Science fiction and fantasy

Cover for the edited volume "Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures," depicting the inside of a futuristic space station.

Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities

Subtitle
A Collection of Space Futures

Edited by Joey Eschrich and Ed Finn

Why should we go to space? To learn more about the universe and our place in it? To extract resources and conduct commerce? To demonstrate national primacy and technological prowess? To…

Cover image for "Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds," featuring a black background and orange stylized text.

Frankenstein

Subtitle
Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds

Mary Shelley

Edited by Jason Scott Robert, Ed Finn and David H. Guston

Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein" has endured in the popular imagination for two hundred years. Begun as a ghost story by an intellectually and socially precocious eighteen-year-old author…

Cover of Noah's Freezer by L. M. Reker

Noah's Freezer

L. M. Reker

In 2032, Daniel McKnight, a high-ranking government official and biologist who has cofounded a state-of-the-art, cryo-preservation laboratory, aquarium and sanctuary, Noah’s Freezer,…

Cover of Of This New World by Allegra Hyde

Of This New World

Allegra Hyde

Winner of the 2016 John Simmons Short Fiction Award, "Of This New World" offers a menagerie of utopias: real, imagined, and lost. Starting with the Garden of Eden and ending in a Mars…

Cover of A Tree or a Person or a Wall by Matt Bell

A Tree or a Person or a Wall

Subtitle
Stories

Matt Bell

Here we have Matt Bell at his most inventive and uncanny: parents and children, murderers and monsters, wild renditions of the past, stunning visions of the present — all of which build…

The End of Heroes

Kevin Herbst

Malthus Kierin always dreamed of adventuring, of making his mark upon the world of Kalan. After he earns his robe and staff, rewards for passing the tests required to become a wizard,…

The Stone of Zoral

Kevin Herbst

Malthus Kierin always dreamed of adventuring, of making his mark upon the world of Kalan. After he earns his robe and staff, rewards for passing the tests required to become a wizard,…

War of the Merranai

Kevin Herbst

Malthus Kierin always dreamed of adventuring, of making his mark upon the world of Kalan. After he earns his robe and staff, rewards for passing the tests required to become a wizard,…

Dead Inside edited by Lynn Houston, Susan Allspaw Pomeroy and Jennifer Spiegel

Dead Inside

Subtitle
Poems and Essays About Zombies

Edited by Susan Allspaw Pomeroy, Lynn Houston and Jennifer Spiegel

This literary collection brings together 26 poems and 6 essays inspired by the zombies and characters of AMC's hit television show "The Walking Dead." Links to a sample college syllabus…

Cover of Slow Catastrophes, Uncertain Revivals edited by Michele Speitz and Joey Eschrich

Slow Catastrophes, Uncertain Revivals

Subtitle
Stories Inspired by Project Hieroglyph

Edited by Michele Speitz and Joey Eschrich

"Slow Catastrophes, Uncertain Revivals" is a collection of research-based stories about the future, proudly published by Project Hieroglyph. The book features stories created by students…