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Common Oddities Speculative Fiction Sideshow, Autumn 2014
Provision Books
The Autumn 2014 issue of The Common Oddities Speculative Fiction Sideshow is an eclectic mix of science fiction, fantasy, and poetry by established and up-and-coming authors. All issues of COSFS are archived at www.commonodditiessideshow.com. Published by www.ProvisionBooks.com.The Autumn 2014 issue of The Common Oddities Speculative Fiction Sideshow is an eclectic mix of science fiction, fantasy, and poetry by established and up-and-coming authors. All issues of COSFS are archived at www.commonodditiessideshow.com. Published by www.ProvisionBooks.com. Jessica E. Thomas, EditorCover art by OddMrT.comContributors: Melissa McDanielLawrence BuentelloMirtikaAndy DeckerJill DomschotLou AntonelliEd ShackleeStoney M. Setzer
Speculative Los Angeles
Speculative Los Angeles (retail) (epub)
The debut title in a new city-based anthology series featuring all-new stories with speculative, sci-fi, and paranormal themes—each using distinct neighborhood settings as a launching pad."Speculative Los Angeles is a thrill ride of grand ideas and warnings. Take a place that already defines the future of culture, add fourteen unbound minds, and you get a collection that wows the imagination like no other."—Michael Connelly, author of the best-selling Harry Bosch series"The problem of buying books for others can be solved by offering the equivalent of the literary box of chocolates: the anthology...For Californians, or people who just like the West Coast, there's Speculative Los Angeles, edited by Denise Hamilton."—Washington Post, recommended by Silvia Moreno-Garcia"14 outstanding stories of weird and uncanny happenings in the City of Angels...Each story presents a fresh take on the magic and...
The Speculative Short Fiction of T. D. Hamm
T. D. Hamm
Anthology containing:
Gallie's House
Native Son
Ourselves of Yesterday
Place in the Sun
Servant Problem
The Last Supper
Floor of Heaven
The Corner
The Survivors The Weapon
The Speculative Short Fiction Of Alice Eleanor Jones
Alice Eleanor Jones
Anthology containing:
Created He Them
Life, Incorporated
Miss Quatro
The Happy Clown
Recruiting Officer
The Speculative Short Fiction of Hilary Bailey
Hilary Bailey
Anthology containing:
Bella Goes to the Dark Tower
Breakdown
Dogman of Islington
Everything Blowing Up: An Adventure of Una Persson, Heroine of Time and Space
In Reason's Ear
Sisters
The Fall of Frenchy Steiner
The Little Victims
The Ramparts
Twenty-four Letters from Underneath the Earth
A Chronicle of Blackton
Agatha Blue
BABY WATSON 1936-1980 Or, The Miracle of Human Existence
Be Good Sweet Man
Dr. Gelabius
The Speculative Short Fiction of Gail Kimberly
Gail Kimberly
Anthology containing:
Gloria
Many Mansions
Minna in the Night Sky
The Fire Fountain
The Horseman from Hel
A Child of Faerie
A Little Bit of Recycled Time
A Nice Girl Like Me
Peace, Love, and Food for the Hungry
The Face of the Enemy
Checkmate: Tales of Speculative Fiction
Icy Sedgwick
Short Stories / Science Fiction & Fantasy / Horror
Fifteen previously published stories, collected together for the first time, spanning fantasy, horror, sci fi and speculative fiction. Among other things, Bleed Them Dry puts a new spin on vampires, talking corpses tell their side in The Dead Do Listen and and a devilish game of chess goes wrong in Checkmate. Perfect for Halloween.Checkmate: Tales of Speculative Fiction is your guidebook to the shadows and monsters of modern fairy tales.In the title story, ‘Checkmate’, a devilish game of chess goes apocalyptically wrong. Elsewhere, ‘Bleed Them Dry’ puts a new spin on the contemporary corporate vampire, an aristocratic corpse tells his side of the story in ‘The Dead Do Listen’, and a little girl is fascinated with an antique that hides a dark world in ‘The Mirror Phase’.Described as “a wonderful collection of tales of subtle urban fantasy with a delicious gothic flavour”, Checkmate wants to thrill you, comfort you, and creep you out.If you enjoy the dark fairytales of Neil Gaiman, then you’ll love the weird tales of Checkmate!
The Speculative Short Fiction of Helen McCloy
Helen McCloy
Anthology containing:
Chinoiserie
Through a Glass, Darkly
Number Ten Q Street
The Last Days
The Unexpected
Speculative Sullivan: The Collected Short Fiction
Tim Sullivan
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Stories of Hope
Aussie Speculative Fiction
100,000 words of hope.This year, many Australian communities have been affected by bushfires. People—and animals—have lost their lives and their homes. The Australian Speculative Fiction community asked the question, 'What can we do to help?''Stories of Hope' was born from the smoke and ashes, an anthology of fantasy and science fiction tales based on the theme of 'hope.' All money raised from the sales of this book will be donated to WWF's Australian Wildlife and Nature Recovery Fund and the Red Cross Disaster Relief & Recovery Fund.This is no ordinary anthology, it's a message of hope for the future.
Where the Weird Things Are
Australian Speculative Fiction
Where the Weird Things Are is a travel guide of the freaky and fantastic of Australia and New Zealand.Let our fourteen authors take you to their hometowns, to places they know like the back of their hand, and listen to their tales of ghosts, local legends and monsters.We hope you enjoy this tour from Mandurah to Mount Buffalo, from Cairns to The Bay of Plenty, and that you survive unscathed.This anthology features original stories by Clare Rhoden, Madeleine D'Este, Casey Campbell, Austin P. Sheehan, Faran Silverton, E. H. Alger, Emily Wrayburn, Eva Leppard, Chris Mason, Sarah Jane Justice, M. R. Mortimer, Lucy Fox, Geraldine Borella and Emma Louise Gill.
The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction (2021)
Oghenechovwe Ekpeki
The first ever Year's Best African speculative fiction anthology with works from some of the most exciting voices in Africa and the diaspora, published in the 2020 year."Where You Go" by Somto O. Ihezue"Things Boys Do" by Pemi Aguda"Giant Steps" by Russell Nichols"The Future in Saltwater" by Tamara Jerée"The ThoughtBox" by Tlotlo Tsamaase"The Parts That Make Us Monsters" by Sheree Renée Thomas"Scar Tissue" by Tobias S. Buckell"Ancestries" by Sheree Renée Thomas"Breath of the Sahara" by Inegbenoise O. Osagie"The Many Lives of an Abiku" by Tobi Ogundiran"A Love Song for Herkinal as composed by Ashkernas amid the ruins of New Haven" by Chinelo Onwualu"A Curse at Midnight" by Moustapha Mbacké Diop"A Mastery of German" by Marian Denise Moore"Are We Ourselves?" by Michelle Mellon"When the Last of the Birds and the Bees Have Gone On" by C.L. Clark"The Goatkeeper's Harvest" by Tobi...
The Speculative Short Fiction of Rachel Cosgrove Payes
Rachel Cosgrove Payes
Anthology containing:
Alas, Poor Tidy Toidy Girl
Tower of Babble
Have You Been Converted?
Private Phone
The Vision
Half Life
The Name of the Game
... And The Power ...
Escape to the Suburbs
Deaf Listener
The Eyes of the Blind
Grandma Was Never Like This
The Door
The Executioner
Mattie Harris Galactic Spy
Flee to the Mountains
The Spy Game
Mother Calls But I Do Not Answer
Worlds Enough & Time: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction
Dan Simmons
Science Fiction / Fantasy
An extraordinary artist with few rivals in his chosen arena, Dan Simmons possesses a restless talent that continually presses boundaries while tantalizing the mind and touching the soul. Now he offers us a superb quintet of novellas -- five dazzling masterworks of speculative fiction, including "Orphans of the Helix," his award-winning return to the Hyperion Universe -- that demonstrates the unique mastery, breathtaking invention, and flawless craftsmanship of one of contemporary fiction's true greats.
Human colonists seeking something other than godhood encounter their long-lost "cousins"...and an ancient scourge.
A devastated man in suicide's embrace is caught up in a bizarre cat-and-mouse game with a young woman possessing a world-ending power.
The distant descendants of a once-oppressed people learn a chilling lesson about the persistence of the past.
A terrifying ascent up the frigid, snow-swept slopes of K2 shatters preconceptions and reveals the true natures of four climbers, one of whom is not human.
At the intersection of a grand past and a threadbare present, an aging American in Russia confronts his own mortality as he glimpses a wondrous future.
The Speculative Short Fiction of P. M. Griffin
P. M. Griffin
Cat 1 - Trouble
Cat 2 - In Bastet's Service
Cat 3 - Partners
Cat 4 - The Neighbor
Cat 5 - Tenth-Life Cat
Covenant
Lizard
Witch World 1 - Oath-Bound
Witch World 2 - Knowledge
The Speculative Short Fiction of Philippa C. Maddern
Philippa C. Maddern
Contents:
Confusion Day
Ignorant of Magic
Not with Love
Inhabiting the Interspaces
The Ins and Outs of the Hadhya City-State
Infra Red
Broken Pit
The Pastseer
"They Made Us Not to Be and They Are Not"
Things Fall Apart
The Speculative Short Fiction of P. E. Cunningham
P. E. Cunningham
Anthology containing:
Car 17
Monkey See...
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Snake in the Glass
If You Can't Stand the Heat...
A Little Magic
Pteros 1 - Healer
Pteros 2 - To Slay the Dragon
Pteros 3 - The Timeseer
Pteros 4 - Purpose
Mother's Demon Helper
The Son of Walks Through Fire
Tesseracts Eleven: Amazing Canadian Speculative Fiction
Cory Doctorow
Tesseracts Eleven brings the series to a new height, with a tasty blend of past and present writers, with their own individual visions of the future. The literature of Tesseracts Eleven has been critically selected and shaped into the collection you see by editors and acclaimed authors Cory Doctorow and Holly Phillips, two of Canada's finest writers. Together they have chosen a powerful combination of works by well known writers, as well as newer authors whose futures you will want to follow.
Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction
Nalo Hopkinson
Each year Tesseract Books chooses a team of editors from amongst the best of Canada’s writers, publishers and critics to select innovative and futuristic fiction and poetry from the leaders and emerging voices in Canadian speculative fiction. Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction expands the dimensions of speculative fiction experientially, with startling visions of the future by new and established Canadian authors. Featuring twenty-three stories and poems by: Timothy J. Anderson, Sylvie Bérard, René Beaulieu, E. L. Chen, Candas Jane Dorsey, Pat Forde, Marg Gilks, Sandra Kasturi, Nancy Kilpatrick, Claude Lalumière, Anthony MacDonald, Jason Mehmel, Yves Meynard, Derryl Murphy, Rhea Rose, Dan Rubin, Daniel Sernine, Steve Stanton, Jerome Stueart, Sarah Totton, Élisabeth Vonarburg, Peter Watts, Allan Weiss, Alette J. Willis and Casey June Wolf. Edited by Sunburst and World Fantasy Award winning authors Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman, Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction showcases the very best in Canadian speculative fiction literature (including English translations of works by French-Canadian authors).
The Speculative Short Stories of Barbara Paul
Barbara Paul
History / Poetry
Anthology containing:
All the Dogs of Europe
Who What When Where Why
Eleemosynary, My Dear Watson
Fatal Error 1000
Jack Be Quick
Never Moon a Werewolf
Payback
Scarecrow Duty
Shakespeare Minus One
SpacecCat
Swimming the Moat
The Secret
The Seven Deadly Sessions
The Sleuth of Christmas Past
The Slow and Gentle Progress of Trainee Bell-Ringers
Answer "Affirmative" or "Negative"
Earth Surrenders
Go to the Devil
Dominion
Part #1 of "Dominion_An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora" series by Nicole Givens Kurtz
Dominion is the first anthology of speculative fiction and poetry by Africans and the African Diaspora. An old god rises up each fall to test his subjects. Once an old woman's pet, a robot sent to mine an asteroid faces an existential crisis. A magician and his son time-travel to Ngoni country and try to change the course of history. A dead child returns to haunt his grieving mother with terrifying consequences. Candace, an ambitious middle manager, is handed a project that will force her to confront the ethical ramifications of her company's latest project—the monetization of human memory. Osupa, a newborn village in pre-colonial Yorubaland populated by refugees of war, is recovering after a great storm when a young man and woman are struck by lightning, causing three priests to divine the coming intrusion of a titanic object from beyond the sky. A magician teams up with a disgruntled civil servant to find his missing wand. A taboo error in a black market trade...
All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals
John Conway
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The Speculative Short Stories of Alice Laurance
Alice Laurance
Anthology containing:
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Nobody Loves a Moebius Strip
Nine-Tenths of the Law
The Past
A Touch of Truth
The Game of the Name
At the End
Call from Kerlyana
Chances Are
Coloured Element
Guilty as Charged
Schlossie
State of the Union
The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction (2022)
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
This is the follow up to the highly acclaimed 2021 anthology described as containing "some of the most exciting voices, old and new, from Africa and the diaspora, published in the 2020 year."The first won the World Fantasy Award for best anthology and was met with widespread critical acclaim from across the world, with the science fiction trade magazine, Locus, calling it a "must read."Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, who created the first anthology now joins forces with Eugen Bacon, a 2022 World Fantasy Award finalist and Milton Davis, an award-winning Black Speculative fiction writer and editor to introduce readers to an ever more diverse set of writers associated with Africa. Timely and relevant to today's world, the set of stories in this book will astonish, shock and amaze the reader while introducing them to a whole new world.
The Chronotope and Other Speculative Fictions
Michael Hemmingson
Time travel and brothels; unusual visitors from different eras, dimensions, and realities; human zoos maintained by curious aliens who like to watch; private eyes who are zombies; leafy-green literary collaborators; moral steampunk issues; a dreamer at the edge of the solar system; an astronaut who's gone insane; and the conspiracies of chrono-assassins--just a few of the fantastic themes in these 16 stories from Michael Hemmingson's first collection of speculative fiction: page-turners, every one of them!
Nightmares From Eberus - A Speculative Fiction Collection
JC De La Torre
JC De La Torre - author of the critically acclaimed Rise of the Ancients saga - gives you a new speculative fiction collection featuring 10 astonishing stories. From the controversial Lucifer's Lament and Killing Osama to the vampire yarn Serial and the time travel adventure Continuum Force, De La Torre touches all the genres of Spec Fic. It's all here. Newly enhanced edited version!
The Speculative Short Fiction of L.A. Taylor Anthology
L A Taylor
Anthology containing:
Contents:
Ad Astra per Aspera
A Shorter History
Change of Life
Counter Example
Cultural Exchange
Death Link
Scenes from A Past and Future Now
Testing, 1, 2, 3 ....
Waste Not, Want Not (same universe as The Blossom of Erda)
Tremors
Visitors
An Ear for Murder (a mystery)
Fortune Tellers (poem)
We See a Different Frontier: A Postcolonial Speculative Fiction Anthology
Lavie Tidhar
A Postcolonial Speculative Fiction Anthology
The Dark Between the Stars: Speculative Fiction
Damien Broderick
Ten speculative stories from an Australian writer who has won the Ditmar (Australian science fiction achievement) award three times and whose novel TThe Dreaming Dragons' is included in TSF: The best 100 novels'.
International Speculative Fiction #5
Various Authors
Short Stories / Fiction / Anthologies
Featuring stories by Francesco Verso, Manuel Alves, and Thomas Olde Heuvelt, along with non-fiction articles and reviews.
International Speculative Fiction #4
Various Authors
Short Stories / Fiction / Anthologies
Featuring stories by three World Fantasy Award winners, along with non-fiction articles and reviews.
Philippine Speculative Fiction, Volume 10
Dean Francis Alfar
This is the landmark tenth volume of what's been called "one of the most important projects to come out of the contemporary writing generation". PSF is credited as the springboard for the thriving Philippine speculative fiction movement, which defines, explores, and sometimes blurs the boundaries of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and all things in between.Philippine Speculative Fiction X is proud to present a representative range of exemplary stories from Filipino writers, including both renowned veterans and exciting new voices in the field.Contributors include:Alyssa WongAngelo R. LacuestaJoel Pablo SaludEliza VictoriaJose Elvin BuenoVictor OcampoCyan Abad-JugoKenneth YuAndrew DrilonKate OsiasGabriela LeeJoseph Anthony MontecilloRenz Christian TorresVincent Michael SimbulanFrancis Gabriel ConcepcionEK GonzalesAlexander Marcos OsiasNoel TioAJ ElicañoLakan UmaliRapunzel TomacderRaymund P...
Philippine Speculative Fiction
Andrew Drilon
A young tikbalang auditions at the country's largest TV station; a priest travels the universe to officiate sacraments in outer space; a murdered girl returns unscathed to the home of her perpetrators. The Philippine Speculative Fiction series showcases the rich variety of Philippine literature. Between these covers you will find magic realism next to science fiction, traditional fantasy beside slipstream, and imaginary worlds rubbing shoulders with alternate Philippine history—demonstrating that the literature of the fantastic is alive and well in the Philippines.Stories from this series have been included in the Honorable Mentions list from The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, and Gavin Grant.
The Hours of Creeping Night - a Collection of Dark Speculative Short Fiction
Sophie Playle
'The Hours of Creeping Night' is a collection of short stories that encompass the surrealism of the late hours of the night, when the coming dawn feels like an impossible dream. This 11,000 word ebook is filled with weird and morbid tales of mechanical creatures, living forests, zombies, wedigo and other monsters, while exploring the darkness of human nature in various strange fictional worlds.
Conmergence: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction
Maya, Tara
“Tara Maya is definitely a talented writer and that was clear from the first story in this anthology.†When she says 'speculative' fiction, Tara really means it. She has some very interesting and thought-provoking speculations on future (and past and fictional) tech and society in this anthology. The fun thing is that she explains how she developed the stories in the notes after each story.
Breaking the Bow: Speculative Fiction Inspired by the Ramayana
Edited by Anil Menon
Along time ago, a young prince, the heir to a great South-Asian kingdom, wielded Siva's mighty bow and won the heart of a brave princess. The story of what happened next to the married couple-the Ramayana-told and re-told countless times over the centuries, begins where most stories end. The twenty-five stories in Breaking the Bow take a similar courageous leap into the unknown. Inspired by the Ramayana and its cultural importance, the anthology dares to imagine new worlds. Stories by some of the best writers in contemporary south-Asian fiction, including Abha Dawesar, Rana Dasgupta, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Tabish Khair, Kuzhali Manickavel, Mary Anne Mohanraj and Manjula Padmanabhan. Stories from India, Sri Lanka and Thailand, but also Holland, Israel, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Zion's Fiction
Zion's Fiction- A Treasury of Israeli Speculative Literature (retail) (epub)
This anthology showcases the best Israeli science fiction and fantasy literature published since the 1980s. The stories included come from Hebrew, Russian, and English-language sources, and include well-known authors such as Shimon Adaf, Pesach (Pavel) Amnuel, Gail Hareven, Savyon Liebrecht, Nava Semel and Lavie Tidhar, as well as a hot-list of newly translated Israeli writers. The book features: an historical and contemporary survey of Israeli science fiction and fantasy literature by the editors; a foreword by revered SF/F writer Robert Silverberg,; an afterword by Dr. Aharon Hauptman, the founding editor of Fantasia 2000, Israel's seminal SF/F magazine; an author biography for each story included in the volume; and illustrations for each story by award winning American-born Israeli srtist, Avi Katz. PRAISE FOR ZION'S FICTION"Zion's Fiction will supply a distinctive bright line to the spectrum of futuristic fiction, which stands in sore need of...