Fantasy & science fiction

An epic new historical fantasy novel set in an alternate magical Ireland at the time of the Norman invasion.

A collection of the year’s best science fiction and fantasy short fiction selected by award-winning author of Death of the Author and the Binti Trilogy, Nnedi Okorafor, and series editor John Joseph Adams.The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction, and it is the most respected—and most popular—of its kind.Nnedi Okrafor selects twenty pieces that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year and explores the ever-expanding and changing world of science fiction and fantasy today.

"Shuichi is on the hook to paying the company back his salary and his commission for the past year after losing multiple contracts. This new looming debt means that he will have to cancel the trip to Paris he and his wife have been planning for a year. A trip that his family desperately needs as his teenage daughter has stopped going to school and won't leave her room. Shuichi believes that he's the unluckiest person in Japan. A strange taxi driver appears when Shuichi is at his lowest and has no direction. The taxi driver offers to take him to his next potential opportunity, should he seize it. In the backseat of this taxi Shuichi embarks on a philosophical and magical ride learning that luck is not inherent, it's an investment built over time and even over generations"--

In a world ravaged by prolonged conflict, traditional nations have collapsed, paving the way for self-organized factions. Twin sisters Ranger and Rocket, separated by fate, now find themselves pivotal in this fractured society. Together, they share a singular vision: achieving global peace and harmony through unity.Yet, amidst societies fractured by decades of war, can they succeed? In a world where alliances are tenuous and trust is rare, is their quest for peace destined to fail?

The ‘most original writer in Britain’ (Daily Express) returns with a mind-blowing, high-concept new thriller.

A bibliographic deep dive into the subterranean imaginary that traces the fascination of underground spaces.Since that fateful moment in 1974 when Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson decided to title their revolutionary new roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons, a strong subterranean mystique has permeated gaming cultures from the tabletop to the games console and beyond. But what if the caves, crypts, grottos, and dank netherworlds explored by players weren’t only harboring treasures of the fictional variety? What if these spaces of imaginal exploration were capable of calling out to us from deep time, whispering unexpected truths about our unique relationship to the Great Below? In this expansively imagined and deftly edited volume, writer and RPG historian Stu Horvath delves through the various strata of deep time to uncover a vast hoard of literary gems that cast strange new light on the subterranean imaginary. Tracing this fascination with chthonic mystery from the ancient world to the contemporary gaming table, Down Down Down: An Exploration of Literature’s Dungeons from The Bibliothecha To Bastionland gathers together fragments of almost one hundred resonant texts and images, illuminating them with the editor’s own commentary and positioning them in relation to contemporary tabletop roleplaying games.A perfect resource for both games masters and armchair adventures alike, Down Down Down surveys the perennial appeal of underground spaces to writers and artists, and makes their varied works and ideas accessible to contemporary readers, players, and game designers.

Witness what the gods do after dark. This full-colour edition of Smythe's original Eisner Award-winning webcomic Lore Olympus features an exclusive bonus short story and brings Greek mythology into the modern age in a sharply perceptive and romantic graphic novel. This volume collects episodes 207-233 of the #1 WEBTOON comic Lore Olympus.

London, 1898. The Victorian Era draws to a close and the twentieth century approaches. It is a time of great change and an age of stagnation, a period of chaste order and ignoble chaos.