Modern space adventures crafted by a new generation of Grand Tradition science fiction writers. Smart, engaging stories that take us back to a time when science fiction was fun and informative, pithy and piquant-when speculative fiction transported us from the everyday grind and left us wondrously satisfied. Showcasing the breadth of Grand Tradition stories, from 1940s-style pulp to realistic...
Associated with life and death, disease and luck, corvids have long captured mankind's attention, showing up in mythology as the companions or manifisations of dieties, and starring in stories from Aesop to Poe and beyond. In Corvidae birds are born of blood and pain, trickster ravens live up tp their names, magpies take human form, bluejays battle evil forces, and choughs become prisoners of...