Books by Jay Lake

Green

by Jay Lake

(62 reviews)

Acclaimed author Jay Lake has created a remarkable character in Green, and evokes a remarkable world in this novel. Green and her struggle to survive and find her own past will live in the reader's mind for a long time after... See More

Mainspring (Clockwork Earth Book 1)

by Jay Lake

(43 reviews)

Jay Lake's first trade novel is an astounding work of creation. Lake has envisioned a clockwork solar system, where the planets move in a vast system of gears around the lamp of the Sun. It is a universe where the hand of... See More

Fiction River: Hex in the City (Fiction River: An Original Anthology Magazine Book 5)

by Fiction River

(30 reviews)

Urban fantasy offers a diverse playground for some extremely powerful stories. Professional writer and editor Kerrie L. Hughes pulled some fantastic tales out of fourteen top writers for this fifth installment of Fiction... See More

The 13th Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: 26 Great SF Stories!

by Jay Lake

(451 reviews)

The 13th Science Fiction MEGAPACK® continues the bestselling anthology series, presenting modern and classic works of speculative fiction. This edition features an interview with author Robert J. Sawyer plus 26 great... See More

The Fifth Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®

by Gardner Dozois

(807 reviews)

The fifth volume in the Science Fiction Megapack series collects 25 tales of high adventure through other worlds and times, including 5 Hugo and Nebula Award-winners and nominees. Featured this time are: AGAPE AMONG THE... See More

The Eighth Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®: 25 Modern and Classic Stories

by George R.R. Martin

(691 reviews)

"The Eighth Science Fiction Megapack" presents another stellar lineup of classic science fiction, new and old. Here are 25 stories (plus a bonus interview with best-selling author George R.R. Martin) by some of the field's... See More

Escapement (Clockwork Earth Book 2)

by Jay Lake

(9 reviews)

In his novel Mainspring, Lake created an enormous canvas for storytelling with his hundred mile high Equatorial Wall that holds up the great Gears of the Earth. Now in Escapement, he explores more of that territory... See More

Pinion (Clockwork Earth Book 3)

by Jay Lake

(15 reviews)

The third volume in Jay Lake's Clockwork Earth series continues the story of Paolina Barthes, Emily Childress, and Boaz, the mechanical man, as each seeks control of their destiny. Rejoin the adventure in the third novel of... See More

Two Stories: Looking for Truth in a Wild Blue Yonder & The Starship Mechanic: A Tor.Com Original

by Ken Scholes

Charlie is dealing with complicated grief, and even his therabot is out of ideas. But the back-alley grief counsellors might have something to help: it looks like blue asparagus, and it's called Wild Blue Yonder. At the... See More

Last Plane to Heaven: The Final Collection

by Jay Lake

(10 reviews)

Last Plane to Heaven is the final and definitive short story collection of award-winning SF author Jay Lake, author of Green, Endurance, and Kalimpura. Long before he was a novelist, SF writer Jay Lake, was an acclaimed... See More

Endurance (Green Book 2)

by Jay Lake

(28 reviews)

Green is back in Copper Downs. Purchased from her father in sunny Selistan when she was four years old, she was harshly raised to be a courtesan, companion, and bedmate of the Immortal Duke of Copper Downs. But Green... See More

A Water Matter: A Tor.Com Original (Green)

by Jay Lake

(3 reviews)

A tale of magic, revenge, and bitter death -- on the rain-spattered streets of the great city. This is epic fantasy not "in the tradition of Tolkien," but, instead, sensual, ominous, shot through with the sweat of fear and... See More

The Green Universe Trilogy: Green, Endurance, Kalimpura

by Jay Lake

(2 reviews)

This discounted ebundle of The Green Universe Trilogy includes: Green, Endurance, Kalimpura "Lake has configured his world-dominating empires, one British, the other Chinese, with huge and devoted attention to the last... See More

The Werewolf Megapack: 22 Classic and Modern Tales of Shape-Shifters!

by Jay Lake

(57 reviews)

"The Werewolf Megapack" collects 22 classic and modern tales of shape-shifters (and not just wolves!) -- including works by Jay Lake, Jack Williamson, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, John Gregory Betancourt, Rudyard Kipling, Saki, and... See More

The World Always Begins in Light: Prequel Story to Second Contact (Lost Colonies)

by Ruth Nestvold

(9 reviews)

The prequel to Second Contact, new science fiction by award winning writers Ruth Nestvold and Jay Lake! Sharan never wanted to be fleeing for her life on a foreign planet. But when Arnoldson leads a mutiny and takes over... See More

Realms 2: The Second Year of Clarkesworld Magazine (Clarkesworld Anthology)

by Jeffrey Ford

(19 reviews)

Selected from the Hugo and World Fantasy Award-nominated Clarkesworld Magazine, Realms 2 collects the work of twenty-four visionary writers of short fiction, including such World Fantasy, Philip K. Dick, Tiptree, Hugo and... See More

Clarkesworld: Year Four (Clarkesworld Anthology Book 4)

by Neil Clarke

(13 reviews)

Since 2006, Clarkesworld Magazine has been entertaining science fiction and fantasy fans with their brand of unique science fiction and fantasy stories. Collected here are all of the stories this Hugo Award-winning magazine... See More

Realms: The First Year of Clarkesworld Magazine (Clarkesworld Anthology Book 1)

by Jeff VanderMeer

(33 reviews)

Step into a world of wonder, epiphany and danger. From the return of old gods to the adventures of the last dragon on Earth, from quantum physics to manticores trained for the circus, this unique anthology takes readers on... See More

The Speed of Time: A Tor.Com Original

by Jay Lake

(3 reviews)

Strange things are happening in deep space, and then closer to home, and then closer; someone has pulled the plug on the universe. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management... See More

The Steampunk MEGAPACK®: 26 Modern and Classic Steampunk Stories

by Jay Lake

(151 reviews)

The Steampunk Megapack collects 26 tales of high adventure through Victorian and Edwardian eras--past, present, and future! Included are: MIDNIGHT AT VALDOSTA'S, by Jay Lake THE CASE OF THE PECULIAR SAFECRACKER, by G. D... See More

Space Opera

by Kage Baker

(42 reviews)

More than five-hundred pages, over one-quarter of a million words... Space Opera spans a vast range of epic interstellar adventure stories told against a limitless cosmos filled with exotic aliens, heroic characters, and... See More

Spicy Slipstream Stories

by Jay Lake

(4 reviews)

Slipstream stories are that weird combination of eloquent fancy and conventional literary form. Intended to make the reader feel out of sorts within the confines of their imagination, such fiction became the darling of small... See More

Uncanny Magazine Issue 1: November/December 2014

by Neil Gaiman

(21 reviews)

Uncanny Magazine is a bimonthly Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, bringing you new fiction, poetry, articles, and interviews. Our inaugural November/December 2014 issue features new fiction by Maria Dahvana... See More

Madness of Flowers

by Jay Lake

(1 review)

The battle has been fought and won, and all have been transformed by the struggle. Imago of Lockwood has become Lord Mayor of the City Imperishable, though at a price beyond his wildest imagination. Bijaz the Dwarf has been... See More

Trial of Flowers

by Jay Lake

(4 reviews)

The City Imperishable's secret master and heir to the long-vacant throne has vanished from a locked room, as politics have turned deadly in a bid to revive the city's long-vanished empire. The city's dwarfs, stunted from... See More

Dark Faith

by Jay Lake

(15 reviews)

2010 Stoker Award Nominee for Superior Achievement in an Anthology 2010 Black Quill Award Nominee "Ghosts of New York" Nebula Award Nominee "The Days of Flaming Motorcycles" WSFA Nominee The destructiveness of passion, both... See More

The Stars Do Not Lie ─ Hugo and Nebula Nominated Novella

by Jay Lake

(1 review)

Jay Lake's critically acclaimed novella takes a new look at a classic theme. A world strictly governed by religious dogma is challenged by a scientist who has discovered a key piece of information challenging long-held... See More

Paper Cities, An Anthology of Urban Fantasy

by Hal Duncan

(11 reviews)

2009 WORLD FANTASY AWARD WINNERThe city has always been a place of mystery, of magic, and wonder. In cities past, present, and future, in metropoli real and imagined, meet mutilated warrior-women, dead boys, mechanical dogs... See More

Tales From The Fathomless Abyss

by Mike Resnick

(3 reviews)

"At the heart of it, science fiction and fantasy authors are at play in the fields of wonder, fueled by "what if" and held hostage by the people, places and problems that populate our wacky, slightly-offset imaginations and... See More

The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 2

by Ian Creasey

(15 reviews)

A collection of the "best of the best" science fiction stories published in 2009 by current and emerging masters of the genre. In "Erosion," by Ian Creasey, a man tests the limits of his exo-suit prior to leaving a dying... See More