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His first step... could be his last. Colt is a maverick astronaut who accepts a daring mission to be the first person on Venus. After every other mission to Venus has failed, what could possibly go wrong? Pretty much everything, as it turns out.

Fronteras del infinito es una recopilación de tres relatos en los que se exploran temas de gran interés social: los prejuicios sociales y sus consecuencias, el antirracismo nacido en torno a la manipulación genética y una conjunción de religión, supervivencia y estrategia militar.

When an EMP plunges Charleston into silence, paramedic Lisa fights to save lives as the city unravels. With Dylan at her side, every step toward her family’s farm means facing looters, violence, and impossible choices. Survival demands more than skill, it demands sacrifice.

A collection of suspense-filled thrillers from master of the genre Stephen Gallagher A listening treat for fans of gripping drama: eight thrillers, plus a bonus story, from ‘the finest British writer of bestselling popular fiction since Le Carré’. Full of suspense and utterly immersive with...

Connected by the mysterious Echotide Emporium, a shop that exists outside of time, these speculative tales explore the darkest corners of imagination. Excavating a dead planet, an archaeologist uncovers an artifact that feels terrifyingly familiar. Five friends open a bunker in the woods to find a message waiting for them from thirty years in the future. A grieving artist discovers her paintings don’t just capture reality… they overwrite it. Two investigators enter a Nevada ghost town where the clocks have stopped, but the day refuses to end. The shop is open.

The "Archival Mystery" Beneath the moss-draped cedars of the Kitsap Peninsula, something is waking up. When archivist Amaya Freeman is called to a crumbling Scandia farmhouse, she expects to find dusty records of Norwegian pioneers. Instead, she discovers a hidden cedar chest containing the journals of Dr. Soren Nilsen—a man who vanished in 1947 while tracking a shadow he called Chief Kitsap’s "Red Medicine." From the historic docks of Poulsbo to the rugged Hoh River, Nilsen’s records reveal a terrifying truth: the earth isn’t just soil and stone; it is a sentient ledger.

THE EARLIEST LIE IS THE DEADLIEST WEAPON. For five millennia, the earth has carried the agonizing acoustic memory of humanity’s first murder. Now, a fanatic has found the instrument to broadcast it. Julian Vane and his ruthless Order of Silence have unearthed a prehistoric weapon in the deepest trenches of the Jordan Rift. Their terrifying goal: to broadcast the "Great Silence," an ancient, inescapable frequency of the uncorrupted Ur-language that will permanently strip humanity of free will, forcing a tyrannical, lobotomized peace upon the globe.

The Stone remembers. The Salt hungers. The Silicon decides. For five centuries, the Merendón sanctuary has remained a myth—a hidden cradle where the Black Guard, vampires of obsidian skin and ancient memory, guard the Record of Life under the guidance of their king, the Scribe K'inich. But the age of shadows is over. Aethelgard, a global corporate leviathan, has cracked the sanctuary's tectonic shield, seeking to harvest the "Marrow" of the ancients to power a new era of human immortality.

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.

Dieser Ort, der schon viele verschlungen hat und nur zermahlene Knochen übriglässt, zieht Elb und sein Team immer tiefer in seine verrottenden Eingeweide. Im Kampf gegen die ewig hungrigen Bestien, die einst Menschen waren, gewinnt Elb schnell an Ansehen und Respekt bei den anderen Zombiejägern. Doch Zombieland kann selbst die skrupellosesten Jäger aufhalten und töten. Diesmal spuckt das System die unmöglich zu lösende Blaulicht-Quest aus, deren Koordinaten wie folgt lauten: Raum Nr. 191-28 Schmerz.

"A Tale of the Ragged Mountains" is a fantastical short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. Set near Charlottesville, Virginia, it is the only story the author set in the state. It was first published in Godey's Lady's Book in April 1844. It was anthologized the following year in Tales, published in New York by Wiley and Putnam. In late November 1827, the unnamed narrator meets Augustus Bedloe. Because of ongoing problems with neuralgia, Bedloe has retained the exclusive services of a 70-year-old physician, Dr. Templeton, a practitioner of mesmerism.

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.

'Devilishly clever and compulsive' Daily Mail 'Science Fiction at its best' Spectator In Galaxies Like Grains of Sand, Brian W. Aldiss tells the tale of mankind's future over the course of forty million years. Each of these nine connected short stories highlights a different millennia in which...

Scream for Now: The survivors of the zombie apocalypse have built a safe but dangerous life inside the super shelter at Fort Sumter. As they attempt to learn who is living inside the Yorktown, the famous World War II aircraft carrier, the Mud Island family discovers that former government...

“In Rabbit Test and Other Stories, Mills examines the human spirit with a sharp eye and a gentle heart.”—Eugenia Triantafyllou A subversive debut short-fiction collection from one of the hottest talents in speculative fiction: 2025 Compton Crook Award winner and Pushcart Prize nominee...