Do rising tides always lift all boats?Third Flatiron's all-original science fiction/fantasy/horror/humor short story anthology has the theme, "After the Gold Rush." Twenty-two authors explore themes related to complications of booms and bubbles, including effects of accelerated culture; ecological consequences caused by human over-expansion, such as climate disasters; and economics (for example, monopolies on resources and commodities). Includes a flash humor section, "Grins & Gurg...

"Lucanus: Prodigal Son" is the third novel in Juliana Rew's Unwinding Series. The cosmic disruption known as The Unwinding leaves the galaxy's scattered survivors to pick up the pieces. The time-traveling Watchmen discover an unlikely ally in the human Lucanus, the renegade son of the Masquat Empire. Home after years of space exploration, Lucanus has grown restless. He leaves along with his mother and Dog to establish a colony on a new planet, developing an advanced artificial intelligence...

Third Flatiron Anthologies presents "Principia Ponderosa," 17 newscience fiction and fantasy stories exploring weird western,gothic, and steampunk themes.Our authors dig into the principles that have made Weird West fertileground for speculative fiction and adventure.The international group of contributors to "Principia Ponderosa" makethis a unique and varied collection that is sure to please fans ofspeculative fiction.

Join the scavenger hunt for fun and happiness!Third Flatiron's all-original science fiction/fantasy/horror/humor anthology, Rhapsody of the Spheres, presents short stories about things that give us joy or meaning. The theme is inspired by the well-known "music of the spheres" philosophy (aka musica universalis) and movements of the heavenly bodies, which dates as far back as ancient Greece. The term, rhapsody refers to an outpouring of ecstatic expression...

Third Flatiron Anthologies presents "Keystone Chronicles," 19 freshscience fiction and fantasy stories exploring the theme of keystoneevents.What is a keystone? It's the central stone at the summit of an arch,locking the whole together, something on which other things depend forsupport, the heart or core of something, the crux. In storytelling, itis the pivotal message or character who makes it all happen.The international group of contrib...

Are we just a glitch in the matrix?"Brain Games: Stories to Astonish," from Third Flatiron Anthologies, is a collection of twenty-seven short science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories that speculate where the brain's logical and creative sides might lead us. Tales feature puzzle solving and ingenuity, inverted tv tropes, inventions (clockwork, biomedical, and Rube Goldberg), masterful creations, mythology, technology and robotics, and social commentary. A flash humor secti...

Is there hope for us all?Emily Dickinson's poem, "Hope," described it as "a thing with feathers." Third Flatiron Anthologies' latest collection of short speculative fiction, fantasy, and horror stories touches on the theme of hope, whether it's about taking flight filled with optimism for the future, venturing outside one's comfort zone, taking outsize risks in order to succeed, or finding it dashed on the rocks. Twenty-four authors give their entertaining takes on the subject, inc...

Hidden Histories is a new speculative fiction anthology with the themes of alternate and secret (shadow) histories.In Hidden Histories, agents of the ancient Library of Alexandria attempt to steer human history, a witch at the stake explains how she was framed, a missing airliner black box turns up, General Custer is defeated by wendigos, Queen Elizabeth tells Shakespeare she was cursed, a seance saves the Apollo-13 moon mission, an alien ambassador mentors Jimi Hendrix, a competin...

Nothing is too strange for Third Flatiron's new anthology, "StrangeBeasties." Find something unsettling at every turn, from risingprimordical monsters and gods to murderous supernatural predators andvengeful soul-hungry demons.There's plenty of dark comedy too, with gamblers who race unusualbeasts, ogres who run cooking podcasts, horrifically dysfunctionalfamilies, and unhinged sorcerers.An international group of new and established contri...

Third Flatiron Anthologies presents "Redshifted: Martian Stories," a collection of new speculative fiction by rising and established authors. Contributors include Maureen Bowden, Lela E. Buis, Martin Clark, Jaimie M. Engle, Jeff Hewitt, Neil James Hudson, Jason Lairamore, Vince Liberato, Michael McGlade, Kara Race-Moore, Ian Rose, Chuck Rothman, and Robina Williams.Look for your sign as an astrologer casts a Martian colony's horoscope, the Roman god decides war's not in his stars, ...

Watch out! Don't you know that you can get burned if you play with fire?Third Flatiron Publishing presents "Playing with Fire," a new anthology of science fiction short stories by an international group of established and emerging writers. Contributors include Nicholas M. Bugden, Gunnar De Winter, James S. Dorr, Michael Fedo, Adele Gardner, G. Miki Hayden, L. L. Hill, Marissa James, Ian O'Reilly, H. L. Pauff, Marian Powell, J. M. Scott, and Jonathan Shipley.Follow these tal...

It's Question Time: What is intelligence, anyway? Who has it? Who wants it? Can humans recognize it in other species? Come the Singularity, will humans survive? Is survival only for the fittest? What will newly sentient creations want to do first? Can we love machines, and can they love us back? Could the 'Mozart effect' of music transform us? Are the super-intelligent more likely to be tormented by issues like happiness and the meaning of life?Third Flatiron Anthologies presents "...