author: gardner dozois

... Vanishing Acts is also anchored by strong reprints by Suzy McKee Charnas, Avram Davidson, Karen Joy Fowler, and Bruce McAllister (be sure to catch in particular Charnas's strong and underrated “Listening to Brahms”), and graced by an ...

... Octavia Butler's “Speech Sounds,” among other good stuff – although Ursula K. Guin's wonderful novella “A Woman's Liberation” is worth the price of the book alone. Two other big retrospective overview anthologies, noted without comment ...

... Florel , Son of Konewar , " he announced ceremoni- ously . The Duke flipped a bone to one of his dogs , shoved his plate aside , and looked up . Florel walked forward a few paces , stopped , and bowed low . " Your Excellency . " As he ...

... Books reissued Starman Jones, by Robert A. Heinlein. NightShade Books reissued An Ill Fate ... Book, byNeil Gaiman. HarperCollins reissued Abarat, by CliveBarker ... 4 of theCollected Short Worksof Poul Anderson (NESFA Press), by Poul ...

... Lord of Light, by Roger Zelazny; Beggars in Spain, by Nancy Kress, and Forge of Heaven, by C. J. Cherryh. Bantam and Bantam Spectra reissued: Dying of the Light and Fevre Dream, by George R. R. Martin; A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K ...

... Files series, starring Harry Dresden, a wizard for hire who goes down some ... Dresden Files books include Storm Front, Fool Moon, Grave Peril, Summer Knight ... ColdDays. Butcher lives in Missouri with his wife, his son, and a ferocious ...

... dragon. When I reached the dungeon, a shiver rippled over my flesh. The flickering light of my torch revealed the chains that hung from the walls; the horrid implements of pain, carefully arrayed in a rotting wooden rack; the dark ashes ...

SF Adventures to the Far Future Gardner Dozois. Guyal. of. Sfere. JACK VANCE Here's one of the classic visions of the far future, from Jack Vance's The Dying Earth, taking us millions of years into the future, to the Earth at the end of ...

... Stars My Destination had been to me when I was fourteen”—and William Gibson ... Pocket Like Grains of Sand, F light from Nevery'on, The Bridge of Lost ... The small round leaves on the 166 Samuel R. Delany.

... Sun Dance went walking in the hills near the dance grounds and happened upon the footprints of a stranger. This Indian was wrapped in the sheet ... music in the same way that she felt the god sheet —as a spiritual warmth. In fact, although ...

This venerable collection brings together award winning authors and masters of the field such as Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Damien Broderick, Elizabeth Bear, Paul McAuley and John Barnes.

... books of the yearis Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened (Touchstone), by Allie Brosh, a collection of her Web comics and blog entries from herpopular site, which ...

... Sarah Monette. Copyright © 2008 by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette. First published in Fast Ships, Black Sails (Night Shade), edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. Reprinted by permission of the authors. “The Six Directions of Space,” by ...

... Sarah Monette, The Tempering of Men, and two chapbook novellas, Bone and Jewel Creatures and Ad Eternum. Her most recent book is a new collection, Shoggoths in Bloom. Forthcoming are a new novel, Shattered Pillars, and a new novella ...

... off. Huddled in a corner is the mother and a young boy. Their blood splatters an entire wall of the living room. A shotgun, the robot decides. First the man, and then the mother ... jerks, without the robot wishing it to do so. The robot ...

... ageless forever. The doctor is unwilling to accelerate her Prep schedule, but he does confirm that a few little changes are cropping up, and sends her downstairs for some fast cosmetic repairs. “It won't get any worse, will it?” she ...

... Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May/June. Iona Sharma, “Eight Cities,” Sunvault. Nisi Shawl, “The Colors of Money,” Sunvault. ———, “Queen of Dirt,” Apex Magazine, February. Martin L. Shoemaker, “Not Far Enough,” Analog Science Fiction ...

... set fire to the house. Zendahl, for one, has no doubt that it was absolutely ... chords is proof enough not only that the thing is most sincerely dead, but ... Fire ascends above the Water. The Superior Man examines the. 663. Michael F. Flynn.

... Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May/June. Iona Sharma, “Eight Cities,” Sunvault. Nisi Shawl, “The Colors of Money,” Sunvault. ———, “Queen of Dirt,” Apex Magazine, February. Martin L. Shoemaker, “Not Far Enough,” Analog Science Fiction ...

... horror, noted without comment, is the mixed reprint/original erotic ghost story anthology Killing Me Softly (HarperPrism), edited by Gardner Dozois. I haven't been following the horror field closely for several years, but it seemed to ...

... Paul: The Fantastic Images of Frank R. Paul (Shasta-Phoenix), by Frank R. Paul; Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist (Andrews McMeel), by James Gurney, which doubles as a how-to book; Norman Saunders (Illustrated Press) ...

... Sarah Monette was born and raised in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, one of the secret cities of the Manhattan Project. Having ... Sarah's Web site is www.sarahmonette.com. In the sly little story that follows, the authors demonstrate that ...

Tempting or terrifying, the idea of immortality has inspired creative souls for thousands of years. In this brilliant collection, some of today's most ingeniously imaginative writers deal with the entrancing theme of eternal possibilities.

... life force fed the magic that moved the ships . For a while . Until it was ... dragon , must have followed us back . " " You don't know that . " Slane stroked ... meat and a cup of water as the sun set , and she made herself eat and drink ...

With stories about consciousness and conscience, about heroes and horrors, this volume offers up two dozen dazzling stories from some of science fiction's greatest writers, including: Neal Barret, Jr., Terry Bisson, Pat Cadigan, Arthur C. ...

Now, in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection, the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award-winning authors and masters of the field.

This venerable collection of short stories brings together award winning authors and masters of the field such as Robert Reed, Ian McDonald, Stephen Baxter, Michael Swanwick, Paolo Bacigalupi, Kage Baker, Walter Jon Williams, Alastair ...

... Jazza stands. Just stands still. The program has given him nothing to do, but's also like he's finished. He looks up to the sky, like he always does now, up at nothing. He stands like a king on the prow of his ship praying to heaven ...

This year's volume includes Ian R. MacLeod, Nancy Kress, Greg Egan, Maureen F. McHugh, Robert Reed, Paul McAuley, Michael Swanwick, Robert Silverberg, Charles Stross, John Kessel, Gregory Benford and many other talented authors of SF, as ...

An anthology celebrating the witches and sorcerers of epic fantasy – featuring stories by George R. R. Martin, Scott Lynch, Megan Lindholm, and many more!

An anthology celebrating the witches and sorcerers of epic fantasy – featuring stories by George R. R. Martin, Scott Lynch, Megan Lindholm, and many more!

... Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery, edited by Jonathan Strahan and Lou Anders, the first dedicated anthology of the New Sword and Sorcery. All at once, we were in the middle of another great revival of interest in Sword & Sorcery, one ...

... Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery, edited by Jonathan Strahan and Lou Anders, the first dedicated anthology of the New Sword and Sorcery. All at once, we were in the middle of another great revival of interest in Sword & Sorcery, one ...

... ownership of the True Vintage was not something he had concealed from his friends. “I am, you know, a prodigious scribbler of minor verse. Yes,” he said, over their indignant protests, “minor verse, such a torrent of it that it would ...

... Reality Dysfunction, a huge modern Space Opera (it needed to be divided into two volumes for publication in the United States) that is itself only the start of a projected trilogy of staggering size and scope. The Reality Dysfunction ...