This is one of a series of anthologies of science fiction and mystery stories by Borgo Press writers that are being distributed at cost as both ebooks and paperback volumes. The first volume in the sequence, Yondering, includes a baker's dozen of original and reprint tales by fourteen writers. <P> In «The Quills of Henry Thomas,» W. C. and Aja Bamberger give us a glimpse of a future in which music is composed through DNA computing. «The Gizzard Wizard» is Rory Barnes's...
Resurrected corpses, voodoo conjuring, black magic (and blacker science)…these are all well known to cause zombie breakouts. Here are classic and modern tales, full of thrills and chills and the living dead…tales of zombies! These stories don't (well, mostly don't!) go for the gross-out. Great writing, lots of atmosphere and suspense (and the occasional laugh) – if you want more than just extreme horror and gross-out scares, this is the zombie collection for you!<P> Included...
This is the story of a Nazi hunter’s journey to find the man who tortured him and murdered his family, as he penetrates the depths of the Amazon jungle to experience an extraordinary «dream time.» Michael Swanwick called this gripping novel a “dark quest into the heart of dreams.” It is a magnificent depiction of a modern descent into hell…and the frightening–and profoundly surprising–consequences of redemption.
Peter Lindsay lives in Melbourne, Australia. Charles Blackford is an American trying to relive a happier time in Athens. Both men have lost their wives. And now they must decide how to cope with the overwhelming changes being wrought by transcendent emergences from the sea. This is the quintessential “First Contact” story, a mind-bendingly brilliant exploration into what is alien…and what it means to be human. Library Journal called Jubilee “a haunting story of transformation and loss.”...
Long before their award-nominated and awarded stories and novels, these two writers word-jammed together, learning the music of story writing and the blood and bones of distinctive prose. And all these early efforts were published! Here they are again, together in one place–ten riveting stories of science fiction–as entertaining as they were fun to write–including the previously unpublished tale, «The Standard Crisis Scenario»!
An anthology of Australian Speculative Fiction, BAGGAGE presents some of the finest new work by Aussie writers, including Jack Dann, Monica Carroll, K. J. Bishop, Kaaron Warren, and many more. Included:<P> VISION SPLENDID, by K. J. Bishop<BR> TELESCOPE, by Jack Dann<BR> HIVE OF GLASS, by Kaaron Warren<BR> KUNMANARA–SOMEBODY SOMEBODY, by Yaritji Green<BR> MANIFEST DESTINY, by Janeen Webb<BR> ALBERT & VICTORIA/SLOW DREAMS, by Lucy Sussex<BR> ...
