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In Lands that Never Were: Tales of Swords and Sorcery from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
by Gordon Van GelderThis book is a collection of fantasy adventure stories, including The Hall of the Dead by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp, A Hedge Against Alchemy by John Morressey, Ill Met in Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber, Counting the Shapes by Yoon Ha Lee, Firebird by R. Garcia y Robertson, Dragon's Gate by Pat Murphy, After the Gaud Chrysalis by Charles Coleman Finlay, The Swordsman Whose Name Was Not Death by Ellen Kushner, The Island in the Lake by Phyllis Eisenstein, Darkrose and Diamond by Ursula K. Le Guin, King Rainjoy's Tears by Chris Willrich, The Fantasy Writer's Assistant by Jeffrey Ford. Besides presenting the stories, the editor also discusses the genre of fantasy literature and how the individual authors contribute to this genre.
In Legend Born
by Laura ResnickFor thousand years, Sileria has toiled under the yoke foreign conquerors: the latest, the hedonistic Valdani, have forced the Silerian mountains clans into harsh slavery. Villages have been razed, and the innocent populace dragged to the mines to toil with no hope of escape until their death.
In Light's Shadow
by Warren RochelleGavin Booker, a school librarian, leads an orderly, normal life. Work, jogging, friends from work, his son every other weekend. Gavin is also a secret. He is a hybrid, or part-fairy. And in the Columbian Empire, hybrids are under an automatic death sentence.In this alternate version of the USA, magic is illegal. So is loving another man. Fairies are locked away in ghettoes, and magical beasts, such as gryphons, unicorns, and pegasi, are kept in zoos. The others, tree and water spirits, talking beasts, fauns, and the rest, are in hiding.This is the world in which Gavin grew up. He survived, thanks to his mother. He can never forget he is different: ministers preach against people like him constantly. Hating the other is a part of every school’s curriculum.But things are changing fast, and seemingly for the worst. Earthquakes, volcanoes, killer storms are frequent occurrences. The medicine Gavin takes to suppress his body’s glow isn’t working. The spells cast by his doctor, a witch, are losing their power. If anyone finds out what Gavin is, he is dead.The Empire always goes after its marginalized people. Can Gavin survive the coming catastrophe? Will he ever recover from losing the boys he loved earlier in life? Can he find the fairy man who has haunted his dreams before it is too late?
In Limbo
by Christopher EvansIn a time of trouble, in a state of confusion, in a maze of mystery, in the Britain of the 1980s...It could happen to anyone. And it has happened to Carpenter. Now his only chance is to escape. Because Carpenter has woken up in Limbo where everything is familiar, everything is different - and everything is to be discovered.
In Limbo
by Christopher EvansIn a time of trouble, in a state of confusion, in a maze of mystery, in the Britain of the 1980s It could happen to anyone. And it has happened to Carpenter. Now his only chance is to escape. Because Carpenter has woken up in Limbo where everything is familiar, everything is different - and everything is to be discovered.
In Lines of Light
by K. L. NooneFederated Planets ambassador Tamlin Rye is headed home, having just finished a successful negotiation. Tam’s looking forward to some rest ... but the beautiful mysterious captain of his courier ship is more tempting than restful.Captain Valentine Perrin doesn’t sleep well. He might be young, but he’s seen his share of difficult missions. His starship’s observation deck offers solitude on those nights ... until his new passenger interrupts.And, on this starlit night, Tam and Val will both find exactly what they need.
In Love and Sacrifice
by Hayden RexelleWorld War Three and the Teal-47 plague have ravaged the world as we know it. Machines and technology have become relics of the past, and gone are the days of the nine to five. Survivors band together where they can to find a sense of normalcy and safety from the renegades who travel the land taking what they please and killing without mercy.For Claire Munro, that place is the City. Run with an iron fist by a leader named the Duke, the City is a place Claire can try and find herself again. That is, until her mother goes missing.Now Claire has to place her trust in the hands of a young woman whose name she doesn’t even know. Will the mysterious Captain with her shining six guns be Claire’s salvation or her doom?
In Loving Memory
by Winona KentIn this mesmerizing romance, a woman out of time falls in love with a man for whom time is running out. “Kent combines time travel, mystery, and romance in a delightful sequel to Persistence of Memory that’s easily accessible for new readers.” —Publishers Weekly Starred Review In Winona Kent’s novel Persistence of Memory, Charlie Lowe, a young widow in Stoneford, England, was accidentally transported back to 1825, where she fell in love with Shaun Deeley, a groom employed at Stoneford Manor. They are only back in the present for seemingly a breath before a piece of wartime shrapnel sends them tumbling back through time to 1940, the height of the Blitz. There, they discover pieces of Charlie’s past that counter everything she thought she knew about herself. Charlie and Shaun have decisions to make—do they interfere in time’s progress to save a man? Do they put their own future at risk by doing nothing? And how much time do these two lovers have left?
In Memories We Fear
by Barb HendeeWhen a series of killings in England points to a new - and feral - vampire, Eleisha, Philip and Wade travel to London to make contact with the terrified creature and to offer him sanctuary to stop the bloodshed. But the vampire they find is not what they expect. Maxim is centuries old, with no memory of anything other than living in the forest and feeding on animals. Now he's gained a taste for human blood. Philip thinks he's too dangerous to save, but Eleisha won't give up - even at the cost of Philip's love and her own life.
In mezzo ai lupi
by Margo Bond CollinsBenvenuti al Moon Moon… il luogo dove la mia vita si è trasformata in un meme sui lupi. Sienna Luna ha sempre saputo che ci fosse qualcosa di strano nella sua famiglia. Non sapeva che la maggior parte di essa era formata da licantropi. Fino a quando suo zio non la nominò alfa del branco nel suo testamento e Sienna fu obbligata ad affrontare un’eredità per la quale nessuno si era preso la briga di prepararla. Fortunatamente per lei, Sienna ha anche ereditato il Moon Moon, il miglior locale per licantropi di San Francisco, pieno di lupi mannari pronti ad insegnarle le basi. E non solo. Ma affinché Sienna possa guidare il branco, dovrà scegliere un compagno entro la prossima luna piena – e ci sono tre bellissimi licantropi pronti ad offrirsi volontari. Se soltanto Sienna riuscisse a decidere…
In Midnight's Silence
by T. FrohockThe fate of mankind has nothing to do with mankind...Born of an angel and a daimon, Diago Alvarez is a singular being in a country torn by a looming civil war and the spiritual struggle between the forces of angels and daimons. With allegiance to no one but his partner Miquel, he is content to simply live in Barcelona, caring only for the man he loves and the music he makes. Yet, neither side is satisfied to let him lead this domesticated life and, knowing they can't get to him directly, they do the one thing he's always feared.They go after Miquel.Now, in order to save his lover's life, he is forced by an angel to perform a gruesome task: feed a child to the daimon Moloch in exchange for a coin that will limit the extent of the world's next war. The mission is fraught with danger, the time he has to accomplish it is limited...and the child he is to sacrifice is the son Diago never knew existed.A lyrical tale in a world of music and magic, T. Frohock's In Midnight's Silence shows the lengths a man will go to save the people he loves, and the sides he'll choose when the sidelines are no longer an option.
In Milton Lumky Territory
by Philip K. DickBruce Stevens is a young buyer for a big discount house when he meets the recently divorced Susan Faine. She suggests that he might like to manage her ailing typewriter store and he leaps at the suggestion. Then he realizes that Susan was his teacher when he was in fifth grade. In spite of that, they are married within days. And then the odd compulsions and instabilities start to interfere with their plans. Milton Lumky, the paper salesman in whose area they live, is uneasy about their future ...
In The Moons Of Borea (Titus Crow Ser. #5)
by Brian LumleyFollowing the Timelock, the Quester, de Maringy, finds himself on the parallel universe of Borea. Borea - ice-planet - is a ravaged arena of psychic combat between the Warlord of the Plateau, Armandra and the Wind-Walker. This is the sequel to "The Clock of Dreams" and "Spawn of the Winds".
In The Mouth Of The Wolf
by Nicole MaggiThe Twin Willows Waterfall is now under the control of the Benandanti, but for Alessia, the victory comes at a steep price. And the arrival of Nerina, one of the seven Concilio elders from the Friuli Clan, only complicates her life. Now she’s hiding a 450-year-old immortal on her farm, juggling school and her increasingly frustrated friends, and trying to keep the Malandanti from regaining the Waterfall. But it’s the passion that still lingers between her and Jonah that really keeps Alessia awake at night. After a fatal visit from the Malandanti’s mage, Alessia brings in Jonah’s twin sister, Bree, to serve as a Benandanti spy. Bree has her own reasons for wanting to bring down the Malandanti, and soon she and Alessia find themselves in a tenuous alliance. But not even the powerful magic that Bree possesses nor the strong leadership that Nerina provides can stop the vicious Malandanti. As the two Clans barrel towards their inevitable collision, Alessia and Jonah are swept into the devastation and forced to make the ultimate choice.
In My Dreams
by Susan SizemoreCalifornia biker Sammy Bergen was a cool dude. He thought he'd seen everything. Then he was summoned back in time to medieval Ireland by a druidic song spell--and he met the singer, the bewitchingly lovely Brianna. The stranger she'd called to her was a prince of a man, strong and handsome and kind. Brianna had her own plans for this knight from a faraway land across the sea.
In The Name Of Honor: Star Trek The Original Series (Star Trek: The Original Series #97)
by Dayton WardThe crew of the USS Enterprise arrive on a remote Klingon planet and soon discover that the crew of the USS Gagarin, which was viciously attacked by Klingons ten years ago, have been held prisoner there ever since. With the assistance of the brave and honourable Koloth -- the Klingon captain from the viewer-favourite original series episode, "The Trouble with Tribbles" -- Captain Kirk sets out to rescue them, knowing that, should he fail, the Federation will deny all knowledge of his mission. What's more, powerful factions in the Klingon goverment are determined not to give up the prisoners, even if it means obliterating every last one of them -- and anyone who attempts to save them! Undeterred by the odds that are stacked against him, Kirk proceeds with his audacious plan. In the course of the rescue he discovers the secrets behind many Klingon mysteries -- mysteries that Star Trek fans have been waiting to find out. Why, for instance, did the Klingons originally encountered by Captain Kirk appear physically different to those encountered by later Starfleet crews? For the first time IN THE NAME OF HONOR answers the question that has puzzled the Star Trek universe for years.
In The Night Wood
by Dale BaileyIn this contemporary fantasy, the grieving biographer of a Victorian fantasist finds himself slipping inexorably into the supernatural world that consumed his subjectFailed father, failed husband, and failed scholar, Charles Hayden hopes to put his life back together with a new project: a biography of Caedmon Hollow, the long-dead author of a legendary Victorian children’s book, In the Night Wood, and forebear of his wife, Erin. Deep in mourning from the loss of their young daughter, they pack up their American lives, Erin gives up her legal practice, and the couple settles in Hollow’s remote Yorkshire mansion.In the neighboring village, Charles meets a woman he might have loved, a child who could have been his own daughter, and the ghost of a self he hoped to bury. Erin, paralyzed by her grief, immerses herself in pills and painting images of a horned terror in the woods.In the primeval forest surrounding Caedmon Hollow’s ancestral home, an ancient power is stirring, a long-forgotten king who haunts the Haydens’ dreams. And every morning the fringe of darkling trees presses closer.Soon enough, Charles and Erin will venture into the night wood.Soon enough, they’ll learn that the darkness under the trees is but a shadow of the darkness that waits inside us all.
In Nightfall
by Suzanne YoungIn the quaint town of Nightfall, Oregon, it isn't the dark you should be afraid of—it's the girls. The Lost Boys meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer in this propulsive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Treatment.Theo and her brother, Marco, threw the biggest party of the year. And got caught. Their punishment? Leave Arizona to spend the summer with their grandmother in the rainy beachside town of Nightfall, Oregon—population 846 souls. The small town is cute, when it&’s not raining, but their grandmother is superstitious and strangely antisocial. Upon their arrival she lays out the one house rule: always be home before dark. But Theo and Marco are determined to make the most of their summer, and on their first day they meet the enigmatic Minnow and her friends. Beautiful and charismatic, the girls have a magnetic pull that Theo and her brother can't resist. But Minnow and her friends are far from what they appear.And that one rule? Theo quickly realizes she should have listened to her grandmother. Because after dark, something emerges in Nightfall. And it doesn&’t plan to let her leave.
In Odd We Trust (Odd Thomas Graphic Novels #1)
by Dean Koontz“Meet a young man named Odd . . . who helps the dead get even."From the infinite imagination of #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz comes the suspenseful graphic-novel debut of a natural-born hero with a supernatural twist.Odd Thomas is a regular nineteen-year-old with an unusual gift: the ability to see the lingering spirits of the dead. To Odd, it’s not such a big deal. And most folks in sleepy Pico Mundo, California, are much more interested in the irresistible pancakes Odd whips up at the local diner. Still, communing with the dead can be useful. Because while some spirits only want a little company . . . others want justice. When the sad specter of a very frightened boy finds its way to him, Odd vows to root out the evil suddenly infecting the sunny streets of Pico Mundo. But even with his exceptional ability–plus the local police and his pistol-packing girlfriend, Stormy, backing him–is Odd any match for a faceless stalker who’s always a step ahead . . . and determined to kill again?
In ogni luogo
by Claudia Javier CarreteroIl primo romanzo di Javier Carretero, pubblicato nel 2013, fu scritto, come lo stesso autore confessa, non per essere pubblicato, ma per necessità. Quella stessa necessità che nasce dal nostro Io più intimo. È lì che la creatività dell’autore s’insinua, ne trae ispirazione, e va a violare, con In ogni luogo, le logiche e l’enfasi dei pensieri e dei ricordi custoditi nel nostro privato. Il racconto è quasi ininterrotto, e spesso l’emotività che sopraffà i protagonisti si ritrova rispettosamente rispecchiata nelle parole che privano la narrazione di un filo temporale logico, cosicché i codici si accavallano, per poi riprendere il loro ordine. In ogni luogo ci conduce quasi senza preavviso, in un universo scomodo, risultato di un’analisi psichica, andando a caccia dei nostri “conti in sospeso”, con chi è al nostro fianco, con chi non lo è più e con i sogni a cui non si è creduto abbastanza tanto da essere lasciati irrealizzati. Accade nel momento in cui la vita non va più come previsto, quando un triste contrattempo scombina i piani a lungo termine, della vita, per molto difesi e programmati, e tutto cambia all’improvviso, presentando i conti attraverso riflessioni che conducono al turbamento e a un’attenta e spietata introspezione. Lo fa con un linguaggio semplice, colloquiale, quasi nervoso, Javier, che permette di arrivare con un pizzico di magia, lì dritto al cuore e farsi perdonare, quanto di più emotivo vive il suo protagonista, quasi aldilà della sua coscienza e volontà, in una spirale di ricordi ed emozioni che aprono le porte ad un affascinante viaggio attraverso il passato, il presente e il futuro, e alle loro implicite relazioni. Il protagonista, apatico di natura, e poco combattivo, si ritrova a dialogare e ad aprire il suo cuore (o solo sogna di farlo?) ad un inaspettato combattente, con le sembianze di un fragile girasole, che non ha mai smesso, e mai smetterà, di lottare per raggiunger
In The Orient (The Adventures of Archibald and Jackobeb #8)
by Art Collins Kc CollinsAs the eighth book in The Adventures of Archibald and Jockabeb opens, almost six months have passed since the snowy Christmas Eve when the two brothers returned home from another astonishing adventure high above the Arctic Circle. The backdrop now shifts to the bustling pearl of the Asia, Hong Kong. Archibald travels there to live with the Chen family and attend a summer abroad program. At the end of the program, Jockabeb and Archibald’s girlfriend, Willow, and one of the Chen children head out on a mountain hike, they have no idea about the danger that awaits them. When a descendant of a mythical character from centuries past finally escapes imprisonment deep within one of the towering mountains surrounding Victoria harbor, another life and death struggle begins – but this time without a blue feather for protection. Get ready for another fascinating journey into the unknown!
In Other Worlds: Radix Tetrad: Book 2 (Radix)
by A.A. AttanasioOne star-chained evening in a Manhattan bathroom, Carl Schirmer spontaneously combusts! His body transforms into light, mysteriously snatched from his banal life by an alien intelligence 130 billion years in the future. There, all spacetime is collapsing into a cosmic black hole, the Big Crunch - and a bold, cosmic destiny awaits Carl. Rebuilt from the remnants of his light by extraterrestrials for a cryptic purpose, he awakens in time's last world, the strangest of all - the Werld. At the edge of infinity, Carl discovers the Foke, nomadic humans who travel among the floating islands of the Werld. The Foke teach him how to live - and love - at the end of time, and he loses his heart to his plucky guide, the beautiful Evoë. Their life together in this blissful kingdom that knows no aging or disease brings them to rapture - until Evoë falls prey to the zotl, a spidery intelligence who hunt the Foke and eat the chemical by-products of their pain. In order to save his beloved from a gruesome death, Carl must return to Earth - 130 billion years earlier - where he is shocked to discover that the Earth he's come back to is not the one he left. Can he meet the harsh demands of his task before the zotl find him and begin ravishing the Earth?Author's Note: The volumes of this series can each be read independently of the others. The feature that unifies them is their individual observations of science fiction's sub-genre: "space opera," which the editors David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer define as "colorful, dramatic, large-scale science fiction adventure, competently and sometimes beautifully written, usually focused on a sympathetic, heroic central character and plot action, and usually set in the relatively distant future, and in space or on other worlds, characteristically optimistic in tone. It often deals with war, piracy, military virtues, and very large-scale action, large stakes."
In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination
by Margaret AtwoodNote: The electronic version of this title contains over thirty additional, illuminating eBook-exclusive illustrations by the author.At a time when speculative fiction seems less and less far-fetched, Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illuminates the essential truths about the modern world. This is an exploration of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as "science fiction," a relationship that has been lifelong, stretching from her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time as a graduate student at Harvard, where she worked on the Victorian ancestor of the form, and continuing as a writer and reviewer. This book brings together her three heretofore unpublished Ellmann Lectures from 2010: "Flying Rabbits," which begins with Atwood's early rabbit superhero creations, and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos, and Things with Wings; "Burning Bushes," which follows her into Victorian otherlands and beyond; and "Dire Cartographies," which investigates Utopias and Dystopias. In Other Worlds also includes some of Atwood's key reviews and thoughts about the form. Among those writers discussed are Marge Piercy, Rider Haggard, Ursula Le Guin, Ishiguro, Bryher, Huxley, and Jonathan Swift. She elucidates the differences (as she sees them) between "science fiction" proper, and "speculative fiction," as well as between "sword and sorcery/fantasy" and "slipstream fiction." For all readers who have loved The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake, and The Year of the Flood, In Other Worlds is a must. From the Hardcover edition.
In Other Worlds
by Sherrilyn KenyonTogether for the first time in one volume... Three dazzling stories of magic, fantasy, and romance from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. Three of the author's most thrilling stories in one fabulous volume... Fire and Ice On the run, a beautiful virgin crosses paths with a sexy ex-assassin. Knightly Dreams The dashing hero of a novel comes to life. Dragonswan A woman must help a shape-shifting dragon trapped between two worlds.Watch a Video
In Our Hands, the Stars
by Harry HarrisonThe Daleth Effect: It started in a small way when a test bench disintegrated. Within weeks it produced a power that could lift man to the stars. And within months it was the centre of a desperate power struggle - with Earth as the prize.