Winner of the Nebula Award for best novelette! What do you do when someone else's past forces itself on your own life? Sorting through the piles left behind by a grandmother who was both a stage magician and a hoarder, Persephone Aim finds a magical artifact from World War II that has shaped her family history. Faced with her mother's desperate attempt to take the artifact for herself, Persephone must decide whether to hold onto the past—or use it to reshape her future.

Coffee plays a major role in each of the stories collected in this book. Brewed from such fine ingredients as magic, wonder, humor, and romance, -Coffee- serves up a unique blend of the fantastic you won't be able to put down.

CAUGHT BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL…When street ganger Nezz takes one risk too many and finds himself falling to earth without a parachute, wings, or even a nice lake to fall into, he figures he’s one dead ork.When he wakes up after what should have been a terminal case of concrete poisoning, at first Nezz thinks he’s somehow arrived in the afterlife. But while trying to navigate this strange-yet-familiar new world, he soon realizes why it’s familiar…He’...

☆ IBPA Book Award Silver Winner for Neurodivergent Communities☆ Royal Dragonfly Book Award Winner for Science Fiction/Fantasy and Special Needs/Disability Awareness"[A] dazzling exploration of the extraordinary potential within the neurodivergent mind. By transplanting these unique perspectives into fantastical realms, the authors masterfully illuminate the challenges and triumphs of those who see the world differently." —Erin Garcia, host of the po...

Behind the Mask is a multi-author collection with stories by award-winning authors Kelly Link, Cat Rambo, Carrie Vaughn, Seanan McGuire, Lavie Tidhar, Sarah Pinsker, Keith Rosson, Kate Marshall, Chris Large and others. It is partially a prose nod to the comic world - the bombast, the larger-than-life, the save-the-worlds and the calls-to-adventure. But it's also a spotlight on the more intimate side of the genre. The hopes and dreams of our cape-clad heroes. The regrets and longin...

Mythical beasts. Legendary gladiators. The fate of a boy entwined with epic revolution.When countryboy Teo arrives in the coastal city of Tabat, he finds it a hostile place, particularly to a boy hiding an enormous secret. It's also a city in turmoil, thanks to an ancient accord to change governments and the rising demands of Beasts, the Unicorns, Dryads, Minotaurs and other magical creature on whose labor and bodies Tabat depends. And worst of all, it's a city dedi...

IT'LL SOON BE DARKEighteen dark faerie tales lie within these pages.Like the originals, they are. Like those that came before, those that warned of the darkness. Not like modern tales, no. No happy endings in sight.These stories are all new (not re-tellings of old tales) and inspired from folklore from all around the world. They are filled with equal measures of fright and fancy.You see, the fey are different from you and me. They don’t thin...

In the second book of The Tabat Quartet, Nebula award-winning author Cat Rambo expands the breathtaking story from Beasts of Tabat with new points of view as Adelina, Sebastiano, and others add their voices. Tabat is a world, a society, and a cast of characters unlike any you have read before.Fireworks.Riots.Rousing speeches. All markers of the vast societal upheavals taking place in the city of Tabat.But personal upheavals reflect the chaos...

IT’S MORE THAN JUST A GAME…The virtual universe of Transverse Noir was Cevher’s escape from her mundane life as a low-level adept, until the game was abruptly shut down years ago when its creator, Copernicus Dusk, disappeared. So, when she awakens to find herself in the game—not as the player and fan writer SeverZ, but as herself, for real—Cevher has a lot of questions and not much time to figure out what’s going on.With no way back to realspace, S...

In the final book of Cat Rambo's magical Tabat Quartet, we return to the city of Tabat, where Humans and magical Beasts co-exist—but uneasily.  The exploited Beasts, used for both their labor and their very bodies, are finally fighting back, and turmoil abounds in the city.At the same time, as Tabat prepares for its long-predicted elections, multiple factions are jostling for power—all of them preparing to oust the Duke. And the mysterious Circus of the Autumn Moon has departed fro...

In the final book of Cat Rambo’s magical Tabat Quartet, we return to the city of Tabat, where Humans and magical Beasts co-exist—but uneasily. The exploited Beasts, used for both their labor and their very bodies, are finally fighting back, and turmoil abounds in the city.At the same time, as Tabat prepares for its long-predicted elections, multiple factions are jostling for power—all of them preparing to oust the Duke. And the mysterious Circus of the Autumn Moon has departed from...

This is the eighth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the selected year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to reach more readers.The Long List Anthology volume 8 collects 21 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totaling over 4...