A. Corey . . . Somewhere in the vast expanse of space, a group of prisoners lives in permanent captivity.The only company they have is each other and the Belters who guard them. The only stories they know are the triumphs and crimes that brought them there. The only future they see is an empty life in an enormous room.And then the man from Mars came along . . .Set in the hard-scrabble solar system of the Expanse, The Vital Abyss deepens James S. A. Corey's acclaimed series.

    Brought together by a secret project designed to hide British targets from German radar, the two founded a love that could not be revealed. When the project went wrong, Tom and Ben vanished into nothingness, presumed dead. Their bodies were never found.Now the two are lost in time, hunting each other across decades, leaving clues in books of poetry and trying to make their disparate timelines overlap.

    It not only won both the Hugo and Nebula, but also the HOMer award and the SF Chronicle Poll and was a nominee for the Locus Award and the Sturgeon Award. It was also nominated for a number of international awards, winning the Ignotus and the Universitat Polytechnica Awards in Spain, the Prix Ozone Award in France and the Futura Award in Croatia.In the far future, eons after the demise of Humanity and its far-flung galactic empire, a group of alien archeologists visits Earth to uncover the secret of the dead race’s initial overwhelming success and its ultimate death.Digging through layers of archeological strata at Olduvai Gorge, they discover seven unique artifacts, each related to a different era of humanity’s history and each telling a unique story about humankind’s strengths and weaknesses. But are they prepared for their final discovery, which will change their worlds forever?

    Thomas and Michael Damian ThomasHenosis / short story by N. K. JemisinClearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand / short story by Fran WildeThough She Be But Little / short story by C.S.E. CooneyDown and Out in R'lyeh / novelette by Catherynne M. ValenteFandom for Robots / short story by Vina Jie-Min PrasadAt Cooney's / novelette by Delia ShermanGhost Town / short story by Malinda LoMy Voice-Over Life / essay by Sophie AldredLet Me Tell You / essay by Cecilia TanI'm Not the Only One: Why Wonder Woman Doesn't Need to Stand Alone in Order to Stand Tall / essay by Sarah KuhnResistance 101: Basics of Community Organizing for SF/F Creators and Consumers— Volume Four: "Don't Let Him Catch You With Your Work Undone"—Activism for the Long Haul / essay by Sam J. Miller and Jean RiceChangeable Skins, Consummate Catchphrases / essay by Sabrina VourvouliasToo Much Dystopia? / poem by Jo WaltonBirth, Place / poem by Brandon O'BrienA Lovesong from Frankenstein's Monster / poem by Ali TrottaThe Golem of the Gravestones / poem by Gwynne GarfinkleInterview: C. S. E. Cooney / interview by Julia RiosInterview: Delia Sherman / interview by Julia Rios

    Outside the walls of Consilience, half the country is out of work, gangs of the drug-addicted and disaffected menace the streets, warlords disrupt the food supply, and overcrowded correctional facilities churn out offenders to make room for more.The Consilience prison, Positron, is something else altogether. The very heart of the community and its economic engine, it’s a bold experiment in voluntary incarceration. In exchange for a house, food, and what the online brochure hails as “A Meaningful Life,” residents agree to spend one month as inmates, the next as civilians, working as guards or whatever’s required.Stan and Charmaine have no complaints—until the day Stan discovers an erotic note under the fridge of the house he and Charmaine must share with another couple while they’re back inside Positron. It’s a missive of erotic longing, pressed with a vivid lipstick kiss: “I’m starved for you!” it breathes. If Stan rarely thought about the house’s other residents before—they’ve never met them and don’t know their names; it’s not allowed—now he can’t stop thinking about them, especially the note’s sex-addled author, a woman apparently named Jasmine, so unlike his girlish wife, Charmaine. He HAS to meet her, but in this highly ordered and increasingly surveilled world, disorderly thoughts are a risk, and breaking the rules has dire consequences.

    Question: What sort of idiot installs his mistress in his wife's house? Especially when that mistress is Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator, Queen of Egypt and the most notorious woman of her time? Answer: Julius Caesar - poised to become King of Rome. Or as good as. Question: At this potentially sensitive point in your political manoeuvrings, who are the last people you'd want crashing through the door, observing, recording, documenting ...? I think we all know the answer to that one. Roman Holiday - an epic, stand alone tale set in Ancient Rome, 44 BC, featuring, in no particular order: an attempted murder, stampeding bullocks, Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile, a bowl of poisonous snakes, a smallish riot, Julius Caesar, and Mr Markham's wayward bosoms.

    A time traveler, observing him from within an invisible bubble, would not have marked him as anything more interesting than an undersized fourteen-year-old, seemingly always in hot water. Lively blue eyes, but basically just another kid." "But something was stirring, something was wakening in that nexus of energy. And in The Cleveland News of June 7th, little more than a week after he turned fifteen, Harlan Ellison's first professional writing appeared in print: the initial installment of a five-part adventure serial (liberally cribbed from Sir Walter Scott) titled "The Sword of Parmagon."" "Now, in a retrospective, 50 years of the best of Harlan Ellison has been assembled in a volume exceeding 1200 pages, encompassing fiction, essays, personal reminiscences, reviews and (published for the first time anywhere) a complete teleplay. Eighty-six complete and (with one exception) unabridged examples of the nonpareil writings of the man The Los Angeles Times labels "the 20th Century Lewis Carroll." Contents:1 · Introduction: Sublime Rebel · Terry Dowling · in 5 · Beginnings · Misc. Material · si 11 · The Sword of Parmagon · ss The Cleveland News, 1949 17 · The Gloconda · ss The Cleveland News, 1949 23 · The Wilder One · vi Sundial Jan ’55 25 · The Saga of Machine Gun Joe · vi Sundial Jan ’55 27 · Introduction to Glowworm · is Unearth Win ’77 30 · Glowworm · ss Infinity Science Fiction Feb ’56; slightly revised and expanded 41 · Life Hutch [Kyben] · ss If Apr ’56 53 · S.R.O. [as by Ellis Hart] · ss Amazing Mar ’57 63 · Worlds of Terror · Misc. Material · si 67 · Lonelyache · ss Knight Jul ’64 83 · Punky & the Yale Man · nv Knight Jan ’66 107 · A Prayer for No One’s Enemy · nv Cad Mar ’66 125 · Worlds of Love · Misc. Material · si 129 · In Lonely Lands · ss Fantastic Universe Jan ’59 135 · The Time of the Eye · ss The Saint Detective Magazine May ’59 143 · Grail · nv Twilight Zone Apr ’81 163 · That New Old-Time Religion · Misc. Material · si 167 · I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream · ss If Mar ’67 181 · Corpse · ss F&SF Jan ’72 189 · The Whimper of Whipped Dogs · ss Bad Moon Rising, ed. Thomas M. Disch, Harper & Row, 1973 205 · A Stab of Merriment · Misc. Material · si 209 · The Voice in the Garden · vi Lighthouse Jun ’67 211 · Erotophobia · ss Penthouse Aug ’71 217 · Mom · nv Silver Foxes Aug ’76 229 · Ecowareness · ss Sideshow Sep ’74 231 · The Outpost Undiscovered By Tourists · ss F&SF Jan ’82 235 · Dept. of “What Was the Question?” Dept. · ms * 237 · From Competition 4: Story Leads from the Year’s Worst Fantasy and SF · ms F&SF Apr ’73 238 · From Competition 8: Near-Miss SF Titles · ms F&SF Sep ’74 239 · From Competition 23: Unwieldy SF Titles · ms F&SF Feb ’80 239 · From Competition 26: Imaginary Collaborations · ms F&SF Mar ’81 240 · From Competition 39: Complete the Following Sentence... · ms F&SF Mar ’86 241 · Trouble with Women · Misc. Material · si 245 · The Very Last Day of a Good Woman [“The Last Day”] · ss Rogue Nov ’58 253 · Valerie: A True Memoir · ar Los Angeles Free Press Nov 3-24 ’72 267 · The Other Eye of Polyphemus · ss Cosmos SF&F Magazine Nov ’77 275 · All the Birds Come Home to Roost · ss Playboy Mar ’79 287 · To the Mattresses with Mean Demons · Misc. Material · si 293 · The Tombs: An Excerpt from Memos from Purgatory · ar Memos from Purgatory, Harlan Ellison, Regency, 1961 333 · “Our Little Miss” · ar Los Angeles Free Press, 1970 341 · A Love Song for Jerry Falwell · ar, 1984 347 · Telltale Tics and Tremors · ar Unearth Fll ’77 357 · True Love: Groping for the Holy Grail [“How I Survived the Great Videotape Matchmaker”] · ar Los Angeles Magazine, 1978 377 · Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54’ N, Longitude 77° 00’ 13" W · nv F&SF Oct ’74 407 · Rococo Technology · Misc. Material · si 413 · The Sky Is Burning · ss If Aug ’58 421 · The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World · nv Dangerous Visions, ed. Harlan Ellison, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967 439 · Along the Scenic Route [“Dogfight on 101”] · ss Adam Aug ’69; Amazing Sep ’69 449 · The Song the Zombie Sang · Harlan Ellison & Robert Silverberg · ss Cosmopolitan Dec ’70 461 · Knox · ss Crawdaddy Mar ’74 475 · Heart’s Blood · Misc. Material · si 481 · From Alabamy, with Hate [“March to Montgomery”] · ar Knight Sep ’65 493 · My Father · ar Los Angeles Free Press, 1972 499 · My Mother · ar Saint Louis Literary Supplement, 1976 507 · Tired Old Man · ss Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jan ’76 517 · Gopher in the Gilly · ss Stalking the Nightmare, Phantasia, 1982 523 · Strange Wine · ss Amazing Jun ’76 531 · Nights & Days in Good Old Hollyweird · Misc. Material · si 537 · The Resurgence of Miss Ankle-Strap Wedgie · na Love Ain’t Nothing But Sex Misspelled, Trident, 1968 607 · Flintlock: An Unproduced Teleplay (1972) · pl * 687 · The Man on the Mushroom · in Ellison Wonderland, Paperback Library, 1974 691 · Somehow, I Don’t Think We’re in Kansas, Toto · ar Genesis Jun ’74; revised 707 · Face-Down in Gloria Swanson’s Swimming Pool · ar Los Angeles Magazine, 1978 711 · Petards & Hangings · Misc. Material · si 715 · Soldier [“Soldier from Tomorrow”] · nv Fantastic Universe Oct ’57 735 · The Night of Delicate Terrors · ss The Paper: A Chicago Weekly Apr 8 ’61 743 · Shattered Like a Glass Goblin · ss Orbit 4, ed. Damon Knight, G.P. Putnam’s, 1968 751 · At the Mouse Circus · ss New Dimensions I, ed. Robert Silverberg, Doubleday, 1971 759 · Shadows from the Past · Misc. Material · si 763 · Free with This Box! · ss The Saint Detective Magazine Mar ’58 771 · Final Shtick · ss Rogue Aug ’60 781 · One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty · ss Orbit 8, ed. Damon Knight, G.P. Putnam’s, 1970 795 · Jeffty Is Five · ss F&SF Jul ’77 813 · Contracts on the Soul · Misc. Material · si 817 · Daniel White for the Greater Good · ss Rogue Mar ’61 827 · Neither Your Jenny Nor Mine · ss Knight Apr ’64 861 · Alive and Well and on a Friendless Voyage · ss F&SF Jul ’77 871 · The Classics · Misc. Material · si 877 · “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman · ss Galaxy Dec ’65 887 · Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes · nv Knight May ’67 905 · A Boy and His Dog [Vic & Blood] · nv New Worlds Apr ’69; revised 939 · The Deathbird · nv F&SF Mar ’73 965 · Dark Liberation · Misc. Material · si 971 · The Thick Red Moment · ar The Los Angeles Weekly News, 1981 989 · The Man Who Was Heavily into Revenge · ss Analog Aug ’78 1003 · Driving in the Spikes · ar Los Angeles Magazine, 1983 1015 · Afterword · aw

    For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer--a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away.The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would be to a native of the 1500s. It is a hard-won utopia built on technologically-generated abundance, and also on complex and mandatory systems of labeling all public writing and speech. What seem to us normal gender distinctions are now distinctly taboo in most social situations. And most of the world's population is affiliated with globe-girdling clans of the like-minded, whose endless economic and cultural competition is carefully managed by central planners of inestimable subtlety. To us it seems like a mad combination of heaven and hell. To them, it seems like normal life.And in this world, Mycroft and Carlyle have stumbled on the wild card that may destablize the system: the boy Bridger, who can effortlessly make his wishes come true. Who can, it would seem, bring inanimate objects to life...

    We cured cancer. We cured the common cold. We died.This is the story of how we rose.When will you rise?Countdown is a novella set in the world of Feed. Word count: ~19,500

    Kite-class cargo ships like Menkalinan get burned-out veterans, techs who’ve been warned off-planet, medics who weren’t much good on the ground. The Gliese-D run isn’t quite the end of the line, but it’s getting there. No cachet, no rewards, no future; their trading posts get Kites full of cargo that the crew never ask questions about, because if it’s headed for Gliese-D, it’s probably something nobody wanted.A year into the Deep, Amadis Reyes wakes up. Menkalinan is sounding the alarm; something’s wrong. The rest of the crew are dead.That’s not even what’s wrong.

    He opens the door to find his neighbor shot through the head. But is it suicide - or murder? And is it possible that a computer is to blame?

    An alternate history short story looking at decisions and consequences, and what it takes to pull the trigger.Winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.

    New issues are released the first Tuesday of every month.This month we celebrate Indigenous American fantasists with guest editor Amy H. Sturgis.

    This makes life difficult for Matt as he maneuvers the marriage question with his lover and how best to "come out" to his traditional Chinese parents.This story is also included in Some of the Best From Tor.com, 2013 Edition: A Tor.Com Original

    Read by Tom Teti.