The moon's rings illuminate the desert path before you. Up ahead a ridge rises, obscuring the horizon. You cannot go back. There is nothing to go back to. A hundred worlds lie behind you and a thousand more lie ahead. You smell smoke...

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections. "Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. Nine" features the works of an author who is truly heralded as one of the greatest science fiction aut...

From the aftermath of World War III to a world inherited by robots, where humans are unwelcome ... from a handful of human survivors on a starship desperately searching for other ships carrying survivors of the destruction of the enti...

"I was suddenly struck with the sight of a trail of rich red vegetation of several miles in the midst of the eternal snows. I approached with curiosity this oasis in the frozen desert."            An antique-shop o...

On Mercury: How do you outrun the dawn and its lethal sunrise? On Jupiter: When humans transfer their minds into the local fauna to explore the surface, why do they never return? On Pluto: How long must an astronaut wait f...

Before the Apollo 11 mission succeeded in landing on the Moon in 1969, writers and visionaries were fascinated by how we might get there and what we might find. The Greeks and Romans speculated about the Moon almost 2000 years before ...

Astronauts constructing a new space station must avert destruction from a missile sent by an unknown enemy; a generation starship is rocked by revelations of who their secret passengers in the hold truly are; a life or death struggle ...

This is a classic science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov that first appeared in Space Science fiction magazine. It tells the story of a father and son who go to visit another father and son at a country estate. The adults discuss...

The eleven stories in Pump Six chart the evolution of Paolo Bacigalupi's work, including the Hugo nominated "Yellow Card Man" and the Sturgeon Award-winning story "The Calorie Man," both set in the world of his nov...

An exceptional chance to get the stories by Spain's top authors that changed the direction of its speculative fictionElia Barceló, Cesar Mallorquí, Juan Miguel Aguilera, Domingo Santos, Rodolfo Martínez, León Arsenal, Rafael Marí...

Under the countless billions of stars in the universe, what forms will alien life take? How will they live? And what will happen when we meet them? Aliens: Recent Encounters collects answers to these questions from some of today's bes...

This is the first published collection of short stories by one of the foremost voices in science fiction today. This significant volume contains many characters and situations that later evolved into their own novels. “Mandala” fe...

“Three stories with a common theme: the female psyche, multiplied and divided,” says Greg Bear in his introduction to Women in Deep Time. “There’s probably something Jungian in common with all three. At any rate, throughout m...

Collection of science fiction by Gregory Benford, with short fiction and work ranging from comic to apocalyptic. The stories of Anomalies challenge concepts of time, space and science. In addition to the title story, this collection ...

A groundbreaking anthology of science fiction from Iraq that will challenge your perception of what it means to be "The Other""History is a hostage, but it will bite through the gag you tie around its mouth, bite throug...

“Her fiction is a breath-taking piece of a cinematic art itself. Reminiscent of the world we experienced in Matrix, Inception, and Dark City, still it leads us to this entirely original structure, which is a ground-breaking, mys...

A Magazine of Science Fiction and FantasyISSUE 37: March 2019Mike Resnick, Editor Taylor Morris, Copyeditor Shahid Mahmud, PublisherStories by: Larry Hodges. Floris M. Kleijne, Orson Scott Card, Brian Trent. Sean Patrick Hazlett. Kris...

A utopia where the most privileged get to do whatever they want to do with their lives, indulging their slightest whims via the bodies whose wombs they occupy; a soldier's wife tries to love a husband who is little more than backup me...

Shoreline of Infinity features brand new science fiction stories from writers from all over the world. In this issue we start our new science fiction poetry section, MultiVerse, featuring poems by Iain Banks and Ken MacLeod. Also: we...

Since 2006, Clarkesworld Magazine has been entertaining science fiction and fantasy fans with their brand of unique science fiction and fantasy stories. Collected here are all thirty-four stories published in the sixth year of this Hu...

Neil Clarke, publisher of the award-winning Clarkesworld magazine, presents a collection of thought-provoking and galaxy-spanning array of galactic short science fiction.From E. E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman, to George Lucas' Sta...

A biological plague begins infecting artificial intelligence; a natural-born Earth woman seeking asylum on another planet finds a human society far different from her own; a food blogger's posts chronicle a nationwide medical outbreak...

Third volume of a best-of-the-year science fiction short story anthology edited by Hugo Award-winning editor Neil ClarkeTo keep up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless ma...

The vast and mysterious universe is explored in this reprint anthology from award-winning editor and anthologist Neil Clarke (Clarkesworld magazine, The Best Science Fiction of the Year). The urge to explore and discover is a natural ...

CAT35800 BattleCorps Anthology Vol 1 BattleTech RPG by Catalyst Game LabsThe Great Star League general, Aleksandr Kerensky. - Colonel Archer Christifori, a man with a score to settle. - Nelson Geist, on Christmas patrol. - Clan Jade F...

In four zany episodes, the unflappable detective Manning Draco travels the 35th-century galaxy to tackle a variety of insurance frauds, scams, and con men. In the process, he encounters bizarre-looking aliens from different planets, w...

For over three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror readers crave. Now, with the seventh volume of t...

NEW AND CLASSIC STORIES OF TIME TRAVEL MILITARY SF BATTLEZONE: ETERNITY Once, military actions were entirely two dimensional, confined to the surface of land and sea, but then submarines and aircraft added a third dimension...

—An android is the perfect employee-until warm weather activates its killer tendencies.—Extreme fisherman pursue monsters of the deep in the oceans of Venus.—A third world village downloads the entire Internet into their brains....

"Mr. Spaceship" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in 1953 in Imagination in January 1953, and later in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. It has since been republished ...