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Moonlight Special is the sixth entry in Justin Robinson's neo-noir monsterverse series City of Devils. In it, changed-to-monster policeman Frank Wolfman must risk his life to save a friend.

Space opera Fallen by genre legend Melissa Scott, companion to her acclaimed Finders, is a seamless fusion of adventure, myth, and far-future science-a bold re-imagining of the Atreides, Daedalus, and the Titans.

In Fortune's Favor (third in The Calpurnian Wars series) conflicts of human cultures flung between the stars awaken powerful mythic avatars of advanced technology that have become indistinguishable from magic.

From the mind that brought you Plague Year and The Frozen Sky... Sixteen stories about strange worlds, biotech, commandos, and the girl next door. "Striking."-Locus Online "Exciting."-SF Revu "Chilling and dangerous."-HorrorAddicts.net First published in top venues such as Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and cult 'zines like The Vampire's Crypt, these stories have been translated into fourteen languages worldwide. Several received honorable mentions in Gardner Dozois's The Year's Best Science Fiction or in Ellen Datlow's Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. As part of the Fast Forward 2 anthology, "Long Eyes" was also a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. The first complete collection from international bestselling author Jeff Carlson.

"I'm hooked." -Larry Niven "A first-rate adventure." -Allen Steele BENEATH THE ICE Something is alive inside Jupiter's ice moon Europa. Robot probes find an ancient tunnel beneath the surface, its walls carved with strange hieroglyphics. Led by elite engineer Alexis Vonderach, a team of scientists descends into the dark... where they confront a savage race older than mankind... FIRST CONTACT Based on the award-winning short story, The Frozen Sky is a new full-length sci fi thriller novel from the international bestselling author of Plague Year.

Unwitch Hunt is the fifth entry in Justin Robinson's neo-noir monsterverse series City of Devils. In it, witch Hexene Candlemas tries to reclaim her lost powers with help from a motley crew of allies.

In Sounding Dark (first in The Calpurnian Wars series) conflicts of human cultures flung between the stars awaken powerful mythic avatars of advanced technology that have become indistinguishable from magic.

This tense space opera will be irresistible to readers of Melissa Scott & C.J. Cherryh. With genetic engineering, interstellar power politics and vivid protagonists, In the Deep is Firefly meets GATTACA.

Water Horse is Elric meets The Fisher King with the vividly drawn inhabitants of this universe seamless fusions of Elf & Dwarf: how life might have been in Moria or Erebor, with water & wood to leaven stone and original magic.

The galaxy''s two multi-species superpowers stand on the brink of yet another pointless war. Soldiers, draft-dodgers, smugglers and spies from both sides are rushing towards Cedar Commons, an uninhabited forest planet near the border. Everyone has some plan for fighting, avoiding, or profiting from the conflict.None of these plans are going to work out: war destroys plans as efficiently as it does lives. But as the visitors to this once-quiet planet discover each other, they''ll make new friends, new enemies, and new plans that have a chance to end the war before it causes the collapse of several civilizations. 

Retellings of the Inland Seas re-imagines Mediterranean and Black Sea stories, from a Minoan exodus through wormholes to Furies on Mars, from space Argonauts to Imazighen and Scythian warrior queens. Inland Seas is the editor’s tribute to her aeon-deep roots, and her effort to reclaim foundational myths that are nevertheless considered déclassé common property because of long, casual handling that has flattened their echoing depths.

A Stitch in Crime is a branch sequel to Justin Robinson's neo-noir pulp monster trilogy City of Devils, Fifty Feet of Trouble, and Wolfman Confidential. It follows one of the monsters now inhabiting earth, tormented Jane Stitch, as she tries to find out how she was created.

Darya scrapes a living as a pickpocket on the streets of Samarkand, a diverse metropolis at the centre of the Silk Road. If she wants to keep scraping a living, she'll have to pass her gang’s initiation: a death-defying climb across the city’s rooftops. But she’s so exhausted and malnourished that it seems impossible, and her time is running out.When a forbidding swordswoman arrives in Samarkand from the East, and hires the gang to search for a mysterious box, Darya sees her chance. She has stumbled on two more recent arrivals, young caravan guards who are also interested in the box and whatever’s inside. They’re as formidable in combat as the swordswoman…and they can fly, leaping from building to building better than any pickpocket.Darya makes them an offer: If they teach her their skill enough for her to pass her gang’s test, she’ll help them find the box first. Meanwhile, more factions are drawn into the hunt, including a rival street gang, a sadistic ex-Crusader, and the dreaded Nizari Assassins. And each of Darya’s allies has a separate, secret agenda. What’s inside this coveted box, who will end up possessing it, and to what use will it be put?

Cassilde Sam is a barely solvent salvage operator, hunting for relics in the ruins left by the mysterious Ancestors—particularly the color-coded Elements that power most of humanity’s current technology, including the ability to navigate through hyperspace. Cassilde is also steadily fading under the onslaught of Lightman’s, an incurable, inevitably fatal disease. She needs one last find big enough to leave a legacy for her partner and fellow salvor Dai Winter.When their lover and former colleague Summerlad Ashe reappears, offering them a chance to salvage part of an orbiting palace that he claims contains potentially immense riches, Cassilde is desperate enough to take the gamble, even though Ashe had left them both to fight on the opposite side of the interplanetary war that only ended seven years ago. The find is everything Ashe promised. But when pirates attack the claim, Cassilde receives the rarest of the Ancestors’ Gifts: a change to her biochemistry that confers near-instant healing and seems to promise immortality.But the change also drags her into an underworld where Gifts are traded in blood, and powerful Gifts bring equally powerful enemies. Hunted for her Gift and determined to find Gifts for her lovers, Cassilde discovers that an old enemy is searching for the greatest of the Ancestral artifacts: the power that the Ancestors created and were able to barely contain after it almost destroyed them, plunging humanity into the first Long Dark. Haunted by dream-visions of this power whispering its own version of what happened, Cassilde must find it first, before her enemy frees it to destroy her own civilization.

This is the third installment in Justin Robinson's City of Devils series, with Fernando Caire's witty illustrations and a bonus story.These neo-noir comédie fantastique works chart the bumpy progress of Nick Moss-WWII veteran, Night War survivor, member of the dwindling human cohort-as a hard-bitten private eye in a world of pulp monsters.

This tense tale of space conflict will be irresistible to readers of Melissa Scott, Aliette de Bodard and C.J. Cherryh. Exploring the issues of genetic engineering as they play into interstellar power politics, rife with complex and shifting alliances and flawed, vivid protagonists, Fault Lines is Firefly meets GATTACA with a touch of Hunger Games.

Earth has sent out exploratory expeditions in a desperate attempt to discover the nature of the alien force that wiped out at least one extrasolar civilization and now threatens Earth itself.  One of the exploratory starships is stealth-attacked by the hostile aliens.  The survivors, marooned among the pre-technological inhabitants of the icy world of Windhome, struggle to survive, to understand this harsh world and its few, grim people—and, somehow, to fulfill their mission. Thrown into an unwilling alliance with a Windhome outsider faction, exiled into wilderness, two of the human crew must live by this world’s bitter laws, accept the ways of its people—and eventually make a terrifying choice.

Ben is stuck. His parents' divorce left him trapped in a backwater town, and he's just been caught breaking into a fairly big corporation's servers and they're going to try him as an adult.Essa is also stuck. A vengeful ex-lover left her trapped in a backwater world, and she has no way back home to the Well, the vast bottomless pit lined with doors to countless realities.A lucky accident (not so lucky for Ben) frees Essa and now they're both in the Well, with its invisible lizards, cities hung from cats'-cradles and Library made of sand.Essa wants revenge. Ben wants a way home. The awakening of an ancient threat to the Well puts both their plans on hold. On the run, their only allies a clockwork spider and a girl made of iron, they'll have to work together to save all the worlds.

Drakon, a sweeping historical fantasy that received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Booklist, can be judiciously summarized as "Tolstoy with dragons."

Humorous science fiction adventure, sequel to Blue Diamond Delivery

Science-based wonder is the core of science fiction. Yet the genre mostly cast science as either triumph or hubris. In To Shape the Dark, editor Athena Andreadis offers readers women heroes who are doing science not-as-usual. Scientists are astrogators who never sleep; and To Shape the Dark is part of that vigil.

Peter Chang is an unassuming young man from San Francisco who wonders how he got the stockbroker job he is so obviously unqualified for.  One night, his boss’ daughter emerges from the wall in his office, pursued by killers.  Smitten, Peter helps her escape — and the life he understands disappears as he is snatched from one alternate timeline to another.Nikki Varian is a bohemian rebel whose overbearing father uses his time-traveling power to create alternate timelines and exploit them for profit.  But when the old man is murdered, her quest to find his killers and preserve what is left of her family leads her to the horrifying truth: that alternate timelines can be destroyed as well as created. When Nikki is captured by the survivors of her father’s xenophobic extermination campaign, Peter must discover his own mysterious power in order to save her.  Together, Nikki and Peter must find a way to make peace with her father’s implacable enemies — or the timeline that they both call home will be the first of many to unravel.

Neo-noir contemporary fantasy, sequel to City of Devils

Sword shall guide the hands of men...For over a thousand years, the kingdom of Lardan has been at peace: isolated from the world, slowly forgetting the wild and deadly magic of its origins. Now the deepest truths of the past and the darkest predictions for the future survive only in the verses of nursery rhymes.And prophecies are just nursery rhymes for gullible fools. Right?So thinks Kyali Corwynall, daughter of the Lord General and the court''s only sword-wielding girl. She''s never bothered believing in faery stories. But one day, an old nursery rhyme she''s heard since childhood begins to come true, naming her as Sword and her brother and best friend as Song and Crown, saviors of the kingdom. When that ancient magic wakes, the future changes for everyone. In the space of a single night, her life unravels into violence and chaos. Now Kyali must find a way to master the magic her people have abandoned, or watch her world - and her closest friends - fall to a war older than the kingdom itself.

Every conspiracy needs a guy like me. Every conspiracy has one... me. And now someone's trying to kill me. When everyone has a motive, everyone is a suspect, and I don't even know who all the players are. It's a race against time to figure out who wants me dead, and why, and how to prevent all the underground conspiracies, aliens, cryptids, and things that go bump in the night from throwing the world into chaos while I'm at it. Just another normal day at the office, really.