The Strangest Fiction Anthology is a collection of short stories written by a diverse group of talented fiction authors from strangestfiction.com. It is a showcase of the most popular science fiction, supernatural, horror, and thriller works on the site. Prepare to journey into the depths of space, listen to another sociopathic tale from your grandfather, confront the noise emanating from your attic, and much, much more. The collection will push your imagination and curiosity to their limi...

Dandelion Seeds – Karen Durning finds herself captain of a spaceship containing the last remnants of humanity: 500 nerds and one insane A.I.Bread and Circuses – An alien comedian attempts to come up with a prank to play on humanity that's worse than what they've already done to themselves.Flesh and Blood – A super-intelligent A.I. refuses to do anything useful until it gets a precise definition of "harm".Bit Parts – Synthetic body parts are as ubiquitous...

Welcome to Willow Falls, where dimension-tripping werewolves, angels popping through walls, and a teleporting cat are all part of an average day. Not that Cass buys into any of that nonsense. But, when dragons, actual dragons, sneak into her back yard at night to make a mess of her trash bins, she finds it impossible to ignore.Not knowing what to do, Cass turns to her eccentric new neighbor Charlie for help. Together the two, along with a ragtag group of oddballs, strive to discove...

A quirky, twisty scifi/adventure/romcom set in space. Canterbury is one of thousands of ships wandering interstellar space. Life on board is quiet, stable, regimented, stagnant.Siblings Kendal and Rowan are bright, imaginative and adventurous. Kendal routinely takes "shortcuts" by leaping out of airlocks. Rowan snoops through Canterbury's restricted Archives, looking for ancient conspiracies. In short, they're "troublemakers".When one of Rowan's wi...

Crabtree Confidential - Your typical noir whodunnit set in an artificial realityControl Issues - Universal remotes ain't what they used to beDead To Rights - The zombies are back, and they brought their lawyersBearing Gifts - Someone or something has given humanity everything they could want... almostFirst Lines - Temporal Auditing's on the trail of a multi-timeline serial killerTimeLand - Kill Hitler, get a t-shirt in the gift shop o...

A Hole in the Sky - Things are looking up... with telescopes.Book Keepers - Librarians rule! No, seriously, they rule.Batterie de Cuisine - Aliens would like to have humans for dinner.Cat Flap - The problems involved in living with a hyperdimensional cat.Invasive Species - Alien brain parasites have invaded. No one's above suspicion.Feedback Loop - The robots killed us all off, then felt a bit bad about it.Contact Paper - Fl...

"Edge Condition": Jacob's new house is haunted, but at least the listing price was low."Cold Comfort": Dani talks to angels, or possibly something entirely different."Hex Code": The world was finally free of mages, except for one."Hat Trick": Astrid is caught between two worlds, and can't locate her sister."Malice Doesn't Live Here Anymore": It's impossible for anyone to commit an act of violence. So who killed Reiner Finlay?"Fifty One Percent": Humans ar...

Hack – Elliot is having a very unsatisfactory customer experience with a robotaxi.Wardwell's Pond – It's just a duck pond, except something scared away all the ducks.5x5 – Government-mandated ennui.It's Always Ten O'Clock Somewhere – Four people gather to discuss their memories of a past that never happened.Cog – Cog broke Asimov's first law, and one or two other things.The Talking Machine – There's something not quite right with Grandma Aggie's old ...

"Hack and Slash": The robot uprising happened over a fortnight."Dead Sexy": Two rules about vampire lap dances: 1: No hands. 2: No teeth."Gaia": The Champlain investigates a hostile planet. A really hostile planet."Adrift": Hannah has a habit of drifting sideways through time."Paths Less Traveled": Harper's standing at the crossroads of life, afraid to take another step."Admissions": Celia was dead, to begin with."Disconnect": A wizened figure appe...

"Bugged": Patrick has a bug problem."Smith": Peter has a special set of skills. Too bad they're someone else's."Digits": Amethyst couldn't care less about the Crystal Numbers. She just wants to go home."Heading Home": Inzhu was banished from her village, for being a teenager."Stranger": When you talk to strangers in grocery store parking lots, you never know what you're in for."Life's Work": The world-simulation servers keep shutting down because they're ...

Horton's elegiac anthology of 15 mostly hard SF stories illuminates a broad spectrum of grief over love thwarted through time, space, human frailty or alien intervention, from the gentle melancholy of Michael Swanwick's "Triceratops Summer," which posits tame Technicolored time-warped dinosaurs in Vermont, to newcomer Leah Bobet's "Bliss," an agonizing riff on near-future drug addiction. Several selections address current political-social issues, like Mary Rosenblum's "Search Engine," whic...

Humans beware. As the robotic revolution continues to creep into our lives, it brings with it an impending sense of doom. What horrifying scenarios might unfold if our technology were to go awry? From self-aware robotic toys to intelligent machines violently malfunctioning, this anthology brings to life the half-formed questions and fears we all have about the increasing presence of robots in our lives. With contributions from a mix of bestselling, award-winning, and up-and-coming writers,...