This eighth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features over thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including John Barnes, Elizabeth Bear, C.C. Finlay, Yoon Ha Lee, Kelly Link, Ian McDonald, Seanan McGuire, Vonda N. McIntyre, Geoff Ryman, Catherynne M. Valente, Genevieve Valentine, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Analog, Asimov's, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Meeting Infinity, and other top venues,...

Throughout his career Kornbluth like many science fiction writers of his generation struggled with the issue of art's role in an increasingly technologized and dehumanized society. Did the creative artist, the individual work, have any role in a culture which was increasingly devoted to replication, to the homogenization of audience, to the suppression of irregularity or individuality? Was art in fact necessary or merely a distraction? Kornbluth was...

Audible:Downpour:Apple:Riley was living the dream. Running her own business, being her own boss, and finally moving into her own place. Things couldn't be any better, well, with the exception of catching Carter Miller's attention. If only the sexy man next door would ever make his move. Maybe she'll just have to nudge him along?Carter was in deep. Holding in his feelings for Riley was becoming too difficult. Especially when his brother's wedding was...

Uncover the dark secrets of a reclusive mystery author on a private island. Mystery writer JT has hidden away from the world on his private island since he published his first novel. Many fans believe it's because he's strange or eccentric, but the truth is much darker than everyone knows. After Emma's very public, very nasty breakup with one of Hollywood's hottest actors, she needs a friend to lean on. After hitting it off with JT while filming...

Gia finally takes charge of her life and things start to look up for her. Ryker finds himself worrying if she'll ever come to him so they can start the relationship he hopes to have with her. When he finds she's gotten herself back, he's overjoyed. A test of the rocket boosters has Gia realizing Ryker will leave her one day in the not so distant future and she fears losing him. Thinking it might be better to stop what they've started before...

"How can I ever thank you?" he said to me then. "We have been thirteen at table for thirty years and I never dared to insult them because I had wronged them all, and now you have done it and I know they will never dine here again."

There are things that are known only to the long porter of Tong Tong Tarrup as he sits and mumbles memories to himself in the little bastion gateway.

A Billionaire Bad Boy Holiday Romance Series Cyprian Girard is a 35-year-old billionaire investor who works like hell all week, making himself and others tons of money. On the weekends, he parties like there's no tomorrow. Being a confirmed bachelor, who's looking to score all the tail he can possibly get, has him making his move on a certain convenient store cashier, who ignites something in him as she's not about to give into his charming ways....

Damien leaves Gia and her family with Ryker while he goes back to Orlando, after telling Gia the truth about who his friend is. Gia finds herself troubled by what Damien tells her and wants from her. When she decides she too wants what Damien has and asks Ryker for his help in obtaining it, she gets a surprise when he calls her out on her behavior and wants nothing more to do with her. Leaving her feeling alone. When the mission to Mars is...

Premonition. Passion. Courage.Meagan's admission of all she's done, finally pays off for Zane and Elizabeth and the authorities have all they need to fully prosecute her.That fact doesn't help Elizabeth at all. The hit Meagan called out on her is still a go until Zane can issue a public statement, letting the mafia know he wants the hit called off.Even then, that may not be enough to save Elizabeth's life.In her younger years, Elizabeth had recurring...