People went into space, and the Earth was soon enslaved by the creature Quax. But the earthlings do not give up. Unbeknownst to Quax, a group of conspirators...

Shiina is the name of an artificially raised female squid with increased intelligence. This is a new space program - to send cephalopods to explore space, be...

At the center of these novels is a magical world, filled with magic so much that it spills out into ordinary life. The young heroes of the book must return m...

A story about the priest of the Bolviri parish, the Reverend Murdoch Soulis, who in his youth had the opportunity to feel sorry for a woman persecuted by eve...

“Mistress Enderby sat at the piano, a wedding present from her parents, sometimes stroking the instrument, but not playing. Today the music room was filled w...

A story from the anthology "The Best Humorous Fantasy".

Cal and Becky, brother and sister, crossing the country by car, stopped at a huge field of tall, corn-sized grass in Kansas, hearing the call of a little los...

A story from the anthology “The Best Humorous Fantasy.”

In our age of high technology and progressive discoveries, man, alas, has ceased to be the highest value. Often he is just an object for research, faceless b...

Legendary and award-winning editor Ellen Datlow brings her readers a stunning new anthology. Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, George R.R. Martin, Charles De Lint, ...

The authors of this book make an important contribution to the coverage of the tragic pages of the history of the Soviet village - the mass famine of 1932–19...