Dragons, Droids & Doom: Year One

by Mike Resnick, Ken Liu, Iulian Ionescu, Cat Rambo, Rachel Pollack

Genres: Fantasy; Science Fiction

Synopsis

Wanna date a dragon? How about defend yourself in court with an orc as your lawyer? Or maybe you want to just sit in your loft and have a couple beers with your imaginary friend, or follow Merlin on his final days as he fights to stay alive.

No seriously, what if your girlfriend’s skin was stolen by a hag? Or if you found sheet music to a song to end the world... what would you do?

Dragons, Droids & Doom: Year One is a collection of all the stories published online by Fantasy Scroll Magazine in its first year. It includes a wide range of speculative short stories from fantasy to science fiction to horror. Some stories deal with death, others will leave you laughing to death. It’s all here, and it’s fantastic. Take a look; you won’t be disappointed.

Table of Contents:
"Da Capo Al Fine" - Patrick Jameson
"A Trade of Tears" - Tony Peak
"The Unforgiving Minute" - Seth Chambers
"Single-Bit Error" - Ken Liu
"The Sculptor's Son" - Jason Gorbel
"Four Scenes From Wieczniak’s Whisk-U-Away, And One Not" - Ferrett Steinmetz
"In the Shadow of Dyrhólaey" - KJ Kabza
"Letters to the Editor of Tempestas Arcana" - Alexander Plummer
"Descant" - Piers Anthony
"My Favorite Photos of Anne" - Aaron Polson
"Missing Tessa" - Anna Yeatts
"Circus in the Bloodwarm Rain" - Cat Rambo
"A Concert of Flowers" - Kate O'Connor
"The Memory-Setter's Apprentice" - Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
"Winter Solstice" - Mike Resnick
"Kindle My Heart" - Rebecca Birch
"The Dragonmaster's Ghost" - Henry Szabranski
"The Peacemaker" - Rachel A. Brune
"Forever" - Rachel Pollack
"Feeling All Right" - Richard Zwicker
"Seaside Sirens, 1848" - Anna Zumbro
"Verdure" - Brandon Barrows
"The First First Fire" - Alexander Monteagudo
"Burn in Me" - Carrie Martin
"Incriminating Evidence" - Charity Tahmaseb
"The Contents of the Box with the Ribbon" - David Neilsen
"Skipping Stones" - Erin Cole
"Sponsored By . . . " - Hank Quense
"Orc Legal" - James Beamon
"Posthumous" - James B. Willard
"Reanimators" - J. Kenneth Sargeant
"The Unworthy" - J.W. Alden
"Your Cities" - Anaea Lay
"The Fine Art of Fortune-Telling" - Michelle Ann King
"Verisimilitude" - Alan Murdock
"Seven Conversations in Locked Rooms" - Alex Shvartsman
"Passenger Space" - Julia Watson
"Hither and Yon" - Anatoly Belilovsky
"Marshmallow Walls" - Brittany Foster
"Your Lair or Mine?" - Cathy Bryant
"Shades of the Past" - Kurt Kirchmeier
"Grimm's Home for Geriatrics" - Rebecca Demarest
"These Are The Things Our Hands Have Made" - Andrew Kozma
"Million Hearts in the Valley of Death" - Savannah Hendricks
"Restart" - William Reid
"The Perfect Book" - Alex Shvartsman
"Universe in a Teacup" - Seth Chambers
"Wind in the Reeds" - David Sklar
"#Dragonspit" - William Meikle
"JC The Ski Bum" - Joyce Reynolds-Ward
"Smew of Skray" - Rebecca Brown

Fantasy Scroll Magazine is a bi-monthly publication featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal short fiction from speculative writers from around the world. The magazine was launched in late 2013, and after a successful Kickstarter campaign, published its first issue in March of 2014. Besides short stories ranging from micro-fiction to full-length, the magazine also includes interviews with authors and editors, reviews of movies, games, and books, and other non-fiction articles. Our mission is to publish high-quality, entertaining, and thought-provoking speculative fiction.

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Release date: November 7, 2015

Publisher: Fantasy Scroll Press LLC

Print pages: 396