“A Chance to Get Even” is a story about a poker game. A friendly game-or at least that's how it starts out. I played in a friendly game for years, and sti...

New York. Heat. Alien creatures descended into the concrete jungle to hunt people. Any person with a weapon can become their prey. The police are inactive, t...

Two people living in a world connected by an immense and mysterious library must fight for those they love in the second book in a new trilogy from the in...

Once an embittered wanderer, now a powerful king, Jörg Ankrath has achieved much in his twenties, although he has never been able to take revenge on his fath...

Jack Lawrence Chalker (1944–2005) is one of the most popular and prolific science fiction writers in the United States, equally successful in the genres of f...

A man named Nicholas Edwards lives in New Orleans renovating houses, doing honest work and making decent money at it. Between his family and his stamp col...

“Who Knows Where It Goes” is an uncollected short story that appeared in Ellery Queen in January 2010. It was inspired, of course, by the cratering of the...

A huge box was delivered to the Rotten School. Bernie decided that his parents sent him a car - it’s terrible how hard it is to walk to class! Or, as a last ...

The hero of this dazzling novel by American master E. L. Doctorow is Joe, a young man on the run in the depths of the Great Depression. A late-summer nigh...

As Cold War hysteria inflames America, FBI agents knock on the Bronx apartment door of a Communist man and his wife. After a highly controversial trial, t...

In these magnificent portraits of people living life in America today, the bestselling author brilliantly ranges over the American continent, from Alaska ...

Lawrence Block's novels win awards, grace bestseller lists, and get made into films. His short fiction is every bit as outstanding, and this complete coll...