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WFA winning novelette. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1973. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Horror Stories No. 3 (1973) edited by Richard Davis, First World Fantasy Awards (1977), edited by Gahan Wilson, Vampires (1987), edited by Alan Ryan, and A Taste for Blood (1992), edited by Martin H. Greenberg. It is included in the collection Cold Hand in Mine (1975).

This novelette originally appeared in the anthology Eclipse Four: New Science Fiction and Fantasy (2011), edited by Jonathan Strahan, and was reprinted in Clarkesworld, August 2015. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection (2012), edited by Gardner Dozois.

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This short story originally appeared in the collection Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories (2018). It can also be found in the anthology The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen (2019), edited by Jonathan Strahan.

A stunning new collection of short fictions from the World Fantasy Award- and Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon.

From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Kelly Barnhill comes a stunning first collection of acclaimed short fictions, teeming with uncanny characters whose stories unfold in worlds at once strikingly human and eerily original.

When Mrs. Sorensen's husband dies, she rekindles a long-dormant love with an unsuitable mate in "Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch." In "Open the Door and the Light Pours Through," a young man wrestles with grief and his sexuality in an exchange of letters with his faraway beloved. "Dreadful Young Ladies" demonstrates the strength and power--known and unknown--of the imagination. "The Insect and the Astronomer" upends expectations about good and bad, knowledge and ignorance, love and longing. The World Fantasy Award-winning novella The Unlicensed Magician introduces the secret, magical life of an invisible girl once left for dead.

By an author hailed as "a fantasist on the order of Neil Gaiman" (Minneapolis Star Tribune), the stories in Dreadful Young Ladies feature bold, reality-bending fantasy underscored by rich universal themes of love, death, jealousy, and hope.

Table of Contents

• Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch - (2014) - short story
• Open the Door and the Light Pours Through - (2009) - novelette
• The Dead Boy's Last Poem - (2010) - short story
• Dreadful Young Ladies - short story
• The Taxidermist's Other Wife - (2010) - short story
• Elegy to Gabrielle—Patron Saint of Healers, Whores & Righteous Thieves - short story
• Notes on the Untimely Death of Ronia Drake - (2008) - short story
• The Insect and the Astronomer: A Love Story - (2013) - short story
• The Unlicensed Magician - (2015) - novella

This short story originally appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, #65 February 2012. It can also be found in the anthology Clarkesworld: Year Six (2014).

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A group of Koreans are making their way across a disease-ravaged landscape - but to what end? To the Warm Horizon shows how in a post-apocalyptic world, humans will still seek purpose, kinship, and even intimacy. Focusing on two young women, Jina and Dori, who find love against all odds, Choi Jin-young creates a dystopia where people are trying to find direction after having their worlds turned upside down.

Lucidly translated from the Korean by Soje, this thoughtful yet gripping novel takes the reader on a journey through how people adjust, or fail to adjust, to catastrophe.

WFA nominated short story. It originally appeared in Subterranean Online, Summer 2011. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Six (2012), edited by Jonathan Strahan, and The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2012, edited by Rich Horton.

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Elsa Park is a particle physicist at the top of her game, stationed at a neutrino observatory in the Antarctic, confident she's put enough distance between her ambitions and the family ghosts she's run from all her life. But it isn't long before her childhood imaginary friend--an achingly familiar, spectral woman in the snow--comes to claim her at last.

Years ago, Elsa's now-catatonic mother had warned her that the women of their line were doomed to repeat the narrative lives of their ancestors from Korean myth and legend. But beyond these ghosts, Elsa also faces a more earthly fate: the mental illness and generational trauma that run in her immigrant family, a sickness no less ravenous than the ancestral curse hunting her.

When her mother breaks her decade-long silence and tragedy strikes, Elsa must return to her childhood home in California. There, among family wrestling with their own demons, she unravels the secrets hidden in the handwritten pages of her mother's dark stories: of women's desire and fury; of magic suppressed, stolen, or punished; of the hunger for vengeance.

Rina is a defector from a country that might be North Korea, traversing an "empty and futile" landscape. Along the way, she is forced to work at a chemical plant, murders a few people, becomes a prostitute, runs a lucrative bar, and finds a solace in a motley family of wanderers all as disenfranchised as she. Brutal and unflinching, with elements of the mythic and grotesque interspersed with hard-edged realism, Rina is a pioneering work of Korean postmodernism.

This story, translated by Jihyun Park and Gord Sellar, originally appeard in Clarkesworld #157 in October 2019.

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In this mind-expanding work of speculative fiction, available in English for the first time, one of South Korea's most treasured writers explores the driving forces of humanity - love, hope, creation, destruction, and the very meaning of existence - in two pairs of thematically interconnected stories.

Two worlds, four stories, infinite possibilities

In "I'm Waiting for You" and "On My Way," an engaged couple coordinate their separate missions to distant corners of the galaxy to ensure - through relativity - they can arrive back on Earth simultaneously to make it down the aisle. But small incidents wreak havoc on space and time, driving their wedding date further away. As centuries on Earth pass and the land and climate change, one thing is constant: the desire of the lovers to be together. In two separate yet linked stories, Kim Bo-Young cleverly demonstrate the idea love that is timeless and hope springs eternal, despite seemingly insurmountable challenges and the deepest despair.

In "The Prophet of Corruption" and "That One Life," humanity is viewed through the eyes of its creators: godlike beings for which everything on Earth - from the richest woman to a speck of dirt - is an extension of their will. When one of the creations questions the righteousness of this arrangement, it is deemed a perversion - a disease - that must be excised and cured. Yet the Prophet Naban, whose "child" is rebelling, isn't sure the rebellion is bad. What if that which is considered criminal is instead the natural order - and those who condemn it corrupt? Exploring the dichotomy between the philosophical and the corporeal, Kim ponders the fate of free-will, as she considers the most basic of questions: who am I?

Straddling science fiction, fantasy and myth, the writings of award-winning author Bo-Young Kim have garnered a cult following in South Korea, where she is widely acknowledged as a pioneer and inspiration. On the Origin of Species makes available for the first time in English some of Kim's most acclaimed stories, as well as an essay on science fiction. Her strikingly original, thought-provoking work teems with human and non-human beings, all of whom are striving to survive through evolution, whether biologically, technologically or socially. Kim's literature of ideas offers some of the most rigorous and surprisingly poignant reflections on posthuman existence being written today.

Readymade Bodhisattva: The Kaya Anthology of South Korean Science Fiction presents the first book-length English-language translation of science and speculative fiction from South Korea, bringing together 13 classic and contemporary stories from the 1960s through the 2010s. From the reimagining of an Asimovian robot inside the walls of a Buddhist temple and a postapocalyptic showdown between South and North Korean refugees on a faraway planet to a fictional recollection of a disabled woman's struggle to join an international space mission, these stories showcase the thematic and stylistic versatility of South Korean science-fiction writers in its wide array. At once conversant with the global science-fiction tradition and thick with local historical specificities, their works resonate with other popular cultural products of South Korea?from K-pop and K-drama to videogames, which owe part of their appeal to their pulsating technocultural edge and their ability to play off familiar tropes in unexpected ways.

Coming from a country renowned for its hi-tech industry and ultraspeed broadband yet mired in the unfinished Cold War, South Korean science fiction offers us fresh perspectives on global technoindustrial modernity and its human consequences. The book also features a critical introduction, an essay on SF fandom in South Korea, and contextualizing information and annotations for each story.

Authors include Geo-il Bok, In-Hun Choi, Djuna, Soyeon Jeong, Bo-Young Kim, Changgyu Kim, Jung-hyuk Kim, Young-ha Kim, Taewoon Lim, Yunseong Mun, Seonghwan Park, Min-gyu Pak, I-Hyeong Yun, Seonghwan Park, Mingyu Pak and I-Hyeong Yun.

A brilliantly outrageous riff on Mary Shelley's classic story of Frankenstein. After inheriting his grandfather's castle in Transylvania, young Dr. Frankenstein follows in his ancestor's freaky footsteps as he sets out to reanimate a dead body.

Novelization of the movie

Distinguished for his talents as a rat killer, the nameless protagonist of Hye-young Pyun's City of Ash and Red is sent by the extermination company he works for on an extended assignment in C, a country descending into chaos and paranoia, swept by a contagious disease, and flooded with trash. No sooner does he disembark than he is whisked away by quarantine officials and detained overnight. Isolated and forgotten, he realizes that he is stranded with no means of contacting the outside world. Still worse, when he finally manages to reach an old friend, he is told that his ex-wife's body was found in his apartment and he is the prime suspect. Barely managing to escape arrest, he must struggle to survive in the streets of this foreign city gripped with fear of contamination and reestablish contact with his company and friends in order to clear his reputation.

But as the man's former life slips further and further from his grasp, and he looks back on his time with his wife, it becomes clear that he may not quite be who he seems.

Oghi has woken from a coma after causing a devastating car accident that took his wife's life and left him paralyzed and badly disfigured. His caretaker is his mother-in-law, a widow grieving the loss of her only child. Oghi is neglected and left alone in his bed. His world shrinks to the room he lies in and his memories of his troubled relationship with his wife, a sensitive, intelligent woman who found all of her life goals thwarted except for one: cultivating the garden in front of their house.

But soon Oghi notices his mother-in-law in the abandoned garden, uprooting what his wife had worked so hard to plant and obsessively digging larger and larger holes. When asked, she answers only that she is finishing what her daughter started.

translated by Sora Kim-Russell

Short story originally published in Subterranean Magazine, Spring 2010. It can also be found in the anthologies The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five (2011), edited by Jonathan Strahan and The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois. It is also included inthe collection Hannu Rajaniemi: Collected Fiction (2015).

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Lusi is a perfectly normal 12-year-old wizard except for the part where she can talk to ghosts. But everyone knows ghosts aren't real, so at best they think Lusi is lying and at worst that she's lost her mind. Her big sister Marsi is the only one who believes her, but Marsi is running away to escape Uncle's terrible plan to make her marry his creepy nephew. Lusi can't imagine being separated from her sister and leaves behind the rest of their family to flee with Marsi via merchant caravan to the Wizards Guild for help. All their plans are dashed to pieces when Uncle catches up to them in a matter of days.

Uncle's connections to powerful wizards make him far more dangerous than Lusi initially realized. But Lusi isn't crazy or a freak for talking to ghosts: she's a necromancer! Marsi is worried-they've always been told that necromancers are monsters. Lusi needs to learn more to set both their minds at ease. She must enlist the help of a ghost girl, a dragon, and a strange wizard from the other side of the world if she wants to control her unusual talents and keep her family safe.

Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in the anthology Speculations (1982), edited by Isaac Asimov and Alice Laurance. It is included in the collection Extra(ordinary) People (1984).

This novelette originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2008. It can also be found in the antholgy The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection (2009), edited by Gardner Dozois.

In her vivid and sly, gentle and wise long anticipated first collection, Delia Sherman takes seemingly insignificant moments in the lives of artists or sailors—the light out a window, the two strokes it takes to turn a small boat—and finds the ghosts haunting them, the magic surrounding them. Here are the lives that make up larger histories, here are tricksters and gardeners, faeries and musicians, all glittering and sparkling, finding beauty and hope and always unexpected, a touch of wild magic.

Table of Contents:

• "Young Woman in a Garden"
• "The Ghost of Cwmlech Manor"
• "The Red Piano"
• "La Fée Verte"
• "Walpurgis Afternoon"
• "The Parwat Ruby"
• "The Fairy Cony-Catcher"
• "Sacred Harp"
• "The Printer's Daughter"
• "Nanny Peters and the Feathery Bride"
• "Miss Carstairs and the Merman"
• "The Maid on the Shore"
• "The Fiddler of Bayou Teche"
• "Land's End"

This story can be found in the collection Young Woman in a Garden (2014) and is anthologized in Flying Cups and Saucers: Gender Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy (1998) and Xanadu 2 (1994).

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A vampire who calls himself Maldureve comes out of the shadowy borderlands of existence in response to the unvoiced desires of philosophy student Anne Charet. By choosing to see him she gives him substance; after feeding him, she too begins to hunger for blood. Maldureve becomes Anne's lover and mentor but he cannot protect her against his own enemies, mysterious creatures of light who call themselves owls because they believe that theirs is the highest wisdom of all. Anne's boyfriend, psychologist Gil Molari, worries about her health and state of mind, although he knows nothing about his supernatural rival. His anxiety is magnified when he becomes convinced that one of the mind-altering viruses with which he works has escaped from the laboratory. Gil refuses to believe in Maldureve but his refusal to believe cannot save him from becoming the victim of a fierce hunger that he cannot satisfy, which drives him in the end to an unendurable extreme. Anne believes that her experiences are entirely real; Gil believes that his are the products of an infectious madness. Whichever of them is right, they are both in deadly danger, and so is everyone around them. Once they have started on their strange journey, there is no way back. But what can possibly lie ahead of them, when death itself no longer seems to be an end?

In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow women are known for their thriving flower farm--and the mysterious curse that has plagued their family line. The whole town remembers the madness that led to Susanna Farrow's disappearance, leaving June to be raised by her grandmother and haunted by rumors.

It's been a year since June started seeing and hearing things that weren't there. Faint wind chimes, a voice calling her name, and a mysterious door appearing out of nowhere--the signs of what June always knew was coming. But June is determined to end the curse once and for all, even if she must sacrifice finding love and having a family of her own.

After her grandmother's death, June discovers a series of cryptic clues regarding her mother'sdecades-old disappearance, except they only lead to more questions. But could the door she once assumed was a hallucination be the answer she's been searching for? The next time it appears, June realizes she can touch it and walk past the threshold. And when she does, she embarks on a journey that will not only change both the past and the future, but also uncover the lingering mysteries of her small town and entangle her heart in an epic star-crossed love.

This capacious anthology has selections from the authors you would expect to find, from others you may be less familiar with, and from writers you might not expect to show up in this company. The result is a treasure trove of unusual fiction, one of the most exciting anthologies to appear in the last decade. This is a poet's companion, a student's delight, great bedside reading: the kind of book you'd take to a desert island!

Table of Contents:

• The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
• The Porcelain Doll by Leo Tolstoy
• The Wardrobe by Thomas Mann
• A Tale of the Cavalry by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
• The Jolly Corner by Henry James
• "The Death of Chamberlain Brigge" (excerpt from The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge) by Rainer Maria Rilke
• "The Hand" (excerpt from The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge) by Rainer Marie Rilke
• Odour of Chrysanthemums by D. H. Lawrence
• The Blind Man by D. H. Lawrence
• A Country Doctor by Franz Kafka
• The Bucket Rider by Franz Kafka
• The Sin of Jesus by Isaac Babel
• Lyompa by Yuri Olesha
• excerpt from The Egyptian Stamp by Osip Emilievich Mandelstam
• "The Great Frost" (excerpt from Orlando) by Virginia Woolf
• The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
• The Visit to the Museum by Vladimir Nabokov
• New Islands by María Luisa Bombal
• excerpt from In the Land of Magic by Henri Michaux
• The Old People by William Faulkner
• Moon Lake by Eudora Welty
• The Piano by Aníbal Monteiro Machado
• The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges
• The South by Jorge Luis Borges
• My Life with the Wave by Octavio Paz
• The Enormous Radio by John Cheever
• The Guest by Vjekoslav Kaleb
• Gogol's Wife by Tommaso Landolfi
• Major Aranda's Hand by Alfonso Reyes
• Axolotl by Julio Cortázar
• The Night Face Up by Julio Cortázar
• Journey to the Seed by Alejo Carpentier
• The Smallest Woman in the World by Clarice Lispector
• Aura by Carlos Fuentes
• In the Village by Elizabeth Bishop
• The Distance of the Moon by Italo Calvino
• excerpt from by Italo Calvino
• A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel García Márquez
• Blacamán the Good, Vendor of Miracles by Gabriel García Márquez
• Cloud Maker by Robert Escarpit
• Views of My Father Weeping by Donald Barthelme
• "The Angels" (excerpt from The Book of Laughter and Forgetting) by Milan Kundera

Jackson Sweeney is stewing in his tiny hometown, feeling stuck. He spends his days working at Al's Takeaway and his nights at the local dive pub, scouting for a guy he hasn't pashed yet. His childhood friend Marnie returns to Ginsborough on her family's annual visit, but she's reeling from a break-up and is determined to lie low. After all, nothing happens in this part of the world.

But then one night an odd-looking stranger shows up: he has long black hair, a leather trench coat and the improbable name of Bootstrap. What's more, he says he's here to see the night Jackson Sweeney becomes a hero.

Soon, Sweeney and Marnie find themselves swept up in an adventure they never could have dreamt of--with a fugitive on the run from the future.

Most of Earth's population has been destroyed by an alien virus. The survivors are suffering dark, disturbing visions and dreaming of building a great bridge to the aliens who afflicted them. But in this new half-mad society, co-operation is the hardest bridge of all to build.

Bi-polar has ruined Detective Jenny Ashton's life, but when she gets the chance to use the disease for good, she takes it, even though it leads her into a world that shouldn't exist, filled with monsters of the very worst kind.

Something lurks within the dark alleyways of Parkton, preying upon the Gutterbreed forever trapped there. A naturally evolved predator, one the town itself doesn't want - and one Ashton has already faced before.

Byron James knows these alleys and the Darkness they contain. He's spent a lifetime walking them. A lifetime trying to escape. His skin is marked with the passage of his trespass - but he's never encountered anything like this.

As Byron guides Ash deeper into insanity on the hunt for a killer, they discover far worse than Albert 'Skinner' Reynolds waiting for them in the dark. A growing nightmare festers in the shadows of Parkton, its madness eager for the real world.

Only Ash can stand in its way - but is this a battle she's ready or willing to fight?

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Fritz Leiber
• Boy Meets Dyevitza - (1962) - shortstory
• Star Mother - (1959) - shortstory
• L'Arc De Jeanne - (1966) - novelette
• On the River - (1965) - shortstory
• Neither Do They Reap - novelette
• To Fell a Tree - (1959) - novelette
• Wish Upon a Star - (1956) - novelette
• The Fugitives - shortstory
• The Pyramid Project - (1964) - novelette
• Thirty Days Had September - (1957) - shortstory
• Little Dog Gone - (1964) - novelette
• The Grown-Up People's Feet - (1955) - shortstory
• Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory - (1963) - novelette

In 1998, Jim Carpenter drove a time machine for a living, and his last job seemed simple enough: go back in time 74 million years and find out how a human skeleton got mixed up with dinosaur bones -- millions of years before that could possibly happen! But then Jim found two frightened, well-dressed kids hiding from a dinosaur. They claimed to be the prince and princess of Mars! Well, the boy claimed they were. The girl, it seemed, didn't speak to commoners...

Hugo Award nominated story. It originally appeared in Worlds of Tomorrow, February 1964. The story can also be found in the anthology The Best Science Fiction from Worlds of Tomorrow (1964), edited by Frederik Pohl. It is included in the collection A Glass of Stars (1968).

Table of Contents:

• Starfinder - interior artwork by uncredited
• 5 - The Man in the Moon - [Spacewhale] - (1969) - short story
• 26 - The Spacewhale Graveyard - [Spacewhale] - short story (variant of Starscape with Frieze of Dreams 1970)
• 48 - Areopagus - [Spacewhale] - short story (variant of Abyss of Tartarus 1971)
• 67 - Flotsam - [Spacewhale] - short story
• 78 - Beneath the Painted Ocean - [Spacewhale] - short story (variant of "The Mindanao Deep")
• 95 - Enter Ciely - [Spacewhale] - short story (variant of The Star Eel 1977)
• 113 - The Haute Bourgeoisie - [Spacewhale] - (1980) - novelette
• 137 - The Rose - [Spacewhale] - short story
• 148 - Spacewhale, Space-Time - [Spacewhale] - short story
• 165 - In the Crypt - [Spacewhale] - short story
• 186 - Jetsam - [Spacewhale] - short story
• 200 - The Construction Company - [Spacewhale] - short story

It was the last tree on a lush world where otherwise only grain grew. It was huge and it was dying. To rid the world of the dying giant would take more than just two men with chain saws. So the people of New America called on TreeCo, interstellar tree-removal service.

They sent him into the past to kidnap and bring back Sheherazade, the famous narrator of the Thousand and One Nights. But when he had grabbed a lovely lady out of the Sultan's harem and scooted away on his "magic carpet" time machine he discovered that he had muffed it -- for she was the Vizier's second daughter -- Sheherazade's kid sister!

He thought he could rectify the mistake before going back to the 21st Century -- but it was already to late. Because the ifrits were on his trail, Ali Baba had jumped aboard, and the enchanted Castle of Brass awaited his arrival with ghoulish glee.

It's a wonderful romp through time and legend with the kid sister pulling marvels out of her hair faster than you could pull the cork on a djinn bottle!

The worlds of Robert F. Young are unlike any others, and they are all stamped with the hallmark of excellence that is distinctively his own. Some of these worlds are strange and alien, distant in time and space; some are as familiar as your own back yard -- so close you can reach out and touch them. But be careful! They all contain unlooked-for surprises: what you expect to happen never does. These are tales of the unexpected.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The Worlds of Robert F. Young) - (1965) - essay by Avram Davidson
• The Girl Who Made Time Stop - (1961) - short story
• Added Inducement - (1957) - short story
• Hopsoil - (1961) - short story
• Flying Pan - (1956) - short story
• Emily and the Bards Sublime - [Poetic Androids] - (1956) - short story
• The Dandelion Girl - (1961) - short story
• The Stars Are Calling, Mr. Keats - (1959) - short story
• Goddess in Granite - (1957) - novelette
• Promised Planet - (1955) - short story
• Romance in a Twenty-First Century Used-Car Lot - (1960) - novelette
• The Courts of Jamshyd - (1957) - short story
• Production Problem - (1959) - short story
• Little Red Schoolhouse - (1956) - short story
• Written in the Stars - (1957) - short story
• A Drink of Darkness - (1962) - short story
• Your Ghost Will Walk... - [Poetic Androids] - (1957) - short story

Stay tonight. Stay forever.

When Audrey Casella arrives for an unplanned stay at the grand Hotel Ruby, she's grateful for the detour. Just months after their mother's death, Audrey and her brother, Daniel, are on their way to live with their grandmother, dumped on the doorstep of a DNA-matched stranger because their father is drowning in his grief.

Audrey and her family only plan to stay the night, but life in the Ruby can be intoxicating, extending their stay as it provides endless distractions--including handsome guest Elias Lange, who sends Audrey's pulse racing. However, the hotel proves to be as strange as it is beautiful. Nightly fancy affairs in the ballroom are invitation only, and Audrey seems to be the one guest who doesn't have an invite. Instead, she joins the hotel staff on the rooftop, catching whispers about the hotel's dark past.

The more Audrey learns about the new people she's met, the more her curiosity grows. She's torn in different directions--the pull of her past with its overwhelming loss, the promise of a future that holds little joy, and an in-between in a place that is so much more than it seems...

And the 13th chapter will only add to the mystery behind the 13th floor of Hotel Ruby... and ultimately, what it means for Audrey.

Welcome to the Ruby.

Theo and her brother, Marco, threw the biggest party of the year. And got caught. Their punishment? Leave Arizona to spend the summer with their grandmother in the rainy beachside town of Nightfall, Oregon--population 846 souls.

The small town is cute, when it's not raining, but their grandmother is superstitious and strangely antisocial. Upon their arrival she lays out the one house rule: always be home before dark. But Theo and Marco are determined to make the most of their summer, and on their first day they meet the enigmatic Minnow and her friends. Beautiful and charismatic, the girls have a magnetic pull that Theo and her brother can't resist.

But Minnow and her friends are far from what they appear.

And that one rule? Theo quickly realizes she should have listened to her grandmother. Because after dark, something emerges in Nightfall. And it doesn't plan to let her leave.

Table of Contents:

• 1 - Introduction (Stories by Mama Lansdale's Youngest Boy) - essay
• 5 - The White Rabbit - (1981) - short story
• 17 - The Dump - (1981) - short story
• 23 - God of the Razor - [The God of the Razor] - (1987) - short story
• 35 - Chompers - (1982) - short story
• 39 - The Fat Man - (1987) - short story
• 49 - Bob the Dinosaur Goes to Disneyland - (1989) - short story
• 53 - On a Dark October - (1984) - short story
• 59 - My Dead Dog, Bobby - (1987) - short story
• 61 - Bestsellers Guaranteed - (1985) - short story
• 77 - Dog, Cat, and Baby - (1987) - short story
• 79 - The Shaggy House - (1986) - short story
• 89 - By the Hair of the Head - (1983) - short story
• 103 - Not from Detroit - (1988) - short story
• 115 - Pentecostal Punk Rock - (1989) - short story
• 127 - The Job - non-genre - (1989) - short story

Contents:

• 1 - Diana's Foresters - essay by Lin Carter
• 8 - Rapunzel - (1858) - poem by William Morris
• 22 - The Sword of Welleran - (1908) - short story by Lord Dunsany
• 39 - In Valhalla (excerpt) - (1926) - short fiction by E. R. Eddison
• 45 - The Way of Ecben - [Biography of the Life of Manuel - 4.2] - (1929) - novelette by James Branch Cabell (variant of The Way of Ecben: A Comedietta Involving a Gentleman 1928)
• 86 - The Quest of Iranon - [Dream Cycle] - (1935) - short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 96 - The Cats of Ulthar - [Dream Cycle] - (1920) - short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 101 - The Maze of Maal Dweb - [Maal Dweb] - (1933) - short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• 121 - The Whelming of Oom - short story by Lin Carter
• 126 - Through the Dragon Glass - (1917) - short story by A. Merritt
• 144 - The Valley of the Worm - [James Allison] - (1934) - novelette by Robert E. Howard
• 170 - Heldendämmerung - (1964) - poem by L. Sprague de Camp
• 172 - Cursed Be the City - [Prince Raynor] - (1939) - novelette by Henry Kuttner
• 202 - Ka the Appalling - [Pusadian] - (1958) - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• 203 - Turjan of Miir - [Dying Earth] - (1950) - short story by Jack Vance
• 249 - Narnian Suite - (1953) - poem by C. S. Lewis
• 254 - Once Upon a Time - (1965) - poem by J. R. R. Tolkien
• 257 - The Dragon's Visit - (1937) - poem by J. R. R. Tolkien
• 263 - Azlon (from Khymyrium, a work in progress) - [Khymyrium] - short fiction by Lin Carter
• 276 - A Basic Reading List of Modern Heroic Fantasy - essay by Lin Carter

On a routine reconnaissance mission, Starbuck crashlands on a world where the Cylons have wiped out most of the adult population, leaving tribes of children in charge. It's Lord of the Flies meets The Guns of Navarone as Starbuck leads the children in a daring raid to free their father from the Cylons.

A charming tale for people of all ages (but especially for young Sam Vimes) from the pen of Miss Felicity Beedle, Discworld's premier children's author.

From Snuff: 'Vimes' prompt arrival got a nod of approval from Sybil, who gingerly handed him a new book to read to Young Sam. Vimes looked at the cover. The title was The World of Poo. When his wife was out of eyeshot he carefully leafed through it. Well, okay, you had to accept that the world had moved on and these days fairy stories were probably not going to be about twinkly little things with wings. As he turned page after page, it dawned on him that whoever had written this book, they certainly knew what would make kids like Young Sam laugh until they were nearly sick. The bit about sailing down the river almost made him smile. But interspersed with the scatology was actually quite interesting stuff about septic tanks and dunnakin divers and gongfermors and how dog muck helped make the very best leather, and other things that you never thought you would need to know, but once heard somehow lodged in your mind.'

Nebula Award nominated novella. It originally appeared Amazing Stories, November 1984. The story is included in the collection The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy (1991).

Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. The Wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving only landfills for Saba and her family to scavenge from. That's fine by her, as long as her beloved twin brother Lugh is around. But when four cloaked horsemen capture Lugh, Saba's world is shattered, and she embarks on a quest to get him back.

Suddenly thrown into the lawless, ugly reality of the outside world, Saba discovers she is a fierce fighter, an unbeatable survivor, and a cunning opponent. Teamed up with a handsome daredevil named Jack and a gang of girl revolutionaries called the Free Hawks, Saba’s unrelenting search for Lugh stages a showdown that will change the course of her own civilization.

Blood Red Road has a searing pace, a poetic writing style, and an epic love story-making Moira Young is one of the most exciting new voices in teen fiction.

There is a price on Saba's head. She brought down a ruthless tyrant and saved her kidnapped brother. But winning has come at a terrible cost. Saba is haunted by her past - and a new enemy is on the rise, an enemy who searches for her across the Dust Lands.

Saba needs Jack: his moonlit eyes, his reckless courage, his wild heart. But Jack has left. And her brother is haunted by ghosts of his own. Then news comes that tells her Jack can never be trusted again. Deceived and betrayed, haunted and hunted, Saba will need all her warrior's strength just to survive. For the enemy has cunning plans of his own...

The gut-wrenching third book in the highly praised Dust Lands trilogy, which MTV's Hollywood Crush blog called "better than The Hunger Games."

Saba is ready to seize her destiny and defeat DeMalo and the Tonton...until she meets him and he confounds all her expectations with his seductive vision of a healed earth, a New Eden. DeMalo wants Saba to join him, in life and work, to create and build a healthy, stable, sustainable world... for the chosen few.

Jack's choice is clear: to fight DeMalo and try to stop New Eden. Still uncertain, her connection to DeMalo a secret, Saba commits herself to the fight. Joined by her brother, Lugh, anxious for the land in New Eden, Saba leads and inexperienced guerilla band against the powerfully charismatic DeMalo, in command of his settlers and the Tonton malitia. What chance do they have? Saba must act. And be willing to pay the price.

You know the theory that ghosts are energy trapped when someone dies violently? It's true. I know it for a fact....

My name is Jensen Murphy, and thirty years ago, I was just an ordinary California girl. I had friends, family, a guy who might have been the One. Ordinary--until I became a statistic, one of the unsolved murders of the year. Afterward, I didn't go anywhere in pursuit of any bright light--I stayed under the oak tree where my body was found, and relived my death over and over. So when a psychic named Amanda Lee Minter pulled me out of that loop into the real world, I was very grateful.

Now I'm a ghost-at-large--rescued by Amanda (I found out) to be a supernatural snoop. I'm helping her uncover a killer (not mine--she promises me we'll get to that), which should be easy for a spirit. Except that I've found out that even ghosts have enemies, human--and otherwise...

The protagonist of the SF novel, To the Moon and Back in Ninety Days: A Thrilling Narrative of Blended Science and Adventure (1922), hitches a ride on a spaceship powered by an Antigravity device, and goes to the Moon. The discovery of Selenites there turns out to be a hoax but the trip was real.

Told in a documentary style, it is profusely illustrated with photos and diagrams, including photos of the spacecraft and space-suited astronauts. Indeed, the books contains a remarkably detailed description of a working space suit (Including a photo!).

Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient, god-decreed rivalry against the Riki clan. Her life is brutal but simple: train to fight and fight to survive. Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield--her brother, fighting with the enemy--the brother she watched die five years ago.

Eelyn loses her focus and is captured. Now, she must survive the winter in the mountains with the Riki, in a village where every neighbor is an enemy, every battle scar possibly one she delivered. But when the Riki village is raided by a ruthless clan settling in the valley, Eelyn is even more desperate to get back to her beloved Aska clan, which is rumored to have been decimated by the same horde. She is given no choice but to trust Fiske, her brother's friend who tried to kill her the day she was captured. They must do the impossible: unite the clans to fight together, or risk being slaughtered one by one. Driven by a love for her clan and her growing love for Fiske, Eelyn must confront her own definition of loyalty and find a way to forgive her brother while daring to put her faith in the people she's spent her life killing.

For as long as she can remember, Tova has lived among the Svell, the people who found her washed ashore as a child and use her for her gift as a Truthtongue. Her own home and clan are long-faded memories, but the sacred symbols and staves inked over every inch of her skin mark her as one who can cast the rune stones and see into the future. She has found a fragile place among those who fear her, but when two clans to the east bury their age-old blood feud and join together as one, her world is dangerously close to collapse.

For the first time in generations, the leaders of the Svell are divided. Should they maintain peace or go to war with the allied clans to protect their newfound power? And when their chieftain looks to Tova to cast the stones, she sets into motion a series of events that will not only change the landscape of the mainland forever but will give her something she believed she could never have again--a home.

While living on "Deep Space Nine", Jake Sisko has seen a lot of strange things, since his father, commander of the station, opened it to every lifeform who passes through this sector of space. But when Jake's Ferengi friend Nog says he's seen a ghost, Jake doesn't believe him, until a shimmering figure with glowing red eyes appears in Jake's quarters. Soon enough the spectre has Jake on a dangerous mission into the depths of the station, with the fate of "Deep Space Nine" resting on his boyish shoulders.

Jake Sisko and his best friend, Nog, make plans to sneak aboard a shuttle Doctor Bashir is piloting down to Bajor. After all, it's been a while since Jake has been on a planet. And they'll be back before Commander Sisko returns to "Deep Space Nine" from his diplomatic mission in a nearby star system. The boys expect to have a great time as they secretly follow the Doctor around and see the sights of Sakelo City. But what they see terrifies them as they watch the doctor being kidnapped. Now with the help of a Bajoran girl, Sesana, Jake and Nog strike out on their own to find the doctor. First the three friends must make their way through the dangerous territory that surrounds the city. But finding the doctor in the Bajoran wastelands is only part of their problem. Then Jake and Nog have to rescue Doctor Bashir from an army of killers without getting captured themselves.

Life suddenly gets interesting on "Deep Space Nine" TM when a new student turns up in Jake and Nog's class, Riv Jakar, a Bajoran boy whose parents were killed by Cardassians. Riv thinks school and hanging out on the Promenade are a waste of time. Instead he is determined to join the Bajoran freedom fighters in their battle against the Cardassians.

When Jake, Nog, and their friends Ashley and T'Ara are investigating some mysterious incidents on the station they discover a stowaway, a Cardassian girl named Kam. She is the daughter of a high-placed Cardassian official who has just shown up at "Deep Space Nine" with eight warships, demanding the return of his daughter. But Riv has other plans for Kam, and it's up to Jake and Nog to save her before Riv starts a new war.

It's the anniversary of the discovery of the Wormhole, and ships from all over the galaxy are headed to "Deep Space Nine" to celebrate. When the freighter "Ulysses" docks at "Deep Space Nine," an animal escapes from one of the crewmembers and heads straight for Jake Sisko. It does not speak or eat, but loves to play ball! Since the furry little creature presents no threat to the station and the owner is under investigation by Security Chief Odo. Commander Sisko allows Jake and Nog to keep the pet until the situation can be straightened out. Besides, the Commander has more important things to worry about. For starters, a huge new ship has come through the Wormhole and its captain is threatening to blow up the station unless his Crown Prince is returned, unfortunately for Sisko, he's never seen the prince. Also, mysterious creatures have begun terrorizing the station. With time running out, Sisko and his crew search the station for clues, while Jake and Nog try to save their pet from an alien's evil plan.

There's a new player on the Promenade, a Ferengi shop-owner named Bokat. His Games Bazaar specializes in hard-to-find virtual reality computer games. He approaches Jake Sisko and Nog with a tempting offer to play a hot new game called the Zhodran Crystal Quest. No non-Zhodran player has ever won this game, but then Jake and Nog have the best scores on all the other games at the Games Bazaar. And Bokat is willing to bet on their ability to win the game, and, as a result, win Bokat a lucrative business deal with the Zhodrans. But soon, kids all over the station are falling into comas, their minds trapped in an ever-changing game. Suddenly, it's up to Jake to go "into" the game and rescue them. If he wins, so does the Federation. If he loses, he'll be trapped forever in a deadly game with a very real Borg.

Ever since the Wormhole was discovered as a shortcut to the far off Gamma Quadrant. Jake Sisko has been "dying" to go through it. Not only is the one-of-a-kind stable Wormhole an incredible sight, but the trip through is a once-in-a-lifetime ride. Now, with a lot of urging from her students, Keiko O'Brien is leading a field trip through the Wormhole to Cetus Beta, a very safe, boring planet on the other side. But then a Cardassian raider shoots down their Runabout. Now Jake, Nog, T'Ara, Ashley and the other students are trapped on a planet where plants rule: they move, run, eat...

The Fjori star trader "Orak" is strictly off-limits as it docks at the repair bay on Deep Space Nine. But Jake and Nog can't resist the challenge of stealing a look at the Fjori star maps and trying to find the secret Fjori home planet, Eden. And no sooner do they give in to temptation than they find themselves trapped in the starship, hurtling though uncharted space, and not even Jake's father, Commander Sisko, can help them. If they set foot on the forbidden planet, they'll be forced to stay for life. Their only hope is Vija, a Fjorian girl who asks the Council of Elders to let Jake and Nog attempt the perilous Rite of Passage in order to win their freedom.

Jake and Nog have hit the jackpot playing holo videogames in the Amusement Arcade. An alien named Kwiltek has offered them jobs helping him run remote-controlled mining operations on a distant planet where dull mining is turned into a thrilling video game. In the "gaming room, " teams of kids work together monitoring the operations by remote control, loading cargo and defending against the most frightening "threats" they've ever seen on-screen. "Now" Jake and Nog can show their stuff! Soon they're competing with other alien kids to see who can haul the most ore. It's the ultimate game -- "with pay!" Until the night Jake and Nog slip into the command center and see a roomful of screens displaying real-life images of a devastated world where desperate natives are under attack by fighters that look "very" familiar! Suddenly the game is over -- and the nightmare begins...

Jake and Nog are looking for action - in all the wrong places. They've played all the family holosuite games - and the adult games are strictly off-limits. So when Garak, the only Cardassian on Deep Space Nine, suggests a trip to the unknown depths of Level 45, they're ready to go. When they arrive on the musty, abandoned deck, they find a funny Cardassian toy that says "Moop" when activated. And then they discover the replicator button on the toy. Perfect! They can replicate enough "Moops" for a baseball game. But suddenly the figures that stand before them are as tall as Nog - and they're replicating themselves!

Commander Sisko has made Jake an offer he can't refuse -- the chance to attend Starfleet Academy Summer Space Camp on Rijar, once home to an ancient civilization, now an archaeologist's dream. Jake's father has even agreed to send Nog. Jake is looking forward to the adventure and maybe finding something in the ruins to write a story about. But from the day they arrive it's a disaster! The best friends are on their way to becoming worst enemies -- until an accident triggers the countdown of a megabomb that threatens the entire planet! Jake and Nog lead an expedition into the catacombs under the base in a desperate race against time. Their only hope is a terrifying voyage into cyberspace to gain control of the ticking bomb that is about to explode...

There is no occasion more sacred to the Klingons than the Day of Honor. And to the Klingon youth, honor is a lesson heard-learned and harder-earned. The hunter instinct is taking over Alexander, driving him to violence when he can't control his emerging Klingon traits. He's in trouble at school when his father, Worf, gives his word as a Starfleet officer that Alexander's behavior will change. But it takes a frightening confession from Worf before Alexander understands that he must learn to control himself or lose everything he loves. A Klingon is honor-bound to keep his word, at any cost. And Alexander is about to pay the price as he faces disgrace and dishonor for challenging his bullying classmates with character instead of force.

A blast to the past! Jake Sisko is wondering where life will take him next... and the answer is the past! Chief O'Brien has promised to deliver a gift to a physicist, Professor Jonathan Vance. And Jake and Nog are allowed to accompany him to France. Vance shows them his "time machine", the first one ever to control time jumps with accuracy. When his assistant, Kruger, attacks him and steals the control device, Jake, Nog and O'Brien leap through the portal after him. They find themselves in Normandy, France, in 1944 during the middle of World War II. With Kruger joining the ranks of the Third Reich as a colonel, history is about to be changed forever. Can they stop Kruger from informing Hitler that a secret invasion will happen in Normandy?

The First Star Trek Novel!

The U.S.S. Enterprise is headed to Starbase 12 for shore leave, supplies and repairs. Food is running low and the engines need servicing. A distress signal diverts the Enterprise to a solar system on the outer edge of explored space. Upon hearing of the emergency mission, Dr. McCoy expresses his concern about the mental health of the crew to Kirk. In Dr. McCoy's opinion, the Enterprise has been on patrol for such a long period of time that the crew is in danger of developing a form of space madness known as cafard.

Upon reaching the NGC 400 solar system, the Enterprise crew comes across three planets populated by different human settlers who had been unhappy with the social or political order of Earth. One planet has reverted to a Stone Age state, another has a mid-20th Century technology while the third maintains a level of technology capable of space travel and advanced weaponry.

Kirk and crew must determine who sent a distress signal and the nature of the emergency. Along the way, they encounter a warrior society, a planet where drugs are used to control the general population and a culture consisting of an elite class with clones handling the day-to-day chores required by society.

When the empire died, they were born--Jacen and Jaina, a new hope for a New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia are now 14-years-old and enrolled at Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy. Together with friends both old and new, the future heroes of an already legendary saga begin their training.

Exploring the jungle outside the Jedi Academy, twins Jacen and Jaina Solo discover the remains of a TIE fighter that went down during the first Death Star battle, and their plans to repair it are overseen by a stranded Imperial trooper.

Driven away from Luke Skywalker's Jedi academy for pursuing the Dark Side of the Force, former student Brakiss masters his dark powers, establishes the Shadow Academy for aspiring Dark Jedis, and plots to kidnap the Solo twins.

Reuniting with the street orphan Zekk while visiting their home on Coruscant, twins Jacen and Jaina Solo see how different they have become from their wild but talented friend, who is tempted by someone from the Dark Side.

With a new generation of Dark Jedi being trained at the Shadow Academy, Luke Skywalker decides that it is time for the young Jedi Knights of the New Republic to build their lightsabers, a task that brings both a growth in the power of the Force and deadly peril.

Visiting their friend Lowbacca on the Wookie home world to help him prepare his younger sister for a terrifying rite of passage, Jedi twins Jacen and Jaina confront dark Jedi student Zekk, who is raiding the Wookie computer center.

When an army of Dark Jedi and Imperial stormtroopers attack Luke Skywalker's Jedi academy, students Jacen and Jaina, accompanied by their master and friends, begin a desperate fight.

Setting off to the devastated Alderaan system in the hopes of salvaging a piece of the lost planet for their mother, twins Jacen and Jaina are surprised when a long-believed-dead enemy of their family returns for revenge.

When a fellow Jedi student, who holds the key to a New Republic secret coalition, turns up missing, the young Jedi Knights race across the galaxy to find him and are forced to confront a deadly enemy.

As the young Jedi Knights continue their search for Raynor Thul's father, they turn for assistance to a dangerous resource, the reprogrammed assassin droid IG-88, a fearsome bounty hunter that the young Jedis may or may not have under control.

Lowbacca has left the Jedi academy and traveled to the planet Ryloth, headquarters of the Diversity Alliance, to see what the Alliance is really all about. On Yavin 4, Jacen, Jaina and the other young Jedi Knights have already discovered one truth about the Alliance--once you go to Ryloth, you either join, or you die. Lowie is in great danger, and they must rescue him. But what can a small group of humans do against a planet full of hostile aliens?

Bornan Thul's secret is out: he's protecting a deadly plague that could devastate the galaxy if released. And the evil Nolaa Tarkona--leader of the Diversity Alliance--knows where it is hidden. Now Jacen, Jaina and their allies must race against time. As a massive battle rages between New Republic soldiers and the forces of the Diversity Alliance, the young Jedi Knights must find and destroy the plague before it can be released.

Han Solo's past is about to catch up with him. When he and the twins take the Millennium Falcon to Ord Mantell for a high-speed race, they meet a battle-hungry young woman wielding a light saber. Her name is Anja Gallandro, and she knows more about Han's history than he likes. But Anja Gallandro guards an even more devastating secret, a secret that could mean disaster for the entire Solo family...

Lando Calrissian offer the twins a rare opportunity--a vacation on Cloud City. They jump at the chance, as long as their mysterious new friend Anja Gallandro can come along. Anja is happy to be included. But little do the twins know that they are actually helping Anja hatch her sinister plan. A plan that goes far deeper than simple revenge.

Anja Gallandro planned to destroy the Solo family. But now she fights an intense inner battle--against her increasing spice addiction, and her growing friendship with Jacen and Jaina. In desperation for spice, she steals a ship and flees the Jedi academy. The young Jedi Knights follow her from the spice mines of Kessel to the dangerous beauty of Crystal Reef--where an even more sinister plan is hatching...

It is the twilight of the Terran Empire. The warriors who made it great are long gone now, and the Traders of the Polesotechnic League who made it possible are the dimly-remembered stuff of legend. Alien enemies prowl its outer precincts, and Sector Governors conspire for the Throne of Man. On Terra herself, those who occupy the labyrinthine corridors of power busy themselves with trivialities and internal politics, as outside the final darkness gathers.

In this scene of terminal disarray one man stands like a giant: Dominic Flandry, Agent of the Terran Empire. In three full-length novels, he will rise from young ensign to lieutenant commander as he outthinks rivals and thwarts adversaries, blazing a trail across the galaxy in defense of an Empire which barely appreciates him and against alien enemies who appreciate him all too well.

Table of Content

• Ensign Flandry (1966)
• A Circus of Hells (1970)
• The Rebel Worlds (1969)

In the sequel to The Final Encyclopedia, Bleys Ahrens, raised alone by his unhappy Exotic mother and cast out from society, finds his niche in life with Dahno, his half-brother.

The exciting final volume in the glorious fantasy series The Dreamers...

The attacks of the dreadful insect queen known as the Vlagh have been repelled in three of the Elder Gods' realms. Now, only the land ruled by the Goddess Aracia remains for the Vlagh to send her hordes to attack.

But while the Gods, their younger avatars and their human comrades have emerged victorious from all previous encounters, this time the Goddess herself may be their greatest foe – she craves worship and hates the idea of being replaced by a younger God when her time comes to an end... and that time is approaching fast.

A mighty conclusion to a fabulous series!

Lawrence Watt-Evans, author of the acclaimed Legends of Ethshar and Worlds of Shadows novels invites readers to embark on a rollicking journey in a brand-new fantasy series.

Anrel Murau is a scholar, a young man with no magical ability even though he is the son of two powerful sorcerers. Anrel's lack of talent bars him from the ruling classes, but he is content to be a simple clerk.

Upon returning to his childhood home after years of study in the capital, Anrel finds his friends and family held under the thumb of the corrupt local lord. When this lord murders a dear friend, Anrel finds that although he's not a sorcerer, he is not without other means to demand justice.

If he can survive life on the run, that is.

Carrying only his sword, a few coins, and his wit, Anrel must leave behind everything he has ever known, trust himself to unexpected allies, and outmaneuver leagues of enemies who will stop at nothing to keep his dangerous ideas from ever being heard. Magic and intrigue collide in a swashbuckling tale of daring escapes, beautiful witches, and one quiet young man's rise to hero--or traitor. Nothing will ever be simple for Anrel again, as his personal quest may provide more peril for those he holds dear.

Despite her supposed ineptitude with regular magic, Princess Anisphia defies the aristocracy's expectations by developing :magicology," a unique magical theory based on memories from her past life. One day, she witnesses the brilliant noblewoman Euphyllia unjustly stripped of her title as the kingdom's next monarch. That's when Anisphia concocts a plan to help Euphyllia regain her good name-which somehow involves them living together and researching magic! Little do these two ladies know, however, that their chance encounter will alter not only their own futures, but those of the kingdom... and the entire world!

A RIFT IN THE ROYAL FAMILY!

With the help of her assistant--the genius young lady Euphyllia--Princess Anisphia has successfully subdued the dragon that attacked the Kingdom of Palettia. Nonetheless, the furor over Euphyllia's canceled betrothal continues. To make matters worse, Anisphia discovers a devastating secret about Lainie, who holds the key to the prince's strange decision. And that's not the only secret--it's just the beginning of a grand plot enveloping the entire royal palace!

Anisphia becomes the ruler of Palettia, but her fight with her younger brother, Algard, has caused all sorts of problems. Watching Anisphia slowly become more and more exhausted, Euphyllia finally decides to step in. But that is the last thing Anisphia wants, and she refuses to give up. The reincarnated princess and the genius young lady now have to face each other for their future together.

After receiving the right to succession, Euphyllia is facing a future where she becomes ruler, while Anisphia is released from her obligations and continues her research. How will this affect the future of Palettia--and Anis and Euphie's blossoming relationship?

MEETINGS, MAGICITE, AND MONSTERS

There's one thing Anis can't go without if she wants to advance magicology in the Kingdom of Palettia--spirit stones. Fortunately, an untamed region to the east is teeming with this vital resource, so she and Euphie decide to journey by air to stock up and survey the land for future development. Euphie has an itinerary of new and interesting places to visit along the way--wait, does this count as a honeymoon?!

THE PAST AND FUTURE COLLIDE

When Anis and Euphie learn that vampires are threatening the Kingdom of Palettia, they scramble to formulate countermeasures. Then, an urgent message comes from the east stating that a vampire has been captured--a powerful one with ambitions on an eternal scale. Anis, with her draconic powers, and Euphie, with her spirit covenant, are about to take on the strongest of all vampires to determine the nature of human happiness!

A NEW CITY OF MAGICOLOGY?!

After emerging victorious from her encounter with the vampire, Anisphia has absorbed her dragon magicite into her own body. But her magical revolution with Queen Euphyllia is far from over. Anis is asked to help construct a new city for the study of magicology and lead her very own order of knights... Anis's dream for magic--and Euphie's dream for Anis--will take our heroines into a brave new world!

NOT EVERYONE IS READY FOR THE REVOLUTION

Anis and Euphie are hard at work, the former supervising a new city for the study of magicology, and the latter performing her duties as queen. Both are determined to create a country where the next generation can truly thrive. But no one said it was going to be easy, and soon an aggravating new development throws a wrench in their well-laid plans--opposition from within the Kingdom of Palettia itself. As Euphie questions what it means to be queen and Anis rushes to her defense, a new battle begins for the future!

Seven stories connecting the members of the magical revolution!

Follow a day in the lives of Anis and Euphie after they just met. Witness Lainie come face-to-face with Ilia's past. Listen in on a mother-daughter discussion between Sylphine and Anis. Learn of the conflict that lies in Tilty's heart... and pray that these warm, happy times will last forever.

The magicology city is bustling with life, but there are some disturbing developments within the neighboring Ailen Empire, including an extremist plot to assassinate Anis! Euphie refuses to sit back and do nothing, but Anis wants to let the nefarious act play out. With future international relations in mind, Anis and Euphie devise a plan to lure the assassins out and capture them--but in doing so, they must confront how their magical revolution is perceived outside the Kingdom of Palettia. Their attention turns to the wider world as a new chapter begins in this hugely popular royal palace yuri fantasy!

Enclosed under a vast dome, Snowglobe is the last place on Earth that's warm. Outside Snowglobe is a frozen wasteland, and every day, citizens face the icy world to get to their jobs at the power plant, where they produce the energy Snowglobe needs. Their only solace comes in the form of twenty-four-hour television programming streamed directly from the domed city.

The residents of Snowglobe have everything: fame, fortune, and above all, safety from the desolation outside their walls. In exchange, their lives are broadcast to the less fortunate outside, who watch eagerly, hoping for the chance to one day become actors themselves.

Chobahm lives for the time she spends watching the shows produced inside Snowglobe. Her favorite? Goh Around, starring Goh Haeri, Snowglobe's biggest star--and, it turns out, the key to getting Chobahm her dream life.

Because Haeri is dead, and Chobahm has been chosen to take her place. Only, life inside Snowglobe is nothing like what you see on television. Reality is a lie, and truth seems to be forever out of reach.

Chobahm's perfect life in Snowglobe came crashing down when she discovered the truth about Haeri. The girl she watched faithfully on television was far from perfect. And the TV family revered by millions was nothing more than an illusion created by the sinister Director Cha. But revealing the lies was only the first crack in the domed utopia.

Director Cha may be behind bars, but the Yibonn Media corporation, the corrupt entity that runs Snowglobe, is still in power. They'll do anything to hide their own secret - the dark truth behind the domed city's signature warmth - and when footage emerges of Chobahm committing a murder, she knows they're not finished with her yet.

The only person who can help to clear her name is none other than the disgraced Yibonn heir, Bonwhe - who knows better than anyone that enemies exist everywhere. Sometimes you can't even trust yourself.

The heat is rising - and with the soaring temperatures come new secrets. And new lies.

I am tired of being used, hurt, and cast aside.

Adelina Amouteru is a survivor of the blood fever. A decade ago, the deadly illness swept through her nation. Most of the infected perished, while many of the children who survived were left with strange markings. Adelina's black hair turned silver, her lashes went pale, and now she has only a jagged scar where her left eye once was. Her cruel father believes she is a malfetto, an abomination, ruining their family's good name and standing in the way of their fortune. But some of the fever's survivors are rumored to possess more than just scars—they are believed to have mysterious and powerful gifts, and though their identities remain secret, they have come to be called the Young Elites.

Teren Santoro works for the king. As Leader of the Inquisition Axis, it is his job to seek out the Young Elites, to destroy them before they destroy the nation. He believes the Young Elites to be dangerous and vengeful, but it's Teren who may possess the darkest secret of all.

Enzo Valenciano is a member of the Dagger Society. This secret sect of Young Elites seeks out others like them before the Inquisition Axis can. But when the Daggers find Adelina, they discover someone with powers like they've never seen.

Adelina wants to believe Enzo is on her side, and that Teren is the true enemy. But the lives of these three will collide in unexpected ways, as each fights a very different and personal battle. But of one thing they are all certain: Adelina has abilities that shouldn't belong in this world. A vengeful blackness in her heart. And a desire to destroy all who dare to cross her.

It is my turn to use. My turn to hurt.

Once upon a time, a girl had a father, a prince, a society of friends. Then they betrayed her, and she destroyed them all.

Adelina Amouteru's heart has suffered at the hands of both family and friends, turning her down the bitter path of revenge. Now known and feared as the White Wolf, she and her sister flee Kenettra to find other Young Elites in the hopes of building her own army of allies. Her goal: to strike down the Inquisition Axis, the white-cloaked soldiers who nearly killed her.

But Adelina is no heroine. Her powers, fed only by fear and hate, have started to grow beyond her control. She does not trust her newfound Elite friends. Teren Santoro, leader of the Inquisition, wants her dead. And her former friends, Raffaele and the Dagger Society, want to stop her thirst for vengeance. Adelina struggles to cling to the good within her. But how can someone be good, when her very existence depends on darkness?

There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen.

Adelina Amouteru is done suffering. She's turned her back on those who have betrayed her and achieved the ultimate revenge: victory. Her reign as the White Wolf has been a triumphant one, but with each conquest her cruelty only grows. The darkness within her has begun to spiral out of control, threatening to destroy all she's gained.

When a new danger appears, Adelina's forced to revisit old wounds, putting not only herself at risk, but every Elite. In order to preserve her empire, Adelina and her Roses must join the Daggers on a perilous quest--though this uneasy alliance may prove to be the real danger.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu concludes Adelina's story with this haunting and hypnotizing final installment to the Young Elites series.

Welcome to New York, a city ruled by teens.

After a mysterious Sickness wipes out the rest of the population, the young survivors assemble into tightly run tribes. Jefferson, the reluctant leader of the Washington Square tribe, and Donna, the girl he's secretly in love with, have carved out a precarious existence among the chaos.

But when a fellow tribe member discovers a clue that may hold the cure for the Sickness, five teens set out on a life-altering road trip, exchanging gunfire with enemy gangs, escaping cults and militias, braving the wilds of the subway--all in order to save humankind.

They thought they were the only ones left. They were wrong.

After the unexpected revelation at the end of the first book, Donna and Jefferson are separated. Jefferson returns to NYC and tries to bring a cure to the Sickness back to the Washington Square tribe, while Donna finds herself in England, facing an unimaginable new world. Can the two reunite and prevent an even greater disaster than the Sickness?

The teens forge a new world in this epic conclusion to The Young World trilogy.

After the emotional cliffhanger of The New Order, shocking events take place for Donna, Jefferson, Kath, and their tribe as they face their greatest challenge yet--how to hold the new city-state of New York against a ruthless attack from the Old World.

Discover the best young adult short fiction of the year originally published in the anthologies dedicated to the form, the occasional special edition of a magazine, and individual pieces appearing in otherwise adult anthologies and magazines, and brought together here in one accessible collection. Julia Rios and Alisa Krasnostein, the award winning editors of Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories, have collected twenty-one of the best young adult speculative fiction short stories of 2013.

Table of Contents:

• Summation: YA in 2013 (Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction 2013) - essay by Julia Rios and Alisa Krasnostein
• Selkie Stories Are for Losers - (2013) - shortstory by Sofia Samatar
• By Bone-Light - (2013) - novelette by Juliet Marillier
• The Myriad Dangers - (2013) - shortstory by Lavie Tidhar
• The Carpet - (2013) - shortstory by Nnedi Okorafor
• I Gave You My Love by the Light of the Moon - (2013) - novelette by Sarah Rees Brennan
• 57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides - (2013) - shortstory by Sam J. Miller
• The Minotaur Girls - (2013) - shortstory by Tansy Rayner Roberts
• Not With You, But With You - (2013) - shortstory by Miri Kim
• Ghost Town - (2013) - shortstory by Malinda Lo
• December - (2013) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
• An Echo in the Shell - (2013) - shortstory by Beth Cato
• Dan's Dreams - (2013) - shortstory by Eliza Victoria
• As Large As Alone - (2014) - shortstory by Alena McNamara
• Random Play All and the League of Awesome - (2013) - shortstory by Shane Halbach
• Mah Song - (2013) - shortstory by Joanne Anderton
• What We Ourselves Are Not - (2013) - shortstory by Leah Cypess
• The City of Chrysanthemum - shortstory by Ken Liu (variant of City of Chrysanthemum 2013)
• Megumi's Quest - (2013) - shortstory by Joyce Chng
• Persimmon, Teeth, and Boys - (2013) - shortstory by Steve Berman
• Flight - (2013) - shortstory by Angela Slatter
• We Have Always Lived on Mars - (2013) - shortstory by Cecil Castellucci
• About the Authors (Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction 2013) - essay by uncredited
• Honourable Mentions for 2013 (Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction 2013) - essay by Julia Rios and Alisa Krasnostein

Discover the best young adult short fiction of the year originally published in the anthologies dedicated to the form, the occasional special edition of a magazine, and individual pieces appearing in otherwise adult anthologies and magazines, and brought together here in one accessible collection. Julia Rios and Alisa Krasnostein, the award winning editors of Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories, have collected twenty-one of the best young adult speculative fiction short stories of 2014.

Table of Contents:

• Summation: YA in 2014 (Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction 2014) - essay by Julia Rios and Alisa Krasnostein
• Left Foot, Right - (2014) - shortstory by Nalo Hopkinson
• Selfies - (2014) - shortstory by Lavie Tidhar
• The Vitruvian Farmer - (2014) - shortstory by Marcelina Vizcarra
• The Lady and the Fox - (2014) - novelette by Kelly Link
• Cat Calls - (2014) - shortstory by Margo Lanagan
• Walkdog - (2014) - shortstory by Sofia Samatar
• No Lonely Seafarer - (2014) - shortstory by Sarah Pinsker
• The Endless Sink - (2014) - shortstory by Damien Ober
• No Mercy for the Executioner - (2014) - shortstory by Deborah Biancotti
• The Ancestors - (2014) - shortstory by Laurie Tom
• Jelly and the D-Machine - (2014) - shortfiction by Suzanne Church
• Kneaded - (2014) - shortstory by S. G. Larner
• Resurrection Points - (2014) - shortstory by Usman T. Malik
• Memory Lace - (2014) - shortstory by Payal Dhar
• Collected Likenesses - (2014) - shortfiction by Jamey Hatley
• Scout - (2014) - shortstory by Will McIntosh
• Selfie - (2014) - shortstory by Sandra McDonald
• The Boy Who Grew Up - (2014) - shortstory by Christopher Barzak
• Cookie Cutter Superhero - (2014) - shortstory by Tansy Rayner Roberts
• The Stuff We Don't Do - (2014) - shortstory by Marissa Lingen
• Figment - (2014) - novelette by Jeri Smith-Ready
• About the Authors (Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction 2014) - essay by uncredited
• Honourable Mentions for 2014 (Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction 2014) - essay by Julia Rios and Alisa Krasnostein

Discover the best young adult short fiction of the year originally published in the anthologies dedicated to the form, the occasional special edition of a magazine, and individual pieces appearing in otherwise adult anthologies and magazines, and brought together here in one accessible collection. Julia Rios and Alisa Krasnostein, the award winning editors of Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories, have collected twenty-one of the best young adult speculative fiction short stories of 2015.

Table of Contents:

• Summation: YA in 2015 - essay by Julia Rios and Alisa Krasnostein
• Songs in the Key of You - short story by Sarah Pinsker
• Blood, Ash, Braids - short story by Genevieve Valentine
• Mosquito Boy - short story by Felix Gilman
• The Rainbow Flame - short story by Shveta Thakrar
• The Sixth Day - short story by Sylvia Anna Hivén
• For Sale: Fantasy Coffin (Ababuo Need Not Apply) - short story by Chesya Burke
• Kia and Gio - short story by Daniel José Older
• Bucket List Found in the Locker of Maddie Price, Age 14, Written Two Weeks Before the Great Uplifting of All Mankind - short story by Erica L. Satifka
• Function A.save (target.Dawn) - short story by Rivqa Rafael
• Noah No-one and the Infinity Machine - short story by Sean Williams
• Forgiveness - short story by Leah Cypess
• Probably Definitely - short story by Heather Morris
• I'm Only Going Over - short story by Cat Hellisen
• The Ways of Walls and Words - short story by Sabrina Vourvoulias
• Reflections - short story by Tamlyn Dreaver
• Entangled Web - short story by E C Myers
• Blue Ribbon - short story by Marissa Lingen
• Bodies are the Strongest Conductors - short story by James Robert Herndon
• Pineapple Head - short story by Joel Enos
• Grass Girl - short story by Caroline M. Yoachim
• The Birds of Azalea Street - short story by Nova Ren Suma
• Honourable Mentions for 2015 - essay by Julia Rios and Alisa Krasnostein

Eleven stories--by Piers Anthony, R.A. Lafferty, James E. Gunn, and others--focus on the lives and motives of extraterrestrials on Earth, their adjustment to human society, and their impact on human life.

Contents:

• xi - Introduction (Young Extraterrestrials) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 3 - Doorstep - (1961) - short story by Keith Laumer
• 12 - Who's on First? - (1958) - novelette by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
• 54 - In the Jaws of Danger - [Dr. Dillingham] - (1967) - short story by Piers Anthony
• 76 - The Witness - (1951) - novelette by Eric Frank Russell
• 108 - The Mississippi Saucer - (1951) - short story by Frank Belknap Long
• 130 - Primary Education of the Camiroi - [Camiroi] - (1966) - short story by R. A. Lafferty
• 148 - Tween - (1978) - novelette by J. F. Bone
• 180 - Zoo - (1958) - short story by Edward D. Hoch
• 183 - Subcommittee - (1962) - novelette by Zenna Henderson
• 214 - Keyhole - (1951) - short story by Murray Leinster
• 237 - Kindergarten - (1970) - short story by James E. Gunn

A collection of short stories by a variety of authors about children with one common characteristic--they are all mutants.

Contents:

• 9 - Introduction (Young Mutants) - essay by Isaac Asimov
• 17 - Hail and Farewell - (1953) - short story by Ray Bradbury
• 29 - Keep Out - (1954) - short story by Fredric Brown
• 35 - What Friends Are For - (1974) - short story by John Brunner
• 63 - The Wonder Horse - (1957) - short story by George Byram
• 85 - He That Hath Wings - (1938) - novelette by Edmond Hamilton
• 122 - Second Sight - (1956) - short story by Alan E. Nourse
• 141 - I Can't Help Saying Goodbye - (1978) - short story by Ann Mackenzie
• 147 - The Listening Child - (1950) - short story by Margaret St. Clair
• 162 - The Children's Room - (1947) - novelette by Raymond F. Jones
• 215 - The Lost Language - (1934) - short story by David H. Keller, M.D.
• 231 - Prone - (1954) - short story by Mack Reynolds
• 243 - Come On, Wagon! - (1951) - short story by Zenna Henderson

This is the legendary story of Merlin--from his abandonment by his parents at the age of eight to the discovery of his powers at twelve. Together, these three novels reimagine the origins of the greatest wizard of all time, giving readers a Merlin at once more human and more magical than any that has appeared before.

A boy is abandoned in the woods of medieval England. A year passes--a year of terror and hunger, of sleeping in trees and foraging for food, of outrunning packs of wild dogs--until one day a falconer captures and tames the boy as he would any passager, a young bird caught in the wild and trained. The falconer adopts the boy and teaches him all of the things he's forgotten, including the boy's true name--and the legacy of magic that will be his when he comes of age.

When young Merlin falls into the company of traveling performers, they rename him Hobby, after a small falcon. Nightmarish trouble lies ahead on the path that will lead him to greatness.

In flight from the magic visions that plague him, Merlin falls into the hands of the wodewose--wild folk who, according to legend, live in the company of wolves and devour children. But far from being wild, the wodewose are an enormous family of the unwanted, the abandoned, and the homeless. For once Merlin has found a place where an orphan like himself belongs. The triumphant conclusion to the Young Merlin Trilogy.

Ever come across a situation that simply wasn't right--where someone was getting the dirty end of the stick and you wished you could make things right but didn't know how? Fourteen-year-old Jack knows how. Or rather he's learning how. He's discovering that he has a knack for fixing things. Not bikes or toys or appliances--situations....

It all starts when Jack and his best friends, Weezy and Eddie, discover a rotting corpse--the victim of ritual murder--in the fabled New Jersey Pine Barrens. Beside the body is an ancient artifact carved with strange designs. What is its secret? What is the secret of the corpse? What other mysteries hide in the dark, timeless Pine Barrens? And who doesn't want them revealed?

Jack's town, the surrounding Barrens, his friends, even Jack himself... they all have... Secret Histories.

When his five-year-old neighbor goes missing, Jack can't help feeling responsible. He should have taken Cody home when he found him riding his bicycle near the Pine Barrens. And then a lost man wanders out of the woods after being chased all night by... something. Jack knows, better than anyone, that the Barrens are dangerous--a true wilderness filled with people, creatures, and objects lost from sight and memory. Like the ancient, fifteen-foot-tall stone pyramid he, Weezy, and Eddie discover. Jack thinks it might have been a cage of some sort, but for what kind of animal, he can't say. Eddie jokes that it could have been used for the Jersey Devil. Jack doesn't believe in that old folk tale, but something is roaming the Pines. Could it have Cody? And what about the strange circus that set up outside town? Could they be involved? So many possibilities, so little time...

Everyone loves senior Carson Toliver, the captain and quarterback of the football team, heartthrob of South Burlington County Regional High--especially the girls. Even Jack's best friend Weezy has a crush on him. And unlike most of the popular kids at school, he's not stuck up. Jack even sees him defending a piney kid who is being bullied in the hall. Which is why Jack is so surprised when Weezy tells him that Carson took her on a date and attacked her.

Jack tries to convince her to report Carson, but Weezy would rather just forget it ever happened. She begs him not to tell anyone, and Jack reluctantly agrees. But then Carson starts telling his own version of what happened that night and suddenly everyone is calling her "Easy Weezy." Jack's concern turns to rage. Carson needs to be taught a lesson. With the help of the pineys--reclusive inhabitants of the mysterious Jersey Pine Barrens who have secrets of their own--Jack finds a way to exact secret vengeance...

In F. Paul Wilson's third young adult novel, the teenage Jack demonstrates the skills that will serve him later in life as the urban mercenary known as Repairman Jack.

Something stopped Nita's hand as it ran along the bookshelf. She looked and found that one of the books had a loose thread at the top of its spine. It was one of those So You Want to Be a... books, a series on careers. So You Want to Be a Pilot, and a Scientist... a Writer. But his one said, So You Want to Be a Wizard.

I don't belive this, Nina thought. She shut the book and stood there holding it in her hand, confused, amazed, suspicious--and delighted. If it was a joke, it was a great one. If it wasn't... ?

Coming to the aid of a wounded whale, Kit and Nita are plunged into deep wizardry. The whale is a wizard, and she enlists Kit and Nita in battle against the sinister Lone Power. Becoming whales themselves, Nita and Kit join in an ancient ritual performed by whales, dolphins, and a single fearsome shark. But which poses more of a danger: the Lone Power, or ed'Rashtekaresket, the enormous shark as old as the sea?

Young wizards Nita and Kit face their most terrifying challenge yet: Nita's little sister, Dairine. Not only is Dairine far too smart for a ten-year-old, she also has recenlty become a wizard, and worse yet, a wizard with almost limitless power. When Dairine's computerized wizard's manual glibly sends her off on her novice adventure--her Ordeal--Kit and Nita end up chasing her across the galaxy, trying to catch up with Dairine before she gets into trouble so deep that not even her brains can resuce her.

To give Nita a vacation from magic, her parents pack her off for a stay with her eccentric aunt in Ireland. But Nita soon finds herself with a host of Irish wizards battling creatures from a nightmare land.

Not everything can be fixed with magic--young wizards Kit and Nita are having such a tough time coping with adolescence, they go their separate ways. But then Nita gets some bad news: Her mother has cancer, and it may be incurable--by medical or magical means.

While Nita grieves over her mother's death, Kit tackles a challenge as dangerous as it is strange: Rescue a young wizard who has vanished on his first assignment. This new wizard is unlike any other--he's autistic and he's a magical prodigy. His power is enormous.

Rest and relaxation--that's what Nita thinks she's going to get when she and her partner-wizard Kit go on a wizardly "cultural exchange" program. But nothing about wizardry--not even vacation--is ever quite that simple!

Nita and Kit return from their wizardly holiday looking forward to getting back to their everyday routine. But there's trouble brewing. A strange darkness of the mind and heart is about to befall the older wizards of the world, stealing away their power. Soon, the young wizards find themselves forced to defend wizards and nonwizards alike against an invasion of a kind they've never imagined.

For the first time in millenia, the wizards must go to war...

Young wizards Kit and Nita are faced with strange events when a life form from another era emerges on Mars. Though the Martians seem friendly, they have a plan that could change the shape of more than one world. As the shadow of interplanetary war stretches over both worlds, Kit and Nita must fight to master the strange and ancient synergy binding them to Mars and its last inhabitants. If they don’t succeed, the history that left Mars lifeless will repeat itself on Earth.

Every eleven years, Earth's senior wizards hold the Invitational: an intensive three-week event where the planet's newest, sharpest young wizards show off their best and hottest spells. Wizardly partners Kit Rodriguez and Nita Callahan, and Nita's sister, former wizard-prodigy Dairine Callahan, are drafted in to mentor two brilliant and difficult cases: for Nita and Kit, there's Penn Shao-Feng, a would-be sun technician with a dangerous new take on managing solar weather; and for Dairine, there's shy young Mehrnaz Farrahi, an Iranian wizard-girl trying to specialize in defusing earthquakes while struggling with a toxic extended wizardly family that demands she perform to their expectations.

Together they're plunged into a whirlwind of cutthroat competition and ruthless judging. Penn's egotistical attitude toward his mentors complicates matters as the pair tries to negotiate their burgeoning romance. Meanwhile, Dairine struggles to stabilize her hero-worshipping, insecure protégée against the interference of powerful relatives using her to further their own tangled agendas. When both candidates make it through to the finals stage on the dark side of the Moon, they and their mentors are flung into a final conflict that could change the solar system for the better... or damage Earth beyond even wizardly repair.