Swords & Dark Magic is the most important new fantasy anthology to be published this decade. Featuring new stories from the bestselling and brightest writers working in the genre, including: New York Times bestselling authors Scott Lynch and Garth Nix; genre greats Michael Moorcock (with an all-new Elric novella), Michael Shea (with a fully authorized new Cugel the Clever adventure), Robert Silverberg (with an all-new Majipoor tale), Glen Cook (with an all-new Black Company story), Gene Wolfe, and C. J. Cherryh; and hot new writers who've been re-inventing swords and sorcery like Steven Erikson, Joe Abercrombie, Tim Lebbon, and many more.Table of Contents * Check Your Dark Lord at the Door" -- Lou Anders & Jonathan Strahan * Goats of Glory -- Steven Erikson * Tides Elba: A Tale of the Black Company -- Glen Cook * Bloodsport -- Gene Wolfe * The Singing Spear -- James Enge * A Wizard of Wiscezan -- C.J. Cherryh * A Rich Full Week -- K. J. Parker * A Suitable Present for a Sorcerous Puppet -- Garth Nix * Red Pearls: An Elric Story -- Michael Moorcock * The Deification of Dal Bamore -- Tim Lebbon * Dark Times at the Midnight Market -- Robert Silverberg * The Undefiled -- Greg Keyes * Dapple Hew the Tint Master -- Michael Shea * In the Stacks -- Scott Lynch * Two Lions, A Witch, and the War-Robe -- Tanith Lee * The Sea Troll's Daughter -- Caitlin R Kiernan * Thieves of Daring -- Bill Willingham * The Fool Jobs -- Joe Abercrombie

Swords and Dark Magic

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Lou Anders

Jonathan Strahan

Fantasy

Subterranean

Throughout his long and impressive career as a celebrated professional storyteller, Jack Vance showed a fascination not only with having characters solve mysteries in all sorts of dramatic and wondrous situations using their powers of observation, deduction and common sense, but also with the possibility of higher states of mind in play, other realms of existence, even spirit worlds. Vance approached such things with a healthy, properly wary, scientific curiosity, even while embracing the liberties allowed any popular entertainer, and so made the exploration of such higher states part of his stock in trade. Whether richly displayed in his Dying Earth stories with their wizardly spellcasting, eldritch beings and strange dimensions, or in his science fiction tales with the incredible mental powers afforded races like the Green Chasch, the Fwai-chi, the Meks of Etamin 9 besieging the final human strongholds in 'The Last Castle,' even given to divergent human peoples on Koryphon, Maske and countless other worlds, or to the likes of his most extraordinary Demon Prince, Howard Alan Treesong, Vance was forever drawn to what else might comprise human (and other) natures in all their myriad forms. Minding the Stars: The Early Jack Vance Volume 4 reflects this beguiling blend of the practical and the otherworldly, combining tales that explore the workings of such mental powers with other stories selected from the earlier days of the Grandmaster's illustrious career.

Minding the Stars (The Early Jack Vance)

Terry Dowling

Science Fiction

Subterranean Pr

Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year

Start Publishing, LLC

Eclipse 4

National Book Network

Includes the Hugo-winning story 'The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi' by Pat Cadigan. ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND.' Those were Neil Armstrong's immortal words when he became the first human being to step onto another world. All at once, the horizon expanded; the human race was no longer Earthbound. Our destiny would now be to reach out to eternity. Brought to you by the creators of Engineering Infinity, Edge of Infinity is an exhilarating new SF anthology that looks at the next giant leap for humankind: the leap from our home world out into the Solar System. From the eerie transformations in Pat Cadigan's ''The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi'' to the frontier spirit of Sandra McDonald and Stephen D. Covey's The Road to NPS, and from the grandiose vision of Alastair Reynolds' Vainglory to the workaday familiarity of Kristine Kathryn Rusch's Safety Tests, the thirteen stories in this anthology span the whole of the human condition in their race to colonise Earth s nearest neighbours. Featuring stories by Hannu Rajaniemi, Alastair Reynolds, James S. A. Corey, John Barnes, Stephen Baxter, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Elizabeth Bear, Pat Cadigan, Gwyneth Jones, Paul McAuley, Sandra McDonald, Stephen D. Covey, An Owomoyela, and Bruce Sterling, Edge of Infinity is hard SF adventure at its best and most exhilarating.

Edge of Infiinity: Fourteen New Short Stories

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Solaris

What happens when humanity reaches out into the vastness of space?  The brightest names in SF contribute  orginal new fiction to this amazing anothology from master editor Jonathan Strahan.  Including new work by Alastair Reynolds, Greg Egan, Ian McDonald, Ken Macleod, Pat Cadigan, Karl Schroeder, Hannu Rajaniemi, Karen Lord, Adam Roberts, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Aliette de Bodard, Peter Watts, and others!

Reach For Infinity

The universe shifts and changes: suddenly you understand, you get it, and are filled with a sense of wonder. That moment of understanding drives the greatest science-fiction stories and lies at the heart of Engineering Infinity. Whether it's coming up hard against the speed of light and, with it, the enormity of the universe, realising that terraforming a distant world is harder and more dangerous than you'd ever thought, or simply realizing that a hitchhiker on a starship consumes fuel and oxygen with tragic results, it's hard science-fiction where sense of wonder is most often found and where science-fiction's true heart lies. The exciting and innovative science-fiction anthology collects together stories by some of the biggest names in the field including Stephen Baxter, Charles Stross, Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Gwyneth Jones.

Engineering Infinity

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