"Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there." -John Barth
by Neal Stephenson “You don’t respect those people very much, Y.T., because you’re young and arrogant. But I don’t respect them much either, because I’m old and wise.” Snow Crash is a cyberpunk story set in a futuristic world where countries have collapsed into region-states, and the government of each region is left to whatever... Continue Reading →
by Glenn Cooper In a modern-day search for the Holy Grail, Mr. Cooper weaves a tale rich with science and history as the story moves back and forth through time. Arthur, a chemist and descendant of Thomas Malory, the real-world scholar who wrote the definitive text on King Arthur himself (Le Morte d’Arthur), is a... Continue Reading →
by Harlan Ellison “A world that has grown so complex and uncaring with systems and brutalization of individuals because of the inertia produced by those systems’ perpetuation of self, that merely to live is to be assaulted daily by circumstances.” Shatterday is another collection favorited by one of the best short story writers in the... Continue Reading →
by Paul Kohler "Well? What do you have to say for yourself? Why were you late? Again, I might add." "There was--" "I don't want to hear your excuses!" Jack Duffy awakes on a bus with no memory of the previous day. As he struggles with this loss he is greeted by a Mr. Wilson,... Continue Reading →
by John Everson "I’m married to two incredible women – one dead and one alive. Is this bigamy?" Mr. Everson's first novel, Covenant, is so effective a combination of horror and erotica it can (and did) single-handedly usher a jaded reader back into the broader world of horror writing. Cage of Bones was read over a... Continue Reading →
by Cherie Priest “And if there are gods after all, perhaps we should not struggle so hard to get their attention, if this is the attention they would lavish upon us.” The Lizzie Borden murders shocked the world, and now we get the real scoop on what happened. Yes, madness was present, and yes, as... Continue Reading →
by Thomas Cranham “Because outside the walls the monster (no dragon but pain) had arrived and it struck the barrier with tooth and claw, fire and fist, and little Emily’s defender, her knight was nowhere to be seen.” Consisting of six dark tales and a novella and written by one of the CD forum’s very... Continue Reading →
by Neil Gaiman “If you walk the path, eventually you must arrive at the cave.” A small man, half-human, enlists the help of a gruff mountain-dweller to guide him as they embark on a journey to a fabled cave in the mountains rumored to contain limitless gold. Told in a fairy-tale style, most of the... Continue Reading →
by Joe Hill “Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what men could think up.” On the anniversary of his girlfriend’s sadistic murder, a young man finds himself growing horns which cause those around him to speak more candidly and act much closer to their base instincts than allowed in civilized... Continue Reading →
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