Gustavo Bondoni

Autumn is a beautiful and magical time, and yet many times it is the most neglected. You hear of the wonder of winter, the beauty of spring, and the joy of summer, well, now we wish to explore the mystery of autumn. It is a time of death and rebirth. As the trees lose their leaves in one last explosion of color before the stark paleness of winter, waiting to return again like a phoenix, what becomes of the world around them, both seen and unseen? What lurks beneath the harvest moon? What only comes out when the world is fading and the Earth itself holds its breath, waiting for the first snow to fall? Fairies? Monsters? Witches? What adventures wait in this magical in-between? Featuring 26 stories. Authors include: Amber M. Simpson, KT Wagner, Gustavo Bondoni, Teresa Lopez, Sarah Gribble, Ada Hardy, W. T. Paterson, Rachel Villalobos, A. P. Sessler, James Potter, Kevin Hopson, DJ Tyrer, Dorothy A. Winsor, Jennifer McCollom, M. Lopes da Silva, Melissa R. Mendelson, Paul Stansbury, Rainie Zenith, Lorah Jaiyn, Diane Arrelle, Eddie D. Moore, R. F. Keele, Kristyl Gravina, J. W. Grace, Clara M. O'Leary, and Frank S. Montellano.

Anchorage has transformed itself into the newest boom town in America, growing recklessly fast but hiding dark secrets. Meanwhile, in Antarctica, a dramatically changed climate has revealed the world's newest frontier. A man travels through the treacherous swamps of Florida, searching out a place to start a new life, while another man fleeing from past deeds finds a strange welcome in a dusty church. Another traveler meets a sly stranger on the trail and soon finds himself in a battle of wits that could prove the difference between riches and misery. In this seventh issue of Into the Ruins, new worlds emerge from all corners of the globe, revealing the futures awaiting us on the far side of climate change and civilizational decline. These new worlds are neither apocalyptic nor dystopian, but instead a fascinating mix of new and old, well past many of the troubles of our times and struggling with new troubles of their own. These stories offer fascinating and fun futures while recognizing that human folly rings eternal.

It was supposed to be a desperate suicide mission, a holding action designed to delay a deadly enemy bent on destroying humanity: five starships sent to their doom, thousands of men and women knowingly laying down their lives to buy time for the besieged human race. And then things got really hairy. Tristan, a highly trained shock marine, wakes up after the trip to find that nothing works: not his equipment, not his ship, not even his body... He joins the race against time to bring their equipment back up to fighting trim and begin to understand what has happened to them and to unravel the layers of confusion and betrayal. But the enemy waiting for them doesn't care about any of that. They just want to destroy the human incursion as quickly as possible.