"Sleep Walking Now and Then", by Richard Bowes, is a weird, futuristic novelette about an interactive theater production in The Big Arena (aka New York City) and the mystery surrounding its inspiration.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Education Reform Act introduced in England and Wales in 1988 brought about enormous changes in schools, both as management units and as educational institutions. This book, first published in 1992, was the first to look at the effects of the Act in all its aspects on the basis of empirical evidence gathered from schools over the first three years of the Act's implementation. It looks at how change is being achieved in the Local Management of Schools, the influence of the market on scho...

A young telepath rises out of a dying city to save Time from evil in this classic sci-fi fantasy duology, now together in one volume.WarchildIn an alternate New York City, a boy named Garvin is unaware of the extent of his psychic powers. He just knows getting through each day without losing his head is a struggle. Everywhere he goes, Garvin is bombarded by the thoughts of others. But his life quickly changes when allies contact hi...

If Angels Fight includes fourteen stories written over the last twenty-five years, beginning with Bowes’ first published short fiction, "On Death and the Deuce." These stories deal, among other things, with time travelers in 1950s U.S. suburbia, vampire fashion design, and the marriage of Heaven and Hell. Many are set in various incarnations of New York City.Four of these stories appeared on Nebula short lists. "There’s a Hole in the City" won the Million Writers and International ...

A peddler of dreams and a phantom rock musician cross the boundaries between death and eternity in this fantasy classic by an award-winning author."A gifted imagination. . . . Discover Richard Bowes." — Locus on WarchildWhen New Yorkers with lots of money and little imagination want to have fun, they hire Robert Leal. Known as a game master, Leal creates decadent fantasi...

A powerful telepath leads a rebellion against gods and Goblins in this sci-fi sequel to Warchild , from an award-winning author with "a gifted imagination" ( Locus ).Garvin Warchild's revolt is now in its third year and gaining momentum. He and his elite guard, the Warchild Cluster, have taken over various realms and are slowly cutting off the City Out of Time from supplies—human...

Chronicles Oasis’s rise, impact, and enduring legacy through exclusive interviews and insider perspectives.The rise of Oasis in the 1990s was stratospheric, yet they remained the people’s band. This is the story about how lives were changed forever, told by those who lived through it.All around the world, millions felt a connection to these working-class lads from Manchester. With anthemic songs crafted and sung by the greatest songwriter and singer of thei...

Dust Devil on a Quiet Street chronicles the remarkable life of Boston-born, New York City-reared author Richard Bowes. Bowes's childhood and adolescent brushes with dramatic spirits and hustlers, large and small, paved the way for his adult encounters with the remarkable, the numinous, the supernatural. Deftly orchestrated, this "memoir" is part impassioned homage to Manhattan—decades before and up to its recent wound on September 11th, which creates a hole in the city and allows the ghost...

From a funeral procession in Asia to an ancestral estate deep in the heart of a vaguely Victorian forest to a carriage accident in the vast universe of The Runelords, Unnatural Worlds takes readers on a journey to the far side of the imagination. Funny, heartbreaking, frightening, but most importantly, memorable, the original stories in this anthology go places few writers dare reach. Unnatural Worlds marks the perfect start to this brand-new anthology series.Orig...

The latest edition of the very best science fiction and fantasy as selected by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).The Nebula Awards Showcase is an anthology of the winners and nominees for the SFWA Nebula Awards. The anthology has been published continuously since 1966 and has featured the very best of science fiction and fantasy. This year's anthology includes stories from Nebula Winners Rebecca Roanhorse, Martha Wells, and Ke...

The latest edition of the very best science fiction and fantasy as selected by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).The Nebula Awards Showcase is an anthology of the winners and nominees for the SFWA Nebula Awards. The anthology has been published continuously since 1966 and has featured the very best of science fiction and fantasy. This year's anthology includes stories from Nebula Winners Rebecca Roanhorse, Martha Wells, and Ke...

Sixteen tales that combine the otherworldly with hardboiled crime fiction—from Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Paul G. Tremblay, Melanie Tem, and others.Here are the femme fatales, the tough guys, the down-on-their-luck detectives—but with a twist. Collected by Hugo and Bram Stoker Award–winning editor Ellen Datlow, these stories of the murderous and macabre will take you onto the dark streets of worlds unlike our own, where the monstrous stalk their prey.