Whether by coin or by blood... YOU WILL PAY. A FANTASY ANTHOLOGY featuring the deadly, the worldly, and the sneaky. BLACKGUARDS consists mainly of stories in established series, and the authors range from wildly successful indie authors to USA Today and New York Times bestsellers. Featuring tales set in the worlds of Michael J. Sullivan's Riyria, David Dalglish's Dezrel, Mark Lawrence's The Broken Empire, Lian Hearn's Tales of the Otori, Mark Smylie's Sword and Barrow, Anthony Ryan's Raven's Shadow, Shawn Speakman's Chronicles of Annwn, Carol Berg's Sanctuary, James A. Moore's Seven Forges, Django Wexler's Shadow Campaigns, Laura Resnick's Silerian Trilogy, Peter Orullian's Vault of Heaven, Kenny Soward's GnomeSaga, Paul S. Kemp's Egil and Nix, and more! If you enjoy roguish tales of scoundrels and ne'er-do-wells, many of them set in established worlds, BLACKGUARDS is for you! CONTENTS 
<ul>
<li>FOREWORD by GLEN COOK (Black Company) </li>
<li>CAROL BERG, "Seeds" </li>
<li>RICHARD LEE BYERS, "Troll Trouble" </li>
<li>DAVID DALGLISH, "Take You Home" </li>
<li>JAMES ENGE, "Thieves at the Gate" </li>
<li>JOHN GWYNNE, "Better to Live than to Die" </li>
<li>LIAN HEARN, "His Kikuta Hands" </li>
<li>SNORRI KRISTJANSSON, "A Kingdom and a Horse" </li>
<li>JOSEPH LALLO, "Seeking the Shadow" </li>
<li>MARK LAWRENCE, "The Secret" </li>
<li>TIM MARQUITZ, "A Taste of Agony" </li>
<li>PETER ORULLIAN, "A Length of Cherrywood" </li>
<li>CAT RAMBO, "The Subtler Art" </li>
<li>LAURA RESNICK, "Friendship" </li>
<li>MARK SMYLIE, "Manhunt" </li>
<li>KENNY SOWARD, "Jancy's Justice" </li>
<li>SHAWN SPEAKMAN, "The White Rose Thief" </li>
<li>JON SPRUNK, "Sun and Steel" </li>
<li>ANTON STROUT, "Scream" </li>
<li>MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN, "Professional Integrity" </li>
<li>DJANGO WEXLER, "The First Kill" </li>
<li>ANTHONY RYAN, "The Lord Collector" </li>
<li>PAUL S. KEMP, "A Better Man" </li>
<li>JAMES A. MOORE, "What Gods Demand" </li>
<li>JEAN RABE, "Mainon" </li>
<li>BRADLEY P. BEAULIEU, "Irindai" </li>
<li>S.R. CAMBRIDGE, ""The Magus and the Betyar" </li>
<li>CLAY SANGER, "The Long Kiss" </li>
</ul>*Cover art by Arman Akopian. Interior artwork by Oksana Dmitrienko &amp; Orion Zangara.

Blackguards: Tales of Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues

Literature & Fiction

SUllivan, Michael J.

Genre Fiction

Ragnarok Publiations

The only family member to survive the 9/11 attacks. A sidekick-turned-construction-worker. Teenaged products of an institute for unwanted metahumans. A man who can make anyone do anything. Are they heroes? Are they villains? Sometimes they're both. Often at the same time. Corrupts Absolutely? collects twenty-three tales from veteran authors and newcomers, each with a unique perspective on what it might really be like to be superhuman in today's day and age. In the center of such a roiling mass of uncertainty and excitement lies one important truth: the fight against good or evil is never as important as the fight for or against oneself.

Corrupts Absolutely?: Dark Metahuman Fiction

CLINES, PETER

McKInney, Joe

Rambo, Cat

Ochse, Weston

Short Stories & Anthologies

Tales of guardian spirits and divine powers by Seanan McGuire, Ken Liu, Alethea Kontis, Laura Anne Gilman, Scott Edelman and more. Guardian spirits. Divine presences. Demonic powers. Ghosts. The concept of "genius loci" is indeed an ancient one, found in nearly every human mythology. Genius Loci is a huge anthology of 31 all-new fantasy and science fiction stories drawing on the rich tradition of place-as-person. Within its pages, the authors present stories of sentient deserts, beneficent forests, lonely shrubs, and protective planetary spirits, highlighted by the fantastic art of Lisa A. Grabenstetter and Evan M. Jensen., and edited by Jaym Gates.

Genius Loci: Tales of the Spirit of Place

McGuire, Seanan

Liu, Ken

Kontis, Alethea

Wagner, Wendy N.

MECH: Age of Steel is a collection of 24 mecha-inspired short stories in the spirit of Pacific Rim, Macross, Transformers, Robotech, Gundam, Evangelion, and more. 
The MECH: Age of Steel anthology features a vast array of tales showcasing giant human-piloted, robot war machines wreaking havoc in blasted cities, or on dystopian landscapes, or around space stations and asteroids against a cosmic backdrop, and more! 
MECH is anchored by authors such as: 
<ul>
<li>Kevin J. Anderson </li>
<li>Scott Sigler </li>
<li>Ramez Naam </li>
<li>Jason M. Hough</li>
<li>Jeremy Robinson </li>
<li>Jody Lynn Nye </li>
<li>Peter Clines </li>
<li>Martha Wells </li>
<li>Graham McNeill </li>
<li>Jennifer Brozek </li>
<li>James Swallow and more!</li>
</ul>
This anthology also features illustrations for every story and is the perfect companion to its sister title, Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters. So strap in. Activate your interface array. And let's rock!

MECH: Age of Steel

A revised and updated 2nd edition, Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters is a collection of stories focused on strange creatures in the vein of Pacific Rim, Godzilla, Cloverfield, and more. Opening with a foreword by Jeremy Robinson—author of Project Nemesis, the highest selling Kaiju novel in the United States since the old Godzilla books—the collection features work from New York Times bestsellers to indie darlings. Authors include Peter Clines, Larry Correia, James Lovegrove, Gini Koch (as J.C. Koch), James Maxey, Jonathan Wood, C.L. Werner, Joshua Reynolds, David Annandale, Jaym Gates, Peter Rawlik, Shane Berryhill, Natania Barron, Mike MacLean, Timothy W. Long, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Kane Gilmour, Peter Stenson, Erin Hoffman, Howard Andrew Jones, Edward M. Erdelac, and James Swallow.

Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters (A Ragnarok Publications Anthology)

Retired adventurer Max Gibson has seen better times. Ever since he and his treasure-hunting friends struck it big and called it quits a decade back, it seems like things have slid downhill. It’s hard enough to scrape by in a sprawling mountain city in which elves and dwarves live higher than humans in every way. It’s worse at night, when the groans of the zombies laying an eternal siege to the city provide a ceaseless reminder that the Dragon Emperor himself is the only thing that keeps the hordes of hungry dead from storming the walls. When Max is called in to help investigate the wholesale slaughter of a long-dead dwarf friend’s family, he thinks maybe he’s finally hit bottom. Then the love of his life—the elf who left him when their careers as adventurers ended—walks back through his door, desperate for his help and with nowhere else to turn. It’s not getting any easier. That’s for sure.

Shotguns & Sorcery Omnibus

FORBECK, MATT

United States

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