Search Worlds Without End

The final frontier ain't so final in these 12 tales of space exploration and adventure: each a timeless yarn told around the warm glow of a nuclear reactor just before it goes supernova. There's a story for everyone who's ever dreamed of traveling the stars.

From the lone stranger who flies into town to help a widow and her daughter to the alien rancher trying to pose as human, they are familiar, yet with completely new twists. Take the pair of mercenaries who sign on to stop a mining camp insurrection only to discover they might be on the wrong side of evolution, or the prospector who finds the strike of a lifetime but ends up stranded on a barren moon without hope of rescue. And if that's not enough to catch your fancy, then how about a cloned Doc Holliday making his way in a future where both sickness and gambling are ancient history?

Table of Contents:

• ix - Foreword: Is Space Actually the Final Frontier? - essay by David Boop
• 1 - Greenhorn - short story by Elizabeth Moon
• 19 - The Penultimate Stand of Pina Gracchi - novelette by Michael F. Haspil
• 43 - Showdown on Big Rock 27 - novelette by Gini Koch
• 67 - Hydration - short story by Alan Dean Foster
• 77 - Winner Takes All - short story by Alex Shvartsman
• 97 - Last Stand at Europa Station A - short story by David Boop
• 121 - Riders of the Endless Void - short story by J. R. Martin and Cat Rambo
• 139 - Seeds - short story by Patrick J. Swenson
• 155 - Riding the Storm Out - short story by Martin L. Shoemaker
• 177 - Incident at Raven's Rift - short story by Alastair Mayer
• 199 - Claim Jumped - short story by Jane Lindskold
• 221 - Doc Holiday 2.0 - novelette by Wil McCarthy

Once again, we return to the Old West with a new posse of top authors spinning tales of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. We take no prisoners as they explore what really was and mix in what might have been.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by David Boop
• Cookie by Shane Lacy Hensley
• A Talk with My Mother Charlaine Harris
• The Greatest Horse Thief in History by D.J. Butler
• The Doctor and the Spectre by Mike Resnick
• Doth Make Thee Mad by Jane Lindskold
• Sunlight and Silver by Jeffrey J. Mariotte
• Pinkerton's Prey by Frog and Esther Jones
• The Relay Station at Wrigley's Pass by Derrick Ferguson
• Not Fade Away by Cliff Winnig
• The Spinners by Jennifer Campbell-Hicks
• The Stoker and the Plaguew Doctor by Alex Acks
• Bigger Than Life by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Dreamcatcher by Marsheila Rockwell
• El Jefe De La Comancheria by Mario Acevedo
• The Pertified Man by Betsy Dornbusch
• Stands Twice and The Magpie Man by Stephen Graham Jones
• Blood Lust and Gold Dust by Travis Heermann

It's the final showdown between heroes and darkness in the Old West. And boy, howdy... it's a doozy! Humans versus monsters. Supernatural beings versus greater evils. We even throw in a dinosaur or two for fun. Come explore the untold myths of the west, one more time!

Table of Contents:

• The Hoodoo Man and the Midnight Train - by Joe R. Lansdale
• As Long As Grass Shall Grow - by Mercedes Lackey
• A Simple Pine Box - by James Van Pelt
• Fang for Fang, Fire for Blood - by Ava Morgan
• Junior & Me - by Harry Turtledove
• The Dead Can't Die Twice - by Sam Stone
• The Adventures of Rabbi Shlomo Jones and the Half-Baked Kid - by Eytan Kollin
• Rara Lupus - by Julie Frost
• Stealing Thunder from the Gods - by Kim May
• Kachina - by James A. Moore
• Finding Home - by Irene Radford
• The Murder of the Rag Doll Kid - by David Boop
• Hell-Bent - by Tex Thompson
• Ghost Men of Sunrise Mesa - by Jonathan Maberry

Come visit the Old West, the land where gang initiations, ride-by shootings and territory disputes got their start. But these tales aren't the ones your grandpappy spun around a campfire, unless he spoke of soul-sucking ghosts, steam-powered demons and wayward aliens. Here then are seventeen stories that breathe new life in the Old West.

Table of Contents:

• ix - Foreword (Straight Outta Tombstone) - essay by David Boop
• 1 - Bubba Shackleford's Professional Monster Killers - novelette by Larry Correia
• 23 - Trouble in an Hourglass - short story by Jody Lynn Nye
• 37 - The Buffalo Hunters - short story by Sam Knight
• 51 - The Sixth World - short story by Robert E. Vardeman
• 67 - Easy Money - short story by Phil Foglio
• 73 - The Wicked Wild - short story by Nicole Givens Kurtz
• 87 - Chance Corrigan and the Lord of the Underworld - short story by Michael A. Stackpole
• 107 - The Greatest Guns in the Galaxy - short story by Bryan Thomas Schmidt and Ken Scholes
• 121 - Dance of Bones - short story by Maurice Broaddus
• 137 - Dry Gulch Dragon - short story by Sarah A. Hoyt
• 151 - The Treefold Problem - short story by Alan Dean Foster
• 169 - Fountains of Blood - short story by David Lee Summers
• 183 - High Midnight - short story by Kevin J. Anderson
• 199 - Coyote - short story by Naomi Brett Rourke
• 209 - The Key - short story by Peter J. Wacks
• 227 - A Fistful of Warlocks - novelette by Jim Butcher