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The Silver Wind

Nina Allan

This short story originally appeared in Interzone, #233 March-April 2011. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2012, edited by Rich Horton.

The Silver Wind

Nina Allan

Martin Newland is fascinated by time. Watches and clocks are for him metaphorical time machines, a means of coming to terms with the past and voyaging into the future. But was his first timepiece a Smith, given to him on his fourteenth birthday, or the Longines he received four years later? Was it the small brass travelling clock unearthed in the run-down house for which he is to act as estate agent? And who is the maker of these time machines?

Ill Wind

Kevin J. Anderson
Doug Beason

It is the largest oil spill in history: a supertanker crashes into the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Bay. Desperate to avert environmental damage (as well as the PR disaster), the multinational oil company releases an untested designer oil-eating microbe to break up the spill.

What the company didn't realize is that their microbe propagates through the air... and it mutates to consume anything made of petrocarbons: oil, gasoline, synthetic fabrics, plastics of all kinds. And when every piece of plastic begins to dissolve, it's too late....

Beyond the Planet of the Wind

Paolo Aresi

An incredible journey through the interstellar space mysteries...

From Mars to the Stars, this is the mission of the starship Leonardo da Vinci. Planet after planet, wonders and mysteries came along to reveal a superior intelligence from a bare world, where powerful winds modeled the rocks into spooky spears and pinnacles, to a planet where hidden artifacts point to other worlds; and to Ambra, the planet with a huge, gigantic marble stairway half a mile wide, ten miles long, six miles high. An invitation to climb it, but with a you can do it only on foot, command.

Star Winds

Barrington J. Bayley

The sails were the product of the Old Technology, lost long ago in the depleted Earth, and they were priceless. For with those fantastic sheets of etheric material, ships could sail the sky and even brave the radiant tides between worlds and stars.

The alchemists who had replaced scientists still sough the ancient secrets, and Rachad, apprentice to such a would-be wizard, learned that the key to his quest lay in a book abandoned in a Martian colonial ruin long, long ago.

But how to get to Mars? There was one way left - take a sea vessel, caulk it airtight, steal new sails and fly the star winds in the way of the ancient windjammers.

Here is an intriguing, unusual and colourful novel of ships that sail the stars riding before the solar breeze that blows between worlds.

The Wind From a Burning Woman

Greg Bear

A collection of 6 early stories.

Table of Contents:

  • Preface (1983) - essay by Greg Bear
  • The Wind from a Burning Woman (1978)
  • The White Horse Child (1979)
  • Petra (1982)
  • Scattershot (1978)
  • Mandala (1978)
  • Hardfought (1983)

The Window

Judith Berman

Sturgeon Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, August 1999. It is included in the collection Lord Stink and Other Stories (2002).

A Window or a Small Box

Jedediah Berry

"A Window or a Small Box," by Jedediah Berry, is a charming and weird contemporary novelette of magic realism about a couple about to get married who find themselves on the run from "goons" in an alternative United States.

This story is included in Rich Horton's The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2014 Edition.

Read the full story for free at Tor.com.

The Winds of Altair

Ben Bova

With Earth struggling with too few resources for too many people, Jeff Holman heard the call to colonize the stars. Jeff signed up hoping for adventure, and hoping he could help save Earth's teeming masses by creating a new world: Altair VI. Jeff is determined to make Altair a haven for the human race before Earth collapses.

But Altair VI isn't making it easy. The atmosphere needs to be terraformed, and the plant has a flourishing ecology that isn't giving in. Living in a space station orbiting the planet, the scientists atttempt to wrest control of the planet by directly controlling the toughest beast at the top of the food chain: the Wolfcat. Jeff's job is to take over the mind of a wolfcat and bend it to his will.

Only Jeff learns a heart-wrenching secret from the wolfcat, a secret that leads to even deeper secrets that could unravel the entire plan to save humanity.

Tell the Wind and Fire

Sarah Rees Brennan

In a city divided between opulent luxury in the Light and fierce privations in the Dark, a determined young woman survives by guarding her secrets.

Lucie Manette was born in the Dark half of the city, but careful manipulations won her a home in the Light, celebrity status, and a rich, loving boyfriend. Now she just wants to keep her head down, but her boyfriend has a dark secret of his own - one involving an apparent stranger who is destitute and despised. Lucie alone knows the young men's deadly connection, and even as the knowledge leads her to make a grave mistake, she can trust no one with the truth.

Blood and secrets alike spill out when revolution erupts. With both halves of the city burning, and mercy nowhere to be found, can Lucie save either boy - or herself?

This Wind Blowing, and This Tide

Damien Broderick

Sturgeon Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, April-May 2009 and was reprinted in Clarkesworld Magazine, #100 January 2015. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Four (2010), edited by Jonathan Strahan and The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection (2010), edited by Gardner Dozois.

Read the full story for free at Clarkesworld.

The Wind Caller

P. D. Cacek

Picture this: you're riding the bus home from work, with the very first newspaper article ever published under your byline clutched in your hot little hand, when a coked-up idiot attempts to hold up everyone on the bus. He takes a dislike to you and is about to slice you open when a large, gorgeously hairy man attacks him and saves your life. Only your rescuer is not a man, but a giant wolf who leaves a bloody pawprint on your newspaper, all over your precious byline...

If you're an intrepid reporter, you don't panic. You run for the newsroom to get a photo of the pawprint before it disappears... because the paper you work for thrives on stories of alien invasions and Elvis sightings and Bigfoot's baby, and this, unlike all of those stories, this is real.

Of course, it's not that simple. The highly civilized Denver werewolves don't want anyone to know of their existence, not even beautiful young reporters who make Lucas, the leader of the pack, think lustful thoughts. But Lucas and his pack have a much bigger problem to deal with: there's another were-pack hunting in their territory -- and being messy about it. If the police solve any of those brutal, apparently random, murders, Denver's more patrician lycanthropes may wind up in big trouble.

The Wind

Jay Caselberg

Gerry moved to the quiet village of Abbotsford six months ago, and although he's far from being accepted as a 'local' just yet, he reckons he is getting the hang of country life and the rural veterinary practice he's taken on. Nothing prepared him, though, for the strange wind that springs up to stir the leaves in unnatural fashion, nor for the strikingly beautiful woman he meets, whom the villagers are so reluctant to talk about...

The Wind from the Sun: Stories of the Space Age

Arthur C. Clarke

A new collection from the author who brough us 2001, a Space Odyssey.

Contents:

  • Preface (The Wind from the Sun) - (1972) - essay
  • The Food of the Gods - (1964) - shortstory
  • Maelstrom II - (1965) - shortstory
  • The Shining Ones - (1964) - shortstory
  • The Wind from the Sun - (1964) - novelette
  • The Secret - (1963) - shortstory
  • The Last Command - (1965) - shortstory
  • Dial F for Frankenstein - (1965) - shortstory
  • Reunion - (1971) - shortstory
  • Playback - (1966) - shortstory
  • The Light of Darkness - (1966) - shortstory
  • The Longest Science-Fiction Story Ever Told - (1966) - shortstory
  • Herbert George Morley Roberts Wells, Esq. - [Editorial (If)] - (1967) - essay
  • Love That Universe - (1961) - shortstory
  • Crusade - (1968) - shortstory
  • The Cruel Sky - (1967) - shortstory
  • Neutron Tide - (1970) - shortstory
  • Transit of Earth - (1971) - shortstory
  • A Meeting With Medusa - (1971) - novelette

Windigo: An Anthology of Fact and Fantastic Fiction

John Robert Colombo

This is an extensive compilation of fact, fiction, poems, short stories, and other snippets about the Windigo, a cannibalistic spirit of the Northwoods Indians.

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction (Windigo: An Anthology of Fact and Fantastic Fiction) - essay by John Robert Colombo
  • A Sort of Werewolf (excerpt) - shortfiction by Paul Le Jeune
  • Veritable Werewolves (excerpt) - shortfiction by Paul Le Jeune
  • Onaouientagos (excerpt) - shortfiction by Bacqueville de la Potherie
  • The Devil (excerpt) - shortfiction by James Isham
  • Another Being (excerpt) - shortfiction by Henry Ellis
  • Guilty of Murder (excerpt) - shortfiction by Samuel Hearne
  • An Evil Being (excerpt) - shortfiction by Edward Umfreville
  • Man Eaters (excerpt) - shortfiction by David Thompson (I)
  • Cannibals (excerpt) - shortfiction by Edwin James (I)
  • The Weendigoes - shortstory by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
  • Superstitous Belief (excerpt) - shortfiction by Paul Kane
  • A Tale of the Windego - shortstory by J. B. Nevins
  • Legendary Lore (excerpt) - shortfiction by Francis Parkman
  • The Walker of the Snow - poem by C. D. Shanly
  • Some Sort of Madness (excerpt) - shortfiction by Earl of Southesk
  • Cannibal Lake (excerpt) - shortfiction by Henry Youle Hind
  • Giant Cannibals (excerpt) - shortfiction by Henry Youle Hind
  • He's a Windigo (excerpt) - (1872) - shortfiction by William Francis Butler [as by Sir William Francis Butler ]
  • Windagoos! Cannibals! (excerpt) - shortfiction by Egerton Ryerson
  • Red-Headed Windego - shortstory by E. W. Thomson
  • A Cannibal Spirit (excerpt) - shortfiction by Charles Mair
  • The Windigo - (1901) - poem by William Henry Drummond
  • The Snow-Wetigo - shortstory by Arthur Heming
  • A Weetigo in the Woods (excerpt) - shortfiction by Philip H. Godsell
  • The Wendigo - (1910) - novella by Algernon Blackwood
  • A Tale of the Grand Jardin - (1915) - shortstory by W. H. Blake
  • Wintigoes (Giants) - shortfiction by Peter Yorke and G. E. Laidlaw
  • Me Sah Ba and the Wintigo - shortfiction by Jonas George and G. E. Laidlaw
  • Windigo Story - (1924) - shortfiction by Joe Cosh and G. E. Laidlaw
  • Windigo Story - shortfiction by Kenneth G. Snake and G. E. Laidlaw
  • To Kill Windigo (excerpt) - (1928) - shortfiction by D. S. Davidson
  • The Immortal Cannibal (excerpt) - shortfiction by Frank G. Speck
  • A Human Being Transformed (excerpt) - shortfiction by Diamond Jenness
  • The Wendigo - poem by Ogden Nash
  • The Windigo Personality (excerpt) - shortfiction by Ruth Landes
  • The Thing That Walked on the Wind - (1933) - shortstory by August Derleth
  • Ithaqua - (1941) - shortstory by August Derleth
  • Restless Souls (excerpt) - shortfiction by Richard Morenus
  • Supernatural Creatures (excerpt) - shortfiction by Pierre Berton
  • The Existence of the Witgo (excerpt) - shortfiction by Roger Vandersteene
  • Windigo Psychosis - essay by Mortom I. Teicher
  • Windigo - (1965) - poem by George Bowering
  • Windigo - shortstory by Herbert T. Schwarz
  • Stories of the Windigo - shortstory by James R. Stevens
  • A Near Encounter (excerpt) - shortfiction by Dan Kennedy
  • A Man named Weendigo (excerpt) - shortfiction by Basil Johnson
  • The Death of Windigo (excerpt) - shortfiction by Norval Morrisseau

Never the Wind

Francesco Dimitri

Praise God, never the wind

1996 - Luca Saracino is thirteen and has been completely blind for eight months when his parents move to a Southern Italian farmhouse they dream of turning into a hotel. With his brother dropping out of university and the family reeling from Luca's diagnosis, they are chasing dreams of rebirth and reinvention.

As Luca tells his story without sight - experiencing the world solely through hearing, smell, taste and touch - he meets the dauntless Ada Guadalupi, who takes him out to explore the rocky fields and empty beaches. But Luca and Ada find they can't escape the grudges that have lasted between their families for generations, or the gossiping of the town. And Luca is preyed upon by the feral Wanderer, who walks the vineyards of his home.

As Luca's family starts to crack at the seams, Luca and Ada have to navigate new lands and old rivalries to uncover the truths spoken as whispers on the wind.

No Doors, No Windows

Harlan Ellison

You have nothing to fear but fear itself! The only trouble is, fear comes in so many different shapes and sizes these days. It comes as rejection by a beautiful woman. It comes in the brutalization of your love by an amoral man. It comes with the threat of impending nuclear holocaust; with the slithering shadows in the city streets; with the ripoff artists who lie in wait behind every television commercial.

Fear is the erratic behavior of all the nut cases and whackos walking the streets-they look just like you and me and your lover and your mother-and all they need is a wrong word and there they go to the top of an apartment building with a sniperscope'd rifle. Fear is all around you. You have nothing to fear but fear itself, right? Sure. The only trouble is, the minute you get all the rational fears taken care of, all battened down and secure, here comes something new.

Like what? Well, like the special fears generated in these 16 incredible stories. Fear described as it's never been described before, by the startling imagination of Harlan Ellison, master fantasist, tour-guide through the land of dreadful visions, unerring observer of human folly and supernatural diabolism. Or, quoting the Louisville Courier-Journal & Times, Ellison's "stories are kaleidoscopic in their range, breathtaking in their beauty, hideous in their deformity, insulting in their arrogance and unarguable in the accuracy of their insight."

And here are 16 new terrors to scare the bejeezus out of you!

Table of Contents:

  • Blood/Thoughts - (1975) - essay by Harlan Ellison
  • The Whimper of Whipped Dogs - (1973)
  • Eddie, You're My Friend - non-genre - (1975)
  • Status Quo at Troyden's - non-genre - (1958)
  • Nedra at f:5.6 - non-genre - (1957)
  • Opposites Attract - non-genre - (1957)
  • Toe the Line - non-genre - (1957)
  • Down in the Dark - non-genre - (1967)
  • Pride in the Profession - non-genre - (1966)
  • The Children's Hour - (1958)
  • White Trash Don't Exist - non-genre - (1956)
  • Thicker Than Blood - non-genre - (1958)
  • Two Inches in Tomorrow's Column - non-genre - (1965)
  • Promises of Laughter - non-genre - (1969)
  • Ormond Always Pays His Bills - non-genre - (1957)
  • The Man on the Juice Wagon - non-genre - (1963)
  • Tired Old Man - non-genre - (1975)

Windeye

Brian Evenson

A woman falling out of sync with the world; a king's servant hypnotized by his murderous horse; a transplanted ear with a mind of its own. The characters in these stories live as interlopers in a world shaped by mysterious disappearances and unfathomable discrepancies between the real and imagined. Brian Evenson, master of literary horror, presents his most far-ranging collection to date, exploring how humans can persist in an increasingly unreal world. Haunting, gripping, and psychologically fierce, these tales illuminate a dark and unsettling side of humanity.

Praised by Peter Straub for going "furthest out on the sheerest, least sheltered narrative precipice," Brian Evenson is the author of ten books of fiction. He has been a finalist for the Edgar Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the World Fantasy Award, and the winner of the International Horror Guild Award, and the American Library Association's award for Best Horror Novel. Fugue State was named one of Time Out New York's Best Books of 2009. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and three O. Henry Prizes, including one for the title story in "Windeye," Evenson lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where he directs Brown University's Literary Arts Department.

Table of Contents:

  • Windeye - (2009)
  • The Second Boy - (2012)
  • The Process - (2012)
  • A History of the Human Voice - (2012)
  • Dapplegrim - (2010)
  • Angel of Death - (2012)
  • The Dismal Mirror - (2009)
  • Legion - (2012)
  • The Moldau Case - (2012)
  • The Sladen Suit - (2012)
  • Hurlock's Law - (2012)
  • Discrepancy - (2012)
  • Knowledge - (2012)
  • Baby or Doll - (2012)
  • The Tunnel - (2012)
  • South of the Beast - (2012)
  • The Absent Eye - (2011)
  • Grottor
  • Bon Scott: The Choir Years - (2012)
  • Tapadera - (2012)
  • The Other Ear - (2012)
  • They - (2012)
  • The Oxygen Protocol - (2012)
  • The Drownable Species - (2012)
  • Anskan House - (2012)

The Wind Whales of Ishmael

Philip José Farmer

Ishmael, lone survivor of the doomed whaling ship Pequod, falls through a rift in time and space to a future Earth - an Earth of blood-sucking vegetation and a blood-red sun, of barren canyons where once the Pacific Ocean roared. Here too there are whales to hunt - but whales that soar through a dark blue sky....

Hugo Award-winner Philip José Farmer spins a fascinating tale of whaling ships and sailors of the sky in a bizarre future world where there are no seas to sail and no safe harbor to call home....

The Dreaming Wind

Jeffrey Ford

Sturgeon and Nebula Award nominated short story. It was first published in the anthology The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales (2007), edited by Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling. The story can also be found in the anthology The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Two (2008), edited by Jonathan Strahan, and the collection The Drowned Life (2008).

Cold Wind

Nicola Griffith

"Cold Wind", by Nicola Griffith, is a dark fantasy tale about a woman who enters a Seattle bar on a cold wintry night in the midst of the Christmas holidays, searching for something... or someone.

Read the full story for free at Tor.com.

A Window Into Time

Peter F. Hamilton

Teenager Julian has perfect recall, which means he has trouble finding his place in the world. But he really does know his own mind. So when he starts experiencing someone else's memories, which are also tantalizing glimpses of the future, Julian realizes he must find out why. And as he comes to know this unmet friend, it becomes clear that this man is in danger.

Julian resolves to do everything in his power to track him down - a journey which takes him to the heart of London's commercial district, home to the city's financial elite. He can't give up, as he might just prevent a murder.

Earthwind

Robert Holdstock

"Earthwind" tells the story of two people trapped on the planet Aeran. What has happened to the colonists of this world to obliterate their memories of who and what they were, and to have rebuilt in their place a precise and accurate copy of a stone age culture that had flourished in Ireland during the fourth millennium BC?

Elspeth Mueller, fighting against time as her memory decayed, tried to find out; deformed and embittered by the barbaric rituals of her 'civilised' home world, she struggled against her own fear to accept the cruel customs of Aerani society, knowing that the answers she sought lay in those same rituals.

Peter Ashka, his life inextricably interwoven with the I Ching, tried to find out as well - but his quest brought him into conflict with the two authorities that guided his life.

Where Time Winds Blow

Robert Holdstock

On the shores of time are ferocious, mind-tearing winds... when they take you... you die.....

Kris Dojaan, seeking a brother swept into Othertime, volunteers for the suicide mission from which no man has returned--on a planet ravaged by mysterious Winds that whine and scream, then explode, booming into the atmosphere--a planet where men die into the future and vanish beneath a blackening sky....

Leo Faulcon must find the terrible secret of the Winds, a secret guarded by horrible mutants, the Manchanged, genetically and surgically adapted to the harsh planet...to rescue Kris and Faulcon's lover, Lena...before they disappear forever!

The Winds of Mars

Helen Mary Hoover

Annalyn Court is the daughter of the President of Mars, one of his many children over the years. She is a member of the elite of Martian society without truly understanding what that entails. She is thrust into a political struggle for her father's wealth and power in which the President defends himself against all comers, including his own family. Along with Hector Protector (her robotic bodyguard), Annalyn survives not only the destruction of the dome shields of the capital city Olympia but also an assassination attempt. As she searches for her commoner friend Shala in the ruins of Midtown, Annalyn comes to learn that dominion and leadership are not the same thing. She must choose for herself which path she will follow in the rebuilding of Olympia.

The Windrider

Stephanie T. Hoppe

Oa had been the prime contender for the throne of Dynast -- closer than any other heirs to holding the reins of Empire, and all the power, intrigue, luxury and illusion that went with them. Until the reigning Dynast put an insurmountable obstacle in her path: she must kill her true love in the deadly High Dance or forsake her life's ambition....

Avoiding her fate and fleeing downriver to the unknown lands of the west, Oa finds herself on a high plateau where those with power ride remarkable beasts whose soaring flight is like the primeval rush of the wind itself, and whose riders sail between earth and sky. And Oa knows that she would fight any battle and face any odds to feel the freedom of speed and space on the untamed back of a Windsteed!

The Wind That Sweeps the Stars

Greg Keyes

ALONE AGAINST AN EMPIRE.

When Yash of Zeltah arrives in the fortress city of Honaq, she is greeted as a barbarian, a simple pawn. Her marriage to prince Chej has been arranged, they say, to avert war. Yet she knows the truth, for the armies already ravage the land.

A skilled and deadly assassin, there is more to Yash than any might suspect. Before another day can pass, she must defeat the masters of the nine towers - the plagues, magics, and monsters they control, the soldiers they command. Without raising an alarm, she must kill all who oppose her - even the immortal emperor. The lives and souls of Zeltah, the people and the land upon which they live, all depend on it.

A Wind Named Amnesia

Hideyuki Kikuchi

The Apocalypse didn't end with a BANG, but with a whimper. Silently, the 'amnesia wind' swept away all of mankind's knowledge. Thousands of years of human civilization vanished overnight as people forgot how to use the tools of modern civilization; who they were, how to speak - everything! Technology decayed as mankind was reduced to an extremely primitive level. Two years after the devastation, a young man explores a nation reduced to barbarism: America. Miraculously re-educated after the cataclysm, he is accompanied by a young woman - somehow spared the obliterating effects of the amnesia wind. Pursued by a relentless killing machine, they search for those responsible for stealing their memories.

Also includes Invader Summer.

There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding

Russell Kirk

WFA winning novelette. It originally appeared in the anthology Frights (1976), edited by Kirby McCauley. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series VI (1978) edited by Gerald W. Page, The World Fantasy Awards, Volume Two (1980), edited by Stuart David Schiff and Fritz Leiber, and The Dark Descent: The Evolution of Horror (1987), edited by David G. Hartwell. It is included in the collections The Princess of All Lands (1979) and Ancestral Shadows: An Anthology Of Ghostly Tales (2004).

The Wind's Twelve Quarters

Ursula K. Le Guin

The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her lyrical writing, rich characters, and diverse worlds. The Wind's Twelve Quarters collects seventeen powerful stories, each with an introduction by the author, ranging from fantasy to intriguing scientific concepts, from medieval settings to the future.

Including an insightful foreword by Le Guin, describing her experience, her inspirations, and her approach to writing, this stunning collection explores human values, relationships, and survival, and showcases the myriad talents of one of the most provocative writers of our time.

Table of Contents:

The Wind's Twelve Quarters & The Compass Rose

Ursula K. Le Guin

Grand Master Ursula K. LeGuin has been recognised for almost fifty years as one of the most important writers in the SF field - and is likewise feted beyond the confines of the genre. The Wind's Twelve Quarters was her first collection and it brings together some of finest short fiction, including the Hugo Award-winning 'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas', the Nebula Award-winning 'The Day Before the Revolution', and the Hugo-nominated 'Winter's King', which gave readers their first glimpse of the world later made famous in her Hugo- and Nebula-winning masterpiece The Left Hand of Darkness.

This is the omnibus edition of the two short story collections The Wind's Twelve Quarters and The Compass Rose.

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - essay by Graham Sleight

The Wind's Twelve Quarters

  • Foreword - (1975) - essay
  • Semley's Necklace - (1964) - shortstory
  • April in Paris - (1962) - shortstory
  • The Masters - (1963) - shortstory
  • Darkness Box - (1963) - shortstory
  • The Word of Unbinding - (1964) - shortstory
  • The Rule of Names - (1964) - shortstory
  • Winter's King - (1969) - novelette
  • The Good Trip - (1970) - shortstory
  • Nine Lives - (1969) - novelette
  • Things - (1970) - shortstory
  • A Trip to the Head - (1970) - shortstory
  • Vaster Than Empires and More Slow - (1971) - novelette
  • The Stars Below - (1974) - shortstory
  • The Field of Vision - (1973) - shortstory
  • Direction of the Road - (1973) - shortstory
  • The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - (1973) - shortstory
  • The Day Before the Revolution - (1974) - shortstory

The Compass Rose

  • Preface - (1982) - essay
  • The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics - (1974) - shortstory
  • The New Atlantis - (1975) - novelette
  • Schrödinger's Cat - (1974) - shortstory
  • Two Delays on the Northern Line - (1979) - shortstory
  • SQ - (1978) - shortstory
  • Small Change - (1982) - shortstory
  • The First Report of the Shipwrecked Foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb - (1978) - shortstory
  • The Diary of the Rose - (1976) - novelette
  • The White Donkey - (1980) - shortstory
  • The Phoenix - (1982) - shortstory
  • Intracom - (1974) - shortstory
  • The Eye Altering - (1976) - shortstory
  • Mazes - (1975) - shortstory
  • The Pathways of Desire - (1979) - novelette
  • Gwilan's Harp - (1977) - shortstory
  • Malheur County - (1979) - shortstory
  • The Water Is Wide - (1976) - shortstory
  • The Wife's Story - (1982) - shortstory
  • Some Approaches to the Problem of the Shortage of Time - (1979) - shortstory
  • Sur - (1982) - shortstory

Window

Bob Leman

Nebula award nominated short story. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1980. It can also be found in the anthologies The 1981 Annual World's Best SF, edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha, The Best Science Fiction of the Year #10 (1981), edited by Terry Carr, The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 24th Series (1982), edited by Edward L. Ferman, Crucified Dreams (2011) edited by Joe R. Lansdale, and The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (2011), edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. The story is included in the collection Feesters in the Lake & Other Stories (2002).

Born of the Winds

Brian Lumley

WFA nominated short story. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1975. The story is included in the collections The Horror at Oakdeene and Others (1977), Fruiting Bodies and Other Fungi (1993) and The Taint and Other Novellas (2007).

At the Back of the North Wind

George MacDonald

A Victorian fairy tale that has enchanted readers for more than a hundred years: the magical story of Diamond, the son of a poor coachman, who is swept away by the North Wind -- a radiant, maternal spirit with long, flowing hair -- and whose life is transformed by a brief glimpse of the beautiful country "at the back of the north wind." It combines a Dickensian regard for the working class of mid-19th-century England with the invention of an ethereal landscape.

Candle in a Cosmic Wind

Joseph Manzione

This novelette originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1987. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection (1988), edited by Gardner Dozois.

Any Way the Wind Blows

Seanan McGuire

As Tor.com departs from its longtime home, the iconic Flatiron building, we present this sweet farewell from Seanan McGuire.

Read the full story for free at Tor.com

The Art of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, based on his own manga, was released in 1984 and has been a cult classic ever since. In a long-ago war, humankind set off a devastating ecological disaster. The earth is slowly submerging beneath the expanding Sea of Decay, an enormous toxic forest that creates mutant insects and poisonous spores. Beyond the sea lies the Valley of the Wind, a kingdom of barely 500 citizens and home to Nausicaä, who risks everything to save her people and bring peace and health to the valley. Includes sketches, developmental water colors, cel animation, and more.

The Winds of Limbo

Michael Moorcock

Earth's future is one of peace. There are no more wars, nuclear weapons are outlawed, and technology is raising mankind to new heights. Many cities are now underground. Alain von Bek is a bastard of distinguished lineage working an unassuming job with city administration in the underground city of Switzerland. But with the appearance of a massive clownish figure calling himself the Fireclown, Alain's life and the course of Earth's future are both about to change.

The Fireclown claims to hold the keys to mankind's salvation. He carries an undeniable charisma that is winning him followers, chief among them Helen Curtis, Alain's cousin and former lover, not to mention serious candidate in the next presidential election. But there are also those who mistrust the Fireclown. At the forefront of this opposition is Minister Simon von Bek, Alain's grandfather, and Helen's chief competition in the forthcoming election.

Gradually, Alain finds himself sucked into a game of chess between these three polarizing forces, but each new revelation raises new questions, about his past and that of the world's future. He will have to put his trust in someone, and time is running out—for him and the world—to make the right choice in this story of Michael Moorcock's celebrated multiverse.

original title: The Fireclown

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Haruki Murakami

Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II.

In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. As these searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists: a psychic prostitute; a malevolent yet mediagenic politician; a cheerfully morbid sixteen-year-old-girl; and an aging war veteran who has been permanently changed by the hideous things he witnessed during Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria.

Gripping, prophetic, suffused with comedy and menace, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force equal in scope to the masterpieces of Mishima and Pynchon.

Wind from the North

Joseph O'Neill

Here is a novel with a totally fresh setting and a very original approach. It is often forgotten that Dublin, in the early Middle Ages, was a Norse town. And those were stirring times. Be a strange accident a modern man find himself thrown back into the midst of the eleventh-century town. Half-accepted, half-suspected, he lives for four months in the midst of fierce rushing life of the people. sharing their loves and hates, their hopes and fears.

No such picture of ancient Norse life has ever been given outside of the great novels of Sigrid Undset. Here is nothing of the mere saga, nothing of the merely historical, but a life lived with an intensity and vividness that make the life of today pale by comparison. A story of adventure undoubtedly, sind the tale races from cover to cover but the dominating adventures are in it are the dark adventures of a man's soul, the shock of opposing creeds, the profound despair of one who has found no solutions to the eternal question. The wash and moan of the sea are the enveloping music of the book and behind it are the was and moan of the greater sea that envelops all men's lives.

The Woman in the Window

Joyce Carol Oates

The Woman in the Window is a novella by Joyce Carol Oates. It originally appeared in One Story #217 (2016).

Zahrah the Windseeker

Nnedi Okorafor

In the Ooni Kingdom, children born dada-with vines growing in their hair-are rumored to have special powers. Zahrah Tsami doesn't know anything about that. She feels normal. Others think she's different-they fear her. Only Dari, her best friend, isn't afraid of her. But then something begins to happen-something that definitely marks Zahrah as different-and the only person she can tell is Dari. He pushes her to investigate, edging them both closer and closer to danger. Until Dari's life is on the line. Only Zahrah can save him, but to do so she'll have to face her worst fears alone, including the very thing that makes her different.

The Winds of Change and Other Stories

Isaac Asimov

Asimov at his best! A 21-story salute featuring a levitating professor, alien traders bringing something to sell, a black hole hurtling toward Earth, the universe being created and many other matters of great import!

Table of Contents

  • About Nothing
  • A Perfect Fit
  • Belief
  • Death of a Foy
  • Fair Exchange?
  • For the Birds
  • Found!
  • Good Taste
  • How It Happened
  • Ideas Die Hard
  • Ignition Point!
  • It Is Coming
  • The Last Answer
  • The Last Shuttle
  • Lest We Remember
  • Nothing for Nothing
  • One Night of Song
  • The Smile That Loses
  • Sure Thing
  • To Tell at a Glance (previously published in an edited version)
  • The Winds of Change

Windows

Susan Palwick

This short story originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2014. It can also be found in the anthology The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015, edited by Joe Hill and John Joseph Adams.

Wind Will Rove

Sarah Pinsker

This Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award nominated novelette originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, September-October 2017. It can also be found in the anthologies The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3 (2018), edited by Neil Clarke and Nebula Awards Showcase 2019, edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

Read the story at the author's website here. (.pdf file)

The Dead Boy At Your Window

Bruce Holland Rogers

Stoker Award winning and Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in the November/December 1998 issue of The North American Review and was reprinted in Realms of Fantasy, April 2000. The story can be found in the anthologies Bedtime Stories to Darken Your Dreams (1999), edited by Rogers himself, and The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10 (2000), edited by Stephen Jones. It is also included in the collection Wind Over Heaven and Other Dark Tales (2000).

Read the full story for free here.

Wind Over Heaven: And Other Dark Tales

Bruce Holland Rogers

From dark fairy tales to creepy science fiction to a theological mystery set in the Old West, the mind of Bruce Holland Rogers takes you to territories of the bizarre: Wall Street, Suburbia, and Mexico. In the Nebula Award-nominated story "These Shoes Strangers Have Died Of," a World War II veteran confronts the perpetrators and victims of genocide, and the would-be perpetrators, through his art. The title story, "Wind Over Heaven," exposes the weird underside of the upscale restaurant business. And the 1998 Bram Stoker Award-winner "The Dead Boy at Your Window" (which also won a Pushcart Prize for literary fiction) takes readers on a journey to the land of the dead like no other.

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction: Listen Carefully - (2000) - essay by Alan Rodgers
  • The Dead Boy At Your Window - (1998) - shortstory
  • Vox Domini - (1993) - novelette
  • An Eye for Acquisitions - (1995) - shortstory
  • Cloud Stalking Mice - (1999) - shortstory
  • Gravity - (1994) - shortstory
  • On Top - (2000) - novelette
  • The Apple Golem - (1995) - shortstory
  • Wind Over Heaven - (1996) - shortstory
  • Bright Seeds in a Whirlwind - (1997) - novelette
  • These Shoes Strangers Have Died Of - (1995) - shortstory

Night Wind

Mary Rosenblum

Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in the anthology Lace and Blade (2008) edited by Deborah J. Ross. There are no other known publications at this time.

Climb the Wind: A Novel of Another America

Pamela Sargent

Something is wrong out West.

The Buffalo Soldiers sent to subdue the Cheyenne are deserting and going over to the other side. The Sioux are leaving their barren reservations in hordes. Armed bands of Apaches have been seen east of the Mississippi!

Lemuel Rowland, formerly Poyeshao, has spent his life learning the white man's ways. Now he must choose between his career as a Washington bureaucrat and the ancient dreams of his people. An obscure Lakota chief called Touch-the-Clouds, armed by a Russian spy and inspired by a woman with the gift of prophecy, is uniting the "horse tribes" into an awesome horde that will thunder eastward and reclaim the entire continent for its original owners.

It should be Lemuel Rowland's job to stop thembut he wants them to succeed!

Combining the startling insights of Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle with the elegiac lyricism of Dee Brown's bestseller, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Pamela Sargent's brilliant new alternate history epic asksand answersthe most heartbreaking and troubling question in American history:

What if the warlike Indian nations of the high plains had combined under a strong leader? What if they had struck eastward at a weakened America, still reeling from the devastation of the Civil War?

What if they had won?

The complex and fascinating answer, as presented in this extraordinary work of speculative fiction from an award-winning science fiction and fantasy author, will either shock you, enrage you, or make you nostalgic for an America that could have been.

But whatever your reaction, you will never look at our history in the same way again.

The White Man's NightmareThe Indian's Dream!

When the Wind Blows

John Saul

The children were waiting. Waiting for centuries. Waiting for someone to hear their cries. Now nine-year-old Christine Lyons has come to live in the house on the hill -- the house where no children have lived for fifty years. Now little Christie will sleep in the old-fashioned nursery on the third floor. Now Christie's terror will begin.

No Doors, No Windows

Joe Schreiber

When madness is your inheritance, how do you escape it?

Scott Mast thought he got away - first from a family haunted by a dark fate, then from a dull career writing greeting cards in Seattle. But now he has come back to his New Hampshire hometown only to find that his family is in ruins, his nephew needs a home, and a shattering truth is clawing its way into the light.

Fifteen years ago, Scott's mother died in a fire. And now the shadowy circumstances - the bodies buried beneath the ashes, the lives ripped apart that fateful day - are starting to be revealed. The answers unspool in the pages of a peculiar old manuscript - an unfinished ghost story written in his father's own hand that beckons Scott out to a strange house in the wood with a lightless corridor that cannot be seen from the outside. here Scott Mast will uncover all that has been hidden - and perhaps finish his father's unspeakable work.

Windows of the Imagination: Essays on Fantastic Literature

Darrell Schweitzer

These 29 essays on fantasy, skepticism, writing, and related topics--spanning nearly two decades--are filled with the insightful observations of a literary master. Schweitzer is one of the best critics in the field.

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction: Notes from Notes from Beyond the Fields We Know - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
  • The Necessity of Skepticism - (1990) - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
  • The Cost of Credulity - (1994) - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
  • The Layercake of History - (1993) - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
  • My Career as a Hack Writer - (1991) - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
  • The Lands that Clearly Pertain to Faery: The Elusive Basics of Fantasy - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
  • Uttering the P-Word: or, The Return of the Factory System - (1992) - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
  • Why Horror Fiction? - (1990) - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
  • Intimate Horror - (1993) - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
  • Horror Beyond New Jersey - (1995) - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
  • The Limits of Craziness - (1991) - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
  • H. P. Lovecraft: Still Eldritch After All These Years - (1987) - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
  • About "The Whisperer in Darkness" - (1995) - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
  • H. P. Lovecraft's Favorite Movie - (1989) - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
  • M. R. James and H. P. Lovecraft: The Ghostly and the Cosmic - (1994) - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
  • Richard Middleton: Beauty, Sadness, and Terror - (1986) - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
  • How Much Dunsany Is Worth Reading? - (1991) - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
  • Count Dracula and His Adapters - (1993) - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
  • Philip K. Dick: Absurdist, Visionary - (1991) - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
  • Review: VALIS by Philip K. Dick - (1991) - review by Darrell Schweitzer
  • Review: The Divine Invasion by Philip K. Dick - (1991) - review by Darrell Schweitzer
  • Review: The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by Philip K. Dick - (1991) - review by Darrell Schweitzer
  • Kipling's Science Fiction - (1993) - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
  • Review: Kipling's Science Fiction by Rudyard Kipling - (1993) - review by Darrell Schweitzer
  • The Black Flame - (1996) - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
  • Review: The Black Flame by Stanley G. Weinbaum - (1996) - review by Darrell Schweitzer
  • On Brian Aldiss's Barefoot in the Head - (1993) - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
  • Review: Barefoot in the Head by Brian Aldiss - (1993) - review by Darrell Schweitzer
  • A Fisherman of the Inland Sea - (1995) - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
  • Review: A Fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. Le Guin - (1995) - review by Darrell Schweitzer
  • Lexicon Urthus - (1995) - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
  • Review: Lexicon Urthus by Michael Andre-Driussi - (1995) - review by Darrell Schweitzer
  • Prospero's Dracula - (1995) - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
  • Cthulhu 2000 - (1996) - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
  • Review: Cthulhu 2000 by Jim Turner - (1996) - review by Darrell Schweitzer
  • The Dragon Path - (1996) - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
  • Review: The Dragon Path by Kenneth Morris - (1996) - review by Darrell Schweitzer
  • An Interview with Edgar Allan Poe - (1993) - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
  • One Fine Day in the Stygian Haunts of Hell: Being the Lore and Legend of the Fabled "Eye of Argon" - (1987) - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
  • Creating Frivolous Literary Theories - (1985) - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
  • Notes - essay by Darrell Schweitzer
  • Selected Bibliography - essay by Darrell Schweitzer

A Tale of the Wind

Kay Nolte Smith

When the celebrated actor Nandou first sees Jeanne Sorel on the Paris streets, his heart is pierced by her innocent beauty, glowing like a pearl amid the squalor of her surroundings. Unable to bear the prospect of abandoning her to a life of grinding poverty, he takes her to live with him and teaches her about his beloved theatre, about literature, and about life in the bohemian world of nineteenth-century Paris.

Although he loves her, Nandou knows that Jeanne can never be his, and he watches jealously as Jeanne and Louis, the radical son of the wealthy Vollard family, become lovers.

When Jeanne is left pregnant with Louis's child, too ashamed to ask for help, she struggles on alone until Nandou comes to her aid. Then her daughter is kidnapped and Jeanne swears revenge on her former lover, but it is some years before she fulfils her vow...

A Memory of Wind

Rachel Swirsky

The heroes are eager to sail to Troy for war, but the wind is still. To fill their sails and set out, they must sacrifice Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia--and how does a human girl become the wind?


Read this story online for free at Tor.com.

The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen's Window

Rachel Swirsky

Hugo-nominated and Nebula-winning Novella

This award-winning fantasy novella explores the conjunction of invocation, deep time, and culture shock. It was originally published in Subterranean Magazine, in the summer of 2010, and subsequently republished in Heiresses of Russ 2011: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction, The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2011 and The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Vol. 5.

Naeva - the Lady of the story's title - is a sorceress in a matriarchy. After being fatally injured, she is persuaded to allow her spirit to be bound, so that she can be summoned and thus continue to advise her queen. However, after the queen has herself died, Naeva continues to be summoned... first by the queen's successor, and then by people from civilizations millenia later.

Read this story online for free at Subterranean Press.

Outrun the Wind

Elizabeth Tammi

The Huntresses of Artemis must obey two rules: never disobey the goddess, and never fall in love. After being rescued from a harrowing life as an Oracle of Delphi, Kahina is glad to be a part of the Hunt; living among a group of female warriors gives her a chance to reclaim her strength. But when a routine mission goes awry, Kahina breaks the first rule in order to save the legendary huntress Atalanta.

To earn back Artemis's favor, Kahina must complete a dangerous task in the kingdom of Arkadia-where the king's daughter is revealed to be none other than Atalanta. Still reeling from her disastrous quest and her father's insistence on marriage, Atalanta isn't sure what to make of Kahina.

As her connection to Atalanta deepens, Kahina finds herself in danger of breaking Artemis's second rule. She helps Atalanta devise a dangerous game to avoid marriage, and word spreads throughout Greece, attracting suitors to go up against Atalanta in a race for her hand. But when the men responsible for both the girls' dark pasts arrive, the game turns deadly.

A Wind in Cairo

Judith Tarr

THE PRINCE: Spoiled, reckless, heedless of any wants or needs but his own, sentenced to a terrible fate for his sins against man, woman, and God.

THE STALLION: Equally spoiled, equally reckless, bound until death to a bitter servitude.

THE TURK'S HEIR: Fiercest of rivals, most devoted of enemies, whose armor hides a secret. Come into the world of the Arabian Nights, where magic and mystery meet; where justice lays a sinner low, and the magic of the heart turns hate to love.

The Windsor Faction

D. J. Taylor

Autumn 1939. In an alternative world, where Edward VIII still sits on the throne, storm clouds gather over Europe, German troops amass and a 'King's Party' of fascist peace campaigners is stealthily undermining the war effort.

For Cynthia Kirkpatrick, the war brings a new-found freedom--lunchtime drinks at the Ritz, rented attic rooms, late-night rackety parties and intriguing new acquaintances.

But two new friends loom larger than others, her glamorous colleague Anthea and Tyler, an enigmatic American working at the Embassy. Initially Cynthia is dazzled by them both but soon discovers they have secrets which could prove dangerous, both to her and the country at large...

The Language of the Whirlwind

Lavie Tidhar

This short story originally appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, February 2010. It can also be found in the anthology Clarkesworld: Year Four (2013), edited by Neil Clarke and Sean Wallace.

Read the full story for free at Clarkesworld.

The Wind City

Summer Wigmore

Wellington. The wind city. New Zealand's home of art and culture, but darker forces, forgotten forces, are starting to reappear. Aotearoa's displaced iwi atua--the patupaiarehe, taniwha, and ponaturi of legend--have decided to make Wellington their home, and while some have come looking for love, others have arrived in search of blood.

A war is coming, and few can stand in their way. Saint (lovably fearless, temporarily destitute, currently unable to find a shirt) may be our only hope. Tony, suddenly unemployed and potentially a taniwha herself, has little choice but to accept the role her bloodline dictates. And Hinewai, who fell with the rain? If she can't find her one true love, there's a good chance that none will live to see the morning.

Wellington will never be the same again.

Children of the Wind

Kate Wilhelm

This collection assembles in one volume five works by Kate Wilhelm, masterful fantasist and one of science fiction's premier storytellers:

In 'Children of the Wind', identical twins J-1 and J-2 play subtle games with their parents' lives. Are the boys just precocious, or are they far more strange - and powerful? 'The Gorgon Field' finds Charlie and Constance caught in a mystery of mystical proportions in the Arizona desert. 'A Brother to Dragons, a Companion of Owls' depicts a future in which survival may not be merely enough - it may be too much, whilst 'The Blue Ladies' studies a disabled woman's abilities to share his vision. 'The Girl Who Fell Into the Sky', winner of the Nebula Award for best novelette, weaves a dreamy tale of love, death and an old piano amid the Kansas plains.

These five tales present luminous, absorbing visions of the world as it could be and as it is.

Table of Contents:

Prayers on the Wind

Walter Jon Williams

Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in the anthology When the Music's Over (1991), edited by Lewis Shiner. The story can also be foun in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection (1992), edited by Gardner Dozois, and The Good New Stuff: Adventure SF in the Grand Tradition (1999), also edited by Gardner Dozois . It is included in the collections Frankensteins and Foreign Devils (1998) and The Best of Walter Jon Williams (2021).

The Winds of Marble Arch

Connie Willis

Hugo Award winning and World Fantasy Award nominated novella. The story originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 1999. It is included in the collections The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories (2007) and Time Is the Fire: The Best of Connie Willis (2013).

The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories

Connie Willis

"Variety is the soul of pleasure," And variety is what this comprehensive new collection of Connie Willis is all about. The stories cover the entire spectrum, from sad to sparkling to terrifying, from classics to hard-to-find treasures with everything in between--orangutans, Egypt, earthworms, roast goose, college professors, mothers-in-law, aliens, secret codes, Secret Santas, tube stations, choir practice, the post office, the green light on Daisy's dock, weddings, divorces, death, and assorted plagues, from scarlet fever to "It's a Wonderful Life." And a dog.

Famous for her "sure-hand plotting, unforgettable characters, and top-notch writing," Willis has been called, "the most relentlessly delightful science fiction writer alive," and there are numerous examples here. Among them, Willis's most famous stories--the Hugo- and Nebula-Award-winning "Fire Watch" and "Even the Queen" and "The Last of the Winnebagos"--along with undiscovered gems like Willis's heartfelt homage to Jack Williamson, "Nonstop to Portales." Her magical Christmas stories are here, too, from "Newsletter" to "Just Like the Ones We Used to Know..." which last year was made into the TV movie, Snow Wonder, starring Mary Tyler Moore.

We've collected stories from throughout Willis's career, from early ones like "Cash Crop" and "Daisy, in the Sun," right up to her newest stories, including the wonderful "The Winds of Marble Arch." There's literally something for everyone here. If you're a diehard Willis fan, you'll be delighted with hard-to-find treasures like the until-now uncollected, "The Soul Selects Her Own Society..." If you've never read Connie Willis, this is your chance to discover "A Letter from the Clearys" and, well, "Chance." To say nothing of, "At the Rialto," the funniest story ever written about quantum physicists. And Willis's chilling, "All My Darling Daughters."

And...oh, there are too many great stories here to list and pleasures galore. So enjoy!

Tentative Table of Contents:

In Which May be Found Personal Correspondence, Travel Guides, References to Royalty, Weather Reports, Parking Fines, and Other Violations, including Matters of Life and Death (and Afterwards), an Epiphany or Two, and an Appendix.

Weather Reports

Personal Correspondence

Travel Guides

Parking Fines and Other Violations

Royalty

Matters of Life and Death

And Afterwards

Epiphanies

Exclusive to the Limited/Lettered Editions

  • Capra Corn (*)--the first screwball comedy Connie published
  • Substitution Trick (*)--a haunting uncollected tale
  • Bibliography (*)--including, for the first time a list of all of Connie's science fiction short stories, and her now legendary "confessions" stories

* previously uncollected

Black Wind

F. Paul Wilson

F. Paul Wilson's powerful World War II novel is an unforgettable saga of passion and terror, the ravages of war, the pain of betrayal, and the glory of love.

At the heart of the story are four people torn between love and honor: Matsuo Okumo, born in Japan, raised in America, and hated in both lands; Hiroki Okumo, his brother, a modern samurai sworn to serve a secret cult and the almighty Emperor; Meiko Satsuma, the woman they both love; and Frank Slater, the American who turned away when Matsuo needed him, and who now struggles to repay his debt of honor.

After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia

Ellen Datlow
Terri Windling

If the melt-down, flood, plague, the third World War, new Ice Age, Rapture, alien invasion, clamp-down, meteor, or something else entirely hit today, what would tomorrow look like? Some of the biggest names in YA and adult literature answer that very question in this short story anthology, each story exploring the lives of teen protagonists raised in catastrophe's wake-whether set in the years soon after the change, or in decades far in the future. New York Times bestselling authors Gregory Maguire, Garth Nix, Susan Beth Pfeffer, Carrie Ryan, Beth Revis, and Jane Yolen are among the many popular and award-winning storytellers lending their talents to this original and spellbinding anthology.

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - essay by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow
  • The Segment - shortfiction by Genevieve Valentine
  • After the Cure - shortfiction by Carrie Ryan
  • Valedictorian - shortstory by N. K. Jemisin
  • Visiting Nelson - shortfiction by Katherine Langrish
  • All I Know of Freedom - shortfiction by Carol Emshwiller
  • The Other Elder - shortfiction by Beth Revis
  • The Great Game at the End of the World - shortfiction by Matthew Kressel
  • Reunion - shortfiction by Susan Beth Pfeffer
  • Blood Drive - shortstory by Jeffrey Ford
  • Reality Girl - shortstory by Richard Bowes
  • How Th'irth Wint Rong by Hapless Joey @ homeskool.gov - shortfiction by Gregory Maguire
  • Rust with Wings - shortfiction by Steven Gould
  • Faint Heart - shortfiction by Sarah Rees Brennan
  • The Easthound - shortstory by Nalo Hopkinson
  • Gray - shortfiction by Jane Yolen
  • Before - shortfiction by Carolyn Dunn
  • Fake Plastic Trees - shortfiction by Caitlín R. Kiernan
  • You Won't Feel a Thing - shortfiction by Garth Nix
  • The Marker - shortfiction by Cecil Castellucci
  • Afterword - essay by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow

Faery!

Terri Windling

Table of Contents:

  • A Troll and Two Roses - short story by Patricia A. McKillip
  • The Thirteenth Fey - short story by Jane Yolen
  • Lullaby for a Changeling - (1976) - short story by Nicholas Stuart Gray
  • Brat - (1941) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
  • Wild Garlic - short story by William F. Wu
  • The Stranger - (1978) - short story by Shulamith Oppenheim
  • Spirit Places - short story by Keith Taylor
  • The Box of All Possibility - short story by Z. Greenstaff
  • The Seekers of Dreams - (1963) - short story by Felix Marti-Ibanez
  • Bridge - short story by Steven R. Boyett
  • Crowley and the Leprechaun - short story by Gregory Frost
  • The Antrim Hills - (1976) - novelette by Mildred Downey Broxon
  • The Snow Fairy - novelette by M. Lucie Chin
  • The Five Black Swans - (1973) - short story by Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • Thomas the Rhymer - poem by Anonymous
  • Prince Shadowbow - short story by Sheri S. Tepper
  • The Erlking - (1977) - short story by Angela Carter
  • The Elphin Knight - poem by Anonymous
  • Rhian and Garanhir - (1979) - short story by Lin Carter
  • The Woodcutter's Daughter - short story by Alison Uttley
  • The Famous Flower of Serving Men - poem by Anonymous
  • Touk's House - novelette by Robin McKinley
  • The Boy Who Dreamed of Tir na n-Og - (1979) - short story by Michael M. McNamara

Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy

Ellen Datlow
Terri Windling

"Gaslamp Fantasy," or historical fantasy set in a magical version of the nineteenth century, has long been popular with readers and writers alike. A number of wonderful fantasy novels, including Stardust by Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, and The Prestige by Christopher Priest, owe their inspiration to works by nineteenth-century writers ranging from Jane Austen, the Brontës, and George Meredith to Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and William Morris. And, of course, the entire steampunk genre and subculture owes more than a little to literature inspired by this period.

Queen Victoria's Book of Spells is an anthology for everyone who loves these works of neo-Victorian fiction, and wishes to explore the wide variety of ways that modern fantasists are using nineteenth-century settings, characters, and themes. These approaches stretch from steampunk fiction to the Austen-and-Trollope inspired works that some critics call Fantasy of Manners, all of which fit under the larger umbrella of Gaslamp Fantasy. The result is eighteen stories by experts from the fantasy, horror, mainstream, and young adult fields, including both bestselling writers and exciting new talents such as Elizabeth Bear, James Blaylock, Jeffrey Ford, Ellen Kushner, Tanith Lee, Gregory Maguire, Delia Sherman, and Catherynne M. Valente, who present a bewitching visionof a nineteenth century invested (or cursed!) with magic.

Table of Contents:

  • Preface - essay by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
  • Introduction: Fantasy, Magic, and Fairyland in Nineteenth-Century England - essay by Terri Windling
  • Queen Victoria's Book of Spells - shortfiction by Delia Sherman
  • The Fairy Enterprise - shortfiction by Jeffrey Ford
  • From the Catalogue of the Pavilion of the Uncanny and Marvelous, Scheduled for Premiere at the Great Exhibition (Before the Fire) - shortfiction by Genevieve Valentine
  • The Memory Book - shortfiction by Maureen F. McHugh
  • La Reine D'Enfer - shortfiction by Kathe Koja
  • For the Briar Rose - shortfiction by Elizabeth Wein
  • The Governess - shortfiction by Elizabeth Bear
  • Smithfield - shortfiction by James P. Blaylock
  • The Unwanted Women of Surrey - shortfiction by Kaaron Warren
  • Charged - shortfiction by Leanna Renee Hieber
  • Mr. Splitfoot - shortfiction by Dale Bailey
  • Phosphorus - shortfiction by Veronica Schanoes
  • We Without Us Were Shadows - novelette by Catherynne M. Valente
  • The Vital Importance of the Superficial - shortfiction by Ellen Kushner and Caroline Stevermer
  • The Jewel in the Toad Queen's Crown - (2013) - shortstory by Jane Yolen
  • A Few Twigs He Left Behind - shortfiction by Gregory Maguire
  • Their Monstrous Minds - shortfiction by Tanith Lee
  • Estella Saves the Village - shortfiction by Theodora Goss
  • About the Authors - essay by uncredited
  • Recommended Reading - essay by uncredited

Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy

Ellen Datlow
Terri Windling

Here are original stories that straddle the borderline between "fantasy" and "mainstream" fiction, stories both bright and dark in tone (without straying into the realm of horror fiction). Sometimes set in the contemporary or historical world, sometimes pure fantasy or an imagined "history," these are striking, fresh, finely crafted works that demonstrate the best the short story form has to offer. Among the authors included are Delia Sherman, Peter Beagle, Greer Gilman, Paul Di Filippo, Jeffrey Ford, Gregory Maguire, and Lucius Shepard.

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - essay by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
  • La Fée Verte - novelette by Delia Sherman
  • Dust Devil on a Quiet Street - short story by Richard Bowes
  • To Measure the Earth - short story by Jedediah Berry
  • A Gray and Soundless Tide - short story by Catherynne M. Valente
  • Concealment Shoes - short story by Marly Youmans
  • The Guardian of the Egg - short story by Christopher Barzak
  • My Travels with Al-Qaeda - short story by Lavie Tidhar
  • Chandail - short story by Peter S. Beagle
  • Down the Wall - short story by Greer Gilman
  • Femaville 29 - short story by Paul Di Filippo
  • Nottamun Town - short story by Gregory Maguire
  • Yours, Etc. - short story by Gavin J. Grant
  • The Mask of '67 - short story by David Prill
  • The Night Whiskey - (2006) - novelette by Jeffrey Ford
  • The Lepidopterist - short story by Lucius Shepard

Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers

Terri Windling
Ellen Datlow

A dangerously seductive collection of tales that--like the sirens themselves--are impossible to resist

Sensuality mingles with fantasy in this sultry anthology starring fairies, sphinxes, werewolves, and other beings by masterful storytellers including Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Jane Yolen, Ellen Kushner, and more. Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers features a vampire who falls in love with her human prey, an updated Red Riding Hood fantasy, an unsuspecting young man who innocently joins in seductive faerie revelry, and a cat goddess made human. Alluring and charismatic, this collection from master editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling will stimulate more than just your imagination.

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - (1998) - essay by Terri Windling
  • A Wife of Acorn, Leaf, and Rain - (1998) - shortstory by Dave Smeds
  • Taking Loup - (1998) - shortstory by Bruce Glassco
  • Persephone or, Why the Winters Seem to Be Getting Longer - (1998) - shortfiction by Wendy Froud
  • The House of Nine Doors - (1998) - shortstory by Ellen Kushner
  • Private Words - (1998) - novelette by Mark W. Tiedemann
  • The Light that Passes Through You - (1998) - shortstory by Conrad Williams
  • O for a Fiery Gloom and Thee - (1998) - shortstory by Brian Stableford
  • The Eye of the Storm - (1998) - novelette by Kelley Eskridge
  • The Sweet of Bitter Bark and Burning Clove - (1998) - novelette by Doris Egan
  • Tastings - (1998) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
  • Bird Count - (1998) - shortstory by Jane Yolen
  • In the Season of Rains - (1998) - novelette by Ellen Steiber
  • Attachments - (1998) - shortstory by Pat Murphy
  • No Human Hands to Touch - (1998) - shortstory by Elizabeth E. Wein
  • Midnight Express - (1998) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
  • Mirrors - (1998) - shortstory by Garry Kilworth
  • Ashes on Her Lips - (1998) - shortstory by Edward Bryant
  • Wolfed - (1998) - shortstory by Tanith Lee
  • Broke Heart Blues - (1998) - shortstory by Joyce Carol Oates
  • The Faerie Cony-Catcher - (1998) - shortstory by Delia Sherman
  • My Lady of the Hearth - (1998) - shortstory by Storm Constantine
  • Heat - (1998) - poem by Melissa Lee Shaw

Teeth: Vampire Tales

Ellen Datlow
Terri Windling

The first bite is only the beginning.

Twenty of today's favorite writers explore the intersections between the living, dead, and undead. Their vampire tales range from romantic to chilling to gleeful--and touch on nearly every emotion in between.

Neil Gaiman's vampire-poet in "Bloody Sunrise" is brooding, remorseful, and lonely. Melissa Marr's vampires make a high-stakes game of possession and seduction in "Transition." And in "Why Light?" Tanith Lee's lovelorn vampires yearn most of all for the one thing they cannot have--daylight. Drawn from folk traditions around the world, popular culture, and original interpretations, the vampires in this collection are enticingly diverse.

But reader beware: The one thing they have in common is their desire for blood....

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - essay by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow
  • Things to Know About Being Dead - (2011) - shortstory by Genevieve Valentine
  • All Smiles - (2011) - shortstory by Steve Berman
  • Gap Year - (2011) - novelette by Christopher Barzak
  • Bloody Sunrise - (2011) - poem by Neil Gaiman
  • Flying - (2011) - novelette by Delia Sherman
  • Vampire Weather - (2011) - shortstory by Garth Nix
  • Late Bloomer - (2011) - novelette by Suzy McKee Charnas
  • The List of Definite Endings - (2011) - shortstory by Kaaron Warren
  • Best Friends Forever - (2011) - shortstory by Cecil Castellucci
  • Sit the Dead - (2011) - shortstory by Jeffrey Ford
  • Sunbleached - (2011) - shortstory by Nathan Ballingrud
  • Baby - (2011) - shortstory by Kathe Koja
  • In the Future When All's Well - (2011) - shortstory by Catherynne M. Valente
  • Transition - (2011) - novelette by Melissa Marr
  • History - (2011) - shortstory by Ellen Kushner
  • The Perfect Dinner Party - (2011) - shortstory by Cassandra Clare and Holly Black
  • Slice of Life - (2011) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
  • My Generation - (2011) - poem by Emma Bull
  • Why Light? - (2011) - novelette by Tanith Lee
  • About the Authors - essay by uncredited

The Armless Maiden: And Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors

Terri Windling

The Armless Maiden is more than an extraordinary collection of original fiction and essays by many of fantasy's finest writers. A groundbreaking work in the tradition of Joseph Campbell, Bruno Bettelheim and Robert Bly, this book explores the darker side of childhood--loss, betrayal, oppression, and abuse.

Contents:

  • Introduction (The Armless Maiden) - essay by Terri Windling
  • The Armless Maiden - shortstory by Midori Snyder
  • The Hero's Journey - essay by Midori Snyder
  • Bedtime Story - poem by Lisel Mueller
  • Allerleirauh - shortstory by Jane Yolen
  • Snow White to the Prince - poem by Delia Sherman
  • She Sleeps in a Tower - shortstory by Tanith Lee
  • Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) - (1971) - poem by Anne Sexton
  • In the House of My Enemy - (1993) - novelette by Charles de Lint
  • Fear of Falling - poem by Susan Palwick
  • Princess in Puce - shortstory by Annita Harlan
  • The Stepsister's Story - poem by Emma Bull
  • The Session - shortstory by Steven Gould
  • The Mirror Speaks - poem by Jane Yolen
  • The Juniper Tree - [Blue Rose] - (1988) - novelette by Peter Straub
  • Dolls - poem by Guy Summertree Veryzer
  • This Is Us, Excellent - (1989) - shortstory by Mark Richards
  • Saturn - (1987) - poem by Sharon Olds
  • The Twelve-Windowed Tower - shortstory by Silvana Siddali
  • Now I Lay Me - (1987) - poem by Sharon Olds
  • Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep - shortstory by Ellen Kushner
  • Reading the Brothers Grimm to Jenny - (1976) - poem by Lisel Mueller
  • Knives - shortstory by Munro Sickafoose
  • Scars - poem by Munro Sickafoose
  • The Pangs of Love - (1990) - shortstory by Jane Gardam
  • Brother and Sister - poem by Terri Windling
  • The Face in the Cloth - (1985) - shortstory by Jane Yolen
  • Their Father - (1990) - poem by Gwen Strauss
  • The Chrysanthemum Robe - shortstory by Kara Dalkey
  • Watching the Bobolinks - essay by Caroline Stevermer
  • The Boy Who Needed Heroes - shortstory by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  • Wolves - essay by Sonia Keizc
  • Wolf's Heart - shortstory by Tappan King [as by Tappan Wright King ]
  • The Story I Hadn't Planned to Write - essay by Tappan King [as by Tappan Wright King]
  • Gretel in Darkness - (1969) - poem by Louise Gluck
  • The Lily and the Weaver's Heart - shortstory by Nancy Etchemendy
  • Silvershod - poem by Ellen Steiber
  • The Lion and the Lark - shortstory by Patricia A. McKillip
  • The Iron Shoes - (1986) - poem by Johnny Clewell
  • The Green Children - shortstory by Terri Windling
  • Guardian Neighbor - (1991) - essay by Lynda Barry
  • The Little Dirty Girl - (1982) - novelette by Joanna Russ
  • Donkeyskin - poem by Terri Windling
  • In the Night Country - novella by Ellen Steiber
  • A Matter of Seeing - essay by Ellen Steiber
  • Dream Catcher - shortstory by Will Shetterly
  • About the Contributors to This Book - essay by uncredited
  • A Short List of Recommended Reading - essay by uncredited

The Wood Wife

Terri Windling

Leaving behind her fashionable West Coast life, Maggie Black comes to the Southwestern desert to pursue her passion and her dream. Her mentor, the acclaimed poet Davis Cooper, has mysteriously died in the canyons east of Tucson, bequeathing her his estate and the mystery of his life--and death.

Maggie is astonish by the power of this harsh but beautiful land and captivated by the uncommon people who call it home--especially Fox, a man unlike any she has ever known, who understands the desert's special power.

As she reads Cooper's letters and learns the secrets of his life, Maggie comes face-to-face withe the wild, ancient spirits of the desert--and discovers the hidden power at its heart, a power that will take her on a journey like no other.

The Feed

Nick Clark Windo

Tom and Kate's daughter turns six tomorrow, and they have to tell her about sleep.

If you sleep unwatched, you could be Taken. If you are Taken, then watching won't save you.
Nothing saves you.

Your knowledge. Your memories. Your dreams.
If all you are is on the Feed, what will you become when the Feed goes down?

For Tom and Kate, in the six years since the world collapsed, every day has been a fight for survival. And when their daughter, Bea, goes missing, they will question whether they can even trust each other anymore.

The threat is closer than they realise...

Wound the Wind

George Zebrowski

Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appaered in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May 2001 and can also be found in the collection Swift Thoughts (2002).

Crisis on Cheiron / The Winds of Gath

Juanita Coulson
E. C. Tubb

Crisis on Cheiron

Carl Race and his mentor, Donovan Petry, have arrived on Cheiron. The two Federation ecologists have been called in to figure out what mysterious occurrence is causing Cheiron's local fauna to fail.

Ostensibly working as impartial observers, the ecologists were called in to protect the interests of Consolidated Enterprises as their competitors, Trans-Galactic, hover and wait. The slightest misstep, and T-G will swoop in and take over the trade. If things go bad enough, all humans (known as Terrans) will be banned from the planet altogether.

The planet's native and highly intelligent lifeforms, the centaur-like Cheironi, seem to be working in peace with the space-travelling Terrans, but tensions are rising as crops fail and insects begin to behave strangely. The local Terran school teacher, Marcy DeLaurent, is brought in as translator as Carl and Donovan work to solve the mystery of the failing crops.

However, someone is determined to stop Carl and company from unearthing the strange source of Cheiron's problems...

Things are about to take a violent turn, and the hunters are quickly becoming the hunted.

Carl is now faced with a life and death struggle--to find out the mystery behind the Cheiron problem while trying to save his own life.

The Winds of Gath

Mercenary. Galactic traveller. Survivor. Earl Dumarest is all those things--and more. For he claims to come from the mythical planet of Earth. And those claims have just attracted the attention of the sinister Cyclan...

Stranded on Gath with no way off, Dumarest becomes embroiled in the schemes of a sadistic prince and a dying matriarch. Plots within plots unfold--and Dumarest is the key to their success. For amid the schemes of prince and matriarch alike, all have come to experience the legendary Winds of Gath.

For when the star swarms come, when the music of the spheres rises over the the planet's valleys and mountains, the dead can speak to the living... and men go mad!

The Winds of Darkover / The Anything Tree

Marion Zimmer Bradley
John Rackham

The Winds of Darkover

Dan Barron was a rational and efficient member of the Terran space-force - until nightmare visions drove him from the safety of the trade city into the unmapped heart of the Darkovan mountain ranges. Into an ancient battle that would shape the destiny of more than one world.

The Anything Tree

On Jensen's wold, the Tree is master and man the servant.

The Winds of Gath / Derai

E. C. Tubb

The Winds of Gath

This is the tale of Earl Dumarest. Space-wanderer, gladiator-for-hire, seeker of Man's forgotten home. Dumarest's search begins on the ghost-world of Gath, where he becomes unwilling champion of the Matriarch of Kund, and must undergo a fight-to-the-death at stormtime. Victory could give Dumarest his first clue to the whereabouts of the planet he fled from as a child - an obscure world scarred by ancient wars, which lies countless light years from the thickly populated centre of the galaxy; a world no-one else in the inhabited universe believed exists. Earth, the birthplace of Man.

Derai

Still driven by his search for Man's fabled birthplace, Earl Dumrest accepts a commission to guard the Lady Derai, heiress to the proud House of Caldor, on the feudal world of Hive. On Derai's home planet, Dumarest had hoped to meet a living witness to Earth. But instead he finds himself in the lists of the deadly Contest on Folgone - with the Lady of Caldor as prize. And on Folgone, for the first time, Dumarest confronts the Cybers: ruthless, emotionless tools of a great Gestalt which holds the mighty of the universe in its grip - a power which may yet provide him with the key to his quest for Earth.

An East Wind Coming

Autumn Angels: Book 3

Arthur Byron Cover

An immortal Sherlock Holmes; a deathless Jack the Ripper in a fantasy duel through the corridors of time.

Grandmother-nai-Leylit's Cloth of Winds

Birdverse

R. B. Lemberg

This Nebula Award-nominated novelette was originally published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies #175 in June 2015. It can also be found in the anthology Heiresses of Russ 2016: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction (2016), edited by A. M. Dellamonica and Steve Berman.

Read the full story for free at Beneath Ceaseless Skies.

Winds of Marque

Blackwood & Virtue: Book 1

Bennett R. Coles

In a dense star cluster, the solar winds blow fiercely. The star sailing ship HMSS Daring is running at full sheet with a letter of marque allowing them to capture enemy vessels involved in illegal trading. Sailing under a false flag to protect the ship and its mission, Daring's crew must gather intelligence that will lead them to the pirates' base.

Posing as traders, Daring's dashing second-in-command Liam Blackwood and brilliant quartermaster Amelia Virtue infiltrate shady civilian merchant networks, believing one will lead them to their quarry.

But their mission is threatened from within their own ranks when Daring's enigmatic captain makes a series of questionable choices, and rumblings of discontent start bubbling up from below decks, putting the crew on edge and destroying morale. On top of it all, Liam and Amelia must grapple with their growing feelings for each other.

Facing danger from unexpected quarters that could steer the expedition off course, Blackwood and Virtue must identify the real enemy threat and discover the truth about their commander--and their mission--before Daring falls prey to the very pirates she's meant to be tracking.

Reap the Wind

Cassandra Palmer: Book 7

Karen Chance

You'd think that being chief seer for the supernatural world would come with a few perks. But as Cassie Palmer has learned, being Pythia doesn't mean you don't have to do things the hard way. That's why she finds herself on a rescue mission skipping through time--even though she doesn't entirely understand her dimension-bending new power.

Rescuing her friend John Pritkin should have been an in-and-out kind of deal, but with the near-immortal mage's soul lost in time, Cassie has to hunt for it through the ages--with Pritkin's demon dad in tow. He's the only one who can reverse Pritkin's curse, but with the guardians of the timeline dead set on stopping anyone from mucking about, Cassie will have to figure out how to get her friend back without ruffling too many feathers--or causing a world-ending paradox or two....

The Shadow of the Wind

Cemetery of Forgotten Books: Book 1

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer's son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the author's other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax's books in existence. Soon Daniel's seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona's darkest secrets--an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love.

When the Changewinds Blow

Changewinds: Book 1

Jack L. Chalker

She was haunted by thunder and plagued by dreams... Strange, dark dreams of a world beyond time and space, a land of magic and mystery. But Charley knew it was more than a dream - for her friend Sam shared her vision.

Suddenly, the dreams become a reality... As a raging storm sweeps Charley and Sam to the fantastic land of Akahlar, where unicorns and griffins run free, an enchantress commands a den of unearthly pleasures, and a wizard warns of a terrifying inescapable event.

The Changewinds are coming... Savage, purple-tinged storms that alter the shapes of man and beast alike. Soon, all creatures must look to the skies - and beware...

Riders of the Winds

Changewinds: Book 2

Jack L. Chalker

The Changewinds blow from the Seat of Probability across the worlds that they themselves created, at once random and consistent, obeying the rules of their own strange spectral meteorology. Most of the universes the Winds have made exist separately from one another in time and space, but close to the Seat of Probability they are more densely packed, and one may walk from one to the other and not realise it until it is too late....

For countless centuries the Ahkbreed sorcerers have dreamed of the ultimate power - control and direction of the Changewinds themselves, a power that would truly make them gods over all universes everywhere. And for centuries those who pay tribute to the Ahkbreed have dreamed of a deliverer. Now two brave young women from Earth have found themselves caught up in the fury of the Changewinds. They themselves will be transformed. But, in the process, they will change everything.

War of the Maelstrom

Changewinds: Book 3

Jack L. Chalker

The evil wizard Klittichorn has discovered how to predict the Changewinds, granting him enormous power. Now, the evil of the Inner Hells could place the power of the Winds in Klittichorn's destructive hands. The magic of the Changewinds could alter the shape of every man and beast in Akahlar.

Borderland

Chronicles of the Borderlands: Book 1

Terri Windling
Mark Alan Arnold

Contents:

  • Introduction - essay by Farrel Din
  • Prodigy - novella by Steven R. Boyett
  • Gray - short fiction by Terri Windling [as by Bellamy Bach ]
  • Stick - novella by Charles de Lint
  • Charis - novelette by Ellen Kushner

Bordertown

Chronicles of the Borderlands: Book 2

Terri Windling
Mark Alan Arnold

Contents:

  • Introduction - essay by Farrel Din
  • Danceland - novella by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly
  • Demon - novella by Midori Snyder
  • Exile - novelette by Terri Windling [as by Bellamy Bach ]
  • Mockery - novella by Terri Windling and Ellen Kushner [as by Ellen Kushner and Bellamy Bach]

Life on the Border

Chronicles of the Borderlands: Book 3

Terri Windling

Contents:

  • Lost in the Mall (I) - short story by Ellen Kushner
  • Global News Service: Life on the Border - uncredited short story
  • Nevernever - [Wolfboy of Bordertown] - short story by Will Shetterly
  • Lost in the Mall (II) - short story by Ellen Kushner
  • Nightwail - short story by Kara Dalkey
  • Lost in the Mall (IV) - short story by Ellen Kushner
  • Alison Gross - novella by Midori Snyder
  • Lost in the Mall (V) - short story by Ellen Kushner
  • Berlin - (1989) - novella by Charles de Lint
  • Lost in the Mall (VI) - short story by Ellen Kushner
  • Reynardine - novella by Michael Korolenko
  • Light and Shadow - short story by Craig Shaw Gardner
  • Lost in the Mall (VII) - short story by Ellen Kushner
  • Rain and Thunder - novella by Terri Windling [as by Bellamy Bach ]
  • For it All - poem by Emma Bull
  • Lost in the Mall (VIII-IX) - short story by Ellen Kushner

The Essential Bordertown

Chronicles of the Borderlands: Book 4

Terri Windling
Delia Sherman

Contents:

  • Introduction - essay by Terri Windling
  • From the World to the Border - essay by Terri Windling
  • Oak Hill - (1998) - short story by Patricia A. McKillip
  • The Path from the True and Only Realm to the False Lands and the City of Illusion (Translation for Humans: How to Get from Elfland to Bordertown) - essay by Terri Windling
  • Dragon Child - (1998) - novelette by Midori Snyder
  • First Things First: So You Need a Place to Stay - essay by Terri Windling
  • Socks - novelette by Delia Sherman
  • The Gangs: And Life's Other Little Annoyances - essay by Terri Windling
  • Half Life - novelette by Donnárd Sturgis
  • What to Eat: A Tasteful Guide to Border Cuisine - essay by Terri Windling and Teresa Nielsen Hayden
  • Hot Water: A Bordertown Romance - short story by Ellen Kushner
  • The Music Scene: What's Up and What Ain't - essay by Terri Windling and Teresa Nielsen Hayden
  • Arcadia - short story by Michael Korolenko
  • Nightlife: Where to Find It - essay by Terri Windling
  • Changeling - novelette by Elisabeth Kushner
  • So You Want to Be a Star: Get Real - essay by Terri Windling
  • May This Be Your Last Sorrow - short story by Charles de Lint
  • Uptown: How the Other Half Lives - essay by Terri Windling
  • Rag - short story by Caroline Stevermer
  • The Peculiar Joy of Cooking on the Border - essay by Terri Windling and Teresa Nielsen Hayden
  • When the Bow Breaks - short story by Steven Brust
  • A Human Guide to Elvin Etiquette - essay by Terri Windling and Mimi Panitch
  • Argentine - novelette by Ellen Steiber
  • A Trueblood Guide to Human Peccadillos - essay by Terri Windling
  • Cover Up My Tracks with Rain - novelette by Micole Sudberg
  • Famous Last Words - essay by Terri Windling
  • How Shannaro Tolkinson Lost and Found His Heart - novelette by Felicity Savage

Banners in the Wind

Chronicles of the Lescari Revolution: Book 3

Juliet E. McKenna

A few stones falling in the right place can set a landslide in motion.

That's what Lescari exiles told themselves in Vanam as they plotted to overthrow the warring dukes.

But who can predict the chaos that follows such a cataclysm?

Some will survive against all the odds; friends and foes alike. Hopes and alliances will be shattered beyond repair.

Unforeseen consequences bring undeserved grief as well as unexpected rewards. Necessity forces uneasy compromise as well as perilous defiance.

Wreaking havoc is swift and easy. Building a lasting peace may yet prove an insuperable challenge.

Wind and Truth

Cosmere: The Stormlight Archive: Book 5

Brandon Sanderson

Dalinar Kholin challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions with the future of Roshar on the line. The Knights Radiant have only ten days to prepare--and the sudden ascension of the crafty and ruthless Taravangian to take Odium's place has thrown everything into disarray.

Desperate fighting continues simultaneously worldwide - Adolin in Azir, Sigzil and Venli at the Shattered Plains, and Jasnah in Thaylenah. The former assassin, Szeth, must cleanse his homeland of Shinovar from the dark influence of the Unmade. He is accompanied by Kaladin, who faces a new battle helping Szeth fight his own demons... and who must do the same for the insane Herald of the Almighty, Ishar.

At the same time, Shallan, Renarin, and Rlain work to unravel the mystery behind the Unmade Ba-Ado-Mishram and her involvement in the enslavement of the singer race and in the ancient Knights Radiant killing their spren. And Dalinar and Navani seek an edge against Odium's champion that can be found only in the Spiritual Realm, where memory and possibility combine in chaos.

The fate of the entire Cosmere hangs in the balance.

Windsinger

DarkHaven: Book 3

A. F. E. Smith

Ayla Nightshade prepares to meet with the Kardise ambassador to sign a treaty between Mirrorvale and Sol Kardis. However, negotiations are halted as the ambassador is discovered dead in his chambers, poisoned by the same bottle of taransey he and Ayla had shared the night before.

Ayla has been framed for murder and the peace between two kingdoms is at stake. Tomas Caraway and his Helmsmen must rush to prove her innocence before war destroys all they have fought for.

Along the way they discover the plans for a Parovian airship, the Windsinger, which reveal a chamber designed for a special cargo: a living one.

Together Ayla and Tomas set out to uncover their real enemies - a search that will lead them closer to home than they ever anticipated.

Windmaster's Bane

David Sullivan: Book 1

Tom Deitz

David Sullivan, a Georgia teenager, enjoys reading Irish myth. When he develops Second Sight, however, the reality of the Faerie world proves as dangerous as it is fantastic.

Phantoms on the Wind

Demon Crown: Book 2

Robert E. Vardeman

Amidst incredible chaos in the kingdom, Vered and Santan, two freebooters, must steal the Demon Crown from the Wizard King and find his missing twin, to restore peace and order in the land.

Winds of Wrath

Destroyermen: Book 15

Taylor Anderson

Matt Reddy and the crew of the USS Walker are positioned to push the line of battle to the breaking point on an alternate Earth, in the thrilling return to the New York Times bestselling Destroyermen series.

Matt Reddy and his sailors have fought, bled, and died for their Lemurian friends and other allies from across time, but their enemies are still operational. In Africa, the Grik General Esshk has escaped defeat to build a new army and new weapons, and is desperate enough to use them to destroy the world if he can't have it.

In South America, the NUS, General Shinya, and the Army of the Sisters have the evil Dominion on the ropes and are closing in on the seat of its blood-drenched power, but the twisted Don Hernan has struck a deal with the fascist League, and Victor Gravois is finally assembling the awesome fleet of modern ships he's always craved. If he's successful, the war will be lost.

Undermined by treachery on a stunning scale, Matt Reddy must still steam his battered old ship halfway around the world, scraping up what forces he can along the way, and confront the mightiest armada the world has ever seen in a fiery duel to the death.

Hawk of May

Down the Long Wind: Book 1

Gillian Bradshaw

On The Path Toward Greatness, Every Hero Makes a Choice

Legends sing of Sir Gawain, one of the most respected warriors of King Arthur's reign and one of the greatest champions of all time. But this is not that story. This is the story of Gwalchmai, middle son of the beautiful, infinitely evil sorceress Morgawse, and gifted student of her dark magical arts. A story of an uncertain man, doubting his ability to follow his elder brother's warrior prowess and seeking to find his own identity by bonding with his frightening and powerful mother. Disappointed in himself and despised by his father, Gwalchmai sets out on a journey that will lead him to the brink of darkness...

A tale of loss, redemption, and adventure, Hawk of May brings new depth and understanding to Sir Gawain, the legend of King Arthur, and the impact of choices made-and the consequences that follow.

Kingdom of Summer

Down the Long Wind: Book 2

Gillian Bradshaw

On the path toward greatness, even a hero makes mistakes.

Armed with his magical sword and otherworldly horse, Gwalchmai proves himself the most feared and faithful warrior of Arthur's noble followers. But while defending the kingdom, he commits a grave offense against the woman he loves, leading her to disappear from his life and haunt his memories.

With his trusted servant, Rhys, a commonsense peasant, Gwalchmai tries to find her in the Kingdom of Summer, where Arthur has sent him. But an unexpected and most malevolent force of evil and darkness is loose-that of his mother, the witch-queen Morgawse-and Gwalchmai finds that the secrets of his past may deny him peace...

In the second book of Gillian Bradshaw's critically acclaimed trilogy, Sir Gawain comes to life as Gwalchmai, startlingly human yet fantastically heroic.

In Winter's Shadow

Down the Long Wind: Book 3

Gillian Bradshaw

Vows broken... Friendships betrayed... The fate of heroes finally revealed...

As powerful enemies attack the throne from inside the kingdom, Arthur, his queen, and his greatest warrior Gwalchmai will be put to the ultimate test. Never faltering in her loyalty to the king, Gwynhwyfar has stood at Arthur's side through rebellion and war. But one desperate decision could cost her all they've built. With the kingdom crumbling around them, following the Queen's heart could be the greatest threat of all...

Spirit of the Wind

Dragonlance: Bridges of Time: Book 1

Chris Pierson

A year has passed since the Chaos War threatened Krynn. In the east, on the Dairly Plains, the hard-won peace is shattered by a new threat: the red dragon Malystryx.

The kender Kronn-alin Thistleknot travels to Abasasinia with his older sister Catt. Together they seek heroes to stop the dragon from destroying Kendermore.

Riverwind, aging chieftain of the Que-Shu, answers the call.

Accompanied by his beloved daughter Brightdawn, Riverwind sets out in his final quest to save the kender from Malys's wrath... and to find sense in a world abandoned by the gods.

Chris Pierson's novel tells the stirring tale of the final quest of Riverwind, one of the original companions of the best-selling Dragonlance series.

Riverwind the Plainsman

Dragonlance: Preludes II: Book 1

Paul B. Thompson
Tonya C. Cook

To prove himself worthy of his beloved Goldmoon, Riverwind is sent on quest by the elders of his tribe. The quest seems impossible: In a godless land, Riverwind must find evidence of the true gods.

Accompanied by an eccentric soothsayer and an escaped slave girl, Riverwind is soon caught in a world of slavery, sorcery, and rebellion. He and his friends must fight their way to Xak Tsaroth, but the companions are stalked by fate and prophecy: one will go mad, one will die, and one will find glory.

A Cruel Wind: A Chronicle of the Dread Empire

Dread Empire: Omnibus volumes

Glen Cook

An omnibus collection the first three Dread Empire novels: A Shadow of All Night's Falling, October's Baby and All Darkness Met.

Reap the East Wind

Dread Empire: Sequels: Book 1

Glen Cook

It has ended. It begins again. In Kavelin, Lady Nepanthe's new life with the wizard Varthlokkur is disturbed by visions of her lost son, while King Bragi Ragnarson and Michael Trebilcock scheme to help the exiled Princess Mist re-usurp her throne - under their thumb. In Shinsan, a pig-farmer's son takes command of Eastern Army, while Lord Kuo faces plots in his council and a suicide attack of two million Matayangans on his border. But in the desert beyond the Dread Empire, a young victim of the Great War becomes the Deliverer of an eons-forgotten god, chosen to lead the legions of the dead. And the power of his vengeance will make a world's schemes as petty as dust, blown wild in the horror that rides the east wind.

The Winds of Gath

Dumarest: Book 1

E. C. Tubb

Originally appeared in Ace Double H-27 (1967) and later in Ace Doube #89301 (1973). Published in 1968 as Gath, thereafter as The Winds of Gath.

This is the tale of Earl Dumarest. Space-wanderer, gladiator-for-hire, seeker of Man's forgotten home. Dumarest's search begins on the ghost-world of Gath, where he becomes unwilling champion of the Matriarch of Kund, and must undergo a fight-to-the-death at stormtime. Victory could give Dumarest his first clue to the whereabouts of the planet he fled from as a child - an obscure world scarred by ancient wars, which lies countless light years from the thickly populated centre of the galaxy; a world no-one else in the inhabited universe believed exists. Earth, the birthplace of Man.

The Tomorrow Windows

Eighth Doctor Adventures: Book 69

Jonathan Morris

There is a gala opening for a new exhibition at the Tate Modern - "The Tomorrow Windows." The concept behind the exhibition is simple - anyone can look through a Tomorrow Window and see into the future. Of course, the future is malleable, and so the future you see will change as you formulate your plans. You can the see the outcome of every potential decision, and then decide on the optimum course of action. According to the press pack, the Tomorrow Windows will bring about world peace and save humanity from every possible disaster. So, of course, someone decides to blow it up. There's always one, isn't there? As the Doctor investigates and unravels the conspiracy, he begins a Gulliver's Travels-esque quest, visiting bizarre worlds and encountering many peculiar and surreal life forms...

Elsewhere

Elsewhere: Book 1

Mark Alan Arnold
Terri Windling

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - essay by Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold
  • The Green Child - short story by John Crowley
  • Pooka's Bridge - short story by Gillian Fitzgerald
  • The Hosting of the Sidhe - (1893) - poem by William Butler Yeats
  • The Judgement of St. Yves - short story by Evangeline Walton
  • Sweetly the Waves Call to Me - short story by Pat Murphy
  • The Merman in Love - poem by Jane Yolen
  • The Renders - short story by Janny Wurts
  • The Golden Slipper - (1959) - short story by Antanas Vaiciulaitis
  • A Spell for Sleeping - poem by Alastair Reid
  • The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship - (1972) - short story by Gabriel García Márquez (trans. of El último viaje del Buque Fantasma 1954)
  • Pale Horse - (1969) - poem by Masao Takiguchi
  • The Thunder Cat - (1965) - short story by Nicholas Stuart Gray
  • Queen Louisa - (1972) - short story by John Gardner
  • The Song of the Dragon's Daughter - (1977) - poem by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • The Prodigal Daughter - novelette by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
  • Little Boy Waiting at the Edge of the Darkwood - short fiction by Andrew J. Offutt
  • The Tree's Wife - (1978) - short story by Jane Yolen
  • Introduction (An Islandian Tale: The Story of Alwina) - essay by Tappan King
  • An Islandian Tale: The Story of Alwina - (1981) - novelette by Austin Tappan Wright
  • The Unicorn Masque - novelette by Ellen Kushner
  • The Succubus - (1971) - poem by John Alfred Taylor
  • Ku Mei Li: A Chinese Ghost Story - novelette by M. Lucie Chin
  • Tatuana's Tale - (1973) - short story by Miguel Angel Asturias (trans. of Leyenda de la Tatuana 1930)
  • Overheard on a Saltmarsh - (1912) - poem by Harold Monro
  • Tales of Houdini - short story by Rudy Rucker
  • Oh! My Name Is John Wellington Wells - (1877) - poem by W. S. Gilbert
  • Elric at the End of Time - novelette by Michael Moorcock
  • Song of Amergin - (1948) - poem by Robert Graves
  • Viriconium Knights - [Viriconium] - short story by M. John Harrison
  • The Magician - (1971) - short story by William Kotzwinkle
  • Sea Change - short story by C. J. Cherryh
  • Contributors' Notes - essay by uncredited

Elsewhere, Vol. II

Elsewhere: Book 2

Mark Alan Arnold
Terri Windling

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - essay by Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold
  • In the Very Earliest Time - poem by Eskimo Chant
  • Junction's Pleasure - novelette by Richard Englehart
  • The Ern Queen - short story by Jane Newbold
  • Gwydion's Loss of Llew - poem by Ellen Kushner
  • Amigo Heliotropo - (1963) - short story by Felix Marti-Ibanez
  • The Golden Goat - short story by Michael de Larrabeiti
  • The Island and the Cattle - (1979) - poem by Nicholas Moore
  • The Fallen Country - novelette by S. P. Somtow
  • Small Dragon - (1962) - poem by Brian Patten
  • The Twelve Dancing Princesses - (1971) - poem by Anne Sexton
  • The Courtship of Mr. Lyon - (1979) - short story by Angela Carter
  • Lord of the Reedy River - (1971) - poem by Donovan Leitch
  • In the Hall of Grief - short story by Jane Yolen
  • Magic Strings - poem by Li Ho
  • The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World - (1971) - short story by Gabriel García Márquez (trans. of El ahogado más hermoso del mundo 1968)
  • Haunted - (1955) - poem by R. P. Lister
  • Visitors to a Castle - (1972) - short story by Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • A Tourist Camped on a Donegal Field - poem by Terri Windling
  • Gran and the Roaring Boys - (1974) - short story by Jenny Sullivan
  • Homecoming - (1967) - poem by Peter Viereck
  • The Little Dirty Girl - novelette by Joanna Russ
  • A Young Man, Gleaming, White - (1968) - short story by Joäo Guimaräes Rosa
  • Cerridwen and the Quern of Time - short story by Paul Hazel
  • The Ship from Away - short story by Evangeline Walton
  • The Day the World Died - short fiction by Thomas Wiloch
  • Blood and Dreams - novelette by Richard Monaco
  • The Trash Dragon of Shensi - (1978) - poem by Andrew Glazer
  • The Vanishing Trolls - (1980) - short story by Gaird Wallig
  • The Magic Wood - (1945) - poem by Henry Treece
  • The Healer - novelette by Robin McKinley
  • The Harrowing of the Dragon of Hoarsbreath - novelette by Patricia A. McKillip
  • The Moon Porthole - novelette by Fritz Leiber
  • Contributors' Notes - essay by uncredited

Elsewhere, Vol. III

Elsewhere: Book 3

Mark Alan Arnold
Terri Windling

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - essay by Betty Ballantine
  • God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot - (1966) - poem by Leonard Cohen
  • The Stagman - novelette by Robin McKinley
  • Harvest Child - short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
  • And When the Green Man Comes - (1966) - poem by John Haines
  • Simpson's Lesser Sphynx - short story by Esther M. Friesner
  • Intruder - (1975) - poem by Susan Feldman
  • The Duke of Orkney's Leonardo - (1976) - short story by Sylvia Townsend Warner
  • The Unknown - (1982) - short story by María Luisa Bombal (trans. of Lo secreto 1941)
  • In the Court of the Crimson King - (1969) - poem by Peter Sinfield
  • The Warrior's Daughter - short story by Susan Heyboer O'Keefe
  • Gretel in Darkness - (1969) - poem by Louise Gluck
  • Rocinante - short story by Steven R. Boyett
  • Springsong in East Gruesome, Vermont - (1968) - poem by Ramon Guthrie
  • The Idol's Eye - short story by James P. Blaylock
  • The Lady of the House of Love - (1975) - short story by Angela Carter
  • The Undead - (1954) - poem by Richard Wilbur
  • Voices Answering Back: The Vampires - (1969) - poem by Lawrence Raab
  • Happy Dens: or, A Day in the Old Wolves Home - short fiction by Jane Yolen
  • The Six Badgers - (1960) - poem by Robert Graves
  • The Chapel Perilous - (1955) - short story by Naomi Mitchison
  • Malagan and the Lady of Rascas - short story by Michael de Larrabeiti
  • Bones - novelette by P. C. Hodgell
  • The Toaster - (1980) - poem by William Jay Smith
  • The One We Were - novelette by Tanith Lee
  • On the Dark Side of the Station Where the Train Never Stops - short story by Pat Murphy
  • Simultaneously - (1964) - poem by David Ignatow
  • "Franz Kafka" by Jorge Luís Borges - (1970) - short story by Alvin Greenberg
  • The Strange Fellows' Palm-Wine Tapster - (1952) - short story by Amos Tutuola
  • Tort and the Dancing Market-Women - (1952) - short story by Amos Tutuola
  • Kitty - (1981) - short story by Paul Bowles
  • Princeps Tenebrarum - (1984) - poem by John Alfred Taylor
  • Riquiqui, I Love You! - (1963) - novelette by Felix Marti-Ibanez
  • Being a Giant - (1976) - poem by Robert Mezey
  • A Matter of Music - novelette by Patricia A. McKillip
  • Contributors' Notes - essay by uncredited
  • Index to the Elsewhere Trilogy - essay by uncredited

Snow White, Blood Red

Fairy Tale Anthologies: Book 1

Ellen Datlow
Terri Windling

Once upon a time, fairy tales were for children... But no longer.

You hold in your hands a volume of wonders -- magical tales of trolls and ogres, of bewitched princesses and kingdoms accursed, penned by some of the most acclaimed fantasists of our day. But these are not bedtime stories designed to usher an innocent child gently into a realm of dreams. These are stories that bite -- lush and erotic, often dark and disturbing mystical journeys through a phantasmagoric landscape of distinctly adult sensibilities... where there is no such thing as "happily ever after."

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction: White as Snow: Fairy Tales and Fantasy - (1993) - essay by Terri Windling
  • Introduction: Red as Blood: Fairy Tales and Horror - (1993) - essay by Ellen Datlow
  • Like a Red, Red Rose - (1993) - novelette by Susan Wade
  • The Moon Is Drowning While I Sleep - (1993) - novelette by Charles de Lint
  • The Frog Prince - (1993) - shortstory by Gahan Wilson
  • Stalking Beans - (1993) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
  • Snow-Drop - (1993) - novelette by Tanith Lee
  • Little Red - (1993) - shortstory by Wendy Wheeler
  • I Shall Do Thee Mischief in the Wood - (1993) - shortstory by Kathe Koja
  • The Root of the Matter - (1993) - novelette by Gregory Frost
  • The Princess in the Tower - (1993) - shortstory by Elizabeth A. Lynn
  • Persimmon - (1993) - shortstory by Harvey Jacobs
  • Little Poucet - (1993) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
  • The Changelings - (1993) - novelette by Melanie Tem
  • The Springfield Swans - (1993) - shortstory by Caroline Stevermer and Ryan Edmonds
  • Troll Bridge - (1993) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman (variant of Troll-Bridge)
  • A Sound, Like Angels Singing - (1993) - shortstory by Leonard Rysdyk
  • Puss - (1993) - novelette by Esther M. Friesner
  • The Glass Casket - (1993) - shortstory by Jack Dann
  • Knives - (1993) - poem by Jane Yolen
  • The Snow Queen - (1993) - novelette by Patricia A. McKillip
  • Breadcrumbs and Stones - shortstory by Lisa Goldstein
  • Recommended Reading - (1993) - essay by uncredited
  • Terri Windling - (1993) - essay by uncredited
  • Ellen Datlow - (1993) - essay by uncredited

Black Thorn, White Rose

Fairy Tale Anthologies: Book 2

Ellen Datlow
Terri Windling

Eighteen masterful fairy tales for adults from a remarkable gathering of contemporary Grimms and Andersens, the new princesses and princes of fantastical fiction

World Fantasy Award-winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling return with another superb collection of wonders and terrors. In Black Thorn, White Rose, the magical tales we were told at bedtime have been upended, turned inside out, reshaped, and given a keen, distinctly adult edge by eighteen of the most acclaimed storytellers ever to reinvent a fairy tale. Our favorite characters, from Sleeping Beauty to Rumpelstiltskin to the Gingerbread Man, are here but in different guises, brought to new life by such masters as Nancy Kress, Jane Yolen, Storm Constantine, and the late, great Roger Zelazny.

These breathtaking tales of dark enchantments range from the tragic and poignant to the humorous to the horrifying to the simply astonishing. The story of an aging woodcutter persuaded to help a desperate prince make his way through the brambles to save a sleeping beauty twists ingeniously around like the thorny wall that impedes them. The fable of an all-controlling queen mother who faces her most fearsome adversary in a sensitive princess who appears mysteriously during a storm is a dark, disturbing masterpiece. And readers will long remember the exquisite tale of Death, his godson, football, and MTV.

Anyone who has ever loved or even feared the old tales of witches and trolls and remarkable transformations will find much to admire in this extraordinary collection--happily ever after or not.

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - essay by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow
  • Words Like Pale Stones - novelette by Nancy Kress
  • Stronger than Time - novelette by Patricia C. Wrede
  • Somnus's Fair Maid - novelette by Ann Downer
  • The Frog King, or Iron Henry - shortstory by Daniel Quinn
  • Near-Beauty - shortstory by M. E. Beckett
  • Ogre - shortstory by Michael Kandel
  • Can't Catch Me - shortstory by Michael Cadnum
  • Journeybread Recipe - shortstory by Lawrence Schimel
  • The Brown Bear of Norway - shortstory by Isabel Cole
  • The Goose Girl - shortstory by Tim Wynne-Jones
  • Tattercoats - novelette by Midori Snyder
  • Granny Rumple - shortstory by Jane Yolen
  • The Sawing Boys - novelette by Howard Waldrop
  • Godson - novelette by Roger Zelazny
  • Ashputtle - novelette by Peter Straub
  • Silver and Gold - poem by Ellen Steiber
  • Sweet Bruising Skin - novelette by Storm Constantine
  • The Black Swan - novelette by Susan Wade
  • Recommended Reading - essay by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow

Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears

Fairy Tale Anthologies: Book 3

Ellen Datlow
Terri Windling

Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin, Goldilocks, Hansel and Gretel, and other storybook icons are ingeniously reimagined in this stunning collection of updated adult fairy tales from some of today's finest fantasists

For many of us, the fairy tale was our first exposure to the written word and the power of storytelling. These wondrous works of magic and morality enthralled us, enchanted us, sometimes terrified us, and remain in our hearts and memories still. Once again, World Fantasy Award-winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have compiled an extraordinary collection of reimagined tales conceived by some of today's most acclaimed contemporary purveyors of literary fantasy, science fiction, and horror, including Neil Gaiman, Gahan Wilson, Joyce Carol Oates, Tanith Lee, Nancy Kress, Gene Wolfe, and others.

Remarkable things lurk in these dark and magical woods. Here Beauty confronts a serial-killer Beast, Hansel and Gretel's witch resides not in a gingerbread house but in a luxurious resort, and Rumpelstiltskin is truly the devil demanding his due, rightfully or otherwise. The hilarious "Roach in Loafers" ingeniously combines the classic "Elves and the Shoemaker" tale with "Puss in Boots" and adds an insectile twist, while in a modern fable that blends The Wizard of Oz and Hans Christian Andersen, Dorothy is set adrift in Hollywoodland, ruby slippers and all. These are not the fairy stories you remember from childhood.

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - (1995) - essay by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow
  • Ruby Slippers - (1995) - shortstory by Susan Wade
  • The Beast - (1995) - shortstory by Tanith Lee
  • Masterpiece - (1995) - shortstory by Garry Kilworth
  • Summer Wind - shortstory by Nancy Kress
  • This Century of Sleep or, Briar Rose Beneath the Sea - (1995) - poem by Farida S. T. Shapiro
  • The Crossing - (1995) - novelette by Joyce Carol Oates
  • Roach in Loafers - (1995) - shortstory by Roberta Lannes
  • Naked Little Men - (1995) - shortstory by Michael Cadnum
  • Brother Bear - (1995) - shortstory by Lisa Goldstein
  • The Emperor Who Had Never Seen a Dragon - (1995) - shortstory by John Brunner
  • Billy Fearless - (1995) - novelette by Nancy A. Collins
  • The Death of Koshchei the Deathless (a tale of old Russia) - (1995) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
  • The Real Princess - (1995) - shortstory by Susan Palwick
  • The Huntsman's Story - (1995) - shortstory by Milbre Burch
  • After Push Comes to Shove - (1995) - poem by Milbre Burch
  • Hansel and Grettel - (1995) - shortstory by Gahan Wilson
  • Match Girl - (1995) - novelette by Anne Bishop
  • Waking the Prince - (1995) - shortstory by Kathe Koja
  • The Fox Wife - (1995) - novella by Ellen Steiber
  • The White Road - (1995) - poem by Neil Gaiman
  • The Traveler and the Tale - (1995) - shortstory by Jane Yolen
  • The Printer's Daughter - (1995) - novelette by Delia Sherman
  • Recommended Reading - (1995) - essay by uncredited

Black Swan, White Raven

Fairy Tale Anthologies: Book 4

Terri Windling
Ellen Datlow

Unforgettable stories of witches and wishes, Sleeping Beauties and Snow Whites, ingeniously twisted into darker, more grown-up shapes by fantasy fiction's most talented practitioners

Once again, World Fantasy Award-winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling prove that fairy tales don't have to be for little children and that happily ever after doesn't necessarily mean forever. Black Swan, White Raven is Datlow and Windling's fourth collection of once-familiar and much-beloved bedtime stories reimagined by some of the finest fantasists currently plying their literary trade--acclaimed writers like Jane Yolen, John Crowley, Michael Cadnum, and Joyce Carol Oates, who give new lives and new meanings to the plights of Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Rapunzel, and more.

Hansel and Gretel make several appearances here, not the least being at their trial for the murder of a supposedly helpless old woman. The shocking real reason for Snow White's desperate flight from her home is revealed in "The True Story," and the steadfast tin soldier, made flesh and blood, pays a terrible price for his love and devotion.

The twenty-one stories and poems in this collection run the gamut from triumphant to troubling to utterly outrageous, like Don Webb's brilliant merging of numerous tales into one wild, hallucinogenic trip in his "Three Dwarves and 2000 Maniacs." All in all, the reimagined fairy tales and fables in Datlow and Windling's literary offering mine the fantastical yarns we loved as children for new and darker gold.

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - essay by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow
  • The Flounder's Kiss - shortstory by Michael Cadnum
  • The Black Fairy's Curse - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
  • Snow in Dirt - novelette by Michael Blumlein
  • Riding the Red - shortstory by Nalo Hopkinson
  • No Bigger Than My Thumb - shortstory by Esther M. Friesner
  • In the Insomniac Night - novelette by Joyce Carol Oates
  • The Little Match Girl - poem by Steve Rasnic Tem
  • The Trial of Hansel and Gretel - shortstory by Garry Kilworth
  • Rapunzel - shortstory by Anne Bishop
  • Sparks - novelette by Gregory Frost
  • The Dog Rose - shortstory by Sten Westgard
  • The Reverend's Wife - novelette by Midori Snyder
  • The Orphan the Moth and the Magic - shortstory by Harvey Jacobs
  • Three Dwarves and 2000 Maniacs - shortstory by Don Webb
  • True Thomas - novelette by Bruce Glassco
  • The True Story - shortstory by Pat Murphy
  • Lost and Abandoned - shortstory by John Crowley
  • The Breadcrumb Trail - poem by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
  • On Lickerish Hill - novelette by Susanna Clarke
  • Steadfast - shortstory by Nancy Kress
  • Godmother Death - shortstory by Jane Yolen
  • Recommended Reading - essay by uncredited

Silver Birch, Blood Moon

Fairy Tale Anthologies: Book 5

Ellen Datlow
Terri Windling

Twenty-one darker, deeper, more adult takes on some of our favorite childhood fairy tales, from acclaimed contemporary fantasists

Long ago, when we were children, our dreams were inspired by the fairy tales we heard at our mothers' and grandmothers' knees--stories of princesses and princes and witches and wondrous enchantments, by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, and from the pages of 1001 Arabian Nights. But, as World Fantasy Award-winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling remind us, these stories were often tamed and sanitized versions. The originals were frequently darker--and in Silver Birch, Blood Moon, they turn darker still.

Twenty-one modern Grimms and Andersens--masterful storytellers including Neil Gaiman, Nancy Kress, and Tanith Lee--now reinvent beloved bedtime stories for our time. The Sea Witch gets her say, relating the story of "The Little Mermaid" from her own point of view. "Thumbelina" becomes a tale of creeping horror, while a delightfully naughty spin is put on "The Emperor's New Clothes." Author Caitlin R. Kiernan transports Snow White to a dark, gritty, industrial urban setting, and Patricia Briggs details "The Price" of dealing with a royal and unrepentantly evil Rumpelstiltskin.

Rich, provocative, and unabashedly adult, each of these tales is a modern treasure, reminding us that wishes have consequences and not all genies have our best interests at heart.

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - (1999) - essay by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow
  • Kiss Kiss - (1999) - shortstory by Tanith Lee
  • Carabosse - (1999) - poem by Delia Sherman
  • The Price - (1999) - shortstory by Patricia Briggs
  • Glass Coffin - (1999) - shortstory by Caitlín R. Kiernan
  • The Vanishing Virgin - (1999) - shortstory by Harvey Jacobs
  • Clad in Gossamer - (1999) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
  • Precious - (1999) - shortstory by Nalo Hopkinson
  • The Sea Hag - (1999) - novelette by Melissa Lee Shaw
  • The Frog Chauffeur - (1999) - shortstory by Garry Kilworth
  • The Dybbuk in the Bottle - (1999) - novelette by Russell William Asplund
  • The Shell Box - (1999) - novelette by Karawynn Long
  • Ivory Bones - (1999) - shortstory by Susan Wade
  • The Wild Heart - (1999) - shortstory by Anne Bishop
  • You Wandered Off Like a Foolish Child to Break Your Heart and Mine - (1999) - shortstory by Pat York
  • Arabian Phoenix - (1999) - shortstory by India Edghill
  • Toad-Rich - (1999) - shortstory by Michael Cadnum
  • Skin So Green and Fine - (1999) - novelette by Wendy Wheeler
  • The Willful Child, the Black Dog, and the Beanstalk - (1999) - novelette by Melanie Tem
  • Locks - (1999) - poem by Neil Gaiman
  • Marsh-Magic - (1999) - novelette by Robin McKinley
  • Toad - (1999) - shortstory by Patricia A. McKillip
  • Recommended Reading - essay by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

Black Heart, Ivory Bones

Fairy Tale Anthologies: Book 6

Ellen Datlow
Terri Windling

Favorite fairy tales are updated and hauntingly reimagined by twenty of today's finest writers of fiction and fantasy

Once upon a time, all our cherished dreams began with the words once upon a time. This is the phrase that opened our favorite tales of princes and spells and magical adventures. World Fantasy Award-winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling understand the power of beloved stories--and in Black Heart, Ivory Bones, their sixth anthology of reimagined fairy tales, they have gathered together stories and poetry from some of the most acclaimed writers of our time, including Neil Gaiman, Tanith Lee, Charles de Lint, and Joyce Carol Oates. But be forewarned: These fairy tales are not for children.

A prideful Texas dancer is cursed by a pair of lustrous red boots... Goldilocks tells all about her brutal and wildly dysfunctional foster family, the Bears... An archaeologist in Victorian England is enchanted by a newly exhumed Sleeping Beauty... A prince of tabloid journalism is smitten by a trailer-park Rapunzel... A clockwork amusement park troll becomes sentient and sets out to foment an automaton revolution. These are but a few examples of the marvels that await within these pages--tales that range from the humorous to the sensuous to the haunting and horrifying, each one a treasure with a distinctly adult edge.

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - essay by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow
  • Rapunzel - shortstory by Tanith Lee
  • The Crone - poem by Delia Sherman
  • Big Hair - shortstory by Esther M. Friesner
  • The King with Three Daughters - novelette by Russell Blackford
  • Boys and Girls Together - poem by Neil Gaiman
  • And Still She Sleeps - novelette by Greg Costikyan
  • Snow in Summer - shortstory by Jane Yolen
  • Briar Rose - poem by Debra Cash
  • Witch - poem by Debra Cash
  • Chanterelle - novelette by Brian Stableford
  • Bear It Away - shortstory by Michael Cadnum
  • Goldilocks Tells All - shortstory by Scott Bradfield
  • My Life as a Bird - (1996) - novelette by Charles de Lint
  • The Red Boots - shortstory by Leah Cutter
  • Rosie's Dance - shortstory by Emma Hardesty
  • You, Little Match-Girl - novelette by Joyce Carol Oates
  • Dreaming Among Men - shortstory by Bryn Kanar
  • The Cats of San Martino - novelette by Ellen Steiber
  • The Golem - shortstory by Severna Park
  • Our Mortal Span - shortstory by Howard Waldrop
  • Mr. Simonelli or the Fairy Widower - novella by Susanna Clarke
  • Recommended Reading - essay by uncredited

A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales

Fairy Tales Retold

Ellen Datlow
Terri Windling

These are not your mother's fairy tales...

Did you ever wonder how the dwarves felt after Snow White ditched them for the prince? Do you sometimes wish Cinderella hadn't been so helpless and petite? Are you ready to hear the Giant's point of view on Jack and his beanstalk? Then this is the book for you.

Thirteen award-winning fantasy and science fiction writers offer up their versions of these classic fairy tales as well as other favorites, including The Ugly Duckling, Ali Baba, Hansel and Gretel, and more. Some of the stories are funny, some are strange, and others are dark and disturbing -- but each offers something as unexpected as a wolf at the door.

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - (2000) - essay by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
  • The Months of Manhattan - (2000) - short story by Delia Sherman
  • Cinder Elephant - (2000) - short story by Jane Yolen
  • Instructions - (2000) - poem by Neil Gaiman
  • Mrs. Big: "Jack and the Beanstalk" Retold - (2000) - short story by Michael Cadnum
  • Falada: The Goose Girl's Horse - (2000) - short story by Nancy Farmer
  • A Wolf at the Door - (2000) - short story by Tanith Lee
  • Ali Baba and the Forty Aliens - (1999) - short story by Janeen Webb
  • Swans - (2000) - short story by Kelly Link
  • The Kingdom of Melting Glances - (2000) - short story by Katherine Vaz
  • Hansel's Eyes - (2000) - short story by Garth Nix
  • Becoming Charise - (2000) - short story by Kathe Koja
  • The Seven Stage a Comeback - (2000) - poem by Gregory Maguire
  • The Twelve Dancing Princesses - (2000) - short story by Patricia A. McKillip

Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold

Fairy Tales Retold

Terri Windling
Ellen Datlow

Just as fairy-tale magic can transform a loved one into a swan, the contributors to this book have transformed traditional fairy tales and legends into stories that are completely original, yet still tantalizingly familiar.

In this book you will find:

  • a Rapunzel whose most confining prison is her loneliness
  • a contemporary rendering of the Green Man myth
  • two different versions of Red Riding Hood
  • a tale that grew out of a Celtic folk song
  • Sleeping Beauty's experience of her enchantment
  • two works inspired by the Arabian Nights
  • and more

In the follow-up to A Wolf at the Door, thirteen renowned authors come together with a selection of new and surprising adaptations of the fairy tales we think we know so well. These fresh takes on classic tales will show you sides of each.

Troll's Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales

Fairy Tales Retold

Terri Windling
Ellen Datlow

Everyone thinks they know the real story behind the villains in fairy tales - evil, no two ways about it. But the villains themselves beg to differ. In Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's new anthology for younger readers, you'll hear from the Giant's wife ("Jack and the Beanstalk"), Rumplestiltskin, the oldest of the Twelve Dancing Princesses, and many more. A stellar lineup of authors, including Garth Nix, Holly Black, Neil Gaiman and Nancy Farmer, makes sure that these old stories do new tricks!

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction - (2009) - essay by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
  • Wizard's Apprentice - (2009) - shortstory by Delia Sherman
  • An Unwelcome Guest - (2009) - shortfiction by Garth Nix
  • Faery Tales - (2009) - poem by Wendy Froud
  • Rags and Riches - (2009) - shortfiction by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
  • Up the Down Beanstalk: A Wife Remembers - (2009) - shortfiction by Peter S. Beagle
  • The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces - (2009) - shortfiction by Ellen Kushner
  • Puss in Boots, the Sequel - (2009) - poem by Joseph Stanton
  • The Boy Who Cried Wolf - (2009) - shortstory by Holly Black
  • Troll - (2009) - shortfiction by Jane Yolen
  • Castle Othello - (2009) - shortfiction by Nancy Farmer
  • 'Skin - (2009) - shortfiction by Michael Cadnum
  • A Delicate Architecture - (2009) - shortstory by Catherynne M. Valente
  • Molly - (2009) - shortfiction by Midori Snyder
  • Observing the Formalities - (2009) - poem by Neil Gaiman
  • The Cinderella Game - (2009) - shortstory by Kelly Link
  • Further Reading

Disciple of the Wind

Fated Blades: Book 3

Steve Bein

When Tokyo falls victim to a deadly terrorist attack, Detective Sergeant Mariko Oshiro knows who is responsible, even if she doesn't have proof. She urges her commanding officers to arrest the perpetrator--an insane zealot who was just released from police custody. When her pleas fall on deaf ears, she loses her temper and then her badge, as well as her best chance of fighting back.

Left on her own, and armed with only her cunning and her famed Inazuma blade, Mariko must work outside the system to stop a terrorist mastermind. But going rogue draws the attention of an underground syndicate known as the Wind. For centuries, they have controlled Japanese politics from the shadows, using mystical relics to achieve their nefarious ends--relics like Mariko's own sword and the iron demon mask whose evil curse is bound to the blade. Now the Wind is set on acquiring Mariko.

Mariko is left with a perilous choice: Join an illicit insurgency to thwart a deadly villain, or remain true to the law. Either way, she cannot escape her sword's curse. As sure as the blade will bring her to victory, it also promises to destroy her....

Wind in the Stone

Five Senses: Book 4

Andre Norton

A mage, seeking to enslave the Valley and destroy the Forest, has brutally sundered a family. A mother has fled into the woods with her infant girl-child, while the depraved sorcerer holds the babe's twin--a boy--captive in a black tower. The mother dies but the girl survives. Adopted by the strange denizens of the Forest--safe from the mage's malevolent influence--she grows to young womanhood, cultivating a cherished skill that has been denied the others of her kind: the ability to truly hear the sounds of her world. But her future will be fraught with trial and terror, for only she can smash the chains that shackle the Balley and its inhabitants. It is her destiny to confront sorcerer and demon minions, and to oppose the one she must conquer and free: the magician's protégé and her most powerful adversary. Her bane and blood. Her brother.

Windwalker

Forgotten Realms: Starlight and Shadows: Book 3

Elaine Cunningham

Crossing the wide realms of the Faerûn in search of adventure, the dark elf princess Liriel Baenre and her companion Fyodor find themselves in the barbarian's homeland of Rashemen. In a land ruled by witches, Liriel must disguise herself lest she spark the people's hatred of dark elves.

Yet from the deep tunnels of the Underdark, eyes glittering with malice are watching her every move, preparing for vengeance.

The Crystal Shard

Forgotten Realms: The Legend of Drizzt 1: The Icewind Dale Trilogy: Book 1

R. A. Salvatore

Drizzt Do'Urden finds new friends and foes in the windswept towns of Icewind Dale, also the setting of the D&D adventure book Rime of the Frostmaiden

With his days in the Underdark far behind him, drow ranger Drizzt Do'Urden sets down roots in the windswept Ten-Towns of Icewind Dale. A cold and unforgiving place, Ten-Towns sits on the brink of a catastrophic war, threatened by the barbarian tribes of the north.

It's in the midst of battle that a young barbarian named Wulfgar is captured and made the ward of Bruenor, a grizzled dwarf leader and a companion to Drizzt. With Drizzt's help, Wulfgar will grow from a feral child to a man with the heart of a dwarf, the instincts of a savage, and the soul of a hero. But it will take even more than that to defeat the corrupt wizard who wields the demonic power of Crenshininbon--the fabled Crystal Shard.

The Crystal Shard is first book in the Icewind Dale Trilogy and the fourth book in the Legend of Drizzt series.

Streams of Silver

Forgotten Realms: The Legend of Drizzt 1: The Icewind Dale Trilogy: Book 2

R. A. Salvatore

The epic tale of everyone's favorite dark elf reaches new heights when Drizzt and his companions set out to reclaim a lost dwarven stronghold

Drizzt Do'Urden still struggles with his own inner voices, voices that call him back to the pitless depths of the Underdark. But louder still are the voices of his newfound friends Bruenor, Wulfgar, and Regis--and the call of a dream that, at long last, Bruenor has decided to fulfill.

Long ago, Bruenor and his people were driven from their home in Mithral Hall by a shadow dragon of the Underdark. Now, Bruenor is determined to reclaim his homeland and his rightful seat as its king. Aided by the combined might of his friends, Bruenor sets out on a treacherous quest for Mithral Hall, finding obstacles at every turn. But despite the terrors of the Trollmoors and the racism aimed at Drizzt, the group continues to fight--together.

Streams of Silver is the second book in the Icewind Dale Trilogy and the fifth book in the Legend of Drizzt series.

The Halfling's Gem

Forgotten Realms: The Legend of Drizzt 1: The Icewind Dale Trilogy: Book 3

R. A. Salvatore

Drizzt Do'Urden and Wulfgar embark on a perilous mission to rescue their halfling friend in this action-packed finale of the Icewind Dale Trilogy

Artemis Entreri has taken Regis back to his former master, Pasha Pook--but Drizzt Do'Urden and Wulfgar are fast on the assassin's heels. Armed with the scimitar Twinkle, Drizzt defeats a banshee and acquires an enchanted artifact that masks its wearer's true identity. With Drizzt now disguised as a normal elf, the duo continues their journey, traveling from Waterdeep to Baldur's Gate, and beyond, in search of their friend.

Meanwhile, Entreri is always one step ahead, aided by the magical gem Regis once stole from Pasha Pook. Together, Regis' captors thwart Drizzt and Wulfgar's mission at every turn, cornering them into battles with pirates, treks through the Calimshan deserts, and encounters with otherwordly monsters. But will it be enough to stop them from rescuing Regis?

The Halfling's Gem is the third book in the Icewind Dale Trilogy and the sixth book in the Legend of Drizzt series.

Frostflower and Windbourne

Frostflower: Book 2

Phyllis Ann Karr

The sorceress Frostflower has the power to guide the lightning through the air...and to leave her body to roam the Tanglelands. But her fellow traveller and fellow sorcerer Windbourne, blamed for the murder of a farmer-priest, carries a monstrous guilt that saps his powers and threatens their lives. Led by the valiant warrior Thorn, Frostflower and Windbourne begin the dangerous journey to Five Roads Crossing, where the mourning High Priestess lies in wait...

Window Wall

Glass Thorns: Book 4

Melanie Rawn

For nearly two years, Cade has been rejecting his Fae gift, his prescient Elsewhens--simply refusing to see or experience them. But the strain is driving a wedge between him and his theater troupe, Touchstone, and making him erratic on stage and off. It takes his best friend Mieka to bully Cade into accepting the visions again. But when Cade finally looks into the possible futures, he sees a royal castle blowing up, though his vision does not tell him who is responsible. But he knows that if it is in his visions, he can take action to stop it from happening. And when he finally discovers the truth, he takes the knowledge to the only man in the Kingdom who would believe him: his deadly enemy the Archduke.

Melanie Rawn's delightful creation of the world of Albeyn is a place where the magical races have joined with humans in a melting pot of powers, and everyone loves the theater of magic. In Window Wall, her irrepressible cast of characters mature--at least a little. Not that they'll ever settle down.

Lord of the Changing Winds

Griffin Mage Trilogy: Book 1

Rachel Neumeier

Griffins lounged all around them, inscrutable as cats, brazen as summer. They turned their heads to look at Kes out of fierce, inhuman eyes. Their feathers, ruffled by the wind that came down the mountain, looked like they had been poured out of light; their lion haunches like they had been fashioned out of gold. A white griffin, close at hand, looked like it had been made of alabaster and white marble and then lit from within by white fire. Its eyes were the pitiless blue-white of the desert sky.Little ever happens in the quiet villages of peaceful Feierabiand. The course of Kes' life seems set: she'll grow up to be an herb-woman and healer for the village of Minas Ford, never quite fitting in but always more or less accepted. And she's content with that path -- or she thinks she is. Until the day the griffins come down from the mountains, bringing with them the fiery wind of their desert and a desperate need for a healer. But what the griffins need is a healer who is not quite human... or a healer who can be made into something not quite human.

The Diamond in the Window

Hall Family Chronicles: Book 1

Jane Langton

A very unusual house...Eddy and Eleanor Hall have always known that their family was a bit out of the ordinary. After all, they live in one of the most remarkable houses in all of Concord. But they never guessed just how extraordinary their house really is, or what tremendous secrets about their family's past it holds. That is, until they discover the magical attic room with its beautiful stained-glass window, abandoned toys, and two perfectly made-up, empty beds that seem to be waiting, perhaps for two children just like themselves...

Magic of Wind and Mist

Hanna

Cassandra Rose Clarke

Taking place in the world of Cassandra Rose Clarke's Magic of Blood and Sea, this is the story of a would-be witch who embarks on an adventure filled with intrigue, mystery, mermaids, and magic.

Hanna has spent her life hearing about the adventures of her namesake Ananna, the lady pirate, and assassin Naji, and dreams to have some adventures of her own.

One day when Hanna is with her apprentice--a taciturn fisherman called Kolur--the boat is swept wildly off course during a day of storms and darkness. In this strange new land, Kolur hires a stranger to join the crew and, rather than heading home, sets a course for the dangerous island of Jadanvar. As Hanna meets a secretive merboy--and learns that Kolur has a deadly past--she soon realizes that wishing for adventures can be deadly... because those wishes might come true.

This is an omnibus version consisting of The Wizard's Promise and The Nobleman's Revenge.

Voice of the Whirlwind

Hardwired: Book 2

Walter Jon Williams

Steward is a Beta -- a clone. In his memories, he's an elite commando for an orbital policorp -- but because his Alpha never did a brain-scan update, Steward's memories are fifteen years out of date... and in those fifteen years, everything has changed.

An interstellar war destroyed the company that held his allegiance. His wife has divorced him, along with the second wife that he can't even remember. Most of his comrades died in a useless battle on a world called Sheol, and those who survived are irrevocably scarred. An alien race has arrived and become the center of a complex and deadly intrigue.

And someone has murdered him.

The Winds of Dune

Heroes of Dune: Book 2

Kevin J. Anderson
Brian Herbert

With their usual skill, Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson have taken ideas left behind by Frank Herbert and filled them with living characters and a true sense of wonder. Where Paul of Dune picked up the saga directly after the events of Dune, The Winds of Dune begins after the events of Dune Messiah.

Paul has walked off into the sand, blind, and is presumed dead. Jessica and Gurney are on Caladan; Alia is trying to hold the Imperial government together with Duncan; Mohiam dead at the hands of Stilgar; Irulan imprisoned. Paul’s former friend, Bronso of Ix, now seems to be leading opposition to the House of Atreides. Herbert and Anderson’s newest book in this landmark series will concentrate on these characters as well the growing battle between Jessica, and her daughter, Alia.

Crimson Wind

Horngate Witches: Book 2

Diana Pharaoh Francis

Max knows what trusting the wrong person can cost you. Her former friend Giselle, a powerful witch, enslaved Max years ago, turning her into a Shadowblade -- a deadly warrior compelled to fight for Giselle. But there's more at stake now than Max's thirst for revenge. The Guardians, overseers of the magical world, have declared war on humanity and on any witches not standing with them. Max and Giselle have come to an uneasy truce in order to protect what's left of Horngate, their coven's home. Max would do anything for Horngate -- even give herself over to a mysterious otherworldly creature in the nearby mountains in exchange for his help. But first, she intends to save the mortal family she left behind. And Alexander, the Shadowblade warrior who could be her closest ally or her deadliest enemy, is going with her.

On a road trip into the unknown, Max and Alexander face wild magic, desperate enemies, and battles that bruise both body and soul. But the greatest challenge will come from unexpected revelations that test everything Max believes about who she is -- and where her loyalties lie.

The Throne of the Five Winds

Hostage of Empire: Book 1

S. C. Emmett

Two queens, two concubines, six princes. A single hidden blade.

The imperial palace -- full of ambitious royals, sly gossip, and unforeseen perils -- is perhaps the most dangerous place in the Empire of Zhaon. Komor Yala, lady-in-waiting to the princess of the vanquished kingdom of Khir, has only her wits and her hidden blade to protect herself and her charge, who was sacrificed in marriage to the enemy as a hostage for her conquered people's good behavior, to secure a tenuous peace.

But the Emperor is aging, and the Khir princess and her lady-in-waiting soon find themselves pawns in the six princes' deadly schemes for the throne -- and a single spark could ignite fresh rebellion in Khir.

Then, the Emperor falls ill -- and a far bloodier game begins...

The Night Window

Jane Hawk: Book 5

Dean Koontz

Since the beginning Jane Hawk has been resolute in her quest to take down the influential architects of an accelerating operation to control every level of society via an army of mind-altered citizens. At first, only Jane stood against the "Arcadian" conspirators, but slowly others have emerged to stand with her, even as there are troubling signs that the "adjusted" people are beginning to spin viciously out of control.

Jane will require all her resources - and more - as she confronts those at the malevolent, impregnable center of power as she wages her final battle against a terrifying conspiracy - for vengeance, for justice, and for humanity's freedom.

Ride the Star Winds

John Grimes Saga: Book 4

A. Bertram Chandler

The fourth omnibus edition of the classic science fiction of A. Bertram Chandler's John Grimes books, with four full length novels and six interconnected short stories in this renowned SF saga. Pipe-smoking, action-loving spaceship commander Lieutenant John Grimes (think Captain Kirk with more of a navy, salty attitude) moves out of the Federation navy and finds his true calling adventuring along the spaceways of the galactic rim.

Number four in the collected adventures of the legendary John Grimes of the Galactic Rim series, including four novels:

  • The Anarch Lords: John Grimes' short career as a somewhat benevolent space pirate is over, but he has sunk even lower, becoming a politician. He's now the governor of a planet of anarchists, where term limits are unnecessary, what with all the assassinations taking place.
  • The Last Amazon: Back on Sparta, the formerly all-male planet, Grimes is waiting for his own ship to arrive when he's caught up in yet another revolution--and you can't tell the good guys (or gals) without a program.
  • The Wild Ones: Back on Earth was the last place that Grimes expected to be. Another thing he hadn't expected was accusations of witchcraft being taken seriously.
  • Catch the Star Winds: An experimental sailing ship of space was intended to exceed the speed of light. Then strange things happened involving time itself, and the crew wasn't sure they would ever see home, or their home time, again.

Plus six interrelated short stories starring the indefatigable John Grimes, rounding out a large volume of space adventure with a dash of humor, and a likable hero who always gamely manages to muddle through...

Night Winds

Kane

Karl Edward Wagner

Where once the mighty Kane has passed, no one who lives forgets. Now, down the trail of past battles, Kane travels again. To the ruins of a devastated city peopled only with half-men and the waif they call their queen. To the half-burnt tavern where a woman Kane wronged long ago holds his child in keeping for the Devil. To the cave kingdom of the giants where glory and its aftermath await discovery. To the house of death itself where Kane retrieves a woman in love.

The past, the future, the present - all these are one for Kane as he travels through the centuries.

Table of Contents:

  • "Undertow"
  • "Two Suns Setting"
  • "The Dark Muse"
  • "Raven's Eyrie"
  • "Lynortis Reprise"
  • "Sing a Last Song of Valdese"

Windows

Katherine Mortenhoe: Book 2

D. G. Compton

Rod was a television reporter with the ultimate gimmick. Thanks to the marvels of microsurgery, TV cameras were implanted in his eyes. He could broadcast people's actions without them even knowing it. But when he was forced to spy on a dying woman, he deliberately blinded himself by overloading his sensitive circuits.

Rod thought that he could opt out of the tough choice that society was forcing him to make. He was wrong, of course. Dead wrong...

The Name of the Wind

Kingkiller Chronicles: Book 1

Patrick Rothfuss

Travelers to the village where Kote runs an inn are rare, but those who've shown up lately have brought bad news. A sort of demonic spider attacks a local, and then Kote rescues a wandering scholar, bringing him to the inn to recover. The man recognizes Kote as the legendary hero Kvothe and begs him to reveal the reality behind all the legends.

The Steel Throne

Legend of the Five Rings: The Four Winds Saga

Edward Bolme

The prelude to the upcoming Legend of the Five Rings series.

This novel introduces new characters and settings based on the events in the Legend of the Five Rings: The Spirit Wars card set. This book also sets up the story for future novels in the upcoming series The Four Winds Saga.

The Clan War is over. The danger is not.

Once the greatest samurai in all Rokugan, Toturi has managed to hold the Empire together despite warring clans and internal treacheries. But nothing has prepared him for the hordes of vile spirits ravaging his beloved realm.

As the Spirit Wars rage, Toturi and his children are the only hope for Rokugan.

Wind of Honor

Legend of the Five Rings: The Four Winds Saga: Book 1

Ree Soesbee

The Emperor is Dead.

The Steel Throne, seat of imperial power in Rokugan, sits empty. Ambition wars with justice and deception with truth as the emperor's heirs seek to gain the favor of the Clans. The fate of the Empire walks the edge of a blade, and before all is lost, the Lady of hte Sword must step forward to restore honor to a land in need.

Wind of War

Legend of the Five Rings: The Four Winds Saga: Book 2

Jess Lebow

The Steel Throne Sits Empty...

Rokugan stands on the brink of chaos. As his brothers and sister seek the favor of the clans, the illegitimate son Akodo Kaneka forsakes grasping for power and takes up a new quest--defending the helpless and destroying those who ravage the common people. But as his world crumbles about him, he discovers that no son of Toturi can escape his destiny.

Wind of Justice

Legend of the Five Rings: The Four Winds Saga: Book 3

Rich Wulf

Darkness Grows in the Empire...

Naseru, known as "The Anvil," will stop at nothing to sit upon the Throne of Rokugan. When dark forces rise in the City of Night, he must act swiftly. To save his beloved Empire, Naseru must learn to wield the most unlikely weapon of all -- justice.

Wind of Truth

Legend of the Five Rings: The Four Winds Saga: Book 4

Ree Soesbee

This concluding title to The Four Winds Saga explores a different character's perspective on the events taking place in the series. The overall storyline is based on the Gold Edition set for the Legend of the Five Rings trading card game released by AEG. The ending of this title will actually be decided by the Legend of the Five Rings readers and fans in a tournament during the Summer of 2003, allowing players to have direct impact on novel content.

The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest

Mythic Fiction: Book 1

Ellen Datlow
Terri Windling

One of our most enduring, universal myths is that of the Green Man-the spirit who stands for Nature in its most wild and untamed form, a man with leaves for hair who dwells deep within the mythic forest. Through the ages and around the world, the Green Man and other nature spirits have appeared in stories, songs, and artwork, as well as many beloved fantasy novels, including Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.

Now Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, the acclaimed editors of over twenty anthologies, have gathered some of today's finest writers of magical fiction to interpret the spirits of nature in short stories and poetry. Charles Vess (Stardust) brings his stellar eye and brush to the decorations, and Windling provides an introduction exploring Green Man symbolism and forest myth.

The Green Man will become required reading for teenagers and adults alike-not only for fans of fantasy fiction, but for anyone interested in mythology and the mysteries of the wilderness.

Table of Contents:

  • Preface - essay by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
  • Introduction: About the Green Man and Other Forest Lore - essay by Terri Windling
  • Going Wodwo - poem by Neil Gaiman
  • Grand Central Park - novelette by Delia Sherman
  • Daphne - shortstory by Michael Cadnum
  • Somewhere in My Mind There Is a Painting Box - novelette by Charles de Lint
  • Among the Leaves So Green - novelette by Tanith Lee
  • Song of the Cailleach Bheur - poem by Jane Yolen
  • Hunter's Moon - shortstory by Patricia A. McKillip
  • Charlie's Away - novelette by Midori Snyder
  • A World Painted by Birds - novelette by Katherine Vaz
  • Grounded - novelette by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
  • Overlooking - shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
  • Fee, Fie, Foe, et Cetera - novelette by Gregory Maguire
  • Joshua Tree - novelette by Emma Bull
  • Ali Anugne O Chash (The Boy Who Was) - shortstory by Carolyn Dunn
  • Remnants - shortstory by Kathe Koja
  • The Pagodas of Ciboure - novelette by M. Shayne Bell
  • Green Men - poem by Bill Lewis
  • The Green Word - novelette by Jeffrey Ford
  • About the Editors - essay by uncredited
  • About the Artist - essay by uncredited

The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm

Mythic Fiction: Book 2

Ellen Datlow
Terri Windling

Faeries, or creatures like them, can be found in almost every culture the world over-benevolent and terrifying, charming and exasperating, shifting shape from country to country, story to story, and moment to moment. In The Faery Reel, acclaimed anthologists Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have asked some of today's finest writers of fantastic fiction for short stories and poems that draw on the great wealth of world faery lore and classic faery literature. This companion to the World Fantasy Award-winner and Locus bestseller The Green Man is edgy, provocative, and thoroughly magical. Like the faeries themselves.

Table of Contents:

  • Preface - essay by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
  • Introduction: The Faeries - essay by Terri Windling
  • The Boys of Goose Hill - (1991) - poem by Charles de Lint
  • CATNYP - novelette by Delia Sherman
  • Elvenbrood - novelette by Tanith Lee
  • Your Garnet Eyes - shortstory by Katherine Vaz
  • Tengu Mountain - novelette by Gregory Frost
  • The Faery Handbag - novelette by Kelly Link
  • The Price of Glamour - novelette by Steve Berman
  • The Night Market - shortstory by Holly Black
  • Never Never - novelette by Bruce Glassco
  • Screaming for Faeries - novelette by Ellen Steiber
  • Immersed in Matter - novelette by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
  • Undine - shortstory by Patricia A. McKillip
  • The Oakthing - novelette by Gregory Maguire
  • Foxwife - novelette by Hiromi Goto
  • The Dream Eaters - novelette by A. M. Dellamonica
  • The Faery Reel - poem by Neil Gaiman
  • The Shooter at the Heartrock Waterhole - novelette by Bill Congreve
  • The Annals of Eelin-Ok - shortstory by Jeffrey Ford
  • De La Tierra - shortstory by Emma Bull
  • How to Find Faery - poem by Nan Fry
  • Further Reading - essay by uncredited
  • About the Editors - essay by uncredited
  • About the Illustrator - essay by uncredited

The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales

Mythic Fiction: Book 3

Ellen Datlow
Terri Windling

Coyote. Anansi. Brer Rabbit. Trickster characters have long been a staple of folk literature. Twenty-six authors, including Holly Black (The Spiderwick Chronicles), Charles de Lint (Little (Grrl) Lost), Ellen Klages, (The Green Glass Sea), Kelly Link (Pretty Monsters), Patricia A, McKillip (Ombria in Shadow), and Jane Yolen, have crafted stories and poems drawing from cultures and traditions all over the world--each surprising, engrossing, and thought provoking. Terri Windling provides a comprehensive introduction to the trickster myths of the world, and the entire book is highlighted by the remarkable decorations of Charles Vess.

The Coyote Road, like its companions The Green Man (winner of the World Fantasy Award) and The Faery Reel (a World Fantasy Award Finalist), is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary fantasy fiction.

Table of Contents:

  • Preface - essay by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
  • Introduction - essay by Terri Windling
  • One Odd Shoe - shortstory by Pat Murphy
  • Coyote Woman - poem by Carolyn Dunn
  • Wagers of Gold Mountain - shortstory by Steve Berman
  • The Listeners - shortstory by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
  • Realer Than You - shortstory by Christopher Barzak
  • The Fiddler of Bayou Teche - shortstory by Delia Sherman
  • A Tale for the Short Days - shortstory by Richard Bowes
  • Friday Night at St. Cecilia's - shortstory by Ellen Klages
  • The Fortune-Teller - shortstory by Patricia A. McKillip
  • How Raven Made His Bride - poem by Theodora Goss
  • Crow Roads - shortstory by Charles de Lint
  • The Chamber Music of Animals - shortstory by Katherine Vaz
  • Uncle Bob Visits - shortstory by Caroline Stevermer
  • Uncle Tompa - poem by Midori Snyder
  • Cat of the World - shortstory by Michael Cadnum
  • Honored Guest - shortstory by Ellen Kushner
  • Always the Same Story - shortstory by Elizabeth E. Wein
  • The Señorita and the Cactus Thorn - shortstory by Kim Antieau
  • Black Rock Blues - shortstory by Will Shetterly
  • The Constable of Abal - shortstory by Kelly Link
  • A Reversal of Fortune - shortstory by Holly Black
  • God Clown - shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
  • The Other Labyrinth - shortstory by Jedediah Berry
  • The Dreaming Wind - shortstory by Jeffrey Ford
  • Kawaku Anansi Walks the World's Web - poem by Jane Yolen
  • The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change - novelette by Kij Johnson
  • Further Reading - essay by uncredited
  • About the Editors - essay by uncredited
  • About the Illustrator - essay by uncredited

The Beastly Bride and Other Tales of the Animal People

Mythic Fiction: Book 4

Ellen Datlow
Terri Windling

What do werewolves, vampires, and the Little Mermaid have in common? They are all shapechangers. In The Beastly Bride, acclaimed editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling bring together original stories and poems from a stellar lineup of authors including Peter S. Beagle, Ellen Kushner, Jane Yolen, Lucius Shepard, and Tanith Lee, as well as many new, diverse voices. Terri Windling provides a scholarly, yet accessible introduction, and Charles Vess's decorations open each story. From Finland to India, the Pacific Northwest to the Hamptons, shapechangers are part of our magical landscape and The Beastly Bride is sure to be one of the most acclaimed anthologies of the year.

Table of Contents:

  • "Island Lake" by E. Catherine Tobler
  • "The Puma's Daughter" by Tanith Lee
  • "Map of Seventeen" by Christopher Barzak
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Warrior of the Wind

Nameless Republic: Book 2

Suyi Davies Okungbowa

There is no peace in the season of the Red Emperor.

Traumatized by their escape from Bassa, Lilong and Danso have found safety in a vagabond colony on the edge of the emperor's control. But time is running out on their refuge. A new bounty makes every person a threat, and whispers of magic have roused those eager for their own power.

Lilong is determined to return the Diwi--the ibor heirloom--to her people. It's the only way to keep it safe from Esheme's insatiable desire. The journey home will be long, filled with twists and treachery, unexpected allies and fabled enemies.

But surviving the journey is the least of their problems.

Something ancient and uncontrollable awakens. Trouble heads for Bassa, and the continent of Oon will need more than ibor to fix what's coming.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 1

Nausicaä: Book 1

Hayao Miyazaki

In a long-ago war, humankind set off a devastating ecological disaster. Thriving industrial societies disappeared. The earth is slowly submerging beneath the expanding Sea of Corruption, an enormous toxic forest that creates mutant insects and releases a miasma of poisonous spores into the air.

At the periphery of the sea, tiny kingdoms are scattered on tiny parcels of land. Here lies the Valley of the Wind, a kingdom of barely 500 citizens; a nation given fragile protection from the decaying sea's poisons by the ocean breezes; and home to Nausicaä.

Nausicaä, a young princess, has an emphatic bond with the giant Ohmu insects and animals of every creed. She fights to create tolerance, understanding and patience among empires that are fighting over the world's remaining precious natural resources.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 2

Nausicaä: Book 2

Hayao Miyazaki

Princess Nausicaä has left the Valley of the Wind to join Princess Kushana's forces. However, Nausicaä gets separated from the Torumekian fleet and finds herself face to face with the mysterious Ohmu, who open their hearts to her. But will Nausicaä be able to interpret their urgent warning about the southern forest? And what of the war which rages all around her?

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 3

Nausicaä: Book 3

Hayao Miyazaki

Nausicaä finds herself on the edge of despair as she comes to realize the full extent of the ecological destruction that's ravaging Earth. Meanwhile, Queen Kushana of Torumekia plots to lead her troops back to the imperial capital and seize the crown. Nausicaä agrees to join Kushana and her people in the fight against the Doroks and her scheming brothers.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 4

Nausicaä: Book 4

Hayao Miyazaki

A monk warns Nausicaä that omens of an apocalypse, Daikaisho, will appear soon and the forest will boil over to cover the land. His predictions appear to be coming true when she arrives in the Forest in the South and discovers Lord Miralupa has developed mutant spores for biological warfare, but the mould begins growing uncontrollably and there's no antidote.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 5

Nausicaä: Book 5

Hayao Miyazaki

Emperor Namulith wants to unite the warring Dorok and Torumekian empires, but needs Pricess Kushana's cooperation to do so. Meanwhile, a mutant strain of mold has spawned and is consuming everything in its path!

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 6

Nausicaä: Book 6

Hayao Miyazaki

Nausicaä embarks on an inner, spiritual journey to the heart of the Sea of Corruption, where she discovers its surprising secret. She returns to the land of the living, compelled to share her discovery, but Nausicaä accidentally awakens a God Warrior from its stasis.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 7

Nausicaä: Book 7

Hayao Miyazaki

Now, Princess Nausicaä and the God Warrior, a biotechnological abomination of the war known as the Seven Days of Fire, embark on a journey to the Crypt of Shuwa to seal away the terrible weaponry hidden within. But everyone seems to be conspiring to prevent Nausicaä from carrying out her mission, even the guardian of the crypt himself!

The Wind in His Heart

Newford: Book 20

Charles de Lint

De Lint's first adult fantasy novel in 8 years weaves a rich tapestry of story with classic CdL elegance.

Young Thomas Corn Eyes sees into the otherworld, but all he wants to do is get off the rez. Steve Cole escaped from his rock star life to disappear into the desert and mountains. Fifteen-year-old barrio kid Sadie Higgins has been discarded once too often. Blogger Leah Hardin needs to leave Newford, come to terms with the loss of her best friend, and actually engage with her life. When these lives collide in the Hierro Maderas Mountains, they must struggle to escape their messy pasts and find a way to carve a future for themselves.

They don't just have to learn how to survive. They have to learn how to fly.

The Waves Extinguish the Wind

Noon Universe: Book 10

Arkady Strugatsky
Boris Strugatsky

Today, Russian authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are counted among the best science fiction writers of the twentieth century.

In their Noon Universe novels, they imagined twenty-second-century Earth as a space-faring communist utopia, devoted to guiding the progress of civilization on alien worlds. But as the authors became increasingly disillusioned with life in the Soviet Union, their Noon Universe stories grew darker and more complex as well.

The Waves Extinguish the Wind provides the epic conclusion to the Noon Universe saga, as eighty-nine-year-old Maxim Kammerer looks back at his most earth-shattering investigation, which brought an entire era of human civilization to an end. Searching for evidence that the mysterious alien Wanderers were interfering in Earth's development, Kammerer and his young trainee Toivo Glumov discovered a deeper and more disturbing secret within humanity itself.

This new translation by Daniels Umanovskis joins updated editions of Hard to Be a God, The Inhabited Island, and The Beetle in the Anthill to bring the saga of the Noon Universe to its fitting end: a search for truth and answers in a universe that provides only questions.

Windswept

Occupied Space: Book 1

Adam Rakunas

Labor organizer Padma Mehta is on the edge of space and the edge of burnout. All she wants is to buy out a little rum distillery and retire, but she's supposed to recruit 500 people to the Union before she can. She's only thirty-three short. So when a small-time con artist tells her about forty people ready to tumble down the space elevator to break free from her old bosses, she checks it out -- against her better judgment. It turns out, of course, it was all lies.

As Padma should know by now, there are no easy shortcuts on her planet. And suddenly retirement seems farther away than ever: she's just stumbled into a secret corporate mission to stop a plant disease that could wipe out all the industrial sugarcane in Occupied Space. If she ever wants to have another drink of her favorite rum, she's going to have to fight her way through the city's warehouses, sewage plants, and up the elevator itself to stop this new plague.

The House of the Four Winds

One Dozen Daughters: Book 1

Mercedes Lackey
James Mallory

Mercedes Lackey is the New York Times bestselling author of the Valdemar series and romantic fantasies like Beauty and the Werewolf and The Fairy Godmother. JAMES MALLORY and Lackey have collaborated on six novels. Now. these New York Times and USA Today bestselling collaborators bring romance to the fore with The House of Four Winds.

The rulers of tiny, impoverished Swansgaard have twelve daughters and one son. While the prince's future is assured, his twelve sisters must find their own fortunes.

Disguising herself as Clarence, a sailor, Princess Clarice intends to work her way to the New World. When the crew rebels, Clarice/Clarence, an expert with rapier and dagger, sides with the handsome navigator, Dominick, and kills the cruel captain.

Dominick leads the now-outlawed crew in search of treasure in the secret pirate haven known as The House of Four Winds. They encounter the sorceress Shamal, who claims Dominick for her own--but Clarice has fallen hard for Dominick and won't give him up without a fight.

Full of swashbuckling adventure, buoyant magic, and irrepressible charm, The House of the Four Winds is a lighthearted fantasy romp by a pair of bestselling writers.

Wind Raker

Order of the Air: Book 4

Jo Graham
Melissa Scott

It's the summer of 1935, and Gilchrist Aviation's owner Alma Gilchrist Segura has brokered a deal that will take herself and fellow pilots Lewis Segura and Mitchell Sorley to Honolulu to test a new seaplane. It pays well enough to take their families along for a working vacation - including the children of the company's part time handyman, whose father has abandoned them. Better still, archeologist Jerry Ballard is already there supervising a dig investigating whether Hawaii was actually discovered by the Chinese. It's a crackpot idea, but it's his only chance to prove that he can still handle field work after losing his leg at the end of the Great War, and he's determined to restart his career.

However, not all is as it seems. The dig is funded by anonymous sources who seem to have far too much influence on its management, including the hiring of German archaeologist Willi Radke, and who seem to know exactly what they want to find. The seaplane's testing is plagued by mysterious mechanical problems - and rumors of a curse spread through the hangar. Can you murder someone by magic? And who would want to kill a middle aged Army officer who belongs to an allied lodge? Alma, Jerry, Mitch, Lewis and Stasi are determined to defend themselves, but the power arrayed against them is greater than they imagined. It will take everything they have - as flyers, scholars, and magicians - to survive this deadly paradise.

Library of the Sapphire Wind

Over Where: Book 1

Jane Lindskold

Instead of mentors, they got monsters... That's what Xerak, Vereez, and Grunwold think when three strange creatures shimmer into being within the circle of Hettua Shrine. Their conclusion is reasonable enough. After all, they've never seen humans before. As for Margaret Blake, Peg Gallegos, and Tessa Brown--more usually known as Meg, Peg, and Teg--they're equally astonished but, oddly enough, better prepared. Then there is the mysterious verse that Teg speaks as they arrive, words that seem to indicate that the Shrine must have been at least partially responding to the request made of it.

Despite doubts on all sides, the three unlikely mentors join forces with the three young "inquisitors" and venture out into the world Peg dubs "Over Where." First they must find the Library of the Sapphire Wind, destroyed years before. Will they find answers there, or is this only the first stage in their search?

The Bloodwind

Oxrun

Charles L. Grant

Pat Shavers was an artist and a teacher. She'd had a rough life: a divorce, and the loss of her child. But now things seemed to be in order. Except for the strange force riding in the daily movements of her life. A threat rising in the envy of her colleagues, the jealousies of her new lover, the hidden enmity of those who seemed to be her friends. It was a dangerous fury gathering itself against her. The wind rose and swirled, threatening to destroy her.

When the Fire Burns High and the Wind is from the North: The Pastoral Science Fiction of Clifford D. Simak

Popular Writers of Today: Book 73

Robert J. Ewald

Born in 1904, Clifford D. Simak sold his first science fiction story in 1930, and was soon publishing widely in the pulp magazines. He also pursued a separate career as a journalist and writer on science and other popular topics. He gained widespread fame in the SF world with the first of his series of "City" stories, published in Astounding Science Fiction in 1944; these were collected together in the book of the same title, which has remained almost continuously in print ever since.

Simak was best known for his pastoral and humanitarian themes, as exemplied in his Hugo Award-winning novel, Way Station (1963). In later years he wrote both fantasy and SF stories and novels, winning many additional accolades for his work. He died in 1988.

Robert J. Ewald provides the first extended look at Simak's writing, from his earliest pulp stories to the sophistical fiction of his later years. Complete with Chronology, Notes, Primary and Secondary Bibliographies, and detailed Index.

The Winds of Time

SF Rediscovery: Book 10

Chad Oliver

They were visitors from out of space.

They had slept for 15,000 years. But they were men. Nevertheless it was a fantastic experience for Wes Chase to discover them while on a casual fishing trip.

It was a long time before they were able to explain to Wes why they were on earth and what they needed. It was even longer before Wes conquered his horror and decided he could help them in their mission to bring peace to the universe.

When Wes finally found the daring answer to their problems, he realised that he would have to leave his own life behind and go with them into the future and the winds of time.

The Wind After Time

Shadow Warrior: Book 1

Chris Bunch

Ten years has passed since the Great War - and mankind was victorious against the Al'ar, their loathsome alien foes.

But Joshua Wolfe, hero of the war, knows it's not over. He knows the Al'ar and their ways. He knows what their plans are.

And he knows they'll be back.

Long ago, the Al'ar gave him a name: Shadow Warrior. The time has come to fulfill its lethal promise.

Wind from the Abyss

Silistra: Book 3

Janet Morris

Epic fantasy, social science fiction, heroic fantasy. allegorical fantasy.Wind from the Abyss is the third volume in Janet Morris' classic Silistra Quartet, continuing one woman's quest for self-realization in a distant tomorrow.

Aristocrat. Outcast. Picara. Slave. Ruler. She is descended from the masters of the universe. To hold her he challenges the gods themselves.

The Wind Over the World

Silurian Tales

Steven Utley

This novelette originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 1996. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection (1997), edited by Gardner Dozois, and The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF (2013), edited by Mike Ashley. The story is included in the collection The 400-Million-Year Itch (2012).

Web of Wind

Silverglass: Book 2

J. F. Rivkin

Riddles, Treasure, and Sorcery

"Here is a web to catch the wind
And a loom to weave a lay.
Riddles play on words, my friend--
Play on these and play you may."

This simple riddle was the clue that started the sword-for-hire Corson and her sorceress companion, the Lady Nyctasia, on a hunt for the greatest treasure ever hidden.

But this long-abandoned treasure is the hoard of the dread Cymvelan Circle, whose scattered members are coming together again to claim what is theirs...

Any Way the Wind Blows

Simon Snow: Book 3

Rainbow Rowell

In Carry On, Simon Snow and his friends realized that everything they thought they understood about the world might be wrong. And in Wayward Son, they wondered whether everything they understood about themselves might be wrong.

In Any Way the Wind Blows, Simon and Baz and Penelope and Agatha have to decide how to move forward.

For Simon, that means deciding whether he still wants to be part of the World of Mages - and if he doesn't, what does that mean for his relationship with Baz? Meanwhile Baz is bouncing between two family crises and not finding any time to talk to anyone about his newfound vampire knowledge. Penelope would love to help, but she's smuggled an American Normal into London, and now she isn't sure what to do with him. And Agatha? Well, Agatha Wellbelove has had enough.

Any Way the Wind Blows takes the gang back to England, back to Watford, and back to their families for their longest and most emotionally wrenching adventure yet.

Carry On was conceived as a book about Chosen One stories; Any Way the Wind Blows is an ending about endings. About catharsis and closure, and how we choose to move on from the traumas and triumphs that try to define us.

Spacer: Window of the Mind

Space Angel: Book 2

John Maddox Roberts

Rescued by the crew of the freighter, Space Angel, Kiril, a street urchin, must use her telepathic powers to prevent the ship from being used as a pawn in an insane attempt to start an intergalactic war.

Windows on a Lost World

Star Trek: The Original Series: Book 65

V. E. Mitchell

Windows On A Lost World

While Captain Kirk and a landing party from the Starship Enterprise explore the ruins of an ancient civilization on the uninhabited planet Careta IV, they discover strange devices that appear to be windows.But the mysterious windows prove to be more than they seem when Kirk, Chekov, and two security guards enter them and disappear.

Suddenly, Kirk and his team find themselves find themselves trapped in a strange alien enviorment and must fight with all their strength to survive and keep their sanity. Now Spock must locate his missing comrades and solve the window's ancient mysteries before his captain and crewmates are lost forever....

Traitor Winds

Star Trek: The Original Series: The Lost Years Saga: Book 3

L. A. Graf

More than a year has passed since the end of the Enterprise's legendary five-year mission, and Kirk and his crew have settled into their new, separate assignments. But Sulu and Chekov soon find themselves framed for murder and treason, and the two officers are forced to go into hiding. Admiral Kirk and Lt. Uhura frantically search for evidence to prove Sulu and Chekov innocent and uncover a plot that threatens the very foundations of Starfleet. The web of conspiracy is woven tighter as the real culprits and Federation agents close in on the fugitives. Unsure of whom to trust and with time running out, the former U.S.S. Enterprise shipmates must once again rely on each other to find the truth and prevent the Federation from facing utter destruction.

Reap the Whirlwind

Star Trek: Vanguard: Book 3

David Mack

REAP THE WHIRLWIND continues the story line of the previous VANGUARD novel, SUMMON THE THUNDER. In this third installment, the investigation of mysterious star system leads to a downed ship, a collision of military forces, and a difficult decision that will shatter lives and careers.

REAP THE WHIRLWIND chronicles the race to solve an ancient mystery concerning a remote and unknown region of space, one that holds a highly coveted, mysterious, and potentially cataclysmic secret. At the centre of this intrigue is an eclectic mix of Starfleet and civilian protagonists unlike any crew previously seen in Star Trek, whose turbulent lives aboard are painted against the backdrop of an evolving storyline as the layers of the mystery are steadily peeled back, one after another.

The Life and Legend of Obi-Wan Kenobi

Star Wars

Ryder Windham

Overlooked as a Padawan, he was to become one of the most revered Masters of all.

Sworn to serve the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order, his own apprentice would bring about their destruction.

Powerless to retrieve Darth Vader from the dark side, he would train the only one who could.

This is the legendary story of Obi-Wan Kenobi, from his first meeting with Anakin Skywalker to his final meeting with Darth Vader--and beyond....

The Wrath of Darth Maul

Star Wars: Darth Maul: Book 2

Ryder Windham

Forged by rage. Taken as a child and trained in the ways of the Sith, he became the apprentice to the greatest evil the galaxy has ever known...

Honed by the dark side. After years of plotting in secrecy, he and his Master will take revenge on the Jedi Order--and the once-mighty Republic will tremble...

The savage story of Darth Maul has been shrouded in mystery--until now.

The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader

Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith

Ryder Windham

This is the legendary story of Anakin Skywalker as it's never been told before - through his eyes...

From rise to fall, from light to dark, and back again.

Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon

Star Wars: The Lando Calrissian Adventures: Book 2

L. Neil Smith

The Oseon was a solar system of luxury hotels catering to the underemployed filthy rich-every gambler's dream come true. And so it was for Lando and his robot companion until Lando broke the gambler's cardinal rule: never beat a cop at high-stakes games of chance.

Reap the Wild Wind

Stratification: Book 1

Julie E. Czerneda

In the first book of the Stratification series, set in an earlier time in Czerneda's Trade Pact Universe, the Clan has not yet learned how to manipulate the M'hir to travel between worlds. Instead, they are a people divided into small tribes, scattered over a fraction of their world, and prevented from advancing by two other powerful races who control both technology and terrain.

Aliens begin exploring the Clan's home planet, upsetting the delicate balance between the three intelligent races. It is a time, too, when one young woman is on the verge of mastering the forbidden power of the M'hir-a power that could prove to be the salvation or ruin of her entire species...

Reap the Whirlwind

Sword of Knowledge: Book 3

C. J. Cherryh
Mercedes Lackey

Continues the Sword of Knowledge trilogy about the people of Sabis who have been oppressed by the wizards of Ancar since their empire was conquered five hundred years ago.

Temple of the Winds

Sword of Truth: Book 4

Terry Goodkind

On the red moon will come the firestorm...

Wielding the Sword of Truth, Richard Rahl has battled death itself and come to the defense of the D'Haran people. But now the power-mad Emperor Jagang confronts Richard with a swift and inexorable foe: a mystical plague cutting a deadly swath across the land and slaying thousands of innocent victims.

To quench the inferno, he must seek remedy in the wind...

To fight it Richard and his beloved Kahlan Amnell will risk everything to uncover the source of the terrible plague-the magic sealed away for three millennia in the Temple of the Winds.

Lightning will find him on that path...

But when prophecy throws the shadow of betrayal across their mission and threatens to destroy them, Richard must accept the Truth and find a way to pay the price the winds demand...or he and his world will perish.

Dragon Sword and Wind Child

Tales of the Magatama: Book 1

Noriko Ogiwara

The God of Light and the Goddess of Darkness have waged a ruthless war across the land of Toyoashihara for generations. But for fifteen-year-old Saya, the war is far away—until the day she discovers that she is the reincarnation of the Water Maiden and a princess of the Children of the Dark.

Raised to love the Light and detest the Dark, Saya must come to terms with her heritage even as the Light and Dark both seek to claim her, for she is the only mortal who an awaken the legendary Dragon Sword, the weapon destined to bring an end to he war. Can Saya make the choice between the Light and Dark, or is she doomed—like all the Water Maidens who came before her...?

The Wind in the Willows

Tales of the Willows: Book 1

Kenneth Grahame

For more than a century, The Wind in the Willows and its endearing protagonists--Mole, Mr. Toad, Badger, and Ratty--have enchanted children of all ages. Whether the four friends are setting forth on an exciting adventure, engaging in a comic caper, or simply relaxing by the River Thames, their stories are among the most charming in all English literature.

The People of the Wind

Technic Civilization: Avalon: Book 1

Poul Anderson

Terra + Ythri + Avalon = Universal War!

THE TERRAN EMPIRE: Behemoth, reaching ever further across the star systems, seeking to suck the entire universe into it gigantic maw. In is favor it must be said that the Empire offers peach and prosperity to its subjects.

THE YTHRIAN DOMAIN: Medium-size empire with room to grow... except where its borders meet those of the Terran Empire! Peopled by the Ythri, birdlike beings with a culture and intellect that is easily a match for the Terran way of life.

AVALON: Colony planet of Ythri but inhabited by human and Ythri alike, Avalon is the Domain's secret weapon - or is it? For Avalon has formed a culture all its own, which it will defend against all comers. And Avalon seems quite capable of defying the combined might of two of the most powerful empires in the universe!

Tam Lin

Terri Windling's Fairy Tales: Book 2

Pamela Dean

Based upon the classic Scottish fairy tale about a girl's lover being stolen by the Queen of Faery, this magical, contemporary novel is set on a midwestern college campus in the late 1960s and early 1970s with outlandish theater majors.

Snow White and Rose Red

Terri Windling's Fairy Tales: Book 3

Patricia C. Wrede

Snow White and Rose Red live on the edge of the forest that conceals the elusive border of Faerie. They know enough about Faerie lands and mortal magic to be concerned when they find two human sorcerers setting spells near the border. And when the kindly, intelligent black bear wanders into their cottage some months later, they realize the connection between his plight and the sorcery they saw in the forest.

The Nightingale

Terri Windling's Fairy Tales: Book 5

Kara Dalkey

In this deft and enchanting retelling of the classic Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. Kara Dalkey has mixed history and legend, weaving the Andersen fable into a fascinating novel about court life in ancient Japan -- a life of pageantry and poetry, of great beauty and casual cruelty, of life and courtly intrigue as the men and women of the royal household vie for the Emperor's favor, and each other.... This is the story of Uguisu, a young woman with an extraordinary gift for song, who is brought to the Emperor's palace to be the greatest of his many possessions. Her song can bring tears to a courtier's eyes, but it is her wit, her courage, and her heart that must serve her best of all.

White as Snow

Terri Windling's Fairy Tales: Book 6

Tanith Lee

In a novel-length tale of dark fantasy based on the fairy tale "Snow White," Arpazia and her unwanted daughter, Coira, conceived in violence during the sacking of her Arpazia's father's castle, are lured into the woods by the elder gods, who are seeking to restore their worship in a magical land in which a new religion threatens to transform life for everyone.

Fitcher's Brides

Terri Windling's Fairy Tales: Book 7

Gregory Frost

The tale of Bluebeard, reenvisioned as a dark fable of faith and truth.

1843 is the last year of the world, according the Elias Fitcher, a charismatic preacher in the Finger Lakes district of New York State. He's established a utopian community on an estate outside the town of Jeckyll's Glen, where the faithful wait, work, and pray for the world to end.

Vernelia, Amy, and Catherine Charter are the three young townswomen whose father falls under the Reverend Fitchers hypnotic sway. In their old house, where ghostly voices whisper from the walls, the girls are ruled by their stepmother, who is ruled in turn by the fiery preacher. Determined to spend Eternity as a married man, Fitcher casts his eye on Vernelia, and before much longer the two are wed. But living on the man's estate, separated from her family, Vern soon learns the extent of her husbands dark side. It's rumored that he's been married before, though what became of those wives she does not know. Perhaps the secret lies in the locked room at the very top of the housethe sin-gle room that the Reverend Fitcher has forbidden to her.

Inspired by the classic fairy tales "Bluebeard" and "The Fitcher Bird," this dark fantasy is set in New York States Burned-Over District, at its time of historic religious ferment. All three Charter sisters will play their part in the story of Fitcher's Utopia: a story of faith gone wrong, and evil coun-tered by one brave, true soul.

The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars

Terri Windling's Fairy Tales: Book 8

Steven Brust

Once upon a time there was a kingdom that lived in darkness, for the sun, the moon and the stars were hidden in a box, and that box was hidden in a sow's belly, and that sow was hidden in a troll's cave, and that cave was hidden at the end of the world.

Once upon a time there was a studio of artists who feared they were doomed to obscurity, for though they worked and they worked, no one was interested in the paintings that stood in racks along their studio walls.

Steven Brust's fantasy novel The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars is a tale of two quests, of two young men who are reaching for the moon. And the sun. And the stars.

North Wind

The Aleutian Trilogy: Book 2

Gwyneth Jones

The earth changed forever when the Aleutians landed. A hundred years after the invasion, the planet is firmly under extra-terrestrial rule. While the aliens pursue a form of immortality, small bands of human rebels still try to fight back.

Bella is an Aleutian, with a limited understanding of human cultures and gender. Their expectations of society and life are shaped by their own upbringing. But then they meet Sidney Carton, a human. Bella learns quickly as the pair scour the war-ravaged ruins of Europe to find the last vestige of human technology that could be the only hope for saving civilisation as it still exists.

Harp of Winds

The Artefacts of Power: Book 2

Maggie Furey

There had been four Artefacts of Power, belonging to the four branches of the Magefolk. Now, millennia later, only the human Mages survived, and the Artefacts were lost. Until the coming of Aurian...

Child of wizards, swordmistress, the headstrong Aurian had set her power against that of Miathan, the evil Archmage. Whilst he possessed the Cauldron of Rebirth, Aurian had recreated the Staff of Earth, the first of the three lost weapons, the only defence against Miathan's plans of conquest. Trapped in the Southern Lands, her powers reft by pregnancy, Aurian must rely upon the untried powers of the half-blood Mage Anvar as their odyssey takes them to the realm of the mysterious Xandim, to the peaktop city of the Skyfolk, and to the worlds beyond. But Miathan's webs of deceit are only beginning to unfurl...

The Aeronaut's Windlass

The Cinder Spires: Book 1

Jim Butcher

Since time immemorial, the Spires have sheltered humanity, towering for miles over the mist-shrouded surface of the world. Within their halls, aristocratic houses have ruled for generations, developing scientific marvels, fostering trade alliances, and building fleets of airships to keep the peace.

Captain Grimm commands the merchant ship, Predator. Fiercely loyal to Spire Albion, he has taken their side in the cold war with Spire Aurora, disrupting the enemy's shipping lines by attacking their cargo vessels. But when the Predator is severely damaged in combat, leaving captain and crew grounded, Grimm is offered a proposition from the Spirearch of Albion--to join a team of agents on a vital mission in exchange for fully restoring Predator to its fighting glory.

And even as Grimm undertakes this dangerous task, he will learn that the conflict between the Spires is merely a premonition of things to come. Humanity's ancient enemy, silent for more than ten thousand years, has begun to stir once more. And death will follow in its wake...

The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle

The Cornelius Chronicles: Book 8

Michael Moorcock

Look to Windward

The Culture Cycle: Book 7

Iain M. Banks

The Twin Novae battle had been one of the last of the Idiran war, and one of the most horrific: desperate to avert their inevitable defeat, the Idirans had induced not one but two suns to explode, snuffing out worlds and biospheres teeming with sentient life. They were attacks of incredible proportion -- gigadeathcrimes. But the war ended, and life went on.

Now, eight hundred years later, light from the first explosion is about to reach the Masaq' Orbital, home to the Culture's most adventurous and decadent souls. There it will fall upon Masaq's 50 billion inhabitants, gathered to commemorate the deaths of the innocent and to reflect, if only for a moment, on what some call the Culture's own complicity in the terrible event.

Also journeying to Masaq' is Major Quilan, an emissary from the war-ravaged world of Chel. In the aftermath of the conflict that split his world apart, most believe he has come to Masaq' to bring home Chel's most brilliant star and self-exiled dissident, the honored Composer Ziller.

Ziller claims he will do anything to avoid a meeting with Major Quilan, who he suspects has come to murder him. But the Major's true assignment will have far greater consequences than the death of a mere political dissident, as part of a conspiracy more ambitious than even he can know -- a mission his superiors have buried so deeply in his mind that even he cannot remember it.

Hailed by SFX magazine as "an excellent hopping-on point if you've never read a Banks SF novel before," Look to Windward is an awe-inspiring immersion into the wildly original, vividly realized civilization that Banks calls the Culture.

Chasers of the Wind

The Cycle of Wind and Sparks: Book 1

Alexey Pehov

Centuries after the disastrous War of the Necromancers, the Nabatorians, aligned with the evil necromancers of Sdis, mount an invasion of the Empire. Luk, a soldier, and Ga-Nor, a Northern barbarian, are thrown together as they attempt to escape the Nabatorian hordes and find their way back to their comrades.

Gray and Layan are a married couple, master thieves who are hiding out and trying to escape their former gang. They hope to evade the bounty hunters that hound them and retire to a faraway land in peace.

Tia is a powerful dark sorceress and one of The Damned--a group trying to take over the world and using the Nabatorian invasion as a diversion.

Unfortunately, for Gray and Layan, they unwittingly hold the key to a powerful magical weapon that could bring The Damned back to power.

Hounded by the killers on their trail and by the fearsome creatures sent by The Damned, Gray and Layan are aided by Luk and Ga-Nor--and Harold, the hero of The Chronicles of Siala. Realizing what's at stake they decide that, against all odds, they must stop The Damned.

Chasers of the Wind is the first book in a new series from internationally bestselling author Alexey Pehov.

The Wind Through the Keyhole

The Dark Tower: Book 8

Stephen King

For those discovering the epic bestselling Dark Tower series for the first time-and for its legions of dedicated fans-an immensely satisfying stand-alone novel and perfect introduction to the series.

Beginning in 1974, gaining momentum in the 1980s and coming to a thrilling conclusion when the last three novels were published in 2003-2004, the Dark Tower epic fantasy saga stands as Stephen King's most beguiling achievement. It has been the basis for a long-running Marvel comic series.

Now, with The Wind Through the Keyhole, King has returned to the rich landscape of Mid-World. This story within a story within a story finds Roland Deschain, Mid-World's last gunslinger, in his early days during the guilt-ridden year following his mother's death. Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape-shifter, a "skin-man," Roland takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Book of Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime. "A person's never too old for stories," he says to Bill. "Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them."

Sure to captivate the avid fans of the Dark Tower epic, this is an enchanting introduction to Roland's world and the power of Stephen King's storytelling magic.

The Winds of Darkover

The Darkover Series: Book 5

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Originally appeared in Ace Double #89250 (1970).

Dan Barron was a rational and efficient member of the Terran space-force - until nightmare visions drove him from the safety of the trade city into the unmapped heart of the Darkovan mountain ranges. Into an ancient battle that would shape the destiny of more than one world.

West Winds' Fool: and Other Stories of the Devil's West

The Devil's West

Laura Anne Gilman

Visit an American West that never was, but could have been.

A woman in search of her fate, a people looking for a new place to call home, a young girl about to become more than she could ever dream, a magical creature trapped between What Is and what Will Be...

These stories and more welcome you to the Territory, where little is as it seems and everything is what we make of it.

Table of Contents:

  • "Crossroads" (2011) short story
  • "The Devil's Jack" (2014) short fiction
  • "Boots of Clay" (2017) short story
  • "A Town Called Flood" short fiction
  • "The Devil's Hope" short fiction
  • "West Winds' Fool" short fiction
  • "Gabriel's Road" (novella excerpt)

The Other Wind

The Earthsea Cycle: Book 6

Ursula K. Le Guin

The sorcerer Alder fears sleep. He dreams of the land of death, of his wife who died young and longs to return to him so much that she kissed him across the low stone wall that separates our world from the Dry Land-where the grass is withered, the stars never move, and lovers pass without knowing each other. The dead are pulling Alder to them at night. Through him they may free themselves and invade Earthsea.

Alder seeks advice from Ged, once Archmage. Ged tells him to go to Tenar, Tehanu, and the young king at Havnor. They are joined by amber-eyed Irian, a fierce dragon able to assume the shape of a woman.

The threat can be confronted only in the Immanent Grove on Roke, the holiest place in the world and there the king, hero, sage, wizard, and dragon make a last stand.

Le Guin combines her magical fantasy with a profoundly human, earthly, humble touch.

All the Windwracked Stars

The Edda of Burdens: Book 1

Elizabeth Bear

It all began with Ragnarok, with the Children of the Light and the Tarnished ones battling to the death in the ice and the dark. At the end of the long battle, one Valkyrie survived, wounded, and one valraven -- the steeds of the valkyrie.

Because they lived, Valdyrgard was not wholly destroyed. Because the valraven was transformed in the last miracle offered to a Child of the Light, Valdyrgard was changed to a world where magic and technology worked hand in hand.

2500 years later, Muire is in the last city on the dying planet, where the Technomancer rules what's left of humanity. She's caught sight of someone she has not seen since the Last Battle: Mingan the Wolf is hunting in her city.

The Wind From Nowhere

The Elemental Apocalypse Quartet: Book 1

J. G. Ballard

There is a worldwide wind, constantly westward and strongest at the equator. The wind is gradually increasing, so that at the beginning of the story, the force of the wind is making air travel impossible; later, people are living in tunnels and basements, unable to go above ground; near the end, "The air stream carried with it enormous quantities of water vapour - in some cases the contents of entire seas, such as the Caspian and the Great Lakes, which had been drained dry, their beds plainly visible."

The North Wind

The Four Winds: Book 1

Alexandria Warwick

Wren of Edgewood is no stranger to suffering. With her parents gone, it's Wren's responsibility to ensure she and her sister survive the harsh and endless winter, but if the legends are to be believed, their home may not be safe for much longer.

For three hundred years, the land surrounding Edgewood has been encased in ice as the Shade, a magical barrier that protects the townsfolk from the Deadlands beyond, weakens. Only one thing can stop the Shade's fall: the blood of a mortal woman bound in wedlock to the North Wind, a dangerous immortal whose heart is said to be as frigid as the land he rules. And the time has come to choose his bride.

When the North Wind sets his eyes on Wren's sister, Wren will do anything to save her--even if it means sacrificing herself in the process. But mortal or not, Wren won't go down without a fight...

The West Wind

The Four Winds: Book 2

Alexandria Warwick

Brielle of Thornbrook has dedicated her life to the abbey. She spends her days forging iron and her evenings studying the Text, all in preparation of becoming an acolyte. Twenty-one years on this earth and she has never touched a man. And she never will.

But when she finds an injured stranger in the forest, Brielle can't resist the urge to help him. The encounter leads her to the realm of Under, where the air breathes rot, and the fair folk dance and whisper. Where she discovers that the man she helped is actually a god: Zephyrus, the West Wind, Bringer of Spring.

There are few Brielle can trust in Under, least of all Zephyrus. As she embarks on a journey through the eerie banks and caves of Under, Brielle finds herself in a perilous situation. For here is where faith and heart collide - and where she risks not only her future... but her life.

The Darkling Wind

The Inquestor: Book 4

S. P. Somtow

THE DARKLING WIND

In the long dark age that followed, the High Inquest would be remembered as a golden age. For the Inquestors had harnessed the unfathomable power of the heart of stars, sailing the overcosm in their delphinoid ships and tachyon bubbles to dance on the faces of suns.

But the Inquest had its darker side as well. For these beings played a ruthless game with billions of lives, snuffing out worlds as chessplayers take pawns. Waging an unending war on the false utopias that tempt mankind, they sought to free humanity by enslaving it.

At last, after countless centuries, the Inquest was torn apart. This is the story of the fall of that great empire, and of the rebel Inquestor who hastened its end.

The Windsingers

The Ki and Vandien Quartet: Book 2

Megan Lindholm

The Windsingers is Megan's second novel, following Harpy's Flight which introduced her popular gypsy characters, Ki and Vandien.

When Ki first encountered Vandien she very nearly slit his throat. Yet later it was Vandien who suffered a terrible wound to protect her when terror fell from the skies and who gave her a reason to lay to rest the bitter memories of a once idllyic past.

Vandien's unrepentant recklessness led Ki into situations her sensible nature would have avoided. Yet it was Ki who, despite wizard-troubles of her own, risked the wrath of the Windsingers and saved Ki from his treasure hunt in the submerged temple of the storm-sung sea.

And it was Vandien's stubborn daring which allowed him to attempt to reclaim Ki from beyond the Limbreth Gate - in another world entirely!

The Winds of Khalakovo

The Lays of Anuskaya: Book 1

Bradley P. Beaulieu

Among inhospitable and unforgiving seas stands Khalakovo, a mountainous archipelago of seven islands, its prominent eyrie stretching a thousand feet into the sky. Serviced by windships bearing goods and dignitaries, Khalakovo's eyrie stands at the crossroads of world trade. But all is not well in Khalakovo. Conflict has erupted between the ruling Landed, the indigenous Aramahn, and the fanatical Maharraht, and a wasting disease has grown rampant over the past decade. Now, Khalakovo is to play host to the Nine Dukes, a meeting which will weigh heavily upon Khalakovo's future.

When an elemental spirit attacks an incoming windship, murdering the Grand Duke and his retinue, Prince Nikandr, heir to the scepter of Khalakovo, is tasked with finding the child prodigy believed to be behind the summoning. However, Nikandr discovers that the boy is an autistic savant who may hold the key to lifting the blight that has been sweeping the islands. Can the Dukes, thirsty for revenge, be held at bay? Can Khalakovo be saved? The elusive answer drifts upon the Winds of Khalakovo...

The Candle in the Wind

The Once and Future King: Book 4

T. H. White

The aging King Arthur faces the greatest challenge of his reign, when his own son threatens to overthrow him and destroy everything he has worked for.

A Wind From the Rift

The Price of Magic: Book 2

Bonnie Wynne

The sorceress has broken free of her shackles.

Months of imprisonment have forged Gwyn into something new; something dangerous. Eight dead sorceresses whisper in her ear, hungry for blood and vengeance - and after unleashing the red magic to make her escape, she fears she won't be able to stop.

All Gwyn really wants is to go home. But as she soon discovers, escaping the Clockwork City may prove an impossible task. The wizards of the Syndicate wage a silent, bloody war over her fate, and to survive, she must play their deadly game.

As strange storms ravage the city and wizards start turning up dead, Gwyn finds herself in more danger than ever. With enemies on every side, the immortal Scions massing their armies, and the dark power inside her growing stronger, she must make a choice... To save everything she loves, is she willing to become the monster the Syndicate fears?

Harpist in the Wind

The Riddle-Master Trilogy: Book 3

Patricia A. McKillip

Though Morgon the Riddle-Master was reunited with his beloved Raederle, his purpose in life and the reason for the stars on his forehead remained a mystery. All around him, the realm shook with war and disaster as mysterious shape-changers battled against mankind. Without the missing High One, Morgon must assume responsibility for all his world.

After leading an army of the dead to protect his island of Hed, he and Raederle set out for Lungold, where the wizards were assembling against the evil Ghisteslwchlohm. And behind them came Deth, the crippled harpist, Morgon's friend and betrayer.

But Lungold was only the beginning of the quest that would lead him to the truth of ancient struggle and the fate of the High One, until at last he could solve all mysteries and know his own awesome destiny!

One Dark Window

The Shepherd King: Book 1

Rachel Gillig

Elspeth needs a monster. The monster might be her.

Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay safe in the eerie, mist-locked kingdom she calls home--she needs a monster. She calls him the Nightmare, an ancient, mercurial spirit trapped in her head. He protects her. He keeps her secrets.

But nothing comes for free, especially magic.

When Elspeth meets a mysterious highwayman on the forest road, her life takes a drastic turn. Thrust into a world of shadow and deception, she joins a dangerous quest to cure the kingdom of the dark magic infecting it. Except the highwayman just so happens to be the King's own nephew, Captain of the Destriers... and guilty of high treason.

He and Elspeth have until Solstice to gather twelve Providence Cards--the keys to the cure. But as the stakes heighten and their undeniable attraction intensifies, Elspeth is forced to face her darkest secret yet: the Nightmare is slowly, darkly, taking over her mind. And she might not be able to stop him.

Reading the Wind

The Silver Ship: Book 2

Brenda Cooper

The colony planet of Fremont was supposed to be free of all genetically altered beings--a new home for a pure race. So when Chelo and her brother Joseph, along with two other genetically altered teenagers, were abandoned on Fremont, they were not welcome. They vowed to get off the planet by any means necessary. Joseph and the others managed to escape, but Chelo was left behind with her new found love, forced to live underground.

As Joseph and the others return home, they find that their planet is full of vengeance. Believing that the people of Fremont killed the teenaged castaways, they sent a technologically advanced mercenary team back to Fremont to eliminate the entire planet's population. With the help of Joseph's father, they head back to Fremont to try to save Chelo.

Though the numbers are in their favor, the mercenaries' technology is eons ahead. As the team begins leveling the cities of Fremont, Joseph and his father know that Chelo's demise is lurking, and must rally their enemies, the people of Fremont, if they hope to save her.

Sea of Wind

The Twelve Kingdoms: Book 2

Fuyumi Ono

Born in Japan and raised as a human, Taiki is overwhelmed when he's brought back to the kingdom of Tai, where he's told he's a kirin. With little knowledge or guidance, he must trust his latent instincts to choose a king for the Kingdom of Tai from among dozens of men and women who seek the position. Will the frustrated Taiki, who can't even figure out how to transform into animal form, make the right choice? And more important, will he discover the kirin that lives within?

Into the Windwracked Wilds

The Up-and-Under: Book 3

A. Deborah Baker

When the improbable road leaves Avery and Zib in the land of Air and at the mercy of the Queen of Swords, escape without becoming monsters may be impossible. But with the aid of the Queen's son, the unpredictable Jack Daw, they may emerge with enough of their humanity to someday make it home. Their journey is not yet over; the dangers are no less great.

An Image of Voices

The Windhover Tapes: Book 1

Warren Norwood

In An Image of Voices, we meet Manley as he is undertaking a series of new assignments after having had his memory wiped from the previous one, which we are led to understand was something less than successful. And yet the procedure to block Manley's memory was imperfect, as he is haunted by dreams of a woman he calls Fairy Peg. Who was she, what was his relationship to her, and to what disastrous end did it come that warranted having his memory blocked by the Fed?

Synopsis from http://www.sfreviews.net/windhover1.html

Flexing the Warp

The Windhover Tapes: Book 2

Warren Norwood

Voyage to exotic extraterrestrial civilizations with diplomatic troubleshooter Gerald Manley and his sentient starship WINDHOVER on a journey of action, danger and discover! Adventure at its finest!

Fize of the Gabriel Ratchets

The Windhover Tapes: Book 3

Warren Norwood

Return with contract diplomat Gerard Manley to the lost decade before the exciting adventures recorded in the Windhover Tapes. Recapture the intrigue, treachery and passion of his years as Consort to Fairy Peg,ruler of the Ribble Galaxy,and supreme Commander of the elite fighting force known as the Gabriel Ratchets. Follow Manley on a more brutal mission to subdue a rebel planet,as he fights to survive the rivalries of the Ribble court -- and on a voyage into the reaches of his own mind to learn the awesome secrets locked within -- the shattering haunting tale of a man who became a pawn in a deadly intergalactic struggle.

Planet of Flowers

The Windhover Tapes: Book 4

Warren Norwood

Gerard Manley travels with his wife and daughter to the planet Brisbidine, where they find sentient flowers and a mysterious enemy from Manley's forgotten past.

The Silent Tower

The Windrose Chronicles: Book 1

Barbara Hambly

In a world where wizards are relegated to ghettos, it is no surprise to see one murdered in the street. But for Stonne Caris, a young warrior monk who sees the killing and gives chase to the culprit, there is nothing ordinary about seeing a murderer disappear into a black, inky portal. The Archmage sends him in search of Antryg Windrose - a half-mad mage who understands the nature of these passages between dimensions.

On the other side of the Void is Joanna, a programmer as mild as Caris is deadly. She has spent her life in cubicles, staring into computer terminals, as far from heroism as she can get. But when the power that is crossing between dimensions draws her through the Void, she finds herself battling to save a world she never even knew existed.

The Silicon Mage

The Windrose Chronicles: Book 2

Barbara Hambly

There was a time when Joanna Sheraton knew nothing of the Void. She was an ordinary computer programmer, toiling in a cubicle in air-conditioned Southern California comfort, unaware that sinister forces had penetrated her universe. But from across the interdimensional divide, an evil mage had put in motion a scheme for eternal life by transferring himself into a computer that feeds on Earth's life force. Called upon to help by the wizard Antryg, Joanna could do nothing more than delay. At the end of her first sojourn across the Void, Antryg was imprisoned and their task seemed hopeless.

Now she must depart from Earth once more, to rescue Antryg and save humanity. She is friendless, and the dark mage's forces hound her every step. But a good hacker is not easily deterred.

Dog Wizard

The Windrose Chronicles: Book 3

Barbara Hambly

The Citadel of Wizards was under siege. Deep in the Vaults beneath the walled city, gates into inhuman realities were opening and closing without warning. Monsters emerged from other dimensions; and ancient, malign magics came to life under the influence of cosmic chaos.

Someone was tampering with the Void.

The Council of Wizards blamed Antryg Windrose, the rebel mage who had fled their justice to find haven in the City of Angels. Across dimensions, they reached out to bring him back... Antryg refused the wizards' summons. But when Joanna was kidnapped, Antryg followed the woman he loved back across the Void. Trapped in the Citadel between the vengeful mages who once had been his friends and the unspeakable horrors in the Vaults below, Antryg launched a desperate bid to rescue Joanna - while all about him, the very fabric of the universe unraveled...

Stranger at the Wedding

The Windrose Chronicles: Book 4

Barbara Hambly

Kyra was preparing for her final wizard test before the Council. But suddenly, something was twisting her magic, weaving sinister portents of doom into even the simplest of her spells. Then she knew for certain that her young sister Alix was soon to marry--and soon to die. And so she journeyed back to the family who had disowned her. To save her sister, Kyra would have to face down her father's rage, stand firm against the venomous rivalries of her family's enemies, and confront the Inquisition. Then she must defeat a still deadlier foe--if only she could find it!

The Calorie Man

The Windup Universe

Paolo Bacigalupi

Sturgeon Award winning and Hugo Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 2005. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection (2006), edited by Gardner Dozois, Science Fiction: The Very Best of 2005 (2006) edited by Jonathan Strahan, and Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology (2007), edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel. It is included in the collection Pump Six and Other Stories (2008) and is included as an extra in some editions of the novel The Windup Girl (2009).

The Windup Girl

The Windup Universe

Paolo Bacigalupi

What Happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when said bio-terrorism forces humanity to the cusp of post-human evolution? In The Windup Girl, award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi returns to the world of "The Calorie Man" (Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-winner, Hugo Award nominee, 2006) and "Yellow Card Man" (Hugo Award nominee, 2007) in order to address these questions.

Yellow Card Man

The Windup Universe

Paolo Bacigalupi

Hugo and Sturgeon Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, December 2006. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One (2007), edited by Jonathan Strahan, and The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection (2007), edited by Gardner Dozois. It is included in the collection Pump Six and Other Stories (2008) and as an extra in some editions of the novel The Windup Girl (2009).

The Castle of the Winds

The Winter of the World: Book 4

Michael Scott Rohan

Centuries before the building of the Great Causeway, when the enveloping Ice seems to be in retreat, the lands of the North and South are on uneasy terms. War appears to be inevitable. But there is still some trade between them, particularly for the peerless weapons created by the Northern mastersmiths.

In one small town, Kunrad, one young mastersmith, has carved out a reputation as a fine armourer. Helped by his two apprentices, the ox-like Olvar and the silver-tongued Gille, Kunrad has created the greatest suit of armour ever made: armour fit for a hero or a king.

When that armour is stolen by a powerful Southern lord, Kunrad has only one concern - to regain it. And so begins an epic journey of discovery, filled with danger, magic - and love.

The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Book 1

Ellen Datlow
Terri Windling

This is the first volume in what became Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.

Table of Contents:

  • Summation 1987: Fantasy - essay by Terri Windling
  • Summation 1987: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
  • 1987: Horror and Fantasy on the Screen - essay by Edward Bryant
  • Obituaries (1987) - essay by Ellen Datlow
  • Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight - (1987) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • A World Without Toys - (1986) - shortstory by T. M. Wright
  • DX - (1987) - poem by Joe Haldeman
  • Friend's Best Man - (1987) - shortstory by Jonathan Carroll
  • The Snow Apples - (1987) - shortstory by Gwyneth Jones
  • Ever After - (1987) - novelette by Susan Palwick
  • My Name Is Dolly - (1987) - shortstory by William F. Nolan
  • The Moon's Revenge - (1987) - shortstory by Joan Aiken
  • Author's Notes - (1987) - shortstory by Edward Bryant
  • Lake George in High August - (1987) - shortstory by John Robert Bensink
  • Csucskári - (1987) - novelette by Steven Brust
  • The Other Side - (1986) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
  • Pamela's Get - (1987) - novelette by David J. Schow
  • Voices in the Wind - (1987) - shortstory by Elizabeth S. Helfman
  • Once Upon a Time, She Said - (1987) - poem by Jane Yolen
  • The Circular Library of Stones - (1987) - shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
  • Soft Monkey - (1987) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
  • Fat Face - (1987) - novelette by Michael Shea
  • Uncle Dobbin's Parrot Fair - (1987) - novelette by Charles de Lint
  • The Pear-Shaped Man - (1987) - novelette by George R. R. Martin
  • Delta Sly Honey - (1987) - shortstory by Lucius Shepard
  • Small Heirlooms - (1987) - shortstory by M. John Harrison
  • The Improper Princess - (1987) - shortstory by Patricia C. Wrede
  • The Fable of the Farmer and Fox - (1987) - shortstory by John Brunner
  • Haunted - (1987) - novelette by Joyce Carol Oates
  • Dead Possums - (1987) - shortstory by Kathryn Ptacek
  • Pictures Made of Stones - (1987) - poem by Lucius Shepard
  • Splatter: A Cautionary Tale - (1987) - shortstory by Douglas E. Winter
  • Gentlemen - (1987) - novelette by Craig Spector and John Skipp
  • Demon Luck - (1987) - shortstory by Craig Shaw Gardner
  • Words of Power - (1987) - shortstory by Jane Yolen
  • Jamie's Grave - (1987) - shortstory by Lisa Tuttle
  • The Maid on the Shore - (1987) - shortstory by Delia Sherman
  • Halley's Passing - (1987) - shortstory by Michael McDowell
  • White Trains - (1987) - poem by Lucius Shepard
  • Simple Sentences - (1987) - shortstory by Natalie Babbitt
  • A Hypothetical Lizard - (1987) - novelette by Alan Moore
  • Honorable Mentions: 1987 - essay by uncredited

The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Book 2

Ellen Datlow
Terri Windling

Here is a splendid selection of horror and fantasy stories.

Table of Contents:

  • Summation 1988: Fantasy - essay by Terri Windling
  • Summation 1988: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
  • 1988: Horror and Fantasy on the Screen - essay by Edward Bryant
  • Obituaries - essay by James R. Frenkel
  • Death Is Different - (1988) - shortstory by Lisa Goldstein
  • The Tale of the Rose and the Nightingale (And What Came of It) - (1988) - novelette by Gene Wolfe
  • It Was the Heat - (1988) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
  • The Cutter - (1988) - shortstory by Edward Bryant
  • The Freezer Jesus - (1988) - shortfiction by John DuFresne
  • Voices of the Kill - (1988) - shortstory by Thomas M. Disch
  • Secretly - (1988) - poem by Ruth Roston
  • The Devil's Rose - (1988) - novelette by Tanith Lee
  • Wempires - (1988) - shortstory by Daniel M. Pinkwater
  • Scatter My Ashes - (1988) - shortstory by Greg Egan
  • Unfinished Portrait of the King of Pain by Van Gogh - (1988) - novelette by Ian McDonald
  • Shoo Fly - (1988) - shortstory by Richard Matheson
  • The Thing Itself - (1988) - shortstory by Michael Blumlein
  • The Soft Whisper of Midnight Snow - (1988) - shortstory by Charles de Lint
  • Roman Games - (1988) - shortstory by Anne Gay
  • The Princess, the Cat, and the Unicorn - (1988) - shortstory by Patricia C. Wrede
  • The Book and Its Contents - (1988) - shortstory by Robert Kelly
  • The Great God Pan - (1988) - novelette by M. John Harrison
  • Lost Bodies - (1988) - shortstory by Ian Watson
  • Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds - (1988) - shortstory by Dan Simmons
  • Preflash - (1988) - shortstory by John M. Ford
  • Life of Buddha - (1988) - novelette by Lucius Shepard
  • Appointment with Eddie - (1988) - shortstory by Charles Beaumont
  • Fragments of Papyrus from the Temple of the Older Gods - (1988) - shortstory by William Kotzwinkle
  • Spillage - (1988) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
  • Snowman - (1988) - shortstory by Charles L. Grant
  • The Scar - (1987) - shortstory by Dennis Etchison
  • Laiken Langstrand - (1988) - shortstory by Gwyneth Jones
  • The Last Poem About the Snow Queen - (1988) - poem by Sandra M. Gilbert
  • Pinocchio - (1988) - poem by Sandra M. Gilbert
  • Game in the Pope's Head - (1988) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
  • Playing the Game - (1988) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
  • Faces - (1987) - novelette by F. Paul Wilson
  • Snowfall - (1988) - shortstory by Jessie Thompson
  • Seal-Self - (1987) - shortstory by Sara Maitland
  • No Hearts, No Flowers - (1988) - shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
  • The Boy Who Drew Unicorns - (1988) - shortstory by Jane Yolen
  • The Darling - (1988) - shortstory by Scott Bradfield
  • Night They Missed the Horror Show - (1988) - shortstory by Joe R. Lansdale
  • Your Story - (1988) - shortstory by Rick DeMarinis
  • Winter Solstice, Camelot Station - (1988) - poem by John M. Ford
  • The Boy Who Hooked the Sun - (1985) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
  • Clem's Dream - (1985) - shortstory by Joan Aiken
  • Love in Vain - (1988) - novelette by Lewis Shiner
  • In the Darkened Hours - (1988) - poem by Robert Frazier
  • A Golden Net for Silver Fishes - (1988) - shortstory by Ru Emerson
  • Dancing Among Ghosts - (1988) - novella by Jim Aikin
  • Honorable Mentions: 1988 - essay by uncredited

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Book 3

Ellen Datlow
Terri Windling

Collecting the creme de la creme of the horror and fantasy fields, this third volume amasses the best from 1989, including works by Scott Baker, Pat Cadigan, Joe Haldeman, Tanith Lee, Jonah Carroll, Robert McCammon and Bruce Sterling, as well as extensive overviews of the year in horror and fantasy, and Ed Bryant's survey of the year's movies.

Table of Contents:

  • Summation 1989: Fantasy - essay by Terri Windling
  • Summation 1989: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
  • Horror and Fantasy on the Screen: 1989 - essay by Edward Bryant
  • Obituaries (1989) - essay by James R. Frenkel
  • The Edge of the World - (1989) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
  • The Adder - (1989) - shortstory by Fred Chappell
  • Cat in Glass - (1989) - shortstory by Nancy Etchemendy
  • Monsters, Tearing Off My Face - (1989) - shortstory by Rory Harper
  • Family - (1989) - shortstory by Joyce Carol Oates
  • A Dirge for Clowntown - (1990) - shortstory by James Powell
  • Miss Carstairs and the Merman - (1989) - novelette by Delia Sherman
  • Unknown Things - (1989) - shortstory by Reginald Bretnor
  • Return to the Mutant Rain Forest - (1989) - poem by Bruce Boston and Robert Frazier
  • Date with a Bird - (1989) - shortstory by Tatyana Tolstaya (trans. original 1983)
  • Them Bald-Headed Snays - (1989) - shortstory by Joseph A. Citro
  • A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned - (1989) - novelette by Edward Bryant
  • Hanging the Fool - (1989) - novelette by Michael Moorcock
  • Hansel's Finger - (1989) - shortstory by Leif Enger
  • Dogfaerie - (1989) - shortstory by Garry Kilworth
  • A Bird That Whistles - (1989) - shortstory by Emma Bull
  • The Walled Garden - (1989) - shortstory by Lisa Tuttle
  • Varicose Worms - (1989) - novelette by Scott Baker
  • The War with Things - (1989) - shortstory by Leszek Kolakowski
  • The Faery Flag - (1989) - shortstory by Jane Yolen
  • Souls Tied to the Knots on a Leather Cord - (1989) - shortstory by Zhaxi Dawa (trans. original 1985)
  • The Illusionist - (1989) - shortstory by Steven Millhauser
  • Timeskip - (1989) - shortstory by Charles de Lint
  • Something Passed By - (1989) - shortstory by Robert R. McCammon
  • Self-Portrait Mixed Media on Pavement, 1988 - (1988) - shortstory by Dan Daly
  • The Plane Tree and the Fountain - (1989) - shortstory by Michael de Larrabeiti
  • White as Sin, Now - (1989) - novelette by Tanith Lee
  • The Power and the Passion - (1989) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
  • Jack Straw - (1989) - shortstory by Midori Snyder
  • The Sudd - (1989) - shortstory by J. N. Williamson
  • Mr. Fiddlehead - (1989) - shortstory by Jonathan Carroll
  • Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites - (1989) - shortstory by Dan Simmons
  • Cinema Altéré - (1989) - shortstory by Andrew M. Stephenson
  • Matters of Family - (1989) - shortstory by Gary A. Braunbeck
  • Beauty and the Beast: An Anniversary - (1989) - poem by Jane Yolen
  • Find Me - (1989) - shortstory by Joan Aiken
  • Unidentified Objects - (1989) - shortstory by James P. Blaylock
  • Meeting the Author - (1989) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
  • The Lovers - (1989) - shortstory by Gwyneth Jones
  • "Yore Skin's Jes's Soft 'N Purty..." He Said. (Page 243) - (1989) - shortstory by Chet Williamson
  • Dori Bangs - (1989) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
  • The Steel Valentine - (1989) - shortstory by Joe R. Lansdale
  • Equilibrium - (1989) - shortstory by John Shirley
  • Time Lapse - (1989) - poem by Joe Haldeman
  • White Noise - (1989) - shortstory by Garry Kilworth
  • Terrible Kisses - (1989) - shortstory by Robley Wilson
  • Sleepside Story - (1988) - novella by Greg Bear
  • Honorable Mentions: 1989 - essay by uncredited

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Book 4

Ellen Datlow
Terri Windling

This acclaimed series, winner of numerous World Fantasy Awards, continues its tradition of excellence with scores of short stories from such writers as Michael Bishop, Edward Byrant, Angela Carter, Terry Lamsley, Gabriel Garcia Marquex, A.R. Morlan, Robert Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, Jane Yolen and many others. Supplementing the stories are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantastic fiction, Edward Bryant's witty roundup of the year's fantasy films, and a long list of Honorable Mentions -- all of which adds up to an invaluable reference source, and a font of fabulous reading.

Table of Contents:

  • Summation 1990: Fantasy - essay by Terri Windling
  • Summation 1990: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
  • Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1990 - essay by Edward Bryant
  • Obituaries - essay by uncredited
  • Freewheeling - (1990) - shortstory by Charles de Lint
  • Coming Home - (1990) - shortstory by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
  • The Sweeper - (1990) - shortstory by George Szanto
  • Ladies and Gentlemen - (1990) - shortstory by Joyce Carol Oates
  • Freaktent - (1990) - shortstory by Nancy A. Collins
  • Missolonghi 1824 - (1990) - shortstory by John Crowley
  • The Last Feast of Harlequin - (1990) - novelette by Thomas Ligotti
  • Sounding the Praises of Shadow to the Merchants of Light - (1991) - poem by David Memmott
  • Harvest - (1990) - shortstory by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  • Fantasy in the Real World - (1990) - essay by Susan Cooper
  • The Dream - (1990) - shortstory by Dyan Sheldon
  • Moths - (1990) - shortstory by John Brunner
  • Frozen Charlottes - (1990) - poem by Susan Prospere
  • Little Nightmares, Little Dreams - (1990) - shortstory by Rachel Simon
  • Timekeeper - (1990) - novelette by John Morressy
  • Sonata: For Two Friends in Different Times of the Same Trouble - (1990) - poem by Ellen Kushner
  • Death of a Right Fielder - (1990) - shortstory by Stuart Dybek
  • Not from Around Here - (1990) - novelette by David J. Schow
  • Lieserl - (1990) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
  • The Last Game - (1990) - shortstory by Sharon M. Hall
  • Offerings - (1990) - shortstory by Susan Palwick
  • The Muses of Rooms - (1990) - poem by Vern Rutsala
  • A Touch of the Old Lilith - (1990) - novelette by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
  • The Calling - (1990) - shortstory by David B. Silva
  • TV People - (1990) - shortstory by Haruki Murakami
  • In the Trees - (1990) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
  • Truman Capote's Trilby: The Facts - (1990) - shortstory by Garry Kilworth
  • Green - (1990) - novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
  • Dark Hills, Hollow Clocks - (1990) - shortstory by Garry Kilworth
  • The Panic Hand - (1989) - shortstory by Jonathan Carroll
  • Bestseller - (1990) - novelette by Michael Blumlein
  • Nanny Peters and the Feathery Bride - (1990) - shortstory by Delia Sherman
  • Out of Sight, Out of Mind - (1990) - shortstory by Jack Womack
  • Midwife to the Fairies - (1990) - shortstory by Éilis Ní Dhuibhne
  • The Phone Woman - (1990) - shortstory by Joe R. Lansdale
  • Ladder - (1990) - shortstory by T. E. D. Klein
  • Alice, Falling - (1990) - shortstory by Steven Millhauser
  • Ashputtle: or, The Mother's Ghost - (1987) - shortstory by Angela Carter
  • Face to Face - (1990) - shortstory by Adrian Cole
  • The Dog's Tale - (1933) - shortstory by Karel Capek
  • Stephen - (1990) - novelette by Elizabeth Massie
  • A Short Guide to the City - (1990) - shortstory by Peter Straub
  • The Story of Little Briar-Rose, A Scholarly Study - (1988) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
  • The First Time - (1990) - shortstory by K. W. Jeter
  • Coyote v. Acme - (1990) - shortstory by Ian Frazier
  • Arousal - (1990) - shortstory by Richard Christian Matheson
  • The Waiting Wolf - (1990) - poem by Gwen Strauss
  • The Beast - (1990) - poem by Gwen Strauss
  • Snapshots from the Butterfly Plague - (1990) - shortstory by Michael Bishop
  • Two Words - (1989) - shortstory by Isabel Allende
  • The All-Consuming - (1990) - novelette by Lucius Shepard and Robert Frazier
  • The Sadness of Detail - (1989) - shortstory by Jonathan Carroll
  • Honorable Mentions: 1990 - essay by uncredited

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Book 5

Ellen Datlow
Terri Windling

This acclaimed series, winner of numerous World Fantasy Awards, continues its tradition of excellence with scores of short stories from such writers as Michael Bishop, Edward Byrant, Angela Carter, Terry Lamsley, Gabriel Garcia Marquex, A.R. Morlan, Robert Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, Jane Yolen and many others. Supplementing the stories are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantastic fiction, Edward Bryant's witty roundup of the year's fantasy films, and a long list of Honorable Mentions -- all of which adds up to an invaluable reference source, and a font of fabulous reading.

Table of Contents:

  • Summation 1991: Fantasy - essay by Terri Windling
  • Summation 1991: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
  • Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1991 - essay by Edward Bryant
  • Obituaries - essay by uncredited
  • The Beautiful Uncut Hair of Graves - (1991) - novelette by David Morrell
  • In Carnation - (1991) - shortstory by Nancy Springer
  • The Somewhere Doors - (1991) - novelette by Fred Chappell
  • Poe at the End - (1991) - poem by R. H. W. Dillard
  • Angels in Love - (1991) - shortstory by Kathe Koja
  • Vivian - (1991) - novelette by Midori Snyder
  • True Love - (1991) - shortstory by K. W. Jeter
  • The Second Most Beautiful Woman in the World - (1991) - shortstory by A. R. Morlan
  • The Swordsman Whose Name Was Not Death - (1991) - shortstory by Ellen Kushner
  • The Ragthorn - (1991) - novelette by Robert Holdstock and Garry Kilworth
  • The Smell - (1991) - shortstory by Patrick McGrath
  • The Tenth Scholar - (1991) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem
  • Fisher Death - (1991) - poem by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
  • Walk in Sable - (1991) - poem by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
  • The Cut Man - (1991) - shortstory by Norman Partridge
  • The Kind Men Like - (1991) - shortstory by Karl Edward Wagner
  • The Coon Suit - (1991) - shortstory by Terry Bisson
  • Queen Christina and the Windsurfer - (1991) - shortfiction by Alison Fell
  • Chui Chai - (1991) - shortstory by S. P. Somtow
  • Mama Gone - (1991) - shortstory by Jane Yolen
  • Peter - (1991) - shortstory by Pat Murphy
  • Our Lady of the Harbour - (1991) - novella by Charles de Lint
  • The Visitors' Book - (1991) - shortstory by Stephen Gallagher
  • At the End of the Day - (1991) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
  • The Monster - (1991) - shortfiction by Nina Katerli
  • Hummers - (1991) - novelette by Lisa Mason
  • Santa's Way - (1991) - shortfiction by James Powell
  • Call Home - (1991) - shortstory by Dennis Etchison
  • The Braille Encyclopaedia - (1991) - shortstory by Grant Morrison
  • The Poisoned Story - (1991) - shortstory by Rosario Ferré (trans. of El cuento envenenado 1985)
  • Blood - (1991) - shortstory by Janice Galloway
  • Dogstar Man - (1991) - shortstory by Nancy Willard
  • Persistence of Memory - (1991) - shortfiction by Joanne Greenberg
  • You'll Never Eat Lunch on This Continent Again - (1991) - shortfiction by Adam Gopnik
  • The Glamour - (1991) - shortstory by Thomas Ligotti
  • The Peony Lantern - (1991) - shortstory by Kara Dalkey
  • To Be a Hero - (1991) - poem by Nancy Springer
  • The Same in Any Language - (1991) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
  • Teratisms - (1991) - shortstory by Kathe Koja
  • The Life of a Poet - (1991) - shortstory by Kobo Abe
  • The Witch of Wilton Falls - (1991) - shortfiction by Gloria Ericson
  • Home by the Sea - (1991) - novelette by Pat Cadigan
  • Pish, Posh, Said Hieronymus Bosch - (1991) - poem by Nancy Willard
  • The Ash of Memory, the Dust of Desire - (1991) - novelette by Poppy Z. Brite
  • The Pavilion of Frozen Women - (1991) - novelette by S. P. Somtow
  • Moon Songs - (1990) - shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
  • The Afternoon of June 8, 1991 - (1991) - shortfiction by Ian Frazier
  • Gwydion and the Dragon - (1991) - novelette by C. J. Cherryh
  • A Story Must Be Held - (1991) - poem by Jane Yolen
  • The Ogre's Wife - (1991) - shortfiction by Pierrette Fleutiaux
  • Honorable Mentions: 1991 - essay by uncredited

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Book 6

Ellen Datlow
Terri Windling

More than four dozen stories and poems, featuring writings by Joyce Carol Oates, Jane Yolen, Harlan Ellison, and many others, investigate the outermost perimeters of the human imagination.

Table of Contents:

  • Summation 1992: Fantasy - essay by Terri Windling
  • Summation 1992: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
  • Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1992 - essay by Edward Bryant
  • Obituaries - essay by uncredited
  • Silver or Gold - (1992) - novelette by Emma Bull
  • Tinker - (1992) - shortstory by Jack Cady
  • Queequeg - (1992) - shortstory by Craig Curtis
  • Anima - (1992) - shortstory by M. John Harrison
  • Skin - (1992) - poem by Steve Rasnic Tem
  • The Homunculus: A Novel in One Chapter - (1992) - shortstory by Reginald McKnight
  • The Annunciation - (1991) - shortstory by Cristina Peri Rossi
  • The Bone Woman - (1992) - shortstory by Charles de Lint
  • The Story of the Eldest Princess - (1991) - novelette by A. S. Byatt
  • Calcutta, Lord of Nerves - (1992) - shortstory by Poppy Z. Brite
  • In the Looking Glass, Life Is Death - (1992) - poem by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
  • The Parakeet and the Cat - (1992) - shortstory by Scott Bradfield
  • Glory - (1992) - shortstory by Nicholas Royle
  • Murder Mysteries - (1992) - novelette by Neil Gaiman
  • Hungry - (1992) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
  • Playing With - (1992) - shortstory by M. R. Scofidio
  • Human Remains - (1992) - shortstory by Edward Bryant
  • It Comes and Goes - (1992) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
  • The Bewitched Burr - (1992) - shortstory by Grozdana Olujic
  • Swimming Lesson - (1992) - shortstory by Charlotte Watson Sherman
  • Memories of the Flying Ball Bike Shop - (1992) - shortstory by Garry Kilworth
  • Bats - (1992) - shortstory by Diane de Avalle-Arce
  • Origami Mountain - (1992) - shortstory by Nancy Farmer
  • Ruby Laughter, Tears of Pearl - (1992) - shortstory by James Powell
  • I Sing of a Maiden - (1992) - novelette by Judith Tarr
  • Also Starring - (1991) - shortstory by Cliff Burns
  • On Edge - (1992) - shortstory by Christopher Fowler
  • Martyrdom - (1992) - novelette by Joyce Carol Oates
  • The Second Bakery Attack - non-genre - (1992) - shortstory by Haruki Murakami
  • A Little Night Music - (1992) - shortstory by Lucius Shepard
  • Tom and Jerry visit England - (1992) - poem by Jo Shapcott
  • The Sluice - (1992) - shortstory by Stephen Gallagher
  • Ratbird - (1992) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
  • The Sailor Who Sailed After the Sun - (1992) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
  • On Death and the Deuce - (1992) - shortstory by Richard Bowes
  • The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore - (1991) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
  • Graves - (1992) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
  • The Ugly File - (1992) - shortstory by Ed Gorman
  • Elfhouses - (1992) - shortstory by Midori Snyder
  • Candles on the Pond - (1992) - shortstory by Sue Ellen Sloca
  • Tree of Life, Book of Death - (1992) - novelette by Grania Davis
  • Puja - (1992) - shortstory by D. R. McBride
  • Hermione and the Moon - (1992) - shortstory by Clive Barker
  • Absence of Beast - (1992) - shortstory by Graham Masterton
  • Rat Catcher - (1992) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
  • Will - (1992) - poem by Jane Yolen
  • The Question of the Grail - (1992) - poem by Jane Yolen
  • In the Season of the Dressing of the Wells - (1992) - novella by John Brunner
  • The Blue Stone Emperor's Thirty-Three Wives - (1991) - shortstory by Sara Gallardo
  • Alice in Prague, or The Curious Room - (1990) - shortstory by Angela Carter
  • Replacements - (1992) - novelette by Lisa Tuttle
  • The Ghost Village - (1992) - novelette by Peter Straub
  • Honorable Mentions: 1992 - essay by uncredited

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Book 7

Terri Windling
Ellen Datlow

An appealing and eclectic anthology of some of the finest horror and fantasy tales written over the last year includes works by Patricia A. McKillip, Ursula K. Le Guin, Dan Simmons, Jane Yolen, Robert Silverberg, Joyce Carol Oates, and others.

Table of Contents:

  • Summation 1993: Fantasy - essay by Terri Windling
  • Comics 1993 - essay by Will Shetterly and Emma Bull and Laura Poehlman
  • Summation 1993: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
  • Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1993 - essay by Edward Bryant
  • Obituaries - essay by James R. Frenkel
  • The Poacher - (1993) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • England Underway - (1993) - novelette by Terry Bisson
  • The Woman in the Painting - (1993) - shortstory by Lisa Goldstein
  • The Daemon Street Ghost-Trap - (1993) - shortstory by Terry Dowling
  • Memo for Freud - (1993) - poem by Daina Chaviano
  • The Sunday-Go-To-Meeting Jaw - (1993) - shortstory by Nancy A. Collins
  • Breath - (1993) - shortstory by Adam Corbin Fusco
  • Knives - (1993) - poem by Jane Yolen
  • Mrs. Jones - (1993) - shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
  • Snow Man - (1993) - novelette by John Coyne
  • One Night, or Scheherazade's Bare Minimum - (1993) - shortstory by Thomas M. Disch
  • Dead Man's Shoes - (1993) - shortstory by Charles de Lint
  • The Lodger - (1993) - shortstory by Fred Chappell
  • The Erl-King - (1993) - novelette by Elizabeth Hand
  • The Chrysanthemum Spirit - (1993) - shortstory by Osamu Dazai (trans. of Seihintan 1941)
  • Angel - (1993) - shortstory by Mary Ellis
  • The Taking of Mr. Bill - (1993) - shortstory by Graham Masterton
  • The Saint - (1993) - shortstory by Gabriel García Márquez (trans. of La santa 1992)
  • Cottage - (1993) - shortstory by Bruce McAllister
  • Doodles - (1993) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
  • Dying in Bangkok - (1993) - novelette by Dan Simmons
  • Prisoners of the Royal Weather - (1993) - poem by Bruce Boston
  • The Snow Queen - (1993) - novelette by Patricia A. McKillip
  • Troll-Bridge - (1993) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
  • The Storyteller - (1993) - shortstory by Rafik Schami
  • Rice and Milk - (1993) - shortfiction by Rosario Ferré
  • Ridi Bobo - (1993) - shortstory by Robert Devereaux
  • Playing with Fire - (1993) - novelette by Ellen Kushner
  • Later - (1993) - shortstory by Michael Marshall Smith
  • Distances - (1993) - shortfiction by Sherman Alexie
  • Crash Cart - (1993) - shortstory by Nancy Holder
  • Some Strange Desire - (1993) - novelette by Ian McDonald
  • The Dog Park - (1993) - shortstory by Dennis Etchison
  • Wooden Druthers - (1993) - shortstory by Gene Stewart
  • Inscription - (1993) - shortstory by Jane Yolen
  • In Camera - (1992) - novelette by Robert Westall
  • The Wealth of Kingdoms (An Inflationary Tale) - (1993) - shortstory by Daniel Hood
  • The Crucian Pit - (1993) - shortstory by Nicholas Royle
  • The Ecology of Reptiles - (1993) - shortstory by John Coyne
  • The Last Crossing - (1993) - shortstory by Thomas Tessier
  • Small Adjustments - (1993) - shortstory by Caila Rossi
  • Precious - (1993) - shortstory by Roberta Lannes
  • Susan - (1993) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
  • Freud at Thirty Paces - (1992) - shortstory by Sara Paretsky
  • If Angels Ate Apples - (1993) - poem by Geoffrey A. Landis
  • Exogamy - (1993) - shortstory by John Crowley
  • The Princess Who Kicked Butt - (1993) - shortstory by Will Shetterly
  • The Apprentice - (1993) - shortstory by Miriam Grace Monfredo
  • Alvyta (A Lithuanian Fairy Tale) - (1993) - shortstory by O. V. de L. Milosz
  • The Pig Man - (1993) - shortstory by Augustine Funnell
  • Tattoo - (1993) - shortstory by A. R. Morlan
  • Lady of the Skulls - (1993) - shortstory by Patricia A. McKillip
  • To Scale - (1993) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
  • Roar at the Heart of the World - (1993) - shortstory by Danith McPherson
  • Honorable Mentions 1993 - (1994) - essay by uncredited
  • The People Behind the Book- (1994) - essay by uncredited

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Book 8

Ellen Datlow
Terri Windling

This acclaimed series, winner of numerous World Fantasy Awards, continues its tradition of excellence with scores of short stories from such writers as Michael Bishop, Edward Byrant, Angela Carter, Terry Lamsley, Gabriel Garcia Marquex, A.R. Morlan, Robert Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, Jane Yolen and many others. Supplementing the stories are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantastic fiction, Edward Bryant's witty roundup of the year's fantasy films, and a long list of Honorable Mentions -- all of which adds up to an invaluable reference source, and a font of fabulous reading.

Table of Contents:

  • Summation 1994: Fantasy - essay by Terri Windling
  • Summation 1994: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
  • Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1994 - essay by Edward Bryant
  • Comics 1994 - essay by Will Shetterly and Emma Bull
  • Obituaries - essay by James R. Frenkel
  • Transmutations - (1994) - shortstory by Patricia A. McKillip
  • Bottom's Dream - (1994) - poem by Rachel Wetzsteon
  • La Promesa - (1994) - shortstory by Leroy Quintana
  • Aweary of the Sun - (1994) - novelette by Gregory Feeley
  • A Wheel in the Desert, the Moon on Some Swings - (1994) - shortstory by Jonathan Carroll
  • Who Will Love the River God? - (1994) - shortstory by Emily Newland
  • Brothers - (1994) - shortstory by Joyce Carol Oates
  • Subsoil - (1994) - shortstory by Nicholson Baker
  • Elvis's Bathroom - (1989) - shortstory by Pagan Kennedy
  • Yet Another Poisoned Apple for the Fairy Princess - (1994) - shortstory by A. R. Morlan
  • The Big Game - (1994) - shortstory by Nicholas Royle
  • Buenaventura and the Fifteen Sisters - (1994) - shortstory by Margarita Engle
  • De Natura Unicorni - (1994) - shortstory by Jane Yolen
  • Blue Motel - (1994) - novelette by Ian McDonald
  • A Friend Indeed - (1994) - shortstory by David Garnett
  • Sometimes, in the Rain - (1994) - shortstory by Charles L. Grant
  • Rain Falls - (1994) - shortstory by Michael Marshall Smith
  • That Old School Tie - (1994) - novelette by Jack Womack
  • Animals Behind Bars! - (1994) - shortstory by Scott Bradfield
  • Monuments to the Dead - (1994) - shortstory by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  • Unterseeboot Doktor - (1994) - shortstory by Ray Bradbury
  • Young Woman in a Garden - (1994) - novelette by Delia Sherman
  • The Man in the Black Suit - (1994) - shortstory by Stephen King
  • "In the Tradition ..." - (1994) - essay by Michael Swanwick
  • Words Like Pale Stones - (1994) - novelette by Nancy Kress
  • Marchen - (1994) - poem by Jane Yolen
  • Giants in the Earth - (1994) - shortstory by Dale Bailey
  • A Conflagration Artist - (1994) - shortstory by Bradley Denton
  • Report - (1993) - shortstory by Carme Riera
  • The Village of the Mermaids - (1994) - poem by John Bradley
  • —And the Horses Hiss at Midnight - (1994) - shortstory by A. R. Morlan
  • The Entreaty of the Wiideema - (1994) - shortstory by Barry Lopez
  • White Chapel - (1994) - novelette by Douglas Clegg
  • The Stone Woman - (1994) - poem by Linda Weasel Head
  • Coyote Stories - (1993) - shortstory by Charles de Lint
  • The Box - (1994) - shortstory by Jack Ketchum
  • A Fear of Dead Things - (1994) - shortstory by Andrew Klavan
  • He Unwraps Himself - (1994) - poem by Darrell Schweitzer
  • Chandira - (1994) - shortstory by Brian Mooney
  • Fever - (1994) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
  • The Best Things in Life - (1994) - shortstory by Lenora Champagne
  • Mending Souls - (1994) - shortstory by Judith Tarr
  • The Ocean and All Its Devices - (1994) - novelette by William Browning Spencer
  • Strings - (1994) - shortstory by Kelley Eskridge
  • Superman's Diary - (1994) - shortstory by B. Brandon Barker
  • Isobel Avens Returns to Stepney in the Spring - (1994) - novelette by M. John Harrison
  • The Sisterhood of Night - (1994) - shortstory by Steven Millhauser
  • Winter Bodies - (1994) - shortstory by Noy Holland
  • The Sloan Men - (1994) - shortstory by David Nickle
  • Is That Them? - (1994) - shortstory by Kevin Roice
  • The Kingdom of Cats and Birds - (1994) - shortstory by Geoffrey A. Landis
  • Angel Combs - (1994) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
  • Snow, Glass, Apples - (1995) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
  • Honorable Mentions 1994 - essay by uncredited

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Book 9

Ellen Datlow
Terri Windling

This renowned series, recipient of three World Fantasy Awards, continues to captivate and fascinate readers. Stories by such notables as: Scott Bradfield, A.S. Byatt, Pat Cadigan, Peter Crowther, Charles De Lint, Ellen Kushner, Tanith Lee, Ursula K. Le Guin, Patricia A. McKillip, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Douglas E. Winter, and thirty-three other acclaimed writers show off the very best of contemporary fantasy and horror, while comprehensive and exhaustive summations add critical depth to this unique anthology. This book is essential for all fans of the weird and wonderful.

Table of Contents:

  • Summation 1995: Fantasy - (1996) - essay by Terri Windling
  • Summation 1995: Horror - (1996) - essay by Ellen Datlow
  • Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1995 - (1996) - essay by Edward Bryant
  • Obituaries - essay by James R. Frenkel
  • Home for Christmas - (1995) - novella by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
  • Heartfires - (1994) - shortstory by Charles de Lint
  • Screens - (1995) - novelette by Terry Lamsley
  • King of Crows - (1995) - shortstory by Midori Snyder
  • Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros - (1995) - novelette by Peter S. Beagle
  • The Hunt of the Unicorn - (1995) - shortstory by Ellen Kushner
  • More Tomorrow - (1995) - novelette by Michael Marshall Smith
  • Penguins for Lunch - (1995) - shortstory by Scott Bradfield
  • Ether OR - (1995) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Paper Lantern - (1995) - shortstory by Stuart Dybek
  • Lunch at the Gotham Café - (1995) - novelette by Stephen King
  • Queen of Knives - (1995) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
  • Dragon-Rain - (1995) - novelette by Eileen Kernaghan
  • Llantos de La Llorona: Warnings from the Wailer - (1995) - poem by Pat Mora
  • Too Short a Death - (1995) - novelette by Peter Crowther
  • The James Dean Garage Band - (1995) - shortstory by Rick Moody
  • Because of Dust - (1995) - shortstory by Chris Kenworthy
  • Loop - (1995) - novelette by Douglas E. Winter
  • La Loma, La Luna - (1995) - shortstory by Sue Kepros Hartman
  • Women's Stories - (1995) - poem by Jane Yolen
  • Swan/Princess - (1995) - poem by Jane Yolen
  • Switch - (1995) - shortstory by Lucy Taylor
  • Scaring the Train - (1994) - novelette by Terry Dowling
  • Blood Knot - (1995) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
  • The Girl Who Married the Reindeer - (1995) - poem by Eiléan ní Chuilleanáin
  • The Otter Woman - (1995) - poem by Mary O'Malley
  • Resolve and Resistance - (1995) - shortstory by S. N. Dyer
  • La Dame - (1995) - shortstory by Tanith Lee
  • Circe's Power - (1996) - poem by Louise Gluck
  • Dragon's Fin Soup - (1995) - novelette by S. P. Somtow
  • The Granddaughter - (1995) - shortstory by Vivian Vande Velde
  • Daphne and Laura and So Forth - (1995) - poem by Margaret Atwood
  • A Lamia in the Cévennes - (1995) - shortstory by A. S. Byatt
  • The Guilty Party - (1995) - shortstory by Susan Moody
  • She's Not There - (1995) - novelette by Pat Cadigan
  • The White Road - (1995) - poem by Neil Gaiman
  • Refrigerator Heaven - (1995) - shortstory by David J. Schow
  • After the Elephant Ballet - (1995) - novelette by Gary A. Braunbeck
  • Henry V, Part 2 - (1995) - shortstory by Marcia Guthridge
  • Mrs. Greasy - (1995) - novelette by Robert Reed
  • ¦¦¦¦¦ - (1995) - shortstory by Joyce Carol Oates
  • The Printer's Daughter - (1995) - novelette by Delia Sherman
  • Prayer - (1995) - poem by Nancy Willard
  • Jacob and the Angel - (1995) - poem by Jane Yolen
  • The Lion and the Lark - (1995) - shortstory by Patricia A. McKillip
  • Honorable Mentions: 1995 - (1996) - essay by uncredited

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Book 10

Ellen Datlow
Terri Windling

This acclaimed series, winner of numerous World Fantasy Awards, continues its tradition of excellence with scores of short stories from such writers as Michael Bishop, Edward Bryant, Angela Carter, Terry Lamsley, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A.R. Morlan, Robert Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, Jane Yolen, and many others. Supplementing the stories are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantastic fiction, Edward Bryant's witty roundup of the year's fantasy films, and a long list of Honorable Mentions-all of which adds up to an invaluable reference source, and a font of fabulous reading.

Table of Contents:

  • Summation 1996: Fantasy - essay by Terri Windling
  • Summation 1996: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
  • Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1996 - essay by Edward Bryant
  • Comics 1996 - essay by Seth Johnson
  • Obituaries (1996) - essay by James R. Frenkel
  • The Last Rainbow - (1978) - novelette by Parke Godwin
  • Lily's Whisper - (1996) - novelette by Jay Russell
  • The Reason for Not Going to the Ball - (1996) - shortstory by Tanith Lee
  • Among the Handlers or, The Mark 16 Hands On Assembly of Jesus Risen, Formerly Snake-o-rama - (1996) - novelette by Michael Bishop
  • The Phantom Church - (1996) - shortstory by Ana Blandiana
  • Birthdream - (1996) - shortstory by Laurie Kutchins
  • Disillusion - (1996) - shortstory by Edward Bryant
  • Diana of the Hundred Breasts - (1996) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
  • La Llorona - (1996) - shortstory by Yxta Maya Murray
  • Teatro Grottesco - (1996) - shortstory by Thomas Ligotti
  • The Secret Shih Tan - (1996) - novelette by Graham Masterton
  • In the Matter of the Ukdena - (1996) - shortstory by Bruce Holland Rogers
  • O, Rare and Most Exquisite - (1996) - shortstory by Douglas Clegg
  • Never Seen by Waking Eyes - (1996) - novelette by Stephen Dedman
  • Walking the Dog - (1996) - novelette by Terry Lamsley
  • The Goatboy and the Giant - (1996) - shortstory by Garry Kilworth
  • Gourd - (1996) - poem by Olive Senior
  • The Phoenix - (1996) - shortstory by Isobelle Carmody
  • Caribe Magico - (1996) - shortstory by Gabriel García Márquez (trans. of Caribe Magico 1981)
  • The Witch's Heart - (1996) - novelette by Delia Sherman
  • Plumas - (1996) - shortstory by Patricia Preciado Martin
  • Crow Girls - (1995) - shortstory by Charles de Lint
  • Rapunzel's Exile - (1996) - shortstory by Lisa Russ Spaar
  • The Witches of Junket - (1996) - novelette by Patricia A. McKillip
  • The Cruel Countess - (1996) - shortstory by Chris Bell
  • Little Beauty's Wedding - (1996) - shortstory by Chang Hwang
  • Eaten (Scenes from a Moving Picture) - (1996) - poem by Neil Gaiman
  • Angel - (1996) - shortstory by Philip Graham
  • Elk Man - (1996) - poem by Amy Breau
  • Beckoning Nightframe - (1996) - shortstory by Terry Dowling
  • The Dead Cop - (1996) - novelette by Dennis Etchison
  • Ursus Triad, Later - (1996) - shortstory by Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg
  • JFK Secretly Attends Jackie Auction - (1996) - shortstory by Robert Olen Butler
  • ... Warmer - (1996) - novelette by A. R. Morlan
  • Not Waving - (1996) - novelette by Michael Marshall Smith
  • The Ladies of Grace Adieu - (1996) - novelette by Susanna Clarke
  • Wilderness - (1996) - shortstory by Ron Hansen
  • Oshkiwiinag: Hearlines on the Trickster Express - (1996) - shortstory by Gerald Vizenor
  • Persephone Sets the Record Straight - (1996) - shortstory by Shara McCallum
  • Cruel Sisters - (1996) - shortstory by Patricia C. Wrede
  • The House of Seven Angels - (1996) - shortstory by Jane Yolen
  • Radio Waves - (1995) - novelette by Michael Swanwick
  • Honorable Mentions: 1996 - essay by uncredited

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Book 11

Ellen Datlow
Terri Windling

Culled from the best of a wide variety of sources, this eleventh annual collection of fantasy fiction features contributions by Kim Newman, Joyce Carol Oates, Ellen Kushner, Jack Womack, Karen Joy Fowler, and others.

Table of Contents:

  • Summation 1997: Fantasy - essay by Terri Windling
  • Summation 1997: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
  • Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1997 - essay by Edward Bryant
  • Comics: 1997 - essay by Seth Johnson
  • Obituaries: 1997 - essay by James R. Frenkel
  • The Tale of the Skin - (1997) - short story by Emma Donoghue
  • Beauty and the Beast - (1997) - poem by Jaimes Alsop
  • Gulliver at Home - (1997) - novelette by John Kessel
  • It Had to Be You - (1997) - novelette by Nancy Pickard
  • The Skull of Charlotte Corday - (1995) - short story by Leslie Dick
  • I Am Infinite; I Contain Multitudes - (1997) - short story by Douglas Clegg
  • Coffee Jerk at the Gates of Hell - (1997) - poem by Christopher Jones
  • Riding the Black - (1997) - novelette by Charles L. Grant
  • In the Fields - (1997) - short story by Christopher Harman
  • Mbo - (1997) - short story by Nicholas Royle
  • Winner Take All - (1997) - short story by Jeffrey Shaffer
  • Safe - (1997) - novella by Gary A. Braunbeck
  • El Castillo de la Perseverancia - (1995) - novelette by Howard Waldrop
  • The Sin-Eater's Tale - (1997) - short story by Brennen Wysong
  • A Visit - (1997) - short story by Steven Millhauser
  • A Globe of Glass - (1997) - short story by Sonia Gernes
  • The Fall of the Kings - (1997) - novelette by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman
  • Coyote and the White Folks - (1997) - poem by Bill Lewis
  • Sheela Na Gig - (1997) - poem by Bill Lewis
  • The Flounder's Kiss - (1997) - short story by Michael Cadnum
  • Residuals - (1997) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley and Kim Newman
  • The Psychomantium - (1997) - short story by Molly Brown
  • In the Black Mill - (1997) - short story by Michael Chabon
  • Dust Motes - (1997) - short story by P. D. Cacek
  • La Muerte - (1997) - poem by Pat Mora
  • Spanky's Back in Town - (1997) - novelette by Christopher Fowler
  • Marriage - (1997) - poem by Denise Duhamel
  • Kingyo no fun - (1997) - novelette by Nicholas Royle
  • Bucket of Blood - (1997) - short story by Norman Partridge
  • Mermaid - (1997) - poem by A. Alvarez
  • Estate - (1997) - short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan
  • The Sin of Elijah - (1997) - short story by Steve Stern
  • Driving Blind - (1997) - novelette by Ray Bradbury
  • The Sky-Blue Ball - (1997) - short story by Joyce Carol Oates
  • The Black Fairy's Curse - (1997) - short story by Karen Joy Fowler
  • The Last Song of Sirit Byar - (1996) - novelette by Peter S. Beagle
  • Marina's Fragrance - (1997) - short story by Mayra Santos-Febres
  • Setting Celestial Signs on Terrestrial Beings - (1996) - poem by Emily Warn
  • Rabbit Hole - (1997) - short story by Jane Yolen
  • Wild Horses - (1997) - novelette by Charles de Lint
  • Princess - (1997) - poem by Matthew Sweeney
  • Audience - (1997) - short story by Jack Womack
  • Merlin - (1997) - short story by Robert Clinton
  • The Crawl - (1997) - novelette by Stephen Laws
  • The Remains of Princess Kaiulani's Garden - (1997) - short story by Katherine Vaz
  • Dharma - (1994) - short story by Vikram Chandra
  • Honorable Mentions: 1997 - essay by uncredited

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Book 12

Ellen Datlow
Terri Windling

For more than a decade, readers have looked to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to showcase the highest achievements of fantastic fiction. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling continue their critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stunning collection of stories. The fiction and poetry here is culled from an exhaustive survey of the field, nearly four dozen stories ranging from fairy tales to gothic horror, from magical realism to dark tales in the Grand Guignol style. Rounding out the volume are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantastic fiction, and a long list of Honorable Mentions, making this volume a valubale reference source as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror.

Table of Contents:

  • Summation 1998: Fantasy - (1999) - essay by Terri Windling
  • Summation 1998: Horror - (1999) - essay by Ellen Datlow
  • Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1998 - (1999) - essay by Edward Bryant
  • Comics: 1998 - (1999) - essay by Seth Johnson
  • Obituaries: 1998 - (1999) - essay by James R. Frenkel
  • Travels with the Snow Queen - (1996) - novelette by Kelly Link
  • Running Dogs - (1998) - shortstory by Steve Duffy
  • Wiglaf - (1998) - poem by Marisa de los Santos
  • Mrs Mabb - (1998) - novelette by Susanna Clarke
  • Due West - (1997) - novelette by Rick Kennett
  • Kokopelli - (1998) - poem by Catharine Savage Brosman
  • Taking Loup - (1998) - shortstory by Bruce Glassco
  • The Evil Within - (1998) - novelette by Sara Douglass
  • Wile E. Coyote's Lament - (1998) - poem by Larry Fontenot
  • The Rainmaker - (1998) - novelette by Mary Rosenblum
  • A Place to Stay - (1998) - novelette by Michael Marshall Smith
  • The Fantasma of Q____ - (1998) - shortstory by Lisa Goldstein
  • Hoopa, the White Deer Dance - (1998) - shortstory by Ralph Salisbury
  • That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French - (1998) - shortstory by Stephen King
  • The Travails - (1998) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
  • Suburban Blight - (1998) - novelette by Terry Lamsley
  • Inside the Cackle Factory - (1998) - novelette by Dennis Etchison
  • The House of the Black Cat - (1989) - shortstory by Yumiko Kurahashi
  • Every Angel Is Terrifying - (1998) - shortstory by John Kessel
  • Shoggoth's Old Peculiar - (1998) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
  • Great Sedna - (1998) - shortstory by Lawrence Osgood
  • The Bird Chick - (1998) - shortstory by Sylvia Brownrigg
  • Psyché - (1998) - shortstory by Mark W. Tiedemann
  • Mrs. Beast - (1998) - poem by Carol Ann Duffy
  • Become a Warrior - (1998) - shortstory by Jane Yolen
  • Blackbirds - (1998) - shortstory by Norman Partridge
  • Carp Man - (1998) - shortstory by Nicholas A. DiChario
  • The Faerie Cony-Catcher - (1998) - shortstory by Delia Sherman
  • At the River of Crocodiles - (1998) - poem by Zan Ross
  • Clair de Lune - (1998) - shortstory by Steven Millhauser
  • The Rose of Paracelsus - (1998) - shortstory by Jorge Luís Borges (trans. of La rosa de Paracelso 1983)
  • Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff - (1997) - novella by Peter Straub
  • Revenge - (1998) - shortstory by Michael Blumlein
  • The Tall, Upheaving One - (1998) - poem by Holly Prado
  • Oak Hill - (1998) - shortstory by Patricia A. McKillip
  • Jackdaw Jack - (1998) - shortstory by Christopher Harman
  • Dark Moon - (1998) - poem by Sarah Corbett
  • The Death of the Duke - (1998) - shortstory by Ellen Kushner
  • Hershel - (1998) - shortstory by Judy Budnitz
  • By the Time We Get to Uranus - (1998) - shortstory by Ray Vukcevich
  • The Specialist's Hat - (1998) - shortstory by Kelly Link
  • Twa Corbies - (1998) - shortstory by Charles de Lint
  • Jenny Come to Play - (1997) - novelette by Terry Dowling
  • Blimunda - (1998) - shortstory by Ilan Stavans
  • Mrs. Dumpty - (1998) - poem by Chana Bloch
  • Cold - (1998) - novella by A. S. Byatt
  • Honorable Mentions: 1998 - (1999) - essay by uncredited
  • The People Behind the Book - (1999) - essay by uncredited

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Book 13

Terri Windling
Ellen Datlow

For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling continue their critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stunning collection of stories. The fiction and poetry here is culled from an exhaustive survey of the field, nearly four dozen stories ranging from fairy tales to gothic horror, from magical realism to dark tales in the Grand Guignol style. Rounding out the volume are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantasy and horror, and a long list of Honorable Mentions, making this an indispensable reference as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror.

Table of Contents:

  • Summation 1999: Fantasy - essay by Terri Windling
  • Summation 1999: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
  • Fantasy and Horror in the Media: 1999 - essay by Edward Bryant
  • Comics: 1999 - essay by Seth Johnson
  • Obituaries: 1999 - essay by James R. Frenkel
  • Darkrose and Diamond - (1999) - novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • The Chop Girl - (1999) - novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
  • The Girl Detective - (1999) - novelette by Kelly Link
  • The Transformation - (1999) - shortstory by N. Scott Momaday
  • Carabosse - (1999) - poem by Delia Sherman
  • Harlequin Valentine - (1999) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
  • Toad - (1999) - shortstory by Patricia A. McKillip
  • Washed in the River - (1999) - poem by Beckian Fritz Goldberg
  • The Dinner Party - (1999) - shortstory by Robert Girardi
  • Heat - (1999) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
  • The Wedding at Esperanza - (1999) - shortstory by Linnet Taylor
  • Redescending - (1999) - poem by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • You Don't Have to Be Mad ... - (1999) - novelette by Kim Newman
  • The Paper-Thin Garden - (1999) - shortstory by Thomas Wharton
  • The Anatomy of a Mermaid - (1999) - shortstory by Mary Sharratt
  • The Grammarian's Five Daughters - (1999) - shortstory by Eleanor Arnason
  • The Tree Is My Hat - (1999) - novelette by Gene Wolfe
  • Welcome - (1999) - novelette by Michael Marshall Smith
  • The Pathos of Genre - (1999) - shortstory by Douglas E. Winter
  • Shatsi - (1999) - shortstory by Peter Crowther
  • Keepsakes and Treasures: A Love Story - (1999) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
  • What You Make It - (1999) - novelette by Michael Marshall Smith
  • The Parwat Ruby - (1999) - shortstory by Delia Sherman
  • Odysseus Old - (1999) - poem by Geoffrey Brock
  • The Smell of the Deer - (1999) - shortstory by Kent Meyers
  • Chorion and the Pleiades - (1999) - poem by Sarah Van Arsdale
  • Crosley - (1998) - shortstory by Elizabeth Engstrom
  • Naming the Dead - (1999) - shortstory by Paul J. McAuley
  • The Stork-men - (1999) - shortstory by Juan Goytisolo
  • The Disappearance of Elaine Coleman - (1999) - shortstory by Steven Millhauser
  • White - (1999) - novella by Tim Lebbon
  • Dear Floods of Her Hair - (1999) - shortstory by James Sallis
  • Mrs. Santa Decides to Move to Florida - (1999) - shortstory by April Selley
  • Tanuki - (1999) - shortstory by Jan Hodgman
  • At Reparata - (1999) - novelette by Jeffrey Ford
  • Skin So Green and Fine - (1999) - novelette by Wendy Wheeler
  • Old Merlin Dancing on the Sands of Time - (1999) - poem by Jane Yolen
  • Sailing the Painted Ocean - (1999) - shortstory by Denise Lee
  • Grandmother - (1999) - poem by Laurence Snydal
  • Small Song - (1999) - novelette by Gary A. Braunbeck
  • The Emperor's Old Bones - (1999) - shortstory by Gemma Files
  • The Duke of Wellington Misplaces His Horse - (1999) - shortstory by Susanna Clarke
  • Halloween Street - (1999) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
  • The Kiss - (1999) - novelette by Tia V. Travis
  • The Beast - (1999) - poem by Bill Lewis
  • The Hedge - (1999) - poem by Bill Lewis
  • Pixel Pixies - (1999) - novelette by Charles de Lint
  • Falling Away - (1999) - shortstory by Elizabeth Birmingham
  • Honorable Mentions: 1999 - (1999) - essay by uncredited
  • The People Behind the Book - essay by uncredited

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Book 14

Ellen Datlow
Terri Windling

For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. The critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition continues with another stunning collection, including stories by Jack Cady, Ramsey Campbell, Susanna Clarke, Jack Dann, Terry Dowling, Dennis Etchison, Greer Gilman, Nalo Hopkinson, Kelly Link, Kathe Koja, Paul J. McAuley, Delia Sherman. Rounding out the volume are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantasy and horror, and a long list of Honorable Mentions, making this an indispensable reference as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror.

Table of Contents:

  • Summation 2000: Fantasy - essay by Terri Windling
  • Summation 2000: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
  • Fantasy and Horror in the Media: 2000 - essay by Edward Bryant
  • Comics: 2000 - essay by Seth Johnson
  • Obituaries: 2000 - essay by James R. Frenkel
  • Incognita, Inc. - (2001) - shortstory by Harlan Ellison
  • Maria de Jesus - (2000) - shortstory by Claudia Barbosa Nogueira
  • Le Mooz - (2000) - shortstory by Louise Erdrich
  • Gretel in Berkeley - (2000) - poem by Eve Sweetser
  • Granny Weather - (2000) - novelette by Charles de Lint
  • The Shape of Things - (2000) - shortstory by Ellen Steiber
  • No Strings - (2000) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
  • Marilyn - (2000) - shortstory by Jack Dann
  • Greedy Choke Puppy - (2000) - shortstory by Nalo Hopkinson
  • The Crone - (2000) - poem by Delia Sherman
  • Achilles' Grave - (2000) - novelette by Ben Pastor
  • Down Here in the Garden - (2000) - shortstory by Tia V. Travis
  • Meeting the Graiae - (2000) - poem by Laurence Goldstein
  • Riding the Black Horse - (2000) - shortstory by Elizabeth Engstrom
  • At Eventide - (2000) - shortstory by Kathe Koja
  • The Saltimbanques - (2000) - novelette by Terry Dowling
  • The Monster of Childhood - (2000) - poem by Janet McAdams
  • Ship, Sea, Mountain, Sky - (2000) - shortstory by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant
  • Mr. Dark's Carnival - (2000) - novelette by Glen Hirshberg
  • The Cavemen in the Hedges - (2000) - shortstory by Stacey Richter
  • Circe - (2000) - poem by Carol Ann Duffy
  • Little Red-Cap - (2000) - poem by Carol Ann Duffy
  • Basic Black - (2000) - novelette by Terry Dowling
  • The Man on the Ceiling - (2000) - novelette by Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem
  • Climbing Down from Heaven - (2000) - novelette by Terry Lamsley
  • Jeremiah - (2000) - novelette by Jack Cady
  • Three Questions - (2000) - poem by Jane Yolen
  • The Penny Drops - (2000) - shortstory by Ian Rodwell and Steve Duffy
  • The Train, the Lake, the Bridge - (2000) - shortstory by Bret Lott
  • Buttons - (2000) - shortstory by Claudia Adriázola
  • Snow Blindness - (2000) - poem by Elizabeth Howkins
  • Jack Daw's Pack - (2000) - shortstory by Greer Gilman
  • The Artificial Cloud - (2000) - shortstory by Justin Tussing
  • No Story in It - (2000) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
  • A Migrant Bird - (2000) - shortstory by John F. Deane
  • The Thousandth Night - (2000) - poem by Donelle R. Ruwe
  • The Pottawatomie Giant - (2000) - novelette by Andy Duncan
  • George Is All Right - (1997) - shortstory by Howard Wandrei
  • Mr. Simonelli or the Fairy Widower - (2000) - novella by Susanna Clarke
  • Bones - (2000) - shortstory by Francesca Lia Block
  • The Abortionist's Horse (A Nightmare) - (2000) - shortstory by Tanith Lee
  • Endless Summer - (2000) - shortstory by Stewart O'Nan
  • The Heidelberg Cylinder - (2000) - novella by Jonathan Carroll
  • Gone - (2000) - shortstory by Jack Ketchum
  • An Earthly Mother Sits and Sings - (2000) - shortstory by John Crowley
  • Atasdi: Fish Story - (2000) - shortfiction by Dawn Karima Pettigrew
  • Tooth Fairy - (2000) - poem by Amy Wack
  • The Sandman - (2000) - poem by Amy Wack
  • Tasting Songs - (2000) - shortstory by Leone Ross
  • My Present Wife - (2000) - shortstory by Dennis Etchison
  • The Flaying Season - (2000) - shortstory by Jeffrey Thomas
  • Bone Orchards - (2000) - shortstory by Paul J. McAuley
  • Instructions - (2000) - poem by Neil Gaiman
  • Hallowmass - (2000) - novelette by Esther M. Friesner
  • Honorable Mentions: 2000 - essay by uncredited
  • The People Behind the Book - (2001) - essay by uncredited

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Book 15

Ellen Datlow
Terri Windling

For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling continue their critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stunning collection of stories. The fiction and poetry here is culled from an exhaustive survey of the field, nearly four dozen stories ranging from fairy tales to gothic horror, from magical realism to dark tales in the Grand Guignol style. Rounding out the volume are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantasy and horror, a new Year's Best section, on comics, by Charles Vess, and on anime and manga, by Joan D. Vinge, and a long list of Honorable Mentions, making this an indispensable reference as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror.

Table of Contents:

  • Summation 2001: Fantasy - (2001) - essay by Terri Windling
  • Summation 2001: Horror - (2001) - essay by Ellen Datlow
  • The Year in Media of the Fantastic - (2001) - essay by Edward Bryant
  • Fantasy and Horror in Comics: 2001 - (2001) - essay by Charles Vess
  • Manga and Anime in 2001: Through the Looking Glass - essay by Joan D. Vinge
  • Obituaries: 2001 - (2001) - essay by James R. Frenkel
  • The Hunter's Wife - (2001) - shortstory by Anthony Doerr
  • The Cowardly Coffin - (2001) - poem by Marin Sorescu
  • In These Final Days of Sales - (2001) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
  • To Dream of White Horses - (2001) - shortstory by June Considine
  • Skin - (2001) - poem by Charlee Jacob
  • Prussian Snowdrops - (2000) - novelette by Marion Arnott
  • The Honeyed Knot - (2001) - shortstory by Jeffrey Ford
  • Timmy Gobel's Bug Jar - (2001) - shortstory by Michael Libling
  • The God of Dark Laughter - (2001) - shortstory by Michael Chabon
  • The Adolescence of Orpheus - (2001) - poem by Kurt Leland
  • Trading Hearts at the Half Kaffe Café - (2001) - novelette by Charles de Lint
  • Louise's Ghost - (2001) - novelette by Kelly Link
  • Fairy Tale Pantoum - (2001) - poem by Ellen Wernecke
  • The Puppet and the Train - (2001) - shortstory by Scott Thomas
  • Crocodile Lady - (2001) - shortstory by Christopher Fowler
  • The Barbarian and the Queen: Thirteen Views - (2001) - shortstory by Jane Yolen
  • Becoming Bird - (2001) - poem by Bob Hicok
  • Sop Doll - (2001) - shortstory by Milbre Burch
  • Plenty - (2001) - shortstory by Christopher Barzak
  • The Bones of the Earth - (2001) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • What the Story Weaves, the Spinner Tells - (2001) - poem by Terry Blackhawk
  • Onion - (2001) - novelette by Caitlín R. Kiernan
  • Where the Woodbine Twineth - (2001) - shortstory by Norman Partridge
  • Struwwelpeter - (2001) - novelette by Glen Hirshberg
  • Outfangthief - (2001) - shortstory by Gala Blau
  • Rites: Cleaning the Last Bones - (2001) - poem by Gavin J. Grant
  • Watch Me When I Sleep - (2001) - shortstory by Jean-Claude Dunyach (trans. of Regarde-moi quand je dors 2000)
  • The Tattoo Artist - (2001) - shortstory by Patrick Roscoe
  • Cleopatra Brimstone - (2001) - novella by Elizabeth Hand
  • Grass - (2001) - shortstory by Lawrence Miles
  • If Death, A Preprimer - (2001) - poem by Sandra J. Lindow
  • The Bird Catcher - (2001) - novelette by S. P. Somtow
  • Black Dust - (2001) - shortstory by Graham Joyce
  • Annabelle's Alphabet - (2001) - shortstory by Tim Pratt
  • Tom Brightwind, or, How the Fairy Bridge Was Built at Thoresby - (2001) - novelette by Susanna Clarke
  • Gestella - (2001) - novelette by Susan Palwick
  • The Legend - (2001) - shortstory by Ray Gonzalez
  • Oh, Glorious Sight - (2001) - novelette by Tanya Huff
  • Home Cooking - (2001) - shortstory by Daniel Ulanovsky Sack
  • Queen - (2001) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
  • The Project - (2001) - shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
  • The Man in the Comic Strip - (2001) - poem by Liz Lochhead
  • Strange Things About Birds - (2001) - shortstory by Scott Thomas
  • What We Did That Summer - (2001) - shortstory by Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg
  • Aesculapius in the Underworld - (2001) - poem by Ryan G. Van Cleave
  • Scarecrow - (2001) - shortstory by Gregory Maguire
  • The Bockles - (2001) - shortstory by Melissa Hardy
  • His Own Back Yard - (2001) - novelette by James P. Blaylock
  • Honorable Mentions: 2001 - (2001) - essay by uncredited
  • The People Behind the Book - (2001) - essay by uncredited

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Book 16

Ellen Datlow
Terri Windling

For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling continue their critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stunning collection of stories. The fiction and poetry here is culled from an exhaustive survey of the field, nearly four dozen stories ranging from fairy tales to gothic horror, from magical realism to dark tales in the Grand Guignol style. Rounding out the volume are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantasy and horror, new Year's Best sections on comics, by Charles Vess, and on anime and manga, by Joan D. Vinge, and a long list of Honorable Mentions, making this an indispensable reference as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror.

The critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition continues with another stunning collection, including stories by Kelly Link, Kim Newman, Corey Marks, Eric Schaller, M. Shayne Bell, Helga M. Novak, Terry Dowling, Michael Libling, Zoran Zivkovic, Bentley Little, Carlton Mellick III, Brian Hodge, Conrad Williams, Tom Disch, Melissa Hardy, Joel Lane, Nicholas Royle, Tracina Jackson-Adams, Karen Joy Fowler, Jackie Bartley, Peter Dickerman, Ramsey Campbell, Adam Roberts, Robert Phillips, Jay Russell, Luis Alberto Urrea, Margaret Lloyd, Stephen Gallagher, Robin McKinley, Haruki Murakami, Theodora Goss, Kathy Koja, Lucy Taylor, Elizabeth Hand, Kevin Brickmeier, Sharon McCartney, Susan Power, Don Tumasonis, Nan Fry. Rounding out the volume are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantasy and horror, Year's Best sections on comics, by Charles Vess, and on anime and manga, by Joan D. Vinge, and a long list of Honorable Mentions, making this an indispensable reference as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror.

Table of Contents:

  • Summation 2002: Fantasy - essay by Terri Windling
  • Summation 2002: Horror - essay by Ellen Datlow
  • The Year in Media of the Fantastic: 2002 - essay by Edward Bryant
  • Fantasy and Horror in Comics: 2002 - essay by Charles Vess
  • Manga and Anime 2002: The Light and Dark Fantastic - essay by Joan D. Vinge
  • Obituaries: 2002 - essay by James R. Frenkel
  • Lull - (2002) - novelette by Kelly Link
  • Egyptian Avenue - (2002) - shortstory by Kim Newman
  • A Letter of Explanation - (2002) - poem by Corey Marks
  • Details - (2002) - shortstory by China Miéville
  • The Assistant to Dr. Jacob - (2002) - shortstory by Eric Schaller
  • The Pagodas of Ciboure - (2002) - novelette by M. Shayne Bell
  • The Coventry Boy - (2002) - novelette by Graham Joyce
  • The Wild Hunt - (2002) - poem by Helga M. Novak
  • The Green Word - (2002) - novelette by Jeffrey Ford
  • Stitch - (2002) - shortstory by Terry Dowling
  • Puce Boy - (2001) - novelette by Michael Libling
  • The Violin-Maker - (2002) - shortstory by Zoran Živkovic
  • Maya's Mother - (2002) - novelette by Bentley Little
  • Porno in August - (2002) - shortstory by Carlton Mellick, III
  • Nesting Instincts - (2002) - novelette by Brian Hodge
  • The Machine - (2002) - shortstory by Conrad Williams
  • Hansel, A Retrospective, or, The Danger of Childhood Obesity - (2002) - poem by Thomas M. Disch
  • Aquerò - (2002) - shortstory by Melissa Hardy
  • The Receivers - (2002) - shortstory by Joel Lane
  • Standard Gauge - (2002) - shortstory by Nicholas Royle
  • Creation - (2002) - shortstory by Jeffrey Ford
  • Seven Pairs of Iron Shoes - (2002) - poem by Tracina Jackson-Adams
  • What I Didn't See - (2002) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
  • Reading Myth to Kindergartners - (2002) - poem by Jackie Bartley
  • Mermaid Song - (2002) - novelette by Peter Dickinson
  • Pages from a Journal Found in a Shoebox Left in a Greyhound Bus Somewhere Between Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Louisville, Kentucky - (2002) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
  • No End of Fun - (2002) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
  • Swiftly - (2002) - novelette by Adam Roberts
  • The Green Man - (2002) - shortstory by Christopher Fowler
  • Some Other Me - (2002) - shortstory by Brian Hodge
  • The Snow Queen - (2002) - poem by Robert Phillips
  • Hides - (2002) - novelette by Jay Russell
  • Mr. Mendoza's Paintbrush - (2002) - shortstory by Luis Alberto Urrea
  • First Night With Lancelot - (2002) - poem by Margaret Lloyd
  • Second Night - (2002) - poem by Margaret Lloyd
  • From the Walls - (2002) - poem by Margaret Lloyd
  • Guinevere: On Hearing of Galahad's Birth - (2002) - poem by Margaret Lloyd
  • Elaine Watches Galahad - (2002) - poem by Margaret Lloyd
  • Little Dead Girl Singing - (2002) - shortstory by Stephen Gallagher
  • A Pool in the Desert - (2002) - novella by Robin McKinley
  • Thailand - non-genre - (2001) - shortstory by Haruki Murakami
  • The Rose in Twelve Petals - (2002) - shortstory by Theodora Goss
  • Road Trip - (2002) - shortstory by Kathe Koja
  • Unspeakable - (2002) - shortstory by Lucy Taylor
  • Inside Out: On Henry Darger - (2002) - essay by Elizabeth Hand
  • The Green Children - (2002) - shortstory by Kevin Brockmeier
  • After the Chuck Jones Tribute on Teletoon - (2002) - poem by Sharon McCartney
  • Feeders and Eaters - (2002) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
  • Roofwalker - (2002) - shortstory by Susan Power
  • The Prospect Cards - (2002) - novelette by Don Tumasonis
  • Hide and Seek - (2002) - shortstory by Nicholas Royle
  • The Wolf's Story - (2002) - poem by Nan Fry
  • The Least Trumps - (2002) - novella by Elizabeth Hand
  • Honorable Mentions: 2002 - essay by uncredited
  • The People Behind the Book - essay by uncredited

Death Has Come Up Into Our Windows

The Zombie Bible: Book 1

Stant Litore

"Imagine sitting at a fire on a winter night and a man is warming his hands and telling you stories from the Bible, except the storyteller is Poe or Lovecraft. And you'll have some idea what this series is like."

It is 587 BC. A vast army lies encamped about Yirmiyahu's city, and a rebellious king has closed the city gates, locking in the living and the dead together. Only one man can see that the dead will overwhelm the city. Only one man can hear the quiet weeping of his God behind her veil in the temple. Only one man will stand against the evils practiced in a dying city.

But the things he sees and the things he must do will call into question every promise he has made, every duty he has sworn--to his wife, his God, and his city.

Wind From a Foreign Sky

Tielmaran Chronicles: Book 1

Katya Reimann

Gaultry enjoyed the simple, pastoral life of a hedge witch, where her most daunting task was to travel to the nearby village to purchase supplies. But her peaceful life is shattered when it becomes entangled in an ancient prophecy--a prophecy which names her and her headstrong twin sister, Mervion, as their nation's salvation... or its destruction.

A Wind in the Door

Time Quintet: Book 2

Madeleine L’Engle

It is November. When Meg comes home from school, Charles Wallace tells her he saw dragons in the twin's vegetable garden. That night Meg, Calvin and C.W. go to the vegetable garden to meet the Teacher (Blajeny) who explains that what they are seeing isn't a dragon at all, but a cherubim named Proginoskes. It turns out that C.W. is ill and that Blajeny and Proginoskes are there to make him well – by making him well, they will keep the balance of the universe in check and save it from the evil Echthros.

Meg, Calvin and Mr. Jenkins (grade school principal) must travel inside C.W. to have this battle and save Charles' life as well as the balance of the universe.

Spawn of the Winds

Titus Crow: Book 4

Brian Lumley

Titus Crow and his faithful companion and record-keeper fight the gathering forces of darkness-the infamous and deadly Elder Gods of the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Cthulhu and his dark minions are bent on ruling the earth. A few puny humans cannot possibly stand against these otherworldly evil gods, yet time after time, Titus Crow drives the monsters back into the dark from whence they came.

Isle of Blood and Stone

Tower of Winds: Book 1

Makiia Lucier

Nineteen-year-old Elias is a royal explorer, a skilled mapmaker, and the new king of del Mar's oldest friend. Soon he will embark on the adventure of a lifetime, an expedition past the Strait of Cain and into uncharted waters. Nothing stands in his way... until a long-ago tragedy creeps back into the light, threatening all he holds dear.

The people of St. John del Mar have never recovered from the loss of their boy princes, kidnapped eighteen years ago, both presumed dead. But when two maps surface, each bearing the same hidden riddle, troubling questions arise. What really happened to the young heirs? And why do the maps appear to be drawn by Lord Antoni, Elias's father, who vanished on that same fateful day? With the king's beautiful cousin by his side-whether he wants her there or not-Elias will race to solve the riddle of the princes. He will have to use his wits and guard his back. Because some truths are better left buried... and an unknown enemy stalks his every turn.

Isle of Blood and Stone, the first in a duology, is a sweeping historical fantasy full of intrigue and schemes, romance and friendship, and fearless explorers searching for the truth.

Song of the Abyss

Tower of Winds: Book 2

Makiia Lucier

As the granddaughter of a famed navigator, seventeen-year-old Reyna has always lived life on her own terms, despite those who say a girl could never be an explorer for the royal house of St. John del Mar. She is determined to prove them wrong, and as she returns home after a year-long expedition, she knows her dream is within reach. No longer an apprentice, instead: Reyna, Master Explorer.

But when menacing raiders attack her ship, those dreams are pushed aside. Reyna's escape is both desperate and dangerous, and when next she sees her ship, a mystery rises from the deep. The sailors--her captain, her countrymen--have vanished. To find them, Reyna must use every resource at her disposal... including placing her trust in a handsome prince from a rival kingdom.

Together they uncover a disturbing truth. The attack was no isolated incident. Troubling signs point to a shadowy kingdom in the north, and for once, the rulers of the Sea of Magdalen agree: something must be done. But can Reyna be brave enough to find a way?

Unwind

Unwind Dystology: Book 1

Neal Shusterman

The first twisted and futuristic novel in the perennially popular New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology by Neal Shusterman.

In America after the Second Civil War, the Pro-Choice and Pro-Life armies came to an agreement: The Bill of Life states that human life may not be touched from the moment of conception until a child reaches the age of thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, a parent may choose to retroactively get rid of a child through a process called "unwinding." Unwinding ensures that the child's life doesn't "technically" end by transplanting all the organs in the child's body to various recipients. Now a common and accepted practice in society, troublesome or unwanted teens are able to easily be unwound.

With breathtaking suspense, this book follows three teens who all become runaway Unwinds: Connor, a rebel whose parents have ordered his unwinding; Risa, a ward of the state who is to be unwound due to cost-cutting; and Lev, his parents' tenth child whose unwinding has been planned since birth as a religious tithing. As their paths intersect and lives hang in the balance, Shusterman examines complex moral issues that will keep readers turning the pages until the very end.

UnWholly

Unwind Dystology: Book 2

Neal Shusterman

Rife with action and suspense, this riveting companion to the perennially popular Unwind challenges assumptions about where life begins and ends--and what it means to live.

Thanks to Connor, Lev, and Risa--and their high-profile revolt at Happy Jack Harvest Camp--people can no longer turn a blind eye to unwinding. Ridding society of troublesome teens while simltaneously providing much-needed organs for transplanting might be convenient, but its morality has finally been brought into question. However, unwinding has become big business, and there are powerful political and corporate interests that want to see it not only continue, but also expand to the unwinding of prisoners and the impoverished.

Cam is made entirely out of the parts of other unwinds; he is a teen who does not technically exist. A futuristic Frankenstein, Cam struggles to find identity and meaning and wonders if a rewound being can have a soul. And when the actions of a sadistic bounty hunter cause Cam's fate to become inextricably bound with the fates of Connor, Risa, and Lev, he'll have to question humanity itself.

UnSouled

Unwind Dystology: Book 3

Neal Shusterman

Teens fight for their humanity in this thrilling third book in the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology by Neal Shusterman.

Connor and Lev are on the run after the destruction of the Graveyard, the last safe haven for AWOL Unwinds. But for the first time, they're not just running away from something. This time, they're running towards answers, in the form of a woman Proactive Citizenry has tried to erase from history itself. If they can find her, and learn why the shadowy figures behind unwinding are so afraid of her, they may discover the key to ending the unwinding process forever.

Cam, the rewound boy, is plotting to take down the organization that created him. He knows that if he can bring Proactive Citizenry to its knees, it will show Risa how he truly feels about her. And without Risa, Cam is having trouble remembering what it feels like to be human.

With the Juvenile Authority and vindictive parts pirates hunting them, their paths will converge explosively--and everyone will be changed.

Neal Shusterman continues the adventure that VOYA called "poignant, compelling, and ultimately terrifying."

UnDivided

Unwind Dystology: Book 4

Neal Shusterman

Teens control the fate of America in the fourth and final book in the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology by Neal Shusterman that Horn Book Magazine calls "ambitious, insightful, and devastating--a fitting conclusion to a provocative series."

Proactive Citizenry, the company that created Cam from the parts of unwound teens, has a plan: to mass produce rewound teens like Cam for military purposes. And below the surface of that horror lies another shocking level of intrigue: Proactive Citizenry has been suppressing technology that could make unwinding completely unnecessary. As Conner, Risa, and Lev uncover these startling secrets, enraged teens begin to march on Washington to demand justice and a better future.

But more trouble is brewing. Starkey's group of storked teens is growing more powerful and militant with each new recruit. And if they have their way, they'll burn the harvest camps to the ground and put every adult in them before a firing squad--which could destroy any chance America has for a peaceful future.

"Everything culminates in an action-packed, heart-wrenching conclusion guaranteed to chill readers to the bone" (Kirkus Reviews).

Winds of Fate

Valdemar: Mage Winds: Book 1

Mercedes Lackey

Lackey, who has enchanted readers since the publication of her first novel, Arrows of the Queen in 1987, scores another hit with the paperback release of the first book in an exciting new series. High magic had been lost to Valdemar when he gave his life to save his kingdom from destruction by the dark sorceries. Now it falls to Elspeth Herald, heir to the throne, to take up the challenge and seek a mentor who will awaken her mage abilities.

Winds of Change

Valdemar: Mage Winds: Book 2

Mercedes Lackey

In The Mage Winds trilogy, which began with the best-selling novel, Winds of Fate, author Mercedes Lackey continues the epic that started with her first published book, Arrows of the Queen introduced readers to the remarkable land of Valdemar, the kingdom protected by its Heralds--men and women gifted with extraordinary mind powers--aided and served by their mysterious Companions--horselike beings who know the many secrets of Valdemar's magical heritage. None but the Companions remember the long-ago age when high magic was lost to Valdemar as the last Herald-Mage gave his life to protect his kingdom from destruction by dark sorceries.

But now the protective barrier set so long ago over Valdemar is crumbling, and with the realm imperiled by the dark magic of Ancar of Hardorn, Princess Elspeth, Herald and heir to the throne, has gone on a desperate quest in search of a mentor who can teach her to wield her fledgling mage-powers and help her to defend her threatened kingdom.

Winds of Fury

Valdemar: Mage Winds: Book 3

Mercedes Lackey

Book Three of The Mage Winds trilogy. No longer the willful novice of Winds of Fate, Princess Herald Elspeth has completed her magical training. She returns to her homeland with her beloved partner Darkwind. Will they be strong enough to confront the magical evil that is threatening their land?

Wind Rider's Oath

War God: Book 3

David Weber

Bahzell of the Hradani is Back! Exciting Fantasy Adventure by the New York Times Best-Selling Author of the Honor Harrington Series. First Time in Paperback.

In The War God's Own, Bahzell had managed to stop a war by convincing Baron Tellian, leader of the Sothoii, to "surrender" to him, the War God's champion. Now, he has journeyed to the Sothoii Wind Plain to oversee the parole he granted to Tellian and his men, to represent the Order of Tomanak, the War God, and to be an ambassador for the hradani. What's more, the flying coursers of the Sothoii have accepted Bahzell as a wind rider-the first hradani wind rider in history. And since the wind riders are the elite of the elite among the Sothoii, Bahzell's ascension is as likely to stir resentment as respect.

That combination of duties would have been enough to keep anyone busy-even a warrior prince like Bahzell-but additional complications are bubbling under the surface. The goddess Shigu, the Queen of Hell, is sowing dissension among the war maids of the Sothoii. The supporters of the deposed Sothoii noble who started the war are plotting to murder their new leige lord and frame Bahzell for the deed. Of course, those problems are all in a day's work for a champion of the War God.

But what is Bahzell going to do about the fact that Baron Tellian's daughter, and heir to the realm, seems to be thinking that he is the only man-or hradani-for her?

The Wind-Witch

Warhorse of Estragon: Book 2

Susan Dexter

Warp and weft must cross, or there's no cloth...

The orderly threads of Druyan's life are dyed the colors of duty and obedience: to father, mother, family, husband, custom. So she does not whistle up the wind, though she knows she has the gift. So she pretends that Valadan is only an old black horse, not the fabled Warhorse of Esdragon her grandfather Leith rode. She marries a farmer, and weaves fine cloth from the wool of his sheep.

Ill Wind

Weather Warden: Book 1

Rachel Caine

The Wardens Association has been around pretty much forever. Some Wardens control Fire, others control Earth or Water or Wind--and the most powerful can control more than one. Without wardens, Mother Nature would wipe humanity off the face of the earth...

Joanne Baldwin is a Weather Warden. Usually, all it takes is a wave of her hand to tame the most violent weather. But now, Joanne is trying to outrun another kind of storm: accusations of corruption and murder. So, she's resorting to the very human tactic of running for her life...

Her only hope is Lewis, the most powerful warden known. Unfortunately, he's also on the run from the Council. It seems he's stolen not one but three bottles of Djinn--making him the most wanted man on earth. And without Lewis, Joanne's chances of surviving are as good as a snowball in--well, a place she may be headed. So, she and her classic Mustang are racing hard to find him--because there's some bad weather closing in fast...

Windfall

Weather Warden: Book 4

Rachel Caine

Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin's stormy personal life is taking its toll on her patience-and her powers. But when the truce between the Wardens and the mystical Djinn starts to self-destruct, Joanne finds herself forced to choose between saving her Djinn lover, saving her Warden abilities-and saving humanity.

The Wind Crystal

Westria: Book 6

Diana L. Paxson

The King is Dead, the Land ruled by a Regent. Prince Julian, the lost son of King Jehan, has returned to claim the crown. But he must first prove his right by finding and mastering the four jewels of power lost in the magic war that killed Jehan. Julian has gained two of them, The Earthstone and The Sea Star. Now he must survive the quest for the wind crystal.

Wind Dancers

Wind: Book 1

R. M. Meluch

The Morts were turning up all over Aeolis, the Eden-like planet named for the unexpectedwinds which sprang up from nowhere and swiftly faded away. But unlike the winds, the Morts didn't just fade away. These unidentifiable corpses - which on closer examination proved far from human - posed a bizarre threat to human control of Aeolis. So the Serviceship Halcyon XLV was dispatched to the planet to solve the secret of the Morts, a secret whispered by the winds every day - a secret older than mankind, which could spell the end of human life on the planet...

Wind Child

Wind: Book 2

R. M. Meluch

In Aeolis, a young man journeys to discover his roots and heritage as a child of genetic engineering and reality modification. His legacy was one impossible mission - to save the winds from total destruction.

In a Garden Burning Gold

Wind-Up Garden: Book 1

Rory Power

Rhea and Lexos were born into a family unlike any other. Together with their siblings, they control the seasons, the tides, and the stars, and help their father rule their kingdom. Thanks to their magic, the family has ruled for an eternity, and plan to rule for an eternity more.

But Rhea and Lexos are special: They are twins, bonded down to the bone, and for the past hundred years, that bond has protected them as their father becomes an unpredictable tyrant--and his worsening temper threatens the family's grip on power.

Now, with rival nations ready to attack, and a rebel movement within their own borders, Rhea and Lexos must fight to keep the kingdom--and the family--together, even as treachery, deceit, and drama threaten to strand the twins on opposite sides of the battlefield.

In an Orchard Grown from Ash

Wind-Up Garden: Book 2

Rory Power

The Argyros siblings have lost everything. With their father dead and their family home captured, they're no longer the rulers of their fractured kingdom--and no longer bound to each other.

In the frozen north, Rhea struggles to wield her newly inherited command over death and to find her place in an increasingly distrustful rebel group. Chrysanthi travels to a distant, war-torn land in search of her elusive brother Nitsos, certain that he is there on a dangerous mission to restore the family to its former glory, this time with himself at its head. And Lexos, now stripped of all his power and a political prisoner of the Domina family, is left to rot in a hauntingly desolate palace with nothing but thoughts of revenge.

Alone and farther apart than they've ever been, the siblings must reckon with the pain of their past and find a new path forward--or risk their own destruction.

One-Wing

Windhaven

George R. R. Martin
Lisa Tuttle

Hugo Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in two installmetns in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, in January and February 1980. There are no other known publications but the story was incorporated in slightly edited form in the fix-up novel Windhaven (1981).

The Storms of Windhaven

Windhaven

George R. R. Martin
Lisa Tuttle

Locus Award winning and Hugo and Nebula Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, May 1975. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5 (1976), edited by Terry Carr and The 1976 Annual World's Best SF, edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha. In sligtly rewritten form, it makes up the second part of the fixup novel Windhaven (1981).

Windhaven

Windhaven

George R. R. Martin
Lisa Tuttle

The planet of Windhaven was not originally a home to humans, but it became one following the crash of a colony starship. It is a world of small islands, harsh weather, and monster-infested seas. Communication among the scattered settlements was virtually impossible until the discovery that, thanks to light gravity and a dense atmosphere, humans were able to fly with the aid of metal wings made of bits of the cannibalized spaceship.

Many generations later, among the scattered islands that make up the water world of Windhaven, no one holds more prestige than the silver-winged flyers, who bring news, gossip, songs, and stories. They are romantic figures crossing treacherous oceans, braving shifting winds and sudden storms that could easily dash them from the sky to instant death. They are also members of an increasingly elite caste, for the wings-always in limited quantity-are growing gradually rarer as their bearers perish.

With such elitism comes arrogance and a rigid adherence to hidebound tradition. And for the flyers, allowing just anyone to join their cadre is an idea that borders on heresy. Wings are meant only for the offspring of flyers-now the new nobility of Windhaven. Except that sometimes life is not quite so neat.

Maris of Amberly, a fisherman's daughter, was raised by a flyer and wants nothing more than to soar on the currents high above Windhaven. By tradition, however, the wings must go to her stepbrother, Coll, the flyer's legitimate son. But Coll wants only to be a singer, traveling the world by sea. So Maris challenges tradition, demanding that flyers be chosen on the basis of merit rather than inheritance. And when she wins that bitter battle, she discovers that her troubles are only beginning.

For not all flyers are willing to accept the world's new structure, and as Maris battles to teach those who yearn to fly, she finds herself likewise fighting to preserve the integrity of a society she so longed to join-not to mention the very fabric that holds her culture together.

Rules of Ascension

Winds of the Forelands: Book 1

David B. Coe

David B. Coe, winner of the William L. Crawford Award for Best First Fantasy Series for the LonTobyn Chronicle, continues his rise to the top rank of fantasy writers with Rules of Ascension, the first novel of an exciting new epic fantasy quartet, Winds of the Forelands.

For centuries the Forelands were disputed by several tribes. Then came the magically gifted Qirsi--physically no match for their foes, but capable of mindsight, creating and controlling mists and fire, and bending solid matter to their purpose. After a Qirsi traitor betrayed his race to save himself, the Qirsi were defeated and dispersed among the seven realms of the Forelands. Those specially endowed Qirsi capable of multiple powers, the Weavers, were all put to death.

For centuries the Forelands enjoyed relative peace. But when Tavis, the heir to the Kingdom of Curgh, is wrongfully blamed for the murder of a noble, the accusation sets in motion a series of events culminating in civil war. The ensuing chaos topples the throne in Eibithar and threatens to rain chaos on all the realms of the Forelands. Tavis, thrust into the center of deadly controversy and stripped of the protection of his family's nobility, turns to the Qirsi, his last remaining hope for redemption. But another Qirsi traitor, secretly fomenting fear and mistrust among the Dukedoms, seeks to destroy Tavis. Tavis must survive long enough to clear his name and save an entire kingdom. A powerful, compelling tale set in an unforgettable land, rules of Ascension will capture your heart and fire your imagination.

Seeds of Betrayal

Winds of the Forelands: Book 2

David B. Coe

The Forelands have enjoyed relative peace in the nine hundred years since the Qirsi Wars, until the stability of the seven kingdoms is shaken by the brutal murder of Lady Brienne of Kentigern, newly betrothed to Lord Tavis of Curgh. Tavis, who is blamed for the crime, has escaped the dungeons of Kentigern and searches the Forelands for his love's killer. But already the Qirsi conspirators who murdered Brienne have taken their campaign of violence and deception to Aneira, Eibithar's hated neighbor, plunging that kingdom into turmoil. Now Tavis's search for redemption takes him into the stronghold of his realm's most bitter enemy.

For the first time in nine centuries, war threatens to engulf all the Forelands. And there are whispers of a new Qirsi threat. A Weaver, they say, is behind the deaths, the betrayals. Nobles who have depended on Qirsi ministers suddenly fear those they have trusted.

If the renegade Qirsi are indeed led by a Weaver, can this powerful sorcerer be found before he conquers the Forelands? And who wields magic potent enough to stop him?

Bonds of Vengeance

Winds of the Forelands: Book 3

David B. Coe

For nine hundred years the Forelands knew peace, but unrest among the magical Qirsi people has blossomed into a conspiracy against the Eandi rulers. What started with an occasional "accidental" death of a lord has exploded into violence, rending the fabric of Forelands society. Led by a mysterious Qirsi "Weaver" with powers that can reach into the minds of others even in their sleep, the rebellion is now turning Qirsi against Qirsi, as it weakens alliances among the Eandi.

Some Qirsi ministers are torn between plotting to overthrow the Eandi and staying loyal to their lords; others have been ready for a rebellion for a long time and are active in the burgeoning and increasingly violent rebellion. Even some Qirsi who oppose the rebellion are forced to take sides against their lords, while an Eandi lord in league with the conspiracy prepares for war against rival houses.

Yet as the world tilts toward terrible upheaval, some stand firm against the chaos. Grinsa, a Qirsi gleaner, is trying to head off the war he knows would spell disaster for his own people as well as the Eandi. Traveling with Lord Tavis of Curgh as the young noble seeks revenge on the assassin who killed his betrothed and thus set the chaos in motion, Grinsa may be the only person who can stop the Weaver from shattering the long peace. But even Grinsa can't do it alone. His sister, Keziah, archminister to King Kearney, himself a staunch advocate of peace, works to prevent war, too. They may be too late, though, as realms plunge toward war, goaded by traitors within their gates.

Shapers of Darkness

Winds of the Forelands: Book 4

David B. Coe

The Forelands are at war. The magic-wielding Qirsi and their Eandi masters have mobilized their forces. The Eandi have had to look beyond past differences to make alliances for the sake of the future, praying it isn't too late for them to change the outcome of the war. Tavis, an Eandi prince who was framed for murdering the princess to whom he was pledged, and endured torture before winning his freedom, has at last avenged her death. Still, the murder and its aftermath have brought war to the Forelands just as the Qirsi conspirators who bought his love's blood had intended. Now Tavis and Grinsa, a Qirsi shaper with more powers than he reveals, who saved Tavis when nobody else would believe his innocence, venture across the Forelands, risking death to help save the land they love...

A powerful Qirsi weaver has brought this terrible war to the land, bending the minds of those he controls and of his enemies in an effort to forge alliances and mobilize forces to destroy the Eandi. His powerful magical ability estranges lovers, betrays leaders, and wreaks murder and death throughout the land. But even with his powerfully malign intelligence, he underestimates the mettle of his opponents. In a psychological duel with Grinsa, the Weaver's formidable powers are sorely tested. Grinsa withstands the Weaver's most powerful attacks at nearly the expense of his own life, and in the process discovers the Weaver's identity.

Will Grinsa's challenge to the Weaver spell the end of the Weaver's reign of doom? Or has Grinsa's discovery come too late to help the Eandi cause? The answers lie in the growing war that may sunder the Forelands forever.

Weavers of War

Winds of the Forelands: Book 5

David B. Coe

In the four previous books of his epic fantasy series Winds of the Forelands, David Coe has woven a complex tapestry of magic and politics, courage and betrayal, love and hate. Now, he brings the many strands of this enthralling series together in a climactic novel that will thrill readers of epic magical fantasy.

For years the magical Qirsi people who live among the Eandi courts of the Forelands have conspired, weakening alliances among the realms. The renegades are led by a mysterious Weaver named Dusaan with powers that allow him to appear in the dreams of his followers and to bind the magic of many Qirsi into a single weapon more potent than any the Eandi have faced in a thousand years.

Now, his planning begins to bear fruit. He reveals himself to friend and foe alike, knowing that none can stand against him. Dusaan takes control of the Empire and begins his march toward war, enlisting those who serve him in other realms to join the battle, as the ranks of his army swell.

King Kearney's armies are forced to battle Eandi invaders from Braedon. However, this battle is a diversion contrived by Dusaan to weaken the Eandi armies. Grinsa, another Weaver, fights for the king. Knowing that the renegades are the true enemy, he struggles to make his people recognize this before it's too late. At last, the two Weavers do battle, Dusaan leading his army of Qirsi sorcerers, Grinsa standing with an alliance of Eandi nobles and warriors.

Whichever side wins will bear a heavy cost for victory.

Behind the Wind

Wirrun: Book 3

Patricia Wrightson

Once again, Wirrun the young Australian Aborigine is called to free his land from an alien red-eyed thing whose master steals men's spirits, though he is sidetracked when his wife is reclaimed by her water-spirit sisters.

The Book of the Unwinding

Witches of New Orleans: Book 2

J. D. Horn

With their magic diminishing, warring factions of New Orleans witches desperately search for the Book of the Unwinding--a legendary grimoire, hidden by spells, that holds the key to unimaginable powers. As a ruthless struggle erupts in a maelstrom of malevolent magic, psychic Nathalie Boudreau finds her destiny intertwined with that of an exiled witch.

Her name is Alice Marin, a vulnerable young woman trapped in a realm of illusion. Only Nathalie can free her, but first she must come to understand and master her own extraordinary abilities.

Now, in a world where betrayals have become the order of the day, it will fall to two women to restore rightful balance amid terrifying chaos.

Windwitch

Witchlands: Book 2

Susan Dennard

Sometimes our enemies become our only allies

The Windwitch Prince Merik is presumed dead, following a lethal explosion. He's left scarred but alive and determined to expose his sister's treachery. Yet on reaching the royal capital, he's shocked to find it crowded with refugees fleeing conflict. Merik haunts the streets, fighting for the weak. This leads to whispers of a disfigured demigod, the Fury, who brings justice to the oppressed.

Hunted by the Cleaved, Iseult is struggling to stay free while she searches for her friend Safi. When the Bloodwitch Aeduan corners Iseult first, she offers him a deal: she'll return what was stolen from him, if he locates the Truthwitch. Yet unknown to Iseult, there's a bounty on her head - and Aeduan intends to claim it.

After a surprise attack and shipwreck, Safi and the Empress of Marstok barely escape with their lives. They find themselves amongst pirates, where a misstep could mean death. And the bandits' next move could unleash war upon the Witchlands.

Yon Ill Wind

Xanth Series: Book 20

Piers Anthony

A Mundane (human) family is blown to Xanth by a tropical storm that threatens the land's existence. To save Xanth and to win a cosmic wager, the Demon X(A/N)th must become Nimby, a mortal, ass-headed pink-and-green-striped dragon and wring an unlikely tear from the hard-hearted maiden Chlorine. Anthony relates each episode of this frothy adventure through a different character's eyes in order to reinforce a gentle lesson about gifts and responsibilities.