New Worlds Anthology

A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Short Stories/Collections The blockbuster New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling short story collection based on master storyteller Stephen King’s classic novel The Stand! Since its initial publication in 1978, The Stand has been considered Stephen King’s...

From zombie apocalypse to hard science fiction, urban fantasy to Lovecraftian gothic horror, Chris' writing surely offers you something to enjoy. New Worlds features several short stories; "The Mother in the Lake" (a Lovecraft-inspired tale told by a teenage girl about her family and their lake house), "Roots Grown Deep" (a dark fantasy story about a tree deep in the woods that hungers for far more than water and sun); and more.

The groundbreaking trans-genre work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has been insinuating itself into the structure, stance, and very breath of world literature for well over half a century. Multi-layered, self-referential, elusive, and allusive writing is now frequently labelled Borgesian.

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award ""Meticulously researched."" —The New York Times ""A first-rate biography."" —Washington Post A lively and intimate biography of trailblazing and era-defining New Yorker editor Katharine S. White, who helped...

You fell in love with Jack Remington and Savannah Braden in Bursting with Love (The Bradens). Now fall in love with them all over again and experience the birth of their first baby while catching up with your favorite characters from the Love in Bloom series in Our New Love. As always, the Braden stories are filled with family, fun, and the truest, deepest love of all.

Read all the highly-rated adventure novels of Lance & James Morcan in full and at a discounted price. SIX EPIC ADVENTURE NOVELS spans over 2,000 action-packed pages... Into the Americas (A novel based on a true story) The Ninth Orphan (The Orphan Trilogy, #1) The Orphan Factory (The Orphan Trilogy, #2) The Orphan Uprising (The Orphan Trilogy, #3) World Odyssey (The World Duology, #1) Fiji: A Novel (The World Duology, #2) Into the Americas (A novel based on a true story): This epic historical novel is a gritty, real-life adventure based on one of history’s greatest survival stories. It’s...

"A thinking person's disaster novel. No cheap thrills, the action compliments the deeper themes." One morning, you wake up to find that the electrical grid has gone dark. And it's not just your home, not just your community, not just your county... No light, no heat, no computers... What happens next? "A hidden gem..." Consider this... If the world became devoid of central governments tomorrow, and just a few pockets of intrepid survivors spread across the vast span of the North American continent remained, what new nations might exist a hundred years from now? "Great multi-part survival ...

When the dead rise, history itself becomes a battlefield. From the blood-soaked fields of ancient Sparta to the irradiated ruins of Chernobyl, from the frozen decks of the Titanic to the napalm-scorched jungles of Vietnam, the undead have always been among us, lurking in the shadows of humanity's greatest moments and darkest hours. This groundbreaking anthology spans continents and centuries, weaving together tales of survival against an enemy that knows no era and respects no border. Watch as samurai warriors face a threat their blades were never forged to fight. Stand with Spartan ...

The revered teacher and bestselling author reflects on the power, importance, and joy of a life dedicated to reading books in this delightful collection drawn from his wide body of writings. More than fifty years after his death, revered intellectual and teacher C. S. Lewis continues to speak to...

What if your fears opened a door? What if your regrets built a realm? What if your imagination could start a war? Step once more through the Gate... In this second volume of The Wayfarer’s Gate series, twenty all-new portal fantasy tales lead you beyond the veil—into realms stitched from memory, time, music, paper, and starlight. Each story stands alone but shares a single truth: the greatest adventures begin when ordinary people cross into impossible places. A pyrophobe must tame a phoenix in a city made of living fire. A babysitter leads a rebellion in a kingdom built from cardboard. ...

Here are four short stories filled with action, violence and morally questionable behavior, all set in New Eden, the galaxy of EVE Online. The Day She Started Counting - A twelve-year-old girl unleashes a whirlwind of hell after murdering a cop with a slave's disciplinary device to protect her alcoholic father's illegal hobby. The Atrocity Planners - After their parents are killed by police, two children must escape from their pirate home and quickly learn to shoot and kill. Compensating for a Small Penis - Two bitter and foul-mouthed gunnery lieutenants must fight through a compromised ...

Pirates and kraken, boats and submarines, deadly sirens, mermaids, and the women who face them all. These are our heroes. High seas adventure, fantasy, and magic weave together in this sapphic anthology focusing on the joy of the unbounded oceans.

Canada: Brave New World is an anthology of many shocking stories of beleaguered people who were forced to flee from their home country and chose to settle in Canada many years ago, or in the not-too-distant past. Out of very difficult situations, they created and are creating a home in which they can be successful, happy and fulfilled; Canada is much the richer and better off because those people came here.

Caribbean born novelist Tobias Buckell established himself as a gifted new voice in science fiction with his stunning first novel Crystal Rain. Now, in his first collection, Buckell demonstrates his strengths in the short form, offering readers a collection of stories that are compelling, smart, wonderfully imagined, and entertaining. Tides from the New Worlds contains 19 stories that range from multicultural science fiction to magical realism, some in print for the first time.

What happens when the lights go out forever. The day the lights went out is remembered as Day Zero. It wasn't just the lights, it was the phones, the computers and just about everything else that made modern society what it was. Power Loss tells the story of eight individuals, by eight different authors, each trying to come to terms with the blackout and survive in a world that has changed forever.

Follow the Arceneaux family, a group of white tiger shifters in Louisiana where they find love... and heart-stopping danger in other species of supernatural beings. Full of romance, suspense, and gritty drama, this red-hot collection is sure to entertain! Desirable The last time he saw her he promised to spank her curvy derriere. This time, he may do a lot more than that! Curvalicious Natalya thought she’d never have to grow up. And then she met Lézare. The man who makes her want to be the woman she’s never been. Except his family hates her, and as far as she knows, he does to. So the ...

A FANTASTIC COLLECTION OF STAND-ALONE HIGH FANTASY SHORT STORIES. Galadore is a dangerous land, full of sprites and elves and witches and trolls. Beyond the realms, the forests are dark and deep. The mountains are high and cavernous. The seas are swelling and swift. It is not a land to be lived in lightly. And everywhere, death is lurking. This is a collection of stand-alone short stories from the fantasy author, Coleman Alexander. It is an introduction to the world of Galadore, told through the eyes of a diverse cast of characters who face the grim, dark, and sometimes horrifying face of ...

Asian Anthology: New Writing Vol. 1 is a showcase of short stories and place writing by both new and more established prize-winning writers. Some unexpected, a few surreal and others traditional, these are 22 compelling stories of irony, humanity and satire, exploring a range of subject matter to reveal a glimpse of modern Asian society and culture: a funeral in India, a hotel encounter in Japan, a sleepless night in Hong Kong.

A new collection of work from Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz that includes previously untranslated poems written during his time in Washington, D.C., and his years in Europe before and after. One of the most revered poets of the twentieth century, Czeslaw Milosz, a defining voice in Polish...

From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to World’s Fair, The March, and Homer & Langley, the fiction of E. L. Doctorow comprises a towering achievement in modern American letters. Now Doctorow returns with an enthralling collection of brilliant, startling short fiction about people who, as the author...