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Follows the beats and adventures with the sergeants, detectives, and patrol officers of Jokertown's Fifth Precinct, "Fort Freak," where the person seated behind every other desk is not quite human.

A volume of interconnected stories and poems set at a Native American Dance for Mother Earth Powwow celebration in Ann Arbor, Michigan, includes contributions by such new and veteran writers as Joseph Bruchac, Dawn Quigley, and Traci Sorell.

Presents two short tales of sex, secrets, and misrepresentation, including "The greening of Mrs. Donaldson," in which a widow supplements her income by being a test subject for medical students and "The shielding of Mrs. Forbes," in which a disappointed middle-aged mother dotes on her only son, who believes he must shield her from the truth. The Shielding of Mrs Forbes: Graham Forbes is a disappointment to his mother, who thinks that if he must...

Presents a collection of humorous stories featuring an array of characters, with and without capes.

Features over fifteen mystery short stories set during Christmas, with some of the action taking place at the editor's real-life Mysterious Bookshop in New York City.

Capturing both the dark and lovable sides of the human experience, a collection of humurous and heartrending stories follows queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming characters as they seek love and connection.

This book is a collection of his short stories written in 1933-34. First published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themselves in the world, these stories reflect Steinbecks characteristic...

A collection of military science fiction tales journeys to the past, present, and future as it chronicles the exploits of a squadron of space fighter pilots who are lost in an interstellar void when their mother ship is destroyed, a Roman soldier who must destroy a usurper who is a figurehead for alien invaders, and two Vietnam vets who battle an insectoid horror, among others.

Every day we are discovering new worlds in far-reaching galaxies which may or may not sustain life as we know it. In Alien Archives: Eighteen Stories of Extraterrestrial Encounters, sci-fi Grand Master Robert Silverberg collects his finest short stories and novellas about one of the genres most enduring themes. Spanning fifty years of writing from the Science Fiction Grand Master, this collection of alien encounters features new introductions to all...