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You hold in your hands a cornucopia of modern cutting-edge fantasy. The first volume of this extraordinary new annual anthology series of fantastic literature explodes on the scene with works that sidestep expectations in beautiful and unsettling ways, that surprise with their settings and startle with the manner in which they cross genre boundaries, that aren't afraid to experiment with storytelling techniques, and yet seamlessly blend form with meaningful function. The delectable offerings found within these pages come from some of today's most distinguished contemporary fantasists and brilliant rising newcomers.

Whether it's a touch of literary erudition, playful whimsy, extravagant style, or mind-blowing philosophical speculation and insight, the reader will be led into unfamiliar territory, there to find shock and delight.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Mike Allen
• The City of Blind Delight - short story by Catherynne M. Valente
• Old Foss Is the Name of His Cat - short story by David Sandner
• All the Little Gods We Are - short story by John Grant
• The Dew Drop Coffee Lounge - short story by Cat Rambo
• Bell, Book and Candle - short story by Leah Bobet
• The Tarrying Messenger - short story by Michael J. DeLuca
• The Occultation - short story by Laird Barron
• There Is a Monster Under Helen's Bed - short story by Ekaterina Sedia
• Palisade - short story by Cat Sparks
• The Woman - short story by Tanith Lee
• A Mask of Flesh - short story by Marie Brennan
• Seven Scenes from Harrai's Sacred Mountain - short story by Jennifer Crow
• Oblivion: A Journey - short story by Vandana Singh
• Choosers of the Slain - short story by John C. Wright
• Akhila, Divided - short story by C. S. MacCath
• The Moon-Keeper's Friend - short story by Joanna Galbraith
• The Tailor of Time - short story by Deborah Biancotti
• Root and Vein - short story by Erin Hoffman

CLOCKWORK PHOENIX 2: More Tales of Beauty and Strangeness

Story marries style. The result is a cornucopia of modern cutting-edge fantasy.

The second volume of this extraordinary new annual anthology series of fantastic literature dares to surpass the first, with works that sidestep expectations in beautiful and unsettling ways, that surprise with their settings and startle with the manner in which they cross genre boundaries, that aren't afraid to experiment with storytelling techniques, and yet seamlessly blend form with meaningful function. The effervescent offerings found within these pages come from some of today's most distinguished contemporary fantasists and brilliant rising newcomers.

Whether it's a touch of literary erudition, playful whimsy, extravagant style, or mind-blowing philosophical speculation and insight, the reader will be led into unfamiliar territory, there to find shock and delight.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Mike Allen
• Three Friends - shortfiction by Claude Lalumière
• Six - shortfiction by Leah Bobet
• Once a Goddess - shortfiction by Marie Brennan
• Angel Dust - shortfiction by Ian McHugh
• The Endangered Camp - shortfiction by Ann Leckie
• At the Edge of Dying - shortfiction by Mary Robinette Kowal
• Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela - shortstory by Saladin Ahmed
• The Pain of Glass - shortstory by Tanith Lee
• The Fish of Al-Kawthar's Fountain - shortfiction by Joanna Galbraith
• The Secret History of Mirrors - shortfiction by Catherynne M. Valente
• Never nor Ever - shortfiction by Forrest Aguirre
• each thing i show you is a piece of my death - (2009) - novelette by Gemma Files and Stephen J. Barringer
• Open the Door and the Light Pours Through - shortfiction by Kelly Barnhill
• Rosemary, That's For Remembrance - shortfiction by Barbara Krasnoff
• When We Moved On - shortfiction by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Pinions - essay by uncredited

Story cavorts with style.

The result is a cornucopia of modern cutting-edge fantasy.

The third volume of this extraordinary annual anthology series of fantastic literature dares to surpass the first two, with works that sidestep expectations in beautiful and unsettling ways, that surprise with their settings and startle with the manner in which they cross genre boundaries, that aren't afraid to experiment with storytelling techniques, and yet seamlessly blend form with meaningful function. The effervescent offerings found within these pages come from some of today's most distinguished contemporary fantasists and brilliant rising newcomers.

Whether it's a touch of literary erudition, playful whimsy, extravagant style, or mind-blowing philosophical speculation and insight, the reader will be led into unfamiliar territory, there to find shock and delight.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Mike Allen
• The Gospel of Nachash - shortfiction by Marie Brennan
• Tomorrow is Saint Valentine's Day - shortfiction by Tori Truslow
• Crow Voodoo - shortfiction by Georgina Bruce
• Your Name is Eve - shortfiction by Michael M. Jones
• Hell Friend - shortfiction by Gemma Files
• Braiding the Ghosts - shortfiction by C. S. E. Cooney
• Surrogates - shortfiction by Cat Rambo
• Lucyna's Gaze - shortfiction by Gregory Frost
• Eyes of Carven Emerald - shortfiction by Shweta Narayan
• Dragons of America - shortfiction by S. J. Hirons
• Where Shadows Go at Low Midnight - shortfiction by John Grant
• Lineage - shortfiction by Kenneth Schneyer
• Murder in Metachronopolis - shortfiction by John C. Wright
• To Seek Her Fortune - shortfiction by Nicole Kornher-Stace
• Fold - shortstory by Tanith Lee
• Pinions: The Authors - essay by Mike Allen

The ground-breaking, boundary-pushing, award-nominated series of fantasy anthologies series returns for a fourth installment through the miracle of Kickstarter, bringing you eighteen brand new tales of beauty and strangeness. You'll find the light-hearted and the bleak, the surreal become familiar and the familiar turned inside-out. Each story leads you into unmapped territory, there to find shock and delight. With stories by Yves Meynard, Ian McHugh, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Richard Parks, Gemma Files, Yukimi Ogawa, A.C. Wise, Marie Brennan, Alisa Alering, Tanith Lee, Cat Rambo, Shira Lipkin, Corinne Duyvis, Kenneth Schneyer, Camille Alexa, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Patricia Russo and Barbara Krasnoff.

Table of Contents:

• "Our Lady of the Thylacines" by Yves Meynard
• "The Canal Barge Magician's Number Nine Daughter" by Ian McHugh
• "On the Leitmotif of the Trickster Constellation in Northern Hemispheric Star Charts, Post-Apocalypse" by Nicole Kornher-Stace
• "Beach Bum and the Drowned Girl" by Richard Parks
• "Trap-Weed" by Gemma Files
• "Icicle" by Yukimi Ogawa
• "Lesser Creek: A Love Story, A Ghost Story" by A.C. Wise
• "What Still Abides" by Marie Brennan
• "The Wanderer King" by Alisa Alering
• "A Little of the Night" by Tanith Lee
• "I Come from the Dark Universe" by Cat Rambo
• "Happy Hour at the Tooth and Claw" by Shira Lipkin
• "Lilo Is" by Corinne Duyvis
• "Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer" by Kenneth Schneyer
• "Three Times" by Camille Alexa
• "The Bees Her Heart, the Hive Her Belly" by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
• "The Old Woman with No Teeth" by Patricia Russo
• "The History of Soul 2065″ by Barbara Krasnoff

The Clockwork Phoenix anthologies offer homes to "well-written stories occupying multiple subgenres, usually in the same story, often ambiguously," as Locus Magazine once put it.

In April, the ground-breaking, boundary-pushing, award-nominated series returns for a fifth incarnation, triumphantly risen from the ashes after another successful Kickstarter campaign. This is the largest installment yet, holding twenty new tales of beauty and strangeness.

With original fiction from Jason Kimble, Rachael K. Jones, Patricia Russo, Marie Brennan, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Rob Cameron, A. C. Wise, Gray Rinehart, Sam Fleming, Sunil Patel, C. S. E. Cooney and Carlos Hernandez, Holly Heisey, Barbara Krasnoff, Sonya Taaffe, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Shveta Thakrar, Cassandra Khaw, Keffy R. M. Kehrli, Rich Larson, and Beth Cato. Cover art by Paula Arwen Owen.

Table of Contents:

• "The Wind at His Back" by Jason Kimble
• "The Fall Shall Further the Flight in Me" by Rachael K. Jones
• "The Perfect Happy Family" by Patricia Russo
• "The Mirror-City" by Marie Brennan
• "The Finch's Wedding and the Hive That Sings" by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
• "Squeeze" by Rob Cameron
• "A Guide to Birds by Song (After Death)" by A.C. Wise
• "The Sorcerer of Etah" by Gray Rinehart
• "The Prime Importance of a Happy Number" by Sam Fleming
• "Social Visiting" by Sunil Patel
• "The Book of May" by C.S.E. Cooney and Carlos Hernandez
• "The Tiger's Silent Roar" by Holly Heisey
• "Sabbath Wine" by Barbara Krasnoff
• "The Trinitite Golem" by Sonya Taaffe
• "Two Bright Venuses" by Alex Dally MacFarlane
• "By Thread of Night and Starlight Needle" by Shveta Thakrar
• "The Games We Play" by Cassandra Khaw
• "The Road, and the Valley, and the Beasts" by Keffy R.M. Kehrli
• "Innumerable Glimmering Lights" by Rich Larson
• "The Souls of Horses" by Beth Cato