"In this dark and gritty collection featuring short stories from Jim Butcher, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, and Rob Thurman nothing is as simple as black and white, light and dark, good and evil.. Unfortunately, that s exactly what makes it so easy to cross the line. In #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Jim Butcher s "Cold Case," Molly Carpenter Harry Dresden s apprentice-turned-Winter Lady must collect a tribute from a remote ..."
"Urban fantasy offers a diverse playground for some extremely powerful stories. Professional writer and editor Kerrie L. Hughes pulled some fantastic tales out of fourteen top writers for this fifth installment of Fiction River. Set in urban lands from modern Portland, to a future Detroit, to a wild Washington, D.C., and ending the tour in London, these top writers take the idea of “Hex” and stretch and twist it into stories with a magic ..."
"When you were a kid, did you long to put on your cowboy boots, belt on your guns, saddle up, and ride off to find adventures? Did you sit glued to the TV watching "The Lone Ranger," "Maverick," "Bonanza," "The Wild Wild West," "The Adventures of Brsico County Jr.," and "Firefly"? And were you caught up in movies like "Outlands," "Time Bandits," "Serenity," or "Back to the Future Part ""III"? If so, "Westward Weird "is the book for you. ..."
"Alchemy changes more than dross into gold. It changes steampunk stories into stories of magical transformation. These thirteen stories combine science and magic into do-not-miss alternate history stories that span the globe. Travel with a soul-stealing carnival, meet the Grand Dangoolie, put on some perfect perfume, and sample some magical chocolate. These adventures grace the pages of the most creative volume of Fiction River yet. “If ..."
"From a farmer at war with Nature?s creatures, to dangerous doings when the henhouse goes on-line, to the hazards of keeping company with a book wyrm, here are ingenious tales that will make readers laugh or cry?or double-check to make sure that their windows and doors are firmly locked against the things that prowl the night."
"Space...the final frontier. Or is it? Many say there's no frontier more forbidding than a romantic relationship between a man and a woman. But what if one's a human, and the other's an alien? Here is an original collection of space opera stories where authors take love (unrequited or not), on a spaceship, space station, or planetary colony, and add enough drama, confusion and mayhem to ensure that the path to true love-or short-term inf ..."
"Chicks are awesome--and never more so than when they are kicking some serious vampire/werewolf/demon/monster butt.Chicks Kick Butt is an anthology that features one of the best things about the urban fantasy genre: strong, independent, and intelligent heroines who are quite capable of solving their own problems and slaying their own dragons (or demons, as the case may be).Edited by Kerrie Hughes and Rachel Caine, Chicks Kick Butt featur ..."
"A collection of 13 tales of strong women armed with weapons they are not afraid to use These are urban and paranormal stories certain to appeal to all readers of these popular genres Features stories by Nancy Holder Lili St Crow Tanya Huff Mickey Zucker Reichert Jane Lindskold Anton Strout Jeanne Stein Kristine Kathryn Rusch Jim C Hines Elizabeth A Vaughan Nina Kiriki Hoffman Irene Radford and Alexander B Potter A collection of urban an ..."
"Let the games begin! These thirteen original stories by veterans of the fantasy realms take role-playing games and universes to a whole new level. From a teenager who finds a better future in virtual reality; to a private investigator hired to find a dying man's grandson in the midst of a virtual reality theme park; from a person gifted with the power to pull things out of books into the real world; to a psychologist using fantasy rol ..."
"SIGNED & NUMBERED EDITION DESCRIPTION: - Limited to 500 numbered copies - Signed by Jim Butcher, Kerrie L. Hughes, and artist Chris McGrath - Cloth-bound with beautiful wrap-around cover by Chris McGrath - Interior graphics art by Nate Taylor BOOK DESCRIPTION: In this dark and gritty collection-featuring short stories from Jim Butcher, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, and Rob Thurman-nothing is as simple as black and white, light and ..."
"Nothing compares to a good ghost story. And in Haunted, some of the best short fiction writers in the business explore the many different ways to haunt someone: literally, figuratively, happily, angrily… From a man haunted by his wife’s favorite appliance to a possessed building protective of its new family to a chilling twist on the modern practice of ghosting, the thirteen authors of Fiction River’s latest volume provide unforgettable ..."
"Editing an anthology can prove tricky business. Wonderful stories sometimes find themselves on the rejection pile simply because they do not fit in the editor’s vision of that anthology. So, editor Mark Leslie decided to save some of those amazing stories for this latest volume of Fiction River: Editor’s Choice. These tales run the gamut from YA fantasy to cozy crime to slipstream to horror. And they represent the incredible diversity o ..."
"RACHEL CAINE is the internationally bestselling author of thirty novels, including
the New York Times and USA Today bestselling ... Dead Girls' Dance, Midnight
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"Chicks are awesome--and never more so than when they are kicking some serious vampire/werewolf/demon/monster butt.Chicks Kick Butt is an anthology that features one of the best things about the urban fantasy genre: strong, independent, and intelligent heroines who are quite capable of solving their own problems and slaying their own dragons (or demons, as the case may be).Edited by Kerrie Hughes and Rachel Caine, Chicks Kick Butt featur ..."
". . In this short story collection of courage, adventure, and magic, heroes—ordinary people who do the right thing—bravely step forward. But running toward danger might cost them everything. . ."
"Money, business, sports, love: All involve risk—and skill. The skilled authors in this volume masterfully exhibit both. Buckle in while a locomotive engineer uses magic in a race to avoid extinction, a game developer must outmaneuver an alien for Earth’s fate, and an exterminator risks everything to go after some really big rats. Crossing genre lines through science fiction, fantasy, mystery, historical, and mainstream, these adrenalin ..."
""Bless your mechanical heart..." Since its earliest days, science fiction has explored the notion of a walking, talking, thinking machine, reflecting back our own humanity through their glass eyes, exploring their own humanity framed in the symmetry of programming and gears, trapped in a cage of synthetic flesh and metal bone. What happens when what we’ve made in our own image becomes more like us than we eve ..."
"Want a little adventure . . . danger . . . romance . . . or maybe a good scare? Yearning to read some fantasy . . . science fiction . . . humor . . . urban fantasy . . . horror . . . or even a haunting Civil War tale? We've got what you're looking for! The authors in Gen Con's Writer's Symposium have collected 22 of their favorite tales into this volume. There are magical garments, spooky settings, women warriors, urban headhu ..."