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Rise

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Fantasy, Fantasy - Alternate History, Fantasy - Candlepunk, Fantasy - Clockpunk, Fantasy - Comedy, Fantasy - Contemporary, Fantasy - Dark Fantasy, Fantasy - Erotica, Fantasy - Faery & Fae, Fantasy - Fairy Tale / Folklore, Fantasy - Fantasy of Manners, Fantasy - Gothpunk, Fantasy - Heroic, Fantasy - High & Other World, Fantasy - Historical, Fantasy - Hopepunk, Fantasy - Knights & Castles, Fantasy - Latinpunk, Fantasy - LGBTQ+, Fantasy - LitRPG, Fantasy - Low Fantasy, Fantasy - Magical Realism, Fantasy - Mythic, Fantasy - Mythpunk, Fantasy - New Adult, Fantasy - Paranormal, Fantasy - People of Color, Fantasy - Piratepunk, Fantasy - Quiet, Fantasy - Romance, Fantasy - RPG, Fantasy - Silkpunk, Fantasy - Slipstream, Fantasy - Steampunk, Fantasy - Sword & Sorcery, Fantasy - Urban & Magical Beings, Fantasy - Weird Fantasy, Fantasy - Young Adult, Fantasy – Gods and Heroes, Horror, Horror - Angels & Devils, Horror - Comedy, Horror - Fairy Tale/Folklore, Horror - Ghosts & Haunted Houses, Horror - Gothic, Horror - LGBTQ+, Horror - LitRPG, Horror - Lovecraftian/Cthulhu, Horror - Man-Made Horrors, Horror - Monsters, Horror - Mythic, Horror - New Adult, Horror - Noir, Horror - Occult, Horror - People of Color, Horror - Post-Apocalyptic, Horror - Psychic Talents, Horror - Psychological, Horror - Shifters, Horror - Splatterpunk, Horror - Vampires, Horror - Weird Horror, Horror - Werewolves, Horror - Witches, Horror - Young Adult, Horror - Zombies, Paranormal, Paranormal - Angels & Devils, Paranormal - Comedy, Paranormal - Dark, Paranormal - Ghosts & Haunted Houses, Paranormal - LGBTQ+, Paranormal - LitRPG, Paranormal - Magical Beings, Paranormal - Monsters, Paranormal - New Adult, Paranormal - People of Color, Paranormal - Psychic Talents, Paranormal - Reincarnation, Paranormal - Romance, Paranormal - Shifters, Paranormal - Vampires, Paranormal - Young Adult, Paranormal - Zombies, Sci Fi, Sci Fi - Alien Invasion, Sci Fi - Alien Races, Sci Fi - Aliens, Sci Fi - Alternate / Parallel Reality, Sci Fi - Alternative History, Sci Fi - Apocalyptic Fiction, Sci Fi - Artificial Intelligence, Sci Fi - Atompunk, Sci Fi - Biopunk, Sci Fi - Candlepunk, Sci Fi - Christian, Sci Fi - Climate Fiction (Cli-Fi), Sci Fi - Clockpunk, Sci Fi - Clones, Sci Fi - Colonization, Sci Fi - Comedy, Sci Fi - Cyberpunk, Sci Fi - Cyberspace, Sci Fi - Decopunk, Sci Fi - Detective, Sci Fi - Dieselpunk, Sci Fi - Distant Planet, Sci Fi - Dying Earth, Sci Fi - Dystopian & Post-Apocalyptic, Sci Fi - First Contact, Sci Fi - Frontier, Sci Fi - Furry, Sci Fi - Galactic Empire, Sci Fi - Generation Ship, Sci Fi - Genetic Manipulation, Sci Fi - Gothpunk, Sci Fi - Greenpunk, Sci Fi - Hard Sci Fi, Sci Fi - Hollow Earth, Sci Fi - Hopepunk, Sci Fi - Human Evolution, Sci Fi - Immortality, Sci Fi - Latinpunk, Sci Fi - LGBTQ+, Sci Fi - LitRPG, Sci Fi - Lost Worlds, Sci Fi - Military, Sci Fi - Mind Uploads, Sci Fi - Multiverse, Sci Fi - Mutants, Sci Fi - Mythpunk, Sci Fi - Nanopunk, Sci Fi - Near Future, Sci Fi - New Adult, Sci Fi - Nowpunk, Sci Fi - People of Color, Sci Fi - Piratepunk, Sci Fi - Pulp, Sci Fi - Realistic, Sci Fi - Robots/Androids, Sci Fi - Romance, Sci Fi - RPG, Sci Fi - Science Fantasy, Sci Fi - Silkpunk, Sci Fi - Singularity, Sci Fi - Slipstream, Sci Fi - Social, Sci Fi - Soft, Sci Fi - Solarpunk, Sci Fi - Space Exploration, Sci Fi - Space Opera, Sci Fi - Space Western, Sci Fi - Spacepunk, Sci Fi - SpyFi, Sci Fi - Steampunk, Sci Fi - Stonepunk, Sci Fi - Superheroes & Villains, Sci Fi - Terraforming, Sci Fi - Teslapunk, Sci Fi - Theological, Sci Fi - Time Travel, Sci Fi - Transhuman, Sci Fi - Transistorpunk, Sci Fi - Uplift, Sci Fi - Utopian, Sci Fi - Virtual Reality, Sci Fi - Wattpunk, Sci Fi - Weird Sci Fi, Sci Fi - Young Adult

RISE (noun / verb)

Eight definitions to inspire writers around the world, and an unlimited number of possible stories to tell:

1) An upward slope or movement
2) A beginning or origin
3) An increase in amount or number
4) An angry reaction
5) To take up arms
6) To return from death
7) To become heartened or elated
8) To exert oneself to meet a challenge

Rise features 300-word speculative flash fiction stories from across the rainbow spectrum, from the minds of the writers of Queer Sci Fi.

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Crucible of Time

A galaxy in peril
The story begun in The Reefs of Time continues. The time-tides caused by Karellia’s defenses have brought the malicious Mindaru AI out of the deep past into the present, threatening Bandicut and Li-Jared, who have arrived at the backwater planet—Li-Jared’s homeworld—to find it on the brink of interplanetary war. Somehow they must forge a peace between Karellia and its neighboring world if the Mindaru threat is to be broken.

Back on Shipworld, Ik and Julie Stone risk their lives a second time to stop the Mindaru at their source: a planet near the galactic core, a billion years in the past. Can Antares, the beautiful humanoid who also loves Bandicut, help them? What of Bria the gokat? And Amaduse, the most influential librarian in Shipworld?

And in the deep time of the galaxy’s early history, by the light of a million suns, the Mindaru do hideous things to an innocent species. The Mindaru plan for the altered creatures bears momentous possibilities even the deadly AI cannot predict.

Time is critical. Time is elastic. And time is running out.

Conclusion of the unmissable two-part “Out of Time” sequence begun in The Reefs of Time, from Jeffrey A. Carver, Nebula-nominated author of Eternity's End.

PRAISE FOR THE REEFS OF TIME / CRUCIBLE OF TIME:

“Classic science fiction with engaging characters and richly imagined worlds!” —Greg Bear; author of The Unfinished Land and The War Dogs Trilogy

“Jeffrey A. Carver’s remarkable long-awaited duology The Reefs of Time / Crucible of Time is a welcome addition to The Chaos Chronicles, certifying his continuing mastery of action and adventure at the boundaries of space opera and hard SF.” —Steve Miller, co-author of The Liaden Universe

“There are giant, and brilliant, concepts in these books... If you haven’t read it you’re in for a whale of a ride! I, personally, will have to pick up more of Jeffrey Carver—not just this series—because I’ve become a fan of his world/galaxy-spanning imagination! I highly recommend these books.” —Steve Fahnestalk, Amazing Stories Magazine

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Some Time Later

Demons! Vampires! Time Travelers! A Giant Chicken?

The creators of Twelve Hours Later and Thirty Days Later are back for another time-turning read with adventure in the offing, steam in the air, and tongue occasionally in cheek. Join us for fantastical stories from fifteen authors, including Harry Turtledove, Kirsten Weiss, Katherine Morse and David Drake, Anthony Francis, Lillian Csernica, and Madeleine Holly-Rosing as we journey through time and genre.

Take a tour of Jolly Olde London where madness may (or may not) prevail and things can get hairy after dark. Take an airship across the sea to the ancient city of Atlantis. Battle demons! Match wits with mystics! Try to resist the seductive power of chocolate or the magic of tiny mushrooms! Maybe even steal a treasure from a dragon.

So put the kettle on, pour a strong cuppa, and curl up on the couch for a rollicking good read with Some Time Later.

The clock is ticking ...

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The Reefs of Time

The starstream is beautiful. But beauty turns deadly when an ancient AI bent on destruction uses it to travel uptime, to our near-future.

The Mindaru are dead. Or so exiled-Earthman John Bandicut and his alien companions believe, when they return to Shipworld after saving the Orion Nebula and countless inhabited worlds. But now another horde from this ancient and malicious AI colony is swarming toward the present from its birthplace deep in the past. Their opening: a temporal disturbance in the starstream, a hyperspatial thoroughfare used by myriad civilizations. The disturbance emanates from the planetary defenses of nearby Karellia, whose people know nothing of the starstream or the galaxy-threatening Mindaru.

Only Bandicut and his friends have the knowledge and experience to act. But several of Bandicut’s company have gone missing. Bandicut and Li-Jared must team with the pandimensional Ruall and her gokat—the oddest aliens Bandicut has met since the shadow-people—and journey to Karellia to find a way to cut off the timestream.

Meanwhile, on Shipworld, the "missing" Ik meets another human of Earth—a former lover of Bandicut’s—and embarks with her on a perilous mission far back into deep time, seeking a way to stop the Mindaru at their source.

The Chaos Chronicles returns at last in The Reefs of Time, part one of a heartstopping, two-part adventure. Concluded in Crucible of Time—from Nebula-nominated Jeffrey A. Carver!

PRAISE FOR THE REEFS OF TIME / CRUCIBLE OF TIME:

"Classic science fiction with engaging characters and richly imagined worlds!" --Greg Bear; author of The Unfinished Land and The War Dogs Trilogy

"Jeffrey A. Carver's remarkable long-awaited duology The Reefs of Time / Crucible of Time is a welcome addition to The Chaos Chronicles, certifying his continuing mastery of action and adventure at the boundaries of space opera and hard SF." --Steve Miller, co-author of The Liaden Universe

"Rich, dignified prose wedded to excellent and imaginative storytelling on the grandest scale. If you've grown weary of the hasty, hyperkinetic stories and styles that typify so many other independently-published novels, come home to Jeffrey Carver's timeless and triumphant The Reefs of Time." --Charles E. Gannon, author of the Caine Riordan world

"Mind-blowing in its complexity... I settled in to enjoy a wild ride." --Ann Tonsor Zeddies, author of Riders of Leviathan and Steel Helix

"Underpins its stunning science fiction and character-driven narrative with a strong theme of 'coming home'... As narratives intertwine at separate ends of the timescale, Carver's talent for weaving incredible technology and worldbuilding with meaningful character moments is a standout." --Terence MacManus, Aurealis Magazine

PRAISE FOR THE CHAOS CHRONICLES:

"Remarkably expansive vision." --Analog

"Masterfully captures the joy of exploration." -- Publishers Weekly

"Master craftsman of compelling hard science fiction." -- Booklist

One of the best SF novels of the year -- Science Fiction Chronicle

"A dazzling, thrilling, innovative space opera." --Kirkus

"Fertile imagination and... a host of engagingly sympathetic characters." --Library Journal

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A Time Traveler’s Valentine

A Time Traveler's Valentine - Blaine D. Arden

by Blaine D. Arden

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In love, time is relative, until they run out…

Regulations limit time digger Ish and time cop Kabal, born years and worlds apart, to two dates a year, making every date precious. But when Kabal announces his retirement at their tenth anniversary, what should have been a happy occasion might be their last night together.

Previously appeared in Storm Moon Press' Sweethearts & Seduction anthology

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To Love Through Space and Time

To Love Through Space and Time - Tinnean

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By the year 2060, mankind is on the verge of bringing Terra to her knees. The population has exploded, and land for cattle and crops has been sacrificed for housing and employment for the more than fifteen billion souls now living on the planet. Synthetic food is created in plants, and the remaining animals are kept in zoos and game preserves of the wealthy. In an effort to insure the survival of mankind, spaceships are sent to explore Terra’s nearest neighbors, Mars and Venus, but will it be too little too late?
The four men who took the MRM to Mars have high hopes, until on their return home they travel through a magnetic field that crashes them… somewhere. As they explore the unknown world with its dangers, Doc, Nick, Hank, and Ed will struggle to come to terms with their new reality and find their own paths to happiness.

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The Traveler’s Magic

The Library is dying.

Ryn is finally working in the Ancestral Library, a childhood dream and a way to find her birth parentage. But the magic of the Library is being sabotaged, allowing pests, water damage and worse, while hostile Ancestor Houses are vying to move the books from the location they’ve occupied for a thousand years.

Rumors of a secret society bent on sabotage, with only the words “Kill the roots, take the fruits,” leads Ryn and her stepbrother Zo on a chase across Waatch and the ancestor Islands. Three items are a danger to the Library: a rock, and sword, and a branch. Though Ryn has hated being an Ordinary her whole life, it seems the Ordinaries of Waatch, disdained by the Ancestor descendants, might hold the true key to the Library. They might be the only way for Ryn to find the saboteur and items, and save the Library along with any hope of finding her birth family.

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Enimnori

An act of desperation by young magician Brandon accidentally snatches Scott Hathaway from our world. Struggling to adapt to his new life, Scott becomes ensnared in dark local politics. He realizes he can use the knowledge he brought from his world to save his new friends, but at what cost?

The first in a series. A story about an engineer who gets accidentally transported to a medieval type world where magic is real. But all is not as it seems!

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When Are You?

They have to find him…but how?

A former member of an elite military special forces unit, Leo Bailey can handle anything life throws at him. Except maybe approaching a certain gorgeous, purple mohawk-wearing, heavily pierced artist. Not without his three eye-rolling wingmen along to push him in the right direction.

One look at the mouthwateringly muscled, military buzzcut-sporting man with the endearing blush, and Vincent Noland is in love. Or at least in lust. Love comes later. Then marriage…and sweet, adorable Oscar.

Life is perfect—the stuff of fairy tale happily ever afters—except for Arthur Fletcher, whose unsettling reactions to them threaten to upset the happy balance of their lives. But it isn’t Arthur who throws their lives into turmoil.

A freak event causes Oscar to go missing and leaves both men frantic to rescue their son. As they piece together the clues, they discover that Oscar isn’t somewhere. He’s somewhen. And Arthur Fletcher holds the key—or rather the glass beads—to their one chance of finding Oscar.

Will Leo’s training, Vinnie’s determination, and Arthur’s knowledge help them rescue Oscar, or is the little boy doomed to spend the rest of his life at the mercy of a primitive civilization? Could there be a third possibility?

Keywords: time travel, lost child, happy ending, novel, ebook, print, paperback

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The Pill Bugs of Time

Vikash Soren, the perfect police officer except for his odd paranormal ability, never seems to lose his temper. Always serene and competent, he’s taken on the role of mediator in a squad room full of misfits. But on the inside, he’s a mess. Unable to tell his police partner that he loves him, Vikash struggles silently, terrified of losing Kyle as a lover, partner and friend.

But life in the 77th Precinct doesn’t leave much room for internal reflection. A confrontation with a stick-throwing tumbleweed in Fairmount Park leads to bizarre consequences involving pill bugs, statues and…time travel? If Vikash manages to survive the week and stay in one point in time, he might be able to address normal things like relationship problems. He just needs Kyle to have a little more patience. Maybe a few centuries’ worth.

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