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Fiction River

Biography

Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch return to editing with a new anthology series featuring volumes that appear every two months. Each volume will have a different theme or genre, and often will have a different editor. Smith and Rusch will be the overall series editors, approving content. Fiction River will showcase some of the best fiction around, and will keep that standards that made their previous editing projects—Pulphouse Publishing and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction—the award-winning and genre-bending works that fans still discuss twenty years later.

Where to find Fiction River online

Website: http://www.fictionriver.com

Where to buy in print

http://www.fictionriver.com

Books

Fiction River Presents: The Unexpected by Fiction River

Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 48,980. Language: English. Published: April 28, 2016 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author

Expect the unexpected in this latest volume of Fiction River Presents. Be it a twist you won’t see coming, an unusual character voice, or a surprising elicitation of emotion, these wonderful stories will catch you off guard and keep you hooked.

Fiction River Presents: Debut Writers' Showcase by Fiction River

Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 53,690. Language: English. Published: February 29, 2016 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author

From baking a magical love spell to having the opportunity to rectify a mistake from the past to hunting a serial killer, Debut Writers’ Showcase highlights stories from Fiction River’s first year that marked a first professional sale for these up-and-coming authors. Since first appearing in Fiction River, these authors have gone on to sell more stories, build their fan bases and win awards.

Fiction River: Alchemy & Steam by Fiction River

Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 69,640. Language: English. Published: May 21, 2015 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author, Fiction » Science fiction » Steampunk & retropunk

(5.00 from 1 review)

Alchemy changes more than dross into gold. It changes steampunk stories into stories of magical transformation. These thirteen stories combine science and magic into do-not-miss alternate history stories that span the globe. Travel with a soul-stealing carnival, meet the Grand Dangoolie, put on some perfect perfume, and sample some magical chocolate.

Fiction River: Risk Takers by Fiction River

Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 79,300. Language: English. Published: March 31, 2015 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author

Money, business, sports, love: All involve risk—and skill. The skilled authors in this cross-genre volume masterfully exhibit both. Buckle in while a locomotive engineer uses magic in a race to avoid extinction, a game developer must outmaneuver an alien for Earth’s fate, and an exterminator risks everything to go after some really big rats.

Fiction River: Pulse Pounders by Fiction River

Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 72,660. Language: English. Published: January 19, 2015 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General

Starts with a bang. Ends with a bang. And a lot of bang in between. Ranging from straight thriller to science fiction, fantasy to pulp adventure, these stories make your heart race. Share the excitement as a woman held hostage in a chair has only a few minutes to escape, and a man trapped in a time loop revisits a crisis point in the past. Includes a never-before-published Frank Herbert story.

Fiction River: Past Crime by Fiction River

Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 82,480. Language: English. Published: November 17, 2014 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Anthologies » Mystery

Laws change from culture to culture, decade to decade. Strange laws make criminals of ordinary citizens. Like the Massachusetts woman whose brother asks her for help, slave hunters at his heels. Or the Chinese immigrant who finds himself in the middle of a crooked game of Fan Tan. Or the Native American detective searching New York’s Stonewall Bar for a ratfink during a world-changing riot.

Fiction River: Fantastic Detectives by Fiction River

Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 77,160. Language: English. Published: September 25, 2014 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » General, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General

Fantastic detectives come in many forms, from dogs to elves to eggs. (Yes, eggs.) And fantastic detective stories come in all mystery subgenres, from cozy to hard-boiled. (Remember. Eggs.) All of these forms and subgenres combine to create one of the most delightful additions to the Fiction River anthology series.

Fiction River: Universe Between by Fiction River

Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 76,420. Language: English. Published: August 14, 2014 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author

The eighth volume of Fiction River presents fourteen universes, all different, all powerful. From a planetary survey ship moored in an alien ocean to a comic book convention near a strange Louisiana town, each of these universes go somewhere familiar and strange at the same time.

Fiction River: Fantasy Adrift by Fiction River

Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 68,010. Language: English. Published: May 16, 2014 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Anthologies » General

From fairy tales fractured into unrecognizability to Russian mobsters hanging out with zombies, from New World slavery to modern Alaskan cruise ships, the stories in Fantasy Adrift sail across the genre. Two writers make their fiction debuts next to bestsellers Steve Perry and Dean Wesley Smith to take readers on a journey of the imagination—as only Fiction River can do.

Fiction River Special Edition: Crime by Fiction River

Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 80,590. Language: English. Published: March 13, 2014 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » General, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General

From a twisted tale of greed by masterful writer Kate Wilhelm to a dark tale of murder and betrayal by Shamus-award winner Brendan DuBois, Fiction River Special Edition: Crime covers the entire gamut of the mystery genre—cozy to noir. New York Times bestselling author Julie Hyzy joins Edgar Award-winner Doug Allyn and several others to create one of the strongest anthologies of the season.

Fiction River: Hex in the City by Fiction River

Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 73,300. Language: English. Published: December 3, 2013 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Urban, Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author

(5.00 from 1 review)

Urban fantasy offers a diverse playground for some extremely powerful stories. Professional writer and editor Kerrie L. Hughes pulled some fantastic tales out of fourteen top writers for this fifth installment of Fiction River.

Fiction River: Christmas Ghosts by Fiction River

Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 77,540. Language: English. Published: October 4, 2013 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories

For the fourth anthology in the Fiction River line, paranormal romance writer Kristine Grayson invited a stellar lineup of cross-genre authors to tell heartwarming stories of love set in the holiday season. From Regency England to modern day Portland, Oregon, ghosts facilitate—or try to stop—true love in the dark at the end of the year.

Fiction River: Time Streams by Fiction River

Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 75,190. Language: English. Published: August 13, 2013 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author, Fiction » Anthologies » General

The fifteen writers in this third original anthology in the Fiction River line explore everything from Chicago gangsters to Japanese tsunamis, and travel from 2013 to the nineteenth century to a vast future. Featuring work from award winners to bestsellers to a few newcomers whose time will come, Time Streams turns the time-travel genre on its head.

Fiction River: How to Save the World by Fiction River

Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 69,220. Language: English. Published: June 11, 2013 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author, Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories

How to Save the World brings together eleven of today’s brightest authors, presenting their answers to solve a pressing problem facing the human race. From the growing energy crisis to women’s rights to overpopulation to the survival of humanity in the future, the stories in this original anthology examine the issues facing our planet today—and offer hope for our survival tomorrow.

Fiction River: Unnatural Worlds by Fiction River

Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 73,140. Language: English. Published: April 16, 2013 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories

(3.00 from 1 review)

From a funeral procession in Asia to an ancestral estate deep in the heart of a vaguely Victorian forest to a carriage accident in the vast universe of The Runelords, Unnatural Worlds takes readers on a journey to the far side of the imagination. Funny, heartbreaking, frightening, but most importantly, memorable, the original stories in this anthology go places few writers dare reach.

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