2020 0 Reader Ratings 0% 0% 0% 0% Robert Onopa Genre: Science Fiction Word Count: 54,000 Price: $5.99 Formats: Publisher: ElectricStory.com In 1948, the future was 1984, but in 2002, we don't have to wait as long! Adjust your vision to 2020 as revealed in this collection. On an international highway system of never-pausing traffic, Nomads keep moving from cradle to grave. Bio-engineered kangaroos carry fetuses for busy mothers. And a foundering lunar resort exploits one of humanity's great oversights—we forgot to name the moon! Wry and funny and appallingly probable, 2020 includes several of Robert Onopa's best stories from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and an Afterword. More

AEgypt 0 Reader Ratings 0% 0% 0% 0% John Crowley Genre: Fantasy Word Count: 147,000 Price: $7.99 Formats: Publisher: ElectricStory.com In the 1970s, an historian named Pierce Moffett moves to the country to write a book, driven by the idea that the world's physical laws once changed and may change again. The notion is not his alone. Something waits at the locked estate of Fellowes Kraft, author of romances about Will Shakespeare and Giordano Bruno and Dr. John Dee, something for which Pierce and those near him have long sought without knowing it, a key to a land displaced from the world, a land called Ægypt. More

Astronomy 0 Reader Ratings 0% 0% 0% 0% Richard Wadholm Genre: Fantasy Word Count: 55,000 Price: $4.99 Formats: Publisher: ElectricStory.com At the end of World War II, an American task force investigates a Nazi project to reanimate the dead and summon strange monsters from other dimensions. Deranged by their own studies, the Nazi scientists have been difficult to find, much less talk to, and only the linguist Susan Gilbert has had any luck getting their cooperation. When it turns out that the biggest, most horrific experiment of them all has yet to be completed, she must join forces with her own worst enemy, a remorseless, manipulative villain hunted by the Allies, the Nazis, and supernatural monsters alike. More

Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories 0 Reader Ratings 0% 0% 0% 0% Terry Bisson Genre: Science Fiction Word Count: 72,000 Price: $7.00 Formats: Publisher: ElectricStory.com In this collection, Bisson showcases the wide range of his talent with gentle fantasies that include the wry title story—winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards— ecological allegories; a novelette about experimental trips into the realm of death; and a science fiction mini-epic. More

Beast of the Heartland and Other Stories 0 Reader Ratings 0% 0% 0% 0% Lucius Shepard Genre: Science Fiction Word Count: 123,000 Price: $6.99 Formats: Publisher: ElectricStory.com A collection of adrenaline-charged hallucinations from a great modern writer, Beast of the Heartland includes the National Magazine Award-winning title story, the Hugo Award-winning "Barnacle Bill the Spacer," and many others, covering genres from fantasy to mainstream to hard science fiction. The ElectricStory edition features the never-before-published "How Lonesome Heartbreak Changed His Life," based on the post-War underworld of today's Vietnam. More

A Christmas Carol 0 Reader Ratings 0% 0% 0% 0% Charles Dickens Genre: Fantasy Word Count: 28,000 Price: Free! Formats: Publisher: ElectricStory.com       First Pub:: Chapman & Hall 1843 "I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it." More

Colonel Rutherford's Colt 0 Reader Ratings 0% 0% 0% 0% Lucius Shepard Genre: Contemporary Word Count: 55,000 Price: $5.99 Formats: Publisher: ElectricStory.com Colonel Rutherford's Colt is the story of Jimmy and Rita, dealers in historical firearms—those used by the famous and the infamous. Raised up hard by his father in Montana, Jimmy is a curiously blank figure who seems to live most fully inside the stories he tells Rita about certain of the guns they acquire. When the wife of a slain white-power leader brings him her husband's Colt .45 to sell, he begins a story that draws everyone involved with the weapon into a gothic plot that—to Jimmy at least—contrives its own reality, one that may well have a disastrous resolution. More

The Cult of Loving Kindness [Starbridge Chronicles Book 3] 0 Reader Ratings 0% 0% 0% 0% Paul Park Genre: Science Fiction Word Count: 100,000 Price: $6.99 Formats: Publisher: ElectricStory.com More than two generations have passed since the events of Sugar Rain, and barren tundra has given way to fecund, steamy jungle at the height of summer. Deep in the forest, a twin boy and girl grow up among a strange race of philosophers, oblivious to the outside world, where the secular regime is now as fanatical and orthodox as the old religious one. When their home is invaded, the pair take flight. Among the new faith called The Cult of Loving Kindness, they awaken to their mythic heritage, becoming the catalyst of another revolution and the re-ascendance of the Starbridges. More

Dream Factories and Radio Pictures 0 Reader Ratings 0% 0% 0% 0% Howard Waldrop Genre: Science Fiction Word Count: 92,000 Price: $6.99 Formats: Publisher: ElectricStory.com What if the post-apocalyptic world was inherited by the android avatars of a famous duck, mouse, and dog? What if every '50s Bugarama monster-movie nightmare came true at once? What if Cloudbuster pioneers had transformed the arid American Southwest into a subtropical paradise? For the first time, the greater part of Howard Waldrop's media-related tales are brought together in one place. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the show—you're about to see the world in a whole new aspect ratio. More

A Dry, Quiet War 5 Reader Ratings 100% 0% 0% 0% Tony Daniel Genre: Science Fiction Word Count: 9,200 Price: Free! Formats: Publisher: ElectricStory.com All Henry Bone wanted was what his service in the war had earned him: the chance to go home. But when the glims arrive, he's forced to choose: let those he loves be destroyed, or, in saving them, relive his own terrible, ineluctable future. More