From Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author, Geoffrey A. Landis, comes an epic of near-future exploration of Mars in his debut Nebula Award nominated novel, Mars Crossing.
By the middle of the 21st century, humanity has finally landed men on Mars–only to watch helplessly as the first two missions end in catastrophe and death.
With resources running out, a third–and perhaps final–mission to Mars is hastily mounted, with a crew of four men and two women. But from the moment of their arrival on Mars, everything begins to go wrong. The fuel tanks that were to have supplied their return trip are found corroded and empty. Their supplies are running out and their life support systems are beginning to fail. And any rescue mission won't reach them for months, or even years–if at all.
The crew's only hope for survival lies in a desperate plan: an agonizing trek halfway across the surface of Mars to a ship designed to carry only half their number. Torn by conflict and dissent, and troubled by secrets that endanger them all, they must embark on an ordeal that will test them to the limits of endurance.

Mars Crossing: An Epic of Survival on the Red Planet

Literature & Fiction

Landis, Geoffrey A.

United States

Tor Science Fiction

Mars Crossing

By the middle of the 21st century, humanity has finally landed men on Mars-only to watch helplessly as the first two missions end in catastrophe and death. With resources running out, a third-and perhaps final-mission to Mars is hastily mounted, with a crew of four men and two women. But from the moment of their arrival on Mars, everything begins to go wrong. The fuel tanks that were to have supplied their return trip are found corroded and empty. Their supplies are running out and their life support systems are beginning to fail. And any rescue mission won't reach them for months, or even years-if at all. The crew's only hope for survival lies in a desperate plan: an agonizing trek halfway across the surface of Mars to a ship designed to carry only half their number. Torn by conflict and dissent, and troubled by secrets that endanger them all, they must embark on an ordeal that will test them to the limits of endurance.

“Rich word choices and settings that blend speculative concepts with quotidian reality highlight this stellar anthology of prose and poetry.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY “One of those rare long-term survivors of the small-press landscape. . . contributes mightily to the health of our genre.” —LOCUS ONLINE Assembled from the second year of the digital journal MYTHIC DELIRIUM and recast in an artfully arranged anthology, this latest offering from editors Mike and Anita Allen will introduce you to harrowing deserts and vengeful waters, to quantum mythology and edible religion, to slipstream explorations of love and identity. Publisher and editor Mike Allen writers in his introduction, “If you’re on a quest for the weird, lowercase, here is a book where you can find it. And likely The Weird as well.” This international anthology of beautiful prose and strange verse features Saira Ali, Michele Bannister, Alicia Cole, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Gwynne Garfinkle, Brady Golden, Adam Howe, John Philip Johnson, Jamie Killen, Swapna Kishore, Margo Lanagan, Geoffrey A. Landis, Nathaniel Lee, Rose Lemberg, Livia Llewellyn, Valya Dudycz Lupescu, C.S. MacCath, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Lynette Mejía, Virginia M. Mohlere, Sunny Moraine, Kristine Ong Muslim, Dominik Parisien, Jessy Randall, Wendy Rathbone, Sonya Taaffe, Shveta Thakrar, Natalia Theodoridou, Sheree Renée Thomas and Jane Yolen. Cover art by Hugo Award winner Galen Dara.

Mythic Delirium: Volume Two: an international anthology of prose and verse

Lanagan, Margo

Llewellyn, Livia

MacFarlane, Alex Dally

Thomas, Sheree Renée

Gailey, Jeannine Hall

Thakrar, Shveta

Lupescu, Valya Dudycz

Taaffe, Sonya

Howe, Adam

Muslim, Kristine Ong

Rathbone, Wendy

Moraine, Sunny

YOLEN, JANE

MacCath, C.S.

Kishore, Swapna

Mohlere, Virginia M.

Parisien, Dominik

Johnson, John Philip

Lynette Mejia

Mythic Delirium Books

"The basics of a good interview may be summed up in the following sentence: find someone interesting and articulate, ask just enough questions to get them talking, then point the microphone, shut up, and, oh, by the way, make sure your equipment works." So says Darrell Schweitzer, the editor of this fascinating volume of contemporary interviews with seventeen science fiction writers. Included are scintillating conversations with: George R. R. Martin, James Morrow, Jack Dann, Geoffrey A. Landis, Joe W. Haldeman, Zoran Zivkovic, Esther M. Friesner, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Harry Turtledove, Gregory Frost, Tom Purdom, D. G. Compton, Robert J. Sawyer, Charles Stross, Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, and Howard Waldrop.

Speaking of the Fantastic III: Interviews with Science Fiction Writers

Dann, Jack

TURTLEDOVE, HARRY

Schweitzer, Darrell

Rusch, Kristine Kathryn

ZIVKOVIC, Zoran

Friesner, Esther M.

Martin,George R.R.

Morrow,James

Haldeman, Joe W.

History & Criticism

Borgo Press

Speculative poetry travels winding roads leading to wondrous worlds, regions never traversed by mainstream verse. Fantastic poems range in the material they treat from the strange but explainable to the utterly fanciful, from horror to wonder, and from the rigidly verisimilitudinous to the purely surrealist. They may utilize traditional prosody or may avail themselves of the discontinuities and fragmentation of modernist free verse. They may use as setting the primary world, a secondary world, or a combination of the two. With roots planted firmly in the mythic and folkloric epics and ballads of yore, and branches reaching high into the endless skies of modern fantasy, science fiction, and horror, speculative poetry is a historic and vital poetic genre, the source of the most thoughtful, imaginative verse being written today. Red Sky features over 100 years' worth of speculative poetry from yesterday's masters, modern award winners, and emerging stars. Filled with luminous ideas, otherworldly adventures, metaphysical encounters and startling futuristic speculations, these poems will appeal to all readers as they chart the emergence and evolution of speculative poetry. "Enkindling dawns of memory, Each sun had radiance to relume A sealed, disused, and darkened room Within the soul's immensity. Their alien ciphers shown and lit, I understood what each had writ Upon my spirit's scroll; Again I wore mine ancient lives, And knew the freedom and the gyves That formed and marked my soul." Willy In The Nano Lab by Geoffrey A. Landis Cybernetic Sestina by E.S. Wynn Fatigue Of The Marionettes by Karen Neuberg The Fate Of Worlds by William Cullen, Jr. The Star-Treader by Clark Ashton Smith On This Outlying Planet by J.J. Steinfeld Close Encounters Of The Unique Kind by Adina Newman - Redder Soil, Greener Grass by Sara Bickley Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll Lost And Found by Fanni Süto To No End Death by Seth Frederiksen Shine Down On Me by David Revilla Rain Check: version 36 by Chris Fradkin Songs From An Evil Wood by Edward Plunkett Aerial Corps Enlistment by David S. Pointer What The Robots Know by Alyssa Black The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Flowing by Adrian George Nicolae You by Nora May French Pigeon Boy by Kyle Hemmings Repairman by John Grey Anastacia, Girl No. S10230 File: Insurgent by Carmen Tudor Rise Of The Machines by Stephanie Rose Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti Fungi From Yuggoth by H.P. Lovecraft The Landing by Matthew Wilson The Green Hills Of Earth by Robert A. Heinlein The Visitors by Ed Higgins Locksley Hall by Alfred Lord Tennyson The Stars Are Calling by Mathias Jansson Discombobulation by Rami Sebai Shadow Of Dreams by Robert E. Howard Armageddon by M.A. Crawford The Hosting Of The Sidhe by William Butler Yeats The Centaurs by Rudyard Kipling Lamia by John Keats Queen Mab by Percy Bysshe Shelley The Hunting Of The Dragon by G.K. Chesterton

Red Sky: Anthology of Speculative Poetry

Rose, Stephanie

Wynn, ES

Neuberg, Karen

Newman, Adina

Tudor, Carmen

Cullen Jr, William

Poetry

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

An unabridged collection spotlighting the best hard science fiction stories and novellas published in 2023 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster.<ul><li>"The Last Cathedral of Earth, In Flight" by Tobias S. Buckell - The last of humanity flees, among the stars, from alien Prowlers.</li><li>"The Unpastured Sea" by Gregory Feeley - A mission to the planet Neptune runs into many setbacks.</li><li>"The Tinker and the Timestream" by Carolyn Ives Gilman - Colonists on a planet orbiting a decaying sun encounter interstellar time travelers.</li><li>"Six Incidents of Evolution Using Time Travel" by Derek Künsken - Time travel is found to be encoded in the DNA of some alien species.</li><li>"Cloudskimmer" by Geoffrey A. Landis - Robots and humans team up to explore Venus.</li><li>"Even if Such Ways Are Bad" by Rich Larson - A two-person crew goes on a deep space mission inside a living wormship.</li><li>"The Enthnomusicology of the Last Dreadnaught by Yoon Ha Lee - The battle glory of an atrocious weapon of war is honored.</li><li>"Exiled to Gravity" by Marissa Lingen - A mysterious ailment hampers an engineer's return to space.</li><li>"Clockwork Melting by James Maxey - An immortal races against time to complete an ice sculpture on Venus.</li><li>"The Elephant Maker" by Alec Nevala-Lee - Scientists clash with hunters and poachers for a rogue elephant needed to test a brain implant.</li><li>"The Ghosts of Mars" by Dominica Phetteplace - A teenager struggles to survive on Mars amidst peculiar phenomena attributed to ghosts.</li><li>"The Many Different Kinds of Love" by Geoff Ryman with David Jeffrey - After ten years of silence, an abiotic intelligence on Enceladus receives unauthorized messages from Earth.</li><li>"Lemuria 7 Is Missing" by Allen M. Steele - The disappearance of a passenger moonship is scrutinized.</li><li>"Defective" by Peter Watts - A zero-sum battle for survival rests on the ability of a scientist to communicate with an alien species.</li><li>"OCASTA" by Daniel H. Wilson - An AI, with an algorithm that analyzes and learns, has a story to tell.</li></ul>

The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 8

Buckell, Tobias S.

Lee, Yoon Ha

Watts, Peter

Wilson, Daniel H.

Ryman, Geoff

Gilman, Carolyn Ives

Kaster, Allan

Künsken, Derek

Steele, Allen M.

Short Stories & Anthologies

Infinivox

Anthology of cutting edge and traditional short fiction. Authors: Christine Beckert, David Bischoff, Carroll Brown, Jack Cady, Jennifer B. Crow, Charles de Lint, Paul do Fillippo, Alan Dean Foster, Esther M. Friesner, Ed Gorman, Geoffrey A. Landis, Sharianne Lewitt, Ardath Mayhar, Edward J, McFadden III, Leland Neville, Lyn Nichols, E. Jay O'Conell, G. F. O'Sullivan, Tom Piccirilli, Pobert J. Randisi, Mike Resnick, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, A. J. Scott, Timorthy S. Sedore, Bobbi Sinha-Morey, Eric Sonstroem, Nancy Springer, Allen Steele, Sue Storm, and Roger Zelazny.

The Best of Pirate Writings: Tales of Fantasy, Mystery & Science Fiction

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Bischoff, David

Randisi, Robert J.

De Lint, Charles

Piccirilli, Tom

Di Filippo, Paul

Cady, Jack

O'Connell, Jay

Mayhar, Ardath

Nichols, Lyn

Carroll & Brown

Foster,Alan Dean

Beckert, Christine

Crow, Jennifer B.

Lewitt, Sharianne

Neville, Leland

O'Sullivan, G. F.

Mystery

Padwolf Pub Inc

Reading more like a news report from the future than contemporary fiction, this collection of short stories combines hard science with rich emotionalism to explore myriad realities. Stories in this collection include Into the Blue Abyss,” where the seas of Uranus are explored. There are stories detailing a space freighter and its encounter with space pirates, the marsforming” of Mars, mathematical theorems from a very unlikely source, how Sherlock Holmes deals with a parasitic alien, the horrors of a hopeless war, and a voyage into a black hole.

Impact Parameter: And Other Quantum Realities

Golden Gryphon Press

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