Anthologies & Short Stories

For 60 years, readers of all ages have been enchanted by the magical realms, the epic battles, and the unforgettable creatures of Narnia.

An all-new Stormlight Archive novella, Edgedancer, is the crown jewel of Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection, the first audiobook of short fiction by number New York Times best-selling author....

Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where "Fun is Guaranteed!" But when a hurricane ravages the Florida coast, the employees find it anything but fun....

Two years ago, the end began. In 2036, a rapidly destabilizing climate culminated in a worldwide snowstorm that froze the entire planet. Billions are now dead due to starvation, disease, civil unrest, and the plummeting temperatures....

They mustn't harm a human being, they must obey human orders, and they must protect their own existence...but only so long as that doesn't violate rules one and two....

America has fallen to a catastrophic stealth attack and a ground invasion of the continental United States has begun. Sacramento teenager, Jack Monaghan, has just buried his parents and needs to work out what to do....

Viewed by many as the greatest science fiction writer on any planet, Philip K. Dick has written some of the most intriguing, original, and thought-provoking fiction of our time....

It was supposed to be a medical marvel. Instead, it triggered the apocalypse. Half of humanity mutated into mindless zombies. Half the survivors mutated into the inhumans: various new species of people with new appearances and abilities....

In the future, when mankind has spread across the stars, the hierarchy of man is dictated by the color of one’s caste.

Now available in print for the first time with author's notes on each story, this short fiction addition to the Hugo Award-winning Expanse series includes a brand-new novella set after the events of Leviathan Falls....

An all-new Dresden Files story headlines this urban fantasy short story collection starring the Windy City's favorite wizard. The world of Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, is rife with intrigue - and creatures of all supernatural stripes....

This audiobook brings together 13 uproarious short stories and one novella, focused on Ciaphas Cain, Hero of the Imperium. His stories are celebrated as heroic propaganda pieces, but he’s simply trying to stay alive in a hostile galaxy....

The first short-story collection in the number-one New York Times- best-selling series - including brand-new Harry Dresden stories....

Twelve tales of Drizzt performed by the all-star cast of Felicia Day, Dan Harmon, Greg Grunberg, Tom Felton, Danny Pudi, Sean Astin, Melissa Rauch, Ice-T, Wil Wheaton, Al Yankovic, Michael Chiklis, and David Duchovny....

A short story collection from New York Times best-selling author Cixin Liu. The title story, "The Wandering Earth", was a blockbuster international film, currently streaming on Netflix....

During the coldest winter on record, an EMP attack wipes out the nation's power and cripples the country. As the city spirals into lawless chaos, an investigative journalist, twenty-six-year-old Cassandra Drews, is forced onto the dangerous streets of Portland....

This is a striking addition to the body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous works by using the Earth of 1977 as contrast. The stories in the collection range from science fiction to horror, dark-coated fantasy to morality tale....

A new collection of stories, including some that have never before been seen, from the New York Times best-selling author of the Silo trilogy....

This new edition of Ted Chiang's masterful first collection, Stories of Your Life and Others, includes his first eight published stories....

Can you outrun the past? Can you outlive the future? One time traveler must find out. Accidental time traveler Ben Travers is thrown into a multiverse of adventure in this action-adventure through past and future....

An IT whiz at the Babylon Casino is enlisted to upgrade security for the game of keno and its random-number generator. The new quantum computer system is foolproof. But someone on the inside is no fool....

Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles is a classic work of 20th-century literature whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time's passage....

From the mind of the incomparable author of Stories of Your Life and Others comes nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories—two published for the very first time....

From early work through classic stories and all the way to later work, this comprehensive short story collection encapsulates one of the great science fiction careers of all time....

The primarchs, nigh-immortal sons of the Emperor of Mankind, take the stage in a series of short stories showcasing some of their great deeds and hideous acts from across the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy....

In a world abruptly transformed, the arrival of the alien species called the Aonise shatters human understanding. Amidst this chaos, Paul Wadsworth, a passionate university linguist, and his brilliant student, Andrew Mullen, are thrust into an unforeseen adventure.

The Warrior Prince (A Prequel Novella to The Red Tomorrow) Prepare to embark on an adrenaline-fueled journey into the heart of mechanized warfare in "The Warrior Prince," a gripping prequel novella to the acclaimed series, "The Red Tomorrow." Set one year before the epic events of "The Red Frontier," this thrilling tale introduces you to the fearless Prince Tristan, a prodigious exo-mech pilot with a destiny entwined with the fate of the Zeltan Kingdom. In a world where colossal exo-mechs dominate the battlefield, Tristan faces a monumental challenge: to prove his mettle not only to his ...

✅ Futuristic Vision 🚀: Immerse yourself in the world of 2050—a canvas where high-tech wonders are woven into the fabric of daily life. Get ready for a journey that’s as exhilarating as it is reflective of our own future. ✅ Compelling Characters 👤: Discover Alex, a visionary on the cusp of altering our world. Encounter a cast that's as diverse as it is dynamic, from Jordan's insightful musings 🤔 to Dr. Morgan's sagely advice 🧠 and the fiery spirit of the Activist Leader 🔥. ✅ Moral and Ethical Dilemmas ⚖️: Wrestle with the profound questions that come with ...

Dinosaurs? Back and badder than ever in Vagabond's Jurassic rampage. Seven scorching stories, one extinct-proof promise: they're here to stay.

About the Book I’ve been reading and watching different theories and ideas about the Simulation Theory for quite some time and have found it quite fascinating. While everything is based on man made theories, it is fun to think about. This book too, while is based on research, is also full of theories. There really isn’t any evidence to prove or disprove this theory, but that’s what makes it exciting and to be honest, I’d be OK with living in a simulation if this is how it is. Disclaimer: While this book may mention studies and “evidence” and the topics were chosen by research, ...

If you enjoy reading short stories, then this is the perfect book for you. Each day in the month of January, I imagined a story that could be written. I thought of who would be in that story, what they might do, where they might go, what thoughts they might ponder and how this matters in the big picture of life. And then I imported this information into a prompt box for an online AI and tasked it with creating a story for me. Yes, you heard me right. I used my creativity to come up with a story that I was interested in reading, and then I handed over this task to a bot to make it. I know, ...

Beware of Vagabond's Halloween Issue! Within this spine-tingling collection, darkness stirs and secrets awaken in tales crafted by today's masters of mystery and the macabre. Descend into cursed and haunted realms where the veil between the living and the dead grows thin. Remote villages hold ancient rituals that call to sinister forces, forgotten mansions harbor cursed objects with malevolent powers, and those who seek forbidden knowledge often find damnation rather than wisdom. In these bewitching narratives, oblivious outsiders stumble upon secrets that lure them to the point of no ...

I invite you to join me in March on a remarkable journey of creativity and collaboration, where the boundaries between human imagination and artificial intelligence intertwine. Over the course of a month, I embarked on a unique project. Each morning, I would think about a story, imagining the characters and action, the setting and conflict, and I would craft a set if instructions for what I wanted and then present it to an AI chatbot. The AI, using its vast knowledge and sophisticated language models, would then craft a short story based on my prompt. The result was a collection of tales ...

E. E. Isherwood presents Books 1-3 of the Neighborhood Watch series.

A boy and his dog. A girl and her tank. Tropes have been with us throughout all of history. Any girl would gladly trade in her skimpy armor for a tank. While a little bit of chainmail can take a chick far, heavy armor can take one even farther.

A widowed master sculptor, prisoner, truth-sayer. The only man who can fool an empire into believing a ruthless king’s greatest lie... Hadrian must recreate the impossible: A spine—commissioned by New Alexander—to assure the rallying citizens that what the Anastas discovered, buried deep in the earth of their ancient estate, is nothing more than a harmless relic. Harmless, of course. Which is why Hadrian must sculpt a model to take its place. But Hadrian’s run out of time. Now, in order to finish, he must find the original spine, kept behind a threshold with a terrible cost. And ...

A rural town finds itself under the authoritarian sway of a tree that punishes children. A pair of old friends navigate their fraught history as strange happenings escalate in a Mexican restaurant. A pair of narcissistic friends wreak havoc on an activist community. An aloof young man finds himself living through his lover’s memories. And a day of LARPing takes a cosmic turn. In each of the seven stories in this collection, characters pursue their obsessions on paths to glory and destruction while around them their worlds twist and warp, oscillating between reality and impossibility.

Seer Protagonist. Historical Event Interference. Prophecy, Supernatural Ally. In the gripping tale of Chasing Death, Adale, a gifted mentalist, stumbles upon a seemingly ordinary raven chick that harbors a dark secret—it's a demon with the power to communicate with the departed and foresee impending doom. As Adale grapples with this newfound revelation, the demon becomes an unexpected ally, guiding her through the realms of the afterlife and foretelling ominous events. When a chilling prediction reveals the tragic fate awaiting the Titanic's maiden voyage, Adale faces a moral dilemma. ...

James L. McCray, a hard-working farmer, and his son, Orson, seem like ordinary folks until a chilling discovery rocks their small community to its core. As darkness descends upon the once-peaceful town, Orson's experiment with a pheromone-laden cologne unleashes a wave of primal desire, turning the women of Honeyville into frenzied beasts driven by insatiable lust and violent impulses. In a terrifying twist of fate, the McCrays find themselves trapped in a nightmarish landscape where every corner hides a new threat, and trust becomes a luxury they can ill afford.

The Unfortunate Problem with Grandmother’s Head and Other Stories is an eclectic collection of short stories carefully selected from over three decades of professional works that are intriguing, thought-provoking, and entertaining.