I’m lost. I’m scared. And there’s something horrible in here.
My name is Gary Rendell. I’m an astronaut. When they asked me as a kid what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said, “astronaut, please!” I dreamed astronaut, I worked...
“Night’s Slow Poison” is from the same setting as Ancillary Justice, and tells a rich, claustrophobic story of a galactic voyage that forces one guardsmen to confront his uneasy family history through the lens of a passenger with his lost...
It was true — it was all true — and we were never meant to be there.
In December 2018, Ben Cartwright, former Special Forces soldier, and a team of naive explorers, followed the clues left by his ancestor to a hidden plateau in the middle of...
Ellis Rogers is an ordinary man who is about to embark on an extraordinary journey. All his life he has played it safe and done the right thing, but when diagnosed with a terminal illness, he's willing to take an insane gamble. He's built a time...
Combining complex science with skillfully executed prose, these edgy, award-winning tales explore the shifting border between the known and the alien.
The beauty and peril of technology and the passion and penalties of conviction merge...
The collection of short stories with the end-of-the-world scenarios. It's a thrilling and chilling glance at the world as it could be, with a macroscopic view of the end of the universe at the beginning and a zoom in on the end of human...
SNAFU ON VENUS
"I gather that you were sent here, in answer to my message?"
"Certainly," Matt said.
"Thank heaven for that-even if you guys were stupid enough to stumble right into it. Now tell me-how many are there in the expedition. This is...
Citizen in Space is a collection of science fiction short stories by Robert Sheckley. It was first published in 1955 by Ballantine Books (catalogue number 126). It includes the following stories (magazines in which the stories originally appeared...
An expedition to an alien planet; Lenin rising from the dead; a superhero so secret he does not exist. In The Apex Book of World SF 2, World Fantasy Award nominated editor Lavie Tidhar brings together a unique collection of stories from around...