3 Hard Shots at the Moon Kickstarter

 

Kickstarter starts Monday, July 1st

Novellas by:

John Kessel

Ian McDonald

Michael Swanwick

The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 6 Update:

The final proof is in the process of being printed. With a little luck, this book will be released June 17th in both paperback and ebook formats. A tip of the hat to Maurizio Manzieri for his inspired cover art.

The Year’s Top Robot and AI Stories: Second Annual Collection TOC

 

The Year’s Top Robot and AI Stories: Second Annual Collection TOC

(coming in December, 2021)

• Callme and Mink – Brenda Cooper
• Go. Now. Fix. – Timons Esaias
•  Metal Like Blood in the Dark –T. Kingfisher
• Your Boyfriend Experience – James Patrick Kelly
• 50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know – Ken Liu
•  The Beast Adjoins – Ted Kosmatka
• Ambient Intelligence – Todd McAulty
•  Nic and Viv’s Compulsory Courtship – Will McIntosh
•  Father – Ray Nayler
• A Guide for Working Breeds – Vina Jie-Min Prasad
•  Rover – A. T. Sayre
• Come the Revolution – Ian Tregillis
• Sparklybits – Nick Wolven

The Year's Top Tales of Space and Time TOC

The inaugural volume of a new anthology series highlighting the year's best space operas, alternate histories, and time travel stories!

1) “MIdstrathe Exploding” by Andy Dudak

2) “Not this Tide” by Sheila Finch

3) “Exile’s End” by Carolyn Ives Gilman

4) “Words We Say Instead” by Brit E. B. Hvide

5) “Beyond the Dragon’s Gate” by Yoon Ha Lee

6) “Pax Mongolia” by Evan Marcroft

7) “Knock, Knock Said the Ship” by Rati Mehrotra

8) “Father” by Ray Nayler

9) “Laws of Impermanence” by Kenneth Schneyer

10) “Come the Revolution” by Ian Tregillis

11) “Sinew and Steel and What They Told” by Carrie Vaughn

Coming September 2021!

 

The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 5 - TOC

1)    “Salvage” by Andy Dudak

2)    “You and Whose Army?” by Greg Egan

3)    “Time’s Own Gravity” by Alexander Glass

4)    “Brother Rifle” by Daryl Gregory

5)    “Invisible People” by Nancy Kress

6)    “Tool Use by the Humans of Danzhai County” by Derek Künsken

7)    “How Quini the Squid Misplaced His Klobučar” by Rich Larson

8)    “50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know” by Ken Liu

9)    “A Mastery of German” by Marian Denise Moore

10) “Eyes of the Forest” by Ray Nayler

11) “Beyond the Tattered Veil of Stars” by Mercurio D. Rivera

12) “Bereft, I Come to a Nameless World” by Benjamin Rosenbaum

13) “When God Sits in Your Lap” by Ian Tregillis

14) “Mediation” by Cadwell Turnbull

15) “Test 4 Echo” by Peter Watts

Coming out June 2021

The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 3 - TOC

1)   "3-adica" - Greg Egan
2)   "Umbernight" - Carolyn Ives Gilman
3)   "Icefall" - Stephanie Gunn
4)   "The Woman Who Destroyed Us" - S.L. Huang
5)   "Entropy War" - Yoon Ha Lee
6)   "Cosmic Spring" - Ken Liu
7)   "Nothing Ever Happens on Oberon" - Paul McAuley
8)   "The Spires" - Alec Nevala-Lee
9)   "Providence" - Alastair Reynolds
10) "Intervention" - Kelly Robson
11) "Kindred" - Peter Watts

Coming out November 2019

Anatomy of an Anthology-6

I’m excited to announce the table of contents for The Year’s Top Robot and AI Stories:

·     “Cold Blue Sky” by J E Bates

·     “Okay, Glory” by Elizabeth Bear

·     “Air Gap” by Eric Cline

·     “When We Were Starless” by Simone Heller

·     “Grace’s Family” by James Patrick Kelly

·     “Meat and Salt and Sparks” by Rich Larson

·     “Quality Time” by Ken Liu

·     “The Blue Fairy’s Manifesto” by Annalee Newitz

·     “Different Seas” by Alastair Reynolds

·     “S’elfie” by Justina Robson

·     “Hard Mary” by Sofia Samatar

·     “The Buried Giant” by Lavie Tidhar

TOC for The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 7

The Year’s Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 7

-Table of Contents-

“Marielena” by Nina Allan

“Covenant” by Elizabeth Bear

“The Magician and LaPlace’s Demon” by Tom Crosshill

“Sadness” by Timon Esaias

“Amicae Aeternum” by Ellen Klages

“Red Light, and Rain” by Gareth L. Powell

“The Sarcophagus” by Robert Reed

“In Babelsberg” by Alastair Reynolds

“Passage of Earth” by Michael Swanwick

“The Colonel” by Peter Watts

The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 6 Now Availalbe

The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 6 is now available in audio at our website, Amazon, and audible!

TOC: The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 6

Here's the table of contents for The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 6, edited by Allan Kaster

1. "Zero for Conduct" by Greg Egan
2. "Exit, Interrupted" by C.W. Johnson
3. "Pathways" by Nancy Kress
4. "Entangled" by Ian MacLeod
5. "The Irish Astronaut" by Val Nolan
6. "Among Us" by Robert Reed
7. "A Map of Mercury" by Alastair Reynolds
8. "Martian Blood" by Allen M. Steele
9. "The She-Wolf's Hidden Grin" by Michael Swanwick
10. "The Best We Can" by Carrie Vaughn

RIP -Vanessa Hart

I was shocked and deeply saddened yesterday at the the news that narrator Vanessa Hart had passed away. Just last week she had told me she was feeling bad from food poisoning. Who could have known it was anything worse?  She was a talented, generous and beautiful person. May she rest in peace.

SF Crowsnest.com reviews The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 4

Rod MacDonald at SF Crowsnest.com has some mighty good things to say about The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 4. Check it out here!

TOC: The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 4

Here's the table of contents for The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 4:
1. Dying Young by Peter M. Ball
2. Martian Heart by John Barnes
3. Canterbury Hollow by Chris Lawson
4. The Choice by Paul J. McAuley
5. After the Apocalypse by Maureen F. McHugh
6. Purple by Robert Reed
7. Laika's Ghost by Karl Schroeder
8. Bit Rot by Charles Stross
9. For I Have Lain Me Down on The Stone of Loneliness and I'll Not Be Back Again by Michael Swanwick
10. At Play in the Fields by Steve Rasnic Tem

Timeless Time Travel Tales Now Available for Kindle

Timeless Time Travel Tales is now available for the Kindle!
Check it out here

Table of Contents:
1. The Mists of Time by Tom Purdom
2. The Observation Post by Allen M. Steele
3. Bespoke by Genevieve Valentine
4. Against the Current by Robert Silverberg
5. Home Time by Iab R. MacLeod
6. Scherzo with Tyrannosaur by Michael Swanwick
7. And Wild for to Hold by Nancy Kress
8. Things Undone by John Barnes

Bud Sparhawk publishes sequel to Bright Red Star

Bud Sparhawk has published another awesome story, "Scout," in his "Bright Red Star" universe about mankind's bad-ass nemesis, the Shardies, in the June, 2012, issue of Asimov's Science Fiction. "Bright Red Star" was included in Infinivox's audio anthology, mini-Masterpieces of Science Ficiton.

Timeless Time Travel Tales Released on Audio

Timeless Time travel Tales audiobook is now avaialble from audible.com, amazon.com, and AudioText.

Table of Contents

1. The Mists of Time by Tom Purdom

2. The Observation Post by Allen M. Steele

3. Bespoke by Genevieve Valentine

4. Against the Current by Robert Silverberg

5. Home Time by Ian R. MacLeod

6. Scherzo with Tyrannosaur by Micael Swanwick

7. And Wild for to Hold by Nancy Kress

8. Things Undone by John Barnes

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays!
Thanks to all for an incredible year!!
Looking forward to 2012 with more sci-fi titles!!!