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. 

 

This special Writers' Edition has all the above, plus two extra stories, the original story briefs, and extensive author notes for each story and each brief. 

 

100 pages of extra material specifically intended for writers!

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
The Simple Task — Michael Gardner


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
Maps in Our Footsteps, Legend in Our Dreams — Jason Baltazar


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


The briefs

Contemporary Fantasy — Meryl Stenhouse
Soft SF — Beth Goder
Other — Y.X.Acs
Hard SF — Karl Dandenell
High Fantasy — Sean R. Robinson
Sample brief — B. Morris Allen