The year is AD 7000. The human species is nearly extinct—for the fourth time—due to its fragile nature. Krina Alizond-114 is metahuman, descended from the robots that once served humanity. She’s on a journey to the water world of Shin-Tethys to find her sister Ana. But her trip is interrupted when pirates capture her ship. Their leader, the enigmatic Count Rudi, believes that there’s more to Krina’s search than meets the eye. He’s correct: Krina and Ana each possess half of the fabled Atlantis Carnet, a lost financial instrument of unbelievable value—capable of bringing down entire civilizations. Krina doesn’t know that Count Rudi suspects her motives, so she accepts his offer to get her to Shin-Tethys in exchange for an introduction to Ana. And what neither of them suspects is that a ruthless body-double assassin has stalked Krina across the galaxy, ready to take the carnet once it is whole—and leave no witnesses alive to tell the tale…

CONTENTS: ~ ~ NOVELETTES: Roofs of Silver [Gordon R. Dickson]; Senhor Zumbeira's Leg [Felix Marti-Ibañez]; SHORT STORIES: The Notary and the Conspiracy [Henri Damonti]; Ad Infinitum [Sasha Gilien]; Behind the Stumps [Russell Kirk]; The Depths [Jim Harmon]; ARTICLES: On Binary Digits and Human Habits [Frederik Pohl]; One, Ten, Buckle My Shoe [Isaac Asimov]

CONTENTS: ~ ~ The Gastronomical Error [H. Nearing, Jr.]; Two-Way Stretch [G. Gordon Dewey & Max Dancey]; Food to All Flesh [Zenna Henderson]; Aurochs Came Walking [Robert Moore Williams]; Door to Door [Guy DeAngelis]; The Dream Dust Factory [William Lindsay Gresham]; The Liberator [Arthur Porges]; The Milk of Paradise [Jerome Barry]; Night Life [Esther Carlson]

A new collection of stories by Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Gary Barwin that puts the fab in fabulist. Scandal at the Alphorn Factory: New and Selected Short Fiction, 1984-2024 couples brand new and uncollected stories with selections of the most playful and ambitious of Barwin's previous collections, including Cruelty to Fabulous Animals , Big Red Baby , Doctor Weep and Other Strange Teeth , and I, Dr. Greenblatt, Orthodontist, 251-1457 . Barwin's prose kicks against short fiction's more traditional forms: these are pieces that flirt with poetry and playwriting. Whole stories--and worlds--are packed into single compact paragraphs. There are narrators and fleas and lists and imperatives and Hitler's moustache and radiant happiness. Known as a "whiz-bang storyteller" who can deliver magical, dream-like sequences and truisms about the human condition in the same paragraph, Barwin's trademark brilliance, wit, and originality are on display in this can't-miss collection of short fiction.

The Decade anthologies present the eighty-year history of science fiction in the most relevant way - by collecting the stories which have gone to make it up. Each volume, complete in itself, takes from a single decade the tales which are best, not only as history, but as entertainment.

Two feature-length stories in one volume! Video games can get too realistic, as the flying teenager, Go Girl! discovers in "Prisoners of the Machine," when she and her friends find themselves trapped inside a computer, menaced by giant anime-robots! And in "Double Trouble," Go Girl!'s arch-enemies create a robot that looks just like her, except that it has the mind of a master criminal! How can our heroine convince the cops that she didn't rob that bank, when everyone saw her do it? Plus, Go Girl!'s sidekick, Haseena, tired of always being rescued by the flying teen, takes up sleuthing herself in "Haseena Ross, Girl Detective."

New Dimensions 12 provides a snapshot of the New Wave movement in the years before SF was revitalized by the advent of the Cyberpunks. Authors in this edition include Michael Swanwick, Gregory Benford, Richard Grant, Elizabeth Lynn, Vonda McIntyre, Gordon Ecklund, Jack Dunn & Barry Maltzberg, Michael Ward, Tony Sarowitz, Juleen Brantingham, Carter Scholz, Peter Santiago and an illustration by Wendy Rose.

"The Justice Society of America find themselves dealing with issue personal and political after rebuilding Monument Point. As Jay Garrick begins his time as mayor of the city, the other members of the JSA try to settle into their new home and Mr. Terrific attempts to deal with his gradual loss of intelligence."--Amazon.com.

"Drawn by two of the true great comic book legends, Jack Kirby and Gil Kane, this is a facsimile collection of a 'long-lost', unpublished legendary comic book based on the cult classic 1967 British TV show, The Prisoner, co-created, written, directed and starring Patrick McGoohan (Scanners, Braveheart)"--From Amazon.com.

A very striking and curious story, founded on fact, of the West Indies of the earlty nineteenth century. Robert Rutherford is sent to the Islands to learn the planter's business from the bottom. He becomes an overseer at Rosehall, the property of a young widow, Mrs Palmer, whose three husbands have all died in curious circumstances. She takes a violent fancy to Rutherford, who is also embarrassed by the attentions of his half-caste housekeeper, Millicent. His housekeeper is urging him, with some sucess, to fall in with West Indian habits, when Mrs Palmer arrives. Millicent defies her and threatens her with the powers of Takoo, an Obeah man. Mrs Palmer, herself skilled in Obeah magic, puts a spell on the girl, which Takoo's rites, shattered by the white woman's stronger magic, are powerless to remove.

When a magic book was discovered at the village of Scheria, it seemed that everyone's dreams would come true. But arrogant Prince Antinous wants the book for himself. Will the book be a source of delight for everyone or will it make Prince Antinous the most powerful person in the world? Chloe wants to help her village, but how can she get past the powerful dragon that guards the prince's castle? With magic, adventure and a long hard look at what would happen if everyone got to make wishes, this is a dramatic and fun read.

Weird Tales is the original storytelling magazine of the dark and fantastic. This issue features: THE EYRIE, by Ann VanderMeer A SWEET DISORDER IN THE DRESS, by Genevieve Valentine WEIRD CINEMA, by Robert A. Kowal THE LIBRARY by Cynthia Ward CARRIE ANN BAADE, Interviewed by Ann VanderMeer THE DINER ON THE EDGE OF HELL, by Ramsey Shehadeh JAGANNATH, by Karin Tidbeck A BEGINNERS GUIDE TO SANDCASTLE ALCHEMY, by Nik Houser LOOK AT THE JAM IM IN, by Richard Holinger THE HAND, by Gio Clairval A CONTRACT WITHOUT LOOPHOLES, by Eric Lis BEELZEBUBS MESSIAH, by Brant Danay LOST IN LOVECRAFT, by Kenneth Hite

Footsloggers and soldiers of fortune, priests, poets, killers, and cads -- they fight for a future Galarchy, for cash, for a cause, for the thrill of adventure. Culled from the forgotten and unwanted of three galaxies, they are trained to be the most elite, and expendable, of fighting forces. Sometimes peacekeepers, sometimes shock troops, the Legion is sent into the Galarchy's most desperate internal and external conflicts. Legionnaires live rough and they die hard, tough as tungsten and loyal to the dirty end. Alien Legion creator Carl Potts on the series: "The original concept was the 'Foreign Legion in space, ' and all the legionnaires were human. The Alien Legion universe is a giant extrapolation of the American democratic melting-pot society, where different races and cultures work together for the common good while dealing with the pluses and problems that the nation's diversity creates."

From the Introduction by Ed Gorman: If there's one thing Dick Lupoff understands (with perverse glee) it's the sorry state of the human condition. In this collection you'll find a wide variety of humans whose conditions leave much to be desired. A pit bull owner who's just as nasty as his dog A thief who believes his father-in-law was a real Nazi A dead-end boxer who has come back in a boxing movie A detective named Caligula Foxx who might be Nero Wolfe in drag A crooked corporal whose payoff is death Not only are the storylines original, the writing is indelibly stamped with Dick's vision and voice. Dick's writing talents really can't be defined by the usual means. Yes, he writes science fiction. Yes, he writes fantasy. Yes, he writes mystery. But what he really writes are Lupoffs. Long, short, hilarious, whimsical, dark, mysterious-they're all Lupoffs. Richard A. Lupoff is the author of many books including the popular Lindsey-and-Plum mysteries. The next of these, The Emerald Cat Killer, will be published by St. Martin's Press in October, 2010. His most recent collection of mysteries is Quintet: The Cases of Chase and Delacroix, published by Crippen & Landru.