“My name is Rune Saint John. I am, before anything else, a survivor: of a fallen House, of a brutal assault, of violent allies and complacent enemies, of life among a people who turned their backs on me decades ago. Among those who matter I am [...]
The Blackstone Family Circus has many attractions to bring joy, wonderment, and terror: Aerialists flying high over the hard ground; proud lions tamed by the will of man; the twin “Russian werewolves”; human freaks; the strange and deadly [...]
Horror wears many faces. Nightmares take the shape of a dreamer’s soul and cast the reflection back, alien and utterly familiar, with a range of elicited emotion from disgusted to morbidly curious to haunted. The delight of a horror anthology is [...]
Have you ever wanted to have aliens sweep you away to compete on an intergalactic cooking show, while developing a sweet romance and dodging your rival’s plots to end your existence? In Space Battle Lunchtime Vol. 2: A Recipe for Disaster, Peony [...]
In Spinwatch, book three of the Gates of Aurona series, Tonya Macalino returns to the mythical land of Hillsboro, Oregon, where contemporary reality and folktale blend together to make the lives of one suburban family very interesting. Hannah’s [...]
At the bottom of the sea, a salvaging crew accidentally discovers an ancient shipwreck from a lost civilization. The ship, though thousands of years old, looks untouched by time and contains magical wonders the crew has never before seen. The [...]
“What you have in your hands is precious, not because the works here are being honored, but because they exist. Stories matter. Stories linger in the mind and change us. We want more. We need more – yes, from our beloved favorite [...]
“Clang, clang, clang: The sword against the sword. The guide waits within. The mother brings the marmot peace; The father brings the eagle war.” Last night, Hannah and Cameron discovered a family history of nobility and betrayal. [...]
In a time of ice and starvation, a demon with the power to take over human bodies hunts the children of a bronze-age tribe. Enough, they finally said, and called a truce with their neighboring tribes. Trials by combat found the greatest warrior [...]
Shaia Ratani, known as Shy, is a rogue, which may mean thief, detective, con artist, or, unlikely as it is, hero. In Shy Knives by Sam Sykes, Shy is hired to investigate the death of Lady Sidara’s fiancée. How he died is not the question: [...]
This is the story the people of the town would tell: there was an old water tower, so old it had become a danger, like an old tree ready to topple to the next storm. So the people of the town brought down that water tower like a tree, breaking [...]
Hannah and Cameron live in Hillsboro, where they dream of wilder times, of forests without bike trails and graffiti, when there was simply more to the world. They dream of ages when people could be heroes, when it took courage to do great [...]
“Every pair of ears within these walls had heard the same whispered advice: Work as though you are already dead. Try to feel nothing.” Elia works in the laundry of the Mirrored Palace, servant to the Twin Emperors, on one of the many floating [...]
Portland cultivates its weirdness as both a shield to preserve individuality and eccentricity, and as a marketing slogan to pull investment and interest into the city. “Keep Portland Weird” appears on bumper stickers, buildings, and buttons. [...]
Once upon a time, there was a girl named Vasilissa, called the Beautiful. Her departed mother left her a memento – a doll – which she could ask three questions of at the full moon and it would answer truthfully. One night, [...]
“The Voice spoke again, a rumbling noise that echoed in the vast stone room. ‘I have seen it. An abyss of darkness. Eyes that search from its depths.’” Death and tainted ritual plague mountainside villages. A cultist is killing the unprotected [...]
“If you’re late to the party, the Nebula Awards are chosen every year by the members of SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) […] By writers, for writers. As such, the nominators and voters tend to have a [...]
A Professor Quantock has built a revolutionary computational device, christened the Thinking Engine, which he claims is capable of analytical thought equal to or greater than any man alive, including Sherlock Holmes; a claim the professor is [...]
After a break of 20 years, Tank Girl is back – a joint between her lips, her favorite gun in hand, fighting the Power, and fighting just because. 21st Century Tank Girl by Hewlett et al. is less a graphic novel and more an experimental art [...]
Rodrick is a lying, thieving, womanizing con man who just so happens to have a talking sword made of living ice. It makes him an odd but enjoyable choice to be the protagonist of a fantasy novel. Despite his bad qualities, he is endearing: he [...]
