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Small Beer Press' latest volume, Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic, contains 34 stories published in Mexico in the past decade — most of them from the past two years. Writing in the Seattle Times, Nisi Shawl praises this volume for presenting a fresher look at magical realism than people in the U.S. have seen lately: More »
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Your commute to work needs more post-apocalyptic heroic songs and interstellar voyaging. Tor.com has you covered, with a nifty free e-book collecting "Some of the Best from Tor.com." It includes stories by Michael Swanwick, Yoon-Ha Lee, Harry Turtledove, Paul Park, Nnedi Okorafor, and myself. You can pre-order the book now, and it'll be available for the Kindle (and other e-readers) on Feb. 14. [Tor.com] More »
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Yes, you read that right. Someone is putting out an anthology of tentacle porn (in written form, not comics), and all proceeds will go to benefit Oceana, a charity that works to protect the world's oceans. All of a sudden, hentai seems oddly... noble. The book is called Coming Together, Arm in Arm in Arm. More »
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When Edgar Rice Burroughs published A Princess of Mars in 1912 (originally published as a serial in the magazine All-Story, as Under the Moons of Mars), he gave birth to the iconic character John Carter and his wondrous vision of Mars (or as the natives call it, Barsoom). With this setting and character, Burroughs created something that has enthralled generation after generation of readers. Now, a hundred years after the series first debuted in print, new generations of readers—thanks, in part, to the new Disney film—are still finding and discovering the adventures of John Carter for the first time. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5873465&view=rss&microfeed=true This is the coolest thing we've seen all day: a new anthology called Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction is coming out in May, and editor Brit Mandelo just announced the table of contents. Not only does it include several of our favorite authors, but a few of the story titles are laugh-out-loud clever. Here's the TOC: More »
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Why do so many of science fiction's greatest stories have to do with meeting — and possibly falling in love with — strangers and strange beings? Author Pat Cadigan, whose story "Angel" is in the new anthology Alien Contact, muses about the allure of Meeting the Other. More »
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Technology is changing how you read and write everything — but short fiction is at the center of the technological vortex of change. At Worldcon, we attended a panel about the future of short fiction, and learned just how the world of short stories is changing. More »
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If you love science fiction anthologies and treasure the breadth and depth of story collections about the fantastic, then you owe a great debt to Martin H. Greenberg, who died over the weekend. More »
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The classic John Carter of Mars saga is having its 100th anniversary in February 2012, and he's getting a new movie in March. Celebrate John Carter's birthday with a whole new book of Barsoom stories. More »
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Despite its name, the Eclipse anthology series is always luminous. And a new installment of Eclipse is always something to celebrate. More »
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You can read a new piece by William Gibson and help donate to the Red Cross efforts in Japan at the same time, thanks to a new anthology that just went on sale at Amazon. More »
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Want to revisit The Outer Limits, the classic 1960s anthology series? A new blog reviews one Outer Limits episode per day, with supplemental essays by an army of smart critics. Dip into the early-sixties zeitgeist and rediscover the weirdness! [WeAreControllingTransmission] More »
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Powered armor rocks our world, whether it's the ultra-realistic exoskeletons of the near future or the super-enhanced mecha of thousands of years from now. So we're excited to see anthology-editor extraordinaire John Joseph Adams doing a book of power-armor stories. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5726006&view=rss&microfeed=true Up-and-coming short-story writer Rachel Swirsky talks the joy of short fiction at Amazon's Omnivoracious blog. More »
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Need a break from holiday commercialism? Want to send a much-needed gift to groups cleaning up one of 2010's worst disasters? Great! Check out Breaking Waves, an anthology featuring award-winning writers like Ursula K. Le Guin and Vonda McIntyre. More »
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What's next in book publishing, after angels, steampunk, zombies and vampires? Adam Christopher at Escape Pod suggests you should break out your cape: Superhero fiction could be making a big splash in the book world. More »
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What better time to reflect on the many faces of dystopia than during this season of forced cheer and celebratory masks? That's why we're reading io9 podcast host John Joseph Adams' latest anthology, Brave New Worlds. Here's an excerpt. More »
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An never-finished story by Roald Dahl, the master of haunting fiction, has turned up, and you could own the original manuscript. Plus the project he wrote it for, a finish-it-yourself story collection featuring Madeleine L'Engle, could still come out. More »
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Ever wish that the characters from your favorite story could step out and join you for a drink? Then check out "The Magician and the Maid and Other Stories" by Christie Yant, from the anthology The Way Of The Wizard. More »
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Two anthologies of the year's best science fiction and fantasy released their tables of contents — and a large number of the stories came from online magazines, plus anthologies of original fiction. Bad news for the print magazines? More »
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Cugel the Clever is one of the great archetypal figures in SF literature, the vain trickster in Jack Vance's post-apocalyptic Dying Earth stories. Kage Baker wrote a new Cugel story for a Dying Earth anthology, and it's up at Tor.com. More »
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The other day, we encouraged you to make self-published science fiction anthology Machine of Death into an Amazon top-seller. Turns out the book did well enough to upset Glenn Beck, who sees it as a symptom of the world's ills. More »
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I have a huge unfair advantage over other struggling fantasy authors, because I've read Mirror Kingdoms: The Best of Peter S. Beagle. Beagle gives a storytelling masterclass, and plants images in your head that you'll carry around for ages. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5667226&view=rss&microfeed=true Metatropolis thrilled us with its near-future shared world and its daring take on urban decay and reinvention. So we're psyched that a second volume is coming out — focusing exclusively on one of the most memorable settings in the first book, the reborn Pacific Northwest known as Cascadia. Edited by Jay Lake, whose "In The Forests Of The Night" brought Cascadia to life, the new volume will once again be written for audio-book and released by Audible.com. Here's the blurb: More »
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We all marveled at the fan art that showed Wil Wheaton riding a unicorn-dragon-kitten into battle with an Orc John Scalzi. And now you can read the true, and unquestionable stories behind the image. For charity! More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5643109&view=rss&microfeed=true If you're looking for some awesome tales of the fantastic to check out in the last days of summer, then the 2010 World Fantasy Award's shortlist has arrived just in time. There are stories of bizarre cities and harrowing adventures. Here's the complete list, via Locus: More »
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Greatest Uncommon Denominator is selling its latest issue as a PDF for just 25 cents (instead of $3.50), and you can download five issues for just $3.00. But the price goes up tomorrow, so move fast! More »
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The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities will catalog many rare and peculiar objects — but it seems like it'll be such an artifact in its own right. The book boasts a veritable bestiary of great authors... possibly including you! More »
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A new anthology of Mars stories, coming from Viking next April, includes just about everybody you'd want to see in its table of contents. Kim Stanley Robinson, Kage Baker, Alastair Reynolds, and more. And the cover looks stunning. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5584641&view=rss&microfeed=true If you've got a fantastic story idea about a were-creature, now's your time to try your hand at it. Ekaterina Sedia, author of the fantastic Alchemy Of Stone and editor of a few anthologies including the werewolf-themed Running With The Pack, put out a call for submissions for a new anthology of were-creature stories. She'll still look at werewolf stories, but she's also interested in other types of dark shapeshifters. The anthology will be called Bewere The Night. [Fish Monkey] More »
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Even if you think the living dead are overexposed, Christopher Golden's short story anthology The New Dead delivers so many iterations of the undead trope that even the most jaded zombie naysayer will be impressed. Can you say "Twitter zombies?" More »
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Tachyon Publications has a new anthology out called The Secret History of Science Fiction. It centers around a subject that has sparked countless debates and rants among Science Fiction fans. And no, it's not River Tam vs. James T. Kirk. More »
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If you wish science fiction would have a bit more actual science (and focus on the near future instead of the year 5 billion), you'll be thrilled that When It Changed, an anthology pairing scientists and SF authors, is out. More »
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John Joseph Adams has put out some of the most entertaining themed anthologies in the past few years, taking in zombies, vampires and interstellar civilizations. Now he's putting out an anthology of dystopian fiction, and starting an online fiction magazine. More »
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The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction has been at the forefront of genre short fiction for sixty years. And current editor Gordon Van Gelder had the unenviable task of choosing just 23 stories to represent those six decades. More »
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In anticipation of that upcoming movie with that guy who was in Weird Science, Night Shade Books presents The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The game is afoot! Or perhaps atentacle. More »
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Space opera has come a long, galaxy-spanning way since 1941. With a second book in the New Space Opera series out this summer, we examine the genre's origins, and see how the new book compares. More »
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Explore all the myriad ways of alternate history in Other Earths (DAW Books), ten new stories and a kickass must-read Lucius Shepard novella in a collection edited by Nick Gevers and Jay Lake. More »
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A new anthology, coming from Daw Books in 2010, will feature a bunch of stories that provide different answers to the Fermi Paradox: If extraterrestrial life should be common, why don't we hear from it? More »
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Eclipse Two, the second volume of Jonathan Strahan's original anthology series, lives up to its hype. Some of the genre's strongest short-story writers ply their trade, with no goal but to tell solid speculative tales. More »
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