Ray Aldridge ("The Cold Cage," February 1990) returns with a compelling new story about the world Dilvermoon, whose citizens seek escape by adopting beast-like...
What Mad Universe is a science fiction novel, written in 1949 by the American author Fredric Brown. It satirizes many of the conventions of American "pulp" magazine science-fiction of the...
Plain Kate lives in a world of superstitions and curses, where a song can heal a wound and a shadow can work deep magic. As the wood-carver's daughter, Kate held a carving knife before a spoon, and her wooden charms are so fine that some even call...
When news of dragon trouble comes from the north, villagers in Marmawell scoff. Dragons haven't flown in the land of Ve for many generations. But Marwen, the Oldwife's apprentice, doesn't scoff. She Knows the reports are true; she senses the...
When New York is blanketed in an unnatural fog, Private Detective Alex Lockerby finds himself on the trail of a missing scientist, a stolen military secret, and a merciless killer leaving a trail of bodies in their wake.
In a city the size of New...
Ray Aldridge writes, "I've been a potter and stained glass designer for about fifteen years. I've built a series of sf-oriented windows that deal with the same subject matter as 'Floating Castles' — the impact (often fatal) of high tech cultures...
Lucius Shepard’s Beautiful Blood is something both special and long awaited: the first novel-length exploration of the world of the Dragon Griaule. It’s a subject that has preoccupied Shepard since the publication of “The Man Who Painted the...
‘These six stories explore ground far from the high fantasy with which dragons are frequently associated. Fans of Shepard’s unusual and often powerful Griaule tales will be delighted to have them all in one place’
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