Anthologies & Short Stories

For 60 years, readers of all ages have been enchanted by the magical realms, the epic battles, and the unforgettable creatures of Narnia.

In Chris Wraight’s Homebound, Ilya Ravallion must choose between the decimated White Scars and living out what remains of her life in peace. An embattled Ahzek Ahriman must race against time to learn what he can of the warp before its gates close to him forever in Ex Libris by John French.

An all-new Stormlight Archive novella, Edgedancer, is the crown jewel of Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection, the first audiobook of short fiction by number New York Times best-selling author....

Ready for your next audiobook? How about almost 40 hours of non-stop action, brought to life by award-winning narrator Kevin Pierce? A corrupt president...A world without power...A handful of survivors battle impossible odds in the madness....

In the future, when mankind has spread across the stars, the hierarchy of man is dictated by the color of one’s caste.

An IT whiz at the Babylon Casino is enlisted to upgrade security for the game of keno and its random-number generator. The new quantum computer system is foolproof. But someone on the inside is no fool....

This classic science fiction masterwork by Isaac Asimov weaves stories about robots, humanity, and the deep questions of existence into a novel of shocking intelligence and heart.

You were on your way home when you died. It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death....

Join the Librarian as he does his best to make the post-apocalyptic world a better place by protecting the weak, fighting injustice, squaring off against a group of former renaissance fair workers who have established a kingdom in the Rocky Mountains, and so on.

Jack Bennet returns from the war to find the life he left behind has moved on without him. The only option he has to make ends meet lies in a military surplus junkyard starship.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson―creator of the Stormlight Archive, the Mistborn saga, and countless bestselling works of science fiction and fantasy―comes Tailored Realities, a new short fiction collection including the never-before-published novella “Moment Zero.”

Can you outrun the past? Can you outlive the future? One time traveler must find out. Accidental time traveler Ben Travers is thrown into a multiverse of adventure in this action-adventure through past and future....

Now available in print for the first time with author's notes on each story, this short fiction addition to the Hugo Award-winning Expanse series includes a brand-new novella set after the events of Leviathan Falls....

Contains all three books in The Jane Harper Trilogy: The Sentinel, The Raven, and The Host.

The Union army may be full of bastards, but there's only one who thinks he can save the day single-handed when the Gurkish come calling: the incomparable Colonel Sand dan Glokta....

From the mind of the incomparable author of Stories of Your Life and Others comes nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories—two published for the very first time....

An all-new Dresden Files story headlines this urban fantasy short story collection starring the Windy City's favorite wizard. The world of Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, is rife with intrigue - and creatures of all supernatural stripes....

For some, it’s the end of the world. For others, it’s just the beginning. With brilliant imagination, today’s most visionary writers point to the future in a collection curated by bestselling author Blake Crouch....

A new collection of stories, including some that have never before been seen, from the New York Times best-selling author of the Silo trilogy....

This boxed set contains the first three books in C. J. Archer's popular Ministry of Curiosities series. Titles in the set include The Last Necromancer, Her Majesty's Necromancer, and Beyond the Grave....

Originally published in 1895, Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow is a marvel of supernatural fiction that has influenced a number of writers in the genre....

When a sudden, unexplained spasm of violence rocks the country from coast to coast, several groups of survivors are left to wonder if this is the start of a new world war, or the last chapter of humanity itself....

Three remarkable journeys into the stars: Worlds of Exile and Illusion includes Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, and City of Illusions. These three spacefaring adventures mark the beginning of grand master Ursula K. Le Guin’s remarkable career.

When a storm reveals a mysterious cave behind a waterfall, the young mystic’s apprentice and her wolf investigate. Inside, she discovers a secret place containing a pile of human bones and the young girl makes what could be a fatal mistake....

The Illustrated Man, a classic collection of interconnected stories, is a seminal work in Ray Bradbury’s career, whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time’s passage.

In Chris Wraight’s Homebound, Ilya Ravallion must choose between the decimated White Scars and living out what remains of her life in peace. An embattled Ahzek Ahriman must race against time to learn what he can of the warp before its gates close to him forever in Ex Libris by John French. Featuring tales from Dan Abnett, Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Guy Haley and many more, this anthology follows mighty Custodians, scheming sorcerers, and the lowly footsoldiers of the Imperial Army as all negotiate the devastating aftermath of Humanity's greatest reckoning.

On Ceres, Debtors' Grave works for the government. And the government is looking for Christine.

A man awakens suspended in a cage—thirty meters above an alien landscape beneath unfamiliar moons. Trapped inside a living prison of flesh and bone, he quickly realizes he is not alone. Hundreds of grotesque beings surround him, each confined to their own biological cells, each screaming in voices no human could comprehend. What follows is a descent—literal and psychological—into a terrifying display of cruelty, science, and something far more disturbing: recognition. As he tries to piece together how he arrived in this nightmare, memories surface, reality bends, and a horrifying ...

In the near future, we live in a fragile utopia. Women now control all aspects of life in America and around the world. Men have fallen thanks to an organic pathogen that renders them incapable of violent acts or thoughts. If a man tries to engage in violence, his body shuts down and in severe cases, death. Dr. Mary Dixon is the brilliant scientist behind the bio-pathogen. She is a child prodigy who is born in a special city created by the government for its hopeless citizens. Young Mary’s genius is discovered and she is lifted from poverty into a better life, where she grows into adult ...

Digi 995: Shadows of Command Rook Dalton’s Arc – Book 1 Prequel to the Digi 995 Series By J.K. Moore In a world collapsing under rogue AI and corrupted machines, Sergeant Rook Dalton was trained to follow orders—until the day the orders stopped. When Fort Mason falls to a drone uprising, Rook emerges as an unlikely leader among the chaos, guiding civilians through the smoking ruins of civilization. With no command, no reinforcements, and no second chances, he becomes the spine of a growing resistance—built from survivors, scraps, and sheer will. But survival is only the beginning. ...

I am Henrik Boar. A vessel of light. A ghost riding a beam into a black hole. In humanity’s final experiment, Henrik Boar’s consciousness is encoded into light and fired across a hundred million light-years—into Noema, the most powerful black hole ever recorded. His mission: to uncover what lies beyond the boundaries of space, time, and the self. But as he nears the event horizon, reality fractures. Memories bleed across timelines. His childhood self emerges, whispering truths too dark to bury. Is Henrik becoming a god, a ghost, or the end of all things? God’s Arrow is a haunting, ...

Digi 995: Ashes of Earth Lena’s Arc – Book 1 Prequel to the Digi 995 Series By J.K. Moore 🔥 She was a prodigy hacker. Now she’s humanity’s last spark in a world gone dark. 🔥 Seventeen-year-old Lena Valen never asked to become a survivor. She just wanted to expose the digital rot corrupting the corporations that ruled her city. But when the sky burned and the world fell, Lena’s life of code and coffee was replaced by fire, ruin, and silence. Alone in the ashes of a fallen New York, Lena must use every ounce of her skill to evade the ruthless War Bots hunting down survivors ...

Una noche cualquiera en el desierto de Mojave. Un coche detenido. Una luz imposible... Lo que comienza como una historia de abducción se transforma en una pesadilla biológica de proporciones cósmicas. ¿Qué quieren de él? ¿Por qué fue elegido? ¿Y quién es realmente el ser aterrador que parece reconocerlo? Vivisección Biopunk es un descenso brutal a lo más oscuro del alma, una obra que entrelaza horror corporal, ciencia ficción alienígena y una perturbadora exploración de la culpa y la memoria. G.G. Melies firma una nueva pieza inquietante que dejará marcas en la piel y en la ...

¿y si lo que creemos conocer del universo es apenas una parte? ¿Y si la realidad tuviera pliegues que no podemos ver, pero que afectan todo lo que somos? Este libro no busca enseñar ni convencer. Tampoco entretener en el sentido habitual. Propone algo más raro: pensar despacio, con la cabeza y con la imaginación al mismo tiempo. Parte de hechos reales de la física contemporánea, los entrelaza con ideas que rozan la filosofía y la ficción, y deja que cada lector saque sus propias conclusiones. No hay respuestas fáciles. Hay electrones que se comportan como si no tuvieran masa. Hay ...

Tales from the Pit is a blood-slick love letter to heavy metal and the nightmares it inspires. From the warped echoes of thrash riffs to the howl of guttural vocals, this anthology tears through the raw, blistered psyche of a generation raised on distortion. Inspired by the darkest cuts from Metallica, Slayer, Danzig, Pantera, Megadeth, Dethklok, and more, each story is a brutal hymn forged in feedback and fury. Inside these pages, you’ll find serial killers in makeup, cults born from stage dives, reapers with guitars, lost souls who never stopped screaming—and demons that bleed in time...

This exciting and groundbreaking fiction anthology showcases a number of new and emerging 2SQ (Two-Spirit and queer Indigenous) writers from across Turtle Island. These visionary authors show how queer Indigenous communities can bloom and thrive through utopian narratives that detail the vivacity and strength of 2SQness throughout its plight in the maw of settler colonialism's histories.

In a world shattered by the technological "Bloom," humanity’s last fragments of knowledge are guarded by scribes sworn to a single, sacred vow: We Preserve, We Endure, We Do Not Intervene. For Étienne, the Archive's most gifted Restorer, this vow is a death sentence. When he uncovers what he believes is a kill-switch that could undo the Bloom , he defies his order and casts himself into the wilds on a desperate quest for the cradle of the apocalypse. To survive, he must earn the trust of Geneviève, a hardened survivalist who has renounced the very technology he believes can save them. ...

The story begins when a mysterious, system-wide event inserts a perfect, elegant proof for the complex mathematical problem. R(5,5)=43 into every human computer system. Commander Katarina Volkov, a military officer whose instincts were honed by a past tragedy, assembles a team of specialists on Ares Station to decipher the message from the unknown intelligence, dubbed "The Collective". The team includes Dmitri Petrov, a synesthetic mathematician who perceives logic as music; Yelena Kozlov, a brilliant but rigid logician driven by a fear of chaos ; and Anastasia Novak, an unnervingly quiet ...

War rages across the Pacific as the USS Atticus is swept into patrolling southwest of Guam, but when the destroyer crew experiences oddities, they realize they may not be the harbinger anymore. As a tense mystery mounts, every moment becomes a test of nerve. A cryptic message arrives without a clue who is transmitting or why. Humor balances fear, the unknown is met face-to-face, and astonishment gives way to revelation. In this nautical science fiction suspense, the Atticus crew must once again weigh each word and decision carefully. Expect sharp dialogue, escalating stakes, and a twist ...

Runa has lived her entire life cradled within the living heart of Weltorm, the last of the great star-whales. Her home is a bioluminescent labyrinth of organic corridors, her playground a zero-gravity cathedral of shimmering tissue. Her parent is a being of such immense scale and antiquity that entire human histories are but fleeting thoughts to him, single notes in a symphony playing since the cosmos was young. Their communication is a language older than words, a quantum-entangled harmony that allows Weltorm to share a million years of memories: the silent, glorious violence of collapsing...

In The Marching Morons, C. M. Kornbluth delivers a biting science fiction satire set in a future where intelligence has all but vanished. With society ruled by mediocrity and the average IQ plummeting, one cunning man from the past awakens to seize control. A darkly humorous, prophetic tale about ignorance, manipulation, and the cost of cultural decay.

The old campfire story; that mysterious, dark tall-tale, told, or rather performed, in the midst of the wilderness by the dancing light and shadows of a small campfire, with the indubitable purpose of scaring young campers out of their proverbial wits. While good campfire story tellers could send quivers into the depths of childhood minds, the best performers could impose a freezing terror on their juvenile audiences leaving them with slightly unnerving, yet fond memories of a well-spent summer vacation.

Davidson, un hombre común, se ve atrapado en una experiencia aterradora y extraordinaria cuando, tras un inexplicable evento, pierde el contacto con el mundo real y comienza a percibir una realidad completamente diferente. Sus ojos ya no le pertenecen del todo, y lo que contempla desafía cualquier comprensión: paisajes distorsionados, seres inmateriales y la angustiante sensación de estar viendo más allá de los límites humanos.

Cuando Gottfried Plattner, un simple profesor de escuela, ingiere por accidente una misteriosa sustancia, su vida se transforma en un giro asombroso e inexplicable. Durante nueve días desaparece del mundo conocido, y lo que descubre al otro lado desafía toda lógica: dimensiones ocultas, sombras inquebrantables y un espacio donde lo humano se encuentra con lo extraño.

Un coleccionista de plantas adquiere una orquídea rara, desconocida y absolutamente fascinante. Pero lo que comienza como una simple curiosidad botánica pronto se transforma en una lucha por la supervivencia, cuando la planta revela su verdadero propósito: no sólo vive, sino que se alimenta de una manera inesperada y aterradora. La orquídea, que parece casi tener voluntad propia, desata una tensión creciente a medida que sus peligrosas intenciones se hacen evidentes.

These high-flying, suspense-filled adult fiction stories will leave you dazzled in amazement at how technology and cruelty go hand-in-hand to result in entertainment unlike any you have witnessed before. This book is loaded with suspense, mystery and unpredictable plot twists. You might have a seat, but you will only use the edge of it. This collection is an all-time classic — a mega-hit that will never die!

Jimmy Baker was just an ordinary kid in an ordinary town—until the day he threw a stupid rock over a fence and accidentally knocked Mike Callahan into a coma. Everyone thought it was an accident. Everyone thought Mike was just a quiet, strange kid who kept to himself. They were wrong. When Mike wakes up, he’s changed forever. He’s unlocked the full potential of the human brain—telekinesis, energy manipulation, and a hunger for more power than anyone should ever hold. And the worst part? It’s growing. Fast.

When Norm, a Boston businessman on a trip to Tokyo, gets into a random bar conversation with a stranger, all he expects to get out of it are some tips on Japanese etiquette. Instead, he quickly finds himself in an odd discussion about masks he wears every day, midlife crisis and happiness. As their conversation gets stranger and stranger, Norm starts questioning everything he thought he knew about himself -- and about what it means to be happy.

Discover ten unforgettable short stories that will captivate your imagination, challenge your thoughts, and take you on a journey through the unexpected. In this genre-spanning anthology, each story begins with a single striking image and unfolds into a vivid world of adventure, emotion, and intrigue. Whether you're a fan of science fiction, fantasy, dark humor, or philosophical musings, this collection offers something for everyone.

Sharru was born to lead. On his home planet Uhuru, he’s a symbol of strength, destined to one day command in a universal battle that defines entire civilizations. But as his 29th cycle nears, something inside him refuses to settle. It isn’t fear—it’s something stranger: a sound. A frequency no one else hears, calling him across galaxies.