Robert Amiss is persuaded by his friend Detective Sergeant Pooley of the CID to take a job as a waiter in ffeatherstonehaughs (pronounced Fanshaws), a gentlemen's club in St James. The club secretary has allegedly jumped to his death from the gallery of this imposing building. Against most of the evidence, Pooley believes he was murdered. Amiss finds himself in a bizarre caricature of a club, run by and for debauched geriatrics, with skeletons rattling...

Irreverent Chicago racetrack publicist Jack Doyle, former advertising man and amateur boxer, accepts a new job as a thoroughbred jockey's agent. His client is a seventeen-year-old riding phenom from Ireland named Mickey Sheehan. Mickey and Jack prove to be an effective team until someone begins secretly doping the horses, affecting race results. In his quest to identify the culprit, Doyle is aided by his old friend Moe Kellman, furrier-to-the-Mob;...

The Simplest Pleasures Are Best Fran whooped as she pushed off the Rainier Square platform and zipped off into the fog towards Union Square flying like a superhero with her arms outstretched. Giggling. Because of course she had to giggle as she flew. The Web lurked hidden behind the fog, dangling wet and dripping over Drowned Seattle. Full of life and love and happiness. And pickles. Because Fran had a plan and presents to give out once she and Kamryn...

Jasper's work on his new airship is anything but smooth. And when an outstanding rival project appears from the other side of the world, his efforts border the impossible. With the Engineers Order's approval and an unexpected addition to the team to help them, airship engineer Jasper Kendall Asher and aeronaut Ivy Blackwell are ready to see their airship come to life. Or so they think – until a series of unsettling newspaper articles make their...

This far-future sci-fi saga by a multiple Hugo and Nebula Award–winning Grand Master chronicles the perilous rebirth of humanity on a destroyed Earth. Robert Silverberg's critically acclaimed masterworks have earned him entry into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, and a place among the genre's greatest legacies. This classic, two-book saga gazes into a world many millennia from now and spins a mesmerizing tale of survival, evolution,...

A Trapped Man. A Dark Power. A Fallen Alien Race.Dark magic thrives in the far future.Captain Henry Oblong crashes on an alien world. He sees shadows. Henry senses a corrupting power.Henry learns the greatest threat to the galaxy.A shocking, gut-punching, stellar science fiction story introducing readers to the darkest fraction in the series. A gripping new addition to the rapidly growing series.BUY NOW!Also available in Way Of Odyssey Short Story...

A Secret. An Invasion. A Search For Answers.Soulstones scatter across the galaxy.Ianthe Veilwalker searches for answers. She explores an ancient text. Ianthe witnesses an invasion.She races against time to save the galaxy.A gripping, enthralling, exciting science fiction fantasy short story about hope, life and power in the far future.BUY NOW!Also available in Way Of Odyssey Short Story Collection Volume 4.

The story of a young man who is gripped with feelings he has never felt before, sending him on a journey to find the one who cast her spell on him.

A collection of the year's best science fiction and fantasy writing selected by New York Times bestselling author R. F. Kuang and series editor John Joseph Adams. R. K. Kuang, New York Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy and Babel, selects twenty pieces that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year and explores the ever-expanding and changing world of science fiction and fantasy today.

In this science fiction classic, a recurring environmental disaster sets the native population of a distant planet at war with itself - and human colonists from Earth are trapped in the middle. Firetime is coming to Ishtar. This once-in-a-millennium event occurs when one of the planet's three suns encroaches on Ishtar's surface, to disastrous effect. The nightmare rapidly approaching, barbaric tribes have declared war on their more civilized brethren...