Bryce Carter could afford a smug smile. For hadn't he risen gloriously from Thieves Row to director of famed U.T.? Was not Earth, Moon, and all the Belt, at this very moment awaiting his command for the grand coup? And wasn't his cousin-from-Montehedo a star-sent help?

Twenty years after the events of Tu'an, Collier Rashkil runs an intelligence network out of an underground church in the northern Shenandoah Valley. A hundred miles or so south, Henry Price runs a smuggling ring. Neither is aware the other survived the horrific last stand of the Ghosts. Life is hard: Collier is proscribed, Henry is one-step ahead of arrest and execution, yet both have a measure of contentment. But, then an old enemy confronts Collier...

What should you expect to see inside of Volume Two of Amphetamine Daydreams (in full technicolor)!?A woman gets a tattoo of crow on the back of her hand in celebration of their bands' first album wrapping up the initial recording...only the tattoo is cursed (so she believes). A man in a sanitarium sees reptilian beings masquerading as humans, but no one believes him. The ghost of a woman who died tragically returns to her killer begging for forgiveness...every,...

Dante Maxima Seven - a world known to its inhabitants as Imprima. A world where Madragi - huge social/economic entities wealthy beyond compare - control the fate of millions... Years ago, William Riker was part of the Starfleet delegation that opened Imprima to the Federation. Now the disappearance of an old friend - Teller Conlon, who also served on that team - draws Riker and the Enterprise™ across the galaxy, back to Imprima. Because the jewel...

Howard Waldrop's stories are keys to the secret world of the stories behind the stories... or perhaps stories between the known stories. From "The Wolfman of Alcatraz" to a horrifying Hansel and Gretel, from "The Bravest Girl I Ever Knew" to the Vancean richness of a "Frogskin Cap," this new collection is a wunderkammer of strangeness.

What would you do to save the life you've worked so hard to build for yourself? Amid the bustling 1900s, Djina's life is saved by a mysterious prince. Djina comes from a wicked family-after Turkish prisoners worked 30 years to dig a well for their castle, they executed the prisoners. Another employee killed her family out of rage and in pursuit of justice. Now alone, Djina was riding her beloved horse when an accident ended her life. Mere moments...

Humanity has survived. On the far end of the universe, with Earth little more than a faded memory, they thrive on worlds where once they were enslaved. In the millennia since, these persistent beings built new societies, but when the two greatest nations among them met for the first time, there was war. The all-consuming conflict bent the wills and morals of both powers beyond recognition, leading to levels of experimentation and cruelty once thought...

Every five years, Yulen D'Jacques, Battle Lord of Alta Novis, holds a conference to continue strengthening relations between the Normals and Mutah. Both battle lords and Mutah councilmembers from far and wide are invited in an effort to prove how important they could be to each other, and to dismiss any misconceptions Normals may still have toward the people they once considered their inferior enemies. This time, it's determined Mattox D'Jacques,...

Blackmail Sparks Murder On a Planet of Psychics A Science Fiction Cozy Mystery When Clemintine LaSalle steals her mother's Indenture Contract from a blackmailer's safe, she accidentally gets his blackmail list too, and someone wants that list badly enough to frame her for murder… Shangri-la was designed to be the next utopia. But it's flawed and someone is attempting to destroy it. A war is building between the Reformers who want to correct their...

Hosted online, the Tolkien Society 2020 seminar sought to explore how J.R.R. Tolkien's legacy partly relies on the continued adaption of his works, characters, and languages. It offered insights into a range of artistic adaptions and evaluated how the tangible result expands the Tolkien fanbase and readership while cultivating a love and appreciation of Tolkien through the adaptor's creative vision. It further examined the ways in which Tolkien's...