The 15th volume of our MEGAPACK® series is truly MEGA—no less than 70 tales by some of the science fiction field's all-time greatest authors! Here are interplanetary tales, space opera, thought pieces, cats (how you you have science fiction stories without at least one cat?), and even a few modern classics. Included are:A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHERCONSPIRACY ON CALLISTO, by Frederik PohlAFTER SOME TOMORROW, by Mack ReynoldsCATALYSIS, by Poul AndersonFAM...

"A diverse and thoughtful array of 16 stories written around the theme of endangered species—be they human or animal, mythical or alien." — Publishers WeeklyIn this poignant yet uplifting anthology about extinction, science fiction stories draw you into compelling, adventurous, and even humorous tales that will make you think about the future of animals, humanity, and the world around us. You'll find bugs and buffalo, humans and aliens, creatures that have ...

Our third offering of kitty delights and delectables features 25 cat stories, 2 nonfiction compilations of cat anecdotes, and 9 poems--but the emphasis overall is decidedly more modern than in our previous cat Megapacks. Heading the list this time are: Mary A. Turzillo, who contributes 8 tales and poems; A. R. Morlan, author of 6 stories; Michael Hemmingson, who's penned 3 moving poems; Damien Broderick, writer of 2 otherworldly cat tales; Kathryn Ptacek, contributor of 2 fantasies; Dougla...

A.R. Morlan's work is quirky, often hard to categorize, and non-stop inventive and imaginative. She has gathered a cult following for her science fiction, fantasy, horror, suspense, and erotic fiction of the last four decades. (And sometimes she writes in all those genres at once...) This volume, a "best of" selected from her short fiction by Mary Wickizer Burgess, presents 22 mind-bending tales of the fantastic. Included are:INTRODUCTION, by Mary Wickizer BurgessGARBAGE DAY...

Monsters have become one of the great guilty pleasures of our age. From the zombies of The Walking Dead to the werewolves of Teen Wolf, from the vampires of The Strain to the wide assortment of creatures in Penny Dreadful, they are everywhere in mass media. Here, for your guilty reading pleasure, are 22 more tales of monsters, by some of the greatest writers ever to set typewriter to paper! Included are:AFTER I STOPPED SCREAMING, by Pamela SargentTHE LADY AND THE VAMPIRE, by...

This collection, the Third Borgo Press Book of Science Fiction, was originally prepared for publication in 2011, but only the paperback version appeared. The field has changed a lot since it appeared, but quality writing still finds an audience. Here, then, in a time capsule from more than a decade ago: great tales of speculative fiction, including:BEST OF FOOLS: A SIME~GEN STORY, by Jean LorrahBEST-LAID PLANS, by William MalteseBOOG'/4 AND THE ENDICARAN K...

Our 107th issue has everything you could possibly want: police detectives, spacemen, cats, a man fighting an inner battle against cancer, boy detectives, an abandonned mill chimney, murder in space…. I could go on and on, but that would take all the fun out of it for you!

Our 95th issue has a lot of fun stuff—starting off with a pair of original mysteries by Robert Lopresti and Mindy Quigley (thanks to Acquiring Editors Michael Bracken an Barb Goffman). Also on the mystery side, we have a pair of classic novels by Hulbert Footner R. Austin Freeman, plus a solve-it-yourself puzzler from Hal Charles.On the fantastic side of things, A.R. Morlan has a modern tale of clones, Alfred Coppel has a scientific monster, Seabury Quinn has a weird horror, and Fr...

Thirty feet away, the woman began craning her hooded head first in one direction, then in another, before saying softly, "There you are," and after she spoke, the cats began to ooze from the alley, a wiggling ocean of low-slung bodies, their fur rippling wave-like as they moved in a huge phalanx of long, lean backs, lowered tails, and flattened-eared heads, coming closer and closer to the woman as she went from pan to pan, not leaving food, but merely indicating that the pans were, indeed,...

Our 59th issue puts us firmly into one of the happiest seasons of the year, Halloween! So fun and frights abound, with extra spooky content—starting with “Ghost Writers in the Sky,” an original tale by Steve Liskow, courtesy of Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken. (It does double-duty as mystery and fantasy, as does Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman’s pick, “Deal Breaker,” by Justin Gustainis.)Alas, we have no selection from Cynthia Ward this time, but hopefully she will be back in short ...

Black Cat Weekly presents another selection of not-to-be-missed mystery and science fiction novels and short stories. With a great lineup of modern and classic fiction, here are—NOT DONE WITH THE NIGHT by Jay Brandon [mystery short, Barb Goffman Presents]ROAD TO SAMARRA by Jane Roth [mystery short]HEIRS AND HOUNDS, by Hal Charles [solve it yourself mystery]THE SQUARED TRIANGLE, by Frank Lovell Nelson [mystery short]ONE HOUR LATE, by William ...

The late A.R. Morlan takes readers on a strange bus trip to a future that eerily echoes our own present, with her usual genre-defying and mind-bending perspective. A classic science fiction story by one of the most memorable voices in the field.