Search Worlds Without End

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1986) - essay
Capricorn Games - (1974) - novelette
The Dybbuk of Mazel Tov IV - (1974) - shortstory
Ishmael in Love - (1970) - shortstory
Trips - (1974) - novelette
Schwartz Between the Galaxies - (1974) - novelette
Many Mansions - (1973) - novelette
Good News from the Vatican - (1971) - shortstory
In the Group - (1973) - shortstory
The Feast of St. Dionysus - (1973) - novella
Caught in the Organ Draft - (1972) - shortstory
{Now + n, Now - n} - (1972) - novelette
Caliban - (1972) - shortstory
Getting Across - (1973) - novelette
Breckenridge and the Continuum - (1973) - novelette
In the House of Double Minds - (1974) - novelette
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame - (1973) - shortstory
The Wind and the Rain - (1973) - shortstory
A Sea of Faces - (1974) - shortstory
What We Learned from This Morning's Newspaper - (1972) - shortstory
Ship-Sister, Star-Sister - (1973) - novelette
When We Went to See the End of the World - (1972) - shortstory
Push No More - (1972) - novelette
Some Notes on the Pre-Dynastic Epoch - (1973) - shortstory
In Entropy's Jaws - (1971) - novelette
Ms. Found in an Abandoned Time Machine - (1973) - shortstory
The Mutant Season - (1973) - shortstory
This Is the Road - (1973) - novella

To Worlds Beyond

Table of Contents:

About Robert Silverberg - essay by Isaac Asimov
Introduction - essay by Robert Silverberg
The Old Man - (1957) - shortstory
New Men for Mars - (1957) - novelette
Collecting Team - (1956) - shortstory
Double Dare - (1956) - shortstory
The Overlord's Thumb - (1958) - novelette
Ozymandias - (1958) - shortstory
Certainty - (1959) - shortstory
Mind for Business - (1956) - shortstory
Misfit - (1957) - shortstory

Valley Beyond Time

Beyond the Silver Sky / Meeting at Infinity

Valley Beyond Time- Four shattering excursions out of this worls, into the future and beyond the furthest reaches of imagination. -where men are but flies to gods unknown, where weapons that don't exist cand kill, where honor can be the deadliest of virtues and where man lives in terror of ever-encouching youth.

Table of Contents:

Introduction - (1973) - essay
Valley Beyond Time - (1957) - novella
The Flame and the Hammer - (1957) - novella
The Wages of Death - (1958) - novelette
Spacerogue - (1958) - novelette

Beyond the Wall

Justin Stanchfield

This story originally appeared in the anthology Ruins Extraterrestrial (2007), edited by Eric T. Reynolds. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection (2008), edited by Gardner Dozois.

Beyond

Theodore Sturgeon

This collection, including the famous "Abreaction" and "Like Young", shows Sturgeon at the peak of his mastery of mind and heart expanding story telling.

Table of Contents:

Need - (1960)
Abreaction - (1948)
Nightmare Island - (1941)
Largo - (1947)
The Bones - (1943)
Like Young - (1960)

The Beyond

Jean Sutton
Jeff Sutton

An agent, sent to a distant planet where those with telepathic powers are banished, and ordered to find the person with the ability to move objects by thought, discovers to his horror that he is telepathic.

Beyond Apollo

Jeff Sutton

Mission: Delivery of the first permanent station to the moon and putting it into operation. It should have been Go all the way. Lift-off was perfect. Moon orbit a-ok. But then Chuck Logan got sick from the weightlessness and Apollo 2 had to get back to earth fast, Big Lander, the space station was swinging in yaw, cartwheeling in the horizontal plane. A hundred million dollars' worth of complex equipment functioned perfectly, then a fifty-cent part failed. Would they have to abort? Tension mount s as Martin Clay, command pilot of Apollo 1, has to make some quick and startling decisions.

Away and Beyond

A. E. Van Vogt

Contains:

Vault of the Beast
The Great Engine
The Great Judge
Secret Unattainable
The Harmonizer
Heir Unapparent
The Second Solution
Film Library
Asylum

Beyond Any Measure

Karl Edward Wagner

WFA winning novella. It originally appeared in Whispers #15-16, March 1982. The story can also be found in the anthologies Whispers V (1985), edited by Stuart David Schiff, The Mammoth Book of Vampires (1992), edited by Stephen Jones, A Taste for Blood (1992), edited by Martin H. Greenberg, and The Vampire Hunters' Casebook (1996), edited by Peter Haining. It is included in the collections In a Lonely Place (1983), Karl Edward Wagner: Masters of the Weird Tale (2011) and Where the Summer Ends (2012).

Beyond the Hanging Wall

Sara Douglass

Like his physician father, Garth Baxtor is gifted with The Touch. By laying his hands upon a person, Garth can sense what dwells within: pain, illness, joy, or sorrow. It is through the application of The Touch that the gifted minister helps the sick of Escator by diagnosing ills and promoting healing.

By decree of the royal treasury, for a period of three weeks each year, physicians of Escator - in lieu of taxes - are required to attend to the needs of the criminals who labor endlessly in the Veins, the labyrinth of mines carved deep into the earth and from which they harvest the gloam-a priceless commodity upon which the fortunes of Escator depend.

It is during one such period of mandatory service that Joseph Baxtor decides his son is old enough to accompany him to the Veins as his apprentice. Garth is delighted. It's a chance to escape the dull and dreary surroundings of his quiet village for the delights of the capital city of Ruen. Joseph has been ordered to attend King Cavor himself. Garth will actually meet the king in person!

As he discovers all too soon, however, the task at hand is a grim one. Descending into the mines for the first time, Garth could hardly be less prepared for what he encounters: thousands of men laboring like animals in dreadful conditions deep below the earth's surface.

Applying his hands to the wound of one prisoner known only as Lot No. 859, Garth is stunned by what he discovers. This man is no common criminal. But then, who is he? Could it be? After all these years?

Prince Maximillian?

The answer to the riddle will involve Garth in a harrowing journey out of the Veins and into the Land of Dreams as he tries to resolve the question of the identity of Lot No 859. In the process, Garth will solve a centuries-old mystery-a mystery that will pit one king against another and shake the Kingdom of Escator to its foundations.

Beyond the Rift

Peter Watts

Skillfully combining complex science with finely executed prose, these edgy, award-winning tales explore the always-shifting border between the known and the alien.

The beauty and peril of technology and the passion and penalties of conviction merge in stories that are by turns dark, satiric, bold, and introspective. A seemingly humanized monster from John Carpenter's The Thing reveals the true villains in an Antarctic showdown. An artificial intelligence shields a biologically-enhanced prodigy from her overwhelmed parents. A deep-sea diver discovers that her true nature lies not within the confines of her mission but in the depths of her psyche. A court psychologist analyzes a psychotic graduate student who has learned to reprogram reality itself. A father tries to hold his broken family together in the wake of an ongoing assault by sentient rainstorms.

Gorgeously saturnine and exceptionally powerful, these collected fictions are both intensely thought-provoking and impossible to forget.

Table of Contents:

The Things - (2010) - shortstory
The Island - (2009) - novelette
The Second Coming of Jasmine Fitzgerald - (1998) - novelette
A Word for Heathens - (2004) - novelette
Home - (1999) - shortstory
The Eyes of God - (2008) - shortstory
Flesh Made Word - (1994) - shortstory
Nimbus - (1994) - shortstory
Mayfly - (2005) - shortstory by Peter Watts and Derryl Murphy
Ambassador - (2001) - shortstory by Peter Watts
Hillcrest v. Velikovsky - (2008) - shortstory
Repeating the Past - (2007) - shortstory
A Niche - (1990) - novelette
Outtro: En Route to Dystopia with the Angry Optimist - (2013) - essay

Beyond Enemies

Marisa Wolf

Talinn Reaze and Bee serve as "Breezy," part of the United Colonial Force's elite Artificial Intelligence Troops. Trained for full integration since before Talinn's birth, they exceeded expectations and became one of the premier heavy tanks, leading assaults on several fronts of the long war against the Interstellar Defense Corps.

When they're thrown to a backwater base without cause, boredom becomes their main enemy--until the world falls out from under their treads and they begin to question everything they've ever known.

As they orient to their new reality, they have a decision to make: Uphold the status quo, or risk burning civilization to the ground?

Talinn and Bee always did have a fondness for fire.

John Brunner
Kenneth Bulmer

Beyond the Silver Sky

Keston Ochiltree's visit home had been short and disastrous. His newborn nephew had proved to be one of the Hopeless Ones and had only served to remind him of the present plight of mankind. Keston knew that the decision he was being called on to make might mean a new start for humanity or the end of their underwater civilization.

Each day found more Hopeless Ones being born: pitiful creatures with webbed hands and feet. More important, the inhuman Zammu were pressing their attack in a fierce struggle between species. Most important, the silver sky was lowering. The shimmering sky-level would soon shrink until they had all burned in the gaseous beyond.

So Keston's decision might mean everything. Should he stay in the Emperor's shark-cavalry to fight the Zammu? Or should he join Professor Lansing in an illegal attempt to find what lay beyond the silver sky?

Meeting at Infinity

Allyn Vage was once a beautiful woman, but due to an accident - which may have been a murder attempt - she was now a hopeless cripple, burned and disfigured and without the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. When they brought her to Jome Knard, that noted physician had no choice but to employ a certain apparently miraculous device, incomprehensible even to him, to keep her immobile body alive and to restore and regulate her sensory perception.

This strange machine had been imported from a seemingly primitive people on the world of Akkilmar. They had allowed it to be exported, but there was something about it they couldn't - or wouldn't - explain.

Little did either the doctor or his patient realize that between them they had now become the lever that could topple a world!

Fugitive of the Stars / Land Beyond the Map

Edmond Hamilton
Kenneth Bulmer

Fugitive of the Stars

Doom cruise of the starship Vega Queen.

Wanted: One outlawed space pilot!
Horne, the spaceship's pilot , had been warned."Don't forget the meteor swarm." And Horne's directional calculations for the Vega Queen's course took that advice into account; the spaceship would go fifteen thousand miles out of its way to avoid those deadly celestial rocks

But when Horne went off duty, he felt himself numbed by a curious druglike leadenness. And the next thing he knew, he was in a lifeboat, speeding away from the floating wreckage of the Vega Queen.

Eighteen survivors out of one hundred and fifty-three passengers. And each one in the tiny space shell believed Horne responsible... deliberate negligence, calculated destruction...

Someone had drugged Horne, he knew; someone had tampered with the ship to alter its course. But who? And for what cosmic purpose?

Land Beyond the Map

Take this route to... Oblivion.

Expressway to an uncharted sphere.
"They're about!" the woman whispered, and Crane abruptly saw a strange light shining through the heavy black curtains that shrouded the house. He crossed to the window and before anyone could stop him he drew the curtain back.

At first he did not understand what he saw: a round gleaming, color-running orb stared unwinkingly back into his face. It was... an eye. An immense sad eye staring at him through the chink of the curtains, an eye surrounded by a living whorl of flame that he had last seen engulfing poor Barney in the parking lot.

At least three others had disappeared into the strange world from which those aliens had come, and a girl had been driven insane by them. And before Crane's quest to unravel the secret of the Map Country was complete, the fate of two worlds would hang in the balance.

Beyond the Vanishing Point / The Secret of Zi

Kenneth Bulmer
Ray Cummings

Beyond the Vanishing Point

THEY OPENED THE PANDORA'S BOX OF ATOMIC TRAVEL

When George Randolph first caught sight of Orena, he was astounded by its gleaming perfection. Here were hills and valleys, lakes and streams, glowing with the light of the most precious of metals. And, more astonishing than that, it was a world of miniature perfection--an infinitely tiny universe within a golden atom!

But for Randolph it was also a world aglow with danger. Somewhere in its tiny vastness were the friends he had to rescue. Captives of a madman, they had been reduced to native Orena size; to return to Earth, they needed the growth capsules Randolph was bringing them. It was up to Randolph to find them--and quickly--for the longer they stayed tiny, the closer they came to passing BEYOND THE VANISHING POINT!

The Secret of Zi

For something like two hundred and fifty years Earth had been dominated by humanoid aliens from the star world of Alishang. But man's spirit refused to be conquered. There was a world-wide underground planning for the day of final liberation. And there were four leaders who knew the secret that would guarantee victory - the secret of Zi.

Rupert Clinton, intelligence man for this underground, was not one of those four; yet somewhere deep in the recesses of his subconscious mind, he knew Zi's secret.

Electric Sword Swallowers / Beyond Capella

Kenneth Bulmer
John Rackham

Electric Sword Swallowers

Delilah was beautiful. Delilah was sexy. And Delilah was to blame for all of Ferdie Foxlee's problems. She had let him down at the crucial moment by falling apart. Literally. And in pieces.

Her right eye popped, dangling on multicoloured cables. Her right breast spun around and flew off into the distance. As her fuses blew, her smile melted in a blaze of sparks.

As an expert in ectoplasmic electronic creations, Ferdie had clearly failed. But eepee experts - even one like Ferdie - are in very high demand. So when he panicked and ran, he ran into the waiting arms of the underworld...

Beyond Capella

They gave him an expendable ship, a screwball crew, and an enemy nobody could locate.

Beyond the Galactic Rim / The Ship From Outside

A. Bertram Chandler

Beyond the Galactic Rim

Contents:

Forbidden Planet (1959)
Wet Paint (1959)
The Man Who Could Not Stop (1959)
The Key (1959)

The Ship From Outside

The reward for rescuing Thermopylae is finally paid, and Calver and his shipmates from Lorn Lady purchase a ship and rename her The Outsider. Two years are spent as a charter to Rim Runners, then six months tramping, before Sonya Verrill reappears and engineers a charter from the Federation Survey Service to look for an alien derelict. She accompanies Outsider, but proves very disruptive to Jane Calver.

Beyond This Horizon

Robert A. Heinlein

Hamilton Felix, the result of generations of genetic selection, finds his life as the ultimate man boring, until a gang of revolutionaries tries to enlist him in their cause.

The History of Our World Beyond the Wave

R. E. Klein

A tidal wave came, as high as the stars and hissing, and it washed away bathers, buildings, all civilization. Paul Sant survived by clinging to a surf mat. Eventually he found land-but unlike land he had ever know. Combining an allegory of good and evil with adventure that takes us through nightmare to salvation-including knights in armor, fish people called Gugs, and an ominous yelloe Volkswagon-R.E. Klein creates a world that is strange beyond our imagination yet familiar to the heart, a world where things may not be real, but they are true. In the History of Our World Beyond the Wave, Klein imagines a world washed clean of materialism, cynicism, of the emptiness of modern life, a world where the metaphysical and the magical are again possible.

Stadium Beyond the Stars

Milton Lesser

En route to the Center of the Galaxy for the Interstellar Olympic Games, the HELLAS, carrying Earth's team, intercepts a mysterious space ship, apparently derelict. Steve Frazer, champion spacesuit racer, volunteers to investigate.

Once aboard, he discovers astonishing evidence of an intelligent nonhuman race that can speak by telepathy and disappear at will - a race superior in some ways to human beings. Stunned, Steve returns to the HELLAS to find that no one believes his startling story.

His attempts to prove that he is telling the truth plunge Steve quickly into the midst of interstellar conflict and intrigue. Disqualified from the Games on a trumped-up charge, Steve soon realizes that someone very powerful thinks he knows too much.

Tightly written and intensely dramatic, the story sweeps to the outermost reaches of the galaxy. Its picture of the Games with their brilliant color and keen competition is entirely new to the pages of science fiction.

Beyond Earth's Gates / Daybreak--2250 A.D

Andre Norton
Lewis Padgett
C. L. Moore

Beyond Earth's Gates

THE LOVELIEST GIRL IN TWO WORLDS - AND THE DEADLIEST!

Under Eddie Burton's management the ambitious starlet Lorna Maxwell seemed headed for the top of Broadway's glamorous world of make-believe. And then she vanished - through a wall where there was no door. Eddie found himself plunging after her into a city beyond reality.

In that weird twin city to New York, Eddie became a hunted fugitive while his girl friend turned up as an ever-present face and all-pervading voice that awed and mystified the inhabitants. And Eddie learned that between him and return to his natural home stood her new manager, a mysterious figure who ruled by a tyrannical combination of super-scientific miracle and brute force.

Daybreak--2250 A.D

Two centuries after an atomic war on earth, a silver-haired mutant sets out on a dangerous search for a lost city of the ruined civilization.

Invaders from Earth and To Worlds Beyond

The Void Beyond and Other Stories / The Blue Atom

Invaders from Earth

Earth's colony on Ganymede is under attack. The people of Earth demand reprisal, and the United Nations must take action to protect the interests of the people.

But Ted Kennedy is worried. He has been to Ganymede and seen the "people"; and knows a truth too terrifying to reveal. Only he can convince the leaders of Earth that they are victims of a hoax. His life may be forfeit, but he is determined to live long enough to stop the INVADERS FROM EARTH

To Worlds Beyond

Collection containing:

The Old Man - (1957) - shortstory
New Men for Mars - (1957) - novelette
Collecting Team - (1956) - shortstory
Double Dare - (1956) - shortstory
The Overlord's Thumb - (1958) - novelette
Ozymandias - (1958) - shortstory
Certainty - (1959) - shortstory
Mind for Business - (1956) - shortstory
Misfit - (1957) - shortstory

Robert Moore Williams

The Void Beyond and Other Stories

Contents:

The Void Beyond
Refuge for Tonight
The Challenge
The Weapon
The Stubborn Men
The Final Frontier

The Blue Atom

Who controls it, controls all.

A Sky Beyond the Storm

An Ember in the Ashes: Book 4

Sabaa Tahir

The long-imprisoned jinn are on the attack, wreaking bloody havoc in villages and cities alike. But for the Nightbringer, vengeance on his human foes is just the beginning.

By his side, Commandant Keris Veturia declares herself Empress, and calls for the heads of any and all who defy her rule. At the top of the list? The Blood Shrike and her remaining family.

Laia of Serra, now allied with the Blood Shrike, struggles to recover from the loss of the two people most important to her. Determined to stop the approaching apocalypse, she throws herself into the destruction of the Nightbringer. In the process, she awakens an ancient power that could lead her to victory--or to an unimaginable doom.

And deep in the Waiting Place, the Soul Catcher seeks only to forget the life--and love--he left behind. Yet doing so means ignoring the trail of murder left by the Nightbringer and his jinn. To uphold his oath and protect the human world from the supernatural, the Soul Catcher must look beyond the borders of his own land. He must take on a mission that could save--or destroy--all that he knows.

Beyond the Fringe

Arcana Imperii: Book 2

Miles Cameron

Following the events of ARTIFACT SPACE, the galaxy continues to change and expand. Frontiers are challenged and what was once a safe space becomes contested, hostile, and unpredictable.

From normal people caught up in the unstoppable machinations of politics and war, to spies faced with making the ultimate sacrifice for their nations, these stories follow the DHC as it faces a challenge to everything it holds dear - human rights, fairness and equality. When a rogue system questions their values and power, how can they stay true to their beliefs and protect their citizens?

And what are these rumours about new aliens lurking beyond the edges of known space?

Far Beyond the Wave

Arthur War Lord: Book 2

Dafydd ab Hugh

Traveling back in time to Arthur's Camelot to intercept a bloodthirsty plot, intelligence agent Peter Smythe lands in the body of Lancelot, whose will battles Smythe's for domination, while the quest hangs in the balance.

The Wood Beyond the World

Ballantine Adult Fantasy: Book 3

William Morris

When the wife of Golden Walter betrays him for another man, he leaves home on a trading voyage to avoid the necessity of a feud with her family. His efforts are fruitless, as word comes to him en route that his wife's clan has killed his father. As a storm then carries him to a faraway country, the effect of this news is merely to sunder his last ties to his homeland. Walter comes to the castle of an enchantress, from which he rescues a captive maiden in a harrowing adventure (or rather, she rescues him). They flee through a region inhabited by mini-giants, eventually reaching a city whose custom is to take as ruler when the throne is vacant the next foreigner to arrive. The late king having died, Walter and his new love are hailed as the new monarchs, and presumably live happily ever after.

Beyond the Golden Stair

Ballantine Adult Fantasy: Book 23

Hannes Bok

Hibbert, an imprisoned innocent, is caught up in the jailbreak of his cellmate Scarlatti, engineered with the assistance of another man, Burks. Forcing Hibbert to accompany them, Scarlatti and Burks make for the Florida Everglades, picking up Scarlatti's girlfriend Carlotta on the way.

In the Everglades the four encounter a miraculous golden stairway extending into the sky. Ascending, they find a pool defended by a blue flamingo, which is killed by Burks. Another stairway leads them to the land of Khoire, a strange and mysterious paradise. There a man named Patur exposes the true nature of each by means of a crystal mask. He warns them that they will be transformed in accordance with those natures within a day, and must leave Khoire.

Scarlatti and Carlotta's alteration is horrible, and they are consumed by a huge beast; Burks agrees to become a blue flamingo, taking the place of the guardian of the pool, in the hope of some day being readmitted to Khoire. Hibbert is little changed. Returning to the mundane world, he undertakes to find certain persons who can help him gain his own readmittance to Khoire, having fallen in love with one of its denizens, Mareth of the Watchers.

Beyond the Fields We Know

Ballantine Adult Fantasy: Book 47

Lord Dunsany

Beyond the fields we know, in the Lands of Dream, lies the Valley of the Yann where the mighty river of that name, rising in the Hills of Hap, idling its way by massive dream-evoking amethyst cliffs, orchid-laden forests, and ancient mysterious cities, comes to the Gates of Yann and passes to the sea.

Table of Contents:

About Beyond the Fields We Know and Lord Dunsany: Return to the World's Edge - essay by Lin Carter
The Gods of Pegana - [Pegana] - (1905)
Of Skarl the Drummer - [Pegana] - (1905)
Of the Making of the Worlds - [Pegana] - (1905)
Of the Game of the Gods - [Pegana] - (1905)
The Chaunt of the Gods - [Pegana] - (1905)
The Sayings of Kib - [Pegana] - (1905)
Concerning Sish - [Pegana] - (1905)
The Sayings of Slid - [Pegana] - (1905)
The Deeds of Mung - [Pegana] - (1905)
The Chaunt of the Priests - [Pegana] - (1905)
The Sayings of Limpang-Tung - [Pegana] - (1905)
Of Yoharneth-Lahai - [Pegana] - (1905)
Of Roon, the God of Going - [Pegana] - (1905)
The Revolt of the Home Gods - [Pegana] - (1905)
Of Dorozhand - [Pegana] - (1905)
The Eye in the Waste - [Pegana] - (1905)
Of the Thing That Is Neither God Nor Beast - [Pegana] - (1905)
Yonath the Prophet - [Pegana] - (1905)
Yug the Prophet - [Pegana] - (1905)
Alhireth-Hotep the Prophet - [Pegana] - (1905)
Kabok the Prophet - [Pegana] - (1905)
Of the Calamity That Befel Yun-Ilara by the Sea - [Pegana] - (1905)
Of How the Gods Whelmed Sidith - [Pegana] - (1905)
Of How Imbaun Became High Prophet in Aradec - [Pegana] - (1905)
Of How Imbaun Met Zodrak - [Pegana] - (1905)
Pegana - [Pegana] - (1905)
The Sayings of Imbaun - [Pegana] - (1905)
Of How Imbaun Spake of Death to the King - [Pegana] - (1905)
Of Ood - [Pegana] - (1905)
The River - [Pegana] - (1905)
The Bird of Doom and the End - [Pegana] - (1905)
How Slid Made War Against the Gods - [Pegana] - (1906)
The Vengeance of Men - [Pegana] - (1906)
When the Gods Slept - [Pegana] - (1906)
For the Honour of the Gods - [Pegana] - (1906)
The Wisdom of Ord - [Pegana] - (1972)
Night and Morning - [Pegana] - (1906)
The Secret of the Gods - [Pegana] - (1906)
The Relenting of Sarnidac - [Pegana] - (1906)
The Jest of the Gods - [Pegana] - (1906)
The Dreams of a Prophet - [Pegana] - (1906)
King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior - (1911) - play
In the Sahara - (1929) - poem
Songs From an Evil Wood - (1917) - poem
The Riders - (1928) - poem
The Watchers - (1929) - poem
The Enchanted People - (1928) - poem
The Happy Isles - (1929) - poem
A Word in Season - (1929) - poem
The Quest - (1929) - poem
The Kith of the Elf-Folk - (1908)
The Sword of Welleran - (1908)
The Madness of Andelsprutz - (1908)
The Sword and the Idol - (1909)
Miss Cubbidge and the Dragon of Romance - (1911)
Chu-Bu and Sheemish - (1911)
How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles - (1911)
A Story of Land and Sea - (1914)
The Naming of Names: Notes on Lord Dunsany's Influence on Modern Fantasy Writers - essay by Lin Carter

Beyond World's End

Bedlam Bard: Book 4

Rosemary Edghill
Mercedes Lackey

THIS IS YOUR SOUL ON DRUGS

After the events chronicled in Bedlam's Bard, world-saving bard and magician Eric Banyon moves into his new New York apartment hoping to settle down to the quiet life. No such luck: his building is a safe-house for a group of occultist Guardians protecting the city from supernatural evil. And there's a new evil for them to guard against....

When unethical drug researchers discover that they can induce amazing mental powers using psychotropic drugs, they begin planning to raise a drug-enslaved army of mercenaries and grow very, very rich. But this gets the attention of Aerune mac Audelaine, lord of the dark Unseleighe Sidney, who hopes to use the drugs to break through to the human world and feed on the suffering there. Both plans will bring terror to the world-and both are threatened by the very existence of Eric Banyan.

With his possibly loyal companions-a beautiful elven half-breed and a gargoyle Eric heads for a three-way battle of wizardry that will determine Gotham's fate-and his own.

Beyond Rejection

Beyond: Book 1

Justin Leiber

A man wakes up in a different body, a woman's body, through illegal mind implantation. He strives to find his own body in this space sci-fi novel.

Beyond Humanity

Beyond: Book 2

Justin Leiber

In Beyond Humanity, the protagonist deals with the claims to personhood of both apes and computers.

Beyond Gravity

Beyond: Book 3

Justin Leiber

In Beyond Gravity, Leiber's protagonist discovers that earth has long been studied by alien "anthropologists," who write articles about humans which appear in a journal whose title might be translated into humanese as "Primitivity Review."

Monsters in the Mirror

Beyond the Mirror: Book 1

A. J. Hartley

Darwen Arkwright's world is turned upside down when he is forced to move from a small English town to Atlanta in the United States of America. Feeling out of place and struggling to fit in at school, Darwen seeks solace in a mysterious shop full of mirrors. It's there that he discovers the ability to step through mirrors in to different worlds - worlds beyond his wildest imagination. Darwen befriends creatures including Moth, a tiny being with mechanical wings, but he soon learns that there is a terrible darkness threatening this new world... and only he can save it.

The problem with doors is that they open both ways. There are monsters inside, and some of them are trying to get out

The Mirroculist Mission

Beyond the Mirror: Book 2

A. J. Hartley

Eleven-year-old Darwen Arkwright's ordinary life changed forever when he was given a magical mirror, a portal to the wonderful world of Silbrica. Darwen defeated the terrible monsters released from the mirror once. Now, an even more terrifying beast has escaped through the mirror.

Darwen and his friends, Rik and Alexandra, must journey to Costa Rica to save the world from a giant tentacled creature that leaves destruction in its wake. This time, old allies can't be trusted, and the danger runs deeper than Darwen could have ever imagined.

The problem with doors is that they open both ways. There are monsters inside, and some of them are trying to get out ...

The Mirrors Shattered

Beyond the Mirror: Book 3

A. J. Hartley

The problem with doors is that they open both ways. There are monsters inside, and some of them are trying to get out...

Mr. Peregrine has been kidnapped! Now it's up to Darwen, Rik, and Alexandra to rescue him. They'll embark upon a journey that will take them deeper into Silbrica than they've ever gone before, and there, on the other side of the mirror, they'll find the strangest sight of all: an exact replica of Hillside Academy. This is only the first of many connections that Darwen and his friends are about to discover between the human world and the world of Silbrica. And as the connections begin piling up, they'll be forced to confront the most horrifying realisation of all: they've been lied to this entire time.

Beyond Time: Classic Tales of Time Unwound

British Library Science Fiction Classics: Book 11

Mike Ashley

Time travel has long been a staple of science fiction. Removing the bonds of time on a story allows for many interesting possibilities, but it also presents complicated problems and paradoxes.

In this collection, featuring stories from the 1880s to the 1960s, we are taken to the remote future and back to the distant past. We are trapped in an eternal loop and met with visitors and objects from the future. We come face to face with our past selves, and experience the chaos of living out of sync with everyone else in the universe.

These are just some of the thrilling narratives to discover as we unwind the constraints of time.

Contents:

Introduction (Beyond Time: Classic Tales of Time Unwound) - (2019) - essay by Mike Ashley
The Clock That Went Backward - (1881) - short story by Edward Page Mitchell
The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper - (1932) - short story by H. G. Wells
Omega - (1932) - short story by Amelia Reynolds Long
The Book of Worlds - (1929) - short story by Miles J. Breuer, M.D.
The Branches of Time - (1935) - short story by David R. Daniels
The Reign of the Reptiles - (1935) - novelette by Alan Connell
Friday, the Nineteenth - (1950) - short story by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
Look After the Strange Girl - (1953) - short story by J. B. Priestley
Manna - (1949) - novelette by Peter Phillips
Tenth Time Around - (1959) - novelette by J. T. McIntosh (variant of Tenth Time Round)
The Shadow People - (1958) - short story by Arthur Sellings
Thirty-Seven Times - (1957) - short story by E. C. Tubb
Dial 'O' for Operator - (1958) - novelette by Robert Presslie
Story Sources (Beyond Time: Classic Tales of Time Unwound) - (2019) - essay by Mike Ashley

Quest Beyond the Stars

Captain Future: Book 9

Edmond Hamilton

Ride with Curt Newton, The World's Greatest Space Farer, and the Futuremen as They Leave the Known Star Trails to Penetrate the Source of Cosmic Rays, the Very Core of the Universe!...

This novel was originally published in Fall 1941 edition of Captain Future Magazine.

This novel is included in "The Collected Captain Future: Volume Three"

Somewhere Beyond the Sea

Cerulean Chronicles: Book 2

T. J. Klune

A magical house. A secret past. A summons that could change everything.

Arthur Parnassus lives a good life built on the ashes of a bad one. He's the master of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to soon be the adoptive father to the six dangerous and magical children who live there.

Arthur works hard and loves with his whole heart so none of the children ever feel the neglect and pain that he once felt as an orphan on that very same island so long ago. He is not alone: joining him is the love of his life, Linus Baker, a former caseworker in the Department In Charge of Magical Youth. And there's the island's sprite, Zoe Chapelwhite, and her girlfriend, Mayor Helen Webb. Together, they will do anything to protect the children.

But when Arthur is summoned to make a public statement about his dark past, he finds himself at the helm of a fight for the future that his family, and all magical people, deserve.

And when a new magical child hopes to join them on their island home - one who finds power in calling himself monster, a name that Arthur worked so hard to protect his children from - Arthur knows they're at a breaking point: their family will either grow stronger than ever or fall apart.

Welcome back to Marsyas Island. This is Arthur's story.

Beyond Here Lies Nothing

Concrete Grove: Book 3

Gary McMahon

Ben arrives in the Concrete Grove to research a book about the Northumbrian Poltergeist, an infamous paranormal incident from the early 1970s. A set of twins were haunted by a spirit they nicknamed Captain Clickety, and the media of the time were split between derision and hysteria.

As Ben teases out the supressed details of the story, he finds himself drawn to an emotionally damaged woman whose young daughter went missing years ago during a period of similar child abductions.

Then the scarecrows appear, their heads plastered with photographs of the missing and the dead. House pets are found slaughtered, their bodies built into bloody totems. Hummingbirds flock to certain areas of the estate, as if awaiting the arrival of something…

A door has been opened and a presence is about to step through. The Hummingbird Twins, beset by strange visions, might know the secret, but they aren’t talking. It is up to Ben to put the ghosts to rest and unravel fact from fiction. He is about to discover that the story he seeks is in fact his own story, and only he can plot the ending.

Beyond the Great Oblivion

Darkness & Dawn: Book 2

George Allan England

1000 Years After Our World Died - A Man and a Woman With the Future of Humanity in Their Hands - The distant future - New York is a jungle in more ways than one. Exotic flora and fauna thrive - savage tribes of cannibalistic sub-humans fight for dominance. It's a place of little hope The last vestiges of humanity set out across America's devastated landscape in search of their dream. Led by hope that dies and is reborn again at every turn - enticed onward by a mysterious and vast black chasm 500 miles deep - does the future threaten extinction for mankind? - or offer one last chance of redemption?

Barbarians of the Beyond

Demon Princes

Matthew Hughes

Twenty years ago, five master criminals known as the Demon Princes raided Mount Pleasant to enslave thousands of inhabitants in the lawless Beyond. Now Morwen Sabine, a daughter of captives, has escaped her cruel master and returns to Mount Pleasant to recover the hidden treasure she hopes will buy her parents' freedom.

But Mount Pleasant has changed. Morwen must cope with mystic cultists, murderous drug-smugglers, undercover "weasels" of the Interplanetary Police Coordinating Company, and the henchmen of the vicious pirate lord who owns her parents and wants Morwen returned. So he can kill her slowly...

Set in Jack Vance's Demon Princes universe, at around the time of Kirth Gersen's hunt for Attel Malagate and Kokor Hekkus, Barbarians of the Beyond is a return to "Jack Vance Space" and space-opera derring-do that follows in the science fiction Grandmaster's footsteps.

The King Beyond the Gate

Drenai Saga: Book 2

David Gemmell

Once the mighty fortress had stood strong, defended by the mightiest of all Drenai heroes, Druss, the Legend. But now a tyrannical, mad emperor had seized control of the fortress, and his twisted will was carried throughout the land by the Joinings --- abominations that were half-man, half-beast. Tenaka Khan was a half-breed himself, hated by the Drenai for his Nadir blood and despised by the Nadir for his Drenai ancestry. But he alone had a plan to destroy the emperor. The last heroes of the Drenai joined with him in a desperate gamble to bring down the emperor -- even at the cost of their own destruction.

Beyond the Mists of Katura

Elves: Book 3

James Barclay

Thousands of years ago the elves were enslaved by the Wytch Lords.

Murdered in their thousands, worked to death in slave gangs and divided against themselves, the wounds inflicted by man run deep - and elves have very long memories.

Two of them - Auum and Takaar - led the rise against their enslavers, and united their people against men in order to free their nation.

Now Calaius is at peace... but that doesn't mean their nation is safe. Men need their help.

The Wytch Lords have rallied, men's magic has grown more powerful, and their politics have become altogether more dangerous.

Especially now: one of the mages has created a spell, called Dawnthief, which has the potential to destroy all living things on the planet. All four magical colleges are fighting to seize it and, in the background, the Lords have schemes of their own. Schemes which involve crushing the elven nation for good.

Whoever seizes the spell, it places the elves in tremendous danger. But can Auum and Takaar overcome their differences and work together to save Calaius?

And even if they can, is it not already too late...?

Beyond Sundered Seas

Empire of Ruin: Book 3

David Green

The Spark is no more.

Separated from her companions, Calene Alpenwood resolves to finish her task and bring an end to the bloodshed drowning Haltveldt. But violence breeds violence, and a corrupting darkness spreads where the Spark once lived in Calene's soul.

Saved from death from a mind-spinning source, the elf Brina al'Loria is tasked with the 'simple' mission of uniting the warring factions of Haltveldt. Reeling from staggering truths, Brina must navigate a hostile world ruled by humans and succeed in her undertaking before disaster strikes and faith is lost.

Kade Besem faces a reality born from his nightmares. Alone with the Banished, the former politician pieces together the plans of a seemingly unknowable mind, and discovers plots and treachery millennia in the making.

Haltveldt edges closer to the brink of ruin. With events in motion that cannot be stopped, Calene, Brina and Kade find unlikely allies and face new enemies as they fight for a future they might never see. With the odds stacked against them from the beginning, but faint embers of hope still remain as an ancient threat shows its hand at last.

Beyond Freedom

Flight of the Mariner: Book 2

Paul Ware

David Shaw returns to Shushuan to find Kate, the woman he loves, and win a permanent place in the world of the Vinh, no matter what schemes the 13 gods have in store for him.

Beyond the Blue Moon

Forest Kingdom: Book 4

Fifteen years ago, Prince Rupert and Princess Julia saved the Forest Kingdom from the long night of the Blue Moon. In the aftermath they were heroes.

Now Hawk & Fisher are tough cops in the crime-torn city of Haven. The last thing they need is a reminder of who they once were. But the Blue Moon is threatening to rise again. The Forest Kingdom needs their heroes again.

They need Rupert and Julia. What they'll get is Hawk and Fisher.

Beyond the High Road

Forgotten Realms: The Cormyr Saga: Book 2

Troy Denning

The seer Alaundo prophesied that seven scourges would sweep Cormyr way in ruin. For centuries the royal family has stood watch against that day and devoted their lives to the protection of the realm.

But in a time when their ancient guardians slumber and their most loyal servants disappear, when a terrible evil prepares to sweep down upon their home --

Who will protect the royal family?

Beyond Thirty

Frontiers of Imagination: Book 12

Edgar Rice Burroughs

By the year 2137 Europe has become a largely forgotten, savage wilderness. Fierce bands of hunters rove the crumbling ruins of once mighty, war-ravaged cities. On the other side of the Atlantic a prosperous Pan-American Federation has emerged, claiming all lands and seas between the 30th and 175th longitudes and forbidding contact with the rest of the world. All who cross beyond thirty are sentenced to death.

Beyond Thirty is the story of Captain Jefferson Turck and the crew of his aero-submarine, who through accident and sabotage are forced beyond the thirtieth longitude and embark on an epic quest to rediscover the legendary lands of the Old World. Their adventures stand as one of Edgar Rice Burroughs's most imaginative and subtly crafted tales. Burroughs wrote the story in 1915 in reaction to the growing horrors of the First World War, and his devastating vision of its consequences provides a haunting and enduring warning for the twenty-first century.

Has also been published as The Lost Continent.

Spirits From Beyond

Ghost Finders: Book 4

Meet the operatives of the Carnacki Institute—JC Chance: the team leader, brave, charming, and almost unbearably arrogant; Melody Chambers: the science geek who keeps the antisupernatural equipment running; and Happy Jack Palmer: the terminally gloomy telepath. Their mission: Do Something About Ghosts. Lay them to rest, send them packing, or just kick their nasty ectoplasmic arses...

Their latest assignment takes JC and the team to a small country village, site of a famously haunted inn. At first, JC thinks that the spirits in the King's Arms are more the stuff of urban legend than anything that needs the Ghost Finders' expertise. Then one story rings true: the tale of a traveler trapped by an unusual thunderstorm who retired to her room for the night—and vanished.

Trapped by an unusual thunderstorm—like the one that begins raging outside shortly after they arrive...

As the team investigates, they are forced, one by one, to face some hard truths about themselves, their relationships, and the haunting itself—truths that may push Happy Jack over the edge into the madness that he has always feared...

Voices from Beyond

Ghost Finders: Book 5

In a quiet London suburb, four university students participating in an experiment inside a reputed haunted house hold a séance that goes terribly wrong. What—or who—ever they summoned has taken their minds away, leaving them empty shells.

Enter the Ghost Finders, ready to confront an enraged poltergeist for the students' very souls.

All in a day's work—except the team doesn't know that in another part of the city, a different entity has also breached the threshold between worlds. And this time what is at stake is not four lives—but the very existence of all humanity.

Forces from Beyond

Ghost Finders: Book 6

The Kingdom Beyond the Waves

Meet the operatives of the Carnacki Institute--JC Chance: the team leader, brave, charming, and almost unbearably arrogant; Melody Chambers: the science geek who keeps the antisupernatural equipment running; and Happy Jack Palmer: the terminally gloomy telepath. Their mission: Do Something About Ghosts. Lay them to rest, send them packing, or just kick their nasty ectoplasmic arses...

A threat to Humanity rests on the bottom of the North Sea: the interdimensional entity known as the Flesh Undying. It is a monstrous being of unimaginable power, way out of the Ghost Finders' league, so the team has no choice but to accept an alliance with their evil counterpart, Project Crowley.

Only the creature has already turned its eye upon the Ghost Finders--and dispatched an assassin with a deadly vendetta against them...

Beyond the Empire

Hail Bristol: Indranan War: Book 3

K. B. Wagers

Gunrunner-turned-Empress Hail Bristol was dragged back to her home planet to take her rightful place in the palace. Her sisters and parents have been murdered, and the Indranan Empire is reeling from both treasonous plots and foreign invasion.

Now, on the run from enemies on all fronts, Hail prepares to fight a full-scale war for her throne and her people, even as she struggles with the immense weight of the legacy thrust upon her. With the aid of a motley crew of allies old and new, she must return home to face off with the same powerful enemies who killed her family and aim to destroy everything and everyone she loves. Untangling a legacy of lies and restoring peace to Indrana will require an empress's wrath and a gunrunner's justice.

Beyond the Imperium

Imperium

Keith Laumer

Contains:

Assignment in Nowhere
The Other Side of Time

Jackelian World: Book 2

Stephen Hunt

Professor Amelia Harsh is obsessed with finding the lost civilization of Camlantis, a legendary city from pre-history that is said to have conquered hunger, war, and disease with the creation of the perfect pacifist society. Without official funding, Amelia is forced to accept an offer of patronage from Abraham Quest, the man she blames for her father's bankruptcy and suicide. She hates him, but he has something that Amelia desperately wants--evidence that proves that Camlantis existed and that the Camlantean ruins are buried under one of the sea-like lakes that dot the murderous jungles of Liongeli.

Amelia will blackmail her old friend Commodore Black into ferrying her along a huge river on his ancient U-boat. With an untrusty crew of freed convicts, Quest's force of fearsome female mercenaries on board, and a lunatic steamman acting as their guide, Amelia's luck seems to be going from bad to worse. Her quest for the perfect society has a good chance of bringing her own world to the brink of destruction...

The Kingdom Beyond The Waves is Stephen Hunt's third novel, set in the same universe as The Court of the Air. Amelia Harsh is a female Indiana Jones if there ever was one, and this novel is a rollicking steampunk adventure that will hook readers for one dynamite ride.

Beyond Redemption

Manifest Delusions: Book 1

Michael R. Fletcher

Faith shapes the landscape, defines the laws of physics, and makes a mockery of truth. Common knowledge isn't an axiom, it's a force of nature. What the masses believe is. But insanity is a weapon, conviction a shield. Delusions give birth to foul new gods.

Violent and dark, the world is filled with the Geisteskranken--men and women whose delusions manifest, twisting reality. High Priest Konig seeks to create order from chaos. He defines the beliefs of his followers, leading their faith to one end: a young boy, Morgen, must Ascend to become a god. A god they can control.

But there are many who would see this would-be-god in their thrall, including the High Priest's own Doppels, and a Slaver no one can resist. Three reprobates--The Greatest Swordsman in the World, a murderous Kleptic, and possibly the only sane man left--have their own nefarious plans for the young god.

As these forces converge on the boy, there's one more obstacle: time is running out. When one's delusions become more powerful, they become harder to control. The fate of the Geisteskranken is to inevitably find oneself in the Afterdeath.

The question, then, is: Who will rule there?

Beyond Apollo

Masters of Science Fiction: Book 12

Barry N. Malzberg

A two-man mission to Venus fails and is aborted. When it returns, the Captain is missing and the other astronaut, Harry M. Evans, is unable to explain what has happened. Or, conversely, he has too many explications. His journal of the expedition -- compiled in the mental institution to which NASA has embarrassedly committed him -- offers contradictory stories: he murdered the Captain, mad Venusian invaders murdered the Captain, the Captain vanished, no one was murdered and the Captain has returned in Evans' guise....

As the explanations pyramid and as the supervising psychiatrist's increasingly desperate efforts to get a straight story fail, it becomes apparent that Evans's madness and his inability to explain what happened are expressions of humanity's incompetence at the enormity of space exploration.

Beyond the Veil

New Horror Short Stories: Book 2

Mark Morris

Beyond the Veil is the second volume in an annual, non-themed horror series of entirely original stories, showcasing the very best short fiction that the genre has to offer, and edited by Mark Morris. This new anthology contains 20 original horror stories, 16 of which have been commissioned from some of the top names in the genre, and 4 of which have been selected from the 100s of stories sent to Flame Tree during a 2-week open submissions window.

Contents:

The God Bag - short fiction by Christopher Golden
Caker's Man - short fiction by Matthew Holness
The Beechfield Miracles - short fiction by Priya Sharma
Clockwork - short fiction by Dan Coxon
Soapstone - short fiction by Aliya Whiteley
The Dark Bit - short fiction by Toby Litt
Provenance Pond - short fiction by Josh Malerman
For All the Dead - short fiction by Angeline Adams and Remco van Straten
The Girl in the Pool - short fiction by Bracken MacLeod
Nurse Varden - short fiction by Jeremy Dyson
If, Then - short fiction by Lisa L. Hannett
Aquarium Ward - short fiction by Karter Mycroft
A Mystery for Julie Chu - short fiction by Stephen Gallagher
Away Day - short fiction by Lisa Tuttle
Polaroid and Seaweed - short fiction by Peter Harness
Der Geisterbahnhof - short fiction by Lynda E. Rucker
Arnie's Ashes - short fiction by John Everson
A Brief Tour of the Night - short fiction by Nathan Ballingrud
The Care and Feeding of Household Gods - short fiction by Frank J. Oreto
Yellowback - short fiction by Gemma Files

Beyond the Draak's Teeth

Ni-Lach: Book 3

Marcia J. Bennett

DRAAKSBANE

Humans had named the planet Ver-draak after the huge reptiles they found there. Among the native Ni-lach people, special singers were trained to control the deadly predators. But humans had to depend on the Ni-lach for protection.

So when a group of human adventurers planned an expedition across the dreaded Draak's Teeth mountains, they needed a draak-singer to safeguard their journey.

Suddenly the Ni-lach Bhaldavin was thrust into a quest for the relics of a forgotten era--and his only hope for freedom lay with the very people who had enslaved him.

Beyond the Gap

Opening of the World: Book 1

Harry Turtledove

Count Hamnet Thyssen is a minor noble of the drowsy old Raumsdalian Empire. Its capital city, Nidaros, began as a mammoth hunters' camp at the edge of the great Glacier. But that was centuries ago, and as everyone knows, it's the nature of the great Glacier to withdraw a few feet every year. Now Nidaros is an old and many-spired city; and though they still feel the breath of the great Glacier in every winter's winds, the ice cap itself has retreated beyond the horizon.

Trasamund, a clan chief of the mammoth-herding Bizogots, the next tribe north, has come to town with strange news. A narrow gap has opened in what they'd always thought was an endless and impregnable wall of ice. The great Glacier does not go on forever--and on its other side are new lands, new animals, and possibly new people.

Ancient legend says that on the other side is the Golden Shrine, put there by the gods to guard the people of their world. Now, perhaps, the road to the legendary Golden Shrine is open. Who could resist the urge to go see?

For Count Hamnet and his several companions, the glacier has always been the boundary of the world. Now they'll be travelling beyond it into a world that's bigger than anyone knew. Adventures will surely be had...

Beyond Death

Perimeter Defense: Book 2

Michael Atamanov

Playing by the book? That's not good enough for Crown Prince Georg! In his attempt to delay his appearance at the Emperor's court, he triggers an alien invasion of his own star system. The whole of the Empire watches the live broadcast with bated breath as his fleet battles the awesome invaders. The Iseyeks - gigantic sentient praying mantises - are suitably impressed too, so they promptly remind the Crown Prince of his allied duties. The Sector Eight Fleet hurries to the Swarm's aid... but sadly disregards the insects' hive mentality.

Desperate to prolong their own existence for a few extra months, the insects unflinchingly sacrifice the human fleet. What is Georg supposed to do? He can't turn back - not with a doomed fleet in his wake! So he battles through armadas of alien starships, ignoring the "Victory impossible!" system messages and laying an elusive path to freedom across yet unexplored star systems. Georg is bent on breaking free - and no amount of enemy can stop him!

Worlds Beyond the World: The Fantastic Vision of William Morris

Popular Writers of Today: Book 13

Richard Mathews

A critical study of the fantasy fiction of William Morris.

Contents:

3 - Worlds Beyond the World - essay
4 - Into the Unknown - essay
18 - The Dream of a Better World - essay
34 - Killing Time - essay
43 - Beyond the World - essay
61 - Some Closing Remarks (Worlds Beyond the World) - essay
63 - Selected Critical Sources (Worlds Beyond the World) - essay

Beyond Horatio's Philosophy: The Fantasy of Peter S. Beagle

Popular Writers of Today: Book 76

David Stevens

In Beyond Horatio's Philosophy: The Fantasy of Peter S. Beagle, David Stevens examines the fantasy of American writer Peter S. Beagle.

He finds a consistent view of the world and an almost overpowering sense of humor, leading him to conclude that Beagle believes that love is the best thing we have and the only reason for living. His work will be read and enjoyed for generations to come, and Stevens tells you why. Beagle indulges in what Stevens terms "metaphysical speculations": a working-out of the possibilities of the world being different than it is.

He invites the reader to examine these speculations with him, and when we do, to come away from the experience as better men and women, believing in the transforming power of love and laughing at ourselves in the process.

No writer could ask for more, or succeed better. Beagle would have us believe, to paraphrase Shakespeare's Hamlet, that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy. Complete with bibliography and index.

Beyond the Dead Reef

Quintana Roo

James Tiptree, Jr.

This short story originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 1983. It can also be found in the anthologies:

The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection (1984), edited by Gardner Dozois
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 10 (1984), edited by Arthur W. Saha
Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder (1989), edited by David G. Hartwell
The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories (1994), edited by Tom Shippey
A Century of Fantasy 1980-1989: The Greatest Stories of the Decade (1997), edited by Robert Silverberg

The story can also be found in the collection Tales of the Quintana Roo (1986).

Beyond the Sea Gate of the Scholar-Pirates of Sarsköe

Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz

Garth Nix

This short story originally appeared in the anthology Fast Ships, Black Sails (2008), edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. It can also be found in the anthology The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three (2009), edited by Jonathan Strahan. The story is included in the collection Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: Three Adventures (2011).

Listen to the full story for free at PodCastle.

Space: Above and Beyond

Space: Above and Beyond: Book 1

Peter Telep

The greatest adventure in human history is about to begin! Meet the extraordinary men and women who are leaving Earth and everything they know and love to find their destiny among the stars.

Nathan: The tore away the woman he loved -- gave him a world to defend.

Shane: No alien enemy could match the horror she had witnessed as a child during the A.I. wars.

Cooper: the "tank" -- they said he wasn't human, until he turned rage into glory in the Space Marines.

VanessaL She reached up from the ghetto to grab at the stars -- and got them!

Tomorrow is here. the whole universe is only the beginning...

Demolition Winter

Space: Above and Beyond: Book 2

Peter Telep

The young 58th squadron members receive their toughest assignment having to penetrate enemy shields and demolish their supply lines, a task that is complicated by a double agent, renegade deserters, and a beautiful fighter pilot.

Beyond the Moons

Spelljammer: The Cloakmaster Cycle: Book 1

David Cook

Little did Teldin Moore know there was life beyond Krynn's moons... until a crashed spelljamming ship demolished his farm and changed his life! With a dying alien's magical cloak and cryptic words, Teldin quickly discovers that he's a popular fellow. He and his giff companion race to find Astinus of Palanthas and the gnomes of Mount Nevermind to learn why, before the monstrous neogi can find them!

What Lay Beyond

Star Trek: Crossovers: Gateways: Book 7

Peter David
Diane Carey
Keith R. A. DeCandido
Christie Golden
Robert Greenberger
Susan Wright

Contents:

1 - One Giant Leap - [Star Trek: Gateways] - novelette by Susan Wright
43 - Exodus - [Star Trek: Gateways] - novelette by Diane Carey
83 - Horn and Ivory - [Star Trek: Gateways] - novella by Keith R. A. DeCandido
141 - In the Queue - [Star Trek: Gateways] - novelette by Christie Golden
181 - Death After Life - [Star Trek: Gateways] - novelette by Peter David
219 - The Other Side - [Star Trek: Gateways] - novella by Robert Greenberger
319 - The Pocket Books Star Trek Timeline - essay by The Timeline Gang

Far Beyond the Stars

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Steven Barnes

Without warning, Benjamin Sisko is living another life. No longer a Starfleet captain, commander of space station Deep Space Nine, he is Benny Russell, a struggling science fiction writer living in 1950s Harlem. Benny has a dream, of a place called Deep Space Nine and a man named Ben Sisko, and a story he has to tell. But is the Earth of that era ready for a black science fiction hero?

Everyone tells him no, but Benny cannot abandon his dream. One way or another, he will tell the world about Captain Benjamin Sisko and Deep Space Nine.

Beyond Varallan

Stardoc: Book 2

S. L. Viehl

Dr. Cherijo is living the perfect life--if you think that finding out you're a clone, then being declared "non-sentient" by your father/creator is your idea of perfect.

Things could be worse. But when the Human League comes after her, with bounty hunters of every race trying to bring her in, Cherijo figures it can't get any worse...

Until someone begins stalking her dreams.

Stars Beyond

Stars Uncharted: Book 2

S. K. Dunstall

An engineer with a fondness for weapons. A captain with no memory. An obsessive genemodder who loves to tinker. Meet the crew of Another Road.

Josune, Roystan, and Nika have escaped the company thugs trying to kill them. They've gotten a new spaceship to replace The Road (after it was blown up underneath them). And their new ship is armed to the teeth with dangerous weapons, courtesy of Josune. All that's left to do before they head out to find the legendary lode of transurides is to restore Roystan's memory. To do that, they need to collect the genemod machine Nika has ordered.

But first, they have to shake off the Justice Department agent and the Companies tracking them.

It should be easy. They've done it before. What could possibly go wrong?

The Weapon From Beyond

Starwolf: Book 1

Edmond Hamilton

The stars whispered: Die, Starwolf! Die!

Morgan Chane was an Earthman by parentage, but he had been born on the pirate-world Varna, whose heavy gravity had developed strength and incredibly quick reflexes in him. When he was old enough, he joined the raider-ships that looted the starworlds, and fought side by side with the dreaded Starwolves of Varna.

But then there was a fight among them. Chane killed their leader, and the other Starwolves turned on him. He barely got away alive – wounded near death, his Starwolf pursuers following him across the galaxy.

And there was nowhere he could seek refuge, for no world lift a hand to save one of the hated Starwolves.

This novel is contained in the Omnibus Starwolf

The Willows and Beyond

Tales of the Willows: Book 4

William Horwood

In this new tale, we find the loyal companions approaching the autumn of their lives, reflecting on their many escapades and preparing to hand over River Bank to the next generation. When the future of the home they know and love suddenly comes under threat, all of the creatures, young and old, must rally together.

The Planet Beyond

Tangled Webs: Book 2

Steve Mudd

On the deceptively utopian planet Seelzar, Alyssa Montoya struggles against a powerful, corrupt elite to save her brother, but her efforts bring her close to the heart of an ancient secret that would rather self-destruct than be discovered.

The World Beyond

The Amphibians: Book 3

Brian Stableford

S. Fowler Wright's novel, The World Below, one of the classics of British scientific romance, was hailed as a masterpiece of science fiction when it was published in the U.S. Originally intended as a trilogy, the novel was cut short when Wright's business went bankrupt. Now Brian Stableford, with the permission of the author's estate, has penned the sequel that the master never had the chance to finish.

A Million years hence, life on Earth has undergone a radical transformation that has brough it under threat from extraterresteral trials. To settle its difficulties, a time-traveler from the twentieth century must attempt a further odyssey into the remote future time, which only he is qualified to undertake. But will he be able to bring back any intelligence from his voyage, if he manages to return at all-or will the possiblity that he might change history doom his quest from the outset?

Like it's predecessor, The World Beyond attemps to enxtend the literary imagination as far as it can be taken, in the context of our present scientific understanding of evolutionary processes. This is a first-rate adventure based on a work of creative genius.

Beyond Life: Dizain des Demiurges

The Biography of the Life of Manuel: Book 1

James Branch Cabell

In 1919 Cabell published Beyond Life, a kind of formalist credo in which he first launched his lifelong attack on literary realism.

It's an imagined conversation between John Charteris, a successful author, and a young editor. They sit in a library lined with books categorized as unwritten masterpieces or intended editions--a wry commentary on the business of publishing by one of America's overlooked masters. The two discuss writers and writing, especially those who published in the early 20th century and the demands of the market.

Beyond the Wall of Time

The Broken Man: Book 3

Russell Kirkpatrick

The wall of time has fallen and the Gods are free to ravage the world. The few that know of their escape into mortal lands are under the control of the malevolent Husk. Stella, a queen in hiding, makes a deal with the Undying Man even though she knows his agenda comes first. Noetos seeks revenge for the deaths of his loved ones, not yet realizing the enemy is closer than even he can imagine. And the unconventional cosmographer, Lenares, is the only one with the power to prevent the Gods from destroying the world - if only the others would believe her.

The queen, the fisherman, and the cosmographer must travel to Andratan to confront Husk. But whether they can break free of his hold on them, and defeat the Gods, is another matter entirely.

The Abyss Beyond Dreams

The Chronicle of the Fallers: Book 1

Peter F. Hamilton

TO SAVE THEIR CIVILISATION HE MUST DESTROY IT...

When images of a lost civilization are 'dreamed' by a self-proclaimed prophet of the age, Nigel Sheldon, inventor of wormhole technology and creator of the Commonwealth society, is asked to investigate. Especially as the dreams seem to be coming from the Void - a mysterious area of living space monitored and controlled because of its hugely destructive capabilities. With it being the greatest threat to the known universe, Nigel is committed to finding out what really lies within the Void and if there's any truth to the visions they've received. Does human life really exist inside its boundary?

But when Nigel crash lands inside the Void, on a planet he didn't even know existed, he finds so much more than he expected. Bienvenido: a world populated by the ancestors of survivors from Commonwealth colony ships that disappeared centuries ago. Since then they've been fighting an increasingly desperate battle against the Fallers, a space-born predator artificially evolved to conquer worlds. Their sole purpose is to commit genocide against every species they encounter. With their powerful telepathic lure - that tempts any who stray across their path to a slow and painful death - they are by far the greatest threat to humanity's continued existence on this planet.

But Nigel soon realizes that the Fallers also hold the key to something he'd never hoped to find - the destruction of the Void itself. If only he can survive long enough to work out how to use it...

Beyond Lies the Wub

The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick: Book 1

Philip K. Dick

The first volume of the definitive five-book set of the complete collected stories of the twentieth century's greatest SF author. A matchless display of Philip K. Dick's quirky, humorous, idiosyncratically philosophical world view.

With one exception, all the stories here were written over a nine-month period between 1951 and 1952, when Dick was in his early twenties and making his first impact as a writer.

Table of Contents:

Stability
Roog
The Little Movement
Beyond Lies the Wub
The Gun
The Skull
The Defenders
Mr. Spaceship
Piper in the Woods
The Infinites
The Preserving Machine
Expendable
The Variable Man
The Indefatigable Frog
The Crystal Crypt
The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford
The Builder
Meddler
Paycheck
The Great C
Out in the Garden
The King of Elves
Colony
Prize Ship
Nanny

Beyond the Farthest Suns

The Complete Short Fiction of Greg Bear: Book 3

Greg Bear

7 remarkable stories, newly revised for this collection, showcase the award-winning talents of one of the 21st century's finest writers of speculative fiction

Whether penning science fiction (Moving Mars, Queen of Angels, War Dogs), alternate history (the Mongoliad series with Neal Stephenson), or fantasy (Sleepside, The Infinity Concerto), Greg Bear tells stories that engage the reader's intellect while gripping the imagination. His short fiction is no exception. Beyond the Farthest Suns takes readers to the far end of the universe and the borders of scientific understanding. The volume includes:

"The Way of All Ghosts," set in the bestselling universe of Eon and Eternity;
"The Venging," which takes a group of desperate fugitives fleeing alien dominance down into the awesome gateway of a black hole;
"The Fall of the House of Escher," in which a world-famous illusionist is brought back from the dead for a terrifying command performance;
"Hardfought," the critically acclaimed Nebula Award-winning story showcasing a far future in which a legendary female pilot and her alien captor are forced into a tapestry of echoing lives where they struggle to communicate and find the deepest secrets of their history.

These works, along with 3 additional entries, stunningly illustrate how Bear interweaves the rationality of science with remarkable characters whose thoughts and emotions reflect our own.

Beyond the Fall of Night

The Fall of Night: Book 2

Gregory Benford
Arthur C. Clarke

Hundreds of years after the events in Against the Fall of Night, Alvin and Seranis are working to repopulate the Earth with original species resurrected from a library of ancient genetic information. Among these resurrected beings is Cley, a Cro-Magnon and sole survivor of her tribe. Cley joins forces with Alvin and a large, intelligent rodent named Seeker to eliminate the threat from the Mad Mind once and for all-and clear the way for life in the Solar System to thrive.

Beyond Infinity

The Fall of Night: Book 3

Gregory Benford

Set more than a billion years from now, the novel begins with a young woman who yearns to escape the rigid, timeless Earth she knows. So she flees, in the company of an intelligent beast wise beyond recognition. But there are mysterious forces afoot among the planets that she never foresaw. Alien agencies have learned to span parallel universes, ones that lie only a millimeter away but are invisible to any device known to man. Soon these beings confront the travelers and a struggle beyond imagining begins...

This is a re-write of Benford's novel Beyond the Fall of Night (1990), a sequel to Arthur C. Clarke's Against the Fall of Night.

Beyond the Gate of Worlds

The Gate of Worlds: Book 2

Robert Silverberg
John Brunner
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

These three novellas are set in an alternate world first created by Silverberg in his novel, The Gate of Worlds (TOR, 1984). The idea remains intriguing: the Black Plague decimates the European population to a degree that proves irrecoverable and the ensuing cultural, inventive, and technological vacuum is filled by the civilizations of Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Silverberg and John Brunner contribute taut and tantalizing glimpses into the might-have-beens of Timbuctoo politics and would-be Eastern European assassins. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's contribution, set in the courts of the Incas, unfortunately bogs down in its strain to demonstrate just how exotic this setting is. Despite this reservation, the book is likely to be popular with fans of alternate-world dramas and of these well-known authors. In addition, it might prove a stimulating enrichment for world-history classes. -Cathy Chauvette, Fairfax County Pub. Lib., VA

The Ship Beyond Time

The Girl From Everywhere: Book 2

Heidi Heilig

Nix has spent her whole life journeying to places both real and imagined aboard her time-traveling father's ship. And now it's finally time for her to take the helm. Her future lies bright before her -- until she learns that she is destined to lose the one she loves.

Desperate to change her fate, Nix sails her crew to a mythical utopia to meet another Navigator who promises to teach her how to manipulate time. But everything in this utopia is constantly changing, and nothing is what it seems. Not even her relationship with Kash: best friend, thief, charmer extraordinaire.

Beyond the Gate

The Golden Queen: Book 2

Dave Wolverton

When Gallen O'Day is hired as a bodyguard to escort a young woman through the woods to the forbidden ruins at Geata Na Chruinn, it seems like an ordinary job--but all too soon, he finds himself fleeing for his life from creatures that seem like escapees from a nightmare--the alien dronon, led by their golden queen. With his best friend, a genetically engineered talking bear named Orick, and his girlfriend Maggie, Gallen soon finds himself tangled in an interstellar war that he never knew existed, racing across a host of worlds, confronted by a future unlike any that he had ever imagined.

Beyond the Blue Event Horizon

The Heechee Saga: Book 2

Frederik Pohl

In Book Two of the Heechee Saga, Robinette Broadhead is on his way to making a fortune by bankrolling an expedition to the Food Factory--a Heechee spaceship that can graze the cometary cloud and transfor the basic elements of the universe into untold quantities of food. But even as he gambles on the breakthrough technology, he is wracked with the guilt of losing his wife, poised forever at the "event horizon" of a black hole where Robin had abaondoned her. As more and more information comes back from the expedition, Robin grows ever hopeful that he can rescue his beloved Gelle-Klara Moynlin. After three and a years, the factory is discovered to work, and a human is found aboard. Robin's suffering may be just about over....

Beyond the Pale

The Last Ruin: Book 1

Mark Anthony

Reality is unraveling in the dusty Colorado town of Castle City. Strange symbols are carved into storefronts, and ancient legends come to life. Saloonkeeper Travis Wilder is handed an ornate iron box and a mysterious mission. And in Denver, where dead men walk, ER doctor Grace Beckett is witness to a terrifying and inhuman scene of carnage. Theirs is a destiny shrouded in a coming darkness, a destiny that draws them into the otherworld of Eldh....

Eldh is a land of gods and monsters, myths and runecraft, conspiracy and blood. It is a world that has secretly coexisted beside ours for millennia. But now the boundary between worlds is crumbling in the face of a monstrous evil. And if Travis and Grace cannot save this strange land, then both worlds may pay the price.

Beyond the Hallowed Sky

The Lightspeed Trilogy: Book 1

Ken MacLeod

When a brilliant scientist gets a letter from herself about faster-than-light travel, she doesn't know what to believe. The equations work, but her paper is discredited - and soon the criticism is more than scientific. Exiled by the establishment, she gets an offer to build her starship from an unlikely source. But in the heights of Venus and on a planet of another star, a secret is already being uncovered that will shake humanity to its foundations.

Beyond the Reach of Earth

The Lightspeed Trilogy: Book 2

Ken MacLeod

THE FERMI ARE AWAKE...

The invention of faster-than-light technology has brought great opportunity, but also great danger.

The Black Horizon conspiracy is broken up, but it still has deadly assets beyond the reach of Earth. As the great powers jostle for advantage, the alien minds known as the Fermi have their own ways of dealing with humans meddling in plans vaster and more ancient than anyone can suspect.

After the Venus catastrophe, John Grant's starship Fighting Chance and the Space Station have reached Apis--but not for long. They barely have time to mourn the dead before they're chased out of the system. The Station begins exploring the systems Black Horizon warned them against--with good reason, as they soon discover.

On Apis, Alliance agent Marcus Owen has a new mission: to communicate with the alien intelligences in the rocks, and to stop anyone else from getting to them first. Everyone knows he's a spy, but he's not going to let that cramp his style. But the scientists investigating the rock find that the Fermi may not be the only alien intelligence on Apis...

Beyond the Light Horizon

The Lightspeed Trilogy: Book 3

Ken MacLeod

Humanity has taken to the stars, using faster-than-light travel to reach distant planets and new worlds. But in the far reaches of the galaxy, John Grant will discover a planet of humans who believe he has travelled not only through space to find them, but time.

On Apis, the mysterious Fermi appear to have vanished, taking with them knowledge of the universe that humanity desires. But Marcus Owen, the robot AI now plagued with sentience, knows that the Fermi would not easily abandon the native life of Apis, and that they won't take kindly to mankind asserting dominance on a world that does not belong to them.

Dreadnaught

The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Book 1

The Alliance woke Captain John "Black Jack" Geary from cryogenic sleep to take command of the fleet in the century-long conflict against the Syndicate Worlds. Now Fleet Admiral Geary's victory has earned him the adoration of the people-and the enmity of politicians convinced that a living hero can be a very inconvenient thing.

Geary knows that members of the military high command and the government question his loyalty to the Alliance and fear his staging a coup-so he can't help but wonder if the newly christened First Fleet is being deliberately sent to the far side of space on a suicide mission.

Invincible

The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Book 2

Admiral John “Black Jack” Geary earned his rank after being revived from cryogenic sleep to lead the Alliance to victory against the Syndicate Worlds. But his superiors question his loyalty to the regime. Now in command of the First Fleet, Geary is tasked with exploring the frontier beyond Syndic space, a mission he fears deliberately puts the fleet — and himself — in harm’s way.

Guardian

The Lost Fleet: Beyond The Frontier: Book 3

Admiral Geary's First Fleet of the Alliance has survived the journey deep into unexplored interstellar space, a voyage that led to the discovery of new alien species, including a new enemy and a possible ally. Now Geary's mission is to ensure the safety of the Midway Star System, which has revolted against the Syndicate Worlds empire--an empire that is on the brink of collapse.

To complicate matters further, Geary also needs to return safely to Alliance space not only with representatives of the Dancers, an alien species, but also with Invincible, a captured warship that could possibly be the most valuable object in human history. Despite the peace treaty that Geary must adhere to at all costs, the Syndicate Worlds regime threatens to make the fleet's journey back grueling and perilous.

And even if Geary escorts Invincible and the Dancers' representatives safely unharmed, the Syndics' attempts to spread dissent and political unrest may have already sown the seeds of the Alliance's destruction...

Steadfast

The Lost Fleet: Beyond The Frontier: Book 4

Geary and the crew of the Dauntless have managed to safely escort important alien representatives to Earth. But before they can make tracks for home, two of Geary's key lieutenants vanish. The search for his missing men leads Geary on a far-flung chase, ultimately ending at the one spot in space from which all humans have been banned: the moon Europa. Any ship that lands there must stay or be destroyed--leaving Geary to face the most profound moral dilemma of his life.

To make matters worse, strains on the Alliance are growing as the Syndics continue to meddle. Geary is ordered to take a small force to the border of Syndic space. But what he finds there is a danger much greater than anyone expected: a mysterious threat that could finally force the Alliance to its knees.

As Geary spearheads a desperate battle to protect the Alliance against a shrewd and powerful enemy, he's left with just one question: Who are they?

Leviathan

The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Book 5