"The Mad Scientist Megapack" assembled 23 tales of Scientists, their Creatures, and Experiments both Diabolical and Dangerous! Including are:MYSHKIN, by David V. ReedA LIGHT THAT SHAMED THE SUN, by C. J. HendersonINCOMPLETE DATA, by H.B. FyfeTHE CORPSE ON THE GRATING, by Hugh B. CaveCOSMIC TELETYPE, by Carl JacobiMONSTER KIDNAPS GIRL AT MAD SCIENTIST’S COMMAND!, by Lawrence Watt-EvansGREAT MINDS, by Edward M. LernerTHE MAN WHO EVOLVE...

Arlian was winning his war against the dragons -- but he was discovering the costs of that victory might be far higher than he had expected, and more than he was willing to pay. Could he find a way to save humanity from both the dragons, and the wild magic the dragons had kept at bay?

"When the foreigners confronted Sterren in Ethshar of the Spices he was uneasy; when they all but abducted him, taking him to an obscure kingdom in the south, he knew he was in a terrible predicament.A predicament some might actually find appealing ù he was by heredity the Ninth Warlord of Semma, least of the small kingdoms; he was a noble, and his rank afforded him material privileges, even in a place as insignificant and obscure as Semma. But the office also carried certain terri...

High comedy, low pratfalls, and thrilling derring-do combine in a magical and fantastic epic about the Ancient and Honorable Kingdom of the Hydrangeans; the mighty, though rather stupid, warrior Gudge; and the mysterious Black Weasel."Confusion reigns in this often funny, frequently precious fantasy about usurped thrones and lost heirs. After the Gorgorian barbarians conquer the civilized kingdom of Hydrangea, their leader Gudge makes himself king, marries Hydrangean Princess Artem...

Art Dunham had worked in his father's small-town New England theater all his life, and had never before seen anything like the group that rented it one summer. They said they didn't need lights or props or sets or costumes, and they did nothing to advertise their show.The Bringers of Wonder, as they called themselves, wanted to put on a single performance of a play called "The Return of Magic" -- but is it a play, or something more? The troupe's leader calls it a classic, but Art c...

The lost colony planet Denner's Wreck was found by a group of immortal, high-tech tourists who decided it would be fun to hang around for a few centuries playing at being gods for the low-tech descendants of the original colonists.One of the Powers, Geste the Trickster, played a prank on a mere mortal, Bredon the Hunter, and Bredon didn't let it go. He held Geste to account, and found himself caught up in the affairs of the immortal Powers -- one of whom is a murderous psychopath.....

The sword that Garth had stolen from Dusarra marked him as the chosen of Bheleu, god of destruction, and gave him immense power. This power could only be used to destroy, and Garth wanted to build. He chose to refuse the god's gift. Bheleu did not intend to allow that.

The lost colony planet Denner's Wreck was found by a group of immortal, high-tech tourists who decided it would be fun to hang around for a few centuries playing at being gods for the low-tech descendants of the original colonists.One of the Powers, Geste the Trickster, played a prank on a mere mortal, Bredon the Hunter, and Bredon didn't let it go. He held Geste to account, and found himself caught up in the affairs of the immortal Powers -- one of whom is a murderous psychopath.....

Twenty stories by Hugo-winning author Lawrence Watt-Evans, spanning the cosmos from spaceships to unicorns. Includes the following:FragmentsHow I Maybe Saved the World Last Tuesday Before BreakfastThe GarrisonPickman's ModemTeaching MachinesKeep the FaithOne Man's MeatHearts and FlowersUnicornucopiaVisionsOne Million LightbulbsLarger Than LifeOne of the BoysThe SidekickThe Murderer

Nightside City, tourist playground of the planet Epimetheus, is doomed -- the planet isn't as tide-locked as the settlers thought, and in a few years its rotation will move the city onto the dayside, where the sun's radiation will render it uninhabitable.Private investigator Carlisle Hsing had escaped to the neighboring planet Prometheus and had no intention of ever going back, but then she was hired to find out who had attempted to assassinate Yoshio Nakada, billionaire head of th...

Our Christmas card for 2015 explains what really happened to Ebenezer Scrooge on that long-ago Christmas.

Ethshar? Some readers already recognize the name, but if you aren’t one of them, perhaps a brief explanation is in order. “Ethshar” is the invented world that has been the setting for almost a dozen novels from the pen of Lawrence Watt-Evans. Its inhabitants don’t call it that; they call it “the World.”For readers, though, that’s not specific enough. The dominant nation on the World is the Hegemony of the Three Ethshars, while the largest, richest city, where most of the stories ar...