Rynosseros

Terry Dowling

Mirrordanse Books

Flinch is a collection of engaging stories by established and emerging creators, all playing on their interpretation of flinch. From facing the other within ourselves, to the tale of a prison inmate discovering what keeps him going to a handful of stories exploring traditional (and non-traditional) hauntings alike. With cover art by World Fantasy Award winning Shaun Tan, Flinch features stories from creative collaborations including: UK fantasy author James Barclay &amp; Chris Bolton, Ray Fawkes &amp; Anton McKay, Justin Randall &amp; Chris Bones, International Horror Guild Award winner Terry Dowling &amp; Skye Ogden and many more! Sample pages and commentary available at flinchbook.com

Flinch

Justin Randall

Christian Read

Tom Taylor

SHAUN TAN

COLIN WILSON

Ray Fawkes

Bobby.N

James Barclay

Chris Bones

Mel Tregonning

Anton McKay

Michael Katchan

Chris Bolton

Andrew Richardson

Tom Bonin

Gestalt Publishing

Basic Black

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Ticonderoga Publications

Make Believe

Short Stories & Anthologies

You may have found it too, down a side-street, in a back lane, up or down some stairs. Open at odd hours, usually after sundown, mostly way past midnight, just a few lights showing. Windows filled with half-seen things, all darkling glints and firefly shimmer, suddenly precious. You know the kind. You've found one, seen one, dreamed one, imagined it there in the small hours, primed and waiting. You've probably tried to find it again, found it locked, found it gone. Some places never stay. But who chooses to open in these empty late-night hours, wants to, needs to? What people come to its door when the wind is in the trees, singing in the wires, scattering leaves along the sidewalks? Forgotten. Overlooked. Waiting. These are the watchwords for such a place. And others. Soon. Believe. Your chance. Your chance again. You've found it and it's open. The door swings back. The little bell rings. The sound trails off into the night, the wind, forlorn. At first there's no-one. Then, of course, there is. "You made it," a voice says, deliciously strange yet strangely familiar. Then there's the smile, what might just be a wink. "So much for a good night's sleep, eh?" Australia's internationally acclaimed master of horror and dark fantasy, winner of the 2007 International Horror Guild Award for Best Collection, serves up another 18 of his wonderfully disturbing tales of appropriate fear, among them such treasured "Best of" selections as "Two Steps Along the Road," "Nightside Eye" and "Mariners' Round," "Toother," "The Sleepover," and "Dark Me, Night You." This is the kind of sharp intelligent horror others dream of...

The Night Shop

Cemetery Dance

Nebula and World Fantasy Grand Master Jack Vance is one of the most admired and cherished writers of science fiction and fantasy in the world, and is one of the truly important and influential storytellers of the 20th century. From his first published story "The World Thinker" in 1945 to his final novel Lurulu in 2004, Vance has shown an astonishing range of inventiveness, versatility and sheer storytelling power, as well as a gift for language and world-building second to none. Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy and Edgar awards, his acclaimed first book The Dying Earth and its sequels helped shape the face of modern heroic fantasy for generations of readers -- and writers! In more than sixty novels, he has done more than any other author to define science fantasy and its preeminent form: the planetary adventure. Born in San Francisco in 1916, Vance wrote much of what you'll find between these covers both abroad and at home in the hills above Oakland, either while serving in the merchant marine or traveling the world with his wife Norma, all the while pursuing his great love of fine cuisine and traditional jazz. Now, at last, the very best of Vance's mid-length and shorter work has been collected in a single landmark volume. With a Preface by Vance himself and a foreword by long-time Vance reader George R.R. Martin, it stands as the capstone to a splendid career and makes the perfect introduction to a very special writer.

The Jack Vance Treasury

Contemporary

Subterranean

Fear and wonder, a powerful combination.Terry Dowling is one of the best kept secrets in modern science fiction, fantasy and horror, a storyteller that Grand Master Jack Vance in his introduction calls, 'A very talented writer, one I admire and respect.'Locus saw Dowling s first book, Rynosseros, as placing him among the 'masters of the field', while editor David G. Hartwell calls him 'A master craftsman...one of the best prose stylists in science fiction and fantasy.' In the words of Harlan Ellison, 'Here is Jack Vance, Cordwainer Smith and Tiptree/Sheldon come again, reborn in one wonderful talent...you'll purr and growl with delight.'Such praise is certainly deserved. Winner of the 2007 International Horror Guild Award for Best Collection, Dowling's stories have appeared in The Year's Best Science Fiction, The Year's Best SF, The Year's Best Fantasy, The Best New Horror and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, in major anthologies like Songs of the Dying Earth, Inferno, The Dark, and Wizards, and such leading publications as SciFiction, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and Interzone.Now, for the first time, Amberjack: Tales of Fear & Wonder gives us the best of Terry s recent uncollected work in a single wonderful volume. From invasion by the truly alien in 'The Lagan Fishers', 'Truth Window' and 'Flashmen' to the gut-wrenching horror of 'Toother' and 'The Suits at Auderlene', from the day-after-tomorrow, hardline SF of 'He Tried to Catch the Light' to the epic sweep and swashbuckling adventure of 'The Library', this is imaginative storytelling as it should be: provocative, unsettling, beautifully crafted, full of invention and genuine surprise and, yes, a definite touch of the dark side.'Who's the writer who can produce horror as powerful and witty as the best of Peter Straub, SF as wondrously byzantine and baroque as anything by Gene Wolfe, near-mainstream subtly tinged with the fantastic like some tales by Powers or Lansdale? Why Terry Dowling, of course.'- Locus [November 1999]'The only contemporary writer who comes close to that wondrous talespinner Cordwainer Smith.'- Locus [February 1993]'One of the best-known and most celebrated of Australian writers in any genre.'- George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, Songs of the Dying Earth, 2009'A writer of great sophistication whose work has few parallels elsewhere in the genre.'- Foundation [61]'A master short story writer...one of the most important writers working in or out of any genre...one of the best and most important writers working in Australia today.'- Jack Dann

Amberjack: Tales of Fear and Wonder

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Throughout his long and impressive career as a celebrated professional storyteller, Jack Vance showed a fascination not only with having characters solve mysteries in all sorts of dramatic and wondrous situations using their powers of observation, deduction and common sense, but also with the possibility of higher states of mind in play, other realms of existence, even spirit worlds. Vance approached such things with a healthy, properly wary, scientific curiosity, even while embracing the liberties allowed any popular entertainer, and so made the exploration of such higher states part of his stock in trade. Whether richly displayed in his Dying Earth stories with their wizardly spellcasting, eldritch beings and strange dimensions, or in his science fiction tales with the incredible mental powers afforded races like the Green Chasch, the Fwai-chi, the Meks of Etamin 9 besieging the final human strongholds in 'The Last Castle,' even given to divergent human peoples on Koryphon, Maske and countless other worlds, or to the likes of his most extraordinary Demon Prince, Howard Alan Treesong, Vance was forever drawn to what else might comprise human (and other) natures in all their myriad forms. Minding the Stars: The Early Jack Vance Volume 4 reflects this beguiling blend of the practical and the otherworldly, combining tales that explore the workings of such mental powers with other stories selected from the earlier days of the Grandmaster's illustrious career.

Minding the Stars (The Early Jack Vance)

Jonathan Strahan

Subterranean Pr

ABOUT THE BOOK 
A Thousand and One Nights of Tomorrow 
It s no surprise that The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros has been called The best and most ambitious Australian science fiction series ever written, and one of the best, ever, period or that Locus magazine in the US saw it as placing its author among the masters of the field. 
Only seven Nationals have won Hero Colours and fine sandships from the rival tribes that rule Australia a thousand years from now. We join the Blue Captain, Tom Tyson, and his crew aboard the magnificent kite-drawn charvolant Rynosseros as he strives to discover his true identity in a world of strange and dangerous desert states, orbiting battle stations, mind war and the most bizarre terraforming and genetic experiments imaginable. We travel with Tom to the islands of the Inland Sea, to the great fighting ground of the Air, to deserted carnivals, haunted artists colonies, fire-chess contests and the abandoned arcologies of the interior, all while searching for clues to the meaning of the three signs he carries with him from his time in the Madhouse. </P 
For that is the great mystery here, and Tom s search to discover who he is, and why he has come to be in this place at this time is one of the most memorable journeys in modern fantastic fiction. 
The exciting first volume of The Complete Rynosseros brings us the first two collections in the momentous saga, Rynosseros and Blue Tyson, together with the unforgettable novella The Library and the never before collected Marmordesse, presented in the intended reading order for the very first time.\nRynosseros 
Introduction by Peter McNamara 
Colouring the Captains 
The Only Bird in Her Name 
The Robot Is Running Away from the Trees 
What We Did to the Tyger 
Spinners 
So Much for the Burning Queen 
Mirage Diver 
Time of the Star 
Marmordesse 
Blue Tyson 
Introduction by Jack Vance 
Breaking Through to the Heroes 
Going to the Angels 
Vanities 
A Dragon Between His Fingers 
Djinn of Anjoulis 
A Song to Keep Them Dancing 
Stoneman 
Privateers Moon 
Dreaming the Knife 
Totem 
The Library

The Complete Rynosseros Vol 1 [Trade Paperback]

PS Publishing

ABOUT THE BOOK The Adventure Continues Events are fast nearing crisis point for the seven Coloured Captains. While Tom strives to learn the meaning of his three signs from the Madhouse, he continues to test the patience and goodwill of the tribes who rule this amazing Australia of the future. As he roams the dream-ridden streets of Twilight Beach, travels the strange wind river called the Soul, wanders the shores of the Inland Sea and visits the desert wastes of Totem Rule and Pentecost, his very existence cannot help but provoke the tribal Princes and their powerful allies. Going walkabout doesn t help either, for Tom cannot be other than the man he is. By aiding outcasts, travellers, fellow captains, even rogue belltrees in his search for his forgotten past, the point is finally reached where something must be done and a deadly plan is put in place that will deal with the Captains once and for all. The question is: will Tom find answers before it s too late. This second landmark volume of The Complete Rynosseros presents the much-prized third and fourth collections in the adventures of the Blue Captain, Twilight Beach and Rynemonn, adding the previously uncollected story Down Flowers to the line-up, and featuring Calling Down the Sun, a brand-new Tom adventure written exclusively for this special milestone edition. TWILIGHT BEACH Shatterwrack at Breaklight The Babel Ships Sailors Along the Soul Roadsong Larrikin Wind Nights at Totem Rule The Final Voyage of Captain Gelise The Leopard A Whisper from the Voice at the Vanishing Point The Green Captain s Tale Calling Down the Sun Ship s Eye RYNEMONN The Leopard (a poem) Doing the Line One A Woman Sent Through Time Doing the Line Two The Maiden Death Doing the Line Three No Hearts to Be Broken Doing the Line Four Fear-Me-Now Doing the Line Five Ships for the Sundance Sea Down Flowers Doing the Line Six Swordplay Doing the Line Seven Tesserina and the Target Man Doing the Line Eight The Bull of September Doing the Line Nine Coyote Struck by Lightning Coming Down Sewing Whole Cloth

The Complete Rynosseros Vol 2 [Trade Paperback]

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