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The blasphemy collection is here! Campbell Award winning fantasy author Laura Resnick takes on heaven, hell, salvation, eternity, and God Almighty in this volume containing twelve of her previously published short stories, including "Highway To Heaven," "No Room For the Unicorn," "The Capo of Darkness," "Confessional," "Jesus H. Christ," and "Creation: The Launch!" In Resnick's otherworldly collection, the Lord God commissions a wiseguy to clean up the road to salvation, the US army retrieves the Spear of Destiny from Nuremberg with the help of a mysterious operative, Professor Yahweh attempts to design Creation intelligently, and a Hollywood screenwriter seeks help from an archangel to dissolve his writer's block.
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Maybe You've Heard Of Me? E-Book only. Available from: |
In this collection of fifteen of her previously published short stories, Campbell Award wining fantasy author Laura Resnick riffs on the fantastical misadventures of the famous and infamous, both human and otherwise. Robin Hood experiences supply and demand problems, Merlin the Magician tries to turn a recalcitrant musician into a war leader, a lonely boy meets the Loch Ness Monster, Ramses the Mediocre hires a spin wizard to turn him into Ramses the Great, King Arthur looks for meaning in his life as he faces his death, the world's most famous consulting detective assists a bloodsucking client who wants to be immortalized by an Irish novelist, and Santa tries to find work in a tropical clime for the abominable snowman.
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Cast of Characters Laura's story: * Amazon
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This anthology is a joint project of The Story Plant and Novelists, Inc., an organization of professional novelists (of which I am a past president). It includes twenty-eight original short stories, of which eleven are written by various New York Times bestselling authors. The stories cover a range of styles, themes, and genres. I contributed a fantasy-comedy short story about singlehood, weddings, and vampirism.
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I've long been fascinated with the supernatural mythologies surrounding black dogs, dark hounds, phantom canine beasts, etc. I combined that interest with the sometimes destructive nature of artistic obsession in this story I wrote years ago, which will be reprinted this year in this anthology.
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The Mammoth Book of SF Wars Laura's story:
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I originally wrote "Peacekeeping Mission" for Frontlines, an anthology edited by Denise Little and the late Martin H. Greenberg, for whom I wrote so many of my short stories. I was living in Jerusalem at the time, so the insanity of war was regularly on my mind.
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The Muse Afire: Collected Science eBook only Coming in 2013 |
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Some Free Short Fiction |
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Vengeance Fantastic (DAW, 2002) |
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Murder Most Romantic (Cumberland House, 2001 |
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"The Abominable Snowman" |
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| "The Adventure of the Missing Coffin" | Sherlock Holmes In Orbit (DAW, 1995) |
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| "Amandla!" | Alternate Tyrants (Tor, 1997) |
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"Avant Vanguard" |
Fantastic Adventures of Robin Hood (NAL, 1991) | ||
"By Any Other Name" |
Mystery Date (DAW, 2008) | ||
"Camelot's Greatest Hits" |
Fate Fantastic (DAW, 2007) | ||
| "The Capo of Darkness" | Vengeance Fantastic (DAW, 2002) |
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| "Confessional" | Deals With the Devil (DAW, 1994) |
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| "Creation: The Launch!" | Baen's Universe | ||
| "Curren's Song" | Dinosaur Fantastic (DAW, 1993) |
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| "Diary of A Galactic Emigré" | I, Alien (DAW, 2005) | ||
| "Doppelgangster" | Murder By Magic (Warner, 2004) |
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| "Enter the Night" | Orphans of the Night (Walker, 1995) |
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| "Ever Since Eden" | South From Midnight (SFP, 1994) |
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| "Fabian's Wake" | TBA (Fiction Studio Books, 2013) | ||
| "Fang Fest" | Enchantment Place (DAW, 2008) | ||
| "First Familiars" | Familiars (DAW, 2002) |
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| "A Fleeting Wisp of Glory" | Alternate Kennedys (Tor, 1992) |
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| "Fluff the Tragic Dragon" | Dragon Fantastic (DAW, 1992) |
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| "The Fortunes of Temperance" | Lamps On the Brow (JCP, 1998) |
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| "Freddy Nearby" | Silicon Dreams (DAW, 2001) |
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| "Full Earth Tonight" |
VB Tech Magazine, 1995 |
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| "Greek To Me" | Hags, Sirens, and Other Bad Girls (DAW, 2006) | ||
| "Grievous Wounds" | Out of Avalon (DAW, 2001) |
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| "Heaven's Only Daughter" | Whatdunnits (DAW, 1992) |
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| "Highway to Heaven" | Highwaymen, Robbers, and Rogues (DAW, 1997) |
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Murder Most Romantic (Cumberland House, 2001) |
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| "The Hound Lover" | Phantoms of the Night (DAW, 1996) |
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| "In Zodiac We Trust" | Zodiac Fantastic (DAW, 1997) |
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| "The Infernal Revenant Service" | Better Off Undead (DAW 2008) | ||
"Jesus H. Christ" |
Time After Time (DAW, 2005) | ||
| "Lady Roxanne LaBelle" | The Magic Toy Box (DAW, 2006) | ||
| "Licensed To Reclaim" | Women Writing SF As Men (DAW, 2003) |
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| "The Lily Maid of Astolat" | Return To Avalon (DAW, 1996) |
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| "The Magic Keyboard" | The Magic Shop (DAW, 2004) |
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| "Mortal Mix-Up" | Human For A Day (DAW, 2011) | ||
| "The Muse Afire" | Weird Tales From Shakespeare (DAW, 1994) |
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| "No Place Like Home" | TBA (Written Dreams, 2013) | ||
| "No Room For the Unicorn" | Horse Fantastic (DAW, 1991) |
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| "Peacekeeping Mission" | Front Lines (DAW, 2008) The Mammoth Book of SF Wars (Running Press, 2012) |
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| "The Prodigy" | The Sorcerer's Academy (DAW, 2003) |
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| "Project: Creation" | Intelligent Design (DAW, 2009) | ||
| "The Purple Rose of Romance" |
Nerve Online Magazine, 1999 |
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| "Qadishtu" | Warrior Enchantresses (DAW, 1998) |
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| "The Quin Quart" | The Trouble With Heroes (DAW, 2009) | ||
| "Saint Frankie" | Alternate Outlaws (Tor, 1994) |
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| "She of the Night" | Urban Nightmares (Baen, 1997) |
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| "Something Virtual This Way Comes" | Something Wicked This Way Comes (DAW, 2008) | ||
"The Story of My Unlife" |
Cast of Characters (Fiction Studio Books, 2012) | ||
"The Spear of Destiny" |
Swordplay (DAW, 2009) | ||
| "The Spin Wizard" | Pharaoh Fantastic (DAW, 2002) |
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| "Temporal Management" | Witch High (DAW, 2008) | ||
| "Terrible Monkey" | Return of the Dinosaurs (DAW, 1997) |
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| "Those Rowdy Royals!" | Alien Pregnant By Elvis! (DAW, 1994) |
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| "Under A Sky More Fiercely Blue" | By Any Other Fame (DAW, 1994) |
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| "Upon A Midnight Dreary" | Christmas Ghosts (DAW, 1993) |
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| "The Vatican Outfit" | Alternate Warriors (Tor, 1993) |
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| "Wall Street Wizards" | The Shimmering Door (Harper, 1996) |
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| "Wallgate" | The Shadow of the Wall (Cumberland, 2002) |
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| "We Are Not Amused" | Alternate Presidents (Tor, 1992) |
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| "When the Ego Alters" | Betcha Can't Read Just One (Ace, 1993) |
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| "A Wind From Heaven" | Ancient Enchantresses (DAW, 1995) |
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| "Yasmine" | Aladdin Chronicles (DAW, 1992) |
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