1945: Russian troops have entered Berlin, and are engaged in a violent orgy of robbery, rape, and revenge...

Wehrmacht officer Hasso Pemsel, a career soldier on the losing end of the greatest war in history, flees from a sniper's bullet, finding himself hurled into a mysterious, fantastic world of wizards, dragons, and unicorns. There he allies himself with the blond-haired, blue-eyed Lenelli, and Velona, their goddess in human form, offering them his knowledge of warfare and weaponry in their genocidal struggle against a race of diminutive, swarthy barbarians known as Grenye.

But soon, the savagery of the Lenelli begins to eat at Hasso Pemsel's soul, causing him to question everything he has long believed about race and Reich, right and wrong, Uebermenschen and Untermenschen. Hasso Pemsel will learn the difference between following orders... and following his conscience.

Gathering together the best zombie literature of the last three decades from many of today's most renowned authors of fantasy, speculative fiction, and horror, The Living Dead covers a broad spectrum of zombie fiction: from Romero-style zombies to reanimated corpses to voodoo zombies and beyond.

Space Magic is the first short story collection from David D. Levine. His "Tk'Tk'Tk" won the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. "The Tale of the Golden Eagle" was a previous Hugo nominee; it also appeared on the Nebula preliminaryt ballot and was a finalist for the Sturgeon Award and Locus Award. Levine was a John W. Campbell Award nominee (2004 and 2003), Writers of the Future Contest winner (2002), James White Award winner (2001), and Clarion West graduate (2000). His stories have appeared in F&SF, Asimov's, Realms of Fantasy, and anthologies including Mike Resnick's New Voices in SF and four Year's Best volumes (two Fantasy, two SF). David lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Kate Yule.

A zine containing fiction by Bill Ward, Therese Arkenberg, Barkley Burke, Mark Rich, Ralph Sevush, Eric Del Carlo, Brendan Connell, Marshall Payne, Barbara A. Barnett, Sean Ruane, Daniel Braum, and P.D. Allen.

Also, poetry and horoscopes. Horoscopes?

A self-proclaimed chapbook with short fiction by Michael DeLuca, Jason S. Ridler, Scott H. Andrews, Erin Hoffman, and Justin Howe.

The Purple Basil by M.K. Hobson

The Luckiest Street in Georgia by Vylar Kaftan

Under the Skin by Greg O. Weatherford

The Horned Toad in the Hubcap by Joe Murphy

All Beautiful Things by Sharon Mock

The Claw Unseen by Evan Harvey

Plus: Movies by Resa Nelson, Books by Paul Witcover and Jeff VanderMeer, Folkroots by Terri Windling, James A. Owen's art by Mia Nutick, and Games by Eric T. Baker.

Table of Contents

FICTION

• Hermit Crabs by Elissa Malcohn
• Waiting at the Window by Ezrebet Yellowboy
• Them by Michelle Scott
• The Last Tiger by Tracie McBride
• The Artificial Sunlight of Memory by D. E. Wadsen
• Recipe for Survival by Sandra Mcdonald
• Sashenka Redux by Jennifer Pelland
• Your Blood by Leslie Claire Walker
• No Bubblewrap for Little Guys by Sara Saab
• Bull by Sharon E. Woods
• #1 by Leslie What
• Perfect Tense by Lisa Mantchev
• Stepsister by Melissa Mead

POETRY

• Evighed by Sonya Taaffe
• Asylum by Lida Broadhurst
• Hyldegarde Speaks to Jacqueline by Erin Hoffman

NONFICTION

• Sampling the Aspic: Al Dente by Penelope O'Shea

Roi is a member of that lost race, which is not only lost to the Amalgam, but to itself. In their world, there is but toil, and history and science are luxuries that they can ill afford. When she meets Zak, the male who will become her teacher and mentor, everything starts to change. Their strange world is under threat, and it will take an unprecedented flowering of science to save it.

Rakesh's journey will take him across millennia and light years. Roi's will take her across vistas of learning and discovery just as vast.</p> Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:25:38 +0000 bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id= http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id=10022 <span style="display: block; float: right; padding: 2px 2px 2px 6px; margin: 0px;"><img src="/i/rcvd/1/0/10023.jpg" width=250 border=0></span><p><b><u>White Flames</u></b><br>By: <b>Ceclia Tan</b><br><i><b>ISBN-13</b>: 9780786720804<br> <b>Pages</b>: 286<br> <b>Binding</b>: <br> <b>Publication Type</b>: <br> <b>Date Received</b>: August 2008<br></i></p><p>The 21 inspired stories within reveal the breadth of what's possible in the human erotic imagination. Ranging from the mildly titillating to the wholly transformative, they travel from familiar bedrooms to faraway planets and magical realms. From a lonely woman who finds her perfect lover lurking in a bookstore, to a college student who discovers her own hidden magic, and from the erotic awakening of a goddess to the sexual adventures of goth girls with attitude, Cecilia Tan mixes the sexual and sensual with a daring array of intriguing plots and settings. The follow-up to the groundbreaking collection Black Feathers, White Flames celebrates sexuality through body and mind in a collection of both never-before-published tales and stories reprinted from a wide range of sources.</p> Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:20:46 +0000 bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id= http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id=10021 <span style="display: block; float: right; padding: 2px 2px 2px 6px; margin: 0px;"><img src="/i/rcvd/1/0/10022.jpg" width=250 border=0></span><p><b><u>Other Worlds, Better Lives</u></b><br>By: <b>Howard Waldrop</b><br><i><b>ISBN-13</b>: 9781882968381<br> <b>Pages</b>: 260<br> <b>Binding</b>: <br> <b>Publication Type</b>: <br> <b>Date Received</b>: August 2008<br></i></p><p>

A Howard Waldrop Reader

Selected Long Fiction, 1989-2003

Howard Waldrop has spent over three decades writing some of the finest short stories in America, leading Locus magazine to call him a "National Treasure," and the Washington Post Book World to describe him as "The resident Weird Mind of his generation, he writes like a honky-tonk angel." </p> Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:16:43 +0000 bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id= http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id=10020 <span style="display: block; float: right; padding: 2px 2px 2px 6px; margin: 0px;"><img src="/i/rcvd/1/0/10021.jpg" width=250 border=0></span><p><b><u>Shadow of the Scorpion</u></b><br>By: <b>Neal Asher</b><br><i><b>ISBN-13</b>: 9781597801393<br> <b>Pages</b>: 250<br> <b>Binding</b>: <br> <b>Publication Type</b>: <br> <b>Date Received</b>: August 2008<br></i></p><p>

The true story of Ian Cormac's early years. Raised to adulthood during the end of the war between the human Polity and the vicious arthropoid race the Prador, Ian Cormac is haunted by the childhood memories of a sinister scorpion-shaped war drone and the burden of losses he doesn't remember.

In the years following the war he signs up with Earth Central Security, and is sent out to help either restore or maintain order on worlds devastated by Prador bombardment. There he discovers that though the old enemy remains as murderous as ever, it is not anywhere near as perfidious or dangerous as some of his fellow humans, some closer to him than he would like.

Amidst the ruins left by war-time genocides, he discovers in himself a cold capacity for violence, learns some horrible truths about his own past and, set upon a course of vengeance, tries to stay alive.

Ian Cormac is the protagonist featured in Neal Asher's earlier novels, Gridlinked, Line of Polity, Brass Man, Polity Agent, and Line War.</p> Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:11:53 +0000 bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id= http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id=10019 <span style="display: block; float: right; padding: 2px 2px 2px 6px; margin: 0px;"><img src="/i/rcvd/1/0/10020.jpg" width=250 border=0></span><p><b><u>Mars Life</u></b><br>By: <b>Ben Bova</b><br><i><b>ISBN-13</b>: 9780765317872<br> <b>Pages</b>: 432<br> <b>Binding</b>: <br> <b>Publication Type</b>: <br> <b>Date Received</b>: August 2008<br></i></p><p>Jamie Waterman's discovery of cliff dwellings on Mars opened up a whole new scientific frontier, prompting a series of excavations that revealed that an intelligent race had lived on the red planet sixty-five million years ago, only to be driven into extinction by the crash of a giant metory. One of the people who continued Jamie's work is Carter Carleton, an anthropologist who was driven from his university post by unproven charges of rape. Whether or not he wanted to go to Mars, he became the planet's star scientist when he uncovered the remains of a Martian village. But as the ultraconservative New Morality movement gains control of the U.S. government and cuts off funding for the Mars program, the future of exploration on the red planet faces an extinction as grave as the one that felled the Martians themselves. Science and politics clash on two worlds as Jamie desperately tries to save the Mars program and to uncover as much information as possible about the fate of the vanished Martians... before no one is left on the planet to study them.</p> Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:02:09 +0000 bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id= http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id=10017 <span style="display: block; float: right; padding: 2px 2px 2px 6px; margin: 0px;"><img src="/i/rcvd/1/0/10018.jpg" width=250 border=0></span><p><b><u>The New Space Opera</u></b><br>By: <b>Gardner Dozois, Jonathan Strahan, Eds.</b><br><i><b>ISBN-13</b>: 9780060846756<br> <b>Pages</b>: 514<br> <b>Binding</b>: <br> <b>Publication Type</b>: <br> <b>Date Received</b>: August 2008<br></i></p><p>The brightest names in science fiction pen all-new tales of space and wonder: Kage Baker, Stephen Baxter, Gregory Benford, Tony Daniel, Greg Egan, Peter F. Hamilton, Gwyneth Jones, James Patrick Kelly, Nancy Kress, Ken Macleod, Paul J. McAuley, Ian McDonald, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Mary Rosenblum, Robert Silverberg, Dan Simmons, Walter Jon Williams.</p> Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:57:53 +0000 bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id= http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id=10016 <span style="display: block; float: right; padding: 2px 2px 2px 6px; margin: 0px;"><img src="/i/rcvd/1/0/10017.jpg" width=250 border=0></span><p><b><u>Implied Spaces</u></b><br>By: <b>Walter Jon Williams</b><br><i><b>ISBN-13</b>: 9781597801256<br> <b>Pages</b>: 265<br> <b>Binding</b>: <br> <b>Publication Type</b>: <br> <b>Date Received</b>: August 2008<br></i></p><p>When mankind's every need is serviced by artificial intelligence, and death itself is only a minor inconvenience, what does it mean to be human? The answer lies hidden, deep within the Implied Spaces.</p> Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:57:26 +0000 bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id= http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id=10015 <span style="display: block; float: right; padding: 2px 2px 2px 6px; margin: 0px;"><img src="/i/rcvd/1/0/10016.jpg" width=250 border=0></span><p><b><u>Newton's Sleep</u></b><br>By: <b>Daniel O'Mahony</b><br><i><b>ISBN-13</b>: 9780473124984<br> <b>Pages</b>: 276<br> <b>Binding</b>: <br> <b>Publication Type</b>: <br> <b>Date Received</b>: August 2008<br></i></p><p>Lately cannonballs have flown their arcs, leaving the crystal sky unbroken, while on Earth their traces are all too visible. Yet though Heaven has never seemed so far away, the divine is terribly closer. War on Earth presages War in Heaven; the struggle between the holy houses of Christ and their eternal Adversary has erupted among the living.</p> Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:57:05 +0000 bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id= http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id=10014 <span style="display: block; float: right; padding: 2px 2px 2px 6px; margin: 0px;"><img src="/i/rcvd/1/0/10015.jpg" width=250 border=0></span><p><b><u>The Lion's Eye</u></b><br>By: <b>Mary Gentle</b><br><i><b>ISBN</b>: 0060821833<br> <b>ISBN-13</b>: 9780060821838<br> <b>Pages</b>: 303<br> <b>Binding</b>: <br> <b>Publication Type</b>: <br> <b>Date Received</b>: August 2008<br></i></p><p>For the young Ilario, life has not been predictable or easy. Born with a terrible secret, abandoned on the steps of a chapel, Ilario is found by Federico, an impoverished Iberian noble who plans to offer the foundling to King Roderigo to curry favor. Years later, the teenaged Ilario joins the court as the King's Freak, where another surprise awaits… Rosamunda, wife of the king's most powerful advisor, has arrived, and is determined to keep the mystery of her child's shameful birth hidden at all costs--even murder.</p> Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:56:33 +0000 bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id= http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id=10013 <span style="display: block; float: right; padding: 2px 2px 2px 6px; margin: 0px;"><img src="/i/rcvd/1/0/10014.jpg" width=250 border=0></span><p><b><u>The Dragon Never Sleeps</u></b><br>By: <b>Glen Cook</b><br><i><b>ISBN-13</b>: 9781597800990<br> <b>Pages</b>: 290<br> <b>Binding</b>: <br> <b>Publication Type</b>: <br> <b>Date Received</b>: August 2008<br></i></p><p>For four thousand years, the guardships ruled canon space with an iron fist. Immortal ships with an immortal crew roamed the Galaxy, dealing swiftly and harshly with any mercantile houses or alien races that threatened the status quo.</p> Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:56:17 +0000 bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id= http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id=10012 <span style="display: block; float: right; padding: 2px 2px 2px 6px; margin: 0px;"><img src="/i/rcvd/1/0/10013.jpg" width=250 border=0></span><p><b><u>Firefly Island</u></b><br>By: <b>Daniel Arenson</b><br><i><b>ISBN</b>: 1594146012<br> <b>ISBN-13</b>: 9781594146015<br> <b>Pages</b>: 345<br> <b>Binding</b>: <br> <b>Publication Type</b>: <br> <b>Date Received</b>: August 2008<br></i></p><p>On an enchanted island, a cruel king wears skin of stone. No sword or arrow can hurt him. Aeolia, a servant girl, can magically share feelings and senses… even pain. Only she, by hurting herself, can hurt the mad monarch. But can she save the world from his grasp?</p> Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:56:03 +0000 bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id= http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id=10011 <span style="display: block; float: right; padding: 2px 2px 2px 6px; margin: 0px;"><img src="/i/rcvd/1/0/10012.jpg" width=250 border=0></span><p><b><u>Best Fantastic Erotica</u></b><br>By: <b>Ceclia Tan, Ed.</b><br><i><b>ISBN-13</b>: 9781885865458<br> <b>Pages</b>: 312<br> <b>Binding</b>: <br> <b>Publication Type</b>: <br> <b>Date Received</b>: August 2008<br></i></p><p>Best Fantastic Erotica presents the winners from the international contest searching for the finest examples of erotic science fiction and fantasy.</p> Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:55:50 +0000 bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id= http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id=10010 <span style="display: block; float: right; padding: 2px 2px 2px 6px; margin: 0px;"><img src="/i/rcvd/1/0/10011.jpg" width=250 border=0></span><p><b><u>Aurelia's Colors</u></b><br>By: <b>Jeffrey Overstreet</b><br><i><b>ISBN-13</b>: 9781400072521<br> <b>Pages</b>: 334<br> <b>Binding</b>: <br> <b>Publication Type</b>: <br> <b>Date Received</b>: August 2008<br></i></p><p>When thieves find an abandoned child lying in a monster's footprint, they have no idea that their wilderness discovery will change the course of history. </p> Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:55:12 +0000 bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id= http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id=10009 <span style="display: block; float: right; padding: 2px 2px 2px 6px; margin: 0px;"><img src="/i/rcvd/1/0/10010.jpg" width=250 border=0></span><p><b><u>Eclipse One</u></b><br>By: <b>Jonathan Strahan, Ed.</b><br><i><b>ISBN-13</b>: 9781597801171<br> <b>Pages</b>: 263<br> <b>Binding</b>: <br> <b>Publication Type</b>: <br> <b>Date Received</b>: August 2008<br></i></p><p>To observe an eclipse is to witness a rare and unusual event. Under darkened skies the sun becomes a negative image of itself, its corona transforming the landscape into a strange space where anything might happen, and any story may be true. Eclipse One features extraordinary tales of lost identity and found purpose by some of speculative fictions brightest stars.</p> Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:54:52 +0000 bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id= http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id=10008 <span style="display: block; float: right; padding: 2px 2px 2px 6px; margin: 0px;"><img src="/i/rcvd/1/0/10009.jpg" width=250 border=0></span><p><b><u>Ivory</u></b><br>By: <b>Mike Resnick</b><br><i><b>ISBN-13</b>: 9781591025467<br> <b>Pages</b>: 317<br> <b>Binding</b>: <br> <b>Publication Type</b>: <br> <b>Date Received</b>: August 2008<br></i></p><p>In the year 6303, when earth is bare of anything larger than an insect or a mouse and most people have left for the stars, Duncan Rojas receives a most unusual visitor. His name is Bukoba Mandaka, and he is the last of the Maasai.</p> Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:54:40 +0000 bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id= http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id=10007 <span style="display: block; float: right; padding: 2px 2px 2px 6px; margin: 0px;"><img src="/i/rcvd/1/0/10008.jpg" width=250 border=0></span><p><b><u>Shadow Plays</u></b><br>By: <b>Elise Bunter, ed.</b><br><i><b>ISBN-13</b>: 9780646471273<br> <b>Pages</b>: 209<br> <b>Binding</b>: <br> <b>Publication Type</b>: <br> <b>Date Received</b>: August 2008<br></i></p><p>On a barren world, a wheel of fire rolls across the sky, dropping tears of flame that turn into creatures of fear… A den of dragons brings to trial a killer of their kind… Dark rituals and exotic secrets allow a woman to create the perfect man… An apprentice omen setter learns that, sometimes, the signs will point to him… And beneath the desert sands a hungry spirit thirsts for blood…</p> Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:54:33 +0000 bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id= http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id=10006 <span style="display: block; float: right; padding: 2px 2px 2px 6px; margin: 0px;"><img src="/i/rcvd/1/0/10007.jpg" width=250 border=0></span><p><b><u>Sum3</u></b><br>By: <b>Jody Wallace, ed.</b><br><i><b>ISBN-13</b>: 9781934135365<br> <b>Pages</b>: 237<br> <b>Binding</b>: <br> <b>Publication Type</b>: <br> <b>Date Received</b>: August 2008<br></i></p><p>Sum3 offers nine short works on the cutting edge of speculative romance. Spanning the gamut, the anthology contains love stories in science fiction, high fantasy, mythic fantasy, contemporary urban fantasy and historical fantasy sub-genres. Some are hot, some are sweet, but all have happy endings and all explore the wonders, fears and delights of falling in love outside the ordinary.</p> Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:54:28 +0000 bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack ) http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id= http://www.irosf.com/received.qsml?id=10005 <span style="display: block; float: right; padding: 2px 2px 2px 6px; margin: 0px;"><img src="/i/rcvd/1/0/10006.jpg" width=250 border=0></span><p><b><u>Snake Agent</u></b><br>By: <b>Lis Williams</b><br><i><b>ISBN-13</b>: 9781597801072<br> <b>Pages</b>: 375<br> <b>Binding</b>: <br> <b>Publication Type</b>: <br> <b>Date Received</b>: August 2008<br></i></p><p>Detective Inspector Chen of the Singapore Three police department specializes in cases of a supernatural and mystical nature. So when the ghost of a murdered girl fails to arrive in Heaven as expected, it's up to Chen to investigate the matter.</p> Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:54:20 +0000 bluejack@irosf.com ( Bluejack )