Three "riveting" novels of space adventure set in a dystopian future from a Hugo and Nebula Award–nominated author and "brilliant" voice (David Feintuch).In the twenty-fifth century, sentient races are ruled by the League of Peoples. War has been eliminated and killing is forbidden, but insidious secrets are concealed in the dark corners of this would-be utopia, in these three action-packed novels.Expendable: Festina Ramos serves in the Explorer Cor...

The classic debut collection from Pulitzer Prize winner James Alan McPhersonHue and Cry is the remarkably mature and agile debut story collection from James Alan McPherson, one of America's most venerated and most original writers. McPherson's characters -- gritty, authentic, and pristinely rendered -- give voice to unheard struggles along the dividing lines of race and poverty in subtle, fluid prose that bears no trace of sentimentality, agenda, or apology...

This book was prepared for lay people, congregational leaders, pastors, church musicians, worship leaders, and worship committees. It provides an answer for those who are asking the question: What does it mean to worship as a Lutheran in the twenty-first century? The goal of the book is twofold: In today's context, with so many different and confusing opinions about worship, this book provides lay people and pastors with a clear and understandable presentation of Lutheran theology for Luth...

In a world where the marginalized of society are sent into space on suicide missions, one woman decides to fight back: "Riveting" (David Feintuch).In Expendable, the first volume of the League of Peoples, Festina Ramos is assigned to escort an unstable admiral to planet Melaquin. Little is known about Melaquin, for every explorer who's landed there has disappeared. It's come to be known as the "planet of no return," and the High Council has made a habit of...

In this "riveting" series from "a brilliant new voice," gender in the twenty-fifth century is a matter of personal choice—until you reach the Commitment Hour (David Feintuch).After most of Earth's population has left for other planets, life is simple in the isolated village of Tober Cove. Fullin, a twenty-year-old musician, lives well off of his craft. But soon he must make a life-changing decision that all residents of Tober Cove must make. Up until their ...

Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty) is an anthology of hard and soft science fiction stories that best represent a futuristic view of the sciences and how humanity might be affected (for better or worse) by a reliance in all things technological.The stories contained within the pages of Compostela are a refelction of the world we live in today; where science produces both wonders and horrors; and will leave us with a future that undoubtedly will contain...

In the June heat of the Costa Del Sol, a small-time criminal is out of his element. A muscle-bound, blunt instrument from Newcastle with a missing nasal tip and a hair-trigger temper, he's been hired for a simple hit at the Navy Club. But in the World of the Alhuarin mob, nothing goes according to plan.A botched getaway, a birthday party no one will ever forget, the 100 Euro pistol is about to prove you really do get what you pay for.

When a charismatic stranger offers a quiet Edinburgh barber £200 to deliver a "gift" to Waverley Station, Scott Miller thinks he's finally found the thrill of a lifetime. Instead, he becomes the unwitting trigger for chaos in the city centre-the perfect distraction for an international syndicate to pull off the art heist of the century.

Espacio vital —publicado originalmente como Elbow Room en 1977— es el epítome de lo que James Alan McPherson significó para la literatura de su tiempo, que es también el nuestro. Ser un escritor negro en los Estados Unidos marcó tanto la escritura de McPherson como la percepción que de él tuvo el mundillo literario que le tocó vivir, un mundillo en el que, a golpe de codazos, supo abrirse un espacio vital donde permitirse ser auténtico. Los doce relatos que están recogidos en este volumen,...

James Alan Gardner has been called "one of the most engaging reads in SF." His debut novel, Expendable, was acclaimed by some of science fiction's most esteemed authors. Now, in Gravity Wells, he brings together some of the stories that have helped solidify his reputation as one of the greats in speculative fiction. This collection consists of stories making their debut, previously published stories that have won the Aurora Award, the grand prize in the prestigious Writer...

Prepare to have your blood run cold, your heart race and your brow bead with sweat: this anthology of horror stories ranges from the starkly terrifying to the tantalizingly creepy. There's magic mixed in with the chalk dust, evil lurking in the textbooks, malevolence biding its time in the labs and perhaps something even more horrifying in the student cafeteria.Chilling tales born from the dark shadows of campuses across Canada. Edited by Mark Leslie, the author of the non-fiction ...

To fight android assassins, a young woman channels her father's heroism—and faces a troubled past—in this "enjoyable, fast-moving, off-planet adventure" (SFSite).In the twenty-fifth century, under the leadership of the League of Peoples, war and crime are things of the past and life is held sacred. That is, as long as you are healthy and beautiful. But those who are deformed or flawed, or who appear to be misfits in any way, are destined—or is "doomed" a better word...