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Science Fiction
This anthology envisions winters of the future, with stories of scientists working together to protect narwhals from an oil spill, to bring snow back to the mountains of Maine, to preserve ecosystems -- even if they have to... See More
Science FictionThe room pulsed around him, its fetid breath almost palpable even through the helmet. The bodies of Commander Wu Suzhen and Major Sam Harris were woven into the wall, a superimposed lovers' embrace developed in resin and red... See More
Science Fiction
In 2109, there is no more space program. No more Discovery. No more Final Frontiers. See More
Genre Fiction"I can't remember the first time I met myself, but I've passed along the story to my younger self when it came to be my turn. I do remember the year I decided to come home every Christmas. I was ten years old, and my parents... See More
Humour & SatireIt's 2100. English is China's only language. Christmas is its biggest holiday. And Ying Wen has to find a present for his mother... See More
Reader reviews: "Excellent." "A touching tale of gender, choice, and, as Mathieu says, 'mafia movies.'" --- Whenever I skin, I go down to one of those Yoruba tattoo parlors and get a cut on my left knee, so it heals into... See More
Science FictionA thousand hours on the training mat, a hundred thousand falls. Rolling, weaving, the feeling of your center shifting underneath you... I wouldn't give it away for any amount of money. Even so, I did. Meet Murray-sensei... See More
FantasyThe Old must go that the New may come. So the Great Helmsman said. We must eliminate the Four Olds. So his generals and ministers said. But there were more than four. There were so many more than four. Bi Yadie's... See More
Science Fiction
Five thousand years before the end of the Earth, the star called WR-104 went supernova. Over the intervening centuries, its deadly gamma-ray burst hurtled across silent planets and empty space on a death-errand to that... See More
Science Fiction
" Ladli dabbed at her brow with the hem of her sari. It was not Proper, but then, neither was she. A proper auntie would not have wasted what few rupees they had on electricity from the neighbourhood's jugaar solar install... See More
Short Stories
Who is holding the stars hostage? Don't we all have the right to star-filled nights? Do you miss our Milky Way Galaxy arcing overhead? Explore answers in these creative tales of human (and alien) reaction to the yin-yang of... See More
Fantasy""I am going to piss," he said. The bluntness was liberating. In this last year, after Comrade Mao clarified that etiquette was merely the classist remnants of a feudal past. He spat freely, and walked away from the... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
From award-winning author R. Jean Mathieu comes No Time: The First Hour. Time-active detective Gabriel "Gooch" Caballero y Gutiérrez is woken from his bed on Good Friday and shown his dead body on the beach on Easter... See More
Science Fiction"As Savannah twisted around, she saw them. Just over her head, Dr. Marjane Satrapi floated in her polymer blanket, strapped to the bulkhead. She looked like she was just sleeping, her mouth slightly open and the deep lines... See More
Historical Fiction
Horror
Literary Fiction"They came home from the movies rather late, Russell Lake and Maggie Crowe. They'd dawdled in the lobby speaking in a language that was quite definitely English but which was at the same very personally their own. They'd... See More
Short Stories"Mary opened the door and craned her head around the door of her daughter's bedroom. Iris had the radio on full blast, and rocked her head in time to the thunderous roar of the beat. At the same time, her hand moved... See More
Science FictionIt's May 20, 2015, and California is burning. In college town San Luis Obispo, someone just put Chase/Manhattan to the torch. Stunned baby boomers and sarcastic Generation Xers gather to bemoan the violence, while one social... See More
Science Fiction
"It was about three in the afternoon, at least that's what it would've been on Earth. The sky was an angry purplish, like blood on the inside of your helmet, and it was ripping around, trying to kill us. The worst was... See More