Jasmine Brings home a new retro-looking game from GameWorld, and when she and her brother Bobby start playing it, they get sucked into it via a portal, and upon awakening inside the game, they realize that they have been turned into anthropomorphic animals. Jasmine is now a cat, and her brother is a bear, and they can both do a myriad of cool attacks that cost little health when used in battle, say,... [click here for more]
Cohen and Ryszard Dajjal are two orphans who work as apprentice cooks at the Cenobius of Ahator, the monastery where Kabbalah, the elite of the Fifth Empire, is trained. that he loves and believes in, including his brother, Ryszard. Cohen's decisions put his life and that of his brother at risk, revealing a secret order that has infiltrated the elite and whose sole objective is to destroy it: the Qliphoth,... [click here for more]
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AURORA AWARD WINNER from a multi-award winning author. "Doug Smith is, quite simply, the finest short-story writer Canada has ever produced in the science fiction and fantasy genres, and he's also the most prolific. His stories are a treasure trove of riches that will touch your heart while making you think." —Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author... [click here for more]
Androids & You
Written by Bill Stuart
Adapted by David Hinde Chapman
Featuring Steve Anderson
Story first published in On Spec Magazine (Summer 2006)
Winner: Siver Mark Time Award (2007) ... [click here for more]
With a Category 5 hurricane barreling towards the southeast coast of Florida, Kayla Woodbridge is forced to cut her beach vacation with her children short and return home to prepare for the coming storm. Boone Chadwick, a new friend she met at the beach, isn't as concerned about the impending storm as Kayla is and refuses to heed her warnings to vacate the island. When the causeway bridge, the only... [click here for more]
Gwen Harper is about to discover that her life in the troll coast will become more complicated as her hidden past comes to the forefront. Events quickly escalate to involve not only her current situation, but potentially the whole kingdom. ... [click here for more]