Anthologies & Short Stories

H. G. Wells (1866-1946) was fascinated with imagined realities, alien worlds that intersect with human life, and the human condition developing throughout generations. With his keen observation of human behavior, Wells imagines worlds vastly different than the one in which he was writing.

In Shadow Lab, a brilliant roster of speculative fiction writers pulls listeners into a diverse and genre-bending collection of stories, each as irresistible as the last.

James Sallis moves with ease among genres and modes: novels, stories, poetry, criticism, musicology, biography, translation. Best known perhaps as a crime writer—author of Drive and the six Lew Griffin novels along with others—his first acclaim came in the 1960s from groundbreaking short stories in science fiction publications like Michael Moorcock’s New Worlds, for which he served for a time as editor, and Damon Knight’s Orbit anthologies.

When Saltair and Krenik decide they need to start collecting more resources than the wider galaxy can now provide, they decide to head to the one place that nobody goes. The Sol System. In 2151, Earth was destroyed by a group of renegades known only as 'The Decimators'. Since then, multiple planets have died and crumbled, and gravimetric disturbances are off the scale. However, the area is rich in minerals. Enough to make the pair take early retirement.

Vizio di forma è la seconda raccolta di racconti fanta-tecnologici e fanta-biologici di Primo Levi. Uscita nel 1971, a cinque anni dalle Storie naturali, è un'opera non solo ecologica ma ecosistemica. Chimico dagli interessi enciclopedici, con una particolare passione per la natura, gli animali, i linguaggi, il piacere della sperimentazione e della ricerca, Levi esplora le infinite possibilità combinatorie che la materia consente, ma non dimentica di cogliere le anomalie, le sfasature, i "vizi di forma" in cui si annida il germe di catastrofi piccole e grandi.