American writer Jake Bauer faces an ultimatum from his agent: stay in a Paris apartment and don't venture outside until he finishes his latest book. But Alice should have known better than to expect Bauer would follow orders. Instead, he stops in London and enjoys an evening of lighthearted debauchery before sobering up aboard a houseboat moored in the Thames. It's then he meets Tessa, a French woman who delights him with her charm, beauty, and wit. In a moment, she's gone, and it's up to Bauer to track her down. But at what cost? When he finds her, Bauer discovers Tessa is not all she appeared to be. She's also suspected of being involved in a murder. The best of Europe, wine, and romance make Harvest a thrilling mystery full of surprises.
The last thing Jake Jennings wants is to return home. Burlington, Vermont was home until he and his mother are forced to relocate to New York because of his father’s conviction. When Jake receives the e-mail says Ben, his dog that was left behind is dying, he has no choice but return home despite his better judgment. Upon his arrival he finds it was a ruse to get him to return. A marine biologist who befriended Jake during his father's trial was found drowned in full SCUBA gear off Chimney Point. Jake’s friends are convinced the new owners of Hannibal Island are responsible and want him to investigate. He promises to snoop around for a couple of days, then he's out of there. But curiosity gets the better of him when the facts begin to indicate that the drowning wasn't accidental.
While skier Philip Stone takes a fast downhill run he discovers a man's cold body in the snow. In the dead man's arms is a live and beautiful woman. Stone cuts himself into a lethal game of big bucks and stolen art worth millions and where he or death may be the big winner.
Surveying the later work of W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens, Edward Clarke unfolds their very last poems and considers the two poets' relations with western literature and tradition. This book shows how these two latecomers transform the ways in which we read earlier poets.
Tall and bronzed by a western sun and wind, Donald Morrison was no one’s fool and he liked it that way. He was a gun-slinging hero back in the 1880’s who honed his skill as a cowboy riding the Chisholm and Shawnee Trails. But his life changes when he is summoned home to the Eastern Townships of Quebec, just up from Vermont. His family was in danger of losing the precious homestead, and they knew Donald was the one to set it right. In trying to wrest back the farm, Donald is drawn into a series of turns that ultimately lead to a dramatic western-style gunfight in the sleepy town of Megantic. He is forced to shoot first to save his own life, an act of self-defense, which becomes a charge of murder. This is the true story of one young man's fight against greed perpetuated by the moneylenders. Against those in high places who took advantage of immigrants coming to a new land to find peace, but finding only anguish and hardship. WANTED is a remarkable story of courage, of love, greed and betrayal, of fiery passions and a man willing to face life on its own terms.
Selected from the Hugo award-winning Clarkesworld Magazine, this anthology collects the work of twenty-seven visionary writers of short fiction, including such World Fantasy, Philip K. Dick, Tiptree, Hugo, and Campbell Award winners and finalists as Jay Lake, Nnedi Okorafor, Robert Reed, Sarah Monette, Mike Resnick, Lavie Tidhar, N.K. Jemisin and Catherynne M. Valente. Contents: Introduction by Neil Clarke Non-Zero Probabilities by N. K. Jemisin The Second Gift Given by Ken Scholes Walking with a Ghost by Nick Mamatas Celadon by Desirina Boskovich Teaching Bigfoot to Read by Geoffrey W. Cole The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew by Catherynne M. Valente The Jisei of Mark VIII by Berrien C. Henderson Passwords by John A. McDermott Idle Roomer by Mike Resnick and Lezli Robyn From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7 by Nnedi Okorafor Gift of the Kites by Jim C. Hines batch 39 and the deadman's switch by Simon DeDeo Rolling Steel: A Pre-Apocalyptic Love Story by Jake Lake and Shannon Page The Completely Rechargeable Man by Karen Heuler Episode 72 by Don Webb Placa del Fuego by Tobias S. Buckell Herding Vegetable Sheep by Ekaterina Sedia The Devonshire Arms by Alex Dally MacFarlane The Loyalty of Birds by Rachel Sobel The Giving Heart by Corie Ralston White Charles by Sarah Monette On the Lot and In the Air by Lisa L Hannett A Woman's Best Friend by Robert Reed The Dying World by Lavie Tidhar Advection by Genevieve Valentine
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 published during their fourth year. Included in this volume are twenty-four stories by visionary writers of short fiction, including Jay Lake, Kij Johnson, Catherynne M. Valente, Robert Reed, Lavie Tidhar, Peter Watts and more CONTENTS Introduction by Neil Clarke Between Two Dragons by Yoon Ha Lee The Cull by Robert Reed The Mermaids Singing Each to Each by Cat Rambo Of Melei, of Ulthar by Gord Sellar Night, in Dark Perfection by Richard Parks The Grandmother-Granddaughter Conspiracy by Marissa Lingen Brief Candle by Jason K. Chapman All the King's Monsters by Megan Arkenberg Torquing Vacuum by Jay Lake The Language of the Whirlwind by Lavie Tidhar A Sweet Calling by Tony Pi Alone with Gandhari by Gord Sellar The History Within Us by Matthew Kressel January by Becca De La Rosa Messenger by J.M. Sidorova A Jar of Goodwill by Tobias S. Buckell Futures in the Memories Market by Nina Kiriki Hoffman My Father's Singularity by Brenda Cooper Beach Blanket Spaceship by Sandra McDonald The Association of the Dead by Rahul Kanakia Spar by Kij Johnson Paper Cradle by Stephen Gaskell Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time by Catherynne M. Valente The Things by Peter Watts Clarkesworld Citizens - Official Census About Clarkesworld
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 published during the first half of their ninth year. Includes stories by Aliette de Bodard, Naomi Kritzer, Ken Liu, Robert Reed, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Catherynne M. Valente, Kij Johnson, Jay Lake, Matthew Kressel, Rich Larson, and many more!
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