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The first collection by writer Matthew Hughes, and the perfect companion to his acclaimed novel Black Brillion, The Gist Hunter and Other Stories features nine stories taking place in the universe of The Archonate, as well as four non-series stories. The stories of Henghis Hapthorn, Old Earth's "foremost freelance discriminator", combine mystery and science fantasy while simultaneously recalling the arch irony of Gene Wolfe and the sly fancies of Jack Vance.

Four gripping sci-fi adventures from acclaimed scriptwriter Simon Bovey Simon Bovey is an established writer and director who has penned numerous compelling dramas for BBC Radio. Collected here are four of his sensational sci-fi tales, packed with mystery, suspense and terror... Cold Blood –...

Wally K. Daly's acclaimed trilogy about alien invasion, plus three more gripping sci-fi thrillers Wally K. Daly was a prolific, award-winning dramatist, whose writing credits included Casualty, Juliet Bravo and Doctor Who. He wrote 38 radio plays during his 30-year career, across a range of...

The crew of the Liberator battle against the despotic Federation in these thrilling stories and features from the Blake’s 7 Annuals. “Blake’s 7 are all fugitives in space, their frail alliance fortified by the knowledge that each of them has been marked for extermination by the Federation...

In this, Theodore Dalrymple’s second collection of short stories, he begins to let his imagination run. The absurdity of modern life is fully laid bare when taken to extremes. You will laugh through your tears.

This 1911 collection of thirty-three stories, selected and revised by the author from amongst his huge output of short fiction, includes tales of comedy, horror, monsters, and strange worlds. In his introduction, Wells writes that the book brings together, “All the short stories by me that I...

In The Memory Librarian music, fashion, film and futurist icon Janelle Monáe returns to the Afrofuturistic world of her critically acclaimed album, Dirty Computer, to explore how different threads of liberation – queerness, race, gender plurality, love – become tangled in a totalitarian...

In the aftermath of the storm, reality sets in for Will Fontenot. Life as he knew it is over. He's battered and bruised from his previous battles but more determined than ever to escape Houston. There's no other choice. Houston is a powered keg ready to blow, and it's only a matter of time before the city falls. When Will, Cayden, and Isabella are again drawn back into the enemy's plan for the nation's final destruction, they'll have to once again fight for their lives against seemingly insurmountable odds as insurgents unleash their attack on Houston. 

Blake and his companions are once more pursued by Travis and the Federation in a second collection of stories from the Blake’s 7 Annuals. The Liberator crew encounter an old enemy when they search for an essential component on the surface of Roros in Red for Danger, and an Arctic Research...

Ryan David Ginsberg bursts onto the literary scene with this hauntingly beautiful collection of stories that cannot be listened to just once and then forgotten. They are stories to be listened to again and again, stories that will stay with the listener long after the book has been put down. Within these stories, you will meet a woman who must auction her unborn baby’s rights away; a twelve-year-old boy who suddenly finds himself in the middle of a war; an extraterrestrial being sent to Earth to determine whether or not humans are worthy of an invitation to the Confederation of the Cosmos.

Crynn Dayholt and her brave group of fighters found an underground compound, a place of safety, until outside forces threaten to take away all they’d fought for. Her thirst for revenge against the mighty city of Soriah has her on the constant hunt for soldiers willing to desert Soriah’s army and fight on the side of the rebellion. Her incessant hunt for others takes a back seat when she is handed the journals of the man who had built the underground compound. A man more evil than the president of Soriah. A man who held secrets to the earth’s destruction.

SF is an extension of our understanding of the universe whereas Speculative • Dystopian Fiction is more to do with the here and now. The journey from the wooden characterisations of yesteryear to the here and now — a direction of travel as good as a stated objective by the High Evangelists of New Wave — was a uniquely pointless endeavour... Undercroft: The last redoubt of mankind is a massive subterranean building. Crotchety old scribe Broadsquire once again downs his quills. He's been called on to deal with the challenge of crackle-connect. Shades of Gormenghast!!

Take a journey into a lost world. A world of endless wonder and terror. Beyond the everyday known world and into a place very few have traveled. Into the world of The Rave. Follow two wandering travelers of the beat down a path of self-awareness and self-destruction. Climb down the concrete rabbit hole into a sonic world of madness and mayhem. Through the back alleys of the subconscious mind into a man-made psychedelic Eden of tomorrow.

Henry is a man with trouble on his hands. Setting out for this weekend getaway wasn’t even his idea, and now he’s woken up from a terrible car crash to find himself in a strange place where nothing is as it seems. Now, his whole life has changed, and nothing he knew to be true seems to matter, not when the world is filled with horror and still other dangers waiting in the shadows. Worse, his wife is hurt, and there’s only one woman who can help them get home, a woman who is more mystery than truth....

In a post-apocalyptic world where new dangers appear at every moment, Henry is still learning how to survive, and things only grow more complex as the path to his escape grows ever-winding. Abby has become less of a stranger but no less strange and she holds the book with all the answers shut tight in her pack. Henry is still trapped in her nightmarish world, it only makes sense for him to seek it out no matter how much she swears that it would be his undoing. What will he find inside and what will be the cost for his transgressions? It appears he is about to find out.

In his lifetime, Valery Bryusov (1873-1924) was best known as a translator and a Symbolist poet. His prose works include the historical novels The Altar of Victory and The Fiery Angel and this collection of short stories, which was assembled by the translator Stephen Graham.

The relentless feeding of the Being has created a secret world of monsters. Each of these bastard children have a different path to follow. In this collection of short stories, learn more about the world of spirits that surrounds a society of people who never die. This book is part monster manual and part family album.

In this short story by Kody Boye, follow two teens as they release the last firefly known to exist.

The Forbidden Tongue by science-fiction author Mary Clare Carley. Immerse yourself in a futuristic world of time travel, artificial intelligence, and human hybrids as you dive into this thrilling dystopian story.

It's been 10 years since his brother destroyed of the facility, buried him alive, and left him to die. Only, he survived. Now after all these years of pain, he has come for justice.