The Sixth Sense meets Planet of the Apes in a moving science fiction novel set so far in the future, humanity is gone and forgotten in Lawrence M. Schoen's Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard An historian who speaks with the dead is ensnared by the past. A child who feels no pain and who should not exist sees the future. Between them are truths that will shake worlds. In a distant future, no remnants of human beings remain, but their successors thrive throughout the galaxy. These are the offspring of humanity's genius-animals uplifted into walking, talking, sentient beings. The Fant are one such species: anthropomorphic elephants ostracized by other races, and long ago exiled to the rainy ghetto world of Barsk. There, they develop medicines upon which all species now depend. The most coveted of these drugs is koph, which allows a small number of users to interact with the recently deceased and learn their secrets. To break the Fant's control of koph, an offworld shadow group attempts to force the Fant to surrender their knowledge. Jorl, a Fant Speaker with the dead, is compelled to question his deceased best friend, who years ago mysteriously committed suicide. In so doing, Jorl unearths a secret the powers that be would prefer to keep buried forever. Meanwhile, his dead friend's son, a physically challenged young Fant named Pizlo, is driven by disturbing visions to take his first unsteady steps toward an uncertain future.

A collection of tales and poetry of wonder and delight by Hugo-nominated Lawrence M. Schoen.

Melody Wilder just needs to complete her dissertation and life will be perfect. Alas, that's not going to happen.She hasn't picked a topic yet, her undergraduate loans have been "un-forgiven" with a vengeance, the university is about to strip her of her stipend, her job, and her apartment, and a pirate-priest minotaur is systematically destroying her life.Meanwhile, alien bear cub physicists are trying to extradite her best friend on charges of violating the laws of conservation of matter every time he makes a pizza!And things are just getting started.A blend of colorful aliens, explorations of cognitive psych and the nature of memory, and the healing power of a good slice of pizza, Slice of Entropy is a rollicking romp of science fiction fun and adventure that will leave you hungry for more.

A clairvoyant teenager embarks on a dangerous quest for answers in this weirdly wonderful sequel to Barsk: The Elephants’ Graveyard. Pizlo, the lonely young outcast and physically-challenged Fant, is now a teenager. He still believes he hears voices from the planet’s moons, imparting secret knowledge to him alone. And so embarks on a dangerous voyage to learn the truth behind the messages. His quest will catapult him offworld for second time in his short life, and reveal things the galaxy isn’t yet ready to know. Elsewhere, Barsk’s Senator Jorl, who can speak with the dead, navigates galactic politics as Barsk’s unwelcome representative, and digs even deeper into the past than ever before to discover new truths of his own. “The Moons of Barsk accomplishes what science fiction does at its best. It uses invented technology to push ideas beyond the limitations of the everyday.” —New York Journal of Books “I enjoyed The Moons of Barsk even more than the first book and look forward to what’s coming next.” —BookLoons Reviews

What happens when a washed-up, black-listed, alcoholic, but still handsome former action star signs a contract for medical experiments with a sinister race of alien machine intelligences?Ben "Coop" Cooper is about to find out.The reality of an unregulated medical laboratory on Titan is nothing like his past roles from the big screen. There's no director on hand to yell "cut" when he's fighting for his life. And no co-star ever injected him with an alien virus before. Instead it's all bar fights and police pursuits and beatdowns from alien robots.But in the end, Coop will strive to do what all movie heroes do: save the world from certain doom.Welcome to Fight or Flight, Book One of the Adrenaline Rush series, an action-packed, humorous romp in the orbit of Saturn that may just hold the cure for all human illness and disease.

"Buffalo Dogs" was the first appearance of the Amazing Conroy. It was supposed to be a one shot, but it went on to cause me to write a collection, four novellas, and two novels. In addition, two spinoff series have thus far produced five additional novels with more planned (both more spinoffs and more novels) and in progress. And oh yeah, there were four Nebula award nominations in there too. But it all began with a 7,800 word story. And here's the thing, everyone loves buffalo dogs (or "buffalitos" as they are also known). And why not? They resemble the American Bison, but shrunk down to a size you could carry under your arm. They have big, anime-like eyes and adorable blue tongues. They eat anything - seriously, anything at all, toxic waste, landfill, radioactive ore, anything. And perhaps best of all, inside that nuclear furnace of their stomachs, they convert it all to simple oxygen which they release back into the atmosphere. By farting.What's not to love?That first story has been picked up in science fiction magazines around the world, so it just seemed right to give the effort a little nudge. The result is this volume, some thirty different languages including the most commonly spoken and read languages as well as some less typically encountered (but hey, Klingons need fiction too).There's never been a book like this, but maybe, just maybe, the power of the buffalitos can bring the world together.,

"Put down the buffalo dog and step away from the bar!"That simple sentence set in motion a universe. And not just any universe, no, the Conroyverse!The Amazing Conroy, a stage hypnotist working third-rate venues on alien worlds, gets talked into being a courier of an Arconi buffalito - an adorable alien creature that can eat anything and farts oxygen. If he can avoid being executed for smuggling, his world will be forever changed.Angela Colson - a seemingly ordinary teenager - only appears to be Human, but is actually a mutant variant from a race of teleporting aliens who have hidden in plain sight for millennia. They don't believe she can keep their secret. If she doesn't convince them otherwise, they'll resolve the problem by putting her to death!Melody Wilder just needs to complete her doctorate and life will be perfect. But the downside of a university on a space station orbiting Neptune is that an assortment of aliens keeps showing up, imposing their own agendas on her, with no concern for her dissertation of sentient, non-Human memory.The Conroyverse is a sampler containing the shorty story that started the entire fictional universe as well as the first novels from each of the three series that share that common, alien-rich setting. It's a taste - appropriate given the emphasis on food across the books - of what awaits you in the ongoing adventures and humorous romps of each series.Hypnosis, Teleportation, and Alien Academia, Oh My!

Science fiction magazine featuring stories from across the globe. In this issue we have original fiction and translations from China, the Ukraine, Nigeria, Italy, and the United States. Fiction contents:"The Rule of Three" by Lawrence M. Schoen, "SisiMumu" by Walter Dinjos, "The Emperor of Death" by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko, "One Bad Unit" by Steve Kopka, "The Substance of Ideas" by Clelia Farris, "In All Possible Futures" by Dantzel Cherry, "Perfection" by Mike Resnick, "Wordfall" by Liang Ling. Also included is an interview with Hollywood showrunners Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Jose Molina, an essay about the role of empire in SF storytelling, and a profile of Marina and Sergey Dyachenko by their translator and friend Julia Meitov Hersey. Includes 65,000 words of fiction and articles.

Seventeen of the funniest science fiction stories published in the past decade (2005-2015), featuring alien invasions, global conspiracies, time travel and even animal uprisings. Fiction by Hugo and Nebula award winners and nominees as well as talented newcomers. Stories were selected by the Unidentified Funny Objects series curator Alex Shvartsman.