Wendy Nikel

It's not just the big events that change the world. Missing that morning cup of coffee might spoil your day, but did you ever think it could alter the course of history? Third Flatiron Anthologies presents "The Time It Happened." Fifteen speculative fiction authors grapple with time, memory, and history in this all-new collection from Third Flatiron Anthologies. Explore the secret history of world-changing events real and imagined, from presidential intrigue and alien invasion to the unpredictable realm of scientific discovery. Remember what you were doing that day the world changed? "The Time It Happened" proudly showcases an international group of new and established speculative fiction authors. Contributors include: Martin Clark, Atar Hadari, Dan Koboldt, Ellen Denton, Jason Lairamore, Larry C. Kay, Richard Mark Ankers, Thomas Canfield, Wendy Nikel, Evan Henry, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Neil James Hudson, Dana Schellings, Mark Hill, and Amanda C. Davis.

This Eleventh Omnibus edition of Tales from the Canyons of the Damned is loaded with thirteen sharp, suspenseful, thought provoking short stories-from ten of today's top speculative fiction writers. Da Capo by Wendy NikelA Song Like Laughter by Gordon B. WhiteThe Deep Dark by KJ KabzaThe Lost Tapes-The Q Mix by Daniel Arthur SmithToys and Monsters by Steve OdenJudas Steer by K. H. VaughanThe Skinhead and the Cavalier by Kevin LauderdaleFallen Angels by Jessica WestThe Lost Tapes-Future Told by Daniel Arthur SmithThe Moon Sickness by Nathan M. BeauchampBlind in Battle by Steve OdenThe Rat by Sam OsbornThe Lost Tapes-The Rain Man by Daniel Arthur SmithTales from the Canyons of the Damned (canyonsofthedamned.com) is a dark science fiction, horror, & slipstream magazine we've been working on since 2015. What is Dark Science Fiction and Horror? Think of it as a literary Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, or Outer Limits, it's Netflix's Black Mirror and Amazon's Electric Dreams in the short story format. And it's a bargain. Each monthly issue has three-to-five sharp, suspenseful, satirical tales from today's top speculative fiction writers. These are Dark Sci Fi Slipstream Tales like you've never read before.

This anthology envisions winters of the future, with stories of scientists working together to protect narwhals from an oil spill, to bring snow back to the mountains of Maine, to preserve ecosystems--even if they have to be under glass domes. They're stories of regular people rising to extraordinary circumstances to survive extreme winter weather, to fix a threat to their community's energy source, to save a living city from a deep-rooted sickness. Some take place after an environmental catastrophe, with luxury resorts and military bases and mafia strongholds transformed into sustainable communes; others rethink the way we could organize cities, using skybridges and seascrapers and constructed islands to adapt to the changes of the Anthropocene. Even when the nights are long, the future is bright in these seventeen diverse tales.

Beginnings are always messy. John Galsworthy Spacecrafts hurtling toward alien worlds. Second chances for civilizations. First contact. Rebirth. Non-humans looking for a new life. Opportunities for fresh starts and do-overs far from Earth. These stories and more explore the theme of Re-Launch. Send your imagination into orbit with 18 science fiction tales from an international roster of authors. Featuring fiction from Douglas Smith, James Dorr, Kris Austen Radcliffe, Eando Bender, Wendy Nikel, Stewart C. Baker, Meriah Crawford, Gregory L. Norris, Jennifer Rachel Baumer, Jonathan Shipley, Vonnie Winslow Crist, Lawrence Dagstine, CB Droege, Jude-Marie Green, Steven R. Southard, Calie Voorhis, Anthony Cardno, and Andrew Gudgel. Re-Launch reminds readers that new beginnings rarely go as planned and danger waits for the unwary on all worlds.

Solarpunk is a type of optimistic science fiction that imagines a future founded on renewable energies. The seventeen stories in this volume are not dull utopias--they grapple with real issues such as the future and ethics of our food sources, the connection between technology and nature, and the interpersonal conflicts that arise no matter how peaceful the world is. In these pages you'll find a guerilla art installation in Milan, a murder mystery set in a weather manipulation facility, and a world where you are judged by the glow of your solar nanite implants. From an opal mine in Australia to the seed vault at Svalbard, from a wheat farm in Kansas to a crocodile ranch in Malaysia, these are stories of adaptation, ingenuity, and optimism for the future of our world and others. For readers who are tired of dystopias and apocalypses, these visions of a brighter future will be a breath of fresh air.

Travel on an airship to fight a ghostship, pick up an egg that's more than it seems, solve a tricky word puzzle, and discover a weird book with the minion. This diverse collection of short stories and poetry is the start of a new YA journal.