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In a world where automation runs society, Marion Sato spends her days as a judgment aid, tasked with making the manual choices deemed too difficult or complicated for computer algorithms. It seems like a dream come true – until things go horribly wrong.

Twenty years have passed since the Vance Virus—the "Great Thinning"—erased the Y-chromosome from the genetic map, leaving a world of ash and a humanity consisting only of women. In the ruins of London, a generation has grown up in the Architecture of Silence, a clinical, sterile world where the memory of men is a ghost story and the future is a flickering candle. Rhea, a scavenger born into the grey soot, carries more than just supplies. In her blood, she hosts the Resonance—a high-frequency biological mutation that is the only key to the Shield Protocols.

What if the mirror in your hallway wasn’t showing you? What if the man who looks exactly like you is trying to warn you… from tomorrow? What if catching a single butterfly could kill someone half a world away? What if the only way to save your dying son was to walk into the dark with Death itself?

Science Fiction and Fantasy stories of STRANGEST ilk. Other Tales: Volume IV contains seven bizarre and incredible tales of science fiction and fantasy, including rare comedies from Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury, three mysterious and moving yarns from prominent women of genre fiction, and an original science fiction tale by author E.S. Raye, writer of Gas Giant Gambit: A Tall Tale from Beyond the Cygnus Rift.

Сборник рассказов «Время вышло» — попытка ухватить реальность, создать слепок настоящего и всмотреться в будущее. Тринадцать известных современных российских писателей обращаются к жанру антиутопии и размышляют о том, что нас ждёт. Тринадцать рассказов, написанных для этого сборника, — это тринадцать отдельных миров, альтернативных реальностей, непохожих одна на другую: фантастические, условные, реалистичные, гротескные.

Vèvè • Punk: Birth of the Dream is a collection of nine interconnected short stories where Haitian Vodou meets futuristic technology, weaving tales of power, identity, and rebellion. From a street racer battling a death god to an ex-cultist uncovering a supernatural conspiracy, each story explores a world where Vodou spirits have become corporations, trading in human devotion.

"The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, an apocalyptic science fiction story first published in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine in December 1839. Two people, who have been renamed Eiros and Charmion after death, discuss the manner in which the world ended.

I have the honor of sending you, for your magazine, an article which I hope you will be able to comprehend rather more distinctly than I do myself. It is a translation, by my friend, Martin Van Buren Mavis, (sometimes called the "Toughkeepsie Seer,") of an odd-looking MS. which I found, about a year ago, tightly corked up in a jug floating in the Mare Tenebrarum — a sea well described by the Nubian geographer, but seldom visited now-a-days, except by the transcendentalists and divers for crotchets.

The Time Traveller’s Almanac is the largest, most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer Ann and Jeff VanderMeer have scoured time itself to bring you this final instalment from their über-guide...

In the title story, a man's newfound ability to walk in the past allows him to dwell among dinosaurs, saber-toothed tigers . . . and something even more timeless. In "Construction Shack," the first manned expedition to Pluto reveals that no matter how advanced aliens may be, even they don't always get everything right. And in "Univac 2200," the thin line between humans creating technology and humans becoming technology is about to be crossed-and there may be no going back.

The Eclipse Grand is back with three new stories of love, deception, and second chances. Zara's a professional thief with her eyes on a priceless sapphire. Reyth's a charming rival with the same target. When they're forced to fake a relationship to throw off suspicion, the line between performance and reality starts to blur. But can two criminals who can't trust anyone learn to trust each other?

Despite the grain blight, fuel shortages, and wasteland raiders, supplies still need to get through. Ride along with the big rig convoys, road crews, and race teams of the wasteland, keeping civilization civilized one delivery at a time. Convoy of Chaos— where every mile is an unforgiving battlefield, and survival rides shotgun.

The world ended in November 2019. Fortlet never recovered. Fifteen years later, the Citadel survives beneath the ruins—part fortress, part pressure cooker—where every ration is counted and every promise has an expiration date. Milo is one of the Legion's surface hunters: fast, quiet, careful. He isn't sent out to be brave. He's sent out to bring back facts. General Beckett has a job that sounds simple on paper: scout a multi-level parking structure north of Aurora Station. Raiders have been sighted. Scouts have vanished.

Brutale Reality-Live-Shows in der Zukunft. Flugmaschinen, die gnadenlos Jagd auf Menschen machen. Ein verzweifelter Arzt, der als letzten Ausweg seine Familie auslöscht. Und ein erfinderischer Testpilot, der auf einem merkwürdigen Asteroiden notlandet und nur noch zwei Stunden zum Überleben hat.

My Fair Planet and Other Stories is part of the Evelyn E. Smith series of science fiction works by the iconic author.

Drei hochspannende Thriller. Eine zusammenhängende Geschichte. Stundenlange Nervenkitzel – zum Preis eines einzigen Hörbuch-Credits. Die Apokalypse USA Trilogie von R. E. McDermott hat tausende Leser begeistert und wird von Amazon-Rezensenten durchgängig mit hohen Bewertungen gefeiert. Hörer auf Audible.de loben vor allem die fesselnde Handlung, die authentischen Charaktere und die beklemmend realistische Darstellung einer Welt am Abgrund.

A collection of thirteen short stories from Ken Liu, master of short-form SFF. From Ken Liu, the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Paper Menagerie and Hidden Girl, comes a dazzling new collection of thirteen stories that explore the boundaries of imagination. In these...

Contains three of the top selling books from the Edge of Reality Series by John Landrine. The Edge of Reality is the edge-of-your-seat, page-turning, mind-blowing sci-fi anthology series of books from the childhood mind of author John Landrine (author of "Message From Inner Space: When Earth Has Enough"). John recently breathed new life into these gems, but developed the stories and concepts while he was a child.

Science Fiction and Fantasy stories of STRANGEST ilk. Other Tales: Volume II contains seven bizarre and incredible tales of science fiction and fantasy, including a rare tale of the supernatural by George Eliot, a legendary yarn by the grandfather of modern fantasy, Lord Dunsany, and an original tale by science fiction author J.D. Sanderson, author of After the Syzygy.

Seen from the top of a forgotten lighthouse, gargantuan bones whisper of apocalyptic battles. On war-torn mud flats, soldiers square off against predators older than myth. Across ruined skylines, titanic mechs clash with alien invaders in steel-shattering duels, while a creature of the dark stalks a nineteenth century Scottish Halloween night that will never end. This gripping short story collection catapults you through ten pulse-pounding adventures that blur the lines between science-fiction, horror, military thrillers, and dark fantasy.