The SFWA Grand Masterâ s award-winning collection â combines a richly textured multicultural background with incisive storytellingâ (Library Journal).

In Skin Folk, with works ranging from science fiction to Caribbean folklore, passionate love to chilling horror, Nalo Hopkinson is at her award-winning best, spinning tales like â Precious,â in which the narrator spews valuable coins and gems from her mouth whenever she attempts to talk or sing. In â A Habit of Waste,â a self-conscious woman undergoes elective surgery to alter her appearance; days later sheâ s shocked to see her former body climbing onto a public bus. In â The Glass Bottle Trick,â the young protagonist ignores her intuition regarding her new husbandâ s superstitionsâ to horrifying consequences.

Hopkinsonâ s unique pacing and vibrant dialogue sets a steady beat for stories that illustrate why she received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Entertaining, challenging, and alluring, Skin Folk is not to be missed.

Praise for Nalo Hopkinson and the World Fantasy Awardâ winning Skin Folk

â Hopkinsonâ s prose is vivid and immediate.â â The Washington Post Book World

â An important new writer.â â The Dallas Morning News

â Her descriptions of ordinary people finding themselves in extraordinary circumstances ring true, the result of her strong evocation of place and her ear for dialect.â â Publishers Weekly

â A marvelous display of Nalo Hopkinsonâ s talents, skills and insights into the human conditions of life, especially of the fantastic realities of the Caribbean . . . Everything is possible in her imagination.â â Science Fiction Chronicle

The award-winning sword and sorcery classic that introduced Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, from a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy.

First in the influential fan-favorite series, Swords and Deviltry collects four fantastical adventure stories from Fritz Leiber, the author who coined the phrase â sword and sorceryâ and helped birth an entire genre.

In â Induction,â in the realm of Nehwon, fate brings young prince Fafhrd and apprentice magician the Gray Mouser together to mark the beginning of a loyal and lifelong friendship. Consumed by his wicked motherâ s enchantments, Fafhrd finds freedom by pursuing the love of a beautiful actress in the Nebula and Hugo Awardâ nominated â The Snow Women.â Studying sorcery under a great wizard in a land where it is forbidden, Mouse crosses the thin line between white and black magic to avenge a great wrong in â The Unholy Grail.â And in the Nebula and Hugo Awardâ winning novella â Ill Met in Lankhmar,â Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser disguise themselves as beggars to infiltrate the Thievesâ Guildâ only to pay a horrible price for their greed when they come face-to-face with a monstrous evil.

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser take to the sea in the third installment of this seminal sword and sorcery series that â has lost none of its luminous magicâ (San Francisco Chronicle).

Swords in the Mist, book three in the Lankhmar series, thrusts our indentured, sword-swinging servants into the question of hate, its power, and its purpose. Times are lean in Lankhmar, illuminating the link between money and love. Luckily, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser donâ t always believe in love. When Lankhmar gets too gritty, our travelers take to their other, less harsh mistress, the sea. But the sea can play tricks on men, and so can the sea king. He can break a man, or worse yet, curse him. But when he is away, itâ s all play for the formidable swordsmen and the Triple Goddess . . . and two luscious sea queens. But luck may not always be there, as they discover on the way to see Ningauble, their wizard employer. After a long journey in defense of their control over their own fates, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser find themselves pawns in a life-and-death chess game, all of Lankhmar being the pieces. How many pawns will be left on the board before someone wins?

Before The Lord of the Rings took the world by storm, Leiberâ s fantastic but thoroughly flawed antiheroes, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser, adventured deep within the caves of Inner Earth, albeit a different one. They wondered and wandered to the edges of the Outer Sea, across the Land of Nehwon and throughout every nook and cranny of gothic Lankhmar, Nehwonâ s grandest and most mystically corrupt city. Lankhmar is Leiberâ s fully realized, vivid incarnation of urban decay and civilizationâ s corroding effect on the human psyche.

Drawing on themes from Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P. Lovecraft, master manipulator Fritz Leiber is a worldwide legend within the fantasy genre and actually coined the term Sword and Sorcery that describes the subgenre he helped create.

A mind-opening collection of short science fiction from one of the genreâ s most revered Grand Masters.

Legendary author Robert A. Heinlein proclaimed, â To read science fiction is to read Simak. A reader who does not like Simak stories does not like science fiction at all.â The remarkably talented Clifford D. Simak was able to ground his vast imagination in reality, and then introduce readers to fantastical worlds and concepts they could instantly and completely dig into, comprehend, and enjoy.

In the title story, a manâ s newfound ability to walk in the past allows him to dwell among dinosaurs, saber-toothed tigers . . . and something even more timeless. In â Construction Shack,â the first manned expedition to Pluto reveals that no matter how advanced aliens may be, even they donâ t always get everything right. And in â Univac 2200,â the thin line between humans creating technology and humans becoming technology is about to be crossedâ and there may be no going back.

Each story includes an introduction by David W. Wixon, literary executor of the Clifford D. Simak estate and editor of this ebook.