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This short story originally appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Issue Two, January-February 2015.

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This Nebula Award nominated novelette originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May-June 2017. It later appeared in the anthology Nebula Awards Showcase 2019, edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

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A uniquely imaginative story about a phantom rock musician who crosses the boundaries of time and space--even life and death--to fight a deadly menace unleashed upon an idyllic world.

WFA winning and Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2008. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three (2009), edited by Jonathan Strahan, Year's Best Fantasy 9 (2009), edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer and The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2009, edited by Rich Horton. It is included in the collection If Angels Fight (2013).

If Angels Fight includes fourteen stories written over the last twenty-five years, beginning with Bowes' first published short fiction, "On Death and the Deuce." These stories deal, among other things, with time travelers in 1950s U.S. suburbia, vampire fashion design, and the marriage of Heaven and Hell. Many are set in various incarnations of New York City.

Four of these stories appeared on Nebula short lists. "There's a Hole in the City" won the Million Writers and International Horror Guild awards. The tile story "If Angels Fight" won the World Fantasy Award.

Table of Contents:

• On Death and the Deuce - (1992) - shortstory
• His Only Nose - (2011) - shortstory
• Whips and Wands - (2013) - shortstory
• Tears of Laughter, Tears of Grief - shortstory
• There's a Hole in the City - (2005) - shortstory
• On the Slide - (2011) - novelette
• The Ferryman's Wife - (2001) - novelette
• Jacket Jackson - (2006) - novelette by Richard Bowes and Mark Rich
• The Mask of the Rex - (2002) - novelette
• A Member of the Wedding of Heaven and Hell - (2012) - shortstory
• Blood Yesterday, Blood Tomorrow - (2011) - shortstory
• A Song to the Moon - (2011) - shortstory
• Savage Design - (2012) - shortfiction
• If Angels Fight - (2008) - novelette

This short story originally appeared in Lightspeed, November 2012. It is included in the collection The Queen, the Cambion, and Seven Others.

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"Sleep Walking Now and Then", by Richard Bowes, is a weird, futuristic novelette about an interactive theater production in The Big Arena (aka New York City) and the mystery surrounding its inspiration.

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Myth is the sea on which the Fantasy story floats. Legend is the wind that drives it. Its place of birth is the Fairy Tale.

Richard Bowes' collection of modern Fairy Tales, their Fantasy offspring, and their legendary ancestors presents eight of his stories including "The Lady of Wands," in which a Fey cop tells her story, that appears here for the first time. Also original to this book is Bowes' afterword, "A Secret History of Small Books," which traces the path of Fairy Tales as a refuge for women, gay/lesbian writers, and LGBT readers from the 17th century on.

The collection also includes "Seven Smiles and Six Frowns" a story of the evolution of a Fairy Tale; "The Cinnamon Cavalier," a Fairy Tale variation a critic has called, "The Gingerbread Man, writ large," and "The Margay's Children" a modern take on a "Beastly Bridegroom" tale; "The Progress of Solstice and Chance," with its complex sexual relations and invented pantheon of gods, the outrageous situation and characters of "The Bear Dresser's Secret," and the "The Lady of Wands," set in a fairy/mortal demi-monde; and two Arthurian tales, "Sir Morgravain Speaks of Night Dragons and Other Things" and "The Queen and the Cambion" in which the eponymous queen, though famous, is not Guinevere.

Dust Devil on a Quiet Street chronicles the remarkable life of Boston-born, New York City-reared author Richard Bowes. Bowes's childhood and adolescent brushes with dramatic spirits and hustlers, large and small, paved the way for his adult encounters with the remarkable, the numinous, the supernatural. Deftly orchestrated, this "memoir" is part impassioned homage to Manhattan — decades before and up to its recent wound on September 11th, which creates a hole in the city and allows the ghosts of the dead to return — and part tell-all of the uncanny secrets behind a group of Greenwich Village writers and life as a university librarian.

WFA and Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 2009. The story can also be found in the anthologies Wilde Stories 2010: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction (2010), edited by Steve Berman, and Nebula Awards Showcase 2011, edited by Kevin J. Anderson. The story was later incorporated into the novel Dust Devil on a Quiet Street (2013).

Nebula Award nominated short story in Bowes' Dust Devil setting. It first appeared on Sci Fiction, June 15, 2005. It can be found the anthologies Horror: The Best of the Year: 2006 Edition (2006), edited by Sean Wallace and John Gregory Betancourt, Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction & Fantasy (2010), edited by Ellen Datlow and Ghosts: Recent Hauntings (2012), edited by Paula Guran and In the Shadow of the Towers: Speculative Fiction in a Post-9/11 World (2015), edited by Douglas Lain. It is also included in the collection If Angels Fight (2013)

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Greek gods are posing as humans and pulling humanity's strings in this mosaic novel about time travel, alternate worlds, and the making of a president. The Time Rangers, Apollo's chosen servants, are in charge of preserving the peace and harmony along the Time Stream, the pathway between various worlds and times, but Apollo has given them a new task-to protect Timothy Macauley, the chosen one who must become the president of the United States or else witness the destruction of humankind.

Standing in the Rangers's way are other gods: Mercury, who's working his wiles in the world of public relations; Diana, cruising New York City in the guise of an NYPD detective; Pluto, who is in the process of grooming his successor; and Dionysus, who has caused the annihilation of an alternate world. Nonstop action keeps the story rolling from the 1950s to the present day, through this world and others. The author shares his insights into, and the history of, the mosaic novel in the afterworld.

Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2001. The story can also be found in the collection If Angels Fight (2013).

Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2002. The story can also be found in the anthologies Nebula Awards Showcase 2005, edited by Jack Dann and The Time Traveler's Almanac (2014), edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. It is included in the collection If Angels Fight (2013).

Kevin Grierson has a Shadow with a mind of its own. It likes thrills, it likes power, it likes the rush of drugs and danger. From the suburbs of Boston to the streets of New York, from the false glamour of advertising to the dark glamour of hustling and drug-dealing. Grierson's Shadow keeps him walking the edge of destruction and madness. Then a simple robbery goes horribly wrong. With the help of a flawed saint named Leo Dunn, Grierson struggles to banish his Shadow, and succeeds. Temporarily. Years later, sober and settled, at peace with his world, Kevin Grierson meets his Shadow again. And this time it won't go away.

World Fantasy Award winning novelette. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1997. It was later incorporated in the fix-up novel Minions of the Moon (1999). It can also be found in the collections Transfigured Night and Other Stories (2001) and Streetcar Dreams and Other Midnight Fancies (2006).

In every quadrant in time telepathic and mysterious beings are manipulating the very fabric of the universe, seeking ultimate control. On one world, the wise leader of the Republic valiantly tries to contain the atrocities of marauding, savage hordes. On another, people are bought and sold as chattel in the dreaded Goblin Market. And everywhere, the insidious influence of the Riders is felt, as they steal and enslave human minds. But in the void of the Time Lanes, a boy with telepathic powers he has yet to discover has entered the portal where all world are joined. Young and untried, a loner with much to learn, he must now become the legendary Warchild, if the universe is ever to survive.

In this exciting sequel to the author's highly praised first novel, Warchild, young Garvin uses his telepathic powers to fight the ultimate battle with the evil slave traders of the Goblin Market.