Charlie: 1287 books

Robert "Bobber" Mulligan walked into a convenience store looking for doughnuts and forgot to duck when the shooting started. Now his nerves are frayed by post-traumatic stress and a recurring vision of St. Peter shunning him at Heaven's pearly gate. All he wants is to live a quiet...

A collection of some of the best original science fiction and fantasy short fiction published on Tor.com in 2016. Includes stories by Charlie Jane Anders, Nina Allan, Tara Isabella Burton, Monica Byrne, Rebecca Campbell, P. Djèlí Clark, Indrapramit Das, Alix E. Harrow, N. K. Jemisin, Margaret Killjoy,...

A family in rural W. Virginia ignore emancipation and still use slaves in a zinc mine. They prefer Northerners over Negros and kidnap them when available. The POV alternates between that of a captured wife and the family.

Answering the question asked by innumerable readers of the Charlie Jane Anders's novel All the Birds in the Sky: what happened to Patricia's cat? Find out in this Tor.com Original, Clover. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Things were heating up with the FBI on the case. Agent’s Thompkins and Tau had rolled into town and started digging and talking to everyone. There had been no recent deaths and it was unsure whether there was even cause for the agent’s to be there. The deaths could, possibly, all have been an accident,...

Brand-new stories by: David Simon, Laura Lippman, Tim Cockey, Rob Hiaasen, Robert Ward, Sujata Massey, Jack Bludis, Rafael Alvarez, Marcia Talley, Joseph Wallace, Lisa Respers France, Charlie Stella, Sarah Weinman, Dan Fesperman, Jim Fusilli, and Ben Neihart. Laura Lippman has lived in Baltimore...

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy,...

"A master absurdist...Highly recommended." —The New York Times Before the success of her debut SF-and-fantasy novel All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders was a rising star in SF and fantasy short fiction. Collected in a mini-book format, here—for the first time in print—are...

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy,...

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy,...

A stunning collection from a poet who “writes with a scalding aortal brilliance that leaves the reader drunk on dream” (New York Times Book Review). Selecting from among Charlie Smith’s seven previous collections and including more than forty astonishing new poems, Jump Soul represents...

Two weeks after his father's death, Jeffrey Benson half-heartedly heads off on what he calls a needless adventure - a drive from his home in Baltimore to Columbus, Ohio to go through the old man's apartment before the landlord tosses everything out. The next four days threaten to fill in...

Skinner founded his career in "asset protection" on fear. To touch anyone under his protection was to invite destruction. A savagely effective methodology, until Skinner's CIA handlers began to fear him as much as his enemies did and banished him to the hinterlands of the intelligence community. Now,...

In Men in Miami Hotels, Smith tells the story of Cot Sims, a listing Miami gangster who returns to Key West aiming to—among other things—save his fool-proof mother from homelessness after a recent hurricane. For love, for cash, and for the hell of it, he snatches a trove of emeralds that his boss,...