Jacey Bedford

Seven great new science fiction and fantasy stories from established writers and rising stars. Our longest story this time is from Jacey Bedford, with her Song of Unmaking - a superpowers tale with tragic consequences. We've got a rare SF story from successful crime novelist Steve Burford - The Art of War - delving between the blurred lines of what's real and what isn't. Mark Rigney's Boggle Dog and Blue Cat gives us more robot-based SF. Liam Hogan gives us another excellent story - Two Percent - all about black holes and the prospects of surviving one. We also have a new tale from Holley Cornetto; Maiden of the Rock is a fantasy story (yes, mermaids) and continues our tradition of thoughtful tales that challenge your assumptions. Cardiff writer JL George gives us Coblyn, an unsettling fantasy horror and M Luke McDonell's The Obscurists rounds out our collection, a character-based sci-fi portal story with plenty of action. Our strongest collection yet - all new excellence that will linger long in the memory.

What happens when a computer glitch sends eighty-nine copies of the same scientist (and no one else) to settle a new planet? Or a privateer gets stranded on a slow ship he tried to hijack that's still years away from its destination and has no food? BRAVE NEW WORLDS presents fifteen original stories that follow humanity's long dream of traveling to the stars, from heart-wrenching departures from Earth, through the unknown dangers of the long flight through the cold vastness of space, to the immigrants' final arrival on an alien world. Perhaps your father has signed you up for life on a gen ship before you've even graduated high school. Or maybe you've arrived at a gloriously green new planet...only to have it shoot you out of the sky when you try to land. Or worse yet, your attempts to terraform your new home have all failed. What do you do then? Join Jamie Boyd, Gini Koch, Mike Jack Stoumbos, Stephen Leigh, A.M. Giddings, Auston Habershaw, Sarah Lyn Eaton, Ian Tregillis, Jack Nicholls, Willa Blythe, Chaz Brenchley, Ari Officer, Eric Choi, Jacey Bedford, and Juliet Kemp in the latest anthology from Zombies Need Brains, BRAVE NEW WORLDS, as they explore the infinite challenges of humanity's race to the stars

The king is dead, his queen is missing. On the amber coast, the usurper king is driving Zavonia to the brink of war. A dangerous magical power is rising up in Biela Miasto, and the only people who can set things right are a failed bodyguard, a Landstrider witch, and the assassin who set off the whole sorry chain of events. Can these three discover the real villain, find the queen, and set the rightful king on the throne before the country is overcome?

Eleven stories, one interview, loads of book reviews and a bright, shiny cover. There are frogs and dogs, doll's houses and crows, soul eaters and graffiti artists, ice sculptures and coal miners, wizards and savants and a cyclist on a mission. Fantasy, science fiction and a touch of darkness all in a tightly packed supersized 88 pages.Stories from Holley Cornetto, JL George, Peri Dwyer Worrell, Dorothy Winsor, Stephanie Kramer, Rosemary Sgroi, Robert Borski, Jacey Bedford, Mark Rigney, Sydney Paige Guerrero and Bonnie West, together with an interview with Tiffani Angus, author of Threading the Labyrinth.Edited by Mark Bilsborough - first in a series with new editions out every two months.

A military attack drone turned shepherd. A train on the London Underground evolving into something new and wondrous. A troupe of robotic actors struggling to find meaning when the audience has disappeared. Explore the myriad ideas of what happens when out-of-date and abandoned technologies are given a second life-one that takes them in a new direction, far outside their intended programming and beyond their original purpose. MY BATTERY IS LOW AND IT IS GETTING DARK features fourteen stories of quiet hope, heartbreak, creation, and death from fantasy and science fiction authors Dana Berube, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, Jacey Bedford, Anthony Lowe, Chris Kocher, Brian Hugenbruch, William Leisner, Jos Pablo Iriarte, Alethea Kontis, Kari Sperring, Edward Willett, John G. Hartness, Alexander Gideon, and Stephen Leigh. You may never look at your smart speaker the same way again.