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41) The Repairman
Take an intergalactic journey with science fiction luminary Harry Harrison. In The Repairman, Harrison recounts the travails of a lone skilled laborer who is charged with the frustrating task of making a crucial repair to malfunctioning equipment on a far-flung planet.
In these hilarious stories by some of the top authors of middle grade fiction today, each young character is coping with a minor superpower—while also discovering their power to change themselves and their community, find their voice, and celebrate what makes them unique.
The kids in these humorous short stories each have a minor superpower they're learning to live with. One can shape-shift—but only part of her
...A tale of seduction, selkies, and sushi. Writing as G L Carriger, New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger brings her humorous voice to contemporary urban fantasy and gay romance. Alec is a werewolf with problems – he's unexpectedly alive, he's quite definitely gay, and he's been ordered by the Alpha of his wolf pack to partner up for an investigation with one very flirty merman.In
...47) The Shadow Cats
A sweeping, original digital prequel to Rae Carson's bestselling The Girl of Fire and Thorns—a debut novel Tamora Pierce described as "engrossing."
Once a century, one person is chosen for greatness. And it was not Alodia.
Alodia is the crown princess of the realm. The sister who knows how to rule, the one who is constantly reminded that she has not been marked for a grand destiny. But Alodia has plans, and she
...Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice—from Margaret Atwood and Celeste Ng to Tommy Orange and John Grisham.
One week into the COVID-19
...The exquisitely crafted stories in Anthony Doerr's debut collection take readers from the African Coast to the pine forests of Montana to the damp moors of Lapland, charting a vast physical and emotional landscape....
From mama trauma to smother mother, this all-new women in horror anthology features stories about the scariest monster of them all— our mothers.
"Twisted caregiving and inescapably...
51) Twilight's Dawn
WINSOL GIFTS
Daemon is settling into his first year of married life with his Witch Queen Jaenelle. But as the celebration of Winsol draws near, he finds himself pulled in multiple...
INTERLUDE IN DEATH
Lieutenant Eve Dallas is resigned to the fact that she’s been ordered to give a seminar at a police conference—and that she’ll have to leave Earth to do it. But her dedication...
Jaenelle is the most powerful Witch ever known, centuries of hopes and dreams made flesh at last. She has forged ties with three of the realm’s...
“All hail the queen of scream. A Sliver of Darkness is C. J. Tudor at her spine-tingling, nightmare-inducing best. Read it if you dare.”—Chris Whitaker, New...
"Like Oscar Wilde or Ray Bradbury, E. Lily Yu writes the kind of delicious short stories that come with a sting in the tail. Utterly beguiling." —Kelly Link, bestselling author of Get in Trouble
"Each story here is a gem. A trove of fantastical treasures." —Kirkus Reviews STARRED REVIEW
"An astonishing collection of stories...transformative." —Library...
Classic French science fiction short stories translated into English for the first time.
This unique collection of newly translated short stories offers a taste of classic and contemporary French science fiction to English-language readers. These stories cover a range of fascinating topics including simulated reality, speciesism, ecology, and transhumanism—all while exploring universal themes of belonging, death, and identity. Some
57) My Sister's Song
The warrior Mithra must repel a Roman legion alone and armed only with one very tasty weapon.
New York Times bestselling author and ALA Alex Award winner Gail Carrigerpresents a funny historical fantasy short story about a woman warrior set in ancient Roman times.
The Romans are marching! To protect her lands and her tribe, Mithra comes up with a sticky solution to an impossible problem.
"A character-driven
"We're mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and float like clouds of gas between nebulae; in a flash, we can reach the edge of the universe, or tunnel into a quark, or swim within a star-core. . . . We're as unassuming as fireflies, yet our numbers grow like grass in spring. We sci-fi fans are people from the future."—Cixin Liu, from the essay "Sci-Fi Fans"
A VIEW FROM
60) First Meetings
Welcome to the Enderverse.
When Orson Scott Card first published "Ender's Game" as a novella in 1977, few would have predicted that it would become one of the most successful ventures in publishing history. Expanded into a novel in 1985, Ender's Game won both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel. Never out of print and translated into dozens of languages, it is the rare work of fiction that can truly be said to have transcended