The Unbound Anthologies are a collection of short themed stories perfect for your reading pleasure. Every year we open a call to authors around the world challenging them to create never before created works of fiction, pick the best ones, and bundle them together for you.This edition, our authors received the challenge of “Changed Worlds” in the Science Fiction and Fantasy genre. And now we are pleased to present to you:Micheal Healy’s “Hail Bruce”Dainel Powel’s “Re...

Destiny is not a thread-it is a web.Marrula Tamara, once Empress of Worlds, has been exiled to a planet called Strand. Centuries have passed, and her fellow exiles and their mortal children have spread across the land. Humanity has grown and prospered on this new world, but Marrula desires only revenge. In the city of Bralle, she clings with an iron fist to her immortality, her rule, and her formidable psychic powers.In remote Tarlannat Hold, deadl...

Sally McBride's haunting, mesmerizing short fiction has been captivating audiences for nearly forty years. It's been published in Asimov's, Amazing, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, Northern Frights, Tesseracts, On Spec, and many more magazines, anthologies and best-of collections. It's won Canada's Aurora Award and been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Her stories have been reprinted time and again. In th...

Sally McBride's haunting, mesmerizing short fiction has been captivating audiences for nearly forty years. It's been published in Asimov's, Amazing, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, Northern Frights, Tesseracts, On Spec, and many more magazines, anthologies and best-of collections. It's won Canada's Aurora Award and been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Her stories have been reprinted time and again. Now, ...

France, 13th century. Near the shores of the Mediterranean lives Vara Svobodová with her father, a prominent merchant, his barbarian wife, and her scientist father. Though the shadowy gazes of Great Gods and the greedy hands of local lord Petru Dominus hang over them, Vara lives a comfortable life.That all changes when she learns that she is da resu, destined to life after death and servitude of her unearthly powers to he who slays her. Rumours of her true nature catch the...

From Lost Friends to Changed Worlds to Goodbye EarthThe Unbound Collection is the first three editions of the Unbound Anthology Series published by Science Fiction and Fantasy Publications.26 Amazing Authors26 Amazing StoriesOne CollectionWith themes of Lost Friends, Changed Worlds, and Goodbye Earth, eveyone will find at least one favorate story. Enlightening, dark, fantasitical,***Warning***The Unbo...

Laine, a twenty-something grad student, knows her wayward brother Innis must be up to no good in Britain. She's the big sister, the sensible one, but when she tracks him down, she finds more than she bargained for. Innis has found their biological father Jaird—a shape-shifting stallion with a taste for human flesh—and has fallen under the creature's spell. Then Laine meets Arren, a Cabyll Ushtey in denial. He's irresistible, but is he just as bad as Jaird? Arren's sister was savagely kille...

Sunburst Award finalist | Aurora Award finalist | CBC’s Bookies Award finalistChimerascope [ki-meer-uh-skohp] — a story of many parts…Doug’s second collection contains sixteen of his best stories, including an award winner, a Best New Horror selection, and eight award finalists. Stories of fantasy and science fiction that take you from love in fourteenth-century Japan to humanity’s last stand, from virtual reality to the end of reality, from alien drug addictions t...

A bonus short story featuring Silhara and Martise from Master of Crows.In The Light Within, Silhara of Neith, now known as "the god-smiter," travels as the guest of honor to the winter festival of his father's people.The crow mage who destroyed one god must ignite sacred fires in honor of another. Yet the winter festival only reminds Silhara that the brightest light within him isn't the fire of a deity but the devotion of one woman.A tale of hope and celebration.

He had a secret daughter?One moment, computer consultant Parker Hamilton was quietly programming in his house along the rugged Pacific coast. And the next, his life was thrown into a tailspin. He discovered he was a father. What would he do? What would he say to his daughter? Did she know the truth–that he hadn't known about her? And why was her beautiful aunt, Erin Ridgeway, suddenly giving him the chance to be a full-time father?Despite everything, Erin p...

A short story prequel to the award-winning Twelve Kingdoms fantasy series, where a shapeshifting sorceress uses magic to beguile a warrior to save her kingdom.A wounded warrior trapped by the sorceress who knows him better than he does himself…General Uorsin escapes the last devastating battle, only to find himself alone on a mountain, feverish and no closer to finding the paradise that drives him on. Salena, greatest shapeshifter and magic-worker of her pe...

Darweena must choose to fight for the Forest Folk in an epic battle against the beasts. Will she choose love over her home? A short story of 3700 words.