Futuristica: Volume 1

by Stephanie Burgis, Anne E. Johnson, Robert Lowell Russell, Patrice Sarath, Holly Schofield

Overview

What does the future hold for us? This anthology of nineteen diverse stories from authors around the world shows us a future full of adventure, intrigue, fun, heart-ache, and wonder.
A imprisoned space pirate from Phobos is given a last chance for freedom, but only if he’s willing to kill his younger brother. Again.
In post-climate change Italy, a deaf African-American woman and her native partner struggle to build a communal farm that can survive the new environment, a lasting hope for a future.
A Latina party girl is addicted to cybernetic body modification when the latest experimental ‘fix’ comes out, promising to let her deepest desires rise.
An Asian woman is called to Nigeria to find out why her company’s cyborg policeman just killed an unarmed teenage boy.
A mech-suited mercenary on a war torn alien planet is just trying to earn enough to get out, but her daughter is on the battlefield the day all hell breaks loose.
And many more. The future is as infinite as the stars. Let’s go explore it!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940152928440
Publisher:	Metasagas Press
Publication date:	06/01/2016
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	510 KB

About the Author

Stephanie Burgis grew up in East Lansing, Michigan, but now she lives in Wales with her husband (fellow writer and ebook cover designer Patrick Samphire), their two sons, and their very vocal tabby cat, Pebbles (who basically owns Steph's Instagram account). She writes wildly romantic historical fantasy for adults (most recently, Scales and Sensibility, Good Neighbors, and the Harwood Spellbook series) and fun, funny MG fantasy adventures for kids (most recently, The Raven Heir and the Dragon with a Chocolate Heart trilogy).

Based in Brooklyn, Anne E. Johnson writes fiction for both children and adults. Please visit her website for details about her published and upcoming works.

I’m a writer and editor in Austin, Texas. My novel The Unexpected Miss Bennet came out in 2011 from Robert Hale in the UK and from Penguin Berkley in the US. It takes up where Pride & Prejudice leaves off, specifically regarding Mary Bennet, the most misunderstood of the Bennet sisters.

My first novel, Gordath Wood, came out from Ace Fantasy in the summer of 2008, and the sequel, Red Gold Bridge, in 2009. The Crow God's Girl is a standalone continuation of the Gordath Wood Series.

James Beamon never met a bio about himself that he didn't like. That's because they often talk of his adventurous deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan or the powerful romance he and his wife have shared for over twenty years. It has nothing to do with the fact that he's written all those bios himself and they should really be called "auto-bios" instead of plain "bios".

Speaking of writing, James is not school taught like most writers but instead learned how to craft fiction from carnies. That and buffalo wings. He'll never give away his secret wing recipe, but more of his exploits and links to other stories can be found at fictigristle.wordpress.com

E.E. King is a performer, writer, biologist and painter. Ray Bradbury calls her stories “marvelously inventive, wildly funny and deeply thought provoking. I cannot recommend them highly enough.” Her books are;" Dirk Quigby’s Guide to the Afterlife," "Real Conversations with Imaginary Friends," "The Adventures of Emily Finfeather - The Feathernail and Other Gifts" and "Another Happy Ending."
She has won numerous awards and been published widely.
She has worked with children in Bosnia, crocodiles in Mexico, frogs in Puerto Rico, egrets in Bali, mushrooms in Montana, archaeologists in Spain and butterflies in South Central Los Angeles.