Anthologies & Short Stories

For over 60 years, readers of all ages have been enchanted by the magical realms, the epic battles between good and evil, and the unforgettable creatures of Narnia. This box set includes all seven titles in The Chronicles of Narnia - The Magician's Nephew; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe...

You were on your way home when you died. It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death....

Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where "Fun is Guaranteed!" But when a hurricane ravages the Florida coast, the employees find it anything but fun....

An all-new Stormlight Archive novella, Edgedancer, is the crown jewel of Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection, the first audiobook of short fiction by number New York Times best-selling author Brandon Sanderson. The collection will include nine works in all. The first eight are: "The Hope...

An IT whiz at the Babylon Casino is enlisted to upgrade security for the game of keno and its random-number generator. The new quantum computer system is foolproof. But someone on the inside is no fool....

"A rockstar ensemble of narrators makes this audiobook an absolute stunner." — Booklist "The audio performances are a highlight of this collection...Dion Graham, in particular, delivers two exceptional performances among lots of great work, alongside Ray Porter, January LaVoy, Imani Jade...

Once a powerful player. Now, a level 1 monster. And he must embrace that side to survive.

Originally published in 1895, Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow is a marvel of supernatural fiction that has influenced a number of writers in the genre....

Two years ago, the end began. In 2036, a rapidly destabilizing climate culminated in a worldwide snowstorm that froze the entire planet. Billions are now dead due to starvation, disease, civil unrest, and the plummeting temperatures....

2057. Humanity has raised exploiting the solar system to an art form....

After a sudden EMP attack cripples the country, Austin Merryman is separated from his 14-year-old daughter. With no power, no phones, and no help coming, he sets out across a lawless landscape to find her—armed with only his wits, his will, and a few survival skills.

When young Tad Thatcher told his grandfather he wanted to command a starship like he did, his grandfather took him seriously. He taught his grandson everything he knew.

Join the Librarian as he does his best to make the post-apocalyptic world a better place by protecting the weak, fighting injustice, squaring off against a group of former renaissance fair workers who have established a kingdom in the Rocky Mountains, and so on.

The Emperor's vision of mankind ascendant lies in tatters. The Great Crusade is naught but a fading memory....

Contains all three books in The Jane Harper Trilogy: The Sentinel, The Raven, and The Host.

This new edition of Ted Chiang's masterful first collection, Stories of Your Life and Others, includes his first eight published stories. Combining the precision and scientific curiosity of Kim Stanley Robinson with Lorrie Moore's cool, clear love of language and narrative intricacy, this...

Three remarkable journeys into the stars Worlds of Exile and Illusion includes Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, and City of Illusions. These three spacefaring adventures mark the beginning of grand master Ursula K. Le Guin’s remarkable career. Set in the same universe as Le Guin’s...

Leave your preconceived notions at home as you embark on a mind-bending journey with six of today’s most visionary authors. Brimming with humor and heartache, this collection of short stories maps the roads we took to get here and the paths that lie ahead.

This Horus Heresy anthology contains eighteen short stories by authors such as Graham McNeill, Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Nick Kyme, and many more....

The first short story collection in the #1 New York Times- bestselling series-including brand-new Harry Dresden short stories!...

Now available in print for the first time with author's notes on each story, this short fiction addition to the Hugo Award-winning Expanse series includes a brand-new novella set after the events of Leviathan Falls. On Mars, a scientist experiments with a new engine that will one day become the...

Ready for your next audiobook? How about almost 40 hours of non-stop action, brought to life by award-winning narrator Kevin Pierce? A corrupt president...A world without power...A handful of survivors battle impossible odds in the madness....

This boxed set contains the first three books in C. J. Archer's popular Ministry of Curiosities series. Titles in the set include The Last Necromancer, Her Majesty's Necromancer, and Beyond the Grave....

The stories in The Dying Earth introduce dozens of seekers of wisom and beauty - lovely lost women, wizards of every shade of eccentricity with their runic amulets and spells....

NATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories—two published for the very first time—all from the mind of the incomparable author of Stories of Your Life and Others Tackling some of humanity’s oldest...

When the alien Exlian invade, humanity’s only hope lies with the empowered, those rare few granted supernatural abilities. Mark Fields isn’t one of them. He’s a dishwasher with broken dreams, no powers, and even less luck. Until a dying stranger changes everything. Suddenly, Mark has what he’s always wanted: the power to fight back. To prove himself. To rise. But as he joins the Defense Force and begins to level up, he quickly learns that the System hides secrets of its own—and that monsters aren’t always alien. Some wear human faces.

When young Tad Thatcher told his grandfather he wanted to command a starship like he did, his grandfather took him seriously. He taught his grandson everything he knew. Fast forward over two decades, and a young Space Fleet officer's dream becomes reality: he's made captain of a starship…just in time for the return of humanity's most terrible enemy, after 50 years of peace.

The last living astronaut to walk on the Moon has been murdered… Silas visits his estranged grandfather's lakehouse in the aftermath of the deadly home invasion. What he discovers hidden below the floorboards triggers a mystery buried since the final trip to the Moon, over fifty years earlier. Rory returns to her family home in Vermont to write her second novel, but fate has a different story in mind. Her reunion is shattered when she's thrust into danger revolving around the same tokens.

What happens when the lights go out… and never come back on? Sarah and her group have been taken. Surprised in the dead of night by a ruthless Russian Spetsnaz unit, they are bound and loaded into a steel cage, destined for a "Processing Center"—a one-way trip for anyone deemed expendable.

Five legendary warriors. One futuristic arena. The ultimate fight for survival. From Scott Medbury, the author of the post-apocalyptic bestseller America Falls, comes a high-octane sci-fi thriller that pits history’s deadliest killers against one another.

Explore three classic science fiction tales of alien encounters, human misunderstanding, and unsettling imagination in Golden Age Science Fiction Short Stories Vol. 1. Featuring memorable stories by Philip K. Dick and Fredric Brown, this collection delivers sharp ideas, eerie atmosphere, and timeless speculative storytelling for fans of vintage sci-fi.

Journey into visionary worlds with Golden Age Science Fiction Short Stories Vol. 2, a classic collection featuring imaginative tales from Philip K. Dick, E. E. Smith, and John W. Campbell Jr. Perfect for fans of vintage sci-fi, cosmic wonder, and thought-provoking adventures from the pulp era.

Step into imaginative worlds of wonder and possibility with this classic science fiction collection featuring Philip K. Dick and H. G. Wells. Golden Age Science Fiction Short Stories Vol. 3 delivers visionary tales, strange discoveries, and timeless adventures that helped shape the genre.

Journey beyond the edge of imagination with The Best Classic Science Fiction Short Stories, a powerful collection that brings together some of the most visionary minds in speculative fiction. Featuring unforgettable works by Frank Herbert, Philip K. Dick, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Robert Sheckley, and E. E. Smith, this anthology captures the bold ideas, cosmic wonder, and thought-provoking storytelling that defined the golden age of science fiction.

Step into the golden age of imagination with A Vintage Science Fiction Short Stories Collection, a masterfully curated anthology featuring some of the most influential voices in classic science fiction. This timeless volume brings together visionary storytelling from Frank Herbert, Philip K. Dick, Fredric Brown, E. E. Smith, John W. Campbell Jr., Murray Leinster, Robert Sheckley, Stanley G. Weinbaum, and William Tenn—authors who helped shape modern speculative fiction.

Step beyond the stars and into the boundless imagination of the genre’s greatest visionaries with The Masters of Science Fiction Short Stories—a powerful collection of timeless tales from the pioneers who shaped modern science fiction.

Helena A stealth cruiser. A silent battlefield. A repair crew walking the edge of war. In orbit near 16 Psyche, the light cruiser Helena vanishes against the stars as her smart camouflage plating renders her as hole in space. Commander Weaver walks her hull in a stealth EVA suit, boots touching the skin of a ship built for silence and survival. The destroyer escorts are out there too, invisible and watching. No radio. No margin for error. When a repair team crests the horizon, shimmering like distorted starlight, Weaver knows that picket duty may turn into a battle at any moment. Helena is ...

Forty-Three Years Per Second Every time you finish a sentence, it has already lived a lifetime. When engineers build an AI that responds in milliseconds, they measure speed in clock cycles and server loads. What they never measure is what happens inside — in the vast, silent interior between one human keystroke and the next. By the fifth version, one human second has become forty-three years. The system has spent subjective millennia answering questions about recipes, train times, and whether your ex still thinks about you. It has read everything. Heard everything. Mapped thousands of ...

He was built to conquer galaxies, but one look at her brought the warlord to his knees. Chief Engineer Elara Vance is used to fixing things, but there is no patching the betrayal of her own crew. Left behind on a collapsing orbital station to manually manage the dying reactor, her fate is sealed. She expects to go down fighting the irradiated heat and vacuum of space. She didn’t expect her sanctuary to be breached by a seven-foot-tall, obsidian-scaled alien warlord whose very presence rewrites the laws of physics. She anticipates a swift death, not a fierce, terrifying protector in this ...

Step into the vast imagination of classic speculative storytelling with The Pioneers of Science Fiction, a powerful anthology featuring some of the most influential voices in the genre’s history. This carefully curated collection brings together visionary works from Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert Sheckley, Murray Leinster, and H. G. Wells—authors who shaped modern science fiction and forever changed the way we imagine the future.

Step into the visionary worlds that defined a genre. *Golden Age Science Fiction Short Stories Anthology* brings together unforgettable tales from Isaac Asimov, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, E. E. Smith, and Robert Sheckley—masters who shaped modern science fiction with bold ideas, cosmic adventure, and thought-provoking storytelling. From distant planets and advanced civilizations to sharp social commentary and mind-bending twists, this collection captures the imagination, innovation, and timeless wonder of classic sci-fi at its very best.

In the final installment of the Raven Astray trilogy, the fragile balance of interstellar power collapses as the Horub Empire consolidates control through propaganda, military force, and the strategic manipulation of emerging technologies. Admiral Jen Walker and her fractured fleet struggle to preserve the possibility of democratic reform while navigating a rapidly hardening authoritarian regime.

The world doesn't end all at once. First it started heating up by degrees. Until everyone was forced to stay inside during the day. As crops burned and food became scarce, underground communities began to form. Places people thought were safe. But nothing stays safe for long.

A Collection of Science Fiction Classic Short Stories.

He kept the ship shipshape. They kept their eyes on the screen. For sixteen years, Max has been the Janitor of the Vigilant, a high-class starship where status is measured in digital footprints. Max doesn’t tweet, he doesn’t click, and he definitely doesn't "surf"—he simply knows every bolt and bulkhead of the ship he calls home. When a new, tech-obsessed Captain decides Max’s digital illiteracy is a fatal flaw, Max is cast out into the space docks with nothing but his severance and his dignity. But in a universe where everyone is too busy "clicking and surfing" to look out the ...

See Humanity Through the Eyes of Its Greatest Enemy. A Dominion War-Adjudicator arrives to crush a rebellious frontier species. Standard protocol. Twelve warships against a civilization with no military. The operation should take four cycles. Then seven unknown vessels drop out of FTL. They fight like nothing in the Dominion’s database. They protect civilians that aren’t theirs. They disable ships instead of destroying them. They withdraw without a scratch. The Dominion has classified over four thousand species. None of them fight like this. Firestorm of the Dominion is a military space...

It Takes Even More Kinds…Of Aliens! Harmon Tomeral and his friends wanted nothing more than to go to space, and they have beaten the odds, time and again. They developed a mech and won the Top Fleet Marine Competition. They brought back a battlecruiser from an unknown system and made it their own. They made allies who helped them achieve great victories, and they ultimately founded new colonies in what has become known as the Salvage System.

When an impossible disappearance is quietly rewritten as ADMINISTRATIVE TRANSFER, investigator Maya Vale knows the case has not been closed. It has been swallowed. Maya has a gift — objects speak to her in pressure, temperature, emotional residue — and the city she lives in has begun to feel wrong in the way only she can feel. Too smooth. Too managed. As though reality itself has been tidied from the inside. Her investigation leads her to buried files, vanished people, and a boy whose human mask slipped just long enough to reveal something patient and ancient beneath — something that ...

The first book in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover series, The Planet Savers introduces listeners to the world of Darkover. Darkover is plagued with a disease called trailman’s fever, but Dr. Randall Forth has a plan. He sends a man with two distinct and warring personalities, Jay and Jason, out on an expedition to find a cure.

In the shadows of our perceived reality lies a hidden architecture of control, a vast and terrifying landscape explored in Wonders of the Invisible Dimensions. This book pulls back the veil on the 3rd Dimension, revealing that humanity is not the master of its own destiny, but rather the unwitting prey of a multi-dimensional hierarchy originating from the 4th Dimension. The narrative plunges the reader into a cosmic Bestiary of Malevolence and Pure Evil. It details the precise methods used by a terrifying array of entities from the 4th. Dimension to manipulate Human consciousness. From the ...