About This Book
In the world of speculative fiction. Your favorite authors. Have selected best new voices of the year. 24 Award-winning Authors andIllustrators. 3 Bonus Short Stories by Kevin J. Anderson L. Ron Hubbard S. M. Stirling. Art and Writing Tips by Lazarus Chernik L. Ron Hubbard Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Edited by Dean Wesley Smith Jody Lynn Nye16-page color gallery of artwork. Cover art by Tom Wood. Check out the stories Brandon Sanderson, Orson Scott Card, Nnedi Okorafor, Robert J. Sawyer, Kevin J. Anderson, Jody Lynn Nye and others chose as the best of the best. Be amazed. Be amused. Be transported by stories that take you by surprise and take you further and deeper into new worlds and new ideas than you've ever gone before. Twelve captivating tales from the most exciting new voices in science fiction and fantasy accompanied by three from masters of the genre. A miracle? An omen? Or something else? One day, they arrived in droves the foxes of the desert, the field, the imagination. Kitsune by Devon Bohm. When a vampire, a dragon and a shape-shifting Chihuahua meet on a beach in Key West, fireworks go off. Fire in the Hole by Kevin J. Anderson. Years after the Second Holocaust, the last surviving Jews on earth attempt to rewrite the past. A Trickle in History by Elaine Midcoh. When I said Id do anything to pay off my debts and get back home to Earth, I didn't mean survey a derelict spaceship at the edge of the solar system but here I am. The Withering Sky by Arthur H. Manner. High-powered telescopes bring galactic life to our TVs, and network tunerHank Enos figures hes seen everything until the day an alien boy stares back.The Fall of Crodendra M. by T. J. Knight. Knights, damsels and dragons, curses and fates foretold the stuff of legends and stories, but unexpectedly perverse.Constant Never by S. M.Stirling. Determined to save his wife, Tumelo takes an unlikely client throughSouth Africas ruins to the heart of the Desolation a journey that will cost or save everything.The Children of Desolation by Spencer Sekulin. When a terrorist smuggles a nuclear weapon into London, a team regresses in time to AD 1093 to assassinate a knight on the battlefield, there by eliminating the terrorist a millennia before his birth.Timelines and Bloodlines by L. H. Davis. The Grand Exam, a gateway to power for one, likely death for all others its entrants include ambitious nobles, desperate peasants, and Quiet Gate, an old woman with nothing left to lose. The Last History by Samuel Parr. You will love this collection of the best new voices in science fiction and fantasy because, as Locus magazine puts it, Not only is the writing excellent...it is also extremely varied. Theres a lot of hot new talent. Get it now.
