Reading 5X5

Five stories, five times 

 

Five science fiction and fantasy themes, each explored five times by five different authors. 

 

Twenty-five great authors demonstrating just how varied and interesting SF&F can be, and how each author's style and approach make all the difference. 

Contents

Contemporary Fantasy

Dreaming in Other Colours — Meryl Stenhouse
Letters to the Earth — Caleb Warner
The Fourth Pillar Says No — L. Chan
Howl at the Moon — T.R. North
Kitchen — Vanessa Fogg


Soft Science Fiction

Time, The Ever-Rolling Stream — Juliet Kemp
Patience — K. G. Anderson
Petri Viventum — James Ross
The Great Scientist Rivalry on Sourdough — Beth Goder
The Visible Spectrum — Matt Thompson


Other

The Fragments of Others — Suzanne J. Willis
Between Ashes and Wings — Chanel Earl
1001 — Y. X. Acs
Where Art Thou, My Love? — Filip Wiltgren
Deus ex Noir — Rhoads Brazos


Hard Science Fiction

T-Minus — Ian Rennie
Countdown — David Hammond
One of the Cities — Damien Krsteski
In the Absence of Time — Pauline Yates
The Long View — Karl Dandenell


High Fantasy

Blood Feud — Paul A. Hamilton
Child of Flowers — Sean R. Robinson
Tongue of the Chimera — Sandi Leibowitz
Song and Sacrifice — Rob Francis
The Gentlest River — Karolina Fedyk