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Vandana Singh is an alien currently living in the Boston area, where she writes science fiction and teaches physics at a small state university. She was born and raised in New Delhi, India, and acquired an early appreciation for science and the arts, later coming to the US for a Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics. Her stories have been published in numerous venues, including Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and anthologies such as Solaris Rising 2 and The Other Half of the Sky. She is a winner of the Carl Brandon Parallax Award and many of her stories have been reprinted in Year’s Best anthologies.
Benjanun Sriduangkaew spends her free time on words, amateur photography, and the pursuit of unusual makeup. She has a love for cities, airports, and bees. Her fiction can be found in GigaNotoSaurus, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld and various anthologies.
Lavie Tidhar is the World Fantasy Award-winning author of Osama, of The Bookman Histories trilogy and many other works. He won the British Fantasy Award for Best Novella for Gorel & The Pot-Bellied God and a BSFA Award for his non-fiction, and was nominated variously for a Campbell, Sturgeon and Sidewise awards. He grew up on a kibbutz in Israel and in South Africa, but currently resides in London. His latest novels are Martian Sands and The Violent Century and, forthcoming, his comics debut, Adler.
Ian Whates currently has two published novel series, the Noise books (space opera) from Solaris, and the City of 100 Rows trilogy (urban fantasy with steampunk overtones and SF underpinning) via Angry Robot. He has also seen some 50 of his short stories appear in a variety of venues, two of which have been shortlisted for BSFA awards. His work has received honourable mentions in Gardner Dozois’ Years Best anthologies and appeared in Tor books’ Futures from Nature, which gathers the best stories published in the science journal Nature. Growing Pains, his second collection, appeared via PS Publishing in March 2013. Ian served a term as Overseas Regional Director for SFWA (the Science Fiction Writers of America) and, in June 2013, stepped down as chairman of the BSFA (British Science Fiction Association) – a position he had held since 2008. When not writing, Ian works as an editor, having edited titles in the long running The Mammoth Book of... series for Constable and Robinson and the on-going Solaris Rising series for Solaris. In his spare time he runs multiple award-wining publisher NewCon Press, which he founded by accident in 2006.
Rio Youers is the British Fantasy Award–nominated author of End Times and Old Man Scratch.His short fiction has been published by, among others, St. Martin’s Griffin, HarperCollins, and Cemetery Dance. His latest novel, Westlake Soul, was recently nominated for Canada’s prestigious Sunburst Award, and has been optioned for movie by Hollywood producer, Stephen Susco. Rio lives in southwestern Ontario with his wife, Emily, and their daughter, Lily Maye.
ALSO FROM
SOLARIS
ROLL THE BONES!
In a world ruled by chance, one rash decision could bring down the house, one roll of the dice could bring untold wealth, or the end of everything. The players have gathered around the table, each to tell their story - often dark, always compelling. Within you will find tales of the players and the played, lives governed by games deadly, weird, or downright bizarre.
Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Oliver (The End of the Line, House of Fear, Magic, End of the Road) brings together new stories featuring a diverse collection of voices. Here you will find incredible new fiction by Chuck Wendig, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Lavie Tidhar, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Paul Kearney, Libby McGugan, Yoon Ha Lee, Gary Northfield, Melanie Tem, Hillary Monahan, Tade Thompson, Rebecca Levene, Ivo Stourton, Gary McMahon, Robert Shearman, Nik Vincent, Helen Marshall, and Pat Cadigan.
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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 Journeys, 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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FEARSOME MAGICS
From sorcerous bridges that link worlds to the simple traditions of country folk; from the mysterious natures of twins to the dangerous powers of obligation and contract. Laden with perils for both the adventurous and the unsuspecting, magic is ultimately a contradiction: endlessly powerful but never without consequence, and rigidly defined by rules of its own making.
Award-winning Jonathan Strahan brings together some of the most exciting and popular writers working in fantasy today to dig into that contradiction, and present you with the strange, the daunting, the mathematical, the unpredictable, the deceptive and above all the fearsome world of magic.
Includes stories by Garth Nix, K J Parker, Tony Ballantyne, James Bradley, Isobelle Carmody, Frances Hardinge, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Ellen Klages, Justina Robson, Christopher Rowe, Robert Shearman, Karin Tidbeck, Genevieve Valentine and Kaaron Warren.
“A best-in-class collection... here’s hoping there are many more to come.”
Tor.com on Fearsome Journeys
“Go ahead and pencil in Fearsome Journeys as this year’s winner for best anthology.”
Beauty in Ruins on Fearsome Journeys
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Oliver Gooch comes across a tooth, in a velvet box, with a handwritten note from 1888 to say it’s a tooth from the boy Edgar Allan Poe. He displays it in his new bookshop, and names the store Poe’s Tooth Books.
Oliver took the money from his small daughter Chloe’s accident insurance and bought a converted church to live in with his altered child and wife. Rosie hopes Chloe will came back to herself but Oliver is secretly relieved to have this new easy-to-manage child, and holds at bay the guilt that the accident was a result of his negligence. On a freezing night he and Chloe come across the crow, a raggedy skeletal wretch of a bird, and it refuses to leave. It infiltrates their lives, it alters Oliver’s relationship with Rosie, it changes Chloe. It’s a dangerous presence in the firelit, shadowy old vestry, in Poe’s Tooth Books.
Inexorably the family, the tooth, the crow, the church and their story will draw to a terrifying climax.
‘A first class terror story with a relentless focus that would have made Edgar Allan Poe proud’
New York Times on The Cormorant
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