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Hugo Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, December 2004. The story is included in the collections New Dreams for Old (2006) and Win Some, Lose Some: The Hugo Award Winning (and Nominated) Short Science Fiction and Fantasy of Mike Resnick (2012).

Hugo Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, January 2008. The story can also be found in the anthology Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy (2008), edited by William Schafer. It is included in the collections The Incarceration of Captain Nebula and Other Lost Futures (2012) and Win Some, Lose Some: The Hugo Award Winning (and Nominated) Short Science Fiction and Fantasy of Mike Resnick (2012).

Alien Crimes brings together six original novellas from six award-winning writers with stories equally diverse in both style and subject matter. This all-new SFBC Creation takes readers through wormholes, to undersea alien breeding grounds, to a hotel where the squishy walls may be more than they seem, and destinations beyond.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Mike Resnick
• Nothing Personal - novella by Pat Cadigan
• A Locked-Planet Mystery - novella by Mike Resnick
• Hoxbomb - novella by Harry Turtledove
• The End of the World - novella by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Dark Heaven - novella by Gregory Benford
• Womb of Every World - novella by Walter Jon Williams

Hugo Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in Jim Baen's Universe, October 2006. It can also be found in the anthology The Best of Jim Baen's Universe (2007) edited by Eric Flint. It is included in the collections The Incarceration of Captain Nebula and Other Lost Futures (2012) and Win Some, Lose Some: The Hugo Award Winning (and Nominated) Short Science Fiction and Fantasy of Mike Resnick (2012).

Read the full story for free at Baen.

Hugo Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Jim Baen's Universe, October 2008. The story is included in the collection Win Some, Lose Some: The Hugo Award Winning (and Nominated) Short Science Fiction and Fantasy of Mike Resnick (2012) and The Incarceration of Captain Nebula and Other Lost Futures (2012).

Read the full story for free at the Baen website.

Hugo Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1994. The story is included in the collections An Alien Land (1998), Win Some, Lose Some: The Hugo Award Winning (and Nominated) Short Science Fiction and Fantasy of Mike Resnick (2012) and The Incarceration of Captain Nebula and Other Lost Futures (2012).

Hugo and Nebula Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, Mid-December 1995. The story can also be found in the collections Rescnick collections An Alien Land (1997) and Win Some, Lose Some (2012) and the Shwartz collection Suppose They Gave a Peace and Other Stories (2002).

THE CHRISTMAS SPIRITS --

Everyone knows the Chirstmas season has truly arrived when A Christmas Carol takes center stage in both amateur and professional porductions, and the classic films and animated versions are shown over and over on television. Now, Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg have challenged some fo the most creative minds in fantasy and science fiction to tell readers exactly what those Christmas ghosts are up to when they're not scaring a stingy old man into self-reformation. The result is a sondrous seasonal mix, a perfect present for those ready to snuggle up with a good book on a cold winter's night.

From a Chirstmas encounter with a beggar that may haunt a wealthy traveler for the rest of his life... to a far different journey into Scrooge's Christmases past, a visit that amy expose some unsuspected truths about Ebenezer's former friends and acquaintances... to a script writer hired to give the story of Christmas a real "nineties twist," here are tales to savor over a holidy punch, imaginatively wrapped up for you by such generous gift givers as Mercedes Lackey, Frank M. Robinson, Judith Tarr, and Kristing Kathryn Rusch.

Contents:

• 13 - Introduction (Christmas Ghosts) - (1993) - essay by Mike Resnick
• 15 - Hunger - (1993) - short story by Michelle West [as by Michelle Sagara]
• 27 - Merry Christmas, No. 30267 - (1993) - short fiction by Frank M. Robinson
• 39 - The One That Got Away - (1993) - short story by Mark Aronson
• 53 - Elephantoms - (1993) - short fiction by Lawrence Schimel
• 55 - A Foreigner's Christmas in China - (1993) - short story by Maureen F. McHugh
• 67 - Upon a Midnight Dreary - (1993) - short fiction by Laura Resnick
• 84 - Modern Mansions - (1993) - short fiction by Barbara Delaplace
• 101 - Cadenza - (1993) - short fiction by Terry McGarry
• 114 - Gordian Angel - (1993) - short fiction by Jack Nimersheim
• 126 - The Timbrel Sound of Darkness - (1993) - short story by Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg
• 136 - A Prophet for Chanukah - (1993) - short fiction by Deborah J. Wunder
• 152 - Dumb Feast - (1993) - short story by Mercedes Lackey
• 163 - Shades of Light and Darkness - (1993) - short fiction by Josepha Sherman
• 181 - The River Lethe Is Made of Tears - (1993) - short fiction by John Gregory Betancourt
• 188 - Absent Friends - (1993) - short story by Martha Soukup
• 201 - Presentes - (1993) - short story by Nicholas A. DiChario
• 208 - Peter's Ghost - (1993) - short fiction by Marie A. Parsons
• 220 - The Case of the Skinflint's Specters - (1993) - short fiction by Brian M. Thomsen
• 228 - Christmas Presence - (1993) - short story by Kate Daniel
• 241 - The Ghost of Christmas Scams - (1993) - short fiction by Lea Hernandez
• 250 - Wishbook Days - (1993) - short story by Janni Lee Simner
• 266 - Holiday Station - (1993) - short fiction by Judith Tarr
• 280 - State Road - (1993) - short fiction by Alan Dormire and Robin J. Nakkula
• 288 - The Ghosts of Christmas Future - (1993) - short fiction by Dean Wesley Smith
• 292 - Three Wishes Before a Fire - (1993) - short fiction by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• 299 - The Ghost of Christmas Sideways - (1993) - short story by David Gerrold
• 307 - The Bear Who Found Christmas - (1993) - short fiction by Alan Rodgers

Hugo Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, April-May 2007. The story is included in the collection Win Some, Lose Some: The Hugo Award Winning (and Nominated) Short Science Fiction and Fantasy of Mike Resnick (2012) and The Incarceration of Captain Nebula and Other Lost Futures (2012).

Hugo Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, April-May 2005. The story is included in the collections New Dreams for Old (2006) and Win Some, Lose Some: The Hugo Award Winning (and Nominated) Short Science Fiction and Fantasy of Mike Resnick (2012).

They used to say that no one could blend mystery and science fiction, but that theory was dashed decades ago with the publication of Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man and Isaac Asimov's The Caves of Steel. Since then, the two fields have crossbred, producing sf mysteries in every style, from locked-room to noir. We at the SFBC especially love the Chandler-esque tales, whose hard-bitten sleuths stalk crime down the dark alleys of space. So we jumped at Mike Resnick's suggestion that we do a book called Down these Dark Spaceways, featuring six original novellas exclusive to the Club. These stories have never been published anywhere else, and each one is written by a top-notch writer who shares our passion for a good sf mystery.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Mike Resnick
• Guardian Angel - novella by Mike Resnick
• In the Quake Zone - novella by David Gerrold
• The City of Cries - novella by Catherine Asaro
• Camouflage - novella by Robert Reed
• The Big Downtown - novella by Jack McDevitt
• Identity Theft - novella by Robert J. Sawyer

Hugo Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 1999. The story can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection (2000), edited by Gardner Dozois. It is included in the collections New Dreams for Old (2006) and Win Some, Lose Some: The Hugo Award Winning (and Nominated) Short Science Fiction and Fantasy of Mike Resnick (2012).

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay
• Hunting the Snark - (1999) - novella
• Redchapel - (2000) - novelette
• Bwana - (1990) - novella
• Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge - (1994) - novella

I HAVE THIS NIFTY IDEA ...Now what do I do with it? This book contains outlines for science fiction and fantasy novels which real authors (new and old) used to sell their books to major publishing companies... actual examples drawn from authors' files, not idealized versions prepared just for a textbook. Whether you're a beginning writer looking to break into novels, an experienced professional seeking new tools and techniques to sell books, or a fan curious about the remarkable thought-processes of some of the great genre writers of our time, you will find something here which enlightens, educates, and entertains you. I Have This Nifty Idea is the perfect addition to every library of books on writing. Includes work by Robert Silverberg, David Brin, Joe Haldeman, Mike Resnick, Robert J. Sawyer, Barry N. Malzberg, Kevin J. Anderson, Charles Sheffield, Katharine Kerr, Jack Dann, Jack L. Chalker, and many more.

This short story originally appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, November 2008. It can also be found in the anthology Clarkesworld: Year Three (2013), edited by Neil Clarke and Sean Wallace.

Read the full story for free at Clarkesworld.

Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Nicholas A. DiChario
• Introduction - essay by Mike Resnick
• Birdie (1994) - short story by Mike Resnick and Nicholas A. DiChario
• The Sweet, Sad Love Song of Fred and Wilma (1994) - short story by Mike Resnick and Nicholas A. DiChario
• The Fighting 35th's Last Stand at the Dolores Proud Apple Valley School for the Blind - short story by Mike Resnick and Nicholas A. DiChario
• Alien Radio (1995) - short story by Mike Resnick and Nicholas A. DiChario
• The Joy of Hats (1995) - short story by Mike Resnick and Nicholas A. DiChario
• The Most Beautiful Girl Alive (1996) - short story by Mike Resnick and Nicholas A. DiChario
• The Arrows of Godly Passion (1998) - short story by Mike Resnick and Nicholas A. DiChario
• Fascinatin' Rhythm - short story by Mike Resnick and Nicholas A. DiChario
• Pleasantly Pink (1995) - short story by Mike Resnick and Nicholas A. DiChario
• Squonking (1995) - short story by Mike Resnick and Nicholas A. DiChario
• Working Stiff (1995) - short story by Mike Resnick and Nicholas A. DiChario
• Even Butterflies Can Sting [Eli Paxton] - short story by Mike Resnick
• The Winterberry (1992) - short story by Nicholas A. DiChario

In this all-new collection of nineteen stories by top male writers, the men are getting a chance to see if they can meet the challenge of successfully writing as women.

Contents:

• 9 - Introduction (Men Writing Science Fiction As Women) - essay by Mike Resnick
• 11 - Not Quite Immaculate - shortstory by Tom Gerencer
• 27 - G-Bomb - shortstory by Ron Collins
• 45 - Together Forever at the End of the World - novelette by Scott Edelman
• 73 - Crossing the Border - shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
• 79 - Relativity - shortstory by Robert J. Sawyer
• 91 - A Small Goddess - shortstory by John Teehan
• 99 - A Woman's Touch - shortstory by Ralph Roberts
• 119 - Staying Still - shortstory by Stephen Leigh
• 137 - The New Breed - shortstory by Michael A. Burstein
• 155 - In the Heart of Kalikuata - shortstory by Tobias S. Buckell
• 166 - Rachel - (1982) - shortstory by M. Shayne Bell
• 183 - Maternal Instincts - novelette by Jack Nimersheim
• 204 - Skimming Stones - shortstory by Bradley H. Sinor
• 221 - A Tale of the Oroi - novelette by Robert Sheckley
• 248 - Summer - shortstory by Jack Dann
• 259 - Digging in Gehenna - novelette by David Gerrold
• 287 - Zolo and the Jelly Ship - shortstory by Nicholas A. DiChario [as by Nick DiChario ]
• 293 - Love Story - shortstory by Frank M. Robinson
• 311 - Mom's Paradox - shortstory by Dean Wesley Smith

Hugo Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, March 1993. The story can also be found in the anthologis Alternate Warriors (1993), edited by Mike Resnick and The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection (1994). It is included in the collections An Alien Land (1998), New Dreams for Old (2005) and Win Some, Lose Some: The Hugo Award Winning (and Nominated) Short Science Fiction and Fantasy of Mike Resnick (2012).

New Dreams for Old is a collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by Mike Resnick, showing the depth and range that has not only made him a popular seller, but also placed him fourth (and climbing) on the all-time award list of all science fiction writers living and dead (as compiled by Locus).

This book contains award winners and nominees. It contains two stories that are currently in development by Hollywood. It contains stories that have won readers polls, that have won foreign prizes, and a few that are just out-and-out hilarious.

Most of these stories constitute recent work. One of them -- "Travels With My Cats" -- was a 2005 Hugo Award-winner and a Nebula nominee, while another -- "A Princess of Earth" -- was also a 2005 Hugo nominee. The story "Robots Don't Cry" was a 2004 Hugo nominee the previous year. Also included are the Hugo and Nebula nominee "For I Have Touched the Sky," Hugo nominee "Mwalimu in the Squared Circle," and Hugo winner "The 43 Antarean Dynasties." This collection also includes two novellas that have never seen print outside of the members-only Science Fiction Book Club.

Are there really elephants on Neptune? What does Old MacDonald of nursery-rhyme fame actually grow on his farm? Is there much difference between pruning elderly flowers and elderly people? A trio of award nominees, "The Elephants on Neptune," "Old MacDonald Had a Farm," and "Hothouse Flowers," provide the answers.

This is a collection of enormous range and the highest quality. More to the point, every story will not only make the reader think, but feel. The collection is introduced by Nancy Kress, herself a multiple Hugo and Nebula winner, and a monthly columnist for Writer's Digest.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2006) - essay by Nancy Kress
• Robots Don't Cry - (2003) - shortstory
• The Elephants on Neptune - (2000) - shortstory
• Travels with My Cats - (2004) - shortstory
• A Princess of Earth - (2004) - shortstory
• Down Memory Lane - (2005) - shortstory
• The Chinese Sandman - (2002) - novelette
• Guardian Angel - (2005) - novella
• Old MacDonald Had a Farm - (2001) - shortstory
• The Amorous Broom - (2004) - shortstory
• Hothouse Flowers - (1999) - shortstory
• His Award-Winning Science Fiction Story - (1988) - shortstory
• For I Have Touched the Sky - (1989) - novelette
• Unsafe at Any Speed - (2003) - essay
• The Pale Thin God - (1993) - shortstory
• Mwalimu in the Squared Circle - (1993) - shortstory
• Here's Looking at You, Kid - (2003) - shortstory
• The Burning Spear at Twilight - (2005) - shortstory
• The Kemosabee - (1994) - shortstory
• The 43 Antarean Dynasties - (1997) - shortstory
• Keepsakes - (2004) - novella

A collection of virtually all-original stories by the next generation of science fiction superstars-chosen by one of its current stars.

Includes stories by Kage Baker, Janis Ian, Julie E. Czerneda, Susan Matthews, Shane Tourtelotte, Cory Doctorow, Kay Kenyon, and others.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Mike Resnick
• The Black Bird - short story by David Barr Kirtley
• Intergalactic Refrigerator Repairmen Seldom Carry Cash - short story by Tom Gerencer
• Nucleon - (2001) - short story by David D. Levine
• Chicken Brain - short story by Janis Ian
• Lifeblood - novelette by Michael A. Burstein
• The Faithful - novelette by Kage Baker
• Messenger - novelette by Mark M. Stafford
• 1-800-WICKED1 - (2002) - short story by Lisa Mantchev
• Different Worlds - short story by James Van Pelt
• Four-Eyes - novelette by Tobias S. Buckell
• The Book of Faces - short story by Kay Kenyon
• Extended Family - short story by Shane Tourtellotte
• Flowers from Alice - novelette by Charles Stross and Cory Doctorow
• Dressmaker to the Princess - short story by Robyn Herrington
• Bubbles and Boxes - novelette by Julie E. Czerneda
• Aphrodite on a Bar Stool - short story by Barbara Galler-Smith
• Insubordination - short story by Susan R. Matthews
• Nine-Fingered Maria - short story by Hilary Moon Murphy
• The Echo of Silence - short story by Paul Crilley
• Custer's Angel - short story by Adrienne Gormley

Hugo Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2001. The story is included in the collections New Dreams for Old (2006) and Win Some, Lose Some: The Hugo Award Winning (and Nominated) Short Science Fiction and Fantasy of Mike Resnick (2012).

Multiple award-winning author Mike Resnick analyzes his writing process, discussing in detail how he writes his short stories. Each discussion is accompanied by the developing drafts of five of his most famous stories. An insightful look into the writing process ... and some of his creative choices are sure to surprise you.

This book contains early drafts of some of Resnick's most acclaimed works, and presents detailed discussions of the mistakes he made in the early drafts, why he made changes, and how he turned rough first drafts into award winning and award nominated works. Stories that are dissected in this book include:

The Elephants of Neptune (Current Hugo Nominee) Mwalimu in the Squared Circle (Hugo nominee) The Land of Nod (Hugo Award Nominee) The 43 Antarean Dynasties (Hugo Award Winner) The Kemosabe

If you are an aspiring writer, or you just want to learn what goes into a professional tale, this is a must-have book.

Red Will Donahoe, born barbarian into a world stripped of civilization, was a misfit. All around him were the results of the final blowup that had doomed civilization, skulking in the ruins of the city. And Donahoe skulked, too, hiding from the struggling normal society on the other side of the great river. Hiding not from his own choice, but because he was bound by unseen ties to the man in shadows, Gareth Cole - Master of the Mutants.

Cole watched his barbarian grow from childhood, grow into the fierceness of a manhood that could know no peace until it had tasted the rich taste of blood. And Cole, enigmatic ruler of half a world, wondered if he had made a mistake in allowing Redbeard to live.

Hugo Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, December 2000. The story can also be found in the collections Hunting the Snark and Other Short Novels (2002) and Win Some, Lose Some: The Hugo Award Winning (and Nominated) Short Science Fiction and Fantasy of Mike Resnick (2012).

Read the full story for free at the Baen website.

Resnick's Menagerie is a collection of previously published short fiction by Mike Resnick, all of which involve animals, whether real or imaginary: from dogs to werewolves, and from elephants to dragons. The collection includes eighteen stories; of them, one winner of the Hugo Award, four nominees for the Hugo Award, one nominee for the Nebula Award, and two winners of the American Dog Writers Award for Best Short Story, in different years.

Table of Contents:

• The Elephants on Neptune (2000) short story
• The Last Dog (1977) short story
• Malish (1991) short story
• Royal Bloodlines (2010) short story
• Barnaby in Exile (1994) short story
• A Better Mousetrap (2007) short story
• Hunting the Snark (1999) novella
• Stalking the Unicorn with Gun & Camera (1986) short story
• Stalking the Vampire (2009) short story
• Stalking the Dragon (2009) short story
• The One That Got Away (2004) short story
• Blue (1979) short story
• Post Time in Pink (1991) novelette
• Old MacDonald Had a Farm (2001) short story
• Darker Than You Wrote (1996) short story
• The Boy Who Cried "Dragon!" (2005) short story
• On Safari (2010) short story
• Travels with My Cats (2004) short story

It looked like a no-brainer to defense attorney Major Maxwell Becker. A starship captain has gone a little crazy and killed two of his crewmen in cold blood. Just plead insanity, make sure they give his client a nice, comfortable, padded cell, and go skiing at Aspen.

But the captain refuses to cop an insanity plea. He insists that the two crew members he killed were not humans, but aliens. That's his story, and he's sticking by it. So Becker reluctantly goes through the motions of trying to prove his case--

--and suddenly his witnesses start getting transferred or disappearing, and when he finally finds one he realizes there are holes in his story... and suddenly Becker is running for his life, hunted by every branch of the military. He can't figure it out: he's a loyal officer, he's just doing his job as a military attorney, he's never broken a law, there are no aliens: so why does everybody want him dead?

Authorized by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's estate, this brand-new collection of 26 Sherlock Holmes stories takes place in Holmes' own era, in our present time, and in the future. All the tales contain some science fiction or fantasy element, and all remain true to the spirit and personality of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous and enduring creation.

Contents:

• 1 - Introduction: The Detective Who Refused to Die (Sherlock Holmes in Orbit) - essay by Mike Resnick
• 7 - The Musgrave Version - (1995) - short story by George Alec Effinger
• 18 - The Case of the Detective's Smile - short story by Mark Bourne
• 27 - The Adventure of the Russian Grave - short story by William Barton and Michael Capobianco
• 38 - The Adventure of the Field Theorems - novelette by Vonda N. McIntyre
• 69 - The Adventure of the Missing Coffin - short story by Laura Resnick
• 82 - The Adventure of the Second Scarf - short story by Mark Aronson
• 102 - The Phantom of the Barbary Coast - novelette by Frank M. Robinson
• 135 - Mouse and the Master - short story by Brian M. Thomsen
• 146 - Two Roads, No Choices - short story by Dean Wesley Smith
• 164 - The Richmond Enigma - short story by John DeChancie
• 184 - A Study in Sussex - short story by Leah A. Zeldes
• 191 - The Holmes Team Advantage - short story by Gary Alan Ruse
• 208 - Alimentary, My Dear Watson - short story by Lawrence Schimel
• 213 - The Future Engine - novelette by Byron Tetrick
• 237 - Holmes Ex Machina - (1995) - short story by Susan Casper
• 245 - The Sherlock Solution - short story by Craig Shaw Gardner
• 255 - The Fan Who Molded Himself - short story by David Gerrold
• 268 - Second Fiddle - short story by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• 287 - Moriarty by Modem - (1995) - short story by Jack Nimersheim
• 303 - The Greatest Detective of All Time - short story by Ralph Roberts
• 319 - The Case of the Purloined L'Isitek - short story by Josepha Sherman
• 328 - The Adventure of the Illegal Alien - short story by Anthony R. Lewis
• 334 - Dogs, Masques, Love, Death: Flowers - short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 344 - You See But You Do Not Observe - short story by Robert J. Sawyer
• 363 - Illusions - short story by Janni Lee Simner
• 368 - The Adventure of the Pearly Gates - short story by Mike Resnick

Multiple award-winning authors Mike Resnick and Lezli Robyn get to the heart of the matter in Soulmates, which showcases all the words they have penned together over their years as collaborators (with a bonus solo piece by each).

Whether with a robot, alien, some kind of supernatural being or human, rising above our prejudices and ignorance allows us to make emotional connections that can have a profound effect on our lives. Each of these stories examines a facet of the simple, yet incredibly complex, concept of companionship. They will make you laugh, they will make you cry... but most importantly, they will make you look at the very basic notion of soul-mates in a different light.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Benchwarmer (2009)
• Idle Roomer (2008) (read online for free in Clarkesworld magazine)
• Report From the Field (2010)
• Anne-Droid of Green Gables (2010) [only by Lezli Robyn]
• Hunting the Snark (1999) [only by Mike Resnick]
• The Close Shave (2010)
• Making the Cut (2012)
• Shame (2010)
• Soulmates (2009) (read or listen online for free at EscapePod magazine)

The Messiah of the Old Testament was no Prince of Peace. He was expected to come with sword and fire and raze the old kingdoms to the ground. There were four signs by which he would be known.

Jesus of Nazareth fulfilled only one of the signs. That was more than a dozen other would-be Messiahs could boast. Until A.D. 2047, when a grifter named Jeremiah the B fulfills them all and puts the world in more jeopardy than it's been in since the comet hit, 65 million years ago!

Two prolific and award-winning science fiction writers, Mike Resnick and Barry N. Malzberg, have been publishing a "Dialogue" in every issue of the SFWA Bulletin, official publication of the Science Fiction Writers of America, for more than a decade. These collected columns explore every aspect of the literary genre, from writing to marketing to publishing, combining wit and insight with decades of experience.

Two science fiction masters--Jack McDevitt and Mike Resnick--team up to deliver a classic thriller in which one man uncovers the hidden history of the United States space program...

"Houston, we have a problem..."

Formerly a cynical, ambitious PR man, Jerry Culpepper finally found a client he could believe in when he was hired as NASA's public affairs director. Proud of the Agency's history and sure of its destiny, he was thrilled to be a part of its future.

But public disinterest and budget cuts changed that future. Now, a half century after the first Moon landing, Jerry feels like the only one with stars in his eyes.

Then a fifty-year-old secret about the Apollo XI mission is revealed, and he finds himself embroiled in the biggest controversy of the twenty-first century, one that will test his ability--and his willingness--to spin the truth about a conspiracy of reality-altering proportions...

Table of Contents:

• 1 - Editors' Introduction (The Dragon Done It) - essay by Eric Flint and Mike Resnick
• 3 - The Long and Short of It - [John Justin Mallory] - short fiction by Mike Resnick
• 31 - Dead Wolf in a Hat - short fiction by Graham Edwards
• 51 - This Town Ain't Big Enough - [Victory Nelson, Investigator] - novelette by Tanya Huff
• 75 - The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds - short story by Neil Gaiman
• 85 - The Whistling Room - [Carnacki] - short story by William Hope Hodgson
• 103 - Doppelgangster - short story by Laura Resnick
• 119 - Claus of Death - short story by Michael M. Jones
• 131 - McNamara's Fish - [Max Kearny] - short story by Ron Goulart
• 147 - Gunsel and Gretel - short fiction by Esther M. Friesner
• 181 - Alimentary, My Dear Watson - short story by Lawrence Schimel
• 187 - Fox Tails - [Yamada Monogatari] - short fiction by Richard Parks (variant of Foxtails)
• 211 - A Case of Identity - [Lord Darcy] - novella by Randall Garrett
• 271 - The Case of the Skinflint's Specters - short fiction by Brian M. Thomsen
• 279 - The Black Bird - short story by David Barr Kirtley
• 285 - The Enchanted Bunny - novella by David Drake
• 341 - The Adventure of the Pearly Gates - short story by Mike Resnick
• 349 - The Seventh Chapter - [Videssos] - short story by Harry Turtledove
• 365 - The Detective of Dreams - short story by Gene Wolfe
• 383 - The Witch's Murder - [Heirs of Alexandria] - short story by Eric Flint and Dave Free

Hugo and Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, May 2000. The story can also be found in the anthology Nebula Awards Showcase 2003, edited by Nancy Kress and the collections New Dreams for Old (2006) and Win Some, Lose Some (2012).

A grand alternate history, science fiction adventure from multiple New York Times best-selling author Eric Flint, creator of the Ring of Fire alternate history series, the Jao Empire series, and the Boundary series, and multiple Hugo award winner and science fiction legend Mike Resnick.

Russ Tabor is one of the top security specialists in the galaxy. Much against his will, he finds himself assigned to provide protection for Rupert Medawar Narayan Shenoy--"Lord Shenoy," as he likes to style himself--who is probably the human race's most brilliant savant. Shenoy has become convinced that the race of ancient aliens known as the Old Ones possessed powers unknown to any modern intelligent species. He believes they had harnessed forces which may well have been actual magic, giving the Old Ones the stature of gods.

Off Russ and Shenoy go to find the secret. Meanwhile, Occo, a member of the alien race known as the Nac Zhe Anglan, returns to her religious creed's home cloister to find that it has been completely destroyed--and by means which suggest that the Old Ones were the perpetrators. Yet the Old Ones, those ancient and inimical gods of the galaxy, were thought to have perished eons before.

Occo is not a savant of any kind. She is a shaman castigant, a warrior of her creed. Her purpose now is to seek revenge, not to uncover the secrets of the Old Ones. But she cannot do the one without first doing the other. So, she and her familiar Bresk set ought to track down those long-gone deities.

Now human adventures and an alien shaman are on a collision course with the truth: despite their many differences, only if they unite their forces do they stand any chance of surviving the coming encounter with the gods of Sagittarius.

Hugo Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, April-May 2011. The story can also be found in the collection Win Some, Lose Some: The Hugo Award Winning (and Nominated) Short Science Fiction and Fantasy of Mike Resnick (2012).

Read of listen to the full story for free at Escapepod.

In his long and storied career, Mike Resnick has won all of science fiction's most prestigious awards. He has won the Nebula, the Hugo, and numerous readers' awards. He has won the Japanese Hugo, as well as major awards in Spain, France, Poland and Croatia.

The Incarceration of Captain Nebula and Other Lost Futures focuses on Mike's most recent award-winners and nominees with the exception of heartbreaking 'The Last Dog,' Mike s very first award-winning short story and his multi-award-winning classic 'Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge.'

From examinations of life and death to questions of eternity, Mike's short fiction explores the range of the human experience--even though his characters include dogs, robots and aliens.

This collection has everything to appeal to the most devoted Mike Resnick fan, including a never-before-seen-in-print novella, 'Six Blind Men And An Alien.' The story, set in Africa like so many of Mike's award-winners, is one of his most spectacular works to date.

The Incarceration of Captain Nebula and Other Lost Futures shows why Mike Resnick is one of science fiction's most treasured writers--and one of its most beloved.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Mike Resnick
• Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge - (1994) - novella
• Barnaby in Exile - (1994) - shortstory
• The Last Dog - (1977) - shortstory
• Article of Faith - (2008) - shortstory
• The Big Guy - (2007) - shortstory
• The Boy Who Cried "Dragon!" - (2005) - shortstory
• Alastair Baffle's Emporium of Wonders - (2008) - novelette
• Distant Replay - (2007) - shortstory
• The Bride of Frankenstein - (2009) - shortstory
• The One That Got Away - (2004) - shortstory
• All the Things You Are - (2006) - novelette
• The Incarceration of Captain Nebula - (2010) - shortstory
• Six Blind Men and an Alien - (2010) - novella

Millard Fillmore Pierce, Class 2 Arbiter, is lost. And when you're in the service of the Spiral Federation, getting found again is no easy task. The paperwork alone could take years.

But when Pierce's ship is captured by an alien dreadnought, the nightmare only gets worse: The aliens are intent on galactic conquest, and they intend to start with Pierce.

The plot gets thicker and thicker from that point on, as three of science fiction's most accomplished storytellers attempt to write each other into a corner.

Hugo Award winning and Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, February 2004. The story can also be found in the anthology Nebula Awards Showcase 2006, edited by Gardner Dozois and the collections New Dreams for Old (2006) and Win Some, Lose Some (2012).

Listen to the story at Escape Pod.

Between 1989 and 2012, a span of 23 years, the members of the World Science Fiction Society have seen fit to honor Mike Resnick with 36 Hugo nominations, 30 for his fiction, more than any other science fiction author. The 30 nominated short stories, including the five winning tales, are included in this volume. As you read through these stories, you ll find Theodore Roosevelt attempting to bring civilization to the Congo... and to London. You'll return, with some regularity, to Africa, whether a mythical version existing on a terraformed asteroid or the historical birthplace of humanity along the Olduvai Gorge. Love and loss are depicted whether for a missing spouse, an old friend, an author one has never met, or a copper-skinned Martian princess. Walk in the dusty footsteps of Koriba or see what it is like to live with Dr. Frankenstein, his monster, and Igor. Like the fables which are embedded in so many of these tales, these stories will entertain and make you think. Without seeming to, Resnick adds layers of depth to even the most innocuous-seeming story. And when you are finished, you ll find yourself thinking about all they have to say.

Table of Contents:

• 1989 - "Kirinyaga" (winner), Introduced by Gardner Dozois
• 1990 - "For I Have Touched the Sky", Introduced by Nancy Kress
• 1991 - "Bully!", Introduced by Harry Turtledove
• 1991 - "The Manamouki" (winner), Introduced by Connie Willis
• 1992 - "Winter Solstice", Introduced by Laura Resnick
• 1992 - "One Perfect Morning, With Jackals", Introduced by Janis Ian
• 1993 - "The Lotus and the Spear", Introduced by Ralph Roberts
• 1994 - "Mwalimu in the Squared Circle", Introduced by Barry N. Malzberg
• 1995 - "Barnaby in Exile", Introduced by John Scalzi
• 1995 - "A Little Knowledge", Introduced by Nick DiChario
• 1995 - "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" (winner), Introduced by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• 1996 - "When the Old Gods Die", Introduced by Michael Stackpole
• 1996 - "Bibi (with Susan Schwartz)", Introduced by Susan Shwartz
• 1997 - "The Land of Nod", Introduced by Lou Anders
• 1998 - "The 43 Antarean Dynasties" (winner), Introduced by Michael Swanwick
• 2000 - "Hothouse Flowers", Introduced by Kay Kenyon
• 2000 - "Hunting the Snark", Introduced by David Brin
• 2001 - "The Elephants on Neptune", Introduced by Jack McDevitt
• 2002 - "Old MacDonald Had a Farm", Introduced by Eric Flint
• 2002 - "Redchapel", Introduced by Kevin J. Anderson
• 2004 - "Robots Don't Cry", Introduced by Robert Silverberg
• 2005 - "A Princess of Earth", Introduced by Catherine Asaro
• 2005 - "Travels with My Cats" (winner), Introduced by Sheila Williams
• 2006 - "Down Memory Lane", Introduced by Michael A. Burstein
• 2007 - "All the Things You Are", Introduced by Robert J. Sawyer
• 2008 - "Distant Replay", Introduced by Lezli Robyn
• 2009 - "Article of Faith", Introduced by James Patrick Kelly
• 2009 - "Alastair Baffle's Emporium of Wonders", Introduced by Bill Fawcett
• 2010 - "The Bride of Frankenstein", Introduced by Kij Johnson
• 2011 - "The Homecoming", Introduced by Brad R. Torgersen

Hugo Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October-November 1991. The story can also be found in the anthology The Way of the Wizard (2010), edited by John Joseph Adams. It is included in the collections Will the Last Person to Leave the Planet Please Shut Off the Sun? (1992) and Win Some, Lose Some: The Hugo Award Winning (and Nominated) Short Science Fiction and Fantasy of Mike Resnick (2012).

They're not men. (But that won't stop them from writing SF like men.) That's the premise of this highly original collection of new short stories-written from the viewpoint of the opposite sex.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Women Writing Science Fiction as Men) - essay by Mike Resnick
• Homecoming - novelette by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Big - novelette by Leah A. Zeldes
• Prayerville - shortstory by Janis Ian
• Kingdom Come - shortstory by Kay Kenyon
• Licensed to Reclaim - novelette by Laura Resnick
• Better Than Ants - shortstory by Barbara Galler-Smith
• Blackbird, Fly! - shortstory by Linda J. Dunn
• Call for Submissions - novelette by Severna Park
• All My Children - novelette by Leslie What
• What Goes Around - shortstory by Robyn Herrington
• Thumping the Weaver - novelette by Susan R. Matthews
• Maxwell's Law - shortstory by Adrienne Gormley
• Diving After Reflected Woman - shortstory by Terry McGarry
• Sweeps Week - shortstory by Mercedes Lackey
• A Good Idea at the Time - shortstory by Karen E. Taylor
• Jesus Freaks - novelette by Jennifer Roberson

Table of Contents:

• 1 - Introduction (The Alien Heart) - essay
• 7 - Beachcomber - (1980) - short story
• 13 - Me and My Shadow - (1984) - short story
• 35 - The Last Dog - (1977) - short story
• 43 - Watching Marcia - (1981) - short story
• 59 - Beibermann's Soul - (1988) - short story
• 65 - One Perfect Morning, with Jackals - [Kirinyaga - 1] - (1991) - short story
• 77 - Frankie the Spook - (1990) - short story
• 97 - Balance - [Susan Calvin] - (1989) - short story

It's 8:35 pm on New Year's Eve, and Private Detective John Justin Mallory is hiding out in his Manhattan office to avoid his landlord's persistent inquiries about the unpaid rent. As he cheerlessly reflects on the passing of a lousy year, which saw his business partner run off with his wife, he assumes the bourbon is responsible for the appearance of a belligerent elf. This elf informs him that he needs the detective's help in searching for a unicorn that was stolen from his charge.

When Mallory realises the little green fellow is not going to disappear with the passing of his inebriation, he listens to the elf's impassioned plea that the stolen magical beast must be returned to his care by daylight or his little green life will be forfeited by the elves' guild.

Join detective Mallory on a New Year's night of wild adventure in a fantasy Manhattan of leprechauns, gnomes, and harpies as he matches wits with the all-powerful demon The Grundy in a race to find the missing unicorn before time runs out!

It's Halloween, and John Justin Mallory's partner, Winnifred Carruthers, has been so busy preparing for the biggest holiday of the year (in this Manhattan, anyway) that she seems short of energy and pale. Mallory is worried that she's been working too hard. Then he notices the two puncture marks on her neck...

On this night when ghosts and goblins are out celebrating, detective Mallory must stalk the vampire who has threatened his partner and killed her nephew. With the aid of Felina, the cat-girl, Mallory and Carruthers investigate clubs and lairs that only seem to exist on this one night of the year.

His hunt takes him to Creepy Conrad's Cut-Rate All-Night Mortuary, where he questions the living and the dead; to the Annual Zombies' Ball, to learn more about the undead; to the Hills of Home Cemetery, where the vampire sleeps by day; and to Battery Park, where all of Manhattan's bats come to feed and sleep. Along the way he meets a few old friends and enemies, and a host of strange new inhabitants of this otherworldly Manhattan. Locked in an intriguing battle of wits with the millennia-old vampire, Mallory has until dawn if he is to save his trusted partner.

It is Valentine's Day and private detective John Justin Mallory is planning on closing up the office early and taking his partner, Colonel Winnifred Carruthers, out to dinner, since he's sure no one else will do so. But before he can turn off the lights and lock the door, a panic-stricken Buffalo Bill Brody visits them.

It seems that the Eastminster pet show is being held the next day, and his dragon, Fluffy, the heavy favourite, has been kidnapped. Mallory's nocturnal hunt for the miniature dragon takes him to some of the stranger sections of this Manhattan - Greenwitch Village (which is right around the corner from Greenwich Village and is populated by witches and covens); a wax museum where figures of Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre come alive; Gracie Mansion (which is haunted by the ghosts of former mayors); and the Bureau of Missing Creatures, a movie set where they're filming a PBS documentary on zombies and various other denizens of the Manhattan night.

As Mallory follows the leads and hunts for clues, he comes up against one dead end after another. Along the way he meets a few old friends and enemies, and a host of strange new inhabitants of this otherworldly Manhattan. Aided by a strange goblin named Jeeves, Mallory has only one night to find a tiny dragon that's hidden somewhere in a city of seven million.

A collection of 25 speculations asks 'what if' the fortunes of the Kennedy family had been different, including an all-Kennedy rock group, JFK in the real Camelot, and much more.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1992) - essay by Mike Resnick
• "Camelot Redux" - (1992) - poem by Jane Yolen
• A Fleeting Wisp of Glory - (1992) - shortstory by Laura Resnick
• In the Stone House - (1992) - novelette by Barry N. Malzberg
• The Kennedy Enterprise - (1992) - shortstory by David Gerrold
• The Best and the Brightest - (1992) - shortstory by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Short Count in Chicago - (1992) - shortstory by Jack C. Haldeman, II
• Siren Song - (1992) - novelette by Susan Shwartz
• Them Old Hyannis Blues - (1992) - shortstory by Judith Tarr
• Rosemary: Scrambled Eggs on a Blue Plate - (1992) - shortstory by Alan Rodgers and James D. Macdonald
• The Missing 35th President - (1992) - shortstory by Brian M. Thomsen
• Freedom - (1992) - shortstory by Barbara Delaplace
• A Massachusetts Yankee in King Arthur's Court - (1992) - novelette by Harry Turtledove
• President-Elect - (1992) - shortstory by Mark Aronson
• No Prisoners - (1992) - novelette by Pat Cadigan
• Lady in Waiting - (1992) - shortstory by Mike Resnick
• The Inga-Binga Affair - (1992) - shortstory by Michael P. Kube-McDowell
• Bobbygate - (1992) - shortstory by Richard Katze
• Now and in the Hour of Our Death - (1992) - shortstory by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald
• Eoghan - (1992) - novelette by Nancy Kress
• 'Til Death Do Us Part - (1992) - shortstory by Charles Von Rospach
• Gloria Remembers - (1992) - shortstory by Brian M. Thomsen
• Told You So - (1992) - shortstory by Esther M. Friesner
• The End of Summer, by the Great Sea - (1992) - shortstory by Ginjer Buchanan
• Prince Pat - (1992) - novelette by George Alec Effinger
• The Disorder and Early Sorrow of Edward Moore Kennedy, Homunculus - (1992) - shortstory by Robert Sheckley
• Rosemary's Brain - (1992) - shortstory by Martha Soukup
• The Winterberry - (1992) - shortstory by Nicholas A. DiChario

Some of today's top writers envision Americas that might have been..." "What would have happened if Benjamin Franklin had been elected the first President of these United States? Or if frontiersman Davy Crockett had ended up running things? Imagine that Abraham Lincoln had lost the election of 1860 and become one of the great generals of the Civil War. Or...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Playing the Game of WHAT IF? - essay by Mike Resnick
• The Father of His Country - shortstory by Jody Lynn Nye
• The War of '07 - novelette by Jayge Carr
• Black Earth and Destiny - (1991) - shortstory by Thomas A. Easton
• Chickasaw Slave - (1991) - novelette by Judith Moffett
• How the South Preserved the Union - novelette by Ralph Roberts
• Now Falls the Cold, Cold Night - shortstory by Jack L. Chalker
• Lincoln's Charge - shortstory by Bill Fawcett
• We Are Not Amused - shortstory by Laura Resnick
• Patriot's Dream - novelette by Tappan King
• I Shall Have a Flight to Glory - novelette by Michael P. Kube-McDowell
• Love Our Lockwood - shortstory by Janet Kagan
• Plowshare - shortstory by Martha Soukup
• The Bull Moose at Bay - (1991) - shortstory by Mike Resnick
• A Fireside Chat - shortstory by Jack Nimersheim
• Fighting Bob - shortstory by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Truth, Justice, and the American Way - shortstory by Lawrence Watt-Evans
• Kingfish - shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
• No Other Choice - shortstory by Barbara Delaplace
• The More Things Change ... - shortstory by Glen Engel-Cox
• The Impeachment of Adlai Stevenson - shortstory by David Gerrold
• Heavy Metal - shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
• Fellow Americans - (1991) - shortstory by Eileen Gunn
• Dispatches from the Revolution - (1991) - novelette by Pat Cadigan
• Suppose They Gave a Peace ... - novelette by Susan Shwartz
• Paper Trail - shortstory by Brian M. Thomsen
• Demarche to Iran - shortstory by Alexis A. Gilliland
• Huddled Masses - novella by Lawrence Person
• Dukakis and the Aliens - (1992) - shortstory by Robert Sheckley

In the startling tradition of Alternate Presidents, here are fantastic stories about the most surprising warriors of all. Such leading SF writers as Mercedes Lackey and Michael P. Kube-McDowell invent new destinies for great peacemakers from King to Christ, Gandhi to Einstein.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1993) - essay by Mike Resnick
• Mwalimu in the Squared Circle - (1993) - shortstory by Mike Resnick
• Jane's Fighting Ships - (1993) - shortfiction by Esther M. Friesner
• Taking Action - (1993) - shortstory by Lawrence Schimel
• Because Thou Lovest the Burning-Ground - (1993) - shortfiction by Michael P. Kube-McDowell
• Ballad of the Spanish Civil Guard - (1993) - shortstory by Kathe Koja
• The Vatican Outfit - (1993) - shortstory by Laura Resnick
• Tut's Wife - (1993) - shortfiction by Maureen F. McHugh
• Extreme Feminism - (1993) - shortfiction by Nicholas A. DiChario
• The Battle of All Mothers - (1993) - shortstory by Jack Nimersheim
• Jihad - (1993) - shortstory by Mercedes Lackey
• Sam Clemens and the Notable Mare - (1993) - shortfiction by Mel. White
• ...But the Sword! - (1993) - shortstory by Anthony R. Lewis
• Fugato - (1993) - shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
• The Firebringers - (1993) - novelette by David Gerrold
• Albert Schweitzer and the Treasures of Atlantis - (1993) - shortstory by George Alec Effinger
• Queen of Asia - (1993) - shortfiction by Judith Tarr
• Zealot - (1993) - shortfiction by Bill Fawcett
• The Cold Warrior - (1993) - shortstory by Jack C. Haldeman, II
• For Love of God - (1993) - shortfiction by Michelle Sagara
• Al Einstein -- Nazi Smasher! - (1993) - shortstory by Lea Hernandez
• Mind Over Matter - (1993) - shortstory by Jack Nimersheim
• One By One - (1993) - shortfiction by Beth Meacham
• The Mark of the Angel - (1993) - shortfiction by Tappan King
• Standing Firm - (1993) - shortstory by Barbara Delaplace
• A Sense of Loyalty, a Sense of Betrayal - (1993) - shortfiction by Brian M. Thomsen
• Unmerited Favor - (1993) - shortstory by Brad Linaweaver
• Death of a Dream - (1993) - shortstory by Jack C. Haldeman, II
• Monsieur Verne and the Martian Invasion - (1993) - shortfiction by Josepha Sherman
• The Arrival of Truth - (1993) - novelette by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Judith Tarr, George Alec Effinger, Frank M. Robinson, David Gerrold, and other notable writers present a collection of entertaining science fiction tales in which the bad guys go legit and some of history's heroes take up a life of crime.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Mike Resnick
• Ma Teresa and the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang - shortstory by Jack C. Haldeman, II
• A Quiet Evening by Gaslight - shortstory by Geoffrey A. Landis
• A Spark in the Darkness - shortstory by Beth Meacham
• Common Sense - shortstory by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Literary Lives - novelette by Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg
• Saint Frankie - shortstory by Laura Resnick
• Good Girl, Bad Dog - shortstory by Martha Soukup
• Comrade Bill - shortstory by John E. Johnston, III
• The Ballad of Ritchie Valenzuela - shortstory by Maureen F. McHugh
• One Month in 1907 - shortstory by Frank M. Robinson
• What Goes Around - shortstory by David Gerrold
• Red Elvis - novelette by Walter Jon Williams
• Cui Bono? - shortstory by Katharine Kerr
• Cowards Die: A Tragicomedy in Several Fits - shortstory by Judith Tarr
• Black Betsy - shortstory by Dean Wesley Smith
• Miranda - shortstory by Robert Sheckley
• Riders in the Sky - novelette by Allen Steele
• #2, with a Bullet - shortstory by Jack Nimersheim
• Learning Magic - shortstory by Janni Lee Simner
• The Crimson Rose - novelette by Tappan King
• What She Won't Remember - novelette by Michelle Sagara
• My Tongue in Thy Tale - shortstory by Gregory Feeley
• Souvenirs - shortstory by Alan Rodgers and James D. Macdonald
• Bigger Than U.S. Steel - shortstory by Brian M. Thomsen
• Giving Head - novelette by Nicholas A. DiChario
• Satan Claus - shortstory by David Gerrold
• Shootout at Gower Gulch - novelette by George Alec Effinger
• Painted Bridges - shortstory by Barbara Delaplace

History is full of tyrants. But even the best of history's other rulers have always been just a few decisions away from tyranny. From 20 of science fiction's finest storytellers come exciting tales of despots that never were "Alternate Tyrants".

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1996) - essay by Mike Resnick
• Children of Tears - (1996) - shortstory by Adrienne Gormley
• Boss - (1996) - novelette by Mark Bourne
• The Rising Sun at Dusk - (1996) - shortstory by Jack Nimersheim
• And Make Death Proud to Yake Us - (1996) - shortstory by Karawynn Long
• Infallibility, Obedience, and Acts of Contrition - (1996) - shortstory by Brian M. Thomsen
• Causes - (1997) - novelette by Frank M. Robinson
• Amandla! - shortstory by Laura Resnick
• In the Last Chamber - shortstory by Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg
• That'll Be the Day - (1996) - novelette by Jack C. Haldeman, II and Barbara Delaplace
• The Symmetry of Duty - (1996) - shortstory by Louise Rowder
• Jubilee - (1996) - novelette by Richard A. Lupoff
• Mahogany Dreams - (1996) - shortstory by Lyn Nichols
• A Stable Relationship - (1996) - shortstory by Lawrence Schimel
• Faith - (1996) - shortstory by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• The October Crisis - (1996) - novelette by Edo van Belkom
• The King of Poland's Foot Cavalry - (1996) - novelette by Roland J. Green
• Dao De Qing by Lao Tzu - (1996) - shortstory by Nicholas A. DiChario
• The Sword in the Stone - (1996) - novelette by Michelle West
• The Crab Lice - (1996) - shortstory by Gregory Feeley
• The Lincoln Train - (1995) - shortstory by Maureen F. McHugh

Galactica was trapped! A cylon warfleet was lurking just a lightjump away. And Earth - Hopelessly primitive! - was completly unaware that the renegade Zaviar was rearranging history to make the planet into his private empire... Only Captain Troy and Lieutenant Dillon knew just how dangerous Earth's predicament was. And if they have to save the ancient homeworld single-handedly - well that was a warrior's job!

Dr. Michael Drake, a great medical researcher, chose to disappear into the jungles of the world called Bushveld, but now the Human-settled Galaxy needs him to combat a new plague. Journalist-adventurer Robert Markham has determined to locate Drake and bring him back to civilization. But Markham is not after Drake for the same reason as the millions who may die. He is interested in his own reputation as a great explorer - and in the money he will make from selling his story.

How far would you go to unlock the mysteries of an alien culture? Journalist and adventurer Xavier William Lennox becomes obsessed with the rituals of the Fireflies, an alien culture of gold-skinned inhabitants living on the planet Medina. When he gets too close to their mysterious society, he's captured, tortured, and banished for defying their laws, but vows to learn what the aliens are so desperate to hide, even if it means becoming one of them. His curiosity doesn't end there.

As opportunities arise to study more alien races, Lennox takes cultural immersion to the breaking point. He not only buries himself in the language and customs of the aliens, but also undergoes severe surgeries to become one of them. Each time his humanity is stretched until he faces his biggest challenge-trying to return to the ordinary life of a man who has experienced the universe in ways he was never meant to.

Hugo and Nebula Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, December 1999. The story can also be found in the collections Hunting the Snark and Other Short Novels (2002), Dreamwish Beasts and Snarks (2009) and Win Some, Lose Some (2012).

In the year 6303, when earth is bare of anything larger than an insect or a mouse and most people have left for the stars, Duncan Rojas receives a most unusual visitor. His name is Bukoba Mandaka, and he is the last of the Maasai. Mandaka wants Rojas, senior researcher for Braxton's Records of Big Game, to find the tusks of the Kilimanjaro Elephant, tusks that weigh over 200 lb. each. Why? Mandaka will not say, but he will pay enormous sums for them. And Rojas cannot resist the challenge of tracing something lost for 3000 years. Back and forth through time, in card games, wars, and rivalries, Rojas searches. But as he begins to glimpse the elusive, lost power of ancient Africa, he is seduced, and before long the quest has become his own.

Hugo Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2003. The story can also be found in the anthologies Robots (2005) edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois, and L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 30 (2014), edited by Dave Wolverton. It is included in the collections New Dreams for Old (2006) and Win Some, Lose Some: The Hugo Award Winning (and Nominated) Short Science Fiction and Fantasy of Mike Resnick (2012).

Read the full story for free at the Baen website.

Seven views of Olduvai Gorge is one of the most celebrated novellas ever written. It not only won both the Hugo and Nebula, but also the Homer award and the SF Chronicle Poll and was a nominee for the Locus Award and the Sturgeon Award. It was alo nominated for a number of international awards, winning the Ignotus and the Universitat Polytechnica Awards in Spain, the Prix Ozone award in France and the Futura Award in Croatia.

In the future, eons after the demise of Humanity and its far-flung galactic empire, a group of alien archiologists visits Earth to uncover the secret of the dead race's initial overwhelming success and its ultimate death.

Digging through layers of Archaeological strata at Olduvai Gorge, they discover seven unique artifacts, each related to a different era of humanity's history and each telling a unique story about humankind's strengths and weakness.

But are they prepared for the final discovery, which will change their worlds forever?

Read this story online for free at Subterranean Press.

Hugo Award winning and Sturgeon Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, December 1997. The story can also be found in the anthology Alien Contact (2012), edited by Marty Halpern. It is included in the collections A Safari of the Mind (1999), New Dreams for Old (2006) and Win Some, Lose Some (2012).

Read the full story for free at Marty Halpern's blog.

Award-winning author Mike Resnick takes us back to his wild and wooly Inner Frontier in this tall-tale of an adventure novel.

On the planet Henry II, orbiting the twin suns Plantagenet and Tudor, at the very edge of the great black hole at the center of the Milky Way, there is a tavern called The Outpost. Through the doors of The Outpost have come the greatest heroes, villains, and adventurers of the galaxcy - to drink, to brag, and to swap tales.

The Outpost is neutral territory where fighting is forbidden and blood enemies can have a drink together and tell stories of battles past. After all bounty hunters, con men, intinerant preachers, thieves, and assassins have more in common with each other than they do with the rest of the mundane galaxy.

But their pleasant life of recalling murder and mayhem is interrupted by an alien invasion, and to save their way of life these rugged individualists must try to work together for a change.

A professional hunter in the future forms a strange relationship with the creature he is hired to kill, and an obsession that begin like Ahab's for Moby Dick very subtly morphs into something closer to The Flying Dutchman.

He killed 11 million men in the death camps of Pilor IX during the brief reign of the mad Emperor Justacious. He killed 17 million men on Boriga II in a manner that made the gas ovens of ancient Earth and its Reich seem compassionate. He killed 5 million women and children on New Rhodesia. He killed 3,017 men on Cambria III, each in a different way. He invented torture devices that even Spica VI, which was in revolt against the Republic, would not use.

No photograph, holograph, or videodisc of him is known to exist. He has never been fingerprinted. There is no voice or retina identification pattern on him in any computer. He has no bank account on any world, no financial or property holdings that anyone has been able to trace. His planet of origin is unknown. Many men have served him; all but seven are dead, and none of those seven have ever seen him.

He is a fugitive.

His name is Conrad Bland and he is, for the moment, safe. But someone has sent an assassin to find him - and end him.

Chief Detective John Sable is caught between his badge and his conscience as the two most famous executioners of all time prepare to do battle in his territory.

The Earth-like planet Peponi has vast riches, an abundant and opulent wildlife, much like Kenya on old-Earth, and most importantly, compliant natives. But now that humanity is on the brink of opening up an entirely new world, has it learned its lessons from the past? Covers the time from colonization to independence.

When Karimon is claimed by human colonists, which bears an uncanny resemblence to Zimbabwe on old-Earth, the planet's intelligent reptile inhabitants fight back by forging an alliance with the invaders' enemies. Covers the time from colonization to independence.

A small group of humans hope to avoid the mistakes that destroyed many other worlds. They are raising the Jasons from barbarism to civilization, on a planet which has much in comman with Uganda from old-Earth, but something goes hideously wrong.

William Masterson must try to find out why Jehanum, a showplace planet with a model government, productive farms, and a thriving tourist industry, has descended into bloody barbarism. One dictator after another rises to power, and the culture of the world is torn to fragments.

The Democracy is at war with the alien Traanskei Coalition. War hero Colonel Nathan Pretorius has a record of success on dangerous behind-enemy-lines missions, missions that usually leave him in the hospital. Now he's recruited for a near-impossible assignment that may well leave him dead.

At the cost of many lives, the Democracy has managed to clone and train General Michkag, one of the Traanskei's master strategists. Colonel Pretorius and a hand-picked team must kidnap the real Michkag if they can, assassinate him if they can't, but no matter which, put the clone in his place, where he will misdirect the enemy's forces and funnel vital information to the Democracy.

Against the odds, Pretorius, along with Cyborg Felix Ortega, computer expert Toni Levi, convict and contortionist Sally "Snake" Kowalski, the near-human empath Marlowe, the alien Gzychurlyx, and Madam Methuselah - the Dead Enders - must infiltrate the Fortress in Orion, accomplish their mission, and escape with their lives.

The Traanskei Coalition's greatest weapon is the Q bomb, and after years of failure, the Democracy has come up with a defense against it. The problem is that they killed most of the team that created it. The sole survivor, Edgar Nmumba, was kidnapped by the Coalition. Only Nmumba can duplicate the work fast enough to prevent the loss of another dozen populated planets.

Nathan Pretorius and his team of Dead Enders will require all their skills and cunning to rescue him, sane and in one piece, from the Coalition's best-hidden and best-guarded prison, somewhere in the Antares sector. But in a game of cross and double-cross, can they find him before it's too late?

A crisis has arisen. In the first book of the series, THE FORTRESS IN ORION, Pretorius and his Dead Enders kidnapped the real General Michkag and substituted a clone who had been raised and trained in the Democracy. But now they find that the clone likes being the most powerful man in the hundred-world Traanskei Coalititon - and having been raised on Earth, he knows how humans think and react.

This becomes a many-layered problem for Pretorius and what is left of his Dead Enders. As the only humans on a totally militarized alien world, they must first find where the best-guarded member of the enemy's military - Michkag - is hiding and how many aliens, or regiments, or divisions, are guarding him, and then they must find a way past all his lines of defense to kill or capture him.

Larger than life, they stride the untamed galaxy. Heroes and villains, spacers and bounty hunters, with legendary names like Cemetery Smith, the Forever Kid, the Iceman, the Mock Turtle.

But the most dangerous - and wanted - being in the universe is a frightened little girl with the unearthly power to forsee, control or destroy. Her name is Penelope Bailey.

The furure will call her... Soothsayer.

Since she was a little girl, all humanity has been frightened by Penelope Bailey's awesome psychic talent and her ability to bend events--and men--to her will. Now a grown woman and living on the planet Hades, Penelope is caught in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a bounty hunter, a government agent, and an out-for-profit, outlaw cyborg--none of who suspect the true depths of her power.

This is the final volume of a trilogy which started with "Soothsayer" and "Oracle". In this volume, the Ice Man is beseiged by people trying to kill him, five in one month. As he sends the Gravedancer to find out who wants him dead, what he really wants to know is why the Prophet has allowed him to live.

An epic novel of human expansion across the stars.

This brilliant science fiction novel constructs a blueprint of mankind's history-social, political, economic, scientific, and religious - for the next eighteen thousand years. Through a series of adventures, it illustrates clear, focused ideas about our birthright and our destiny.

Bandit, murderer, known to all, seen by none...has he killed a thousand men? Has he saved a dozen world? His legend is as large as the Rim itself, his trail as elusive as a wisp of starlight in the empty realms of space. The reward for him is the largest in history.

Bandit, murderer, known to all, seen by none....

Has he killed a thousand men? Has he saved a dozen worlds? His legend is as large as the Rim itself, his trail as elusive as a wisp of starlight in the empty realms of space. The reward for him is the largest in history.

She was old when the world was young. Her image appears in painting from before the Renaissance - but also from the Earth of 3,000 years from now, and from a dozen or more far-flung worlds around the galaxy. Who is she, and what is her secret? It remains for an alien art critic named Leonardo by his human associates to find the answer, and to put himself, his friends, and even some of those worlds at risk in the process.

The starship Theodore Roosevelt is fighting on the far outskirts of a galactic war, its crew made up of retreads and raw recruits. A new first officer reports, Wilson Cole, a man with a reputation for exceeding his orders (but getting results). He's been banished to the Teddy R. for his actions, but once there he again ignores his orders....

This is the first of five novels about the starship Theodore Roosevelt. The next four will be, in order, Pirate, Mercenary, Rebel, and Flagship.

The date is 1967 of the Galactic Era, almost three thousand years from now. The Republic, created by the human race but not yet dominated by it, is in the midst of an all-out war with the Teroni Federation. After his latest exploit saved millions of lives but embarrassed his superiors, Captain Wilson Cole, a man with a reputation for exceeding orders but getting results, found himself the victim of the media feeding frenzy, a political scapegoat despite years of dedicated military service. Faced with a court martial, he was rescued by the loyal crew of his ship, the Theodore Roosevelt. Now branded mutineers, the crew of the Teddy R. has quit the Republic, never to return.

Seeking to find a new life for themselves, Wilson Cole and comrades remake the Teddy R. as a pirate ship and set sail for the lawless Inner Frontier. Here, powerful warlords, cut-throat pirates, and struggling colonies compete for survival in a game where you rarely get a second chance to learn the rules.

But military discipline is poor preparation for a life of pillaging and plundering, and Cole's principles naturally limit his targets. Seeking an education on the nature of piracy, Cole hunts more knowledgeable players. Enter the beautiful but deadly Valkyrie, Val for short, and the enigmatic alien fence known as David Copperfield. But hanging over everything is the fearsome alien pirate -- the Hammerhead Shark.

With Starship: Pirate, five-time Hugo winner Mike Resnick continues the story begun in his very first military SF. Will the galaxy ever be the same?

The date is 1968 of the Galactic Era, almost three thousand years from now. The Republic, created by the human race but not yet dominated by it, is in the midst of an all-out war with the Teroni Federation. Captain Wilson Cole, a man with a reputation for exceeding orders but getting results, found himself the victim of a media feeding frenzy, a political scapegoat despite years of dedicated military service. Faced with a court martial, he was rescued by the loyal crew of his ship, the Theodore Roosevelt. Branded mutineers, the Teddy R. has quit the Republic, never to return.

Seeking to find a new life, Wilson Cole first remade the Teddy R. as a pirate ship plying the spaceways of the lawless Inner Frontier. But military discipline and honor were a poor match for a life of pillaging and plundering, and Cole's principles naturally limited his targets. Taking on a new role, the Teddy R. becomes a mercenary ship, hiring out to the highest bidder. Whether it's evacuating a hospital before war can reach it, freeing a client from an alien prison, or stopping a criminal cartel from extorting money from a terrified planet, the crew of the Teddy R. proves equal to the task. Along the way they form a partnership with the once human Platinum Duke, team up with a former enemy, and make the unique Singapore Station their headquarters.

But the life of a mercenary is not always predictable, and eventually circumstance pits Cole and the Teddy R. against his right-hand woman, the former Pirate Queen known as the Valkyrie. Soon the fragile trust that has grown between these two legends is put to the test as they find themselves on opposite sides of a job.

The date is 1968 of the Galactic Era, almost three thousand years from now. The Republic, dominated by the human race, is in the midst of an all-out war with the Teroni Federation.

Almost a year has passed since the events of Starship: Mercenary. Captain Wilson Cole now commands a fleet of almost fifty ships, and he has become the single greatest military force on the Inner Frontier.

With one exception. The Republic still comes and goes as it pleases, taking what it wants, conscripting men, and extorting taxes, even though the Frontier worlds receive nothing in exchange. And, of course, the government still wants Wilson Cole and the starship Theodore Roosevelt. He has no interest in confronting such an overwhelming force, and constantly steers clear of them.

Then an incident occurs that changes everything, and Cole declares war on the Republic. Outnumbered and always outgunned, his fleet is no match for the Republic's millions of military vessels, even after he forges alliances with the warlords he previously hunted down.

It's a hopeless cause... but that's just what Wilson Cole and the Teddy R. are best at.

The date is 1970 of the Galactic Era, almost three thousand years from now, and the Republic, created by the human race but not yet dominated by it, finds itself in an all-out war against the Teroni Federation, an alliance of races that resent Man's growing military and economic power.

The rebel starship, the Theodore Roosevelt, under the command of Wilson Cole, is preparing to lead Cole's ragtag armada into the Republic, even though he is outnumbered thousands to one. Cole is convinced that the government has become an arrogant and unfeeling political entity and must be overthrown.

The trick is to avoid armed conflict with the vast array of ships, numbering in the millions, in the Republic's Navy. For a time Cole's forces strike from cover and race off to safety, but he soon sees that is no way to conquer the mightiest political and military machine in the history of the galaxy. He realizes that he must reach Deluros VIII, the headquarters world of the Republic (and of the race of Man), in order to have any effect on the government at all—but Deluros VIII is the best-protected world in the Republic.

But a new threat looms on the horizon. Cole, the Valkyrie, David Copperfield, Sharon Blacksmith, Jacovic, and the rest of the crew of the Teddy R face their greatest challenge yet, and the outcome will determine the fate of the entire galaxy.

Traveling carnival owner Thaddeus Flint swindles the owner of a freak show into an unlikely business partnership. When Flint discovers that the freaks are a group of undercover alien tourists, he keeps the secret from the outside world and looks for an opportunity to expand his carny tour out to the stars.

Traveling carnival owner Thaddeus Flint expands his tour from the American Northeast out to the stars, only to discover that some of the attractions don't quite hold the audience like they did back on Earth. Realizing that his strip show has no more appeal to an alien audience than watching a saddle come off a horse, he reassigns his girls to work the game booths on the midway. When one of the girls can't make the transition, he improvises an alien solution.

The carnival has left Earth and is touring the stars, and is finding out that making a living light-years from Earth is no easier than doing it here. Thaddeus Flint and his crew have to come up with fresh solutions to totally unexpected problems. The carnival tries a typical carny scam that backfires when their animal trainer and his sentient "animal" go to war every night in the big cage.

Five years into his traveling carnival tour of the galaxy, Thaddeus Flint and his alien business partner are rolling in the dough for the Corporation. When Billybuck Dancer, the trick shot artist, gets bored and starts taking dangerous chances with his own safety, Flint captures his attention by arranging a much-publicized and highly-profitable showdown between Dancer and his nemesis, Doc Holliday.

The Velvet Comet is one of the most profitable and popular pleasure palaces in space. The company that owns it is hit by internal power struggles for dominance.

Harry Redwine is sent onboard to secretly ruin the palace but finds more of a fight than he bargained for against the Leather Madonna palace ruler and her lovely no-holds barred crew of women.

Arrogant and overbearing Syndicate detective Andrew Crane arrives aboard the Velvet Comet to investigate a murder. When Crane discovers that the murderer is setting a trap to lure a notorious criminal aboard the Comet, the consequences of solving the mystery forces Crane to become judge, jury, and executioner.

In an attempt to financially persuade the Reverend Thomas Gold to discontinue his public condemnations the Velvet Comet, the Vainmill Syndicate invites the popular cult leader to a charity event aboard the galaxy's most notorious house of ill repute. But when the Reverend is exposed to an alien twist on the sins of the flesh, his own weakness threatens to topple his ministry - and his sanity.

Screenwriter and novelist Nate Page arrives aboard the empty Velvet Comet twenty-three years after it is decommissioned by the Vainmill Syndicate. The light-topic musical holographic production that Nate is writing is based on the Velvet Comet in its prime, and requires research available only through Cupid, the ship's still-functioning and nearly-self-aware onboard computer.

As the cynical screenwriter and the unemotionally truthful computer struggle to create a work of fiction true to the reality of life aboard the Comet, Nate's agent makes it clear that prostituting your art is not any different from prostituting your body.

One of the major voices in science fiction, Mike Resnick presents the first volume in a bold new trilogy.Jefferson Nighthawk--known and feared by many as the Widowmaker, the consummate bounty hunter--has been frozen for a century in order to defeat a deadly disease. Only now the cost of his care has risen, so the Widowmaker is called out of retirement for one special commission, and a very large chunk of cash. A notorious assassin has been wrecking havoc on the Frontier; who better but the Widowmaker to defeat him?

Jefferson Nighthawk, once the galaxy's most feared killer, is cloned again and given a new mission. This time he is not only armed with the Widowmaker's killing skills, but also with his lifetime of knowledge. Nighthawk's new mission involves the rescue of a corrupt politician's daughter, and the assassination of the rebel leader who holds her captive. But the daughter puts a wrinkle in the plan when she offers her father's fortune if Nighthawk kills her father instead. While the odds are overwhelming, the price may be right.

Jefferson Nighthawk -- the Widowmaker -- is finally cured of his disease. A man in his sixties, who has been in a coma for a century, all he wants to do is live out his life peacefully and tend his garden...but he is continually sought out, not by his own enemies who are long dead, but by enemies made by his two clones, men he has never seen before, perfect strangers who are out to kill him. His retirement will have to be put on hold until he solves this ongoing and deadly problem.

Jefferson Nighthawk, the original Widowmaker, is married and retired, looking forward to a peaceul old age. But when his two clones try to kill each other, he realizes that he can't turn his back on the situation -- or the fact that there is an alien menace out there that will require the combined might of all three Widowmakers, if even that is enough.

THE CHRONICLES OF LUCIFER JONES

Being a Stirring Chronicle of Intrigue, Romance, Danger, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Thrilling Triumphs over Fierce Beasts and Fiercer Men in the Mysterious and Exotic Dark Continent, as Recounted by the Daring, Resourceful, Handsome, and Modest Christian Gentleman Who Experienced Them

Of all the characters that Mike has created, Lucifer Jones remains his favorite. We are proud to republish this hilarious series of adventures starring a most unique character.

Exploits is the second volume of the Chronicles.

THE CHRONICLES OF LUCIFER JONES: VOLUME II

Being a Thrilling Chronicle of Romance, Danger, Spectacle, High Adventure, Narrow Escapes, and Uplifting Triumphs Over Sinister Villains and Mystic Mages in the Exotic Continent of the East, as Recounted by the Bold, Daring, Handsome and Modest Christian Gentleman Who Experienced Them.

Of all the characters that Mike has created, Lucifer Jones remains his favorite. We are proud to republish this hilarious series of adventures starring a most unique character.

Encounters is the third volume of the Chronicles.

THE CHRONICLES OF LUCIFER JONES: VOLUME III

Being a Romantic Chronicle of Intrigue, High Adventure, Danger, Spectacle, and Thrilling Triumphs Over Wicked Villains, Painted Women, and Horrific Monsters in the Sinful Nations of Europe, as Recounted by the Daring, Handsome, Resourceful and Modest Christian Gentleman Who Experienced Them

After his Adventures in Africa, his Exploits in Asia, and his Encounters in Europe, everyone's favorite man of the cloth is back to tell you about the Hazards he encounters in South America. They include the terrifying Island of Annoyed Souls, the discovery of the Lost Continent of Moo (spelled correctly for a change), a battle with safari ants that even Charlton Heston wouldn't want any part of, and a pair of Bird Girls who live in matching Chartreuse Mansions.

You'll meet some old friends such as Capturin' Clyde Calhoun, old heartthrobs such the Scorpion Lady, old rivals such as Major Theodore Dobbins and Rupert Cornwall, an old nemesis (the remarkable Erich von Horst), a pair of naked high priestesses (or goddesses, take your choice), the sinister Dr. Mirbeau, the incredibly wealthy and incredibly undesirable Baroness Schimmelmetz, and a score of others--including Bubbles, an anaconda with an attitude.

And making his way through these hazards is the irrepressible Right Reverend Honorable Doctor Lucifer Jones. So come along-you don't want to miss the fun!

Lucifer Jones is back-and on the run again. Having been barred from the United States, Africa (Adventures), Asia (Exploits), Europe (Encounters), and South America (Hazards), he is island-hopping his way across the Pacific to Australia, the one remaining continent that will tolerate his presence.

Seems like it should be an idyllic trip, but then, nothing is ever quite idyllic where Lucifer is concerned. He meets a rather large, rather unhappy couple when he encounters King and Mrs. Kong; he comes across a hermit with an opera singer's name who has four gorgeous servants-Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday; he falls in with an arduous collector-of heads; he gets passage aboard a ship whose crazed captain is in maniacal pursuit of the Puce Whale; and he eventually tops General MacArthur's list of least favorite people.

During the course of his voyages he and the reader encounter old friends such as Capturin' Clyde Calhoun (who brings 'em back alive; not intact, but alive), Erich von Horst (a con man's con man), and Inspector Willie Wong (who has so many sons he has run out of names for them and uses numbers instead), as well as some new and equally memorable characters.

Join five-time Hugo winner Mike Resnick as he brings you more episodes from the life of his favorite creation, the Right Reverend Honorable Dr. Lucifer Jones ("Weddings done cheap, with a group rate for funerals.").

Eddie Raven isn't quite sure what's happening to him--and he's in a race to find out before it kills him.

His adventures begin with a shooting in a very strange shop in Manhattan--but soon he finds himself the owner of a very familiar bar in Casablanca. By the time he adjusts to that reality, he's suddenly become one of several undersized people helping a young woman search for a wizard. And after confronting the wizard, he somehow finds himself in Camelot.

But as he rushes to solve the mystery of his many appearances, a larger threat looms. Because someone or something is stalking him through time and space with deadly intent....

An adventure through space and time as Eddie Raven tries to outrun the dark forces pursuing him...

Her name is Lisa, and ever since Eddie Raven hooked up with her, strange things keep happening.

How strange? Lisa can take on any role at a moment's notice. She's Maid Marian. She's Elizabeth Bennett from Pride and Prejudice. In an instant, she can become the sexy, gum-chewing secretary to his hard-boiled detective. She can even become Doc Holliday's frontier lady, Big Nose Kate.

But who is she really? That's something Eddie's got to find out before this series of strange adventures, which began in The Master of Dreams, overtakes him. And if Lisa's not enough of a problem, there's also the powerful creature who claims to be the chief demon in hell, who seems convinced that he, Eddie, and Lisa are on the same side.

Is Eddie being told the truth? He'd better decide quickly, because the one thing that's clear is that he's running out of time.

Hugo Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, December 2009. The story is included in the collections Win Some, Lose Some: The Hugo Award Winning (and Nominated) Short Science Fiction and Fantasy of Mike Resnick (2012) and The Incarceration of Captain Nebula and Other Lost Futures (2012).

A collection of science fiction tales set in a futuristic African continent features the writing of Vernor Vinge, Gregory Benford, Bruce Sterling, Kim Stanley Robinson, Howard Waldrop, and Mike Resnick. The stories, told from both European and "native" viewpoints take a look at the past and the future--invasion by alien flora, a space baby adopted by an African woman, the rise of Africa after a nuclear war, a space utopia modeled after ancient Kenya, and other stories of fantasy and speculation filled this book

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1993) - essay by Mike Resnick
• For I Have Touched the Sky - (1989) - novelette by Mike Resnick
• Apartness - (1965) - novelette by Vernor Vinge
• Termites - (1987) - shortstory by Dave Smeds
• The Finger - (1980) - shortstory by Naomi Mitchison
• The Lions Are Asleep This Night - (1986) - novelette by Howard Waldrop
• Etoundi's Monkey - (1989) - shortstory by Judith Dubois
• Dry Niger - (1990) - shortstory by M. Shayne Bell
• A Transect - (1986) - shortstory by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Of Space-Time and the River - (1985) - novelette by Gregory Benford
• Still Life with Scorpion - (1984) - shortstory by Scott Baker
• The Quiet - (1981) - shortstory by George Guthridge
• Dinner in Audoghast - (1985) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
• A Passive Victim of a Random Genetic Accident - (1983) - shortstory by Janet Gluckman
• The Pale Thin God - (1993) - shortstory by Mike Resnick
• Toward Kilimanjaro - (1990) - novelette by Ian McDonald

Short stories by Lucius Shepard, Charles Sheffield, Poul Anderson, and other notable writers highlight a collection of science fiction tales about South America.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1993) - essay by Mike Resnick
• The Women Men Don't See - (1973) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• Salvador - (1984) - shortstory by Lucius Shepard
• Doomsday Deferred - (1949) - shortstory by Will F. Jenkins
• On a Hot Summer Night in a Place Far Away - (1985) - shortstory by Pat Murphy
• Manatee Gal Ain't You Coming Out Tonight - (1977) - novelette by Avram Davidson
• Trapalanda - (1987) - novelette by Charles Sheffield
• America - (1987) - novelette by Orson Scott Card
• The World Must Never Know - (1963) - shortstory by G. C. Edmondson
• Invaders - (1990) - novelette by John Kessel
• Bats - (1992) - shortstory by Diane de Avalle-Arce
• Aconcagua - (1993) - novelette by Tony Daniel
• The Sky People - (1959) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• Further Reading About South America - essay by Mike Resnick

A primitive moon of winged men

A horde of ferocious creatures

An evil, deathless race of beings

American soldier-of-fortune Adam Thane must ry to defeat these monstrous foes with all the courage and swordsmanship he possesses. If he fails, the woman he loves - Delisse, Goddess of Ganymede - will be forced into marriage with Tarafolga, the planet's most brutal god. Don't miss this swashbuckling science-fantasy if you are one of the millions of readers who thrill to the high adventure of Edgar Rice Burroughs!

A sequel to Goddess of Ganymede. Also featuring the Earthman Adam Thane.

Ten years after the publication of Kirinyaga, the most-awarded science fiction book in history, comes this companion novella by 5-time Hugo winner Mike Resnick.

The Kikuyu tribe of East Africa attempted to create a Utopia on the terraformed planetoid Kirinyaga, which was named for the mountain where their god lives. Things went wrong. Now, a century later, the Maasai tribe has studied Kirinyaga's history, has analyzed their mistakes, and is ready to create a Maasai Utopia on the planetoid Kilimanjaro, named for the mountain where their god lives.

This is the story of that experiment.

Read the full story for free at Subtarranean Magazine.

Hailed for his grandeur of imagination and superb worldbuilding, winner of and nominee for more than fifty awards for his outstanding work, Mike Resnick has rightfully won a place as one of science fiction's master storytellers. Now, in Kirinyaga, Resnick presents the haunting and utterly compelling tale of one man's utopia.

By the twentieth second century in the African nation of Kenya, polluted cities sprawl up the flanks of sacred Mount Kirinyaga. Great animal herds are but distant memories. European crops now grow on the sweeping savannas. But Koriba, a distinguished, educated man of Kikuyu ancestry, knows that life was different for his people centuries ago--and he is determined to build a utopian colony, not on earth, but on the terraformed planetoid he proudly names Kirinyaga.

As the mundumugu--witch doctor--Koriba leads the colonists. Reinstating the ancient customs and stringent laws of the Kikuyu people, he alone decides their fate. He must face many challenges to the struggling colony's survival: from a brilliant young girl whose radiant intellect could threaten their traditional ways to the interference of "Maintenance" which holds the power to revoke the colony's charter. All the while, only Koriba--unbeknownst to his people--maintains the computer link to the rest of humanity.

Ironically, the Kirinyaga experiment threatens to collapse--not from violence or greed--but from humankind's insatiable desire for knowledge. The Kikuyu people can no more stand still in time than their planet can stop revolving around its sun.

Deeply moving, swiftly paced, and profound in its implications, Kirinyaga is Mike Resnick's most triumphant work to date. His Fable of Utopia is the book every science fiction reader will want to own and savor for years to come.

Table of Contents

• One Perfect Morning, with Jackals (1991)
• Kirinyaga - (1988)
• For I Have Touched the Sky - (1989)
• Bwana - (1990)
• The Manamouki - (1990)
• Song of a Dry River - (1992)
• The Lotus and the Spear - (1992)
• A Little Knowledge - (1994)
• When the Old Gods Die - (1995)
• The Land of Nod - (1996)
• Author's Afterword

Hugo Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, March 1991. The story can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection (1992), edited by Gardner Dozois. It is included in the collections The Alien Heart (1991), Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia (1998) and Win Some, Lose Some: The Hugo Award Winning (and Nominated) Short Science Fiction and Fantasy of Mike Resnick (2012).

Read the full story for free at the Baen website.

Hugo Award winning and Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November 1988. The story can also be found in the anthologies:

• The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection (1989), edited by Gardner Dozois
• The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 (1993), edited by Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebery
• The New Hugo Winners, Volume III: (1989-91) (1994), edited by Connie Willis
• The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 45th Anniversary Anthology (1994), edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Edward L. Ferman
• Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction (2005), edited by Gardner Dozois

The story is included in the collections Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia (1998) and Win Some, Lose Some (2012).

Read the full story for free at the Baen website.

Hugo and Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1989. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection (1990), edited by Gardner Dozois, Nebula Awards 25 (1991), edited by Michael Bishop, and Future Earths: Under African Skies (1993), edited by Gardner Dozois and Mike Resnick. It is included in the collections Will the Last Person to Leave the Planet Please Shut off the Sun? (1992), Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia (1998), New Dreams for Old (2006) and Win Some, Lose Some (2012).

Read the full story for free at the Baen website.

Hugo Award winning and Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1990. The story can also be found in the anthology The New Hugo Winners, Volume III: (1989-91) (1994), edited by Connie Willis. It is included in the collections Stalking the Wild Resnick (1991), Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia (1998) and Win Some, Lose Some (2012).

Hugo Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1992. The story is included in the collections Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia (1998) and Win Some, Lose Some: The Hugo Award Winning (and Nominated) Short Science Fiction and Fantasy of Mike Resnick (2012).

Hugo Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, April 1994. The story is included in the collections Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia (1998), A Safari of the Mind (1999) and Win Some, Lose Some: The Hugo Award Winning (and Nominated) Short Science Fiction and Fantasy of Mike Resnick (2012).

Locus Award winning and Hugo and Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, April 1995. It can also be found in the anthology Galileo's Children: Tales Of Science vs. Superstition (2005), edited by Gardner Dozois. It is included in the collections Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia (1998) and Win Some, Lose Some (2012).

Hugo Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, June 1996. The story can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection (1997), edited by Gardner Dozois. It is included in the collections Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia (1998) and Win Some, Lose Some: The Hugo Award Winning (and Nominated) Short Science Fiction and Fantasy of Mike Resnick (2012).

This annual publication as chosen by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America brings together the best of the year's stories, as well as essays and commentary on the current state of the genre and predictions of future science fiction and fantasy films, art, and more.

This year's award-winning authors include Joe Haldeman (Novel), Kelly Link (Novella, Novelette), and Carol Emshwiller (Short Story).

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Mike Resnick
• About the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America - essay by uncredited
• The 2006 Nebula Awards Final Ballot - essay by uncredited
• Honoring Andre: The Andre Norton Award - essay by Josepha Sherman
• Magic for Beginners - (2005) - novella by Kelly Link
• Short Fiction Round Table - essay by Ellen Datlow and Ben Bova and Bill Fawcett and Martin H. Greenberg
• I Live with You - (2005) - shortstory by Carol Emshwiller
• Why Nebulas Matter - essay by Jack McDevitt
• The End of the World as We Know It - (2004) - shortstory by Dale Bailey
• Daring the Boundaries - essay by Catherine Asaro
• Still Life with Boobs - (2005) - shortstory by Anne Harris
• Whither Canadian SF & F? - essay by Robert J. Sawyer
• Identity Theft - (2005) - novella by Robert J. Sawyer
• My Mother, Dancing - (2004) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
• To Boldly Go: A Strange, Beautiful Future for Genre Cover Art - essay by John Picacio
• The Mice that Roared - essay by Lou Anders
• Camouflage (excerpt) - shortfiction by Joe Haldeman
• Soul Searching - (2004) - poem by Tim Pratt
• No Ruined Lunar City - (2004) - poem by Greg Beatty
• Think Outside the Page - essay by Kevin J. Anderson
• The Faery Handbag - (2004) - novelette by Kelly Link
• Men Are Trouble - (2004) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• Harlan Ellison: The Man in E Minor - essay by Barry N. Malzberg
• The Resurgence of Miss Ankle-Strap Wedgie - (1968) - novella by Harlan Ellison
• About the Nebula Awards - essay by uncredited
• Past Nebula Award Winners - essay by uncredited
• Grand Master Award Winners - essay by uncredited
• The Authors Emeriti - essay by uncredited

Hugo- and Nebula-nominated Novella

In March 1909, Theodore Roosevelt went on a safari to central Africa. In this fictionalized account of that trip, Mike Resnick takes us on an amusing "what-if" with Roosevelt deciding to "liberate" the native Africans from Belgian rule and to set up a model democratic state in the heart of Africa.

Four people uncover a secret that has the power to shake the foundation of faith as we know it.

Reverend Joshua Barker feels that it is his duty to bring the Word to the oppressed beings on alien worlds, to teach them to repent their sins and cherish the teachings of the Good Book. It's a noble ambition... until he discovers something that challenges his understanding of everything he believes.

Barker's heretical discovery is buried for centuries until Anita Inkle digs it up and rekindles her sense of hope. Thomas, her husband, will grasp at any straw if it will save his dying wife, even a straw that may have unseen consequences affecting not merely Anita, but every member of the race.

It remains for Gar Matthews, a professional iconoclast, a man with a mission to poke holes in every outrageous claim and story that comes his way, to uncover a truth that no one ever suspected, and to give a very special meaning to it.

Each of the four will be forever affected by the secret - as will every sentient being in the galaxy.

When Keelarah, Lead Interrogator in the Neuropsych subdivision of the Cartheeli Military Caste, first meets the alien, she is prepared to do her duty. He is a trespasser on her planet, has caused the death of someone dear to her, and it is imperative she find out where he's come from and whether his kind poses a threat to her and her people. Often ruthless in her techniques, the interrogator uses her telepathic and empathic abilities to assault his mind, to draw out any whisper of information that can give them a better idea of what - who - they are dealing with.

But she isn't prepared for the prisoner to defend himself with comparable talents, to disarm her with equally astute observations. Chief Surveyor Forrest Brown might not be the best example of humanity, but he doesn't have to be to show Keelarah what it is to be humane. As they get to know each other, the line between captor and prisoner blur, which begs the question: is having different origins a more important factor, or the ability to find common ground? What if mutual alienation leads to the most profound bond of all?

Bwana:

On the planet Kirinyaga, the descendants of the Kikuyu have resurrected the unspoiled ways of their African ancestors. And like their long-lost savannahs of ancient Earth, the grasslands of Kirinyaga harbor lethal beasts of prey. The chief, Koinnage, hires a hunter to reduce the swelling population of predatory hyena. But in the view of Koriba, aging mundumugu to the tribe, no beast of prey could pose a greater threat to the Kikuyu than the mighty offworld hunter brought in - over his strenuous objections - to slay those beasts.

Bully!:

In March 1909, Theodore Roosevelt went on a safari to central Africa. In this fictionalized account of that trip, Mike Resnick takes us on an amusing "what-if" with Roosevelt deciding to "liberate" the native Africans from Belgian rule and to set up a model democratic state in the heart of Africa.

The year is 1881. The United States of America ends at the Mississippi River. Beyond lies the Indian nations, where the magic of powerful Medicine Men has halted the advance of the Americans east of the river.

An American government desperate to expand its territory sends Thomas Alva Edison out West to the town of Tombstone, Arizona, on a mission to discover a scientific means of counteracting magic. Hired to protect this great genius, Wyatt Earp and his brothers.

But there are plenty who would like to see the Earps and Edison dead. Riding to their aid are old friends Doc Holliday and Bat Masterson. Against them stand the Apache wizard Geronimo and the Clanton gang. Battle lines are drawn, and the Clanton gang, which has its own reasons for wanting Edison dead, sends for Johnny Ringo, the one man who might be Doc Holliday's equal in a gunfight. But what shows up instead is The Thing That Was Once Johnny Ringo, returned from the dead and come to Tombstone looking for a fight.

Welcome to a West like you've never seen before, where "Bat Masterson" hails from the ranks of the undead, where electric lights shine down on the streets of Tombstone, while horseless stagecoaches carry passengers to and fro, and where death is no obstacle to The Thing That Was Once Johnny Ringo. Think you know the story of the O.K. Corral? Think again, as five-time Hugo winner Mike Resnick takes on his first steampunk western tale, and the West will never be the same.

This is the rip-roaring steampunk sequel to popular "The Buntline Special", filled with adventure, excitement, and more than a little gun-slinging action!

The time is 1882. With the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral behind him, the consumptive Doc Holliday makes his way to Deadwood, Colorado, where he plans to spend the rest of his short life.

But one night he gets a little too drunk and loses everything at the gaming table. He realizes that he needs to replenish his bankroll, and quick, so that he can live out his days in comfort. He considers his options and hits upon the one most likely to produce income in a hurry: he'll use his shooting skills to turn bounty hunter.

The biggest reward is for the death of the young desperado known as Billy the Kid. It's clear from the odds the Kid has faced and beaten, that he is protected by some powerful magic. Doc enlists the aid of both magic (Geronimo) and science (Thomas Edison), and goes out after his quarry.

But as he soon finds out, nothing is as easy as it looks.

The successful "Wild West meets steampunk" series continues

It's August 19, 1884. The consumptive Doc Holliday is preparing to await his end in a sanitarium in Leadville, Colorado, when the medicine man Geronimo enlists him on a mission. The time the great chief has predicted has come, the one white man he's willing to treat with has crossed the Mississippi and is heading to Tombstone—a young man named Theodore Roosevelt. The various tribes know that Geronimo is willing to end the spell that has kept the United States from expanding west of the Mississippi. In response, they have created a huge, monstrous, medicine man named War Bonnet, whose function is to kill Roosevelt and Geronimo and keep the United States east of the river forever. And War Bonnet has enlisted the master shootist John Wesley Hardin.

So the battle lines are drawn: Roosevelt and Geronimo against the most powerful of the medicine men, a supernatural creature that seemingly nothing can harm; and Holliday against the man with more credited kills than any gunfighter in history. It does not promise to be a tranquil summer.

Welcome to a Steampunk wild west starring Doc Holliday, with zombies, dinosaurs, robots, and cowboys.

The time is April, 1885. Doc Holliday lies in bed in a sanitarium in Leadville, Colorado, expecting never to leave his room again. But the medicine man and great chief Geronimo needs him for one last adventure. Renegade Comanche medicine men object to the newly-signed treaty with Theodore Roosevelt. They are venting their displeasure on two white men who are desecrating tribal territory in Wyoming. Geronimo must protect the men or renege on his agreement with Roosevelt. He offers Doc one year of restored health in exchange for taking on this mission.

Welcome to the birth of American paleontology, spearheaded by two brilliant men, Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh, two men whose genius is only exceeded by their hatred for each other's guts.

Now, with the aid of Theodore Roosevelt, Cole Younger, and Buffalo Bill Cody, Doc Holliday must save Cope and Marsh not only from the Comanches, not only from living, breathing dinosaurs, but from each other. And that won't be easy.