Search Worlds Without End

Within these pages lie eighteen stories, from eighteen worlds shaped by some of today's best writers of science fiction and fantasy, all guests on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers during its first year.

Contents:

• 1 - Introduction (Shapers of Worlds) - (2020) - essay by Edward Willett
• 5 - Vision Quest - (2020) - short story by Edward Willett
• 16 - Call to Arms - (2020) - short story by Tanya Huff
• 43 - The Tale of the Wicked - (2009) - novelette by John Scalzi
• 71 - The Farships Fall to Nowhere - (2020) - short story by John C. Wright
• 80 - Evanescence - (2020) - short story by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
• 97 - Peel - (2005) - short story by Julie E. Czerneda
• 108 - The Knack of Flying - (2020) - short story by Shelley Adina
• 127 - Ghost Colours - (2020) - short story by Derek Künsken
• 141 - One Million Lira - (2014) - short story by Thoraiya Dyer
• 159 - Pod Dreams of Tuckertown - (2007) - short story by Gareth L. Powell
• 172 - In Silent Streams, Where Once the Summer Shone - (2020) - short story by Seanan McGuire
• 183 - Welcome to the Legion of Six - (2019) - short story by Fonda Lee
• 196 - Good Intentions - [Sun Eater] - (2020) - short story by Christopher Ruocchio
• 214 - "Shhhh..." - (2020) - short story by David Brin
• 228 - The Greatest of These Is Hope - (2020) - short story by D. J. Butler
• 252 - A Thing of Beauty - (2020) - novelette by Charles E. Gannon
• 286 - Home Is Where the Heart Is - (2020) - novelette by David Weber
• 317 - Tricentennial - (1976) - short story by Joe Haldeman

Explore twenty-four imaginative tales crafted by some of today's best writers of science fiction and fantasy, all guests on Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers during its second year.

Contents:

• Shadow Sight - short fiction by Kelley Armstrong
• Ghost and Fox - short fiction by Marie Brennan
• Shapeshifter Finals - (1995) - novelette by Jeffrey A. Carver
• Angel and Monica - short fiction by Helen Dale
• Going to Ground - short fiction by Candas Jane Dorsey
• I Hid in the Bathroom When the Aliens Arrived - short fiction by Lisa Foiles
• The Only Road - short fiction by Susan Forest
• I Remember Paris - short fiction by James Alan Gardner
• The Little Tailor and the Elves - (1994) - short story by Barbara Hambly
• The Cat and the Merrythought - short fiction by Matthew Hughes
• Anamnesis in Ruins - short fiction by Heli Kennedy
• The Lost Cipher of Dr. Dee - short fiction by Lisa Kessler
• Casey's Empire - (1981) - short story by Nancy Kress
• Root Mother - short fiction by Adria Laycraft
• River of Ice - short fiction by David D. Levine
• Message Found in a Variable Temporality Appliance - short fiction by Ira Nayman
• Letters from an Imprisoned Wizard to a Young Queen - short fiction by Garth Nix
• The Chthonic Op - short fiction by Tim Pratt
• The Cool Sequestered Vale of Life - short fiction by Edward Savio
• The Cancellation - [John Simon] - short fiction by Bryan Thomas Schmidt
• A Murder in Eddsford - [Emberverse] - (2008) - novella by S. M. Stirling
• Beneath a Bicameral Moon - short fiction by Jeremy Szal
• Salvage - (2014) - short story by Carrie Vaughn
• The Tale of Tybalt the Cat - short fiction by Edward Willett

From outer space to inner space, from realms of magic to the here-and-now, from the distant past to the far future, the twenty-one authors in this third collection of science fiction and fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers will take you on incredible adventures in the company of unforgettable characters.

Contents:

• The Writer Speaks to the New World - poem by Jane Yolen
• And the Walls Came Tumbling Down - short fiction by James Morrow
• Thresholds - short fiction by Kristi Charish
• Court Day in Shelocta County - short fiction by Robert Penner
• Limbo - short fiction by David Ebenbach
• Offshore - (1996) - novelette by F. Paul Wilson
• How a World Dies - poem by Jane Yolen
• Car Wars - (2016) - short story by Cory Doctorow
• Tribes of the Sun - short fiction by K. M. Rice
• The Metamorphosis of Thomas Darrow - short fiction by Gerald Brandt
• Fairy Invention - poem by Jane Yolen
• The Key - short fiction by Griffin Barber
• Choices - short fiction by Miles Cameron
• Mister Farnsworth Versus the Alien Demons of Ancient Egypt - short fiction by Sebastien de Castell
• How to Create Language for a New-Made World - poem by Jane Yolen
• Together As One - short fiction by Jess E. Owen
• Ghostwind - short fiction by Violette Malan
• The Thing in the Play - short fiction by Edward Willett
• Joseph Campbell Misses the Mark - poem by Jane Yolen
• A Single Breath, Heard Only in My Dreams - short fiction by Cat Rambo
• The Desert of the Real - short fiction by Mark Everglade and Joseph Hurtgen
• We Love You - short fiction by Anna Mocikat
• "It's Coming" - short fiction by Frank J. Fleming
• The New Planet - poem by Jane Yolen
• Hostile Universe - (2012) - short story by K. Eason
• Send Them Flowers - (2007) - novelette by Walter Jon Williams

From the farthest reaches of our galaxy to the cozy-yet-mysterious spaces under beds and behind sofa cushions, from mystical realms of fantasy to the here-and-now and the very near future, the nineteen authors in this fourth collection of science fiction and fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers offer readers a kaleidoscope of fantastical adventures in the company of unforgettable characters.

Contents:

• 1 - Matter of Life and Death - (2017) - short story by Sherrilyn Kenyon
• 16 - Advent - (2017) - short fiction by James Kennedy
• 50 - Yiwu - (2018) - short story by Lavie Tidhar
• 72 - Presumed Alien - short story by David Boop
• 97 - Soldier of Fortune - short story by Edward M. Lerner
• 108 - Done with Mirrors - short story by Sarah A. Hoyt
• 127 - The End of the Sagittarius Arc - short fiction by Jean-Louis Trudel
• 158 - The Doting Duke and His Gravely Disturbed Daughters: The Books of the Bard, Scroll One - short story by Roy M. Griffis
• 181 - There's Some Thing Under the Bed - short story by Garon Whited
• 196 - I Really Need to Clear My Inbox - short story by Noah Lemelson
• 219 - BWDOC - short story by James Van Pelt
• 234 - Monster in the Second Reel - short story by Richard Paolinelli
• 252 - Souvenirs - short story by Gail Z. Martin
• 265 - Nineteenth-Century Vase - short fiction by David Liss
• 292 - Garbage - short story by Joshua Palmatier
• 310 - The Sound of the Chain - (2015) - short story by R. S. Mellette
• 317 - The Canceller - short story by Edward Willett
• 338 - A Murder of Scarecrows - (2020) - short fiction by Mark Leslie
• 366 - The Things Fenton Found - short fiction by Michaelbrent Collings

From outer space to inner space, from realms of the never-were to those of the here-and-now and the soon-to-be, the twenty-four authors in this fifth and final collection of science fiction and fantasy by writers featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers plunge readers into fantastic worlds filled with unforgettable characters.

Teenagers are disappearing in a mysterious grove, and no one knows why--not even those who escape it. The god of love finds magical arrows just don't cut it in the modern world of digital matchmaking. A prisoner discovers he has been stripped of thirty-five years of memories as punishment for a crime he cannot remember. Far from being a refuge from humdrum reality, dreams become a trap for one young man when he encounters those who dwell there. A man who hunts angels for a living has the tables turned on him by the last angel he corners. Talking beasts from the island of a certain infamous doctor arrive in London to make their way in the world of men, only to be caught up in the ongoing Martian invasion...

Shapers of Worlds Volume V showcases stories by Brad C. Anderson, Edo van Belkom, J. G. Gardner, Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, Chadwick Ginther, Evan Graham, M. C. A. Hogarth, M. J. Kuhn, L. Jagi Lamplighter, Kevin Moore, Robin Stevens Payes, James S. Peet, Omari Richards, Lawrence M. Schoen, Alex Shvartsman, Alan Smale, Richard Sparks, P. L. Stuart, Brad R. Torgersen, Hayden Trenholm, Brian Trent, Eli K. P. William, Edward Willett, and Natalie Wright. Every story is illustrated with an original black-and-white drawing by Wendi Nordell.

Travel into the past, the present, and the future in stories set in our world, in deep space, in the land of dreams, and in worlds of pure imagination, shaped by an outstanding roster of authors featuring many bestsellers and award-winners. All you have to do is turn the page...