Summer of Sci-Fi & Fantasy: Volume Five (Summer of Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection)

Get ready to dive into another extraordinary adventure—Volume Five of the Summer of Sci-Fi & Fantasy anthology has arrived! Handpicked by lead editor Dustin Bilyk, this latest installment features daring, genre-defying stories that push the limits of speculative fiction, highlighting some of the most compelling and thought-provoking short stories being written today.Pick your poison:Deadly Ghouls, brain-devouring Aliens, resurrected Heroes, rogue Artificial Intelligences, mind-bending Psychics, sentient Forests, time-traveling Secretaries, and fire-wielding Sorceresses.This is just a taste of what you can expect in this professionally curated collection of Science Fiction & Fantasy, featuring 23 bold stories from 23 visionary authors.Find out what happens when a young woman with a mysterious, venomous affliction is taken in by a lonely tailoress in a town at war with giant arachnids. Or when a young couple plug themselves into their computers so that an Artificial Intelligence can learn from them. Why? The AI is oddly non-specific.Cozy up with a light and bloody tale about a necromancer who awakens a long-dead hero to protect him from the evils of the local kingpin sorcerer. Or, if aliens are more your thing, read about a governmental PR worker who establishes contact with a new species of friendly extraterrestrials… who look like they're straight from the Alien movies.Whatever your taste, we have something for everyone.Included are epic, never-before-read short stories from Gustavo Bondoni, D. M. Ritzlin, Lawrence Harding, Shantell Powell, Chris S. Burns, Paula Hammond, Olivia Bradbury, Dannye Chase, Stewart Baker, David Gray, Alex McNall, Ruth E. Walker, R. Overwater, Lindsey Duncan, Gary Every, C. W. Stevenson, and Nicholas Yanes.PLUS, reprints by Lex Chamberlin, Jon Adcock, Sean E. Britten, Graham Darling, Susan L. Lin, and Laura Ruth Loomis. Read more