Descendants of a long-marooned group of humans struggle with mutations and infertility, and if a cure cannot be found they are doomed to extinction.The colony's doctor, Anaïs, herself suffers from a sexual deformity. However, her world is turned upside down when she discovers that the preserved corpse of a long-extinct native race carries exactly the same deformities as herself.What is the connection? And can she find the answer to this mystery that has reached back from ti...

Galaxy's Edge magazine is published every two months by Phoenix Pick, the science fiction and fantasy imprint of Arc Manor. Each issue includes a mix of new and reprinted stories, a serialization of a novel, and book reviews.Edited by Mike ResnickStories by: Robert J. Sawyer, Kij Johnson, Jack McDevitt, Stephen Leigh, James Patrick Kelly, Nick DiChario, Lou J. Berger , Alex Shvartsman, Robert T. JeschonekSerialization: Dark Universe by Daniel F. GalouyeColum...

THE FIRST IN A SPECTACULAR NEW SERIESOF TIME TRAVEL ADVENTURES EVOLVINGFROM THE WORK OF RAY BRADBURY,AUTHOR OF THE MARTIAN CHRONICLEST I M E S A F A R I, I N C.SAFARIS TO ANY YEAR IN THE PAST.YOU NAME THE ANIMAL. WE TAKE YOU THERE. YOU SHOOT IT.The sign said it all, but the hunters soon became the hunted.Their safari took them to the age of dinosaurs, but the hunt went terribly wrong, sending ripples of change through...

Worlds Not Visible follows Newlanders Rabka Samman and Kuri Mafouz as they try to make a life together in a wild and dangerous country. The people of the Newlands fled from the Old Protectorate and the despotism of the Protectorate's rulers. But even in the Newlands, far across the Wustani Sea, all is not peaceful. There, the people are divided into family-based Houses, which are often at odds with one other. And then there are the "others":There are the shreeliala, an aqu...

Carlos Theopelli had been dead for years, and no one cared about his life's work: the so-called "Destiny Matrices." As far as most people were concerned, Theopelli was just another crackpot scientist, and pretty much a jerk, to boot.But not to Angela. And not to the mage-dwarf Caleb Mundo and his pet mindbeast Alice. To them, Theopelli's notebook -- and his corpse -- might be the key to survival. Everything swirled around the confused mind of Joan the Flower Man, who had used pages...

The descendants of humans marooned on the strange planet known as Mictlan have survived against almost impossible odds and have reached a tentative peace with themselves and the native inhabitants.Perhaps the most terrifying change has been the development of a third human gender—the mid-male "Sa"—fundamentally changing the meaning of relationships and social structures humans have known for thousands of years.Adjustements to these changes and influences have come at a terr...

First contact was never supposed to be like this.A sudden rift appears in near-earth space, causing electronic components to permanently fail and cause total chaos. As Earth's fragile technological society disintegrates, no one can answer the obvious question — what is the rift, and who or what has created it?A new generation comes of age attempting to answer these questions. Taria Spears, an anthropologist, is selected as part of the crew on the exploratory ship Lightbring...

There is a certain magic growing up with life-long friends. The charmed existence became almost dream-like with two young boys growing up in a small neighborhood surrounded by an old, dense forest.But what happens when fantasies start becoming all too real? Grotesque and bloody rites give rise to a fey and magical girl who threatens to destroy the last remnants of the boys' idyllic childhood existence...whose mere presence may set the jealous boys at each other's throats.Hi...

An original anthology centered around one very unusual house in Cornwall which serves as a nexus to the multiverse—set in the Wild Cards universe created by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Game of Thrones.An alien virus ravages the world, with effects as random as a hand of cards. Those infected either draw the black queen and die, draw an ace and receive superpowers, or draw the joker and become bizarrely mutated. But whether joker ...

What does it mean to be “temporally deactivated?”Experience a historical moment through the intervention of a time travel agency. Be trapped inside a time bubble—willingly—so that you can save the universe from Darkness over and over again. Step outside of time at the order of your queen in order to stop a traitor…or to keep an assassin from destroying the future. Or travel forward into the future in order to kill off timelines to save your son…or backwards to halt an accident to s...

Alternate histories. Alternate realities.It’s said that every choice creates multiple timelines, each one exploring what could have happened if a different decision had been made. Most of these alternate histories stem from different outcomes to a pivotal battle, or to an assassination attempt, or to the ending or escalation of a war. All violent, all bloody, all brutal. But what about those choices made during peacetime, when there was no monumental, ongoing conflict? After all, e...

What could possibly happen when two cultures meet for the first time?In WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE, anything.WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE presents fourteen original stories where two different societies intersect and deal with the aftermath of that meeting. Will the conflicting cultures merge and adapt and find peace? Or will they clash, unable to either accept their differences or acknowledge their commonalities? Who will survive when the last of the Fae battles a world-killing AI? What h...