Eighteen steampunk short stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies, the three-time Hugo Award and five-time World Fantasy Award finalist online magazine that Locus online calls “a premiere venue for fantastic fiction, not just online but for all media.”Authors include Campbell Award finalist Aliette de Bodard, Margaret Ronald, Marissa Lingen, Tony Pi, Nebula Award Finalist Tom Crosshill, and WSFA Small Press Award Finalist Yoon Ha Lee, and more.Their stories take reader...

Since 2006, Clarkesworld Magazine has been entertaining science fiction and fantasy fans with their brand of unique science fiction and fantasy stories. Collected here are all of the stories this Hugo Award-winning magazine published during the first half of their ninth year. Includes stories by Aliette de Bodard, Naomi Kritzer, Ken Liu, Robert Reed, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Catherynne M. Valente, Kij Johnson, Jay Lake, Matthew Kressel, Rich Larson, and many more!

Lolcats. Salsa dancing. Unrequited love. Tom Crosshill's smart and witty debut teen novel treads a colorful coming-of-age journey from New York City to Havana that will appeal to fans of books by Matthew Quick and Junot Díaz.When Rick Gutiérrez—known as "That Cat Guy" at school—gets dumped on his sixteenth birthday for uploading cat videos from his bedroom instead of experiencing the real world, he realizes it's time for a change. So Rick joins a salsa class . . . because of a girl...

This issue of Clarkesworld features the following original stories: "Fragmentation, or Ten Thousand Goodbyes" by Tom Crosshill, "Draftyhouse" by Erik Amundsen and "The Womb Factory" by Peter M. Ferenczi. Non-fiction includes two round table discussions (world-building and speculative fiction in academia), an article on popular music and the end of the world by Brian Francis Slattery, and the launch of our Another Word column, written this month by Daniel Abraham.Clarke...

A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF—and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.This month, we present our special anniversary issue, Women Destroy Science Fiction!, an all-science fiction extravaganza entirely written—and edited!—by women.Gu...

Strange things are happening in deep space, and then closer to home, and then closer; someone has pulled the plug on the universe.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self-evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection, the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award-winning authors and masters of the fi...

What is there to do, when you have the power to do anything? John can fly, he can see through solid objects, he can take over the world and give it back again, but what he's looking for is something else…At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

To read is to journey, and to read science fiction is to venture into a myriad of imaginative and delightful worlds, such as:- Robert Reed's fabulous galaxy-circling starship and its fascinating inhabitants, "The Remoras"- The planet Mercury, where there is more than meets the eye in Stephen Baxter's "Cilia-of-Gold"- Two very different Hainish worlds--with very different customs--in two knockout novellas by Ursula K. Le Guin- A junkyard in Brooklyn tha...

Seeking writing success? Start at the beginning...Whether youre looking to get published or just hoping to hook your reader, first impressions are vital. Compelling opening scenes are the key to catching an agent or editors attention, and are crucial for keeping your reader engaged.As a writer, what you do in your opening pages, and how you do it, is a matter that cannot be left to chance. The First 50 Pages is here to help you craft a strong beg...

From Cyberspace to outer space, from the Dark Continent to the speed of light, the dozens of stories in this terrific collection represent the year's finest offerings in imaginative fiction.Among the twenty-eight tales assembled here are:The Land of Nod, Mike Resnick's powerful tale of the orbital space colony Kirinyaga and how the old ways conflict with the new.Foreign Devils, Walter Jon Williams's exotic revision of the War of the Worlds M...