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Inside this volume you’ll encounter a flawless time-rescue gone wrong, a beauty treatment with terrifying consequences, a detective hunted by a body-hopping killer, and a homesteader uncovering a truth that rewrites Earth itself. You’ll also find dragons that defy myth, fairy-tale chaos, supernatural horror, and high-concept science fiction that blends heart, humor, and imagination. From time travel and first contact to magical realism, monsters, and folklore-inspired fantasy —every story is brought vividly to life by a stellar narration cast.

They laughed her off the G20 stage. Hours later, the flare she predicted killed every light on Earth. Now the scientist nobody believed must cross 2,000 miles of collapsing country to reach her brother, because being right was the easy part. Surviving it won’t be.

Other Tales: Volume VII contains six bizarre and incredible tales of science fiction and fantasy, including a humorous yarn by science fiction titan Arthur C. Clarke, a mysterious supernatural tale by Katherine Gaskell (author of North and South), a classic swords & sorcery story by Clifford Ball, and Boxes in the Warehouse, an original piece by contemporary author J. Brice Odom, author of Shoreless Seas & Stars Uncounted and Letters From the Frontier.

Even Extinction Couldn’t Stop Them. Something moves in the trees. A blur of claws. The glint of razor-sharp teeth. You register the danger a heartbeat too late. Feathers explode from the shadows as a roar tears through the air—ancient, furious, impossible. The ground trembles as the creature charges straight for you, and all you can do is stare back in paralyzed disbelief. Twelve dinosaur stories. Twelve lethal creatures dragged from a world that should have stayed in the past. They were never meant to share the same stage with humanity… yet here they are—hungry, hunting, and very much alive.

They had 36 Hours to prepare for the end of the world as they knew it. It wasn’t enough.

Follow the desperate journey of a scientist who will stop at nothing to save the woman he loves from a disease that is slowly consuming her body. But his actions have unintended consequences that plunge the world into a bloody and chaotic apocalypse, where the living are outnumbered by the ravenous, superhuman zombies that roam the streets. In this toxic new world, no one is safe. The scientist's only son must navigate this character-driven hell, facing unimaginable challenges as he fights for survival in a world where death lurks around every corner.

In 1972, the "Surprise" signal was dismissed as cosmic noise. Today, the Orbital Spire station corrected that error. Using a revolutionary quantum data bus, we hyper-compressed a payload and fired it toward the red dwarf at System X−9. We didn’t send greetings; we sent the resilience of a baby tardigrade, encoded in starlight. As the beam raced 12 light-years across the void, we ignored the warnings of potential interstellar hunters. We weren't just shouting into the dark anymore.

Il futuro è adesso. Una storia di protesta che fa aprire gli occhi. Gli effetti del cambiamento climatico. Una città fragile e unica al mondo. Il complicato rapporto padre-figlio e un viaggio attraverso un'Italia ormai stravolta. Che cosa stiamo facendo veramente per contrastare gli effetti del riscaldamento globale? "Make Think"

The future is now. An extremely powerful short story about human emotions and awareness of the climate change effects. A fragile, unique city. A journey through a country in ruins. The complicated relationship 'Father to Son'. What are we really doing to combat the effects of global warming? Make Think.

Die Zukunft ist jetzt. Eine wahnsinnig fesselnde Kurzgeschichte über menschliche Emotionen und das Bewusstsein über den Klimawandel. Eine einzigartige aber zerbrechliche Stadt. Die komplizierte Beziehung zwischen "Vater & Sohn". Eine Reise durch ein Land aus Ruinen. Was machen wir wirklich um die globale Erwärmung aufzuhalten? "Make Think"

A chance encounter on a mission of exploration. An expedition to an alien vessel. An outcome that defies explanation... All I wanted was to sleep. No sensorium, no wrabbles washing over me. No drug-induced, pain-tinged hibernation. Just a deep peaceful sleep. Halfway into our mission of exploration, we stumbled upon a petal ship rising from the plumes of a gas giant’s atmosphere. The captain tasked us to explore. We roused, prepared, and landed without expectations, previous visits to these massive alien vessels bearing little fruit.

This much-anticipated second collection of stories is signature Ted Chiang, full of revelatory ideas and deeply sympathetic characters. In ‘The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate’, a portal through time forces a fabric-seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and the...

What if the stories you grew up with were never just stories? In Life Ain't No Nursery Rhyme, author Montrel Powell reimagines beloved nursery rhymes and fairy tales through the lens of adulthood, transforming familiar childhood classics into powerful, relatable stories about real life. From The Ugly Duckling and The Three Little Pigs to Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Pinocchio, and more, each chapter explores the lessons hidden beneath the surface of the tales we've known for generations.

2082: The Weight of Memory. The Future in Ten Stories. The year is 2082. Humanity has survived the crises it once feared — but survival has come at a cost. Across ten cities, towns and villages worldwide, ordinary lives are caught in extraordinary systems. Memory can be copied, traded or...

An empty mansion sitting on a hundred acres of waterfront property. A long lost friend with the deal of a lifetime. A family lost at sea. And an old woman with a memory that may hold the key to it all. Richie and Lisa Craine thought they were going to a high school reunion to laugh together about the Homecoming King’s receding hairline and the Homecoming Queen’s aged skin. They felt good about where they’d ended up in life twenty years after graduation. And then along came Fredrick Patterson.

SENTRY OF THE SKY AND OTHER STORIES is part of the Evelyn E. Smith series published by Unforgotten Books, and includes the stories: NOT FIT FOR CHILDREN, SENTRY OF THE SKY, THE MAN OUTSIDE, and JACK OF NO TRADES. Evelyn E. Smith wrote fabulously witty and imaginative science fiction and satirical stories throughout the 1950's, and this collection is part of a series re-issuing those works and concurrently producing the audiobook editions.

A snowstorm brings a wild and dangerous visitor. A journalist encounters more Indians than he bargained for. A widow is chosen as a companion by a ghost cat. A package is left on a doorstep, a door to alternate universes. These are things you can't predict. They come from places unknown. And the endings. Who knows how it will end? But when the unexpected happens, what choice do we havebut to walk toward it headfirst? Whatever we discover,life moves forward. If it feels strange, so be it.

This anthology explores themes of cyclical traps, inescapable realities, and the dark forces that manipulate human fate. Each story presents a protagonist believing they have found an exit—whether through logic, escape, or discovery—only to realize they are bound deeper within a predetermined, often supernatural, loop.

Every ten years, the mysterious world of Eleutheria opens its planetary shields and invites outsiders to compete in the Palingenesi Agon. A series of strange and ancient contests said to honor rebirth, renewal, and the power of the human spirit. For Ledesma, a scholar obsessed with uncovering the secrets of this matriarchal society, it’s the opportunity of a lifetime. But the Games are far more than tests of skill. They are a selection process. And the true prize may not be wealth or citizenship, but something far more unsettling.

The Final Transaction is the opening arc of Helstalgia, a cyberpunk LitRPG series set inside a digital city where survival, reputation, and corporate control are written into the system itself. Rexil steals a data fragment from the Flux Jackals, a netrunner faction with teeth in all the wrong places. The fragment has unknown origins, corrupted metadata, and one brutal problem: the system binds it to his inventory. He can’t drop it. He can’t delete it. The only way to get rid of it is to convince someone else to take it.