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Contains:

• The Voices of Time
• Chronopolis
• The Cage of Sand
• Prima Belladona
• Studio 5, The Stars
• The Garden of Time
• The Sound-Sweep
• The Watch-Towers

We are a collection of voices, the assembled history of the many voices that have spoken into our lives and shaped us. Voices of the past, voices of the present, and voices of the future. There is an African proverb, "Se wo were fi na wosankofa a yenkyi," which translates as "It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten." This is why we continue to remember the tales of struggle and tales of perseverance, even as we look to tales of hope. What a people choose to remember about its past, the stories they pass down, informs who they are and sets the boundaries of their identity. We remember the pain of our past to mourn, to heal, and to learn. Only in that way can we ensure the same mistakes are not repeated. The voices make up our stories. The stories make up who we are. A collected voice.

The Whisperer and Other Stories contains a complete short novel, The Return of the Deep Ones, as well as eight more weighty slices from the dark imagination of Brian Lumley.

Contents:

• 13 - Introduction (The Whisperer and Other Voices)
• 17 - Snarker's Son
• 24 - Aunt Hester
• 45 - The Whisperer
• 61 - No Sharks in the Med
• 101 - Vanessa's Voice
• 115 - The Statement of Henry Worthy
• 141 - The Disapproval of Jeremy Cleave
• 153 - The Luststone
• 191 - The Return of the Deep Ones

OTHER VOICES, OTHER DOORS collects the best stories, poems and non-fiction of the last twenty years by Patrick O'Leary, acclaimed author of DOOR NUMBER THREE and THE GIFT. OTHER VOICES, OTHER DOORS is an unabashedly different book. It is a celebration of the inexhaustible shape-shifting power of stories.It is fantastic. It is mundane. And we are not in Kansas anymore. Disturbing, amusing, frank and original, OTHER VOICES, OTHER DOORS is Patrick O'Leary's first (and probably last) collection of writing. Foreword by Gene Wolfe.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword - essay by Gene Wolfe
• Introduction: A Cowboy Hospital Romance - essay
• 23 Skidoo - (1997) - short story
• Brand Equity - (1998) - short story
• Bat Boy - short story
• The Problem Phone - short story
• We Are All Together - short story
• The Maker of Miniatures - short story
• Before & After - short story
• Ding, Ding, Ding--A Christmas Story - short story

Barry di Hoa had the good life on the Moon: steady work and the love of a good woman. But a rival slipped him a mickey, and he next awoke aboard Gerald Tscharka's ship as it neared the colony planet, Pava, eighteen light-years away.

Pava was the frontier, complete with earthquakes, primitive conditions and hard physical work. The local "doctor" wouldn't treat Barry's little manic-depressive problem without medicine from the Moon. And the Millernarist colonists, who thought suicide was cool fun, didn't thrill him.

Then he made friends with the leps. The large, caterpillar-like, odd-speaking gentle beasts were helping the humans to fashion a life on their planet. In their strange way, they knew things about Pava that might make the difference in the colony's survival. He started to believe he could really enjoy life in this fragile paradise. Except Tscharka was up to soemthing bad, something that would change eveyrthing. Barry knew only he could stop the mad captian, and the captain knew it, too. What neither knew was whether Barry could be manic enough to do it.

This short story originally appeared in Clarkesworld, Issue 117, June 2016. It can also be found in the anthology The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume 2 (2017), edited by Neil Clarke.

Read the full story for free at Clarkesworld.

In the scorching summer of 1976, the hottest on record, Christopher Norton, his wife Laura and their young daughter Faye settle into their new home in north London. The faded glory of the Victorian house is the perfect place for Norton, a composer of film soundtracks, to build a recording studio of his own. But soon in the long, oppressively hot nights, Laura begins to hear something through the crackle of the baby monitor. First, a knocking sound. Then come the voices.

For Norton, the voices mark an exciting opportunity. Putting his work aside, he begins the project of a lifetime?a grand symphony incorporating the voices?and becomes increasingly obsessed with one voice in particular. Someone who is determined to make themselves heard...

Eugene Fisher, Brooke Bolander, Amal El-Mohtar, Maria Dahvana Headley, Max Gladstone, Ben Loory, Carmen Maria Machado, Usman T. Malik, Sarah Pinsker, Hannu Rajaniemi, Adam Ehrlich Sachs, Sofia Samatar, Kelly Sandoval, Chris Tarry, A. C. Wise, Alyssa Wong, JY Yang, E. Lily Yu

What would you do if a tornado wanted you to be its Valentine? Or if a haunted spacesuit banged on your door? When is the ideal time to turn into a tiger? Would you post a supernatural portal on Craigslist?

In these nineteen stories, the enfants terribles of fantasy have entered the building--a love-starved, ambulatory skyscraper. The New Voices of Fantasy tethers some of the fastest-rising talents of the last five years. Their tales were hand-picked by the legendary Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn) and genre expert Jacob Weisman (The Treasury of the Fantastic).

So go ahead, join the Communist revolution of the honeybees. The new kids got your back.

Table of Contents:

• "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" by Alyssa Wong
• "Selkie Stories are for Losers" by Sofia Samatar
• "Tornado's Siren" by Brooke Bolander
• "Left the Century to Sit Unmoved" by Sarah Pinsker
• "A Kiss with Teeth" by Max Gladstone
• "Jackalope Wives" by Ursula Vernon
• "The Cartographer Wasps and Anarchist Bees" by E. Lily Yu
• "The Practical Witch's Guide to Acquiring Real Estate" by A. C. Wise
• "The Tallest Doll in New York City" by Maria Dahvana Headley
• "The Haunting of Apollo A7LB" by Hannu Rajaniemi
• "Here Be Dragons" by Chris Tarry
• "The One They Took Before" by Kelly Sandoval
• "Tiger Baby" by JY Yang
• "The Duck" by Ben Loory
• "Wing" by Amal El-Mohtar
• "The Philosophers" by Adam Ehrlich Sachs
• "My Time Among the Bridge Blowers" by Eugene Fischer
• "The Husband Stitch" by Carmen Maria Machado
• "The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn" by Usman T. Malik

Your future is bright! After all, your mother is a robot, your father has joined the alien hive-mind, and your dinner will be counterfeit 3D-printed steak. Even though your worker bots have staged a mutiny, and your tour guide speaks only in memes, you can always sell your native language if you need some extra cash.

The avant-garde of science fiction have arrived in this space-age sequel to the World Fantasy Award-winning anthology, The New Voices of Fantasy. Here you'll find the rising stars of the last five years: Rebecca Roanhorse, Amal El-Mohtar, Alice Sola Kim, Sam J. Miller, E. Lily Yu, Rich Larson, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, Sarah Pinsker, Darcie Little Badger, Nino Cipri, S. Qiouyi Lu, Kelly Robson, and more. Their extraordinary stories have been hand-selected by cutting-edge author Hannu Rajaniemi (The Quantum Thief) and genre expert Jacob Weisman (Invaders).

So go ahead, join the interstellar revolution. The new kids have already hacked the AI.

Table of Contents:

• The Shape of My Name - (2015) - short story by Nino Cipri
• Madeleine - (2015) - short story by Amal El-Mohtar
• One Hour, Every Seven Years - (2019) - short fiction by Alice Sola Kim
• Ice - (2015) - short story by Rich Larson
• Robo-Liopleurodon! - (2019) - short fiction by Darcie Little Badger
• Mother Tongues - (2018) - short story by S. Qiouyi Lu
• Calved - (2015) - short story by Sam J. Miller
• Strange Waters - (2018) - short story by Samantha Mills
• In the Sharing Place - (2018) - short story by David Erik Nelson
• The Secret Life of Bots - (2017) - novelette by Suzanne Palmer
• Our Lady of the Open Road - [A Song for a New Day] - (2015) - novelette by Sarah Pinsker
• A Series of Steaks - (2017) - novelette by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
• The Need for Air - (2018) - short story by Lettie Prell
• Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™ - (2017) - short story by Rebecca Roanhorse
• A Study in Oils - [The Lucky Peach] - (2018) - novelette by Kelly Robson
• Tender Loving Plastics - (2018) - short story by Amman Sabet
• Toppers - (2016) - novelette by Jason Sanford
• Utopia, LOL? - (2017) - short story by Jamie Wahls
• Openness - (2016) - short story by Alexander Weinstein
• The Doing and Undoing of Jacob E. Mwangi - (2019) - short story by E. Lily Yu

In a world where long drinks are in short supply, it's dangerous to listen to your inner voice. Those who do, keep it quiet.

But one man listens to the voice in his head telling him to buy a lemonade from the girl sitting on a dusty road.

There is a reason why Pilgrim and Lacey must cross paths. They just don't know it yet...

One man is driven by an inner voice that isn't his - this Other is chewing at his sanity like a jackal with a bone and has one purpose.

To find the voice hiding in the girl.

She has no one to defend her now.

But in an inn by the sea, a boy with no tongue and no voice gathers his warriors. Albus must find the girl, Lacey ... before the Other does.

And finish the work his sister Ruby began.

Hunted is the second book in the acclaimed Voices series, where the battle between Good and Evil holds you in its vice-like grip.

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who hear voices, and those who want to silence them.

Pilgrim is a man with a past he can't remember. When he wakes alone in a shallow grave, there is a voice in his head that doesn't belong to him. It explains who he is and what he's done. It tells him he has one purpose: to find a girl named Lacey.

As Pilgrim is drawn north to Missouri in search of Lacey, he must also travel back to where it all began - to those he left behind. War is coming, and Pilgrim is going to need all the allies he can get.