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Our November issue features something a bit unusual: "Phantom Sense," a powerful novella by Richard A. Lovett and Mark Niemann-Ross, and a companion science fact article by the same authors about the real science and technology at the core of the story. Science fiction has often explored the consequences of people having capabilities far beyond those of most of us, but what if those abilities can be conferred by technology--and that technology is only available to a few? "Phantom Sense" will put... more info>>

Our annual slightly spooky double October/November issue is crammed full of novellas, novelettes, and short stories. Recent Novella Readers' Award winner, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, returns with an eerie new far-future novella about "Becoming One With the Ghosts." Recent Short Story Readers' Award winner and Hugo and Nebula Award finalist, Will McIntosh, gives us a urprisingly moving novelette about the oútre meeting of "Frankenstein, Frankenstein"! We plan to complement these two strange stories ... more info>>

Our November issue features brand-new stories from Robert Barnard, Carol Biederman, Brendan DuBois, Martin Edwards, Richard Helms, Harry Hunsicker, and more! CONTENTS: Black Mask: WEST OF NOWHERE by Harry Hunsicker Reviews: THE JURY BOX by Jon L. Breen Fiction: THE KILLING AT HOLYROODHOUSE by Robert Barnard Fiction: LOON LIFE by Brendan DuBois Fiction: INEVITABLE by Jennifer Itell Fiction: CHEMO BOY AND THE WAR KITTENS by Brian Muir Fiction: THE CHANGELINGS: A VERY GRIM FAIRYTALE (BUT FO... more info>>

Wanted: Jim Fusilli, John H. Dirckx, and Brendan DuBois for award-worthy fiction. Fusilli's Edgar-nominated story "Digby, Attorney at Law" (May 2009) has been shortlisted for a Macavity Award, sponsored by Mystery Readers International, while Dirckx's "Real Men Die" (September 2009) and DuBois's "The High House Writer" (July/August 2009) have both been named finalists for the Barry Award, sponsored by Deadly Pleasures. Congratulations and good luck to all three! In custody: this month's issue f... more info>>

Dear Reader,Guess what? I'm falling in love! With Mack McAfee.My baby daughter, Noelle, and I have been living next door to Mack since the spring. I'm still a little wary about our relationship, because I haven't always made good decisions when it comes to men. My baby's father, David Rhodes, is testament to that. I'm so worried he might sue for custody.In the meantime, the World War II letters I found are a wonderful distraction. Both Mack and I are trying to learn what happened to the soldier ... more info>>

Twelve people have been shot at point-blank range and left to rot in the desert sun. It's Sophia St. Claire's job to do something about it. She's Bordertown, Arizona's new chief of police--and she's out of her depth. Help arrives in the form of Department 6 hired gun Roderick Guerrero. As far as Sophia's concerned, his involvement only makes things worse. Maybe he's managed to turn his life around. And maybe he's a good investigator. But as the bastard son of a wealthy local rancher, he has a hi... more info>>

When Pia O'Brian's best friend dies, Pia expects to inherit her cherished cat. Instead, the woman leaves Pia three frozen embryos. With a disastrous track record in the romance department and the parenting skills of a hamster, Pia doesn't think she's meant for motherhood. But determined to do the right thing, Pia decides to become a single mother. Only to meet a gorgeous, sexy hunk the very same day.A former foster-care kid now rich beyond his wildest dreams, Raoul Moreno runs a camp for needy c... more info>>

Reclusive collector Cutter Merlin is seldom seen in Key West--lately, not at all. Officer Liam Beckett visits Merlin's curious house and discovers the gentleman in his study. In his death grip: a volume of occult lore and a reliquary. His eyes are wide with fright, his mouth a horrified rictus where spiders now dwell. Kelsey Donovan returns to the old house to catalog her estranged grandfather's collection of artifacts and antiquities, vowing to see his treasures divested properly. But she canno... more info>>

Adrian Alistair Rohan lost his faith, and now, a dedicated member of the depraved Heavenly Host, he loses himself in his only pleasure: the seduction and debauchery of beautiful women. Rich, charming and devastatingly skilled in the arts of love, he never fails in his conquests...until Charlotte Spenser. Charlotte is facing a desolate, passionless future, none of which matters to Adrian, who imagines her a toy until better prey arrives. But beneath her drab exterior, Charlotte is a woman as ench... more info>>

Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.From the Trade Paperback edition.

The story of a writer's singular journey?from one place to another, from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England, and from one state of mind to another?this is perhaps Naipaul's most autobiographical work. Yet it is also woven through with remarkable invention to make it a rich and complex novel.From the Trade Paperback edition.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. When The Stories of John Cheever was originally published, it became an immediate national bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize.  In the years since, it has become a classic.  Vintage Books is proud to reintroduce this magnificent collection.Here are sixty-one stories that chronicle the lives of what has been called "the greatest generation."  From the early wonder and disillusionment of city life in "The Enormous Radio" to the surprising discov... more info>>

From a Turkish writer who has been compared with Borges, Nabokov, and DeLillo comes a dazzling novel that is at once a captivating work of historical fiction and a sinuous treatise on the enigma of identity and the relations between East and West. In the 17th century, a young Italian scholar sailing from Venice to Naples is taken prisoner and delivered to Constantinople. There he falls into the custody of a scholar known as Hoja--"master"--a man who is his exact double. In the years that follow,... more info>>

London Fields is Amis's murder story for the end of the millennium. The murderee is Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing intent on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may be Keith Talent, a violent lowlife whose only passions are pornography and darts. Or is the killer the rich, honorable, and dimly romantic Guy Clinch?From the Trade Paperback edition.

Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient's "morality," however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather in overriding feelings of shame and the dread of retrib... more info>>

A stunningly original exploration of the ties that bind us to the beautiful, ancient, astoundingly accomplished, largely unknown, and unfathomably different species with whom we share the world. For as long as humans have existed, insects have existed, too. Wherever we’ve traveled, they’ve traveled, too. Yet we hardly know them, not even the ones we’re closest to: those that eat our food, share our beds, and live in our homes. Organizing his book alphabetically with one entry for each l... more info>>

10 Ways I Can Be Green lets kids have choices on how to be green and how to use those choices in the real world. With games and fun word puzzles, this book will delight any child.

AJ Dillon is trouble. The former lead singer of an indie band has no home, no money and no future. His grandfather is the only relative willing to take another chance on him. AJ arrives in Weeki Wachee, Florida, with his guitar, a few clothes and a bad attitude. The only good thing about Weeki Wachee is the ocean -- the one place AJ feels at home. Grandpa lines up a job for AJ at Weeki Wachee Springs, where beautiful women perform as mermaids. Grandpa says real mermaids exist, but AJ doesn't be... more info>>

June Johnson seeks excitement as she leaves behind small town Minnesota for San Francisco. But big city life brings along with it blood and terror as she witnesses a gang murder. Under The Witness Protection Program US Marshall Durst leads June through four identities only one step ahead of the deadly gang. She mutates from country girl to chic city model and back to country girl again. Along the way she meets a lover and as they create a home and serenity together in a cabin in Wisconsin, Durst... more info>>

FBI agent NATHAN STOKES and his girlfriend, MARGARET DALTON, find themselves in Possum Bottom, Minnesota during a brutal cold snap to talk to her lawyer about an inheritance-a lawyer whom they find dead, frozen to the pavement outside his office. When another murder occurs, this time on reservation property, it becomes a matter for the FBI. Minnesota isn't Nathan's jurisdiction but it is the district for an ex-lover of his who is called in to work the case. To further complicate matters, Marga... more info>>

This anthology features some of the most famous authors writing at the peak of their careers! Volume four of Master of Noir has the following ten great stories: THE PICKPOCKET by MICKEY SPILLANE, I DON'T FOOL AROUND by LAWRENCE BLOCK, MAN WITH A SHIV by RICHARD WORMSER, THE FLOATER by JONATHAN CRAIG, SWAMP SEARCH by HARRY WHITTINGTON, FACE OF EVIL by DAVID ALEXANDER, TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF by WILLIAM CAMPBELL GAULT, THE FAST LINE by ART CROCKETT, CRIME OF PASSION by RICHARD S. PRATHER, and LUST S... more info>>

Arthur Caversham of 22nd-century Boston finds himself naked at a dinner party. Bearwald the Halforn battles the Brands from Mount Medallion. Ceistan seeks a parchment in the dead city of Therlatch filled with treasure that is now worthless. Dobnor Daksat is competing with artists of the top order to create worlds with the imagicon, a device unknown to him. What is the connection of these disparate tales? Not even the Brain of the Galaxy understands their full ramifications. First published in 1... more info>>

Every good girl longs for a chance to be a little naughty. Raw from an ugly divorce and wrung out from her demanding job, Haley Thorne needs a break. When Haley's doctor urges her to take a vacation, she heads to her secret cabin in the woods. The very first night, Haley dreams of an erotic threesome that leaves her panting and aroused. When sexy police detective Jeremy Pickett shows up at her door, she's shocked: He looks like the man in her midnight fantasy! Levelheaded Haley unleashes her i... more info>>

Can Shane convince Jessie he's the only man for her before her stalker attempts to end both their lives? Jessalyn Banks is a respected gallery owner in a small coastal Florida town. She isn't looking to make any major changes in her life, but events collide in a way that takes that option away from her. A stalker enters her life, and she has no choice but to notify the town's police chief, Shane Moore. Shane has been trying to maneuver his way into Jessie's life for a year. Getting added to he... more info>>

At night, she comes alive?but a madman's fantasies could kill her. By day, Lynn Broadmore leads a boring life as a mild-mannered bookkeeper, enduring one blind date after another. But by night, she's "Hush," webmistress extraordinaire, writing naughty stories for her adoring legion of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan fiction minions. Now that there's a new guy working in the next cubicle, though, real life is getting interesting. All Jack has to do is smile, and her insides turn to goo. To her com... more info>>