Category: Anthology

Science Fiction: The Best of the Year 2007 — Anthology

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Science Fiction: The Best of the Year 2007 -- AnthologyAll copyright 2006.

Standalones

Another Word for Map is Faith — Christopher Rowe
Okanoggan Falls — Carolyn Ives Gilman
Saving for a Sunny Day — Ian Watson
The Cartesian Theater — Robert Charles Wilson
Hesperia and Glory — Ann Leckie
Incarnation Day — Walter Jon Williams
Exit Before Saving — Ruth Nestvold
Inclination — William Shunn
Life on the Preservation — Jack Skillingstead
Me-Topia — Adam Roberts
The House Beyond Your Sky — Benjamin Rosenbaum
A Billion Eves — Robert Reed

#scifi #ianwatson #annleckie #walterjonwilliams

The Years Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2009 — Anthology

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The Years Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2009 -- AnthologyAll copyright 2008-9.

Standalones

26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss — Kij Johnson
Shoggoths in Bloom — Elizabeth Bear
Glass — Daryl Gregory
The Hiss of Escaping Air — Christopher Golden
Araminta, or, The Wreck of the Amphidrake — Naomi Novik
We Love Deena — Alice Sola Kim
The Art of Alchemy — Ted Kosmatka
Falling Angel — Eugene Mirabelli
The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross — Margo Lanagan
King Pelles the Sure — Peter S. Beagle
Character Flu — Robert Reed
Gift from a Spring — Delia Sherman
The Region of Unlikeness — Rivka Galchen
Daltharee — Jeffrey Ford
The Ray-Gun: A Love Story — James Alan Gardner
The God of Au — Ann Leckie
The Fantasy Jumper — Will McIntosh
The Magician’s House — Meghan McCarron
Balancing Accounts — James L. Cambias
Suicide Drive — Charlie Anders
The Small Door — Holly Phillips
The Eyes of God — Peter Watts
Firooz and His Brother — Alex Jeffers
Infestation — Garth Nix
A Water Matter — Jay Lake
The Golden Octopus — Beth Bernobich
Blue Vervain Murder Ballad #2: Jack of Diamonds — Erik Amundsen
The Road to Levinshir — Patrick Rothfuss
Fixing Hanover — Jeff VanderMeer
Boojum — Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
The Difficulties of Evolution — Karen Heuler
Catherine Drewe — Paul Cornell
Silent as Dust — James Maxey
Evil Robot Monkey — Mary Robinette Kowal
If Angels Fight — Richard Bowes
Spiderhorse — Liz Williams
The Tear — Ian McDonald

#scifi #fantasy #naominovik #annleckie #maryrobinettekowal

Cursed – Anthology

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Cursed - AnthologyAll copyright 2020 except stated.

Standalones

Castle Cursed — Jane Yolen
As Red As Blood, As White As Snow — Christina Henry
Troll Bridge — Neil Gaiman – 1993
At That Age — Catriona Ward
Listen — Jen Williams
Henry and the Snakewood Box — M.R. Carey
Skin — James Brogden
Faith & Fred — Maura McHugh
The Black Fairy’s Curse — Karen Joy Fowler – 1997
Wendy, Darling — Christopher Golden – 2014
Fairy Werewolf vs. Vampire Zombie — Charlie Jane Anders – 2011
Look Inside — Michael Marshall Smith – 2013
Little Red — Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple – 2009
New Wine — Angela Slatter
Haza and Ghani — Lilith Saintcrow
Hated — Christopher Fowler – 1995
The Merrie Dancers — Alison Littlewood
Again — Tim Lebbon
The Girl From The Hell — Margo Lanagan
Castle Waking — Jane Yolen

#fantasy #peterpan #christinahenry #neilgaiman #michaelmarshallsmith

The Expanding Universe Volume 5 — Anthology

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The Expanding Universe Volume 5 -- AnthologyAll copyright 2020 except stated.

Standalones

Lightwave: Jericho Colony Rescue — A. M. Scott
The Bull Rock Blues — Felix R. Savage
Going Rogue — James Palmer
Crossing the Line — Lawrence M. Schoen
Marauder — Jeremy Fabiano
Stockade — John Hindmarsh
The Bounty Hunter’s Partner — Terry Mixon
Extinction — Michael Penmore
Golems of War — Rachel Aukes
False Positive — Mikey Campling
Welcome Earthling — J. S. Morin
If Thou Forget Us, Oh Earth — Stephanie Mylchreest
The Bridge — Colonel Jonathan P. Brazee
Bounce and Fall — Patty Jansen
The Trophany — Julia Huni
Lucky Elephants — Galen Surlak-Ramsey
The Zabolov Gambit — Charley Marsh
Hacker’s Pursuit — Wilhelmina Kirk and J. L. Stowers
A Little Bit of Kali — R.R. Virdi and Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
An Unwilling Champion — TR Cameron
Plan B — Brian Thorne
Memo-Real — Daniel Arenson
The Green Door of Fate — Craig Martelle

#scifi #michaelcampling #jsmorin #pattyjansen #yudhanjayawijeratne

The Expanding Universe Volume 4 — Anthology

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The Expanding Universe Volume 4 -- AnthologyAll copyright 2018 except stated.

Standalones

Information War — by Craig Martelle
Checkmate — Colonel Jonathan P. Brazee
Skeleton Crew — Mikey Campling
BreakerMikey Campling David VanDyke
Endpoint — Mikey Campling
Unexpected Bounty — Terry Mixon
Messenger — R.R. Virdi and Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
Duty — Bill Patterson (II)
The Burden of Honor — Kevin O. McLaughlin [as by Kevin McLaughlin]
The Spike — Nathan Mutch
Lights Out — Kayelle Allen
Darkened Skies — Drew Avera
Skin Suits — Justin Bell
Daughters of Ayor – 2017 — David R. Bernstein
One Last Battle [The Hunter Legacy] — Timothy Ellis
Tuesday — Lyn Forester
Mothers — C. M. Simpson
Alaska’s Vengeance [Ardent Redux Universe] — J. L. Stowers
Sycorax – 2017 — Jenetta Penner
Warp Three [The Niakrim War] – 2017 — David J. VanBergen, Jr.
A Little Surprise — P. R. Adams

#scifi #michaelcampling #yudhanjayawijeratne

The Expanding Universe Volume 3 — Anthology

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The Expanding Universe Volume 3 -- AnthologyAll copyright 2017 except stated.

Standalones

Language Barrier — Craig Martelle
Weaponized Math [Staff Sergeant Gracie Medicine Crow] — Colonel Jonathan P. Brazee
To Catch a King — Mike Kraus
Skeleton Crew — Mikey Campling
Epiphany — Andrew Dobell
The Achanean Reception — Richard Fox
The Trophy — B. C. Kellogg
Blood and Treasure — Terry Mixon
Dreadnaught — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
Save the Scientist — J. A. Cipriano and Conner Kressley
Severance — C. C. Ekeke
Across the Galactic Pond [Universe in Flames Origins] — Christian Kallias
Catalyst — Lisa Blackwood and S. M. Schmitz
Wrenching Free — Zen DiPietro
Fugitive’s Gamble — T. M. Catron
One Last Job — A. K. DuBoff [as by Amy DuBoff]
Maybe Now the Stars Will Shine — Michael La Ronn
Ice Field — Scott Moon
The Next Level — Thomas J. Rock
Save the Queen — Emily Walker
Alas, Thudonia — Bill Patterson (II)
Exiled [The Void Wraith] – 2016 — Chris Fox
Voyage of the Dog-Propelled Starship — Robert T. Jeschonek
Assault on Tarja — M. D. Cooper
The Piayan Job — Daniel Martone and Laura Martone
Final Intelligence — Kevin O. McLaughlin
In the Shadows — Danny A. Brown
LZ New Birth — J. R. Handley

#scifi #aliettedebodard #patcadigan #kenliu #paulmcauley #jamessacorey

Avatars Inc — Anthology

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Avatars Inc -- anthologyAll copyright 2020 except stated.

Standalones

In the Lands of the Spill — Aliette de Bodard
Thirty-Three — Tade Thompson
Porcelain Claws in Cinnamon Earth — Madeline Ashby
Life in Achar — Anya Ow
What I Want Us to Remember Before We Leave — Bryce Banks
Honeysuckle — Rhianna Jones
A Mountain to Climb — Julie Novakova
Bounty — Charles Yu
Harmony — Dr. Harry Kloor
Overburden — K. Chess
The Ulgrieb Case — Jeffrey Ford
Behold the Deep Never Seen — Merc Fenn Wolfmoor
The Search for [Flight X] — JY Yang
The Final Performance of the Amazing Ralphie — Pat Cadigan
Neuro-Dancer — Tom Sweterlitsch
Uma — Ken Liu
Banding — Julianna Baggott
Robot and Girl with Flowers — Paul McAuley
Waiting for Amelia — Robert Reed
Incarnate — Indrapramit Das
A Bird Does Not Sing Because It Has an Answer — Johanna Sinisalo
Oannes, From the Flood — Adrian Tchaikovsky
At the End of a Most Perfect Day — Nino Cipri
Two Watersheds — Kelly Robson
Elsewhere — James S. A. Corey
La Mer Donne — Sarah Pinsker
Add Oil — S. L. Huang

#scifi #aliettedebodard #patcadigan #kenliu #paulmcauley #jamessacorey

Omni Best Science Fiction Two — Anthology

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Omni Best Science Fiction Two -- Anthology

Standalones

All the Perfumes of Araby – 1992 — Lucius Shepard
The Robot and the One You Love – 1988 — Tom Maddox
Chimera Dreams – 1986 — Gregg Keizer
The Pear-Shaped Man – 1987 — George R. R. Martin
Kingdom Come – 1987 — Bruce McAllister
Mother’s Milt – 1992 — Pat Cadigan
Black Velvet – 1992 — Maggie Flinn
One Small Step for Max – 1992 — Dan Simmons
The Cave Painting – 1992 — Garry Kilworth
In the Month of Athyr [Winterlong] – 1992 — Elizabeth Hand

#scifi #luciusshepard #georgerrmartin #patcadigan #dansimmons

Edge of Infinity — Anthology

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Edge of Infinity -- AnthologyAll stories copyright 2012.

Standalones

The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi — Pat Cadigan
The Deeps of the Sky — Elizabeth Bear
Drive — James S. A. Corey
The Road to NPS — Sandra McDonald and Stephen D. Covey
Swift as a Dream and Fleeting as a Sigh — John Barnes
Macy Minnot’s Last Christmas on Dione, Ring Racing, Fiddler’s Green, the Potter’s Garden — Paul McAuley
Safety Tests — Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Bricks, Sticks, Straw — Gwyneth Jones
Tyche and the Ants — Hannu Rajaniemi
Obelisk — Stephen Baxter
Vainglory — Alastair Reynolds
Water Rights — An Owomoyela
The Peak of Eternal Light — Bruce Sterling

 

#theexpanse #scifi #patcadigan #jamessacorey #paulmcauley #gwynethjoneswriter #hannurajaniemi #stephenbaxter #alastairreynolds #brucesterling

Kalicalypse — Anthology

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Kalicalypse -- AnthologyCopyright 2022 unless otherwise stated.

Standalones

The New Humans — Trishna Basak
Kali_Na – 2019 — Indrapramit Das
The Art of Possible — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
The Daughter That Bleeds – 2018 — Shweta Taneja
The New Migrants — Navin Weeraratne
Anamnesis — Rupsa Dey
The Architecture of Loss — Salik Shah
Tethered — Haris A. Durrani
Steeling Minds — Kehkashan Khalid
The Almighty — Zafar Iqbal

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#yudhanjayawijeratne

Year’s Best SF 6 — Anthology

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Year's Best SF 6 -- AnthologyAll stories copyright 2000.

Reef — Paul J. McAuley
Reality Check — David Brin
The Millennium Express — Robert Silverberg
Patient Zero — Tananarive Due
The Oort Crowd — Ken MacLeod
The Thing About Benny — M. Shayne Bell
The Last Supper — Brian Stableford
Tuberculosis Bacteria Join UN — Joan Slonczewski
Our Mortal Span — Howard Waldrop
Different Kinds of Darkness — David Langford
New Ice Age, or Just Cold Feet? — Norman Spinrad
The Devotee — Stephen Dedman
The Marriage of Sky and Sea — Chris Beckett
In the Days of the Comet — John M. Ford
The Birthday of the World — Ursula K. Le Guin
Oracle — Greg Egan
To Cuddle Amy — Nancy Kress
Steppenpferd — Brian W. Aldiss
Sheena 5 — Stephen Baxter
The Fire Eggs — Darrell Schweitzer
The New Horla — Robert Sheckley
Madame Bovary, C’est Moi — Dan Simmons
Grandma’s Jumpman — Robert Reed
Bordeaux Mixture — Charles Dexter Ward
The Dryad’s Wedding — Robert Charles Wilson
Built Upon the Sands of Time — Michael F. Flynn
Seventy-Two Letters — Ted Chiang

#scifi #paulmcauley #davidbrin #robertsilverberg #ursulakleguin #gregegan #brianaldiss #stephenbaxter #dansimmons #tedchiang

The Haunting Season — Anthology

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A Study in Black and White – Bridget Collins
Thwaite’s Tenant – Imogen Hermes Gowar
The Eel Singers – Natasha Pulley
Lily Wilt – Jess Kidd
The Chillingham Chair – Laura Purcell
The Hanging of the Greens – Andrew Michael Hurley
Confinement – Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Monster – Elizabeth Macneal

#horror #fantasy #elizabethmacneal

Made to Order: Robots and Revolution — Anthology

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All stories copyright 2020.

Selection and Introduction — Jonathan Strahan
A Glossary of Radicalization — Brooke Bolander
Dancing with Death — John Chu
Brother Rifle — Daryl Gregory
Sonnie’s Union — Peter F. Hamilton
The Endless — Saad Z Hossain
An Elephant Never Forgets — Rich Larson
Idols — Ken Liu
Sin Eater — Ian R. MacLeod
The Translator — Annalee Newitz
The Hurt Pattern — Tochi Onyebuchi
Chiaroscuro in Red — Suzanne Palmer
Bigger Fish — Sarah Pinsker
A Guide for Working Breeds — Vina Jie-Min Prasad
Polished Performance — Alastair Reynolds
Fairy Tales for Robots — Sofia Samatar
Test 4 Echo — Peter Watts.

#scifi #peterfhamilton #kenliu #alastairreynolds

Tales from the Edge: Escalation — Anthology

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Tales from the Edge: Escalation -- Anthology

Standalones

Welcome to the Edge — Stephen Gaskell
Remainers — Alastair Reynolds
Little Bots — Rob Ziegler
Over You — Jaine Fenn
The Spaces Between Us — Jeff Carlson
Losses We Bear — Aliette de Bodard
Fleet Champion — Tomas L. Martin
The Daughter of Arin — Jon Cooper
The Flesh of the World — Karin Lowachee
A Keeper’s Duty — Stephen Gaskell
Moon Desert — Liz Williams

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#scifi #alastairreynolds #aliettedebodard

The Year’s Best Science Fiction #29 — Anthology

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The Choice — Paul McAuley
A Soldier of the City — David Moles
The Beancounter’s Cat — Damien Broderick
Dolly — Elizabeth Bear
Martian Heart — John Barnes
Earth Hour — Ken MacLeod
Laika’s Ghost — Karl Schroeder
The Dala Horse — Michael Swanwick
The Way it Works Out and All — Peter S. Beagle
The Ice Owl — Carolyn Ives Gilman
The Copenhagen Interpretation — Paul Cornell
The Invasion of Venus — Stephen Baxter
Digging — Ian McDonald
Ascension Day — Alastair Reynolds
After the Apocalypse — Maureen F. McHugh
Silently and Very Fast — Catherynne M. Valente
A Long Way Home — Jay Lake
The Incredible Exploding Man — Dave Hutchinson
What We Found — Geoff Ryman
A Response From EST17 — Tom Purdom
The Cold Step Beyond — Ian R. MacLeod
A Militant peace — David Klecha and Tobias S. Buckell
The Ants of Flanders — Robert Reed
The Vicar of Mars — Gwyneth Jones
The Smell of Orange Groves — Lavie Tidhar
The Iron Shirts — Michael F. Flynn
Cody — Pat Cadigan
For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Loneliness and I’ll Not Be Back Again — Michael Swanwick
Ghostweight — Yoon Ha Lee
Digital Rites — Jim Hawkins
The Boneless One — Alec Nevala-Lee
Dying Young — Peter M. Ball
Canterbury Hollow — Chris Lawson
The Vorkuta Event — Ken MacLeod
The Man Who Bridged the Mist — Kij Johnson

#scifi #paulmcauley #stephenbaxter #alastairreynolds #maureenfmchugh #geoffryman #gwynethjoneswriter #patcadigan

Shine — Anthology

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Shine -- Anthology

Standalones

The Earth of Yunhe – 2010 — Eric Gregory
The Greenman Watches the Black Bars go Up, Up, Up – 2010 — Jacques Barcia
Overhead – 2010 — Jason Stoddard
Summer Ice – 2006 — Holly Phillips
Sustainable Development – 2010 — Paula R. Stiles
The Church of Accelerated Redemption — Gareth L. Powell and Aliette de Bodard
The Solnet Ascendancy – 2010 — Lavie Tidhar
Twittering the Stars — Mari Ness
Seeds – 2010 — Silvia Moreno-Garcia
At Budokan — Alastair Reynolds
Sarging Rasmussen: A Report (by Organic) – 2010 — Gord Sellar
Scheherezade Cast in Starlight – 2010 — Jason Andrew
Russion Roulette 2020 – 2010 — Eva Maria Chapman
Castoff World – 2010 — Kay Kenyon
Paul Kishosha’s Children – 2010 — Ken Edgett
Ishin – 2010 — Madeline Ashby

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#scifi #aliettedebodard #mariness #alastairreynolds

Godlike Machines — Anthology

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Godlike Machines, Machinelike Gods — Jonathan Strahan
Troika — Alastair Reynolds
Return to Titan — Stephen Baxter
There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow / Now Is the Best Time of Your Life — Cory Doctorow
A Glimpse of the Marvellous Structure (and the Threat It Entails) — Sean Williams
Alone — Robert Reed
Hot Rock — Greg Egan

#scifi #alastairreynolds #stephenbaxter #corydoctorow #gregegan

The Book of Magic — Anthology

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The Return of the Pig — K. J. Parker
Community Service — Megan Lindholm
Flint and Mirror — John Crowley
The Friends of Masquelayne the Incomparable — Matthew Hughes
Biography of a Bouncing Boy Terror, Chapter II: Jumping Jack in Love — Ysabeau S. Wilce
Song of Fire — Rachel Pollack
Loft the Sorcerer — Eleanor Arnason
The Governor — Tim Powers
Sungrazer — Liz Williams
The Staff in the Stone — Garth Nix
No Work of Mine — Elizabeth Bear
Widow Maker — Lavie Tidhar
The Wolf and the Manticore — Greg van Eekhout
A Night at the Tarn House — George R. R. Martin
The Devil’s Whatever — Andy Duncan
Bloom — Kate Elliott
The Fall and Rise of the House of the Wizard Malkuril — Scott Lynch

#kjparker #rachelpollack #georgerrmartin #scottlynch

Mission Critical — Anthology

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Mission Critical -- Anthology

Standalones

This is Not The Way Home — Greg Egan
Rescue Party — Aliette de Bodard
Devil in the Dust — Linda Nagata
Hanging Gardens — Gregory Feeley
The One Who Was There — John Barnes
By the Warmth of their Calculus — Tobias S. Buckell
Mutata Superesse — Jason Fischer & Sean Williams
The Empty Gun — Yoon Ha Lee
Genesong — Peter F. Hamilton
Something in the Air — Carolyn Ives Gilman
Lost in Splendour — John Meaney
The Agreement — Dominica Phetteplace
The Fires of Prometheus — Allen M. Steele
Ice Breakers — Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Cyclopterus — Peter Watts

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#scifi #aliettedebodard #peterfhamilton

The Starlit Wood — Anthology

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The Starlit Wood -- Anthology

Standalones

In the Desert Like a Bone (Little Red Riding Hood) — Seanan McGuire – 2016
Underground (East of the Sun, West of the Moon) — Karin Tidbeck – 2016
Even the Crumbs Were Delicious (Hansel and Gretel) — Daryl Gregory – 2016
The Super Ultra Duchess of Fedora Forest (The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage) — Charlie Jane Anders – 2016
Familiaris (The Wolves) — Genevieve Valentine – 2016
Seasons of Glass and Iron (The Glass Mountain/The Black Bull of Norroway) — Amal El-Mohtar – 2016
Badgirl, The Deadman and The Wheel of Fortune (The Girl with No Hands) — Catherynne M. Valente – 2016
Penny for a Match, Mister? (The Little Match Girl) — Garth Nix – 2016
Some Wait (The Pied Piper of Hamelin) — Stephen Graham Jones – 2016
The Thousand Eyes (The Voice of Death) — Jeffrey Ford – 2016
Giants in the Sky (Jack and the Beanstalk) — Max Gladstone – 2016
The Briar and the Rose (Sleeping Beauty) — Marjorie Liu – 2016
The Other Thea (The Shadow) — Theodora Goss – 2016
When i Lay Frozen (Thumbelina) — Margo Lanagan – 2016
Pearl (Dã Tràng and the Pearl) — Aliette de Bodard – 2016
The Tale of Mahliya and Mauhub and the White-Footed Gazelle (The Tale of Mahliya and Mauhub and the White-Footed Gazelle) — Sofia Samatar – 2016
Reflected (The Snow Queen) — Kat Howard – 2016
Spinning Silver (Rumpelstiltskin) — Naomi Novik – 2016

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#fairytale #fantasy #seananmcguire #aliettedebodard #naominovik

Legends — Anthology

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Introduction — Stan Nicholls
Or So Legend has It — James Barclay
A Blade to the Heart — Gaie Sebold
Return to Arden Falls — Ian Whates
The Drake Lords of Kyla — Storm Constantine
A Tower of Arkrondurl — Tanith Lee
Who Walks With Death — Jonathan Green
Skipping Town — Joe Abercrombie
The Land of the Eagle — Juliet E McKenna
All Hail to the Oak — Anne Nicholls
Swords and Circle — Adrian Tchaikovsky
Fairyland — Jan Siegel
Mountain Tea — Sandra Unerman
The League of Resolve — Stan Nicholls

#fantasy #gaiesebold