Science Fiction - Short Stories

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Nebula Awards Showcase 2016

Mercedes Lackey

The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories of the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).  The...

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Published: Apr 2008

Lightspeed: Year One

Stephen King

Lightspeed (www.lightspeedmagazine.com) is the critically-acclaimed, online science fiction magazine edited by bestselling anthologist John Joseph Adams. Lightspeed publishes all types of science fiction, from near-future, sociologica...

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Published: Nov 2011

A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories

Ray Bradbury

Collects thirty-two short tales by the popular author of The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man that explore the otherworldly depths of the human soul, including 'The Golden Apples of the Sun' and 'A Sound of Thunder,' about a...

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Published: Sep 2005

Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse...

John Joseph Adams

Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon - these are our guides through the Wastelands... From the Book of Revelations to The Road Warrior; from A Canticle for Leibowitz to...

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Published: Jan 2008

The Best American Science Fiction and...

Diana Gabaldon

The best science fiction and fantasy stories from 2019, guest-edited by author of the mega-best-selling Outlanderseries, Diana Gabaldon. Today's readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wid...

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Published: Oct 2020

Far Thoughts and Pale Gods

Greg Bear

6 dazzling stories, freshly revised for this volume, plus new introductions, commentary, and reminiscences from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of War Dogs, Eternity, and The Forge of God   Greg Bear is the author of m...

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Published: Apr 2016

Viewpoints Critical: Selected Stories...

L. E. Modesitt

This is the first story collection ever from the bestselling fantasy and science fiction writer L. E. Modesitt, Jr. He began publishing as a short story writer in the SF magazines in the 1970s, mostly in Analog. Some of the earliest s...

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Published: Apr 2009

Galactic North

Alastair Reynolds

With eight short stories and novellas---including three original to this collection---Galactic North imparts the centuries-spanning events that have produced the dark and turbulent world of Revelation Space.

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2009

We Shall Rise (Black Tide Rising)

John Ringo

STORIES SET IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE BEST-SELLING ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE SERIES BLACK TIDE RISING, CREATED BY JOHN RINGO. Inculdes stories by Kevin J. Anderson, Brendan DuBois, Jody Lynn Nye, Michael Z. Williamson, Kacey Ezell, Mike Massa, ...

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Published: May 2022

Warrior Women

Elizabeth Bear

From fantastic legends and science fictional futures come compelling tales of powerful women-or those who discover strength they did not know they possessed-who fight because they must, for what they believe in, for those they love, t...

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Published: Dec 2015

The Green Hills of Earth (Library

Robert A. Heinlein

The Green Hills of Earth is a collection of short stories from one of the masters of science fiction who has held readers spellbound for over thirty years.

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2009

Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang

This new edition of Ted Chiang's masterful first collection, Stories of Your Life and Others, includes his first eight published stories. Combining the precision and scientific curiosity of Kim Stanley Robinson with Lorrie Moore's coo...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Feb 2014

Portable Childhoods

Ellen Klages

Emerging from a unique and powerful voice, this innovative collection offers a tantalizing glimpse of what lies hidden just beyond the ordinary, skirting the border between childhood and adulthood. Mysticism, heroism, cruelty, and com...

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Published: Apr 2007

Galactic North

Alastair Reynolds

The first short story collection by "ONE OF SCIENCE FICTION'S BEST AND MOST AMBITIOUS NOVELISTS"(SFX).With eight short stories and novellas, Galactic North imparts the centuriesspanning events that have produced this dark an...

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Published: Jun 2008

Galactic North

Alastair Reynolds

With eight short stories and novellas---including three original to this collection---Galactic North imparts the centuries-spanning events that have produced the dark and turbulent world of Revelation Space.

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Sep 2009

Gods and Pawns (The Company)

Kage Baker

These eight stories, reprinted for the first time in this collection, delve further into the history and exploits of the Company. The book opens with the novella, 'To the Land Beyond the Sunset,' starring Lewis and Mendoza, and invol...

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Published: Jan 2008

Judge Sn Goes Golfing

John Scalzi

John Scalzi visits the universe of his bestselling novel The Android's Dream for this exclusive short story, featuring fan favorite character Judge Nugan Bufan Sn -- a brilliant alien jurist whose misanthropy and lack of social graces...

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Published: Dec 2009

Long After Midnight

Ray Bradbury

In twenty-two stories of amazing range and variety, Ray Bradbury once again works his special magic, sounding out life's mysteries in the past, present, and the future.

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Aug 2010

Tales from High Hallack, Volume Two: ...

Andre Norton

Stories and poems from one of the greatest imaginations in literary history Each year, Garner's troupe makes its way to Ithkar Fair. The actors charm the crowd, winning applause and lavish reward, but none captures the audience's imag...

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Published: Jul 2014

Voices of the Fall (7) (Black Tide Ri...

John Ringo

STORIES SET IN JOHN RINGO'S BEST-SELLING BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES. The zombie apocalypse is here in these all-new stories from John Ringo, Sarah A. Hoyt, Michael Z. Williamson, Jody Lynn Nye, Travis S. Taylor, and many more. Sequel to...

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Published: Mar 2020

Halo: Evolutions

Various

When humanity expanded beyond the safety of Earth to new stars and horizons, they never dreamed what dangers they would encounter there.  When the alien juggernaut known as the Covenant declared holy war upon the fragile human empire...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2009

The Best Time Travel Stories of the 2...

Harry Turtledove

LEAP INTO THE FUTURE, AND SHOOT BACK TO THE PASTH. G. Wells's seminal short story "The Time Machine," published in 1895, provided the springboard for modern science fiction's time travel explosion. Responding to their own fa...

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Published: Dec 2004

This Is My Funniest: Leading Science ...

Mike Resnick

This collection of 29 short stories from masters of science fiction—each tale chosen by the authors as the funniest they have ever written—presents wildly hilarious stories accompanied by prefaces written by the authors pr...

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Published: Oct 2006

The Martian Chronicles

Ray Bradbury

In The Martian Chronicles, humanity discovers an ancient civilization on the verge of ruin. This classic work presents tales of human interaction with one another and with the Martians.

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Jun 2010

The Minority Report and Other Classic...

Philip K. Dick

With an Introduction by James Tiptree, Jr."More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people's minds." --Wall Street JournalMany thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick to have been the greatest...

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Published: Apr 2016

Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology...

James Patrick Kelly

Following the rapid evolution of cyberpunk from Bruce Sterling and William Gibson into the current millennium, this vivid anthology welcomes a new generation of exciting writers to take the genre in new and unexpected directions. Cybe...

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Published: Oct 2007

Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy

Ellen Datlow

In this thrilling collection of original stories some of today's hottest paranormal authors delight, thrill and captivate readers with otherworldly tales of magic and mischief. In Jim Butcher's "Curses" Harry Dresden investi...

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Published: Jul 2011

Earthlight & Other Stories: The Colle...

Arthur C. Clarke

Earthlight & Other Stories offers selections from Arthur C. Clarke's extraordinary collection of stories. In addition to the title story, included in this CD set are 'Nemesis,' 'Time's Arrow,' 'The Road to the Sea,' 'The Sentinel,' 'H...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2009

Shades Within Us: Tales of Migrations...

Seanan McGuire

Journey with twenty-one speculative fiction authors through the fractured borders of human migration to examine assumptions and catch a glimpse of the dreams, struggles, and triumphs of those who choose or are forced to leave home and...

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Published: Sep 2018

Other Worlds Than These

John Joseph Adams

What if you could not only travel any location in the world, but to any possible world?We can all imagine such "other worlds"-be they worlds just slightly different than our own or worlds full of magic and wonder-but it is o...

Paperback
Published: Jul 2012
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