Jamal Mahjoub once studied Geology. He has since worked as translator, librarian, chef and freelance journalist. He has published fiction and non-fiction. His work has been widely translated and awarded various prizes. As Parker Bilal, he writes the Makana crime fiction series, the latest of which is Dark Water (2017). He currently lives in Amsterdam.
Usman T. Malik is a Pakistani writer of strange stories. His work has won a Bram Stoker and a British Fantasy Award and is a finalist for the Nebula and the World Fantasy. He resides in two worlds, but you can find on Twitter @usmantm.
Kuzhali Manickavel’s collections Things We Found During the Autopsy, Insects Are Just like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings and e-chapbook Eating Sugar, Telling Lies are available from Blaft Publications, Chennai. Her work has also appeared in Granta, Agni, Subtropics, Michigan Quarterly Review and DIAGRAM.
Amal El-Mohtar is an author, editor and critic. She has received the Locus and Parsec Awards, been a finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy awards, and won the Rhysling Award for poetry three times. Her fiction has most recently appeared in anthologies such as The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales (Saga Press), and magazines such as Uncanny, Strange Horizons, and Lightspeed. She regularly contributes criticism to NPR Books, edits an online poetry quarterly called Goblin Fruit, and lives in Ottawa with her partner and two cats.
Claire North is a pseudonym for Kate Griffin, who is actually Catherine Webb. All of these people are a London-based fantasy and science-fiction writer with a fondness for urban wonders and Thai food, who also works as a theatre lighting designer. Recent books include Touch, The Sudden Appearance of Hope and The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, and The End of the Day is released early 2017.
Nnedi Okorafor is a Nigerian American writer of speculative fiction and an associate professor at the University at Buffalo, New York. Her works include Who Fears Death, the Binti novella series, The Book of Phoenix, the Akata Witch series and Lagoon. She is the winner of a Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award and her debut novel Zahrah the Windseeker won the prestigious Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature. Learn more about Nnedi at nnedi.com.
K.J. Parker was born in London in 1961. Having worked as an auction-house porter, coin-dealer and lawyer, he started writing full-time twenty years ago and has fretted incessantly about money ever since. He writes at night and spends the day tending a very small smallholding in the west of England (100% organic and 100% carbon neutral, but only because he can’t afford any proper gear). He won the World Fantasy Award for novellas in 2013 and 2014, and has been nominated twice since. He averages 92.7 in the SSBSA winter league. Parker also writes under the name Tom Holt, but has long since lost track of which of the two he really is.
Sami Shah is a writer and comedian from Pakistan, now living in Australia. His memoir I, Migrant has been nominated for multiple literary awards, and although it didn’t win any, that still counts for something. Fire Boy, his first novel about a half-djinn boy growing up in Karachi, is steeped in Islamic mythology and real-world politics. Saladin Ahmed described it as, ‘Bold, compelling fantasy’, and he knows of what he speaks.
Kamila Shamsie is the author of six novels, including Burnt Shadows, which has been translated into more than 20 languages and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, and A God in Every Stone which was shortlisted for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction. Three of her other novels (In the City by the Sea, Kartography, Broken Verses) have received awards from the Pakistan Academy of Letters. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and one of Granta’s ‘Best of Young British Novelists’, she grew up in Karachi, and now lives in London.
James Smythe is the award winning author of The Machine, No Harm Can Come To A Good Man, the Anomaly Quartet and the Australia Trilogy, amongst others. He lives in London and teaches Creative Writing at Roehampton University.
E.J. Swift is the author of The Osiris Project trilogy, a speculative fiction series set in a world radically altered by climate change, comprising Osiris, Cataveiro and Tamaruq. Her short fiction has appeared in anthologies including The Best British Fantasy and the digital book Strata. Swift was shortlisted for a 2013 BSFA Award in the Short Fiction category for her story “Saga’s Children” (The Lowest Heaven) and was longlisted for the 2015 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award for “The Spiders of Stockholm” (Irregularity).
Helene Wecker’s novel The Golem and the Jinni was published by HarperCollins in 2013, and won the Mythopoeic Award, the Ribalow Prize, and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Its sequel, The Iron Season, will appear in 2018. Her short fiction has appeared in the Catamaran Literary Reader and Joyland Magazine. Helene grew up in suburban Chicago, and received her B.A. in English from Carleton College in Minnesota and her MFA from Columbia University in New York. After many years spent bouncing around between both coasts and the Midwest, she’s finally settled in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lives with her husband and kids.
J.Y. Yang is a lapsed scientist, former practicing journalist and master hermit destroying SFF one queer story at a time. She lives in Singapore and received her MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia in Norwich. Her Tensorate novellas, The Red Threads of Fortune and The Black Tides of Heaven, come out from Tor.com Publishing in 2017.
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Mahvesh Murad is an editor, critic and voice artist from Karachi, Pakistan. She is the editor of the award-winning Apex Book of World SF 4, host of the interview podcast Midnight in Karachi for Tor.com and the voice of many international radio and TV commercials, as well as multiple short stories.
Jared Shurin has edited or co-edited 11 anthologies in partnership with Tate Britain, the Egypt Exploration Society, the Royal Observatory and others. He has been a finalist for the British Science Fiction and Hugo Awards, and twice won the British Fantasy Award. Jared is the editor of the award-winning geek culture website Pornokitsch.
ON THE ROAD TO NOWHERE
Each step leads you closer to your destination, but who, or what, can you expect to meet along the way?
Here are stories of misfits, spectral hitch-hikers, nightmare travel tales and the rogues, freaks and monsters to be found on the road. The critically acclaimed editor of Magic, The End of The Line and House of Fear has brought together the contemporary masters and mistresses of the weird from around the globe in an anthology of travel tales like no other. Strap on your seatbelt, or shoulder your backpack, and wait for that next ride... into darkness.
An incredible anthology of original short stories from an exciting list of writers including the best-selling Philip Reeve, the World Fantasy Award-winning Lavie Tidhar and the incredible talents of S.L. Grey, Ian Whates, Jay Caselberg, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Zen Cho, Sophia McDougall, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Anil Menon, Rio Youers, Vandana Singh, Paul Meloy, Adam Nevill and Helen Marshall.
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They gather in darkness, sharing ancient and arcane knowledge as they manipulate the very matter of reality itself. Spells and conjuration; legerdemain and prestidigitation – these are the mistresses and masters of the esoteric arts.
From the otherworldly visions of Conan Doyle’s father in Audrey Niffenegger’s ‘The Wrong Fairy’ to the diabolical political machinations of Dan Abnett’s ‘Party Tricks’, here you will find a spell for every occasion.
Jonathan Oliver, critically acclaimed editor of The End of The Line and House of Fear, has brought together fourteen extraordinary writers for this collection of magical tales. Within you will find works by Audrey Niffenegger, Sarah Lotz, Will Hill, Steve Rasnic and Melanie Tem, Liz Williams, Dan Abnett, Thana Niveau, Alison Littlewood, Christopher Fowler, Storm Constantine, Lou Morgan, Sophia McDougall, Gail Z. Martin, Gemma Files and Robert Shearman.
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How do you encompass all the worlds of the imagination? Within fantasy’s scope lies every possible impossibility, from dragons to spirits, from magic to gods, and from the unliving to the undying.
In Fearsome Jo
urneys, master anthologist Jonathan Strahan sets out on a quest to find the very limits of the unlimited, collecting twelve brand new stories by some of the most popular and exciting names in epic fantasy from around the world.
With original fiction from Scott Lynch, Saladin Ahmed, Trudi Canavan, K J Parker, Kate Elliott, Jeffrey Ford, Robert V S Redick, Ellen Klages, Glen Cook, Elizabeth Bear, Ellen Kushner, Ysabeau S. Wilce and Daniel Abraham, Fearsome Journeys explores the whole range of the fantastic.
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