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The Best Horror of the Year Volume Two edited by Ellen Datlow">The Best Horror of the Year Volume Two edited by Ellen Datlow

February 18th 2010 at 12:23 pm

What frightens us, what unnerves us? What causes that delicious shiver of fear to travel the lengths of our spines? It seems the answer changes every year. Every year the bar is raised; the screw is tightened. Ellen Datlow knows what scares us; the seventeen stories included in this anthology were chosen from magazines, webzines, anthologies, literary journals, and single author collections to represent the best horror of the year.

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan">The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four edited by Jonathan Strahan

February 11th 2010 at 2:21 pm

A ruthless venture capitalist finds love–or something chemically similar–in an Atlanta strip club; a girl in grey conjures a man from a handful of moonshine; an ship blazing a highway between the stars discovers an island of life on a distant gas giant; a boy becomes a man by mastering the sword; a rebellious young woman suffers a strange incarceration; an astronaut shares a lifeboat–and herself–with an unfathomable alien; an infected girl counts the days until she becomes a vampire; an aviatrix and an inventor square off against saboteurs and monstrous brains; a big man travels to a tiny moon to examine an ancient starship covered with flowers…

Tails of Wonder and Imagination edited by Ellen Datlow">Tails of Wonder and Imagination edited by Ellen Datlow

January 18th 2010 at 8:30 pm

What is it about the cat that captivates the creative imagination? No other creature has inspired so many authors to take pen to page. Mystery, horror, science fiction, and fantasy stories have all been written about cats.
From legendary editor Ellen Datlow comes Tails of Wonder and Imagination, showcasing forty cat tales by some of today’s [...]

Heartland by Mark Teppo">Heartland by Mark Teppo

January 18th 2010 at 8:26 pm

Seek the Light
Embrace the Heartland
Markham returns to Paris where he lost his love, and nearly his life. The ancient order of manipulative magicians that once cast him out is now in turmoil . . . a turmoil made all the greater by the swaths of destruction that Markham tried to avert in the Pacific Northwest.
Teamed [...]

The Shadow Pavilion by Liz Williams">The Shadow Pavilion by Liz Williams

January 18th 2010 at 7:39 pm

Detective Inspector Chen is back! (And now in Mass Market Paperback!)
The Snake Agent returns in The Shadow Pavilion, the fourth Detective Inspector Chen novel from Liz Williams. When Chen’s partner, the demon Seneschal Zhu Irzh, disappears, along with Chen’s wife Inari’s guardian badger, Chen must enlist all of his allies and assets in order to [...]

Shadowline: The Starfishers Trilogy, Volume One by Glen Cook">Shadowline: The Starfishers Trilogy, Volume One by Glen Cook

January 18th 2010 at 7:33 pm

The passing of an era… The shaping of a soldier… Vendetta!
Centuries ago, a private army’s deadly strike on the planet Prefactlas freed human slaves from cruel Sangaree masters. A single Sangaree survived–the young Norbon heir, who swore vengeance on the Storm family and their soldiers. Generations later, his carefully mapped revenge scheme is about to [...]

Hespira by Matthew Hughes">Hespira by Matthew Hughes

January 4th 2010 at 4:19 pm

Sherlock Holmes meets Jack Vance’s Dying Earth in Hespira, the new novel from Matthew Hughes, acclaimed author of Majestrum, The Spiral Labyrinth, and The Gist Hunter and Other Stories.
As magic continues to reassert its ancient dominion, replacing rationalism as the fundamental underpinning of the universe, Old Earth’s foremost freelance discriminator, Henghis Hapthorn, and his intuition [...]

Rules of ‘48 by Jack Cady">Rules of ‘48 by Jack Cady

November 16th 2009 at 2:46 pm

In a city with roots deep in the Confederacy, five men will endure seven deadly weeks that forever alter their perceptions of the world. For redneck auctioneer Wade and his son Jim, pawnbroker Lucky, auction grip Lester, and Howard, a kid from Jackson Street, the haunting events transpiring over the summer of 1948 will irrevocably [...]

House of Windows by John Langan">House of Windows by John Langan

November 16th 2009 at 2:30 pm

When a young writer finds himself cornered by a beautiful widow in the waning hours of a late-night cocktail party, he seeks at first to escape, to return to his wife and infant son. But the tale she weaves, of her missing husband, a renowned English professor, and her lost stepson, a soldier killed on [...]

Eclipse Three edited by Jonathan Strahan">Eclipse Three edited by Jonathan Strahan

October 19th 2009 at 3:12 pm

To observe an eclipse is to witness a rare and unusual event. Under darkened skies the sun becomes a negative image of itself, its corona transforming the landscape into a strange space where anything might happen, and any story may be true…
In the spirit of classic science fiction anthologies such as Universe, Orbit, and Starlight, [...]

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