Daniel Eness

• Jan-2012
• / Science Fiction
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Young Theo sets out on a long dead highway in search of deer, plastic artifacts and the secret of his past. While he'll settle for a friend, what he finds instead are three enemies, one of whom may very well be himself. After Oil is a short story set...

• Jan-2012
• / Science Fiction
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""On August 33rd, 2100, Rex Randall Koreth knelt in prayer before the Cray-Cry, its tiny, old-fashioned lights glowing like altar candles. That day, his humble mission was to be Glory's usher. He prayed, just a little bit, for death at day's e"...

• Jan-2012
• / Science Fiction
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""Just after Halloween 1964, H. Beam Piper, the now-famed science fiction author and the writer of a "locked room" mystery titled Murder in the Gunroom was discovered dead in his own well-stocked gunroom, an apparent suicide. The man"...

• Feb-2012
• / Science Fiction
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What if H. Beam Piper had lived?What if the cryogenically frozen came back angry?What if a space elevator doesn't come back down?Whatever happened to that casino on the moon?Collecting more than a half dozen short stories of alternate reality, Advent...

• Feb-2012
• / General Fiction
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In this Tale of the Haunted Titanic, one survivor is unaccounted for: a song which outlives its performers. The band famously played until the bitter end of the maiden and final voyage of the RMS Titanic. The ship sank to a depth of four th...

• Feb-2012
• / Science Fiction
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When Gard Brodford sneaks through a siege to offer a sacrifice to a long-silent diety, the last thing he expects is a lesson in vanity. Too bad he is unlikely to survive the traps set before him, or the army at his heels. The God of This World is a S...

• Feb-2012
• / Science Fiction
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A space elevator technician finds himself caught between a world he doesn't understand and a world he doesn't want to understand when he takes on an emergency repair job as he scales the ancient, collapsing old "beanpole" that connects to a freight s...

• Feb-2012
• / Horror
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When a monster stands in Death's kitchen, exactly what - or who - is on the menu? A criminal no longer able to fight death with his worn out fists turns to the only thing he has left: fading memories of good food. Juice in a Cluster of Grapes is an e...

• Feb-2012
• / Horror
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When a small-town sports reporter decides to do a feature on a local pro football bad boy, he finds himself running in all the wrong circles. Of Hell. The Midway Monster is a short story of monstrous magic. From the story:&qu...

• Feb-2012
• / General Fiction
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Collecting a dozen tales of the strange and fantastic, Monstrous Magic: An Anthology of Science Fantasy explores the realm under your bed: bogeys, trolls, dragons and haunted spacemen take on the world as we know it, and the world bites back.The Lege...

• Feb-2012
• / Fantasy
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When Quentin discovers four relatives dead on the eve of his son's wedding, the bride missing, and a horde of goblins closing in, those are the least of his problems:His wife has put him in charge of tracking down the cake.Quentin the Troll and the W...

• Feb-2012
• / Horror
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Take a day trip through nightmares in Telepath + 2 Other Tales, which collects three short tales of monstrous magic including: Telepath - As a woman's power expands by the hour, she grows weaker by the second. Mud Muscle or Blood - A doomed man sees ...

• Feb-2012
• / General Fiction
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In this Tale of the Haunted Titanic, a giant of the deep rouses from a ghostly slumber, taking a chance to make history at history's end. From the text:"Since then, tens of thousands of ships have sunk in the World Ocean or the...

• Feb-2012
• / Science Fiction
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Three short tales of monstrous magic explore the recesses of scientific godhood.The Devil You Don't - A hoodlum pushes the limits of reality.Verdure Inferno - Agricultural development carries the seeds of its own backlash.Deuce X - A pleasure cruise ...

• Mar-2012
• / General Fiction
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In this Tale of the Haunted Titanic, a mystery surrounds the funeral of one of the survivors, and the only clue is provided by one of the victims.A ghostly tale of time, memory and the razor's edge.From the text:"The icy shock struck him like a hamme...

• Apr-2012
• / General Fiction
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From the Text:"An undulating blanket of ruin spread to the horizon off the port side of the Mackay-Bennett. Wedged between gray sky and blue-black sea lay the thin brown netting of shattered wood and the dead. The Embalmer saw a brigh...

• Apr-2012
• / General Fiction
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A memorial. A relic. The greatest ocean liner to sail the Atlantic. The true treasures of the RMS Titanic: passengers and crew, victims and survivors, trapped in that brief moment when the world's tallest building, its most luxurious hotel, and its g...

• Apr-2012
• / General Fiction
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""The ice was strange. He felt warmth along his arms as he approached it. At first, he wondered if it was not ice, but a new food chemical he did not know. Science had taken off at such a remarkable clip in the new century, he learned s"...

• Jun-2012
• / Science Fiction
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A rover captain with job security receives an unusual message from his drone on a remote asteroid:So good to see you.Suddenly, his job seems somewhat less secure.So does his life.From the story:Although the distinct, familiar whirring noise of his dr...

• Jul-2012
• / Fantasy
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...an asteroid miner learns to anticipate the past. A famous night watchman rewrites the multiple ends of future history. A lost prodigy unlocks the mystery of his dead mentors, while another one looks to build a bridge in an apocalypse that never ha...

• Jun-2013
• / Thriller
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Arclight's in trouble. Out of work and out of time, he's losing his own mind in search of someone else's. That's the good news. It seems that dementia isn't the only thing in North Tree that is in the business of swallowing hearts. When Arc goes down...