Tochi Onyebuchi is the author of Goliath, a Locus Award and Dragon Award finalist, the young adult novel Beasts Made of Night, which won the Ilube Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel by an…
Michael Seth Starr covered television at the New York Post as a reporter, columnist, critic, and editor for over 28 years. He has written a filmography of Peter Sellers and biographies of Don Rickles…
Erin Crosby Eckstine is an author of speculative historical fiction, personal essays, and anything else she's in the mood for. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, Eckstine grew up between the South and Los…
Former library school lecturer and public librarian Cindy Mediavilla is currently an author and independent scholar who retired from both the California State Library and the UCLA Department of…
Kate Maruyama was raised on books and weaned on movies in a small New England town. She is the author of The Collective, Harrowgate and Bleak Houses. She writes, teaches, cooks, and eats in Los…
Ava Morgyn grew up falling in love with all the wrong characters in all the wrong stories, then studied English Writing & Rhetoric at St. Edward's University. She is a lover of witchcraft, tarot, and…
Karen Rigby is the author of Chinoiserie, which won a 2011 Sawtooth Poetry Prize. A National Endowment for the Arts literature fellow, her poems have been published in journals such as The London…
After being hurled into the culinary limelight on BBC's Masterchef show, Orlando Murrin became editor of BBC Good Food magazine before setting up a gastronomic guesthouse in the southwest of France…
Arnold Hylen (1908–1987) trained at the Chouinard Art Institute, and found work as a photographer for the Fluor Corporation, where he worked from the early 1940s into the 1970s. During that period, he…
T.J. Klune is the #1 New York Times and #1 USA Today bestselling, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of The House in the Cerulean Sea, Under the Whispering Door, In the Lives of Puppets, the Green…
James Sugre is a vampire. He has lived for centuries, but has made some questionable choices. Bad choices, when it comes to investments. Now, he is broke. He has no money and is deep in debt. He can’t even afford his own reflection (they are available for a fee from Vampire Nation, an international conglomerate that both governs and provides for the world’s vampire population).
Wishes. We all make them, either silently to ourselves or possibly as a breathless whisper as we drop a coin in a fountain. The reason behind them can range from whimsical to deadly serious. And, in the "real world," they are, to quote Douglas Adams, "mostly harmless." In the world of fiction, however, wishes are entirely different.
The Ending Writes Itself is a marvelous read. Clarke will keep readers guessing and reevaluating as information is revealed and the body count rises, right up to the very last page.
تأسست دار جنازات إيفانز منذ زمنٍ يُقارب عمر بلدة جنوب شرق تكساس التي تقع فيها. وهي مؤسسة عائلية تُدار وتُورث عبر الأجيال، من خلال نساء عائلة إيفانز. ومن بينهن دوسي، ربة الأسرة الحالية، وهي ابنة باي، الذي اختفى في ظروف غامضة قبل ثمانية عشر عامًا...
في عام ٢٠٢٠، عرّفت في. إي. شواب القراء على آدي لارو، الشابة التي تعقد صفقةً مشؤومةً لتجنب زواجٍ غير مرغوب فيه في فرنسا مطلع القرن الثامن عشر. في رواية "الحياة الخفية لآدي لارو"، تتابع شواب آدي عبر القرون، حيث تُشكّل آدي، بذكائها وقوة إرادتها،...
عندما كانت إيبوني "إيبي" فريمان في العاشرة من عمرها، كانت الشاهدة الوحيدة على عملية سطو فاشلة على منزلها، أسفرت عن مقتل شقيقها باز، البالغ من العمر خمسة عشر عامًا، رميًا بالرصاص، وتدمير إرث عائلي لا يُقدّر بثمن. وكون إيبي ابنة عائلة سوداء مرموقة...
تغيرت حياة داليا في صباح اليوم الذي عثرت فيه الخادمة على رسالة مطبوعة كُتب عليها: "استأجروا حارسًا جديدًا للمفاتيح؛ عاجل؛ قبل الفجر". كان جميع سكان منزل كابريشوس يعرفون معنى الرسالة ومن كتبها. كاتبتها هي سيدة منزل كابريشوس، السيدة أناتيما، وهي عنكبوت عملاقة نصف بشرية...
في لندن عام ١٩٢٤، يُستدعى لاو شي، الأكاديمي الشاب الخجول، إلى منزل عالم الرياضيات برتراند راسل. عند وصوله، يشرح راسل أن صديقه وزميله، القاضي دي رن جي، قد اعتُقل خطأً مع مجموعة من المحرضين الصينيين. يخشى راسل أن تُكشف هوية دي...
