In an alternate 1980s, a Mars colony bureaucrat finds himself battling corruption, conspiracy, and undercover androids in this sci-fi thriller. Few people believe Dave Shuster’s stories about the red planet. But now government agents are eager to discuss a photo showing a graveyard on its surface, complete with crosses. Shuster claims that he once lived on Mars . . . in an alternate timeline. According to his story, he was a low-level bureaucrat in the administration of a joint US/Soviet colony. And things did not go well. During his posting, Shuster was caught up in a murder mystery involving the illegal use of robot technology. The Cold War had taken a very different turn—largely influenced by Admiral Robert Heinlein. When Shuster arrived on Mars in 1985, he was thrown into a power vacuum, force to fight a rogue industrialist with some help from unlikely sources in a society infiltrated by unnervingly realistic androids. This is his testimony.

A Writer's Odyssey - a quest to get published by one of the most prominent short fiction editors of our time. This book is hard to classify, difficult to categorize. If you flip randomly through the pages, you're most likely to think it is a short fiction collection, specifically of science fiction and fantasy stories. But look some more, and you might think it's a how-to book, the topic being How to Break Into Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy. On the other hand, you'd be justified in thinking it's a memoir of a kind, of one author's efforts to break in as a published science fiction and fantasy author. Finally, you could even be forgiven in thinking it's a history, telling the tale of the last days when science fiction and fantasy original fiction was mostly propagated in print, not pixels, in real magazines made of paper compounded from ground up trees. You'd be right in all cases, because this book combines all those threads and tells a narrative I hope you will find interesting combined with science fiction and fantasy stories I know you will find entertaining.

Following Lou Antonelli's critically praised first collection, Fantastic Texas, comes another collection of some of his very best. Lou is easily one of the hardest working and most recognized short story writers in science fiction today. This collection includes many incredible stories such as "A Rocket For the Republic," "Professor Malakoff's Amazing Ethereal Telegraph," "The Cast Iron Dybbuk," "Silvern," "The Witch of Waxahachie" and many more! Look for stories set not in just the Lone Star state, but also on Mars, on asteroids, and in deepest space.

"A collection of alternate and secret history short stories." From airships lost between universes, to golems winning the fight against racism, Lou Antonelli explains the many ways the world might have been. Dip into this collection of previously-published tales, and you'll experience: Where technology suppresses magic in an apartheid-like state. Ancient civilizations that succumb to their own nuclear holocausts. Alternate worlds in which Christianity is just one of many minor Earth-bound religions, and others where it rules and spans outer space. How the America's westward expansion would have happened if the New Madrid earthquake had allowed the North American inland sea to reform. Here you'll find Antonelli's version of Brigadoon, and of the sinking of the "Titanic" and the "Carpathia." You'll visit alternate realities that have been hiding Neanderthals, and pick up the lost Kodak snapshots of what might have been. With cameo appearances by O. Henry, Robert E. Howard, and Rod Serling, join this wild ride and delve into demonic possession, immortality, and the infinite variety of other worlds. Including the 2013 Sidewise Award for Alternate History finalist short story "Great White Ship." Lou Antonelli is a modern speculative fiction author with classic sensibilities, honed by a long career as a newspaperman.

Zombie crime fighters, politicians, soldiers, rescuers-but a Zombie prom date or bowler? If you're looking for Zombies, prepare to be ZOMBIEFIED! Two dozen amazing zombie stories sure to breathe life back into the Undead. If you're looking for stories that shamble, groan, and eat brains, you're sure to become ZOMBIEFIED. Stories by: Dayton Ward M.H Bonham Gary Jonas David Lee Summers Carol Hightshoe Laura Givens Rie Sheridan Rose Lou Antonelli John Lance And Many More!

From distant galaxies to the mean streets of Hollywood . . . from the war-torn skies of France in 1918 to the far side of the moon . . . The stories in Rocket's Red Glare exemplify the adventure, courage, and sense of discovery so vital to the American spirit. Whether daring to cross interstellar space or battling alien conquerors when they come right to our own back yard, the characters in these tales never give up, never stop fighting for their country, their lives, their honor. Featuring all-new stories by Sarah A. Hoyt (part of her USAian series), Brad R. Torgersen, Martin L. Shoemaker, Lou Antonelli, James Reasoner, and more, Rocket's Red Glare is packed with space opera excitement, dazzling scientific speculation, gritty action, and compelling characters.

Venus, the second planet from the sun, a world of sulfurous gas and tremendous temperatures where the landscape features-mountains and valleys-are all named for love goddesses. Venus herself is the goddess most known for allure and romance. Here are twenty stories featuring Venus, the planet, the goddess, or just plain love-both romantic and otherwise. Planetary Fiction explores the themes associated with these heavenly bodies as well as their astronomical, mythological, and in some cases even alchemical significance.

From ancient nuclear wars, to the secret of sexual attraction, with stops along the way for Bigfoot, ancient demons, and the truth behind alchemy, the stories in this book will take you on a truly fantastic journey through versions of Texas that were, could never be, and might have been. Steam played a big part in the first rocket launch from Texas, which was about a century earlier than we thought ("A Rocket for the Republic"). An unexpected experiment still running in the abandoned Superconducting Supercollider will introduce you to "The Witch of Waxahachie." And where would you go if global warming forced you out of Dallas? Maybe "Rome, If You Want To"? After that, ask yourself if a flying saucer is worth a silver dollar ("The Silver Dollar Saucer"). The possibilities are limitless in Lou Antonelli's new collection, Fantastic Texas. Born in Massachusetts, Antonelli is a newspaper editor and up-and-coming author of speculative fiction.

"Lord, you told me that Zeus is far away, and the sun is close." He raised his eyebrows conspiratorially. "What if it's not true?" Jupiter has dominated both our mythology and our science for centuries, from the earliest myths of heavenly powers to the revolutionary discovery of Jupiter's moons by Galileo in 1610 to the current fly-by of the orbiter Juno, we are fascinated by Jupiter's majesty. Jupiter inspires these stories of leadership, often unexpected or unwanted; stories of fatherhood, sought or accidental; stories of defiance and of perseverance. Discover stories that allow us to travel back into Myth or to bring Myth into our present; stories that allow us to fly to the stars to take our future place in Jupiter's orbit; stories to discover who we are, and to meet the aliens that we become. Grab it now!