“It is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears.We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea--whether it is to sail or to watch it--we are going back from whence we came.”- John F. KennedyUnderwater cities, lost civilizations, crops, climate change, and dead zones.In this collection of o...

Nominated in the P & E Readers' Poll for Best Fiction e-zine published in 2016!This Omnibus edition of Tales from the Canyons of the Damned consists of Eighteen sharp, suspenseful, thought provoking short stories - from Nine of todays top speculative fiction writers.Tales from the Canyons of the Damned (canyonsofthedamned.com) is a dark science fiction, horror, & slipstream magazine we've been working on since 2015. What is Dark Science Fiction and Horror? Think of it as a ...

We’re knocking it out of the park with our first ever sports issue!This twenty-third issue of Tales from the Canyons of the Damned consists of five sharp, suspenseful, thought provoking short stories-each from a different featured master of speculative fiction.A Brief Survey of Intergalactic Sports and Other Competitive Events—Will SwardstromMurder Bowl XIII—Nathan M. BeauchampEcho Dome—Bob WilliamsPeach of a Delivery, That!—S. Elliot BrandisVelox...

This Seventh Omnibus edition of Tales from the Canyons of the Damned is loaded with fifteen sharp, suspenseful, thought provoking short stories - from thirteen of today’s top speculative fiction writers.Tales from the Canyons of the Damned (canyonsofthedamned.com) is a dark science fiction, horror, & slipstream magazine we've been working on since 2015. What is Dark Science Fiction and Horror? Think of it as a literary Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, or Outer Limits, it's Netflix's B...

This Fourth Omnibus edition of Tales from the Canyons of the Damned is loaded with seventeen sharp, suspenseful, thought provoking short stories - from thirteen of today’s top speculative fiction writers.Tales from the Canyons of the Damned (canyonsofthedamned.com) is a dark science fiction, horror, & slipstream magazine we've been working on since 2015. What is Dark Science Fiction and Horror? Think of it as a literary Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, or Outer Limits, it's Netflix's ...

This Valentine issue of Tales from the Canyons of the Damned consists of six sharp, suspenseful, thought provoking short stories—each from a different featured master of speculative fiction and one intimate poem.S. Elliot Brandis suggests to Swipe Right.Nathan M. Beauchamp warns what happens if you're not 100%.Will Swardstrom tells us what happens After the End.Poet Hester J. Rook provides some lyrical intimacy.Kevin Lauderdale brings back James and Regg...

20 Lost World Classics gathers a capacious tradition of speculative adventure in which concealed continents, vanished civilizations, prehistoric survivals, and utopian or dystopian enclaves become laboratories for wonder and critique. Across romances, voyages extraordinaires, Gothic fantasies, satires, scientific fictions, and imperial adventure narratives, the volume traces the lost-world motif from early modern imaginative travel to twentieth-century pulp-inflected extravagance. Its memo...

The Forgotten Civilizations: 20 Lost World Novels surveys the durable literary fascination with concealed continents, vanished empires, subterranean realms, and survivals of remote antiquity. Ranging from satirical voyage and Gothic speculation to scientific romance, imperial adventure, proto–science fiction, and supernatural horror, the volume traces how "lost worlds" became laboratories for imagining evolution, race, technology, empire, and cultural memory. Its striking episodes of inacc...

Nominated in the P & E Readers' Poll for Best Fiction e-zine published in 2016!This Second Omnibus edition of Tales from the Canyons of the Damned consists of Nineteen sharp, suspenseful, thought provoking short stories - from Eleven of todays top speculative fiction writers.Tales from the Canyons of the Damned (canyonsofthedamned.com) is a dark science fiction, horror, & slipstream magazine we've been working on since 2015. What is Dark Science Fiction and Horror? Think of ...

Labor and labor norms orient much of contemporary life, organizing our days and years and driving planetary environmental change. Yet, labor, as a foundational set of values and practices, has not been sufficiently interrogated in the context of the environmental humanities for its profound role in climate change and other crises. This collection of essays demonstrates the urgent need to rethink models and customs of labor and leisure in the Anthropocene. Recognizing the grave tra...

From the bestselling author of The Road Beyond Ruin comes a novel about a family torn apart by grief and secrets, then pulled back together by hope in the wake of World War I.England 1922. It’s been four years since Rudy’s brother Edgar went missing in war-torn France. Still deep in mourning and grappling with unanswered questions, Rudy and his mother struggle to move on. When the enigmatic Mariette arrives unexpectedly at the family’s manor claiming to be...

This edition of Tales from the Canyons of the Damned consists of three sharp, suspenseful, thought provoking short stories.Jed McGuire, a third generation SANDHOG mining the bowels of the city, revives from a disaster to discover that he and his team are not alone.A glass tower dweller laments his day stranded in his PENTHOUSE, and a midwestern housewife discovers that the city and the HARBOR aren't all that she thought they'd be.Dark Sci Fi Slipstream Tales like you...