Queen with a fatal attraction brings slaughter to a country wedding; Oscar
Wilde and Jim Morrison raise spirits in a Paris cemetery with a storming duet; Keef's
pet puppy brings chaos to a Stones' concert during an escapade of sex, drugs and
rock 'n' stroll; and a pill designed to perk up...

Erkin A'zam's book in English comprises two novellas, The Din and A Tender-hearted Dwarf, and two short stories, The Writer's Garden and A dog bit the Incomer's Daughter, which previously have been published by the Uzbek representative office of UNESCO under the title Farewell to Fairy Tales. The newly-translated novella Gooli-Gooli is published for the first time.

The Din follows the career of an Uzbek playwright at a turning point in history - the turbulent and unpredictable nineteen nineties. Farhad (Fidel)...

In the Central American country of Costa Rica archaeologists have found smoothly carved stone spheres of various sizes, but they don't know who made them nor why. The first story is a fanciful explanation of the origin of these stone balls.

In the first story Costa Rica has been destroyed by an erupting volcano. Rose and Carol are invited to join children from all over the world helping to rebuild the landscape. They spend the summer doing such things as carving trees, painting flowers, caring for baby animals and birds, and riding around on a flying carpet with a boy from Arabia....

Science Fantasy is that middle ground between Science Fiction and Fantasy where the author provides credence for Elves and Werewolves and a moral compass for the Ventures of Technology. Extrapolation can be used not only to see where the future might be going but where the past might have gone; and at right angles, to whatever is, left and right, both dark and light, both serious and comic, and in the middle of the road, both at the same time.

The short story is a peculiarly American form and, at its best, a kind of novel told in a single gesture. The short stories of Jon DeCles are...