Humorous genre lists. In addition to the title piece, includes: Our Robot President: The First Hundred Days, Rules for Dealing with Your Teenage Werewolf Son, Excuses Why Your Monster Husband Cannot Come to the Phone, Things Not to Say at a Witch Burning, Signs You Could Be Living in a Virtual Reality,and twenty-five more.Reprints from Asimov's SF, Strange Horizons, Dreams and Nightmares, etc."It is witty, wise, and hysterically funny." -J. L. Comeau, Creature Feature

Speculatief is een viermaandelijks speculatief magazine, eerst gepubliceerd in 2022. Elk nummer bevat enkele vertaalde kortverhalen en gedichten, meestal bekroonde werken of van grote internationale namen. Onze uitgaven zijn ook beschikbaar als ebook edities en audio podcasts.Speculatief is een nieuw magazine met als doel om meer mensen kennis te laten maken met speculatieve literatuur. Al onze verhalen en poëzie kennen hun eerste Nederlandstalige verschijning in onze numm...

Over one hundred of Boston’s best short poems (under fifty lines) from more than forty years of publishing, including fifteen award-winning poems.Boston’s poetry has received the Bram Stoker Award, the Asimov’s Readers Award, and the Rhysling and Grandmaster Awards of the Science Fiction Poetry Association.“Boston forces us to make eye contact with alchemists, angels, ghosts, werewolves, demagogues, monsters, demons, spacers, robots, berser...

The Legend Continues…In the spirit of popular Dark Fiction and Horror anthologies such as Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories and Behold: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders, and the best of Stephen King's short fiction, comes the Tales from The Lake anthologies.This 5th and final volume includes:"Always After Three" by Gemma Files - A young couple discovers that in a downtown condo you almost never kn...

Bram Stoker Award Winners Bruce Boston and Alessandro Manzetti combine their poetic and narrative talents in a poetry novella that blends the genres of horror, surrealism, crime, and noir. Set in a large America city, Sacrificial Nights follows the lives of some of those who inhabit its late-night streets: prostitutes, pimps, a thief, an arsonist, a police detective, a psychotic killer, and more. Their tales and the tale of the city itself are richly complemented by British artist Ben Bald...

Chapbook of eight poems portraying the life of a medieval alchemist by SFPA Grandmaster Poet Bruce Boston. First published by Ocean View Books, 1985. The author's second speculative poetry collection. Includes reprints from Asimov's S F Magazine, Star*Line, and the legendary speculative poetry magazine Velocities.Bruce Boston lives in Ocala, Florida, once known as the City of Trees, with his wife, writer-artist Marge Simon, and the ghosts of two cats. He is the author of fifty book...

"This book is a beautifully written, streetwise evocation of the '60s, told with uncommon grace and clarity of vision. Author Bruce Boston writes with the voice of a poet, the heart of a bodhisattva, and the unblinking eye of an investigative reporter. He creates a realistic, unsentimental rendering of an era slipping rapidly into the mists of history.Set against the backdrop of the East Village poetry scene circa 1965, Stained Glass Rain chronicles the confluence and divergence of...

Five novelettes, 23 short stories, 16 poems!--the best of Bruce Boston's fiction collected through 2001!The masques of 17th century Europe presented dramatic entertainments based on mythic themes and enhanced by lavish costumes and sets. The entertainments in Masque of Dreams fashion myths of their own and are enhanced by the voice of a poet, often lyric and at times pyrotechnic. Journey to the depths of a mutated rain forest that strikes back against civilization. Join a Victorian...

The Space Opera Megapack collects 20 classic and modern stories, ranging from galaxy-spanning epics by E.E. "Doc" Smith and John W. Campbell, Jr. to modern interpretations by Jay Lake, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Tim Sullivan, and more! Included are:BREATH'S DUTY, by Sharon Lee and Steve MillerSPAWN OF JUPITER, by E. C. TubbKILLER ADVICE, by Kristine Kathryn RuschTHE WORLD WITH A THOUSAND MOONS by Edmond HamiltonTHE SKYLARK OF SPACE, by E.E. “Doc” Smith

"The Second Randall Garrett Megapack" is the follow-up to "The Randall Garrett Megapack." Together, these two volumes encompass 42 classic-era science fiction stories by Randall Garrett. [Note that we omit one story--an early magazine version of a novel included in the second volume--as unnecessary.]This volume includes 5 of Randall Garrett's novels (cowritten with Laurence M. Janifer) and 14 short stories, including entries in the Queen's Own F.B.I. and Lord Darcy series. More tha...

Edmond Hamilton. For most people, this name conjures visions of two-fisted space opera -- pure pulp science fiction. And Hamilton -- known as the author of the "Captain Future" series -- was indeed one of the foremost writers of pulp space opera. Over the years, as his work became more polished and sophisticated, he evolved into far more than that: a visionary of the future whose imagination knew no bounds. He was truly a cosmic writer, as stories such as "Devolution" (in this collection) ...

The Misplaced Battleship is a science fiction short story by Harry Harrison first published in 1960.The world class con man and thief known as the Stainless Steel Rat (diGriz) has another very big problem to solve. In this science fiction novella by the great Harry Harrison will see if he can solve it and perhaps four or five more like it before this fascinating and funny tale is finished.'Use a thief to catch a thief' sounds great but it sometimes has unex...