Matthew Kressel

• Jul-2011
• / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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Featuring original stories from 20 authors, this dark, captivating, fabulous and fantastical collection, Naked City, is not to be missed! Edited by award-winning editor Ellen Datlow.In this thrilling collection of original stories some of today's hot...

• Mar-2017
• / Science Fiction
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"The Last Novelist (or A Dead Lizard in the Yard)" by Matthew Kressel is a science fiction story about a dying writer who is trying to finish one final novel on the distant planet he settles on for his demise. His encounter with a young girl trigg...

• Mar-2017
• / Dark Fantasy
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Following the events of King of Shards, both humans and demons continue their quest to control the Lamed Vavnik, the thirty-six righteous men who sustain the Earth against the persistent hunger of the twisted creatures who inhabit the Shards, the bro...

• Jun-2017
• / Horror
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Mitch and his friends live in Cherryville, a rust-belt American town that has gone to seed. One day, while exploring an old, abandoned factory, Mitch and his friends discover a buried secret that just might change their lives forever. But in Cherryvi...

• Sep-2017
• / Dark Fantasy
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Across the ineffable expanse of the Great Deep float billions of shattered universes: the Shards. Populated with vengeful demons and tormented humans, the Shards need Earth to survive just as plants need water. Earth itself is kept alive by 36 righte...

• Nov-2017
• / Science Fiction
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As the Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye wandered the galaxy harvesting dead stars, they liked to talk...

Thus begins the epic 2015 Nebula Award Short Story Finalist “The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye” by Matthew Kressel, a galactic-s...

• Nov-2017
• / Science Fiction
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Earth has grown quiet since everyone’s shipped off to the new one. I walk New Paltz’s empty streets with an ox-mask tight about my face. An acidic rain mists my body, and a thick fog obscures the vac-sealed storefronts. Last week they hauled t...

• Dec-2017
• / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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In virtual reality, she builds fantastic digital worlds for high-paying clients. In real life, she has a severe form of muscular dystrophy that keeps her chained to a wheelchair. But not for long. Ashey, her VR agent and rogue AI, has big plans f...

• Jan-2019
• / Science Fiction
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From three-time Nebula Award finalist Matthew Kressel comes this haunting science fiction tale. In a galaxy obliterated by war Betsy Haadama is the last human alive. She sits aboard an Eluder Ship waiting with many different species of aliens who all...

• Aug-2020
• / Science Fiction
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After a falling out, two estranged friends who meet again on the distant plant of Gilder Nefan, a place where the religious folk smoke a psychotropic drug called sweet jisthmus to reach transcendent states of consciousness in order to communicat...

• Jul-2021
• / Science Fiction
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Matthew Kressel's "Now We Paint Worlds" is a space operatic Tor.com Original short story.Orna, a representative of a universe-wide trade union, undergoes a drastic change in perspective while investigating the disappearance of three planets and their...