Editor:
Philip Harbottle

Trade Paperback
ISBN 1-58715-517-6
$15.99

Mystery & Horror
It was incredible that she didn’t move, didn’t utter a sound. But then the whole island lay under an uncanny silence, reminding him he hadn’t seen even one small animal here.
It was hideous. The limbs were not identical; they had not come from the same body. The head, waxen and discoloured, lolled at an angle, as if insecurely hinged at the neck.

Fantasy & Science Fiction
…the bony framework inside him had come to life—some strange, inner life of its own—and was now refusing to support him any longer. It resented carrying the weight of his flesh…
The computer said, “I register a form of life in space that lives on the discharge from radioactive elements.”
“Full power,” she ordered. “Outrun it!”
Acceleration came briefly, followed by a complete loss of power. The computer failed and screens faded to gray.

Stories that span the full spectrum of imaginative literature, by one of its modern masters, in this sparkling collection of THE BEST OF SYDNEY J. BOUNDS