<div>A dangerously seductive collection of tales that&mdash;like the sirens themselves&mdash;are impossible to resist Sensuality mingles with fantasy in this sultry anthology starring fairies, sphinxes, werewolves, and other beings by masterful storytellers including Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Jane Yolen, Ellen Kushner, and more. Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers features a vampire who falls in love with her human prey, an updated Red Riding Hood fantasy, an unsuspecting young man who innocently joins in seductive faerie revelry, and a cat goddess made human. Alluring and charismatic, this collection from master editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling will stimulate more than just your imagination. This ebook features illustrated biographies of Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, including rare photos from the editors&rsquo; personal collections.</div>

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Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers

<div>The World Fantasy Award&ndash;winning collection from the architect of the Well-Built City Trilogy No matter how far into the realms of space and fantasy Jeffrey Ford&rsquo;s stories may venture, they have one trait in common: They&rsquo;re grounded in the universal. The Fantasy Writer&rsquo;s Assistant, Ford&rsquo;s debut collection, is no exception. &ldquo;Creation,&rdquo; which received the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story and a nomination for a Nebula Award, relates a boy&rsquo;s attempts to animate a man made of sticks and pebbles. Even as the creature&rsquo;s life fades along with the summer, its loneliness and yearning for contact are palpable. Other blends of the worldly and otherworldly are evident in &ldquo;Bright Morning,&rdquo; in which a man searches far and wide for a cursed Kafka book, and &ldquo;At Reparata,&rdquo; when the grief of a king over the death of his queen takes the form of a destructive moth that could overtake the entire kingdom. The Fantasy Writer&rsquo;s Assistant, its titular story another Nebula Award finalist, reveals Jeffrey Ford at his creative best. </div>

The Fantasy Writer's Assistant

<div>A New York Times Notable Book: &ldquo;Combining cyberpunk&rsquo;s grit with dystopic fantasy, this iconoclastic hybrid is a standout piece of storytelling&rdquo; (Library Journal). Jane is trapped as a changeling in an industrialized Faerie ruled by aristocratic high elves and populated by ogres, dwarves, night-gaunts, and hags. She is the only human in a factory where underage forced labor builds cybernetic, magical dragons that are weaponized and sent off to war. When the damaged dragon Melanchthon tempts Jane with promises of freedom, the stage is set for a daring escape that will shake the foundations of existence. Combining alchemy and technology, a coming-of-age story like no other, The Iron Dragon&rsquo;s Daughter takes place against a dystopic mindscape of dark challenges and class struggles that force Jane to make costly decisions at every turn. A finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and the 1994 Locus Award, The Iron Dragon&rsquo;s Daughter a is one-of-a-kind melding of grimdark fantasy and cyberpunk grit from the Nebula Award&ndash;winning author of Stations of the Tide. It engages the reader in a nihilistic world in which nothing is as it seems and everything comes at a steep and often horrific price.</div>

The Iron Dragon's Daughter

<div>Modern technology is pitted against ancient dinosaurs in this scientific thriller James Rollins calls &ldquo;Jurassic Park set amid the paradox of time travel.&rdquo; Paleontologist Richard Leyster is perfectly content in his position with the Smithsonian excavating dinosaur fossil sites and publishing his findings . . . until the mysterious Harry Griffin appears in his office with a cooler containing the head of a freshly killed Stegosaurus. The enigmatic stranger offers Leyster the opportunity to travel back in time to study living dinosaurs in their original habitats&mdash;but with strings attached. Soon, the paleontologist finds himself, along with a select team of colleagues&mdash;including his chief rival, the ambitious and often ruthless Dr. Gertrude Salley&mdash;making discoveries that would prove impossible working from fossils alone. But when Leyster and his team are stranded in the Cretaceous, they must learn to survive while still keeping alive the joy of scientific discovery. This shocking novel spans hundreds of millions of years and deals with the ultimate fate not only of the dinosaurs but also of all humankind. Nominated for the Locus Award, the Hugo Award, and the Nebula Award for Best Novel, Bones of the Earth cements author Michael Swanwick as an author who &ldquo;proves that sci-fi has plenty of room for wonder and literary values&rdquo; (San Francisco Chronicle).</div>

Bones of the Earth

<div>An alternate-history reimagining of the Faust legend from the Nebula Award&ndash;winning author of Stations of the Tide Taking as his canvas the classic tale of the temptation of Faust&mdash;made famous by such literary luminaries as Goethe, Marlowe, and Mann&mdash;author Michael Swanwick paints a fresh vision of the dangers posed by the pursuit of knowledge. Set in Old World Germany, this tale of science and damnation begins with the great scholar Dr. Johannes Faust burning his books, having concluded that all his knowledge is nothing compared to the vast sea of ignorance surrounding him. Out of his despair, he inadvertently summons the tempter spirit, Mephistopheles, who is the projection of a dying alien race determined to make the destruction of humankind its final deed. Their weapon is knowledge&mdash;of science and technology, the mechanics of flight, the nature of the atom, and the secrets of economics. When, in an act of defiance, Faust nails the Periodic Table of the Elements to a church door in Wittenberg, he ushers in a golden age of prosperity for Germany that will make him the most powerful man in the world. But the love of the beautiful Margarete will be his downfall. What happens when the greed for knowledge and glory goes unchecked? Has a demon ever made a bad deal yet? Nominated for the Hugo Award, the Locus Award, and the British Science Fiction Award, Jack Faust is a masterful retelling of legend by one of science fiction&rsquo;s finest craftsmen.</div>

Jack Faust

<div>Stories of dark desire and wicked payback from Jonathan Lethem, Joyce Carol Oates, Caitl&iacute;n R. Kiernan, Richard Christian Matheson, and more. From Shakespeare to Poe, revenge has always been one of the great themes in literature. This anthology contains eighteen stories of ruthless vengeance. A philanderer spends a night with one nameless woman too many. A second-rate music video talent turns down a chance at superstardom and escapes a deadly contract. A comedy duo realizes that retribution is no laughing matter. And a single woman must face the shocking reasons for her solitary lifestyle. Multiple-award-winning editor Ellen Datlow commissioned these and fourteen other tales from some of the most talented authors of our time to make up Lethal Kisses. Available for the first time in the United States, this is a collection of eighteen horrifying tales on evening the score. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Ellen Datlow, including rare photos from the editor&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Lethal Kisses

<div>The &ldquo;shocking [and] powerful&rdquo; classic of postapocalyptic terror by the Nebula Award&ndash;winning author of The Iron Dragon&rsquo;s Daughter (New York Daily News). It&rsquo;s been one hundred years since Three Mile Island went into full meltdown, filling the atmosphere with a radioactive poison that would contaminate the skies for hundreds of generations. Since then, the area around the island&mdash;now known as the Drift&mdash;has been a wasteland of disease and deformity, madness and monsters. It&rsquo;s been one hundred years since humanity knew what order and hope were. The Drift has a law unto itself&mdash;one of vampires and mutants and outcasts left to struggle for daily survival. Within its bounds, the simplest act&mdash;even asking the wrong questions&mdash;can mean death. Or worse. Praised by George R. R. Martin as &ldquo;a potent new myth from the reality of radioactive waste,&rdquo; In the Drift is an inventive and unsettling look at the lives of those who are left to deal with the fallout of a nuclear disaster&mdash;a towering work of postapocalyptic fiction that provokes conversation and consideration even as it produces nightmares.</div>

In the Drift

<div>A cyberpunk thriller from Nebula Award winner Michael Swanwick that explores bioengineering, wetware, and the riddle of personality Rebel Elizabeth Mudlark is a recorded personality owned by corporate giant Deutsche Nakasone. When Rebel&rsquo;s personality is uploaded to persona tester Eucrasia Walsh and burned into her brain, Rebel escapes the corporation and takes off across an exotically transformed solar system, hijacking Eucrasia&rsquo;s body and becoming the most wanted fugitive in existence. A fast-paced technological thriller, Vacuum Flowers allows the reader to consider the implications of bioengineering while providing an entertaining and dynamic story. Reminiscent of the innovative work of Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, and Bruce Sterling, this high-tech work of science fiction carves out a niche all its own with themes as relevant today as when it was first published. </div>

Vacuum Flowers

<div>A collection of nineteen short stories from the Nebula and Hugo Award&ndash;winning author of The Iron Dragon&rsquo;s Daughter and Stations of the Tide Written over the course of a decade, Tales from Old Earth contains nineteen masterful pieces of short fiction&mdash;including the Hugo Award&ndash;winning stories &ldquo;The Very Pulse of the Machine&rdquo; and &ldquo;Scherzo with Tyrannosaur;&rdquo; the World Fantasy Award&ndash;winning novella &ldquo;Radio Waves;&rdquo; Hugo Award finalists &ldquo;The Dead,&rdquo; &ldquo;Radiant Doors,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Wild Minds;&rdquo; and World Fantasy Award finalist &ldquo;The Changeling&rsquo;s Tale&rdquo;&mdash;as well as an introduction by Bruce Sterling. From pure fantasy to hard science fiction, this finely crafted collection from one of the greatest science fiction writers of his generation promises to stretch readers&rsquo; minds far beyond ordinary limits. These tales are guaranteed to delight and are an excellent introduction to this highly praised author. </div>

Tales of Old Earth

<div>Three excursions through time, outer space, and imaginary worlds from &ldquo;one of the most intellectually astute SF writers of his generation&rdquo; (The Washington Post). Michael Swanwick is a legend in the science fiction and fantasy universe, having won five Hugos, a Nebula, a World Fantasy Award, and many more honors for his mind-bending work. This trio of acclaimed sci-fi thrillers showcases the versatility of an author who can build a world, foresee a future, and alter reality. Bones of the Earth: A remarkable scientific breakthrough presented to humankind by an enigmatic future race enables a team of paleontologists to travel back in time to study dinosaurs in their natural prehistoric habitat. But the greatest discovery in history threatens to foment terrorism and create dangerous time paradoxes that could alter tomorrow&rsquo;s world in this Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;nominated novel. In the Drift: On an alternate Earth, the meltdown at Pennsylvania&rsquo;s Three Mile Island nuclear power plant created a radioactive wasteland and caused the collapse of the US government. A century later, the mutants, monsters, and untouchables of the no-man&rsquo;s-land called &ldquo;the Drift&rdquo; are descending on the city of Philadelphia. Vacuum Flowers: In this futuristic cyberpunk thriller, Rebel Elizabeth Mudlark is a recorded personality owned by a corporate giant. When Rebel&rsquo;s personality is uploaded to an unsuspecting persona tester and burned into her brain, she escapes the corporation by hijacking her host&rsquo;s body and embarking on a mad dash to freedom across the solar system. </div>

Three Science Fiction Thrillers

<div>City Under the Stars completes a journey undertaken by Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick 25 years ago, when they published the novella The City of God. Over two decades later, the two realized there was more to the story, and began the work of expanding it. Now, after Gardner Dozois' tragic passing, the story can be told in full. God was in his Heaven—which was fifteen miles away, due east. Far in Earth's future, in a post-utopian hell-hole, Hanson works ten solid back-breaking hours a day, shoveling endless mountains of coal, within sight of the iridescent wall that separates what’s left of humanity from their gods. One day, after a tragedy of his own making, Hanson leaves the city, not knowing what he will do, or how he will survive in the wilderness without work. He finds himself drawn to the wall, to the elusive promise of God. And when the impossible happens, he steps through, into the city beyond. The impossible was only the beginning. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.</div>

City Under the Stars

<div>Chasing the Phoenix: a science fiction masterpiece from a five-time Hugo Award winner Michael Swanwick! In the distant future, Surplus arrives in China dressed as a Mongolian shaman, leading a yak which carries the corpse of his friend, Darger. The old high-tech world has long since collapsed, and the artificial intelligences that ran it are outlawed and destroyed. Or so it seems. Darger and Surplus, a human and a genetically engineered dog with human intelligence who walks upright, are a pair of con men and the heroes of a series of prior Swanwick stories. They travel to what was once China and invent a scam to become rich and powerful. Pretending to have limited super-powers, they aid an ambitious local warlord who dreams of conquest and once again reuniting China under one ruler. And, against all odds, it begins to work, but it seems as if there are other forces at work behind the scenes. Chasing the Phoenix is a sharp, slick, witty science fiction adventure that is hugely entertaining from Michael Swanwick, one of the best SF writers alive. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.</div>

Chasing the Phoenix

<div>A 2020 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST AND KIRKUS BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF 2019 Award-winning author Michael Swanwick returns to the gritty, post-industrial faerie world of his New York Times Notable Book The Iron Dragon’s Daughter with the standalone adventure fantasy The Iron Dragon’s Mother. Caitlin of House Sans Merci is the young half-human pilot of a sentient mechanical dragon. Returning from her first soul-stealing raid, she discovers an unwanted hitchhiker. When Caitlin is framed for the murder of her brother, to save herself she must disappear into Industrialized Faerie, looking for the one person who can clear her. Unfortunately, the stakes are higher than she knows. Her deeds will change her world forever. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.</div>

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Books By Michael Swanwick (10 Books)

The Iron Dragon's Daughter

Bones of the Earth

Jack Faust

In the Drift

Vacuum Flowers

Tales of Old Earth

Three Science Fiction Thrillers

City Under the Stars

Chasing the Phoenix

The Iron Dragon's Mother

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