In this knockout anthology, today's most important writers of speculative fiction cruise the abnormal elements of society and find a new wave of underground disorder, poignant horror, dirty kisses, and necessary anarchy. Including never-before published
HOW MUCH TERROR CAN YOU TAKE?Richard Laymon...Lisa W. Cantrell...Stephen Gresham...Ray Garton...Gary Brandner...Graham Masterton...Chet Williamson...Karl Edward Wagner...Rex Miller...Nancy A. Collins and a cast of masters of the ghastly arts are here to e
Terror never felt this sexy! Graham Masterton, Bentley Little, Rex Miller, Elizabeth Massie, David Schow, Matthew Costello, John Shirley, Thomas Tessier, Grant Morrison and other established masters, as well as rising stars in the galaxy of horror writers
Every aspect of the science fiction classic The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is analyzed in a variety of quirky ways in this collection of essays. Topics include the logistics of the restaurant at the end of the universe, how the Internet is creatin
With stories by Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, Dan Simmons, David J. Schow, Nancy Collins, Neil Gaiman, and others.CONTENTSIntroduction by Jessica HorstingRainy Season by Stephen KingSay Hello, Mister Quigley by J. Michael StraczynskiSinus Fiction by Gil L
Felix Rayman spends the day teaching indifferent students, pondering his theories on infinity, and daydreaming. When his dreams finally separate him from his physical body, Felix plunges headfirst into a multidimensional universe beyond the limits of spac
The term “cyberpunk” entered the literary landscape in 1984 to describe William Gibson’s pathbreaking novel Neuromancer. Cyberpunks are now among the shock troops of postmodernism, Larry McCaffery argues in Storming the Reality Studio, marshalling t
Who better than Batman to protect the dangerous city of Gotham, where even the cops are crooks? But the latest imminent terror might be too much for the burgeoning Caped Crusader, who is still carving out a place for himself in the minds of Gotham’s cri
Book one of John Shirley's pre-holocaust series, A Song Called Like many works defining the wild cyberpunk fringe in the 1980s, this depiction of a near-future dystopia, here revised and updated since its 1985 debut, seems almost acceptably mainstream tod
"John Shirley's prophet-in-the-cyberwilderness voice deserves high billing among the best." -- Roger Zelazny This classic of cyberpunk literature brings John Shirley's "A Song Called Youth" trilogy to a thrilling conclusion. After the fundamentalists of t
