Scott Lynch (www.scottlynch.us) was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1978 and is the author of the Gentleman Bastard sequence of fantasy novels, beginning with The Lies of Locke Lamora. He currently lives in Wisconsin, where he has served as a volunteer firefighter since 2005. He spends several months of the year in Massachusetts with his partner, fellow SF/F writer Elizabeth Bear.
K.J. Parker (www.kjparker.net) was born long ago and far away, worked as a coin dealer, a dogsbody in an auction house and a lawyer, and has so far published thirteen novels (the Fencer, Scavenger and Engineer trilogies, and standalone novels The Company, The Folding Knife, The Hammer, and Sharps), three novellas (‘Purple And Black’ , ‘Blue And Gold’ and ‘A Small Price To Pay For Birdsong’, which won the 2012 World Fantasy Award) and a gaggle of short fiction. Married to a lawyer and living in the south west of England, K.J. Parker is a mediocre stockman and forester, a barely competent carpenter, blacksmith and machinist, a two-left-footed fencer, lackluster archer, utility-grade armorer, accomplished textile worker and crack shot. K.J. Parker is not K.J. Parker’s real name. However, if K.J. Parker were to tell you K.J. Parker’s real name, it wouldn’t mean anything to you.
Robert V S Redick (www.robertvsredick.com) studied English and Russian, before earning a Master’s in tropical conservation and development. He has traveled extensively in Latin America, and has written a study of park ranger training and management practices. He has also worked as a baker, translator, horse handler, lab technician, and stage critic for the Portland Phoenix and Valley Advocate. His first novel, Conquistadors, is set in 1970s Argentina, is unpublished, but was a finalist for the 2002 AWP/Thomas Dunne Novel Award. His first published novel, The Red Wolf Conspiracy, launched the Chathrand Voyage series of seafaring epic fantasies, which continued with The Rats and the Ruling Sea, The River of Shadows, and The Night of the Swarm. Redick lives in western Massachusetts with his partner Kiran Asher.
Ysabeau S. Wilce’s (www.yswilce.com) first story, ‘Metal More Attractive’, was published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 2004. Like all of her work to date, it was set in Alta Califa, an alternate California, and is heavily influenced by her military history studies. A second story, ‘The Biography of a Bouncing Boy Terror’, appeared in 2005 and ‘The Lineaments of Gratified Desire’ appeared in 2006. Wilce’s first novel, a young adult fantasy with a preposterously long title, Flora Segunda: Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog, was published to considerable acclaim in 2007, and was followed by sequels Flora’s Dare and Flora’s Fury. She currently lives with her family and a large number of well-folded towels in Northern California.
The universe shifts and changes: suddenly you understand, you get it, and are filled with wonder. That moment of understanding drives the greatest science-fiction stories and lies at the heart of Engineering Infinity. Whether it's coming up hard against the speed of light - and, with it, the enormity of the universe - realising that terraforming a distant world is harder and more dangerous than you'd ever thought, or simply realizing that a hitchhiker on a starship consumes fuel and oxygen with tragic results, it's hard science-fiction where a sense of discovery is most often found and where science-fiction's true heart lies.
This exciting and innovative science-fiction anthology collects together stories by some of the biggest names in the field, including Gwyneth Jones, Stephen Baxter and Charles Stross.
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They gather in darkness, sharing ancient and arcane knowledge as they manipulate the very matter of reality itself. Spells and conjuration; legerdemain and prestidigitation – these are the mistresses and masters of the esoteric arts.
From the otherworldly visions of Conan Doyle’s father in Audrey Niffenegger’s ‘The Wrong Fairy’ to the diabolical political machinations of Dan Abnett’s ‘Party Tricks’, here you will find a spell for every occasion.
Jonathan Oliver, critically acclaimed editor of The End of The Line and House of Fear, has brought together fourteen extraordinary writers for this collection of magical tales. Within you will find works by Audrey Niffenegger, Sarah Lotz, Will Hill, Steve Rasnic and Melanie Tem, Liz Williams, Dan Abnett, Thana Niveau, Alison Littlewood, Christopher Fowler, Storm Constantine, Lou Morgan, Sophia McDougall, Gail Z. Martin, Gemma Files and Robert Shearman.
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Also By Jonathan Strahan
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Dedication
Acknowledgements
Contents
Introduction
The Effigy Engine: A Tale of the Red Hats
Amethyst, Shadow, and Light
Camp Follower
The Dragonslayer of Merebarton
Leaf and Branch and Grass and Vine
Spirits of Salt: A Tale of the Coral Heart
Forever People
Sponda the Suet Girl and the Secret of the French Pearl
Shaggy Dog Bridge: A Black Company Story
The Ghost Makers
One Last, Great Adventure
The High King Dreaming
About the Authors
'Engineering Infinity' edited by Jonathan Strahan
'Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane' edited by Jonathan Oliver