A collection of a dozen short stories—nine previously anthologized plus three stories exclusive to this edition—spread across the spectrum of speculative fiction.
In ‘The Sad Rains of Mars’—published here for the first time—a native Martian detective struggles to work with the Metropolitan Police on a murder in her jurisdiction on a Mars colonized by the Victorian British Empire. ‘The Shadows Under Mariana Base’ features the crew of a deep-sea research base facing Lovecraftian horrors far below the waves. ‘In the Time of the Martians,’ an H.G. Wells homage, brings together the characters of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds. ‘On My Side’ features a lost soldier beholden to a large extraterrestrial slug on a far-off planet in a war zone. In ‘The Ghosts of Glenmirror,’ a scientist finds herself virtually haunted inside a gothic mansion as she tests her brain-computer interface that runs programs within lucid dreams.
Also included: the 1950s nostalgia of ‘The Day It Came from Beyond Outer Space,’ the military sci-fi of ‘Finders Keepers,’ the Cthulhu comedy of ‘The Squid That Came to Phil’s Basement,’ the sci-fi–horror mash-up of ‘The Creature in Jay Cooke Park’ and ‘The Loneliness of Monsters,’ and—two more exclusives—the ambiguous reality of ‘The Thing from Over the Lake’ and the dark occult science of ‘The Final Ritual of Thomas Haumann.’
Genre: Science Fiction
In ‘The Sad Rains of Mars’—published here for the first time—a native Martian detective struggles to work with the Metropolitan Police on a murder in her jurisdiction on a Mars colonized by the Victorian British Empire. ‘The Shadows Under Mariana Base’ features the crew of a deep-sea research base facing Lovecraftian horrors far below the waves. ‘In the Time of the Martians,’ an H.G. Wells homage, brings together the characters of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds. ‘On My Side’ features a lost soldier beholden to a large extraterrestrial slug on a far-off planet in a war zone. In ‘The Ghosts of Glenmirror,’ a scientist finds herself virtually haunted inside a gothic mansion as she tests her brain-computer interface that runs programs within lucid dreams.
Also included: the 1950s nostalgia of ‘The Day It Came from Beyond Outer Space,’ the military sci-fi of ‘Finders Keepers,’ the Cthulhu comedy of ‘The Squid That Came to Phil’s Basement,’ the sci-fi–horror mash-up of ‘The Creature in Jay Cooke Park’ and ‘The Loneliness of Monsters,’ and—two more exclusives—the ambiguous reality of ‘The Thing from Over the Lake’ and the dark occult science of ‘The Final Ritual of Thomas Haumann.’
Genre: Science Fiction
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