Excerpt: Bastion by Gustavo Bondoni
“Water,” Kine said. “Please… I need water.” It felt like his insides were on fire. People were moving around him. He could hear them but was too weak to open his eyes, and just waited […]
Book View Cafe Readings: Coed Demon Sluts: Amanda by Jennifer Stevenson
Today’s Book View Cafe reading features Jennifer Stevenson and a selection from Amanda, the latest in the author’s CoEd Demon Slut series.
Excerpt: Cry of Silence: a novel by Catherine Gigante-Brown
Prologue The moons of Alpha 49C shone brightly through the hatch. All seven of them were in slightly different phases. Jenn thought this was perhaps the most beautiful thing she had ever seen. The past […]
Book View Cafe Readings: Putting the Fun in Funeral by Diana Pharaoh Francis
Today’s Book View Cafe reading features Brenda W. Clough and a selection from The Jaguar Queen of Copal, the third book in The Thrilling Adventures of Marian Halcombe series.
Book View Cafe Readings: The Jaguar Queen of Copal by Brenda Clough
Today’s Book View Cafe reading features Brenda W. Clough and a selection from The Jaguar Queen of Copal, the third book in The Thrilling Adventures of Marian Halcombe series.
Book View Cafe Readings: Mark of the Gods by Kris Faryn & Jules Lynn
Today’s Book View Cafe reading features Kris Faryn & Jules Lynn’s and a selection from Mark of the Gods, Book One of their Muse Island mythological amateur sleuth series.
Book/Story Excerpt from Semper Britannia by Teel James Glenn
Teel James Glenn has killed hundreds and been killed more times–on stage and screen, as he has traveled the world for forty-plus years as a stuntman, swordmaster, storyteller, bodyguard, actor, and haunted house barker. He has […]
Book View Cafe Readings: Beth read by Jennifer Stevenson
Today’s Book View Cafe reading features Jennifer Stevenson and a selection from Beth, the latest in the author’s CoEd Demon Slut series.
Book Excerpt: Journey from the Center of the Earth by Ron Miller
Ron Miller is an illustrator and author living in South Boston, Virginia. He has created 71 books on astronomical, astronautical and science fiction subjects for adults and young adults. His books have received more than twenty commendations and awards, including the American Institute of Physics […]
Excerpt: The Amazing Editorials by Ted White
“But all too often novice writers seeking to emulate these men are ignoring or castigating “old-fashioned” sf as irrelevant or worse. These novice writers have fastened upon the superficialities of style in the so-called “New Wave,” and ignored its foundations.”
Book Excerpt: To Kill A Shadow by Katherine Quinn
BOOK EXCERPT: TO KILL A SHADOW by KATHERINE QUINN Excerpted from To Kill a Shadow, by Katherine Quinn. Entangled Teen, 2023. Reprinted with permission. Chapter Eight Jude I should never have picked her. I thundered […]
Book Excerpt: Fat Man by Gustavo Bondoni
Gustavo Bondoni is a novelist and short story writer with over four hundred stories published in fifteen countries, in seven languages. He is a member of Codex and a Full Member of SFWA. He has […]
Bonus Free Story: THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM by Tom Easton and Chapter One of ESPionage: Regime Change by Tom Easton & Frank Wu
Amazing Selects recently released the thrilling SF-Espionage novel ESPionage: Regime Change by Tom Easton and Frank Wu. Now, to spur your interest and to give you some small idea of what you’ll find in that […]
Book Excerpt: Lacrimosa of Dana by Anna Kashina
Anna Kashina writes secondary world fantasy, featuring immersive historical settings, magic, adventure, and swordplay. Her passions and occupations include dancing, martial arts, crafts, biomedical sciences, gemstones, and video games, not necessarily in this order. She […]
Book Excerpt: The Psychopath Club by Sandra Bond
Sandra Bond discovered science fiction as a young teen, and science fiction fandom as a slightly older one. She fell in love with both of them immediately, and the love affair continues to this day. […]
Excerpt: STARMEN by Francis Hamit: Support the Kickstarter
Francis Hamit offers Amazing’s readers a 14,000+ word excerpt from his upcoming novel, Starmen. Starmen is a 190,000 word epic featuring, among other things, alternate history, quantum mechanics, Apache Indian myths and nasty Aliens. It all begins in 1875 El Paso, Texas.
Book Excerpt: Lost Cargo by Noah Chinn
Frying Pan Blues Sol System – 2241 “How much longer till we reach Mars?” Moss’s fare looked even more nervous than he had when he’d boarded back on Earth, and that was when they’d still […]
Book Excerpt: The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch by Melinda Taub
Melinda Taub is an Emmy- and Writers’ Guild Award-winning writer. The former head writer and executive producer of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, she is the author of Still Star-Crossed, a young adult novel which was adapted […]
Book Excerpt: from Hotel Exotica – The Big Yaya by Steven Savanna
Excerpt from Hotel Exotica – The Big Yaya Excerpt 1: Lucas left Ruby’s slot and made a hasty path back to his own slot. He had only just arrived and was seated watching a news […]
Book Excerpt: from Hotel Exotica – The Pandora Effect by Steven Savanna
Excerpt from Hotel Exotica – The Pandora Effect Excerpt 1: He stood and grabbed the woman, who also stood and now began to struggle with him. But his action was unexpected when he grabbed […]
Book Excerpt: Owning the Unknown (A Science Fiction Writer Explores Atheism, Agnosticism, and the Idea of God) by Robert Charles Wilson
Robert Charles Wilson has been writing science fiction since the publication of his first novel, A Hidden Place, in 1986. His novels include Darwinia, Blind Lake, and Spin, which received numerous awards including the Hugo Award, the Grand Prix […]
Book Excerpt: The Unvarnished Gary Phillips: A Mondo Pulp Collection
GRAG’S LAST ESCAPE By Gary Phillips from The Unvarnished Gary Phillips: A Mondo Pulp Collection (978-1-953103-36-9, October 10, 2023; 336 Pages, $17, Three Rooms Press) Gary Phillips has been a community activist, labor organizer […]
The Big Idea: CJ Leede
Be the change you want to see in the world. For author CJ Leede, that means creating a villainous, monstrous female character because she didn’t see enough of them in the world. Dive into her […]
Book Excerpt: The Night Field by Donna Glee Williams
Pushcart Prize-nominee Donna Glee Williams was born in Mexico, the daughter a Kentucky farm-girl and a Texas large-animal vet. She graduated from Tulane University, then earned an MFA and Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. Her […]
Book Excerpt: Starter Villain by John Scalzi
Inheriting your uncle’s supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who’s running the place. Charlie’s life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in […]
Book Excerpt – The Babel Apocalypse by Dr. Vyvyan Evans
Dr. Vyvyan Evans is a native of Chester, England. He holds a PhD in linguistics from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., and is a Professor of Linguistics. He has published numerous acclaimed popular science and technical books […]
Book Excerpt: A Tidy Armageddon by B.H. Panhuyzen
1 A vee of Canada geese passed across the slot of sky that ran east to west between two nine-storey walls. It was late August, and they were heading south, early migrators, the machine of […]
Book Excerpt: Blood Red Steel by Damien Larkin
PART 1: STROLLING PAST THE CUTLINE OUTSIDE NEW BERLIN COLONY, MARS 18th MARCH 1956 08:58 MST (MARS STANDARD TIME) DAY 727 OF THE OCCUPATION 23 DAYS UNTIL THE FIRST TERRAN – MARTIAN WAR […]
Book Excerpt: The Way_The Gospel of Satan by Nicholas Fillmore
Gospel is a road trip story, a buddy novel. Easy Rider meets the Gospels. Part picaresque, part polemic. In a series of near-misadventures unfolding across the ancient Levant, the Devil, Jesus and his thirteen disciples […]
Book Excerpt: The Dark Lands by Markus Heitz
Additional Reading The real state of affairs in 1629 Don’t worry, this is a fantasy novel and I have no intention of turning it into anything else. However, to make my readers understand the context better, I have decided to supply a […]
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