Alliteration Ink: 20 books

Life is uncertain, and the chance to get a peek into the future is tempting... but is it a good idea to look? Edited by Nayad Monroe, this anthology brings together stories from a diverse group of speculative fiction writers who provide insight into the possibilities. The book includes cover...

When you talk about outsiders, it's easy to think about that sense of isolation when you're not one of the "popular kids" in high school, when you're the new person on the job, when you stand out in a bad way. But there's more than that. There's the sense of wonder at a new,...

The first annual of literary speculative fiction magazine recompose. Collects issues #0-#3, featuring Alasdair Stuart, Nisi Shawl, Lucy A. Snyder, Ken Liu, Charlee Jacob, Seanan McGuire, Cat Rambo, Matt Betts, Jaymee Goh, Janice Leach, Sara Cleto, Brittany Warman, Kelly Stewart, Bruce Boston, Alessandro...

The moment of the demons' defeat became their greatest victory. In the carnage after the last great battle against the demons, a doomed general discovers their hidden victory. Instead of being annihilated, unspeakable evil escaped into many unsuspecting worlds. To fight them, the men and women...

Sidekicks. We know them, and we ignore them. They sit courtside, they wait in the shadows, they ride on the coattails. They have nothing to offer. Or do they? Heroes and heroines perform world shaking deeds, but sidekicks? Sidekicks are the unseen glue holding those powerhouses together....

The Pact is back and demons are as devious as ever in The Crimson Pact Volume 2. Suzzanne Myers's powerful flash fiction piece, "Withered Tree" continues with the exceptional short story, "Seven Dogs." Chanté McCoy's "Inside Monastic Walls" is followed by the...

There's something compelling about the shine of clicking brass clockwork and hiss of steam-driven automatons. But there was something missing. It was easy to find excellent stories of American and British citizens... but we rarely got to see steampunk from the point of view of the rest of the...

Some poems in this book gallop and kick. Some swerve elegantly like an escape pod caught in a gravity well. Other roll quiet as a child’s blanket. The words in these pages won’t seem the same each time you read them. They will be just what you were looking for, but nothing that you expected. -From...

The third issue of Kickstarter-funded literary speculative fiction magazine recompose, featuring Alasdair Stuart, Courtney Vice, Jon James, Jenny Blackford, LaVa Payne, Erika Price, Andrea Kriz, and Tamlyn Dreaver. This journal is aimed for so-called "interstitial" works - short fiction...

The introductory issue of Kickstarter-funded literary speculative fiction magazine recompose, featuring Alasdair Stuart, Nisi Shawl, Lucy A. Snyder, Ken Liu, Charlee Jacob, Seanan McGuire, Cat Rambo, Matt Betts, and art by Courtney Vice. This journal is aimed for so-called "interstitial"...

The first issue of Kickstarter-funded literary speculative fiction magazine recompose, featuring Alasdair Stuart, Jaymee Goh, Janice Leach, Sara Cleto, Brittany Warman, Kelly Stewart, Bruce Boston, Alessandro Manzetti, and Katherine Heath Shaeffer with art by Courtney Vice. This journal is...

It begins when you have that moment when you can close your eyes and see a world no-one has seen before. It might start from a grain of sand, the way light filters through the trees, the feel of satin robes, the smell of cooking soup, or simply a wish for somewhere, somewhen else. It happens for different...

The Crimson Pact Volume 3 features fifteen action-packed and frightening short stories, including, "That Which We Fear" by New York Times' bestselling author Larry Correia, and Steven Diamond, which features a marine who knows the exact time of his death and a federal agent who has the strange...

Even when you can go anywhere, anywhen on your honeymoon, sometimes you have to backward to move on. This short story about family, love, and time travel originally appeared in the DAW anthology "Timeshares".