Barry N. Malzberg

Beyond Apollo, winner of the John Campbell Award, finds Harry Evans as the lone survivor of the first Venus expedition, a space journey that went disastrously wrong. But no one knows the reason behind the tragedy.

Beyond Apollo

Martin Harry Greenberg

Bill Pronzini

Offers horror stories by Poe, Stoker, Wells, Bierce, Lovecraft, Faulkner, and modern writers such as King, Sheckley, and Joyce Carol Oates

The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural

The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time

On a Planet Alien

Thirty-nine stories of horror and supernatural from Edgar Allen Poe to Stephen King.

Classic Tales of Horror and the Supernatural

Galaxies

Herovit's World

A collection of the author's thoughts on modern science fiction--its fans, writers, and the "establishment."

Science Fiction in the Eighties

The Engines of the Night

Roman

Eroberungstaktiken

A collection of forty-two of the best stories of the mystery and suspense genre.

The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense

Norman Spinrad

First published in the 1960s, Spinrad was one of the first writers to perceive the totalitarian implications of the cradle-to-grave welfare state. But at the same time he was too organically a radical ever to be confused with a conservative. Result: "Agent of Chaos!" Boris Johnson thinks he wants democracy. But in the course of his adventures he discovers that democracy to him means freedom. It's a banned concept from the Millennium of Religion. Like God. He finds himself dealing with a byzantine political situation worthy of anything from the banned past. The dictatorship is the Hegemony. Opposition is provided by the aptly named agents of C.H.A.O.S. Meanwhile, the Brotherhood of Assassins plays a game that no one can fathom. Whose side are they on? Whose fool are you? Spinrad explores his philosophical theme in a manner all too rare in contemporary science fiction. The problem is that Order will always try to eliminate any random factors. By its very nature, it encourages opposition and that feeds the forces of chaos. But chaos has built in problems as well. Its victories cannot help but feed the forces of reaction, of order. The heroes in this novel ultimately opt for personal freedom. The villains try to establish a dictatorship over the very nature of reality itself. And then Spinrad throws in the discovery of aliens. A starship sets forth to meet them, the Prometheus. The Hegemony doesn't like that.

Agent of Chaos

Escape is all that Quir thinks about. Escape from the enclosure on Earth. Escape from the endless interrogations. Quir's memories have been burned out; all he knows is that he must give scientific data to humans whenever they ask for it.

In the Enclosure

Folsom's Planet - An Alien land yet so familiar. If the mission were a success, Folsom's planet would bear his name for eternity. The barbarians would be civilized; the planet would join the Federation; the Federation's integrity would be preserved. But Hans Folsom had to be on guard. The aliens were intractable, his crew possibly traitorous. There was an incident during the voyage he couldn't quite remember. And a prophetic runic stone. Had ancient spacemen visited here in the past? Did that explain the strange religions, the ancient ruins, the mysterious runic stone?

On A Planet Alien

Isaac Asimov

Mike Resnick

William Henley Knoles

Carol Resnick

This collection is based around three Henry Kuttner stories published in 1938, stories that (almost) actually delivered on the lurid promises of the pulp magazine covers of the day. Besides the Kuttner stories, the 1960 Playboy article by William Knoles and the story Isaac Asimov was prompted to write in response are included. Carol Resnick wrote a script adapted from one of the stories and Malzberg's afterword sheds additional light on the Asimov story. The book celebrates an era when heroic spacemen saved scantily-clad women from bug-eyed monsters and evil scientists bent on galactic conquest.

Girls for the Slime God

Breakfast in the Ruins

Elizabeth Massie

K. W. Jeter

Robert Silverberg

Jonathan Carroll

Kathe Koja

Pat Cadigan

Thomas Ligotti

Rick Wilber

Robert Holdstock

Garry Kilworth

Jack Womack

Suzy McKee Charnas

Karl Edward Wagner

David J. Schow

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Thomas Tessier

Melissa Mia Hall

Melissa Snodgrass

This “toothy follow-up to Datlow’s first-rate Blood Is Not Enough” offers “admirably inventive variations on vampirism” (Kirkus Reviews). Featuring stories by Jonathan Carroll, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Robert Silverberg, A Whisper of Blood is a “consistently engrossing anthology” from award-winning editor Ellen Datlow (Publishers Weekly). Continuing to expand the boundaries of the concept of vampirism—as she did in her first collection, Blood Is Not Enough—Datlow has assembled eighteen fascinating stories that range from tales of literal vampires to what she calls “metaphorical bloodsuckers,” who can drain another’s life force without ever sinking their teeth into necks. In “Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep” by Suzy McKee Charnas, an elderly Jewish woman who’s taken her own life has second thoughts and makes a deal to become a vampire to stay immortal, the only condition being she has to drink blood by request only. An amnesiac operative tries to sort out if a secret government agency is trying to help him regain his memory or is wiping it clean in Chelsea Quinn Yarbro’s Kafkaesque “Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?” And in Jonathan Carroll’s “The Moose Church,” a tourist in Sardinia is literally scarred by asking questions of death in his dreams . . . A Whisper of Blood includes contributions by Suzy McKee Charnas, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Silverberg, Kathe Koja, Elizabeth Massie, Barry N. Malzberg, Rick Wilber, Jonathan Carroll, Thomas Ligotti, Melissa Mia Hall, David J. Schow, Jack Womack, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Thomas Tessier, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, K. W. Jeter, Pat Cadigan, and Robert Holdstock and Garry Kilworth.

Stories of Vampirism

A Whisper of Blood

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 Insiders Discuss Writing and Publishing

The Business of Science Fiction

Are the stories by the saturnine and mordant Barry N. Malzberg, fantasy, horror or SF? Perhaps they're an artful blend of all three genres. But then there are critics who say Malzberg conjures up bizarre visions of what could have happened in the past -- might happen in the future -- or is happening today! In his first new collection of short stories in almost 15 years, Malzberg proves he is still one of the most literate writers not afraid to shock his readers' senses and stagger their imaginations. Here are 24 fascinating stories that will transport you to nightmarish places and minds you never knew existed. In The Stone House is an intense and unusual literary feast from a master storyteller who has few peers. Includes: "Heavy Metal," "Turpentine," "Quartermain," "The Prince of the Steppes," "Andante Lugubre," "Standards & Practices, " "Darwinian Facts, " "Allegro Marcato, " "Something from the Seventies, " "The High Purpose, " "All Assassins, " "Understanding Entropy, " "Ship Full of Jews, " "Amos, " "Improvident Excess, " "Hitler At Nuremberg, " "Concerto Accademico, " "The Intransigents, " "Hierartic Realignment, " "The Only Thing You Learn, " "Police Actions, " "Fugato, " "Major League Triceratops" and "In the Stone House."

In the Stone House

Science fiction writer Sanford Kvass has a problem. Three problems, actually. He suffering from terrible writer's block and owes his agent a large sum of money. The last thing he needs is the approaching distraction of the World Science Fiction Convention, with it's obsessive fans, sex-mad SF groupies and professional writers and editors getting drunk and behaving badly. But we said 'three problems', didn't we? The best that can be said about Sanford Kvass' third problem is that it renders his first two irrelevant. Kvass is approached by an alien ( a genuine alien, not a cosplay one) who informs him that the human race is to be tested: an alien will appear at the World Science Fiction Convention, disguised as a human being, and unless Kvass can unmask it, the Earth will be destroyed. Under normal circumstances, this wouldn't present much of a challenge. All he's have to do, is to observe as many people as he could and identify the one who clearly had no experience of normal social interaction. Voila! One unmasked alien. There's just one problem: this is Worldcon . . .

Barry N. Malzberg

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