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From multi-award-winning author Yan Ge, a shimmering, genre-bending English-language debut that announces the next phase in a major literary career.
“As haunting, dreamlike, and addictive as a melatonin-induced slumber.” —Nylon
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3) Cosmogramma
A dark and incisive collection of speculative short stories set in an alternate future of interstellar space travel, robots, mythical creatures, and the uncanny.
"Newland easily engages readers with complex world-building, well-shaded characters, and stories as entertaining as they are meaningful. It's no small feat to so immediately and repeatedly appeal to readers' hearts and minds, and Newland's mastery of short-format
...’Tis the season for trimming the tree, caroling, baking cookies, and waiting for Santa to drop down the chimney. But in this festive collection of whodunits, murder is also paying a visit…
Carl Selwyn was a space opera writer who specialized in Science Fiction. He went from unknown to one of the most prolific Planet Stories writers of 1940. He did not write detective stories or Westerns on the side. His real name was Carl Selwyn Pugh Jr. (1917-1984). In his bio for Planet Stories, Selwyn tells us that he grew up on Roanoke Island, North Carolina. He had little success as a writer until he found an agent and began focusing on the
...Kenneth O'Hara (1891-1935) was born in Brooklyn. His birth name was Kenneth Anthony O'Hara. He was an American writer and director, known for Her Indiscretion (1927), The Rapids (1922), and The Critical Age (1923). He was married to Beulah Booker. He died in Los Angeles, California.--IMDb.
“She came to Mars in search of something, she knew not what, to give her life meaning. She found it ... in a way ...” --From preliminary
...Roger Phillip Graham (1909-1966) was an American science fiction writer who was published most often using the name Rog Phillips, but also used other names. Of his other pseudonyms, only Craig Browning is notable in the genre. He is associated most with Amazing Stories and is known best for short fiction. He was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1959.
Phillips's Hugo-nominated "Rat in the Skull" was the cover story for the
...Drexel Jerome Lewis Bixby (1923-1998) was an American short story writer and scriptwriter. He wrote the 1953 story It's a Good Life, which was included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame. It formed the basis of a 1961 episode of The Twilight Zone and was remade in Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983). He wrote four episodes for the Star Trek series: Mirror, Mirror, Day of the Dove, Requiem for Methuselah, and By Any Other Name. With Otto Klement, he
...Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr. (1913-1990) was an American author, son of Frederic Arnold Kummer, Sr. (1873-1943), who sometimes varied his first name, spelling it Frederick or Fredric.
He published at least one story by Martin Vaeh. Kummer began to publish work of genre interest with "The Medici Cup" in The Evening Standard Book of Strange Stories (anth 1934), edited anonymously; as an SF author, his career was short, with a few stories before
...John Murray Reynolds (1901-1993) was an American writer who wrote science fiction stories.
One of Carr’s closest friends (John Dickson Carr) during the early 1930s was John Murray Reynolds, who though working full-time for a steamship company, was an active writer for the pulp magazines; he created the once-famous character, Ki-Gor of the Jungle. Murray explained to Carr that writing pulp stories was not time-consuming—he himself
...Richard Milton McKenna (1913-1964) was an American sailor and novelist. He was best known for his historical novel The Sand Pebbles, which tells the story of an American sailor serving aboard a gunboat on the Chinese Yangtze River in 1925.
Seeking more opportunities than could be found in such a rural part of the country at the height of the Great Depression, McKenna joined the U.S. Navy in 1931 at the age of 18. He served for 22 years,
...Sewell Peaslee Wright (1897-1970) was an American science fiction writer. Sewell was a fan favorite of early pulp sci-fi magazines.--GoodReads.
Commander John Hanson challenges an appalling denizen of the watery world Hydrot.--From preliminary page.
An alien virus ravages the world, its results as random as a hand of cards. Those infected either...
The Time of Fear has passed, and yet the flames of war come anew.
Prince Colton, one-half of the Keeper of Dragons has already saved his dragon kin from the time of fear, defeating the fallen elves and fairies. Life was supposed to be simple now, but the Fates have made it clear. They have a whole new evil in store for Cole with a prophecy no one saw coming.
The Sepans, an ancient and powerful dragon family, have been
...In City of Saints and Madmen, Jeff VanderMeer has reinvented the literature of the fantastic. You hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any you’ve ever visited—an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians.
City of elegance and squalor. Of religious fervor and wanton lusts. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin.
...18) The Ukraine
Frank Herbert wanted to be a writer, and though today his name is practically synonymous with world-building and epic science fiction, Herbert didn’t start out with a particular genre in mind. He wrote mainstream stories, mysteries, thrillers, mens’ adventure pieces, humorous slice-of-life tales. And,...
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