Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Science Fiction - Collections & Anthologies

One novella, seven short stories and a duo of flash fiction.

SECOND LIFE is a sci-fi mystery novella set in the Australian outback. Brenda is a woman who lives with an old man that could be her grandfather and a young girl that could be her daughter; except they're not.

What happens during a new moon? Why does nobody remember their past? What secrets is Brenda keeping and why is she suspicious of the child in her house?

FORTUNE: .When an up and coming artist is confronted by a strange man foretelling the future, she laughs off the warning....

Bite Size Reads is a collection of 23 short stories of murder, revenge, time travel and creepy things, all flavor enhanced with a dash of irony and a sprinkling of humor. The cool thing is, the stories are grouped by an Average Read Time and all are 15 minutes or less.

There's something for everyone and every time of day. So get off social media and delve into alternate...

Speculative fiction?encompassing both science fiction and fantasy?has emerged as a dynamic field within Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, producing new critical vocabularies and approaches to topics that include colonialism and modernity, immigration and globalization, race and gender. As the first collection engaging Chicana/o and Latina/o speculative cultural production, Altermundos: Latin@ Speculative Literature, Film, and Popular Culture provides a comprehensive alternative to the view of speculative fiction as a largely white, male, Eurocentric, and heteronormative genre. It...

The stories and non-stories in Kristine Ong Muslim's Butterfly Dream avow mutilation as rebirth, ruin as indestructibility, and safety as an illusion. In "Artificial Life," a girl is persistent in her belief that her doll will soon come to life. "The Six Mutations of Jerome" documents the grotesque transformations of an everyman named Jerome, while "The Lonely People" follows a group of individuals fleeing from the accoutrements of the modern world as manifested by carnivorous floors and a marauding giant worm. Part travelogue on the vagaries of human consciousness, Butterfly Dream is a...

Today's most talented current SF authors take us on new

TRAJECTORIES

Marianne J. Dyson brings us a suspenseful tale from the surface of Mars.

Bud Sparhawk shows us blue-collar workers finding danger while just

trying to make a living.

John F. Allen explains how a TV production assistant can go from fighting

racial prejudice in the 1950s to defending against an alien invasion in the far

future.

Brad R. Torgersen introduces us to "The Ghost Conductor Of The

Interstellar Express."

And many more

Each story in this series teaches a lesson the person behind the stone should have learned before committing crime, hurting someone else, or generally failing at life. We're about to enter Golden Stone Cemetery, where these unfortunate people are buried so deep you can barely find their markers. Their crimes are so heinous and their deeds so cruel that family members buried them here because they want to forget they ever existed.

Welcome to Golden Stone Cemetery, where the voices of these unfortunates can be heard loud and clear. Learning what they did and what their fates became...