John Joseph Adams

• Jan-2008
• / Fantasy
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Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon -- these are our guides through the Wastelands... From the Book of Revelations to The Road Warrior; from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, sto...

• Aug-2008
• / Science Fiction
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• Imagine the moment when the present ends, and the future begins ― when the world we knew is no more and a brave new world is thrust upon us. Gathering stories by nine of today's most incisive minds, Seeds of Change confronts the pivotal is...

• Sep-2008
• / Horror
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"When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth!" From White Zombie to Dawn of the Dead, Resident Evil to World War Z, zombies have invaded popular culture, becoming the monsters that best express the fears and anxieties of the moder...

• May-2009
• / Science Fiction
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Edited by John Joseph Adams, editor of Wastelands and The Living Dead. From Star Trek to Star Wars, from Dune to Foundation, science fiction has a rich history of exploring the idea of vast intergalactic societies, and the challenges facing those liv...

• Aug-2009
• / Horror
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From Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer; from Castlevania to Tru Blood, the romance between popular culture and vampires hearkens back to humanity's darkest, deepest fears, flowing through our very blood, fears of death, and life, and insatiable hun...

• Sep-2009
• / Fantasy
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The game is afoot! Night Shade Books is proud to present the fantastic adventures of the world's greatest detective -- mystery, fantasy, science fiction, horror, no genre can escape the esteemed detective's needle-sharp intellect and intuition.This...

• Nov-2010
• / Fantasy
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• Power. We all want it, they've got it ― witches, warlocks, sorcerers, necromancers, those who peer beneath the veil of mundane reality and put their hands on the levers that move the universe. They see the future in a sheet of glass, summo...

• Jan-2011
• / Dystopian
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You are being watched.Your every movement is being tracked, your every word recorded. Your spouse may be an informer, your children may be listening at your door, your best friend may be a member of the secret police. You are alone among thousands, a...

• Dec-2011
• / Science Fiction
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Lightspeed is the critically acclaimed, online science fiction magazine edited by bestselling anthologist John Joseph Adams.Lightspeed: Year One collects all of the fiction published during Lightspeed’s first journey around the sun: Nebula Award fi...

• Feb-2012
• / General Fiction
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Celebrate 100 years of John Carter of Mars with this all-new collection of original stories and art! Readers of all ages have read and loved Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom series since the first book, A Princess of Mars, was published in 1912. No...

• Oct-2012
• / Epic Fantasy
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There is a sickness in the land. Prophets tell of the fall of empires, the rise of champions. Great beasts stir in vaults beneath the hills, beneath the waves. Armies mass. Gods walk. The world will be torn asunder. Epic fantasy is storytelling at it...

• Feb-2013
• / Science Fiction
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From Victor Frankenstein to Lex Luthor, from Dr. Moreau to Dr. Doom, readers have long been fascinated by insane plans for world domination and the madmen who devise them. Typically, we see these villains through the eyes of good guys. This anthology...

• Feb-2013
• / Action Adventure
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Ever since Edgar Rice Burroughs published A Princess of Mars in 1912, fans of all ages have marveled at the adventures of John Carter, an Earthman who suddenly finds himself in a strange new world. A century later, readers can enjoy this compilation ...

• Jul-2013
• / Science Fiction
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Since the landmark Wastelands anthology was published, apocalyptic fiction of all types have exploded in the popular consciousness. Wastelands 2 will focus on fiction published subsequent to the first book. It will feature stories by some of the most...

• May-2014
• / Historical Romance
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HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD!  From a kill-or-be-killed gunfight with a vampire to an encounter in a steampunk bordello, the weird western is a dark, gritty tale where the protagonist might be playing poker with a sorcerous deck of cards, or faci...

• Jul-2014
• / General Fiction
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Famine. Death. War. Pestilence. These are the harbingers of the biblical apocalypse, of the End of the World. In science fiction, the end is triggered by less figurative means: nuclear holocaust, biological warfare/pandemic, ecological disaster, or c...

• Oct-2014
• / Science Fiction
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• Feb-2015
• / Dark Fantasy
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The definitive anthology of the best post-apocalyptic literature of the last two decades. Featuring New York Times bestsellers Stephen King, George R.R. Martin and Orson Scott Card, edited by award-winning anthologist John Joseph Adams. 

Pres...

• Sep-2015
• / Science Fiction
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Collected by the editor of the award-winning Lightspeed magazine, the first, definitive anthology of climate fiction -- a cutting-edge genre made popular by Margaret Atwood. Is it the end of the world as we know it? Climate Fiction, or Cli-Fi, is ...

• Oct-2015
• / Science Fiction
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Science fiction and fantasy enjoy a long literary tradition, stretching from Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells, and Jules Verne to Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, and William Gibson. In "The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy" award-winning editor Jo...

• Oct-2016
• / Science Fiction
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From quiet, elegiac, contemporary tales to far-future, deep-space sagas, the stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Karen Joy Fowler for "The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016" demonstrate the vast spectrum of...

• Nov-2016
• / Science Fiction
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Fear of the unknown--it is the essence of the best horror stories, the need to know what monstrous vision you're beholding and the underlying terror that you just might find out. Now, twenty authors have gathered to ask--and maybe answer--a question ...

• Apr-2017
• / Action Adventure
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A collection of original, epic science fiction stories by some of today’s best writers -- for fans who want a little less science and a lot more action -- and edited by two-time Hugo Award winner John Joseph Adams. Inspired by movies like The Gu...

• Oct-2017
• / Science Fiction
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Science fiction and fantasy can encompass so much, from far-future deep-space sagas to quiet contemporary tales to unreal kingdoms and beasts. But what the best of these stories do is the same across the genres -- they illuminate the whole gamut of t...

• Oct-2018
• / Science Fiction
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Today’s readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about s...

• Jun-2019
• / Science Fiction
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The new post-apocalyptic collection by master anthologist John Joseph Adams, featuring never-before-published stories and curated reprints by some of the genre's most popular and critically-acclaimed authors.In WASTELANDS: THE NEW APOCALYPSE, veteran...

• Oct-2019
• / Science Fiction
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This omnivorous selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and World Fantasy Award finalist Carmen Maria Machado is a display of the most boundary-pushing, genre-blurring, stylistically singular science fiction and fantasy stories...

• Aug-2020
• / General Fiction
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The brilliant new post-apocalyptic collection by master anthologist John Joseph Adams, for the first time including new stories by the edgiest modern writers.

WASTELANDS, the unsurpassed collection of thrilling and mind-bending post-apocalypti...

• Oct-2020
• / Science Fiction
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We burn them to ashes and then burn the ashes. In Ray Bradbury's FAHRENHEIT 451, that's the motto of the Firemen who hunted down and burned books wherever they found them. Bradbury warned of a world where our literary history is taken from us. In BUR...

• Oct-2020
• / Science Fiction
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. George Orwell once wrote of a world where abuse of power begins with an abuse of language and a bastardization of truth. Some of today's most exciting voices in speculative fiction explore the ...

• Oct-2020
• / Science Fiction
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Into the darkness within; or else the light... When Margaret Atwood wrote these words, she left open the possibility that even our darkest tales may harbor a glimmer of hope. In OR ELSE THE LIGHT, the third and final entry of THE DYSTOPIA TRIPTYCH, o...

• Oct-2021
• / Science Fiction
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The best science fiction and fantasy stories of 2021, selected by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Veronica Roth. This year’s selection of science fiction and fantasy stories, chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and bestsellin...

• Mar-2022
• / Fantasy
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From the legends of Atlantis, El Dorado, and Shangri-La to classic novels such as King Solomon’s Mine, The Land That Time Forgot, and The Lost World, readers have long been fascinated by the idea of lost worlds and mythical kingdoms.Read short ...

• Nov-2022
• / Science Fiction
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Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Rebecca Roanhorse and series editor John Joseph Adams select twenty pieces that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year and explore the ever-expanding and c...

• Oct-2023
• / Science Fiction
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“Short stories have to accomplish a nearly impossible magic trick: to introduce a world often much stranger than our own and make you care about it in a matter of pages,” writes R. F. Kuang in her introduction. “The most important part of this ...

• / General Fiction
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What if you could not only travel any location in the world, but to any possible world?We can all imagine such �"other worlds”--be they worlds just slightly different than our own or worlds full of magic and wonder--but it is only in fiction that w...