This is what he knew:His name was Fisher.The world was dangerous.And he was alone.Fisher is the last boy on Earth - and things are not looking good for the human race. The carefully crafted survival dome where Fisher and dozens of other humans have been sleeping for millenia has been destroyed. Through a lucky accident, only Fisher survived.The world Fisher wakes up in is a lot like ours - but it's changed, too. Af...

Is this Ragnarok, or just California?The NorseCODE genome project was designed to identify descendants of Odin. What it found was Kathy Castillo, a murdered MBA student brought back from the dead to serve as a valkyrie in the Norse god’s army. Given a sword and a new name, Mist’s job is to recruit soldiers for the war between the gods at the end of the world—and to kill those who refuse to fight.But as the twilight of the gods descends, Mist makes other plans.Journe...

Urban fantasy meets espionage thriller in this prequel novelette to Greg van Eekhout's acclaimed Daniel Blackland trilogy. Talented magic-user Sebastian Blackland works at the La Brea Tar Pits for the Los Angeles Ministry of Osteomancy, extracting power from the fossils of magical creatures. Sent by the rival kingdom in Northern California, Maria Sigilo is charged with bringing Blackland north by any means necessary. But despite her training and expertise, nothing is simple when it comes t...

Stay calm and remain HAPPY. Help is on the way.Perfect for fans of Gordon Korman and Jennifer L. Holm, this adventure-packed middle grade story, set in a world not too far from our own, follows a family that moves to a remote company town that seems perfect on the surface....Keegan knows there’s something off about Happy Town.The isolated, high-tech company town is too perfect—with a dome keeping out bad weather and self-driving vehicles rumbling throughout the town...

In a world where magic is power, Daniel Blackland must pull off the most daring heist of all to save his son.Dragon Coast is the thrilling sequel to Greg Van Eekhout's California Bones and Pacific Fire. Daniel's adopted son Sam, created from the magical essence of the defeated Hierarch of Southern California, is lost—consumed by the great Pacific firedrake secretly assembled by Daniel's half-brother, Paul.But Sam is still alive and aware, trapped i...

An all-ages adventure by the three-time Nebula nominee: "Cog is a gem of a robot, and his robotic observations are comedic gold. Readers will be charmed." — BooklistFive robots are on a mission to rescue their inventor from the corporation that controls them all—and their programming will never be the same . . .Cog looks like a normal twelve-year-old boy. But his name is short for "cognitive development," and he was built to learn. After a...

A golem must save Los Angeles from a fiery monster in this thrilling urban fantasy sequel to California Bones ."Set in the same world as California Bones , van Eekhout delivers another engaging adventure that, surprisingly for the genre, doesn't require readers to have read the previous book. Readers will empathize with Sam as he longs to be a "normal" boy and tries to f...

The July/August 2024 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Sarah Pinsker, Greg van Eekhout, Sunwoo Jeong, John Chu, AnaMaria Curtis, Eleanna Castroianni, and Megan Chee. Essays by John Scalzi, Marissa Lingen, Del Sandeen, and Natania Barron, poetry by Terese Mason Pierre, Natasha King, Roshani Chokshi, and Abdulkareem Abdulkareem, interviews with Greg van Eekhout and AnaMaria Curtis by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Broci, and an editorial ...

What is there to do, when you have the power to do anything? John can fly, he can see through solid objects, he can take over the world and give it back again, but what he's looking for is something else…At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The July/August 2019 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Sarah Pinsker, Greg van Eekhout, Rachel Swirsky and P. H. Lee, Marie Brennan, A.C. Wise, and Maurice Broaddus. Reprinted fiction by Tim Pratt, essays by Aidan Moher, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Karlyn Ruth Meyer, Marissa Lingen, and Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, poetry by D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Alexandra Seidel, Cynthia So, and Betsy Aoki, interviews with Greg Van Eekhout and Maurice Broaddus by Caroline M...

When Daniel Blackland was six, he ingested his first bone fragment, a bit of kraken spine plucked out of the sand during a visit with his demanding, brilliant, and powerful magician father, Sebastian.When Daniel was twelve, he watched Sebastian die at the hands of the Hierarch of Southern California, devoured for the heightened magic layered deep within his bones.Now, years later, Daniel is a petty thief with a forged identity. Hiding amid the crowds in Los Angeles—the capita...

From the author of Cog and Voyage of the Dogs, Weird Kid is a hilarious and heartfelt homage to everyone who feels like they don’t belong. Perfect for fans of Gordon Korman and Stuart Gibbs.Jake Wind is trying to stay under the radar. Whose radar? Anyone who might be too interested in the fact that he has shapeshifting abilities he can’t control. Or that his parents found him as a ball of goo when he was a baby.Keeping his powers in check is crucial, though, if he wants to ...