The Fourth Volume in the Acclaimed Series!
Otherworldly fantasies. Rusch and Smith create new fantasy worlds like no one else. Twenty stunning otherworldly stories in this volume.
For more than four decades, New York Times and USA Today bestselling writers Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith wrote professional fantasy short stories that won awards and sold millions of copies.
Now, for the first time, they collect together 100 of their fantasy short stories into a five-volume set called Fantasies Collide. Fifty stories total from each author, with ten stories from Rusch and ten from Smith in every volume.
If you love otherworldly fantasies, make sure you read this volume right from the start. Twenty fantastic stories that will transport you to other places.
Daftar Isi
Otherworldly Fantasy xv
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Ten Stories by Kristine Kathryn Rusch xvii
DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT: NUMBER
SIXTY-ONE 1
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
DRAGON SLAYER 19
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
DESTINY 41
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
SONGBIRDS 69
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
PURITY TEST 95
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
CHANGELING 117
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
CONTROLLING THE SWORD 133
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
COIN OF THE REALM 151
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
LOVE AND JUSTICE 159
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
THE LAST CHRISTMAS LETTER 173
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Ten Stories by Dean Wesley Smith 205
GROWING PAINS OF THE DEAD 207
Dean Wesley Smith
WHY DELAY? JUST RUB 221
Dean Wesley Smith
THE CALL OF THE TRACK AHEAD 231
Dean Wesley Smith
AGE MIGHT BE A NUMBER 247
Dean Wesley Smith
DEAD WOMAN WALKING 255
Dean Wesley Smith
DADDY IS AN UNDERTAKER 265
Dean Wesley Smith
IN CASE OF EMERGENCY 291
Dean Wesley Smith
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF FORTUNE COOKIE
TYRANT 305
Dean Wesley Smith
YOU FORGIVE THE NIGHT’S SCREAM 323
Dean Wesley Smith
TUMBLING DOWN THE NIGHTTIME 337
Dean Wesley Smith
About the Author 355
About the Author 357
Expanded Copyright Information 365
Tentang Penulis
Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith published almost two hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds and hundreds of short stories across many genres. At the moment he produces novels in several major series, including the time travel Thunder Mountain novels set in the Old West, the galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe series, the urban fantasy Ghost of a Chance series, a superhero series starring Poker Boy, and a mystery series featuring the retired detectives of the Cold Poker Gang.His monthly magazine, Smith’s Monthly, which consists of only his own fiction, premiered in October 2013 and offers readers more than 70, 000 words per issue, including a new and original novel every month.During his career, Dean also wrote a couple dozen Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, Spider-Man and X-Men novels, plus novels set in gaming and television worlds. Writing with his wife Kristine Kathryn Rusch under the name Kathryn Wesley, he wrote the novel for the NBC miniseries The Tenth Kingdom and other books for Hallmark Hall of Fame movies.He wrote novels under dozens of pen names in the worlds of comic books and movies, including novelizations of almost a dozen films, from The Final Fantasy to Steel to Rundown.Dean also worked as a fiction editor off and on, starting at Pulphouse Publishing, then at VB Tech Journal, then Pocket Books, and now at WMG Publishing, where he and Kristine Kathryn Rusch serve as series editors for the acclaimed Fiction River anthology series, which launched in 2013. In 2018, WMG Publishing Inc. launched the first issue of the reincarnated Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, with Dean reprising his role as editor.For more information about Dean’s books and ongoing projects, please visit his website at www.deanwesleysmith.com and sign up for his newsletter.