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...

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...

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.

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.

The ground-breaking, boundary-pushing, award-nominated series of fantasy anthologies series returns for a fourth installment through the miracle of Kickstarter, bringing you eighteen brand new tales of beauty and strangeness."This book is in several distinct ways a look into the future: the future of fantasy and science fiction, diverse, strange, and wonderful; the future of these individual writers, many of whom are at or near the beginning of careers which promise to be interesti...

Combustion Hour by Yoon Ha Lee is a story about the eschatology of shadow puppets.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A young man seeks to understand the strange connection he feels to the wolves that live hear his village.Originally published in the anthology WEREWOLVES, edited by Jane Yolen. Republished in Bruce Coville's solo collection, ODDLY ENOUGH.

Haatha Chaas'-Eighth is an Mmsar poet, content to live alone though his brothers all have families of their own and think he should have apprentices, too.Unfortunately, someone left a clutch of eggs in Haatha's back yard, and now he's got to deal with hatchling Mmsar, which are no better than vermin at that age. But one hatchling, despite its lack of sapience, has an intriguing cunning -- and a bad attitude.("Snips and Snails" is approximately 6,500 words long, and contains...

Miar is her people's only hope to defeat the sorcerer who has besieged her home.She has an unusual--and unwanted--talent. She's a soul-catcher, able to twist any soul to her will.And Varun, the man who must guard her, is willing to use her and her hated gift anyway he can.If you like innocent heroines, grumpy best heroes and spicy magic you'll love AT THE SORCERER'S COMMAND!

The girl opened her eyes slowly, reluctantly. Her memories of the day before were scant, but vivid enough that fear had already settled in the pit of her stomach. She had been in a forest, walking with her father. She had heard music. Her father had not. She had followed after the music. He had screamed at her to stop. Helplessly.The memory seemed pleasant, in a distant way, like old birthdays. She hadn't been frightened then. She was frightened now. No one ever said Faeries were n...

Snowball is a white kobold; something so rare that the other kobolds in his tribe won't accept him as a proper kobold. In fact, they delight in making poor Snowball's life miserable. But Snowball is determined that some day he'll show them that there's nothing wrong with being a white kobold.One day, in Snowball's tenth Winter, something strange comes to the mountains where Snowball and his tribe live. The kobolds want to know what it is, but with their red-brown colour they'll be ...