In Barbara’s home I admired a couple of beautiful prints on the wall, all lacy and medieval in style, depicting a pretty girl with lots of dark, wavy hair surrounded by tiny flying dragons. “Those are the covers from Dragonsong and Dragonsinger,” she said. “You mean, you haven’t read them? Oh, yo...
An aristocrat stood over Aurigar’s table. Careful not to spill the carafe of wine or knock the remains of his noodles-and-mussels to the floor, Aurigar staggered up from his chair and bowed. “Lord Leader Sir?” “You heard the question the first time.” The lord bulged with stimumuscle. His face had...
His most acclaimed work is the tetralogy The Book of the New Sun, individual volumes of which have won the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He followed this up with a popular new series that included Nightside the Long Sun, The Lake of the Long Sun, ...
CowdreyAlbert E. Cowdrey quit a government job to try his hand at writing. So far, his work has appeared almost exclusively in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, usually with darkly comic supernatural horror stories, many of them taking place in a New Orleans haunted by demons and dark ...
Robert Silverberg is one of the most famous SF writers of modern times, with dozens of novels, anthologies, and collections to his credit. As both writer and editor, Silverberg was one of the most influential figures of the Post New Wave era of the seventies, and continues to be at the forefront ...
His short fiction was collected in Wild Things, and he has also published the three novels (so far) of the Traitor to the Crown series, including A Spell for the Revolution, The Demon Redcoat, and, most recently, The Patriot Witch. He’s also written the stand-alone novel The Prodigal Troll. Finla...
What they are he doesn’t know, but they are there. Sometimes he can almost see them out of the corner of his eye—a motion, a flickering, a presence: a glow behind him, as if someone had just turned up an oil lantern. And yet there is no light. When he turns to look, nothing is there, everything i...
Behind it was fire! fear! pain! horror! and it fled from them through madness and roaring chaos, fled for a long nightmarish time through an unfamiliar world, through a phantasmagorical confusion of alien shapes and lights and stinks and noises, fled until its strength was gone and it could flee ...