Category: Fiction

Cursed – Anthology

By 5t4n5

Cursed - AnthologyAll copyright 2020 except stated.

Standalones

Castle Cursed — Jane Yolen
As Red As Blood, As White As Snow — Christina Henry
Troll Bridge — Neil Gaiman – 1993
At That Age — Catriona Ward
Listen — Jen Williams
Henry and the Snakewood Box — M.R. Carey
Skin — James Brogden
Faith & Fred — Maura McHugh
The Black Fairy’s Curse — Karen Joy Fowler – 1997
Wendy, Darling — Christopher Golden – 2014
Fairy Werewolf vs. Vampire Zombie — Charlie Jane Anders – 2011
Look Inside — Michael Marshall Smith – 2013
Little Red — Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple – 2009
New Wine — Angela Slatter
Haza and Ghani — Lilith Saintcrow
Hated — Christopher Fowler – 1995
The Merrie Dancers — Alison Littlewood
Again — Tim Lebbon
The Girl From The Hell — Margo Lanagan
Castle Waking — Jane Yolen

#fantasy #peterpan #christinahenry #neilgaiman #michaelmarshallsmith

Cibola Burn — James S. A. Corey

By 5t4n5

Cibola Burn -- James S. A. CoreyHumanity has finally gone through a gate and settled on the first world in another solar system, but the settlers are being classed as illegal squatters by the corporation that believes the planet to be legally there’s.   So when the corporation ship turns up with the intention of taking everything away from the settlers, the settlers have a surprise waiting for them and all hell breaks loose.

Avasaralla thinks it’ll be a great idea to send Holden to mediate and sort things out, because she thinks Holden will make such a disaster of it that it’ll scare everyone back in Sol system away from leaving for other new worlds.

And on top of all this, or maybe because of all this, the planet is waking up from its billion year slumber.

While that all sounds really good, which it is, the telling of this story just drags on and on and on and on.   This book would have been way, way better if it had lost a few hundred pages.   And on top of all that, it’s a really depressing story from beginning to end, showing up Homo sapiens at their very worse.

It was so tedious i kept on having to take breaks and read three whole books just to break this up into manageable chunks of depressive dragging on.

Let’s hope the next one, Nemesis Games, is better, eh?

James’ Page

#theexpanse #scifi #jamessacorey

The Expanding Universe Volume 5 — Anthology

By 5t4n5

The Expanding Universe Volume 5 -- AnthologyAll copyright 2020 except stated.

Standalones

Lightwave: Jericho Colony Rescue — A. M. Scott
The Bull Rock Blues — Felix R. Savage
Going Rogue — James Palmer
Crossing the Line — Lawrence M. Schoen
Marauder — Jeremy Fabiano
Stockade — John Hindmarsh
The Bounty Hunter’s Partner — Terry Mixon
Extinction — Michael Penmore
Golems of War — Rachel Aukes
False Positive — Mikey Campling
Welcome Earthling — J. S. Morin
If Thou Forget Us, Oh Earth — Stephanie Mylchreest
The Bridge — Colonel Jonathan P. Brazee
Bounce and Fall — Patty Jansen
The Trophany — Julia Huni
Lucky Elephants — Galen Surlak-Ramsey
The Zabolov Gambit — Charley Marsh
Hacker’s Pursuit — Wilhelmina Kirk and J. L. Stowers
A Little Bit of Kali — R.R. Virdi and Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
An Unwilling Champion — TR Cameron
Plan B — Brian Thorne
Memo-Real — Daniel Arenson
The Green Door of Fate — Craig Martelle

#scifi #michaelcampling #jsmorin #pattyjansen #rrvirdi #yudhanjayawijeratne

The Expanding Universe Volume 4 — Anthology

By 5t4n5

The Expanding Universe Volume 4 -- AnthologyAll copyright 2018 except stated.

Standalones

Information War — by Craig Martelle
Checkmate — Colonel Jonathan P. Brazee
Skeleton Crew — Mikey Campling
BreakerMikey Campling David VanDyke
Endpoint — Mikey Campling
Unexpected Bounty — Terry Mixon
Messenger — R.R. Virdi and Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
Duty — Bill Patterson (II)
The Burden of Honor — Kevin O. McLaughlin [as by Kevin McLaughlin]
The Spike — Nathan Mutch
Lights Out — Kayelle Allen
Darkened Skies — Drew Avera
Skin Suits — Justin Bell
Daughters of Ayor – 2017 — David R. Bernstein
One Last Battle [The Hunter Legacy] — Timothy Ellis
Tuesday — Lyn Forester
Mothers — C. M. Simpson
Alaska’s Vengeance [Ardent Redux Universe] — J. L. Stowers
Sycorax – 2017 — Jenetta Penner
Warp Three [The Niakrim War] – 2017 — David J. VanBergen, Jr.
A Little Surprise — P. R. Adams

#scifi #michaelcampling #rrvirdi #yudhanjayawijeratne

The Expanding Universe Volume 3 — Anthology

By 5t4n5

The Expanding Universe Volume 3 -- AnthologyAll copyright 2017 except stated.

Standalones

Language Barrier — Craig Martelle
Weaponized Math [Staff Sergeant Gracie Medicine Crow] — Colonel Jonathan P. Brazee
To Catch a King — Mike Kraus
Skeleton Crew — Mikey Campling
Epiphany — Andrew Dobell
The Achanean Reception — Richard Fox
The Trophy — B. C. Kellogg
Blood and Treasure — Terry Mixon
Dreadnaught — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
Save the Scientist — J. A. Cipriano and Conner Kressley
Severance — C. C. Ekeke
Across the Galactic Pond [Universe in Flames Origins] — Christian Kallias
Catalyst — Lisa Blackwood and S. M. Schmitz
Wrenching Free — Zen DiPietro
Fugitive’s Gamble — T. M. Catron
One Last Job — A. K. DuBoff [as by Amy DuBoff]
Maybe Now the Stars Will Shine — Michael La Ronn
Ice Field — Scott Moon
The Next Level — Thomas J. Rock
Save the Queen — Emily Walker
Alas, Thudonia — Bill Patterson (II)
Exiled [The Void Wraith] – 2016 — Chris Fox
Voyage of the Dog-Propelled Starship — Robert T. Jeschonek
Assault on Tarja — M. D. Cooper
The Piayan Job — Daniel Martone and Laura Martone
Final Intelligence — Kevin O. McLaughlin
In the Shadows — Danny A. Brown
LZ New Birth — J. R. Handley

#scifi #aliettedebodard #patcadigan #kenliu #paulmcauley #jamessacorey

Avatars Inc — Anthology

By 5t4n5

Avatars Inc -- anthologyAll copyright 2020 except stated.

Standalones

In the Lands of the Spill — Aliette de Bodard
Thirty-Three — Tade Thompson
Porcelain Claws in Cinnamon Earth — Madeline Ashby
Life in Achar — Anya Ow
What I Want Us to Remember Before We Leave — Bryce Banks
Honeysuckle — Rhianna Jones
A Mountain to Climb — Julie Novakova
Bounty — Charles Yu
Harmony — Dr. Harry Kloor
Overburden — K. Chess
The Ulgrieb Case — Jeffrey Ford
Behold the Deep Never Seen — Merc Fenn Wolfmoor
The Search for [Flight X] — JY Yang
The Final Performance of the Amazing Ralphie — Pat Cadigan
Neuro-Dancer — Tom Sweterlitsch
Uma — Ken Liu
Banding — Julianna Baggott
Robot and Girl with Flowers — Paul McAuley
Waiting for Amelia — Robert Reed
Incarnate — Indrapramit Das
A Bird Does Not Sing Because It Has an Answer — Johanna Sinisalo
Oannes, From the Flood — Adrian Tchaikovsky
At the End of a Most Perfect Day — Nino Cipri
Two Watersheds — Kelly Robson
Elsewhere — James S. A. Corey
La Mer Donne — Sarah Pinsker
Add Oil — S. L. Huang

#scifi #aliettedebodard #patcadigan #kenliu #paulmcauley #jamessacorey