Guest-edited by longtime Lightspeed assistant editor Christie Yant, Women Destroy Science Fiction! contains eleven original science fiction short stories, four short story reprints, a novella reprint, and for the first time ever, an array of flash fiction stories. In addition to all that goodness are seven in-depth nonfiction articles and more than two dozen personal essays by women discussing their experiences reading and writing science fiction.

Product Description: AFTER THE APOCALYPSEPrescient tales of Armageddon and its aftermath, by twenty-two of today’s finest writers, including:Paolo BacigalupiNeal Barrett, Jr.Tobias S. BuckellCory DoctorowDavid GriggNancy KressJack McDevittMary RickertDale Bailey Elizabeth Bear Orson Scott Card Carol EmshwillerRichard KadreyJohn LanganJerry OltionJames Van PeltCatherine WellsTogether they reveal what it will mean to survive and remain human after the end of the world… An anthology of the best post-apocalyptic literature of the last two decades from many of today’s most renowned authors of speculative fiction...read more

HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD!  From a kill-or-be-killed gunfight with a vampire to an encounter in a steampunk bordello, the weird western is a dark, gritty tale where the protagonist might be playing poker with a sorcerous deck of cards, or facing an alien on the streets of a dusty frontier town.Here are twenty-three original tales—stories of the Old West infused with elements of the fantastic—produced specifically for this volume by many of today’s finest writers. Included are Orson Scott Card’s first “Alvin Maker” story in a decade, and an original adventure by Fred Van Lente, writer of Cowboys & Aliens.Other contributors include:Tobias S. Buckell * David Farland * Alan Dean Foster * Jeffrey Ford * Laura Anne Gilman * Rajan Khanna * Mike Resnick * Beth Revis * Fred Van Lente * Walter Jon Williams * Ben H. Winters * Christie Yant * Charles Yu *

Product Description: An anthology of original horror tales featuring "evil genius" archetype characters intent on ruling the world features contributions by such best-selling authors as Diana Gabaldon, Daniel Wilson and Austin Grossman. By the editor of the best-selling Wastelands...read more

Product Description: Mad scientists have never had it so tough. In super-hero comics, graphic novels, films, TV series, video games, and even works of what may be fiction, they are besieged by those who stand against them, devoid of sympathy for their irrational, megalomaniacal impulses to rule, destroy, or otherwise dominate the world as we know it...read more