When I first stumbled across this particular anthology, I couldn’t resist it. After all, I love YA science fiction and fantasy, and I love short fiction. So finding a collection which combined both those loves seemed tailor-made for me. I … Continue reading
Some kids get a car when they graduate high school. Charlie Newell, however, got an entire parallel world, an Earth where humanity never evolved and extinct species still roam free. The legacy of his missing-and-presumed-dead uncle, the portal hidden in … Continue reading
Several hundred years in the future, after civilization has collapsed and been rebuilt, all of human society is divided into two categories: the uglies, and the pretties. Until you turn sixteen, you’re an ugly, forced to live in giant dormitories … Continue reading
When Bobby Phillips, average fifteen-year-old boy, wakes up one morning to discover he’s become invisible, his life is thrown into turmoil. Unable to interact with the outside world, and forced to contend with parents more apt to treat his condition … Continue reading
In the future, in a place called Satellite City, it’s a very bad time and place to be an unwanted orphan. Cosmo Hill finds this out the hard way, when he’s sent to live at the Clarissa Frayne Institute, an … Continue reading
Think your life is weird? Try being teenage heroine Theora Theremin, whose last-minute idea for a science project, to study the possible existence of local legendary lake monster, Big Phil, throws her head-first into an adventure like none other. First … Continue reading
Arianrhod (Roddy) and her best friend Grundo live on the alternate Earth known as Blest, which acts as the magical center for thousands of worlds. To keep the magic stable, they travel with the King’s Progress, a perpetual movement of … Continue reading
As a new graduate of the Anthropological Service Academy, a starspanning organization dedicated to studying life across the universe, Elana is assigned to a dangerous, deadly case. The planet Toris, a Youngling society far less mature than Elana’s own world, … Continue reading
Centuries ago, the spaceship Colony was sent forth from Earth to settle far away Tau Ceti III. However, when disaster strikes Earth, the ship turns around, and returns to its place of origin, now a planet ravaged by plague, its … Continue reading
Originally released as part of the Jupiter series, described by author James Hogan as “a line of upbeat, hard-science, space adventures intended for young-adult readers, in the style that Robert Heinlein and others made popular in the fifties and sixties,” … Continue reading
